Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1886-04-16
A GREAT DAY FOR IRELAND.
A GREAT OVATION TO THE
GRAND OLD MAN.

/ LONDON, April N.-largc an
eager crowds had assembled arOunl
Parliament awaiting for the door
to open. Such rush has neye
been seen before. The beauty ant
the nobility of England were pres
ent, while the clergy was represent
ed by Cardinal Manning and tn
Bishop of London. The space be
tween the House and Westminste
Bridge was filed by 3 o'clock will
a dense crowd, through which thu
police had some difficulty in pre-
serving a passage-way.
The whole length Of Downing
street was also thronged with sight
seers, anxiously waiting Mr.. Glad
stones departure from his 0llicia
residence for the House, and cheer
ing themselves hOarse Tor the CRANE
old man. In the House the mem
bers were chatting each other, sky
larking, and INDUCING in mock de
bates to kill time. Parnelliles had
arranged TO sit in close array so as
to give full volume and value "a
their famous Irish cheer.
Speaker Peel took the chair ex'
actly upon the stroke of 1, and the
chaplain Immediately afterward be
gan his prayer. The body of the
House and the members side gal
lery were packed, as every one
who wished to retain his seat was
required to be in actual occupation
during prayer.
Outside the hOuse the crowds
were still increasing, deputations
being present from all the London
brances of the Irish National
League, the members wearing green
scarfs. Many radical clubs were
also represented.
Mr.. Gladstone at $50 entered
the house. His entrance was the
signal for prolonged cheering, in
which the ringing yell of the Irish
contingent was the lOudest and
most prolonged.
After the applause had subsidized
Mr.. Gladstone arose, and, amid a
breathless silence, moved to intro
duce a bill to amend the provisions
for the future government OF Ire
land. All questions of which no
tice had previously been given, and
which were on the notice board for
today, were postponed.
Mr. Gladstone said that the time
had arrived when honor and duty
required Parliament to establish
harmony between Great Britain and
Ireland on a footing Of free institu-
tons in which the English, the
Scotch and the Irish should have
like interests. Cheers. He briefly
reviewed the cOercive, repressivs
legislation of the past, and depTe'
Gated further resort to such meas
ures. Further coercion, to be sue
cessful, required an autocracy in
the Government survey OF public
transactions. Cheers from the Par
nellites, The law in England, he
said, was felt to be English law
The problem for Parliament, he
said, was to reconcile imperial unity
with diversity of legislation. He
believed the Government had found
the solution of this problem by
creating "a Parliament at Dublin
for the business of legislation and
administration of purely Irish af-
fairs. The political equality of the
three countries must be recognized,
and therefore there must be an
equitable distribution of the i'm
perial funds. Safeguards for the
protection of the Protestant MINOR
ity in. Ireland must be established.
Continuing, he said: 81 don't
know of any previous task laid
upon me involving so diversified an
exposition. In contemplating the
magnitude of the task am filled
with painful mistrust, but that mis-
trust is absorbed in the feeling OF
responsibility that will be upon me
if | should fail to bring home to the
public mind the magnitude OF the
various aspects Of the question:
We should no longer fence and
skirmish with this question, loud
cheers VIC should come to close
quarters with it. Cheers. We
should get at the root of it and take
means not merely for the wants OF
today or tomorrow, but look into
the distant future. We have ar
rived at a stage in our political
transactions with Ireland where
the two roads part one from the
other, not soon, probably, to meet
again. The time is come when in
duty and honor Parliament must
come to some decisive resolution on
the matter. Our intentions is to
propose to the House OF Commons
that which if happily accepted,
will liberate Parliament from the
restraints under which, of late
years, it has Intellectually struggled
to perform the business of the cOun-
try, and that which will restore leg
islation to its natural, ancient and
unimpeded course, and above all
establish harmonious relations be-
tween Great Britain and Ireland
hear, hear, on a voting OF these
Tree institutions TO which English
men, ScOtchmen and lrishmen alike
are unalterably attached Loud
cheers, which were prolonged by
the Home. Rule members. Ireland,
though represented numerically
equal with England and Scotland,
had lot the same position. Eng
land made her own laws, and Scot
land had been encouraged to make
her own laws as eDectual as if she
had six times the present represent
tation. The consequence was that
the handspring OF the law of both
England and Scotland was felt to
be English and Scotch. The main
spring of the law in Ireland was
not felt by the people to be Irish.
lie deemed it little less than mock
cry to hold that the shape Of law,
which he had described, cOnduced
to the real unity of this great noble
world. Something was imperative
ly demanded from the Government.
1t was demanded that they restore
in Ireland the first condition of civil
life, the free course OF law, the lib
erty of every individual in the ex.
ercise of every legal right, the con-
fidence of the law, and the 'ympa'