Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-01-12

LONDON, January 11.-At a meeting of the
Home Rule members of Parliament yester-
day it was decided that Messrs. Parnell,
Mccarthy and Gray should move amend
ments In the House of Commons to Mr..
Gladstone's proposal to give precedence to
the coercion bills.
Yesterdays meeting of the English and
Irish Liberals to express dissatisfaction at
the incompleteness of the charges proposed
IA the land system is attracting much atten-
ton.
The Daily Neaos this morning says: s'It has
become abundantlY manifest that a strong
measure will receive abundant support,
while weak one will cause defections from
the Liberal ranks and strengthen the hands
of the House of Lords"
The Times saws: "a body of politicians,
English as well as Irish, are conveying a
menace, not in words, but quite intelligibly,
that unless sweeping changes in the land
system, going far beyond the lines of the
act of 1870, are proposed, a stand will be
made against coercion"
A correspondent of the Manchester
Guardian mentions, with some degree of
credit, rumor that Earl Cowper desires to
resign the Office Of Lord Lieutenant of Ire
land, principally, however, for private
reasons.
More thar forty-1ve members of Parlia-
ment were present at the meeting Of the
English and Irish Liberals Yesterday, and
only about five represented Irish con-
stituencies.
The Newcastle Chronicle, of which paper
Mr.. Joseph Cowen (RadicaD, the member
for Newcastle -on-Tyne, is the proprietor,
publishes the following from a London cor
n yHA ic holt 70 ho of
the members present at the meeting.
None Of those st the meeting
could be classed as Wings. AL were sin
cere admirers and adherents of Mr.. Glad
stone: "The joint deputation of Home
Rule and Liberal members of Parliament
which is to wait on Mr.. Glad
stone on Wednesday will urge that
1t is essential, in order to Sc
cure unity and enthusiasm among the
Liberals in Parliament and contentment
In Ireland, that the land bill shall include a
comprehensive scheme of peasant prop4fe-
tsrY, accompanied by the 'fhree F's." The
bill as hitherto sketched by the government
would annihilate the Liberal party in Ire
land. The Liberal members who are par
ticipating in the present movement will re
main faithful to their party. however
halting the land bill may be, but they will
be disappointed and some of them soured.
1t is quite possible that some of the MEM
bers of the administration may carry their
dissatisfaction to the length of resigning.
The government must decide whether they
will rely on their more pronounced follow
ers, representing populous constituencies or
on country gentlemen"
In the House of Commons this evening
the debate on the address was resumed.
Mr.. Mitchell w. Henry, Liberal and Home
Rule member for county Galway, said the
government had not administered the ex-
isting law in Ireland as they might have
done, and the course the government now
proposed was not likely to restore order.
He condemned the hateful system of "Boy-
cott:ng," and declared that he had always
refused to join the Land League.
Sir Farrer Herschel, Solicitor General,
said the object of the present movement In
Ireland was the disintegration Of the en-
pire. It was time some effectual remedy be
applied, and the law be made strong enough
to cope with the unwritten code of the
Land League, which embraced terror,
coercion, murder and mutilation.
After powerful speech by the Marquis
of Harrington and violent speech by Mr..
Healy, Home Rule member for Wexford,
the debate was again adjourned.
The English and Irish members of Par
lament who are arranging for deputation
to wait on Mr.. Gladstone in relation to
Irish land reform, to-day held
numerously attended meeting, at which
Mr.. VIM. Shaw, Home Rule mem
Der for county Cork, deprecated
the idea OF British members forming a part
of the deputation, for fear Mr.. Gladstone
might consider it SIS an attempt to dictate,
but it was arranged that he be informed Of
their desire for strong land bill.
DUBLIN, January l.-Proceedings In the
case Of the traversers were not open to day
until p. m. Mr.. McDonough, of counsel
for the traversers, was again absent,
being Ill. Counsel for the Crown,
announced that their case was
complete with the exception Of the evil
dence of one witness, who is now on his
way from London. In consequence of the
indispositiOn of Mr.. McDonough the court
granted an adjournment till Thursday next.