The Irish standard., 1886-06-12
SATURDAY., JUNE IL, 1886.
AGENTS. FOR THE IRIsH STANDARD.
The following gentlemen are autho-
xized agents for The IRISH STANDARD
in their respective localities
HOME RULE PRINCIPLE DEFEATED.

The motion TO read the Home Rule
bill second time has been rejected by
an adverse majority Of 80, the vote being
Sal against 311. This means that out Of
total membership Of 670 in the
British House Of Commons there We're
but IS absentees. Immediately follow
ing the announcement of the result Mr.
Gladstone moved an adjournment until
Thursday. On the reassembling of the
House on that date Mr.. Gladstone,
amidst rousing cheers, announced that
in consequence Of the rejection by the
House of the Home Rule bill>he had ed
yised her majesty to dissolve parliament
without delay. He further stated that
The Queen had assented to this, and he
desired the House to wind up the busi-
ness of the session at the earliest prac-
ticab!e moment. The House will pro-
badly be dissolved before the end Of the
presen ut month
THE defeat of the Gladstone Home
Rule measure in our opinion, and we
believe in the Judgment Of Ireland's
best friends and most efficient cham
pions, cannot sensibly affect her cause.
The eyes OF the people of England and
the world dare not overlook the fact that
3l1 members--or nearly one-half the
full membersblp-of Che British House
vi Commons openly record their opinion
that ireland has been treated
harsh1y and tyrannically iii the past,
and that they are willing and anxious
TO see accorded to her The priv
ilege, or rather her birthright, to
govern herself i'll the future. Two hun
dred British members Of Parliament are
WON to frank acknowledgment under
che spell of Mr.. Gladstone's invocation,
that never before could have been
wrested from ten-an acknowledgment
that the act Of Union which deprived
Ireland of her s'Grattan Parliament"
was wrong and ought to be repealed
Mr.. Parnell's speech just previous to the
recording of the vote was masterly ef-
fort, and proved, if any proof we're
required, that the defeat of Mr..
Gladstone's Home Rule measure was
dishonest effort to postpone for brief
season, and to the hoped-for profit OF
scheming politicians reform known TO
be inevitable. Mr.. Parneu fesrlessly
made the statement, and not Tory of
the hundreds present dared to contra
dict him, except in evasiye, abortive
way, that it was nnmistakably conveyed
by the Conservative managers to the
Nationalist voters at the late election
that the revival of Dublin Parliament
should reward their assistance When.
therefore, the Tories wilfully turn their
backs to concession in which Mr.. Glad
stone offers the least that Irish patriots
can heartily accept, the former cannot
mean that they reject the demands Of
Ireland on principle.
The force by which the hopes of Ire
land have been temporarily rebuffed, but
by no means vanquished, is to be found
among the 80 dissidents from the Lib
eral party. TO this auxiliary corps
nearly third was contributed by the
personal followers Of Joseph Judas
Iscariot Chamberlain to whose motives
nothing Of al honorable or Ineligible
character can be attributed. How II
adiculous, indeed, is the position Of the
arch-hy pocrite Chamberla who,I on
the pretence Of wishing to give Ireland
more than she desires; refuses to grant
what Ire1and's Officially authorized
presentatives and spokesman declare