IMPORTANT SPEECHES.

Otago Witness, Volume 01, Issue 2123, 1 November 1894, Page 38

IMPORTANT SPEECHES.

LORD RO3EBERY AT SHEFFIELD.

THE HOUSE OF LORDS.

Press Association— By Telegraph— Copyright. London, October 26.

Lord Eosebery, speaking at Sheffield, made an eloquent eulogy on the Czar &fl a worshipper of truth and peace, and declared that his death would remove ffie greatest guarantee of the peace of ths vtorlq. He denied that the Cabinet had discasggd intervention in the East, or had is3ued «, circular to the Powers, or had received & rebuff. He admitted that after the first Japanese vlotory England learned that Ghinsi was willing to concede even more than Japan had demanded at the beginning of the war relative to reforms In Corel, an<jl England had sounded the Powers and thjj United States if it was possible to arrange peace. Some, he raid, thought the suggestion premature. He attributed the attaoks of the foreign press on Great Britain to the latter* success fit colonising, while foreigners failed. Refefi ring to Madagascar, he said while France di< not exceed her treaty rights there England Could not move. Within the pasi two year i there bad been periods of anxiety as w> tn< relations between England and France", btt negotiations had lea to a settlement 0 disputes, ' f Lord Jtoseberr, Jn his speech at B&efEelt said that those who advocated that EnglatH I should take tip 4 neutral position in th I 1 affair* of the world, and so would reduce he ;o a small submissive State of no account^ th 6 councils of nations, were dead. Tfo 1 nation remembered the" days of AginoourJ > I ana was aetermlndd to maintain, that ideaj^ Qotober27» £ord Bosebery, speaklnr Shefflet^ ! opposed the scheme for a channel tunneuß as it was essential to maintain Englana'4 insular position, by which means she was enabled to retain perspnal neutrality longef than other pations. He hoped that Sheffield , WOUW never forge the tube for the tunnel. ! tf » fe Ootober 28, I X^m Posebery delivered a great speeoo at Bradford, his remarks solely dealing witty the attitude or the House of Lords towardj [ Government Measures, He deolared that v ft.ffas a raonß;firt that Iflßflftfi in the House of

Commons should be bound hand and foot and be compelled to go cap in band to the Lords. A revision of tbe Constitution was inevitable, and In order to achieve this the Government would at the pioper time propose a resolution that the House of Commons should bo the predominant partner in the parinership with the House cf Lords, and if necessary would appeal to the country on the question. October 29. Lord Rosebery, speaking at Bradford, dwelt on the immensity oE the task in dealing with the Hoube of Lords. He said he was not inclined to move In the matter at present, as the majority of the Government in this Parliament was too small, and the Government would, before enterIng fully Into the question, require the speoial mandate of the country, backed up by an overwhelming majority at the polls. The campaign would, he said, require wariness in the carrying out, and the patience asked would not be an affair of tosewater. He warned his hearers not to look for Immediate results, as it would be a hopeless task to attempt to carry the House of Lords by storm or rush. He concluded his speeob, during an impressive BCene of excitement, with the remark, "We fling down the gauntlet, you mußt back us." Liberal newspapers are jubliant at Lord Rosebery 's defiant oh&lletge. The Times considers the Premier Is dragged at the Wheels of fanatical folly, which he scarcely pretends to regard as national. The Standard follows in a similar strain, and declares the speech an electioneering one. Lord Rosebery, in announcing the resolution that the House of Commons should be the predominant partner in the partnership with the* House of Lords, said It was really a new character In one act of the great drama, and he hoped the people would fight with the same stubborn spirit as bad been displayed by their Paritan forefathers. Personally he Said he felt as if closed in a gilded dungeon with his bitterest political enemies. j