The Portland daily press., 1893-04-10
ACROSS THE WATER.
GIadstone's Speech on Home Rule
and Some London Comment.
THE HULL STRIKERS IN BATTLE
WITH THE DRAGONS.

Police and Soldiers as Well as the Strikers
Get Some Hard Knocks-A Gunboat
Anchored Off the Town-The Trouble
spreading-Cans of Coffee Mistaken for
Dynamite Bombs in Parliament.
LONDON, April 8.--Mr. Gladstone's
speech at the second reading of the Home
Rule bill was a masterpiece of his pecul-
lar style of oratory, which is noted for
surrounding small nucleus of argu-
ment with a cloudy establishment Of
rhetorical discretion that serves to dis
tract the hearers attention from the real
battle under consideration, by sort OF
mental filigree of ornament, very pleas
ant to listen to, but not particularly con-
vincing. However, on this occasion he
managed to emphasize one solid fact,
namely, that during the few years of Irish
parliamentary independence there had
been no sort Of trouble between the
Catholics and Protestants, and that the
hating each other for the love OF God''
had begun with the Vaccinations of the
English government to promote the un-
ion.
The speech of Sir Michael Hicks Beach
on the Unionist side was evidently mod
elled upon that of the grand old man. 1t
said absolutely nothing, but said it very
we'll. Hi
The house was anything but full, for
the very simple reason that most OF the
members are taking their holiday. Mr..
Balfour is out on the warpath, and SO
are Lord Randolph Churchill, Mr.. Cham
berlain and Mr.. Goschen. The real de-
bate will be on Monday, when rousing
fights expected. The papers Of course,
speak according to their various party
prejudices.
The Thunderer says that it is impossi-
BILE to follow Mr.. Gladstone through his
mazes of fallacious reasoning and mac
curate history. The Westminster Ca
zette saws that Mr.. Gladstones speech
was excellent because unlike most ora
| TORS his enthusiasm is in his own person
ality and does not depend upon the size
of his audience.
The Chronicle says that we have got
| nearer to reconciliation of liberty with
| imperial unity, and are able to give to
| Mr.. Gladstone's second proposal the sup
port we withheld from his first.
| The Standard says that it were waste
| of time to compare realities with the
| complexion that Mr.. Gladstone puts on
| them.
The Daily News says that the enemies
| of Irish nationalism do not realize how
far their principles carry them, and are
startled at the result of there own doc
trines.
The Pail Mall Gazette says that Mr..
Gladstone's arguments are arguments OF
fear, and seem as if criticism had no ex-
Iistence for him and as if no whisper OF
what men were saying ever reached him
in his seclusion.
No doubt these comments have reached
the grand old man in his seaside retreat
at Byington, whittier he and Mrs. Glad
stone went and will remain till the be-
ginning of next week or possibly longer
in their old lodgings in the Lion man
sions.
OF course Home Rule is the prevailing
subject of discussion here, but there are
other little troubles cropping up as well.
Yesterday the House of Commons had a
small scare by the arrival of about 700
small suspicious looking tin cases adj
dressed to the members. After many
precautions one was opened very tender
ly and found to contain half a pound OF
roasted coffee with the compliments OF
| well-known city firm of wholesale
| grocers, and yet people talk of Yankee
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