The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-03-23
FOURTH EDITION
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Proceedings Of Parliament.
NEWS FROM The CAPITAL.
The Diplomatic Appropriations.
The Proceedings of Congress To-day.
FROM EUROPE.
Debate In the House Of Lords.

Debate In the House of Lords.
By the AngIo-Americdn Cable
LONDON, March 23.-In the House of Lords
last evening, the coinage bill passed through
committee, and the consolidated fund bill was
read second time. The House adjourned
without transactlng any further important busi-
ness.
EThe House Of Commons.
In the Commons, Gladstone denied amid
much merriment, the reports recently published
in the Spanish newspapers and elsewhere, that
Bright had offered to retrocede the Rock OF
Gibraltar to Spain. The bill for the enforce
ment of the laws in Ireland was then taken up.
The debate was resumed by Mr.. Downing, of
Cork, who denounced the press clause. He
thought tie bill, with that clause retained, was
calculated to arouse the bitterest resentment
among the Irish people.
Mr.. Manners censured the supineness of the
Government in Irish affairs.
Messrs. Digby, Mcmahon, Kavanagh. Sber-
lock- and other members from Ireland partici-
pated in the debate
Lord Claude Hamilton charged the Liberals.
since their accession to Office, with having uni
formly promoted the agitation of the Irish ques-
ton, in order to prescribe coercive measures.
Mr.. Whalley held, In short speech, that
Popery wes the auther of all Irish sorrows.
the powers intrusted to the local magstracy as
tyrannic and dangerous.
The Right Hon. Chicester Fortescue, Chief
Secretary for Ireland, denied that the Govern
ment had abdicated its functions in Ireland or
encouraged Illusions, as had been charged He
was confident that the power now asked would
restore and perpetuate order He discriminated
between Fenianisln and agrarianism. Criminal
results were the same, though acts themselves
| were different.
The Government acted only under a sense of
danger, yet 1t did not mature upon premature
| and inadequate prescription. Agitation In Ire
| land was never stronger than now, because here
| tOtore 1t had been without assistance from
! abroad. He did not mean the American people,
| who had greater reason for complaint with Eng
! land for exporting to them q multitude of mall
! contents, so restive under all restraints.
1t was good policy to isolate the class COM
mitting agrarian and political violence, and to
| draw moral strength to the Government by
weaning from the disaffected the sympathies of
| n class passively sympathzing with aSsassins
! Wise and liberal legislation only could achieve
this. The process was slow and difficult, but
| effective.
Mr.. Gladstone closed the debate. He apollo
| gized for leaving the conduct of the discussion
TO the Irish Secretary, though that official per-
haps was the proper person. He was sorry to
say that the tone OF the discussion might be
classified under three beads-first, criticism of
| the bill itself; second, criticism of the Govern
ment; and third, criticism of the motives for in
Producing the bill. The state of ireland, so far
as ordinary crime was concerned, was satisfac-
tory, but agrarianism, however, was rampant
| He took this occasion to deny the responsibility
| of much that had been attributed to him.
His sentiments towards Ireland had been
widely misrepresented. He admitted the injus
tice of legislating for exceptional cases, but il
was wrong longer to withhold the law of reform
strong sense of its necessity alone prompted
the present measure. Its provisions were strong
and he hoped they would be effectual If so, evi
would soon vanish and Parliament might re-
sumo that beneficial legislation on which alone
it was safe to build permanent hopes for the
| future.
The House then divided, and the bill passed
as follows:-For the bill, 425 against, 13.
The House then adjourned till noon to-day.