THE IRISH HOME RULE MEMBERS.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume II, Issue 80, 7 November 1874, Page 14

THE IRISH HOME RULE MEMBERS.

Certain Otago papers have published extracts ridiculing |the Home Rulers m Parliament. In doing so they have taken their cue from English and Scotch papers, whose London letters and Parliameutanrintelligence have been dished up so as to make it appear that the Home Rulers had been setting the rules of the debate at defiance and also bringing themselves into ridicule. This is what the London 'Saturday Review' says of the Home Rulers, and the statement* of that journal should carry more weight than those of the hired scribblers of the anti-Irish party, and the echoes of them'by their Otaeo clacquers. . 6 " The considerable body of Home Rule members who wwe returned at the general election have, on the whole, done no discredit to then* constituencies. It fortunately happens that neither party had any sufficient motive for bidding for their support." . . . £eft to themselves the supporters of Home Rule have offered no factious interruption to general business, nor can it be said that they have occupied an unreasonable space of the time at the disposal of the Parliament. Mr Butt had long been known as a fluent and effective speaker Mr Sullivan has, in his first session, displayed considerable oratorical power. Thera is no reason to expect that during the continuance of the present Parliament the cause of Home Rule will be materially advanced ; but its promoters have done their cause no injury. While the ' Saturday Review ' condemned Home Rule as a"" mischievous innovation" it credits Home Rulers with having conducted themselves in a proper and decorous manner in Parliament. The following is the key to the rage of the Tory journali»t« The 'Review' says :—" The most gratifying result of the session to the more far seeing members, probably consists in the failures and disasters which have befallen the Government," also, "advocates of Home Rule and of other mischievous innovations are beginning to recover courage in the anticipation of another political change which may restore their power of deciding the conflicts of evenly balanced parties.