IMPERIAL POLITICS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2483, 30 March 1893, Page 1

IMPERIAL POLITICS.

London, March 27. The Daily Telegraph says that the Nationalists threaten Mr Balfour with personal violence if he persists in visiting Belfast to deliver an address. The Quakers in Ireland have issued a manifesto opposing Home Buie. Archbishop Walsh in a letter to the Freeman’s Journal complains of the attempts made to heal the quarrel between the two sections of the Irish party, which he says have been futile. In the House of Commons, the Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs, replying to a question, said that the Government were communicating with Russia with a view to arranging a modus vivendi pending a settlement of the Behring Sea difficulty. Mr John Burns, speaking on the question of payment of members, said that the honor of the House demanded that poor members should be protected against corruption. Sir V. Vernon Harcourt said that payment would be inevitable after the extension of the suffrage. • ' ' - The House of Commons presented a most disorderly scene on Friday night. The Mutiny Bill was blocked, and did not pass till 2 o’clock in the morning. The Speaker censured the tactics of the Opposition, and Sir W. Vernon Harcourt said that the Government would not tolerate further obstruction. March 28. In tlio House of Commons, Mr Gladstone formally announced that the second reading of the Horae Rule Bill would be moyjd on Thursday, April 6th. The debate on the “No confidence ” motion came to a conclusion yesterday evening. Mr Gladstone and Mr Morley declared that Mr Balfour’s charges were stale and trivial. Lord Randolph Churchill asserted that the Government had abandoned all genuine attempts to enforce law in Ireland. Mr Balfour’s motion of censure was defeated by 819 to 272. Mr Gladstone is being shadowed by detectives, as it feared some attempt may be made to injure him. Mr P. A. McHugh, member for Leitrim North, on behalf of the Nationalists, will introduce a Bill to give effect to the report of the Evicted Tenants Commission. The Government will support the measure. A meeting of the Liberal party agreed with enthusiasm to the Premier’s proposal that Government business should take precedence on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, with precedence always when the | Home Rule Bill was set down for discus- j sion. Mr Labouchere suggested that Liberals should not debate t.h' V, Jlie Rule Bill, with the e- . n J Haroouit^- 110 linVi y- sir P W. Vernon ■ pproved of the proposal. Mr -wtitoue made a pathetic apology for the shortcomings of his old age, which compelled him to be frequently absent from the House.