IMPERIAL POLITICS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2474, 9 March 1893, Page 1

IMPERIAL POLITICS.

London, March 6

A meeting, which is expected to be attended by 10,000 unionists from Ulster, Cork and Dublin, is convened at Albert Hall, London, for April 29. The Daily News says that the Home Pule Bill will be read a second time before Easter, whatever means of obstruction the Tories may use. The Times says that the Ulster men are rapidly enrolling themselves to resist Home Rule by force. Mr Lecky, the historian, has published his opinion that autonomy in its present form will be ruinous ; that the retention of the Irish members at Westminster is a grotesque suggestion; and that the employment of soldiers only will compel Ulster to accept.

March 7,

The Opposition will move that the Home Rule Bill be read six months hence.

Sir C. G. Duffy, in reply to an interviewer, said that the men who framed the Home Rule Bill did not know Ireland. It must b>; amended. He himself was not disposed to reject it, but he suggested tliat the Legislative Council electorates .should be similar to those of Vic'oria, in which the professions were given a vote.

It is reported that the Liberals, after passing the Home Rule Bill, will endeavour to nationalise the land in Ireland.

Accepting Mr William Redmond's challenge to repeat in the lobby the statement made in the House implying that an attempt at murder shortly followed a speech by Mr Dillon, Colonel Sanderson repeated the utterance in the lobby in Mr Redmond's presence. A scene occurred, and members had to interfere to prevent violence.

The Nonconformist Unionists' Association of England is making an appeal condemning the Home Rule Bill as a betrayal of the Protectants. A great meeting has been held in Dublin, when prayers were offered against the adoption of Homo Rule. Archbishop Plunket, of Dublin, presided, and many leading Methodists and Presbyterians were present. A gigantic meeting of licensed victuallers has been held in London iu opposition to the Veto Bill. The Government were denounced as a herd of common thieves.

Mr Campbell Bannerman, the Secretary for War, stated in the House that the Government would shortly adopt a higher standard of wages in the dockyards.