The record-union., 1891-03-21
Newfoundland Will Resist Enforce
ment of the Maritime Law.
SAD SCENES AT THE FUNERAL OF
THE UTOPIA VICTIMS.
Michael Davitt Classes ParneIl's Chal-
Healy in the City of Cork as Only
Bluff, and Says Parnell Has No In
tentfon of Resigning His Seat in
Parliament.
Special to the REcoRD-UN1oN.

opeclal 10 Inc iECORD-UNION.
LONDON. March 2O.-The Pail Mall Ga
-ette to-day gives great prominence to
communication from gentleman who
occupies position of influence in New
foundland, and who is now in this city.
In this communication the Newfound-
lander declares that any attempt on the
part of the Imperial Government to en-
force the maritime law in Newfoundland
will be resisted, adding, 1.-The Tories
cannot come the Trafalgar square busi-
ness over us.'' At the conclusion of a
long leading editorial upon the subject,
the Pail HdU Gazette says that unless
something is done to bring about rap
prochement beween the colonies and the
Colonial Office, we may find the New
fOundland kettle of fish go the way of
the Boston packets of tea.
LONDON, March 2O.-In the Commons
to-day dispatch from st. Johns, n. F.,
was read. 1t transmits to the Imperial
Government resolutions adopted by the
Colonial Legislature, requesting England
to delay any coercive legislation until the
colony had been heard in its defense.
Lord knutsford's bill revives the
Crowns authority to instruct naval Off
GERS to enforce the treaties of Utrecht,
Versailles and Paris, securing fishing
rights to France. The clause provides
that if the Colonial Legislature supplies
the necessary powers to secure the per-
formance of treaties upon the interna-
tional arrangement before the bill is
passed the bill will be suspended.
GRAVE QUESTION.
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LONDON, March 20-The gravity of the
| ewfoundland question ionly begins to
dawn upon the country. In yesterday
| evenings debate in the House of Lords
| the leaders on both sides avoided, as far
as possible, touching the probable COM
! plications endangering the peace of the
empire. yet could not avoid imparting
the impression that developments are
| likely which may give rise to serious
troble. Lord Salisbury, in the graVest of
| ministerial deliverances, weighing every
word with care, admitted that it was diff
| ticult to look without grave apprehension
/ to the future, in view of the strong feel
| ing in France against the slightest relax
| ton of even the most extreme and I'M
reasonable OF her claims.
| Lord Salisbury refrained from diScloS-
| ing what inducements would be offered
| to France to consent to an arrangement
satisfactory to Newfoundland. He was
equally reticent on the question whether
armed coercion would be used to enforce
the knutsford bill. The island he said
has been the sport of historic misfortune.
1t was an Illustration OF the continuity of
history.
These phrases recall the speeches on
the same side which have preluded the
worst forms of Irish oppression. The
debate has profoundly agitated the MEM
bers Of the Commons. The tenor of the
communications exchanged to-day by
the leading Liberals points to strenuous
opposition on behalf of the Newfound-
land Government, and mad Hennessy
made his threatened motion to adjourn,
to challenge the Government policy, he
would have had following sufficiently
strong to show the Governments opinion
of Parliament setting against the bill as
too stringent measure.
Hennessy was induced to defer his mo-
ton until Smith makes his promised
statement on Monday.
The lobby forecasts tonight agree that
the Government will pause until the
delegates coming from Newfoundland
have had chance to be heard.
Lord Knutsford's bill revives the
Crowns authority to instruct the naval
officers to enforce the treaties of Utrecht,
rights to France. The bill provides for
its own suspension, if the Newfoundland
Legislature passed measures necessary to
secure a modes giUendi. The Liberals
will advise the delegates to accede to this,
promising to support the colony in de-
lildHullS tiisit tne lillal ,eltleileHI SnOulu
include a withdrawal of the French from
the Newfoundland coast.
The Speaker in its issue tomorrow.
will reflect general feeling III saying it
would relieve bushels of embarrassment
if the Observation-Disclosures shipped their
Governor aboard a mail boat and hauled
down the union jack. If they did this
they would likely find the people Of the
United States pause before accepting as
an addition to the republic a burden
with the hostility of France.