BRITISH POLITICS

Taranaki Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 9682, 26 April 1893, Page 2

BRITISH POLITICS

EXCITEMENT OVER HUME RULE BILL.

RIOTOUS PROCEEDINGS IN BELFAST.

FIGHTING IN IRELAND

AMENDMENTS TO HOME RULE BILL OVER 300.

[PEB PURRS ABBOG'I ATION. | London, April 25.— 1t is reported that some liieh members on tho night of tho division on the second reading of the Home Rule Bill, ahouted, "To hell with the Queen ! " as an offset to tho Ulster cheers. The statement has created a sensation. Mr Balfour was ono of the last who spoke and said that after a brief and miserable interval, Ireland's bankruptcy would become absolute. Those who expected benefits from Home Rule would be the greatest sufferois. Mr Gladstone, in reply, said they were at last approaching the end of a struggle that had lasted seven hundred years. Eng iah supremacy would in future bo founded on right. The division took placo at 1 o'clock on Saturday morning. Upon tho news becoming known in Belfaßt, a procession of Ornngotntn smashed tho windows of Roman Catholics. The Homo Rule Bill is to go into Committee on Thursday week, Mr Labouchcre has given notice of an amendment to the Homo Rule Bill in Committee abolishing tho Legislative Council in tho Irish Parliament. The Nationalists will propoae that the limit of the Irwh contribuiion to the Imperial exchequer be a million and a quarter sterling. Messra Redmond and Labouuhoro huve given notice ot amendment excluding tho liieh members from seats in the Imperial Parliament at Westminster. Sir \V. V, Uarcourt, the Chancellor of tho Exchequer, delivered his Budget bpcech to-day. He stated that the acl'ial expenditure amounted to £90,375,000, and the actual receipts £20,000 more. Ho estimated the expenditure at £9] ,464,000, and the revenue £89,890,000 It was proposed to substitute a shilling tax on contract notes for adhesive stamps on foreign and coloniul securities Tho Radical Press complain of the absence of doath duties and graduated taxation. Lord Salisbury, in addressing fiixteen hundred Irish delegates at the Hatfield fite, declared thero should bo no Homo Rule for Ireland or part of it. Tho other Unionist leaders asserted that Great Britain would never desert those who were opposed to Home Rule, The excitement in Belfast continues. Tho military prevented a collision between two largo bodit'B of Protestants and Catholics. Three hundred amendments to the Home Rule Bill havo already been tabled.