Evening star., 1886-06-08
kilograms to The Star.
bow home RULE WAS DEFEATED
The Memorable Scenes in the Commons.
THE PRESIDENT COMING HOME
VISIT TO DEER PARK CUT SHORT,

VISIT TO DEER PARK CUT SHORT.
IRELAND'S HOPE DEFERRED.
Memorable Scenes Attending she De.
feat Of the Home Rule Bill.
THE HOUSE OF COMMONS A SOLID MASS OF HU-
MANIrY-THE CLOSING pEBATE-PARNELL
BEGINS NERvoUsLY BUT WARNS UP AND I'M
PRESSES THE HOUSE AS HE PRoCEEDs-wILD
UPRoAR WHEN THE VOTE WAS ANNOUNCED.
Special Cable Dispatch to THE EVENING STAR.
LONDON, June S.-The division last might
went as l anticipated, only more SO. The whole
debate occupied considerably shorter time
than had been expected. Until Gladstone rose
general opinion in the members lobby was in
a state of absolute confusion. Several leading
ministerialists were asserting possibly that the
bill was safe. The whig on whom have relied
chiefly for information stuck to his conviction
that the bill was lost by a small majority-per-
haps seven. During the whole evening, besides
the official whips, Labouchere, Healy o Bren
and OConnor were extremely busy working for
the government, Baine for Chamberlain and
Albert Grey for Harrington.
THE SCENE IN THE HOUSE
surpassed any ything ever witnessed there before
The crowd WAS SO great that the officials could
hardly go about their business. The excite
ment was SO intense that complete strangers
went up to members and questioned them as
| freely as il they had been old friends On this
occasion distinguished Americans were not
conspicuous in the gallery. Chadwick. the
naval attache, was the only one met. He was
greatly enjoying himself in the lobby. A very
significant sign was the presence of Lord Row.
| ton, well-known as Beaconsfeld's private secre-
| fary, who is one of the queens most intimate
friends, and who is always her means Of private
| communication with the opponents Of the lib
eral government He was looking for Lord
Harrington for some time. When he found him
| they remained together behind q door for
nearly an hour. Sir Henry Ponsonby had been
! tosee Gladstone yesterday morning, 80 that the
queen was clearly
PREPARING FOR EvENTUALITEIS.
In most other respects the scene was an I'm
tensified repetition OF the previous ones In this
debate. There was the same crowd outside,
| but larger. Gladstone's reception was similar,
| but more enthusiastic. The house itself was
crowded to a degree never before equalled. The
| general excitement was such the oldest
members cannot recollect.
THE SCENES IN THE HOUSE.
Inside the house all the benches were crowded
full. The steps OF the gangway were covered
with members, and not an empty seat in any
| of the galleries. Round the door there was
compact body ten deep, ana the impression
! left by the whole scene was that 1t would be
difficult toinsert another human being in any
civilized posture under the yellow roof The
treasury bench and the opposition bench had
each their customary occupants. The middle
bench below the gangway, on the opposition
side, which is as important and as regularly
constructed as either of them, is filled as usual,
apparently almost TO suffocation. There was
the hatchetfaced Heaiy, the pale Dillon, the
red-nosed Sexton, the ponderous Parnell, the
genial I. p. O'Connor, the alarming OKelly,
and in a corner, just in front of them, the
astute O'Brien, as able and as faithful set Of
men as anywhere ever leagued together in ag-
gressfve patriotism or hated their country's
enemies above their own.
GoSCHEN'S BoMBAST.
GOschen has the rare and happy faculty Of
lashing himself into as big fury over an intri-
cate schedule as most men can over the woes OF
the whole oppressed people, or the most fla
lively inarticulate with passion; but while ne
stormed and ragged, and the wolflike hoarse
rattle in his throat was terrible to hear, the
house sat and wondered at him, and between
the intervals a mechanical party laughed from
the Irish benches and cut him short for time.
PARNELL's INEFFECTIVE oRAToRY.
Parnell disengaged himself from his col
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mediateiy. Being there, however, he seemed
for a time able to make little use OF that emil
nence. His first sentences were delivered with
considerable nervousness, and the speaker him.
said, that Goschen had never been
less effective, but the same remark was truer
OF himself. After introducing he passed to the
statistical argument. showing there was no
such thing as Ulster in the sense in which the
soidisant loyalists use the word. He showed
this conclusively, but this argument was a
seemed though
speech was destined to be ineffective through
out. He held, however, in his hand bundle OF
manuscript which had been submitted TO Sex
ton earlier in the evening, and had apparently
received that experienced debaters complete
Ulster was complete Parnell began TO read from
manuscript. AT once his speech took higher
level and
BEGAN TO BE IMPRESSIVE.
He avoided, OF course, the appearance ofread-
ing it, looking round the house after each sen.
tence, with the outstretched forefinger of the
right hand emphasizing each sentence as it
came, but he was clearly reading a carefully
man OF common feelings and sympathies last
night than he has done for long time. He is
usually cold, dispassionate, without a trace of
the enthusiasm OF most Of his followers; but
last night, when he exclaimed "We cannot give
up single Irishman," a flush OF affectionate
pride passed over his broad face. In concluding
for suffering Ireland there was a chord of ten.
der, genuine Kindness which would have won
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bers were half as ready to find just grounds tor
generous dealing they were eager to catch
him tripping over some hasty expression or
some odd, illchosen word.
THE CONSERVATIVES WEAK LEADER.
Hicks-Beach is poor creature on a great oc-
casion. He stands absolutely alone in petty
platitudes and trivial sarcasms, which do duty
with him for serious political discussion, but q
the leader Of one of the two great parties OF Il
house of commons, especially when one lc-
fleets that Gladstone is the leader OF the other,
he is positively absurd. There is a certain
facility for the humber trickery OF debate
which places him occasionally on q level with
his fellow members, as last night In the scene
with Parnell. This scene sprang from Parnelrs
calm assurance to the house that he had re-
ceived from conservative statesmen before the
general election pledge that the tories would
give him q measure Of home rule SO large as TO
include power to protect Irish industries This
statement created what Is known as q sensa-
tion. That is, there arose
BUZZ OF EXCITED CONVERSATION,
In low tones. which quite ignored the member
who had caused it and compelled him to cease
speaking for a minute or SO, till 1t had SUBJ
sided. So. while Lord Randolph bobbed up and
down like q parched pea, ON the seat beside
him the leader OF the tory party apparently
denied the charge with great candor and some
sarcasm. In fact, however, he only denied IL
with q qualification.
AT LAST GLADSTONE ROSE
Nobody who has not been in the house on q