Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1883-02-24 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.  not an English nobleman or an English gentleman l" He denied, however, that those trading politicians represented the opinion of EnFluid. Neither repudiation of assassination !Policy nor a careful audit of the Laud League funds would satisfy the promoters of deliberate defamation. There had been some £2.50,000 received by the Land League for the purpose of supporting the agrarian policy of the Irish nation. It did not require £lOO,OOO to pay the ! travelling expenses of "No. 1" or James Carey. I Probably all the expense of the machinery of I murder did not amount to more than £2OO or £3OO, and who could detect the absence of such MD from an amount reaching £300,000? Alluding to an effort which, he said, was being made to involve some leading political personages with the Irish Invincibles, he said if this were true the Irish party was in the presence of a confederacy of moral assassins yielding not an iota in infamy to Mr James Carey and his select confederates. The virtuous indignation manifested by the Opposition over the alliance between Sheridan and the Government had in no way indisposed them to take Mr Carey to their anus as their valued ally and trusted authority, and the House had the spectacle of this double-dyed villain, who was swearing to save his neck, figuring as the ally of the Opposition in the furtheranc., of their political campaign. A demand had been made for a statement as to the disposal of the Land League funds. They would be delighted to let the Government have such a statement; but would the Government on the other hand, let them have a look at the civil service funds. More than one of the officials or Dublin Castle, he was afraid, would have to quit if the application of the Government secret service money was made public. He pointc.id out that there was no country in Europe whose soul was not stained with blood, but no one dreamed on that account, as in the case of Ireland, of robbing the people of national freedom; and there was this excuse for Ireland, that crime in that country had been stimulated, encouraged, and developed by the operation of the noxious influences of a regime of brutal coercion. That miserable creature Carey had only too plausible an excuse for hishorrible crime. His statement was that when be joined the Assassination Society the popular leaders were in prison, there was no hope of justice, and no longer any belief in constitutional agitation; and could the right hon, gentleman the member for Bradford say that that defence was not the honest conviction of millions of the Irish people—namely, that ander his rule the people had lost all faith in redress by justice and in the efficacy of constitutional Justice? The Land Lew(' had brought the revolutionists of Ireland into the, mike of reform, but the right hon. gentleman the member for Bradford had driven hundreds of thousands back again into the ranks of banded insurrection. The amendment was also opposed by Mr Russell, Mr Collings, and the Irisb Attorney-General, and supported by Sir Jno. Hay, Mr Northcote, end Air Plunket. The debate was adjourned on the motion of Mr Jas. Lowther, end the House rose shortly before six o'clock.