Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1893-02-01
RRITISH POLITICS.

Gladstone Takes the Oath and Ia
fundamentally Applauded - Bal.
four's Attack Upon the Government
The Premier's Reply-The Lords
support the Ministry.
, LONDON, Jan. 31.-Psrliament reassem-
bled to-day. The queens speech opened
the session.
! When the house reassembled Mr.. Glad
stone upon entering WAS chesred vocifer-
ously. He took the oath ss minister and
was followed by his colleagues. A. ]. Bal
four, the conservative leader, was likewise
cheered loudly by the conservatives and
, liberal unionists.
The early evening was passed in the
house of commons in giving notices of
motions. Notice that Mr.. Gladstone
would introduce his home rule bill on
Monday next ELECTED prolonged liberal
cheers. Colonel Nolan, Parnellite, tried
to raise discussion of priestly intimi-
dation In Ireland by moving suspension
of the writ for South Meath, where Patrick
Fullam, anti Parnellite, was unseated re-
Gently. Upon Mr.. Gladstone's suggestion
that he desired to expedite the business of
the house, Colonel Nolan agreed to post
| pone the motion. At $50 o'clock George
Lambert, liberal, rose to move the address.
He spoke to empty bsuches, as did also
| Mark Beaufoy. liberal, who seconded the
motion. The house filed like magic, how
| ever, when Arthur ]. Balfour, first lord of
the treasury in the last Salisbury cabinet
and now leader of the unionist opposition,
arose and amid a storm of opposition
cheers, began in a aneering tone general
1 St1ta IS Nha ,ayak Ila
congratulated the cabinet upon the
abandonment of the policy to abandon
| Ugands-the policy which had been go
| fervently recommended by the chancellor
| of the exchequer (Sir William HsroourD
before he attained to his present Office. In
| their Egyptian policy. Mr.. Balfour said,
| the ministers could rely upon the support
| of the opposition as long as they upheld
British rights He trusted the govern
| ment would at their earliest convenience
| let parliament know the causes which led
| to the recent troubles in Cairo. Among
the causes, undoubtedly, were the rash
utterances made By the prime minister and
the chief secretary for Ireland when they
were in the opposition. Both were to
| blame FOR raising hopes which would GER
tainly be productive of future difficulties |
Mr.. Bslfour then denounced the evicted |
tenants commission as 30 unfairly consti- |
ing a trustworthy report. As Mr.. Balfour |
proceeded with prolix statement of his |
objections to the governments policy the |
interest of the house waned perceptibly. |
Toward the close of his speech he warmed |
again to his eubject. He demanded that |
the home secretary should say whether or
not the release of Egan and Callsn. the |
irish dynamiters. was part of a policy of |
amnesty intended to involve the release Of |
all the Irish dynamiters, and he charged |
Mr.. Morley, Irish secretary, with having
used the crown prerogative for political
purposes.
Mr. Gladstone was cheered loudly when
he rose in answering Mr.. Bslfour. He had
noticed, he said, that with the continued
growth of legislative arrears the eagerness
of the country for vigorous legislation in
creased. He had decided to lose no time,
therefor, in satisfying this eagerness. He
would secure the appointment of q royal
commission to inquire into the Welsh land
question. The suspensory bills would
quicken, he believed, the activity of the
churches of Wales and he reproached Mr..
Bslfour for assailing with infsmmstory
criticism bill not yet introduced. Mr. Bal
four had asked where there was an empire
which had been strengthened by the adop-
ton of local autonomy. Mr. Gladstone
replied, that, as Lord Salisbury had
done some years ago, he would point to Aus
tria-Hungary as an illustration spplicsbleto
the case of Great Britain and Ireland. He
would also point to the British colonies
which sixty years ego were ruled from
London, but demanded separation until
self government was fuslly granted. He
would not reply to Mr.. Balfour's inveotive
against Mr.. Morley's administration of
Ireland, except to say that the wise policy
of clemency had been Simultaneous with q
great decrease of sgrsrian crime. Mr.. Bal
tours attack upon the evicted tenants COM
mission recoiled upon himself. Why did
he not wait until the commissions pro-
posals game before the house, when
he could urge his objections with
greater force. The mission to Ugsn-
da was necessary In order that sn
impartial inquiry be made into affairs
there. The result of this inquiry would
enable the government to arrive at q
rational decision. Those who wished to
wash their hands of Uganda forgot the
charters and other obligations which they
would thereby involve. He did not be-
lieve that in his long parliamentary career
he had ever uttered words 80 rash and
dangerous as were those uttered by Mr..
Bslfour concerning the difficulty in Egypt.
These words had seemed TO suggest that
the government would lose no time in get
ting out of Egypt
Mr.. Balfour rose and repudiated the
CuRISo Uudt nS uHu suggested Lu6 pIOUaUll- |
ity of hasty evacuation.
Upon resumiDg Mr. Gladstone said that
the government had not to consider the
question of occupation, but merely the
maintenance of order. The relations of
the two governments had now been placed
on a satisfactory footing and further
trouble was not apprehended. Mr.. Glad
stone repeated bis appeal to the house not
to be moved by premature denunciations
Of the home rule bill. He could under
stand the Impotence of the members If
they discovered any disposition to delay
the bill, but such did not exist. 1t surely
would be better for all to walt and give
the provisions of the bill their full, care
full, deliberate, perhaps calm, impartial, |
even benevolent judgment.
After Mr.. Gladstone's speech the house
adjourned.
In the house of lords several new p GERS,
including Lord Plsyfsir, took the oath. |
The Prince of Wales and his son, the |
Duke of York. listened to part of the do |
bate. Lord Brassey moved the adoption |
of the address. His motion was seconded |
by Lord Thring. Both spoke in support |
of the government. |
Lord Thring made effective remarks in |
favor of home rule in Ireland, which were
crested with liberal cheers.
Lord Salisbury, who to day appeared,
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the ministry seemed to be founded on
sound principles. Events in Egypt COM
PEELED the govrrnment to postpone the
withdrawal of British troops, but this in
| nowise modified the assurances given to
foreign powers concerning Egypt.
Regarding home rule for Ireland, Lord
| Salisbury said the one object of the gov
| eminent during the past six months had
| been to get the support of class of MEM
| beIs whom hitherto no politicians in Eng
| land had to conciliste. The keynote of the
| Irish policy was to get the support of the
criminal classes.
| Reastine Ecclesiastics.
| ROME, Jan. 31.-The heads of the Amer
lean college here and the students attend
| ing that institution gave lunch to day in
honor of the newly created Euglish-speak
| ing cardinals, Most Rev. Herbert Vaughan,
| archbishop of Westminster, and Most Rev.
| Michael Logue, archbishop of Armagh and
| primste of all Ireland. The refectory of
the college was handsomely decorated with
American snd British flags and contained
busts of the pope and President Harrison.
Thirty eight guests sat down to the lunch,
among them being Monsignori Stonor, Cliff
ford and Begin, rectors of the English,
Scotch and Irish colleges, and Mr.. Hey
wood, commissioner of the Chicago Colum-
bian exhibition.