The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-05-20
THE BRITISH COMMONS.
DEBATE CONTINUED ON The
IRISH QUESTION.
A Great LOyalist MeetiBg-Speeches
BY Prominent Men-GladstOne
and His Followers.

LoSDoS, May 19.-In the House Of
Commons this evening Mr.. Timothy
Harrington, Home Rule member for
Dublin, moved the second reading Of
the bill providing for the elertion by
ballot of the poor-law guardians in Ire
land, sboliehing proxies and reducing
the number of ex.oficio members of
the poor boards.
The Orange members bitterly OPP
posed the motion.
Mr.. John Morley, Chief Secretary
FOR Ireland, supported the motion,
and, after a hot debate, it was carried
by a vote OF 207 to los.
The announcement of the result
was received with cheers.
LORD SALISBURY,
at the Conservative meeting to-day,
in referring to the objects OF the PIim-
rose League, said they vera in the
highest sense catholic, bsing to SO.
tur a united opposition 10 the hoJd
OF inidelity and socialism which at
present was mensciug the world. SINH
lar Lacquer, he added, were being
formed in the British colonies, and
even on the contirent OF Europe.
lCbeeTs.
The audience numbered at least
5000, and included a very large r'pre-
sentation OF the aristc crazy of Eng
land. The Duchess Of Marlboro, Lady
Randolph Churchill, Lady Manners
and Lady Hicks Beach were c%onspicu-
Gus among the hcss cf social celebri.
ties in the boxes. The theater was
pio!usely decorated with hsgs.
JUDGE SIR JAMES HAMMER
has given Sir Charles Dixie notice that
he must supply the Queens proctor
with ali the additional evidence in his
possessit n on which he bases his posi-.
lion Tor a re-openiDg OF the Crawford
divorce case before that official can be
psrn tilted TO proceed in the matt r.
Mr.. CHAMBERLAIN
publ. hes q letter stinpingly criticitiug
the recent action OF the London Rad
ical Council in adopting resolutions
favorable to Mr.. GlsdRtona's Irish bill.
Mr.. Chamberlain says that probably
very few OF the men who took part in
the Council procs edipgs have aver
read the Premier's bill, and that prob.
ably hardly one Of the gentlemen
would have gwen the measure a mo-
ment's consideration If they had been
proposed by any person lie 8 eminent
Ihan Mr.. Gladstone.
Mr.. John BRIGHT,
speaking at a mission bazaar tonight,
said that the Sunday-schools contri-
butte much toward the development Of
the moral feelings and that the work
performed by them was Of more i'm
portance at the present moment than
1t had been at any previous period in
English bi,tory. The powers Of mon
archs were leseening and the influence
of the aristocracy was fading away.
Tne only power, that was gov
ing "a power that would never
hencefofth be limited-waa the power
of the people. He claimed, therefore,
that the most pressing need at the
present time wSs poit cal education,
by which there could be cultivated 10
the minds Of the people q sense Of
their moral responsibility. They
should be taught that labor would
have its just reward, and that the
wealthy should be permitted to enjoy
their riches in security.
THE ARMS BILL.
The government will give the arms
bill precedence over the home rue
measure in the House OF Commons
tomorrow. Mr.. Bigger will move the
r lection OF the arms bill.
A LoYALIsT MEETING
was held tonight at Wolverhamptor.
A number II / ish Radicals were pres-
ent and frequently interrupted Q
proceedings, creating considerable dl-
order. Z. j. SaundeIson, member o
Parliament for North Armagh, dsri d
that the Irish L'yalitts bad appeale d
to the English army for assistance, but
he hoped that il q struggle occurred
the army would stand aloof and
see fair play. A resolutitn vi S
adopted by the meeting condemDing
Mr.. Gladstone's Irish policy. d..
Evans, president Of the Irish Wes-
leyan Conference, addressing a meet
pg of Loya lists at Bristol tonight,
asked whether, in the eve 1t of a ris-
lug in Ulkt.r, the Scotch a1d other
Wesleyan regiments would be sent to
shoot down the P~resbyierisns of D ster
because the latter bad a LOYAL lance
for the Queen. Mr.. Chamberlain will
not participate in the home-rule de-
bate until next week.
MR.. sCHNADHoRsT
visited Mr.. Gladstone to-day, and had
a long conversation with HIM on the
subject of the Irish bile, The Radi-
cal dissentionists propose as a basis
for negotiations the withdrawal Of the
home rule bill and lhe substitution OF
a resolution in favor of granting al
tonomy to Ireland, subject to the con-
ditions embraced ia the manifesto is-