The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-08-02
1HE Irish FILlBUSIERS.
A Twenty-Six Hours Session in the
English Parliament.
SEVEN HOME RULERS WORK
Exciting and TumultuOuS Scenes
Twenty-Five Divisions.
RIGHT HONORABLE TRAMPS.
Liberals and Conservatives Unite
to Crush the Seven.
FRESH MEMBERS IN RELAYS.
How and Why the Irish 0bStrnctiOnists
Block Legislative Wheels.
Interviews with Parnen and
Biggar.
RIGHT HONORABLE TRAMPS.
Liberals and Conservatives Unite
to Crush the Seven.
FRESH MEMBERS IN RELAYS.
How and Why the Irish 0bStrnctiOnsts
Block Legislative Wheels.
Interviews with Parneu and
Biggar.
lBY CABLE TO THE HERALD. |

BY CABLE TO THE HERALD
LONDON August 2, 1877.
A climax was reached on Tuesday night
and yesterday in the obstruction of bust
ness in the Imperial Parliament by the
handful Of Irish home rulers, led by Messrs.
Parnell, member for county Meath; Blggar,
member for county Cavan, and OConnor
Power, member for county Mayo. On num-
berless occasions during the present session
have these eJants terribes of Irish dis
content driven Sir Stafford Northcote,
Chancellor Of the Exchequer, to de-
spair. goaded Mr.. Claiborne Hardy, Sec
rotary Of War, to the verge of madness,
and irritated Mr.. Cross, the Home Secre-
tary, to state of mind of which his name
gives only the faintest idea. All this has
been done by making use of the rules of the
House to make the House as unruly as pos
sible. Never were six hundred engineers
more conspicuously hoist with their own Pc
tards than the "noble lords, fright honor
able" honorable and gallant" ''honora-
BILE and learned" and plain honorable"
gentlemen of the Imperial Parliament. You
would call it flibustering in America, but it
is called by every name which irritation
would bounce to the lips of the profane or
studied depreciation could suggest.
THE BAND OF BROTHERS.
In addition to the three members already
named the obstructionists count in their
slim but determined band MI. Francis
Hugh O'Donnell, the lately returned men,
Der for hungarian, whose fierce and vehe-
ment oratory has been poured out like
witches oil upon the already troubled
waters of the House, and who at a rhetorical
bound leaped into the i'll will of all Eng
land. Captain Nolan, of the artillery, men,
Der for county Galway, has also efficiently
helped to scatter the obstructive grape
Der for Louth, a farmer who has
little to say but is ever ready
to vote when the government is to be har-
rowed is also one of the band, which finally
includes Mr.. Edward Dryer Gray, member
tor county Tipperary, son of the late Sir
John Gray and proprietor of the Dublin
Frecman's Journal, having succeeded his
father in the dictatorship of that influential
paper. At various times the obstruction
lists included Mr.. Richard Power member
for county Waterford Major O'Gorman,
member for the city of Waterford, the heavy
weight and wit of the House, and, by
strange chance, Mr.. Whalley, the monoma-
niacal Pope and Jesuit hater, member for
Peterborough North Hamptonshire.
THE LONGEST SESSION ON RECORD
A month ago the obstructionists held the
House for fifteen hours on one pretext after
another, but the session which began at four
o'clock on Tuesday afternoon and ended at
ten minutes past six last evening, con-
tinuous session of twenty-six hours, was the
longest ever passed through by the British
Parliament. Throughout the greater por-
ton of the time scenes of the widest excite
ment wero enacted. The seven obstruction
lists who pitted themselves against the six
hundred we've beaten at last, and the air will
echo with the story thereof for weeks.
THE CAUSE OF THE TROUBLE.
Almost anything in the shape of govern
ment business has been good enough for
Messrs. Parnell and Bggar to attack but
the South African Confederation bill, which
provides for the absorption nolens roens of
The Transvaal Republic founded by the
Dutch Beers into federation with the Cape
Colonies, was especially Objectionable to
them. The annexation is strenuously OPP
posed by the Beers themselves, and hence,
giving the Irish home rulers q parallel
case to that of their own country, the bill
was attacked tooth and nail The half
dozen OF so obstructionists could not hope
to prevent the bill ultimately from becom-
ing a law, but they were resolved to oppose
it at every clause, and to il they went.
There were seven of them, as already
enumerated.
THE GOVERNMENTS TACTICS
Alarmed at tho inefectiveness of all pre-