TEE HOME RULE BILL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XX, Issue 6725, 15 July 1893, Page 2

TEE HOME RULE BILL.

London, July 14. Under great pressure, all the party, including Mr Deasy, who has just applied for the Chiltern Hundreds, voted with Mr Gladstone for the closure except Bolton, Wallace, Dr. Clark, Atherley-Jones, and Ramsdorne, and two others abstained from voting at all. There was much excitement, and several acrimonious encounters occurred between Balfoar, Chamberlain, Gladstone, and Sir W. V. Harcourt. The resolution excluded all debate upon clauses ap to 26. Almost every Unionist was present, bub when the Parnellites insisted upon dividing on clause 10, respecting the financial arrangements, the bulk of them withdrew, giving the Government a majority of 309. There was an excited crowd in the outer lobby all the sitting. Ton divisions in all were taken. The Unionist press declare the Government has indelibly disgraced itself by selling the interests of Great Britain for party advantages. The Daily Chronicle s.iys the Government prestige is likely to suffer from the restive temper of its supporters, and unless the tendency of disintegration is checked, the Bill will probably be lost. The Government intend to appoinb a Royal Commission to enquire into the financial relations between England and Ireland. The Premier's motion to omit sub-sec-tions 3 and 4 of clause 9, thus preserving the retention of Irish members at Westminster, was carried by 325 to 298, and upon a further division the amended clause was passed by a majority of 29. Clauses 10. 11, 12, 13. 17, 20, and 21 were negatived ; 14, 15, and 16, were postponed ; and 18, 19, and 22 to 26 were carried by majorities of 33 and 35. These clauses treat of finance, post and telegraph, appeals, office of Lord-Lieutenant, and Crown lands.