Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1886-05-22 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

THE IRISH  PROBLEM.  A =warn of Liberal members of Parliament has been held at the London residence of the Marquis of Hartington, the number of those present being 64. Several other gentlemen wrote, regretting their inability to attend. The meeting was called with reference to the Home Rule Bills of the Government, and, although no resolution was submitted, the feeling against the measures, as expressed by Lord Ilartington, Mr. Chamberlain, Mr. Trevelyan, and others who spoke, was unanimous. Mn. CHAMBERLAIN, replying to an interesting letter from Mr. Huilbert, an American gentleman, contends that every argument which would justify the establishment of local autonomy in Ireland, as opposed to the centralising authority of the British Parliament, equally applies to the claim of Protestant Ulster to resist the dominion of a Parnellite Parliament in Dublin. life adds an expression of his belief that the Loyalists of the North would not quietly submit to the control of such a Parliament. .  WRITING with reference to the leadership of the Liberal party,Mr. Chamberlainsaid that he would rather give up all part in politics than consent to measures which he believed disastrous to the best interests of the country. . .  A CONFERENCE of the National Union of Conservative and Constitutional Associations has been held in London, 800 delegates being present. A resolution condemning the Home Rule Bill, proposed by Colonel King-Harman, M.P., was adopted. In supporting it Sir M. Hicks-Beach said the bill and the Ministers were doomed. There were rumours in the air, and very probable rumours, of an early appeal to the constituencies, and so far as the loyal part of the population were concerned, the sooner that appeal came the better. Electors should recognise political honesty and consistency wherever they found it, and they should do their utmost to defeat the machine. tibia of a servile caucus._ _ . .  Loan SALISBURY has addressed a great meeting of Conservatives in St. James's Hall. London. Having shown that the maintenance of the Union had been the traditional policy of the Tory party, he said there was fair ground for hoping that within a week the Irish proposals of the Government would be a matter of history, Ilesi Pie question would survive, and it would take a long time to root out the poisonous weeds which Mr. Gladstone had sown. Separation was the real issue at stake, and he pointed out the impossibility of reposing confidence in the Irish people, who were deeply divided among themselves, and some of whom murdered agents and mutilated cattle. If they would abandon those habits there would beau necessity for coercion. As to an alternative policy, the noble marquess remarked that the money proposed to be spent in buying out the landlords would be better employed on emigration. He inferred from Mr. Gladstone's utterances that a dissolution was at hand, and he urged Conservatives to prepare for battle, so as to determine whether the victory dl this week shall only be a halt in the actual process of disintegration and decay, or whether it shall be the first step in a new sad bolder Imperial policy. Sin CHAIM'S Dim., M.P., presiding at a meeting of the London Liberal and Radical Council, held at the City Liberal Club, to consider the Irish question, said that union amongst Liberals had been somewhat promoted by Lord Salisbury's latest speech. After an animated discussion, in which Mr. Chamberlain's action was strongly condemned by several speakers, a resolution was passed with only eight dissentiente expressing unabated confidence in Mr. Gladstone, and an earnest hope that the House of Commons would pass the second reading of the Government of Ireland