Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-11-25
THE UNITED KINGDOM
Salisbury on the Value of Our Supreme
Conrt-The Home Rule League Dis
solved-The Distress in IreIand-The
Procedure Rules Carried.

NO"rt-Ahe Home Rule League Dis
solved-The Distress in Ireland-The
Procedure Rules Carried.
LONDON, Nov. 24.-The final meeting of
the Home Rule League was held TODAY.
ana the association was dissolved.
Consideration of the procedure rules
was resumed in the House last night. The
tenth rule was carried by a vote of 80 to
70. This rule provides that if the Speaker
or the Chairman of the committee of the
whole shall be of opinion that a motionsfor
an adjournment of the debate, or the House
during any debate, or that the Chairmen
90 report progress, or do leave the chair
is made for the purpose of obstruction. he
may forthwith put the question thereupOn
from the chair. i''''
Inc Marquis Of Salisbury, in an address
before the Scottish Conservative Club AT
Edinburgh last night, taunted the Liberal
government with having adopted its pre-
decessoTs Egyptian policy. He strongly
denounced the action of the government
toward Ireland, and condemned the arrears
ot rent act. He had, he said. favored
schemes OF peasant prOprietory that
were now impossible, as the church sur
plus Iund had been otherwise DISPOSED of
stignatizlng the vagUeness of Mr.. Glad
stones utterances, he said: II confess I
do not often envy the United States. but
their institutions possess one feature
which appears to me subject
for the greatest envy. namely
their magnificent institution of the
Supreme Court. If their Parliament
passes measure inconsistent with the
Constitution Of the country, there exists a
court which will negative it at once. This
gives stability to the institutions of the
country, which under the system of vague
promises here we look for in vain" His
remarks were received with applause.
The health Of the Rt. Hon. Hugh c..
Chelders, the War Secretary, is broken
down, and he has been ordered to 90
abroad. 1t has been officially reported to
the government that widespread distress
is feared in Ireland this winter. The
districts most seriously affected through
want of employment on farms. and the
failure of the pOtatoe crop, are Sligo. CALI
no, SWintOrd and the greater portion of
GalWay. There Is much destitutiOn
III west Glare and COnnaught. Owing
to the continuously heavy demands
upon Irishmen in America to support the
Land League there has been a considera-
bic disease in the remittances to the strug-
gllng natives III Ireland. This has reduced
many OF the natives to the condition of
being unable to purchase new seed.
In the House of Commons tonight the
eleNentn ana twelfth rules. the last two of
the procedure rules, We're both carried.
Rule eleven provides that on reading the
order OF the day for the consideration of a
bill as amended, the House shall proceed
to consider the same without the question
being put, unless the member in charge
thereof shall desire to postpone its con
slderatlon, or notice being given
to recommit the bill. Rule
twelve provides that whenever the
committee of supply appointed for the
consideration of the ordinary army. navy
and civil service estimates stands as the
first order of the day on Monday, the
Speaker shall leave the chair without
putting the question, unless an amend
ment be moved or a question be
raised relating to the estimates proposed
to be taken in the supply on first going
into committee on the army, navy and
civil services, respectively.
Mr.. Trevelyan, Chief Secretary for Ire
land, replying to question by Mr.. Healv,
said that since August last all the copies
OF the irish World and Irish Nation
which had arrived in Ireland had been
seized, but the stOppage of the circulation
OF those papers in England was unneces-
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