The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1886-04-13 00:00:00

WHAT THE SCHEME IS.

It is larger and bolder on the one hand and more
cautions and Conservative on the inher than those
who hare criticised it in happy and confident ign'w.
allea kJ the puldie to believe. It is a contiplete
schsin,. for restoring iii the limb people, in harmony
with modern ci inditions, the i.elf orovernment they
enjoyed miller the English Crown for sive hundred
years. In•land is to have the right to make its own
ilonie•tic law., and ti direct it own domestic admin•
porstion, ini condition if ceasing to take • part in
Imperial concerns. The starting.point of the pro.
iceal in thp.. re•iiiiinal lif the Trish members f the
Imperial psrliametit. The 103 Irish representatives
in the House of Giminiiiss are to la the iiiioleus of
the new Statutory Parlisment in the Irish capital.
The twentreight repreouitative tsars who now sit
fir jih. in tip, I 1.m.• of Lords are to have the option
,of 11..01141114 life members of the I rieh Ohainle.r. Ti
meinbera there will be added 101
representatives chaien by the sante ouiraituenuies,
with the eseeption of the University of Dublin. The
Irish Chamber is to have the power .if giving two
epresentatii MI to the Royal University if it sees lit.
Ti' 201 or •20. i 'monism. will constitute the secona
order of ii, !rich l'arliament. The peenn who elect
to cut in that chamber, with Ti other members elected
Irma a special China in a special suffrage, will
constitute the first ..nler. If any .4 the peens decline
ti sit their illiterri are to he filled by persons nominated
! for a certain period by the Crown, which is ale, to
Oil iii by nomination fora similar period all vacancies
which death may make in the peen.' representation.
When the present generation .4 life members has
pared away the twenty.eight placen will Ilia filled by
election on the SWIM laais aa that of the 73. The
gnat conetitinion of the Digit Parliament will there..
fore lie toll menibers elected by limited conatitiwnoies
ail a first order and $O4 or IfIR elected ley the . visting
ninatitilencieri as a 11.0,11,1 ...ler. The limited consti
tiieliviss will consist only 1 occupiers to the value of
=I and ilowards ; and th.. candidates mess has,.
inoise from realty .ir pen...natty of WOO • year, or
penionalty of £l,OOO mu The members of the
first order are to he elected for tem years, while the
minters of the pecan I or.:er will sit for five years
it dieposee at once. .4 the I talk there has been
01 handing over the wit lezisl ohm of Ire•
hoed r., (he Nritimis) Iscgoe The two onlere
are to sit and delitictetc ro }lie ..in.: Dhateher, lot
titer are to Wye the puwer.if e.iterst±ir•Ft j 4,4 tiozll
order hiss a vete all Mai eloinga of Gin albasuber. It is,
in fact, a Him., if and a limp., of lewd,
in. 101/1), ARA illtlngadiii sitting together
lest with e...eryetal authority and power. Th.. protec.
' thin .4 the ;;;;; lority in therefore aiiialei•LP. The class
whieh rents laud or lionee of td.l a van and tipward•
will hold the Imiondeildeni awl the small farissela in
..1.,c1e• 1.. far from Ii 'piing Ireland over to the
:q.szionai 11it.e1fi15, tips scheme niay, on the contrary,
li' chanted with handing tho National I/m.1114.f pi
the middle 1.144.1. at lablarnaY. Irgialla
tin tllll. Otailtielitell have full iolfie 4ti. and
irludnistrathe authority in Ireland. It will not lei
lige to tonal' the ehistoins nor the Paicieeduce. wliiihi
APO rotated hi Optima. It will Mae nothing hi do
with, the .% tiny, the Navy, or the tletenve if the rmu,uitry,
Foreign and colonial relations will Is. beyond its ken.
It will specially for bidden to paw any law for the
est sbli•lnnent endowment of any particular cnoel.
