The Portland daily press., 1886-05-29
FOREIGN.
Newspaper Comments on Mr.. Glad
stones Latest Move.
Sir Michael Beach Makes a Fierce
Attack on the Government.
The Grand Old Man Replies with
Unusual Passion.
Arrangement Between Greece and
Turkey-Both Armies to Withdraw.H

LONDON, May 28.-The London Daily
News is exultant over the unexpected sue
cess of the Gladstone meeting yesterday. 1t
is reported that Mr.. Bright said last night
that he deplored the fact that for the first
time in his life the wording of an invitation
to Liberal meeting prevented him from at
tending.
The London Standard says that Mr.. Glad
stone will communicate to the House of
Commons before the division on the home
rule bill a statement in writing with refer
: ence to the retention of Irish representatives
on specified occasions. Some of Mr. Glad
stones supporters urge that the home rule
bill be not resumed until 1887, on the ground
that there will then be a greater likelihood of
the Liberals being united. To this, however
Mr. Parnell will net assent The Parnell
party have received imperative whips" to
attend Mondays session of the House of
Commons.
The London Times says that Mr.. Gladstone
would find it as difficult to enumerate the
affairs specially Irish as he confessed it
would be in his original statement with re-
specific imperial affairs. He had nothing
Yesterday to say about Ulster or the objec-
tions to the financial scheme of the bill.
Joseph Cowen, Radical, member of Parlia-
ment for NewcaStle-on-Tyne,p publishes a let
ter in the Newcastle Chronicle in which he
says: - Inc QlSSlQ6nIS CONSCIOUSLY OF uucOn-
sciously have said good bye to the Liberal
party. The home rule question is not set
tied. Years will be spent over this fight
Political animosities will grow and tester
leading to a complete recasting of party
lines. The prospect for the Liberals is not
hopeful"
Michael Davitt publicly defends Patrick
Ford against allegations made by Mr. Hea
ley in the House of Commons that the Irish
World was simply a medium for the acknowl
edgment of subscriptions for the Parliamen-
tary fund. Davitt says that Ford collected
| three-fourths of all the enormous sums of
money sent by the Irish people and their
sympathizers in America for the Irish Ma
| tional League Besides he sent large sum
| every week to feed the starving poor ON the
west coast of Ireland.
Mr. Gladstone in the House of Commons
| this afternoon in reply to questions from the
| opposition refused to state what the inten-
| tions of the government were concerning the
| home rule bill, and the procedure thereon.
| Sir Michael Hicks Beach, Conservative lead
er, then moved an adjournment of debate on
| the bill and supported his motion by fierce
attack upon the government denouncing in
| strong language their tactics in the manage
| ment of the controversy. This speech pro-
| voked hot tempered row of words. Mr..
| Gladstone arose in the middle of the excite
| ment, and with-for him-unnsual passon
| declared he would choose his own time to
| press the bill to a vote, and that he would
| accept no advice from those who were doing
! their best to ruin the measure. This decla-
great senthuSiasm among the Liberals and
NationalistS and they cheered loudly.
| The House of Commons was crowded this
| evening Sir Michael Hicks Beach, in view
| of unsatisfactory statements of the govern
ment in regard to the home rule bill, moved