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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXI, Issue 11284, 29 June 1888, Page 2

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•9 (By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright.) (Per Press Association.) I/on_>on, Juno 27. In the course of the debate on Mr Morley's amendment, Mr Gladstone said he believed that, at the first opportunity, tha country would unequivocally condemn the existing state of affairs in Ireland, where a repressive policy had proved a failure. Mr Balfour said there was to-day less crime in Ireland than thero had been known for years. Rents were paid, and social difficulties were disappearing. (Special to Press Association). London, Juue 26. In speaking to his motion of censure, Mr Morley said that 17 members of the House of Commons had been imprisoned under the Government administration in Ireland, and <that atthe present time there were 40 political offenders confiued in a single gaol. He challenged the justice, expediency, or wisdom of the course adopted by the Government in dealing with affairs in Ireland, and also the statements that their Irish policy had been a success. He charged the authorities with provoking outrages by the manner in whicii they treated offences committed under the Plan of Campaign, which, he asserted, had done no substantial injustice. Mr Goschen replied that when Mr Gladstone resigned the Premiership there was little respect paid to the law by the Irish, and love for England was declining. Mr Dillon, he said, was an agrarian, and not a political prisoner. The true reason of the Opposition being indignant at the policy of the Government was, he thought, because the Plan of Campaign had been defeated. On the motion of Mr W. O'Brien, the debate was adjourned.