The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1882-10-28 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

SEACOMBE PARLIAMENTLEY DEBATING SOCIETY.  THE above society continued its sittings ah Tuesday evening last, there being a full .44 tendanee of members. The bon. member for Kerry, in reaming the debate upon the Ministerial statement, congratulated the Premier and also the Speaker upon their respective appointments. He said in looking at the address he certainly Could not perceive snob great want of legislative ability its was Imputed to the Ministry by the member for Sunderland. He had twitted the present Ministry with an absence of legislative ability, but so far as his experience went the late Government of that House had done very little in the way of legislation. What legislation he asked had we from the gentlemen now in. opposition when they occupied the Treasury Ben*? ("None.") He was sure that that answer would be re-echoed by gentlemen of the Opposition Leader's own party. The hon. member stated in reference to the assertion in the manifesto, "that Ireland was the • black spot' in our Empire, that Egypt would have been more rightecuely called such, for while in Ireland murders and assassinations were comparatively few, in Egypt there had been wholesale slaughter. As to the bringing of i the Indian troops to Egypt he said that it I appeared to him what was sin in the Tory was virtue in the Liberal, and he was sorry to see Mr. Gladstone, who was undoubtedly a credit to the nation, doing the dirty work of an eastern despot. The member for Huddersfield bantered the for Sunderland upon his political sermon, and suggested more argument and lees invective. Be would advise the member for Rye to use a little more suavity of manner as less calculated to create unfriendly feeling. He held that the Liberal party had legislated on illusive principles in relation to the land laws of Irelat d. Instead of doing away with landlordism they, should hays adopted an entirely different policy—via., given them a bolus of their neighbours' acres. The hon. member went seriatum through the Ministerial manifesto, and stated that if Ministers had taken proper measures Alexandria would not now be a bombarded city, but as the Egyptian question was sub judice it would be hardly right to enter minutely inks the different aspects of the case. As to the vote which decided the fate of the late Ministry it was a most weighty one, inasmuch as he who gave it was fully fifteen stone weight. (Great laughter). The 4 ember for Truro made an onalaaght upon the member for Kerry for his obstruction during the last session and ingratitude to the Conservativie—to the party who had placed him upon the Council of the House, no doubt for services rendered. He recapitulated facts gleaned from Government despatches in order to bring the chain of events leading up to the present position in Egypt before the House, and made some caustic criticisms on French diplomacy, which, like Eastern policy, was inflammable. The Member for Wigan said it was a matter of regret that expressions of an unkindly nature should contradict the assurance given by the hon. member br Hull—of gentlemanly courtesy tie commented upon the speech of the hon. member for Rye as displaying but little of that courtesy which members had a right to expect. He upheld the accusation of pandering to lawlessness, and read extracts from Mr. Gladstone's speeches in reference to the Clerkenwell outrage, and the letter from Mr. Parnell prior to the ratification of the Kilmainham Treaty; also the speech of Mr. Forster, the late Secretary for Ireland, in reference to the disgraceful bargain struck between the chief of rebellion and the Liberal party, which ended in the strongest Coercion Bill ever passed into law, and gave a premium to Irish agitation. AL the bills on the land question were failures. He reproved in a trenchant manner the member for Rye for his aspersions upon eminent statesmen, and concluded his speech by refuting the °barges made by the Opposition.  The Member for Manchester moved the adjournment of the House.