Trade and navigation, coinage and legal tender,
eopyright, weighta and measures, onarantine, and
arrankenents for the hiking .4 the census, will all be
emerved to the exclusive seniority .4 the Imperial
Parliament, The Irish Post Udine will to some extent
lee placed under Irish administration. The Irish
Parliament will, in fact, he a stileieliary Perliainent,
11,4 directly subject hi the Imperial Parliament any
'rime than the 'State Iseirislatures if the American
I 7iiion are siihject to the Federal Gmgrea • hul
like those lemislaturm it will have aittliority
.leer joirely halal reancerns. The Irish will makes
their lawn by their own representatives on their own
soil, emelt in the same way that each f the
Atnericsn fitatee makes it. own laws in its emu Siete
legislatin... In the iflatter of taxation, however, the
penr—,l Irish Government will enjoy a far larger
authority than the States of the American Union,
The fiscal onity .4 the. United Kingdom is hi be
preserved, hut Ire!and will only he taxed by its own
Parliament. The Irish Custom* and Fescue* will gs
into the frish Excheriner, and instead .4 paying
Imperial tax.* the Irish Government will pay I
Axed quota Imperial charged, including a pay.
main tossed' the redoction tit the National
Ireland into lake a shin,, ilrl.T4l' 130 ens 4 and
definite-sail the charge for the interest ors the Natiunal
Ikehe, of the oust of the Atmty and Navy with the
ezcepaion of war change., and of the expense. the
Civil service. Ireland is also to bear £1,000,000 cif
the charge for the Dublin Inch Geseitabulary, inched.
Mg the Dublin police, leaving £500,000 to the Imperial
Exchequer. The Constabulary and Dublin police will
remain under the same authority an at present' • the
bezel Ojai will_oaannder the control of the Irish
government. The Viceroy will remain. Re trill be
tlxe reprewentatiat uf the tFivereigii, with an Irish
Privy Conned and an Irish Ministry, and the Queen
will be able to delegate to blm any of the peensatives
of the Grown she may see lit. The solitary oist•
standing religious disability, as lir. Gladstone called
It, by which the representative of the Crown in a
Roman Catholie country is still required to he a
Protestant, is to be removed. The judges will, of
source, be under the Irish Parliament, which will be
eharged with all the details of Irish Government, but
they will be removable only on an Addresa to the
Crown agreed to by both orders in the legislative
body. The existing judges and other persons engaged
in the admioistrstion of justice are to be specially
sn4 at least two judges of the Irish
Exche.ouet arc, under coalitions to
ILi hereafter expreitsed, to he. teetrre4 L.? lilt
Imperial Government. Sooh ii a brier inithoe:
! We trust (says the Dna!, Nees) that whatever
modification the measure undergoes in Committee,
the people of Great Britain will seize the (avowable
! opportunity it presents of holding out the hand id
I friendship to their frith fellowmitiaena, and bestow.
lug on them thet local self.role, that bower and
privilege of making their own laws, which we nineaelves enjoy. Tonil other way can the Irish difficulty
! lie settled ; by this method there is reason to believe
I I it may be removed out of our way for ever.
There can be no question that the verdict of the
.2 jority of the English Liberal provincial papers is
I favourable to Mr. Gladatone's Home Rule scheme,
I creasip, t..e of the more inlpirtint organs speak with
Vitt ift Tim hu,lhiiutiqg liberal papers are decided
In their ap *oval i—
tLiverpool Mercury. I...Mester Post.
i Liverpool Past. Nottingham Express,
Manchexter Examiner. Busses Daily News.
Newcastle Chronicle. Eastern Nlerning News
Neweizatle Leader. York Herald.
Ltolflirel Observer. South Wales Daily News.
Brisket Ittelt..arj. Western Daily Mer..-ury.
'ime IiCZNI IN ?Ili HOVNL

' Th.- historic speech id April sth will not Ire rekirded
by thieie who have heard Mr. Illadstone often a. ono
nf his greatest efforts id oratory. Many times in his
several times even lately, he has surpasaed it by
far in all that goes to make up oratory pure and
•IlbPh, irring the whole three hours and twenty
inihlrtcs 'YIN w.Yn at least, there remains in the
memory aftee such prolongerl attontion—mily onq
urn gengine eliunat and antithesis,
seithing'half tips aleVenee and draviing from the Other
hAf alli.l.tat sliout 01 surpris • and I.,:likbt. This
M" 10 M. "tin. 1,40 .if t tifer.K e 10117.4 SIVICer.
