THE HOME RULE MOVEMENT IN ENGLAND.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume I, Issue 36, 3 January 1874, Page 8

THE HOME RULE MOVEMENT IN ENGLAND.

Thb Irish in England, who number at least five hundred thousand, are being organised to influence the elections in England favorably for Home Hule. The effect has lately been witnessed at the Greenwich and Dundee elections. At the last election in 1863 there was no talk at all of " the Irish vote " in either of these places ; now it is " the Irish vote " which was specially courted by the various candidates, and which decided the contest in Dundee and defeated the ministerial Liberal in Greenwich. In Dundee, three candidates took the field : Mr Yeainan (ex-Provost), Mr Jenkins (author of " Ginx's Baby") and Mr Fitz James Stephen, Q.C. The last-named was, we believe, the first editor of that anti- Irish print, the ' Pall Mall Gazette," and still is a. contributor.. He was the ministerial candidate, having been promised the English Solicitor-Generalship in case he won The other two are independent Liberals and declared advocates of Home Rule ; an until the Irish electors, marshalled into one compact host by the local Home Rule Association, decided which way they would w ote, the two had an equal chance of success. They accordingly vied with each other in placating the Irish. Both of them emphatically declared in favor of Home Rule. But Mr Yeaman declared in addition for the liberation of tho politic.il prisoners and for denominational education, and did not chance to have lampooned in au English magazine the liish priesthood, the Catholic religion and Irish nationality, as Mr Jenkin's had done in 'Sc Paul's Magazine.' The ' Nation ' and ' Weekly News ' pointed this ouc and made extracts from a book of Mr Jenkins', entitled "Barney Georgeghan, M P., and Home Rule at St Stephen's," which was one gross libel on all that Catholic Irishmen hold most dear. The Irish electors of Dundee thereupon declared for Mr Yeaman, and on the day of the polling that gentleman was found to have a majority over Mr Jenkins almost exactly equal to the strength of the Irish party of Dundee. So much for the Dundee election. In Greenwich, three Liboral candidates and one Conservative came forwai'd. The Conservative won, but the second man was the Home Hule candidate, Dr Baxter Langley. He beat the ministerial Liberal by nearly two to one. These two events, show that the Home Rulers of Great Britain have been busy with the Parliamentary register ; and it is quite evident that if they do as well iv every borough as they did in Greenwich and Dundee, they will hold in their hands the balance of power. — An exchange.