Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-08-25
Left for Europe.
FOREIGN.
speech by Gladstone.

FOREIGN.
Speech by Gladstone.
LONDON, August 24th.-Gladstone upon
rising in the Commons tonight was loudly
cheered. He began by accusing the Govern
ment of having adopted an unusual course
in going so far outside of the speech from
the throne. He did not remember an oc-
casion in fifty years when it was thought
polite 10 use the Crowns address as an op-
portunity for explaining its policy beyond
the compass of the speech He intimated
that he would take no part in the division
on PaInelfs amendment, because he depre
Gated any attempt to force definite pre-
mature expression of policy which the
Government foreshadowed for its future
guidance. Its policy, however, was open
to remarks. 1t bore upon five different
Commissions questions of public land
purchase; an inquiry into land rents,
and subjects of legal government. He be-
leved the Government policy an eminently
complex and difficult one. Instead of Civ
ing Ireland Self-goyernment, the present
Administration proposes that England
should govern Ireland to a greater extent
than it did at the present time. He had
been tainted with having become the
leader of the Irish Nationalists-as if that
was a charge against him; but he was de-
lighted with having any part whatever in
becoming leader or follower, he did not
care which, in any movement tending to
make smooth the path Of the people of
Ireland, and to encourage them to hope for
realization OF their just rights. [Cheers.l
Parne1rs Amendment.
LONDON, August 24th.-The Unionists
have issued a whip against Mr. Parnells
amendment to the address. Mr. Chamber
lain will move the adjournment of the de-
bate on the address tomorrow, and on
Thursday he will move a division.
Mr. Gladstone Will start for Munich to-
morrow, On three-weeks' vacation. lie
has arranged to return, if necessary, at
moments notice.
Parnen Speaks.
LONDON. August 2ith.-Parnell, in his
reply to the Queens speech, said if more
time had been given the country, the Tories,
he believed, would not have been installed
on the Treasury bench His party was
satisfied with the present position. The
majority of the Liberal party had declared
in favcr Of Irish autocracy. The Irish
party profi;ed by the temporary Liberal
hesitation. After q years exhibition of the
present Government in an attempt 10 gov
ern Ireland, Liberal hesitation would van
ish Let the Irish be patient-theirs is
winning cause. If Government spies were
intended 10 eXaSperate and threaten, they
would fail. There would be difficulty with
the rent question. He regretted that the
Government had not appreciated the grav-
ity of the situation. a Royal Commission
would be unable to report until the pinch
of winter was over. If the system of
dual ownership was to be replaced
by system of single ownership,
there would be risk to English
taxpayers. Mr.. Parnell had believed the
national question would be settled concur
rently with the Land Purchase Act of 1885,
and hence had approved the latter, and be-
cause the Liberal Government had sent to
Ireland CarnarVon, a Home Ruler. All
these conditions are now changed. Glad
stones purchase scheme would have settled
the land question. The Irish question
cannot be settled independently of the land
question. Rents must be reduced at the
expense of the landlords or British taxpay-
erS. Crushed Irish industries could not
be renewed by English public money in
big doses. The way TO that end is TO let
the Irish develop them themselves
[Cheers] An influx of capital vas not
wanted, but the right of the Irish to help
themselves. He repudiated the fraud on
British taxpayers. The Government came
to office by misrepresen.ati ne would
not say by lying. Hehere read his amend
ment to the address, and added that Judi
cial rents are too high Agrarian crime
always follows evictions. The effort of
landlords to exact impossible rents would
bear fruit. He believed very severe coer-
cion would come, and not stop at criminals,
but attack political opponents. Judicial
tenancy should be fixed at three years to
fifteen years, and rents be revised in ac
cordance with prevailing prices. He con-
cluded by declaring that the Irish will
never submit to Government not their
own.
VIII Oppose 1t.
LONDON August 24th.-The Ministers,
after long discussion of Parnelfs amend
ment to the address in reply to the Queens
speech, decided to oppose it.
Getting Ready for Wholesale Evictions.
DUBLIN, August 2ith-Curragah of Kill
dare, the great plain owned by the British
Crown in the heart of Kildare county, and
used for military purposes is the scene of
unusual activity atpresent, the place being
put in readiness to receive FIVE additional
regiments of infantry and other additional
regiments of cavalry. These fresh troops
eviction during the coming winter. The
authorities expect that the default of rents
among the Irish peasantry through the
winter will be unusually great, and that
the present force in Ireland will. unless
much strengthened, prove totally made
quate to the work of protecting the interests
of the landlords.
National League Meeting.
DUBLIN, August 24th.-Lord Mayor Sui
livan presided to-day over the fortnightly
meeting of the National League In his
address, he declared that Ireland was pre-
pared to accept Gladstone's home rule bill
as a settlement of the controversy with
England. OF course, Irishmen would not,
Sullivan said, refuse to receive whatever
good thing the Tories might offer short of
Gladstone's proposed benefaction, but the
Tories might as well know now as later,
that the people of Ireland would never be
content until they had Parliament of
their own.
Cholera Reports.
ROME, August 24th-Cholera returns for
twenty-four hours: Barletta. - new cases
and Deaths Biscelglia, cases and
deaths; Ravenna, II cases and 8 deaths
Yincenza, cases and deaths; Padua, 12
cases and deaths; other infected districts,
81 cases and ID deaths.
Damage by Flood in Burmah.
MANDALAY, August oath. = One of the
embankments of the Irrawaddy river burst
in this city yesterday. The break is 300
yards in length, and so rapid was the flow
of water that in few moments the whole
district was flooded from four TO ten feet
deep. Engineers at once cut dam south
of the city to allow the waters to subside,
but the result of this maneuyer is as vet
unknown. Fifty thousand persons are TO
day homeless in this city, their houses and
possessions having been either destroyed or
submerged. number of persons were
drowned by the sudden rush Of the waters,
how many bas not yet been ascertained.
The flooded district had within its territory
many of the food-suppying stores, and
all of these were swept away. The result
will be an approach 10 famine among the
homeless people. The river will not fall
sufficiently TO permit any attempts at
reconstruction of the broken embankment
until November. British military opera
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