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REJECTED WITH LAUGHTER.
EyeL4YD,s PEERs DISPOSE OF IRISH
HOME RULE.
Their Lordships Throw Out Mr.. eiadstone's
Bill by = Vote OF 4Io TO 41-The Marquis
of salisbury Closes the Debate-sono
Voting Postures-Isow the Bishops Went

| voting Postures-Esow the Bishops Went.
| LONDON. Sept S.--Although 1t was generally
| understood that the Lords would reject tho
Homo Rule bill to-nieht. the House did not fill
up until after the dinner hour, popular inter-
| est centring in tho speech OF the Marquis OF
| Salisbury, who was not expected to rise until
! toward midnight. In the mean time Baron
| Halsbury. Baron Herschel. Baron Monkswell.
! and tho Bishop OF Ripon had spoken to half
| empty benches.
| After 9 o'clock the scene outside and inside
| the House llvened up as members and visitors
began streaming in. The peeresses, strangers.
! and Diplomatic galleries showed few vacant
| seats. Conspicuous in the House weretwenty-
two Bishops attired in their capacious robes
with lawn sleeves. Tho Archbishop OF Canter-
| bury the Bishop OF London. the Bishop OF Ok
! ford and every notable church dignitary were
| present Members OF the House OF Commons
| filed the accesses and standing room around
tho throne. Tho Hobbies we're so crowded that
they we're impossible until the police received
orders to clear them.
Outside Of the Parliament houses organized
| bands from Conservative workingmens clubs.
| specially formed to incite a jubilant demon
stration on tho rejection Of tho Home Rule
bill. began to assemble at 10 o'clock. Some
| hint OF their intention having reached the
| Radical workingmen's clubs and Irish 80
| cieties. small detachments OF these soon ap-
reared on the scene. AS brawl was feared.
! the police. having been reinforced. broke up
| the different groups and kept them moving.
Many OF the Tory club men. finding their ova-
ton scheme baked. went away. and the crowd
outside diminished as time passed without the
announcement Of o division.
| Tho debate In the House reached the acme
OF dulness in the Earl OF Morley's msunder-
ings against the bill A number OF other peers
| were on tho roll to speak. but sense OF wea-
rness affected them as well as the House gen
| orally. so Lord Salisbury. Selling q chance
| during a momentary pause. rose at 1880
| o'clock. amid rapturous cheers. and began his
speech.
Lord Salisbury eaid he felt that there was
some satisfaction In occupying the position
he occupied-that OF the last person to speak
against home rule In the course of the pres
ent session. But although 1t was q position Of
much dist notion. it had many inconven fences.
In the ground Of debate tS.t had bs al
Was Little In now LIT o'f for him to say
some peers who had defended the "a
re se to the real nstars Of the bill TSe
| Lord Chancellor, Lord Herschell. had virtually
| the Government on one subject. In dealing
| with the retention of Irish members at Vest
minster-whch was an outrage on England SO
! enormous and grotesQue that it was surprise
that 1t had ever found place in q proposal
emanating from a responsible Government
not inclined to associate himself with so des-
| rerate u clause. but would prefer some other
OF the landlords. the Lord Chancellor had ad-
mitted that their fate would be terrible; but
Finally. the Lord Chancellor had finished his
| account Of his own intellectual position by pro.
With
any Cabinet member upon q Cabinet pill
u The secretary for i9reign n, Affairs ma Lord
Troblem whlch the FopelEn sscretary Seemed
hours speech to avoid giving pledges that
might be inconvenient in the future and he
lLaughterl Tho Foreign secretary had sur
rounded the GAVIN Of the D., history 10, # Glad
mosphere OF Legend that would doubtless de-
light Poetic crlslss in in ne future He had In
denly interrupted the current of coercive
legislation. and had cut the ground from undcr
the feet Of the Liberals. rendering it impossi-
was taken that terminated the existence OF the
| then Liberal government. they had not pro-
| duced a single clause reviving or perpetuating
| coercion. During the short subsequent, period
| In which the Conservatives had held office
| their intention was announced to strengthen
| the Irish crimina! law. Those. therefore. who
had professed q change Of opinion because tho
| Conservatives had not been sufficiently prompt
| in enforcing the criminal law had made most
Much had been said OF the benefits OF auton-
omous government. but had there been for
century q statesman bold enough to propose
| that an autonomous colony should send eighty
senting no interest n England. and bound by
| application Of laws that Parliament passed?
The a6surdity Of such position was enough
rid Of Irish questions in the presence Of eighty
members seeking to make themselves mar
ters2 Would these men: sent By Archbishop
Walsh be quiet on questions OF religion and
What appeared to shine vlsibly through all
despair The Liberals had said: You have
before What moral or political right had
detrimental policy IN Ireland divided to her
base by party conflicts; which during seven
than diminisfod Hep H Government t
never hourished on soil where homogeneity
in deainG With ordinary i'' men, and more than
madness in dealing with a race that for centu-
rios had hated England
opinion tho country held before this terrible
change occurred tE when he Liberal party was
not In the hands Of desertors. Then. he said.
however much they might have disagreed on
beaten as true to re empire as had The hearts
sat with the, Liberals. and Gladstone, when
sat with the .so sSsd
the repeal OF the union as fatal to
the empire. and would nevor consent
to 1t. II England had told their lordships
that she vented this horror. the case might
impossible As long as England was true to
herself she would never allow this. atroeious.
this mean, this treacherous revolution; Their
volyed upon them from splendid ancestry
and untrue to their highest traditions II they
Lord Salisbury spoke for an hour and a
quarter. His conclusion was marked by quiet
elouuence. Some signs OF waning vigor Were
noticed In him. but these Wore, in part at least
attributed to the oppressive heat In the cham
Der. The Earl Of Kimberly, Lord President Of
tho Council and Secretary Of State for India.
brIefly, replied to Lord Salisbury:
tho second reading OF the bill. He caused
SOM, merrimsnt By SSrying; II think the
mined was the rival cry: THE Non-contents
have it"