The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-06-23
TO-DAY'S NEWS.

Our space does not admit OF close re-
view Of the important news published in
our supplement. The defeat Of the
Home Rule bill by a majority OF thirty,
in a House of 652, was hardly anticipated
by Mr.. Gladstone. although it had been
evident throughout the debate that its
rejection was among his calculations.
The excitement in the House OF Com
mons after the division was intense, and
the feeling appears to have spread
throughout the United Kingdom.
Unfortunately for their own cause and
for their country, the Orange faction OF
Ulster gave way to lawless excuses, and
savage rioting took place at Belfast, Lur-
gan and other points III the Northern
province. As far as we can gather from
the details, the casualties in Belfast have
been considerable, as the police were
compelled for days to fight for their lives.
The disturbed districts have been placed
under martial law, and the northeastern
counties OF Ireland will now have an
opportunity of approaching the beauty
of government by coercion.
The Queen consented to a dissolution,
which is to take place June 24th. Mr..
Gladstone's address to the electors o.
Midlothian appears in our supplement.
1t is a calm and dignified review of the
political crisis, and a clear and states
manike enunciation of policy. The
Tories have joined forces with the Wings
and MIR. Chamberlain, filed with per
sonal ambition, leads a small band OF
| followers As a tail to Lord Salisbury.
! Active preparations for the campaign
are being made, and no seat in the
/ United Kingdom will be uncOntested
The issue of Home Rule FOR Ireland is
now for the first time before the con
stituencies of Great Britain. Last cleo
ton it was the issue in Ireland, which
/ responded to Gladstone's challenge to de-
clare its wishes in regard to Home Rule
at the polls, by returning nearly ninety
members out of a total OF 1O3.
/ For the first time also in the history o.
English Parliamentary Government, the
British people have had the facts in
volved in this imperial controversy
fairly and fully stated. The newspaper
reports of the debates in Parliament
have educated all classes, and we greatly
mistake the British people as a whole il
they do not send Mr.. Gladstone back tC
st. Stephens with a majority sufficient
to carry all measures for the paciEcation
and better government of Ireland.
From the European continent the
news is not exciting. The Greek fire APP
pears to have been extinguished, the
Tricoupis Government at Athens actu-
ally contemplating an alliance with the
Turk, who is drafting his battalions from
the Greek frontier to check a Russian
advance in Asia Minor. That is the
point where the thunderbolt of war will
probably strike first.
Unhappy King Ludwig of Bavaria,
( being deposed, took his humiliation so
much to heart that he drowned himself.
He is succeeded by an imbecile brother,
the Government being entrusted to a
Regency.
The French Republic is borrowing
trouble by eXpelling the royal and inn
perial princes. Whatever may be the
dynastic aspirations of the Bourbons and
Bonapartes, their loyalty as Frenchmen
cannot be doubted. \ Government that
is afraid of the shadow of a great his
toric name cannot have very solid
foundation. As the princes were not
conspiring they should have been left in
peace. His old companions-in-arms in
the Federal army under Mcclellan in
vited the Count of Paris to take refuge in
America, but he cannot accept the invi-
tation Queen Victoria offered him
Claremont Castle as Il residence, which
he declined.
From the United States the news is
of no special interest; but great calam-
ity appears to have overtaken a Maori
village in the Auckland province, New
Zealand, were one hundred natives and
ten Europeans are said to have been
killed by a volcanic eruption. As the
occurrence is stated to have happened at
Tarawera, which is the center OF the hot
lakes district of the volcanic belt, and
thickly populated, it is probable that the
loss of life was caused by unusual activ-
ity of the thermal springs. However,
next Australian steamer will bring de-
tails