Th.. "Rod Etrl" hack in 1t... dittiesuietiej
plaee, "no Icnt.o raisef ahttimt t.) hi. clam. and eirnking
his big rt.rl beard with Ins big white hand. 4. better
"aq than Iford %rimer, said Ur. (Radium/ W
SOSO be Mt Wilbt 644 ret."l4 $l2 erAIUPIOIZA

difficulties of Irish administration —his appointment
wee made the subjectof cavil, it was made the sublert,
of cavil from this House, and, cried Mr. Gladstone,
bringing his 1,31 M down with • tring upon the box
before him. "from this very spot ' That was •
palpable hit, but in Mr. Gladstone's great oratorical
speeches there are downs equally good, and all his
hearers are kept in a tremor of excitement, from
Pleasure or pride or anger. No, this last speech,
almost Of necessity, was not an oration ; Mr. Glad-
'tone was too uncertain of the amount of his strength
for him to venture to waste any of it. Itiit as a
masterpiece of economic analysis and exposition it hip
not often been equalled. To PO out of a hundred of
his hearers it was an exhausting mental effort to
follow Mr. Gladstone at all ti himself it was
intellectual play, and long after a majority of the
Mope had given up the attempt in deal i tir. mid were
simply listening with open months and sprawling
limbs', the great ,dil man was sailing away with his
one. two, first end second, provision and condition
and proviso and Clause, as Alert and As self .posessisl
as when he was tilling in the answer, which won him
hi. "double first." rifi year. ago. The aspect of the
front Opposition bench during the middle isirtion ,if
Mr. Gladobine't speech wee dephirable. Lord
Randolph alone seemed equal ti the occasion, and he
leaned comfortably back with his arms folded across.
his heeled, calmly amtemplating from under him
broad eyelids the Prime Minster vigorously thumping
the long•sullering box. Sir M. ilicka.Beach sat
smiling his watery smile, expreesi.inlem m an empty
howl. Mr. Smith's eyes were closed, and acromliis
bucolic lam there flitted no sign of comprehension
hardly, indeed, of i,olinary wakefully... Sir Richard
Coos welled encouragingly woes the table, 'seining
with kindly mill surprise through his spectaeles -
abed as little like a political fur, as any man mnild
poaaibly be. Am for Is ol John Manners, lie was
utterly overcome. He raised nisi brows like a trap,
tucked in his eyerlaes and shut them up again,
a hundred times. Well indeed may lewd Rendolph
sigh for half mn•hoiir of feint Salisbury in the H0i1..•
of Commons—imrely a more helpless and invertebrate
set of colleague. never piliticiati ha.' I When the
expository part if hie speech was roncluded Mr.
Gladstone gathered up Ids paper's, placed them in his
dmpatclebox, heliesl himself to the *intents of one
of the bottle., folded his hand., and stepped hack
again from the table. The sleepy members roused
themselves, the sprAwling inetribeni pulled themselves'
together, the lontheaded member+ congrattilitted
theineelves that their effort of attention was over,
sod everyone prepared to enjoy the speaker'. peewee
ti.m. It was slim I and highly unprosii ye. Partly from
fatigue and partly from the strength of his feeling, Mr.
illadstone's voice was several notes lower than it
usually is, and there was a touching tremor in it.
Them few minutes wore minutes of oratory, and the
HMI*, appreciated every syllable. In conu.
pleb. silence the last admirably chosen words' fell
from the speaker's lips, and he will be remembered
in connection with this historic isocaaiim by his
attitude at that moment—the noble figure which ,ine
never COWIN t+) admire, the uplifted hand, the bell.
like voice, It was his last effort, and of such A
life, the last great effort faithfully devoted to " the
peace, the fame the power, and the permanence of
the Empim." Then the wild tumult again. When
it was nearly over • figure rose from the Opposition
benches, It was Colonel Waring, and the Homan
no sooner recognised him than with one shout of
laughter it turned and fled—fled like rabbits to a
warren. In three minutes there were nit twenty
people left, and Mr. Gladstone, tucking him red
despatch.box under his arm And taking hie bottles,
one in each hand, left also, and went home.—Pell
Mad ClazeUr.