BRITISH POLITICS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 9667, 8 April 1893, Page 2

BRITISH POLITICS.

HOME RULE BILL COMES ON FOR SECOND READING. NO ENTHUSIASM OVER THE BILL. OPPOSITION AMENDMENT. [PEB FRE9S ASSOCIATION | London, April 7*— lff. tlie r House of Commons the Hon. Mr Gladstone moved the second reading of the Home Rule Bill. Ho said it would be impossible for the Irish members to often attenJ tho sittings of the House of Commons if their retention at Westminster was agreed npon. He suggested that a war contingent should bo a prior charge, and ought to be imposed by the Imperial Parliament upon the Consolidated fund of Ireland. Th < speech occupied an hour and a-half in delivery. Sir Michael Hicks Beach, in moving nn amendment for the rejection of tho measure, declared that if Home Rule was once granted it would bo impossible to retract without war. Mr Gladstone's speech on the second rending of tho Home Rule Bill evoked little interest. There wore only two hundred members present, and but few Htrangorß occupied the galleries. Mr Gladstono statod that the autonomous colonies did not pay a farthing to the Imperial exchequer for defence