MR. GLADSTONE’S IRISH SCHEME.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 746, 18 June 1886, Page 23

MR. GLADSTONE’S IRISH SCHEME.

By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. (SPECIAL TO UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) London, June 14. Mr Gladstone, in his manifesto, maintained a silence respecting the Irish Land Purchase, and laments the necessity for another general election, especially at tbe present time, when the natural cry is for repose. He also deprecates the bigotry displayed by the Scotch and Irish Presbyterians, and denounces, what he terms, the present paper union of lieland and England. Mr Parnell and Mr Justin McCarthy have published damaging details of an interview with the Earl of Carnarvon, in which they insist that the Earl promised to grant a protective tariff, and sketched out an Irish constitution on the model of colonial constitutions, and at the same time expressed himself as personally in favor of Home Buie being granted to Ireland. Lord Carnarvon has emphatically denied the above statement. The Fenian Brotherhood have issued a manifesto, in which they declare that the dynamite truce which has existed for some time past is now at an end. London, June 14. The newspapers declare Mr Gladstone’s manifesto to his constituents to be weak. The Moonlighters in the South and West of Ireland have organised themselves into a body with a central council of control. The Vatican has advised the Irish Bishops to abstain from taking part in the approaching political strife. (REUTER’S TELEGRAMS.) London, June 14. Mr Gladstone has issued a manifesto to the electors of Midlothian, iu which he urges that the only policies to bo pursued in regard to Ireland are iu the direction of an autonomous Government for that country and measures of coercion for the repression of outrages. He argues that the former will strengthen the Union, tend to extinguish feuds, develop the resources of Ireland, and redeem the honor of Great Britain and remove the reproach of the civilised world. Serious rioting has taken place in Sligo between the Catholics and Protestants, the former being the aggressors. The dwellings of the Protestants have been wrecked and shops sacked. The disturbance was of so serious a character that the military were called out to quell the outbreak. A further outbreak is feared, and reinforcements of troops have been despatched to the scene. Mebbottbne, June 14.

A mass meeting was held on Saturday evening in support of Mr Gladstone, Sir Bryan O’Loghlen, Bart., being in the chair. The attendance numbered fully five thousand, and included several clergymen. Resolutions were passed thanking Mr Gladstone for his efforts to procure Home Buie for Irelaud, and sympathising with him in the rejection of his proposals.