Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1889-12-14 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

SATURDAY. DECEMBER 14th, 1889.  Britain and Ireland.  THE British constituencies, from Cornwall to taithness, show few signs of concerning themselves much about the forthcoming report which the Judicial Commissioners, selected by the Government, are to present to Parliament at some unknown date in the future. Whether the report be officially presented to Parliament or not, it is hound to come before the House of Commons, and to give rise to several extremely animated debates. If it was the Government that appointed the Commissioners the empowering Act had to pass through Parliament, which the composite majority in the Commons enabled it to do in a very peculiar way. The judges are at present engaged in framing their report, which all will admit must be an arduous task, taking into consideration the length of time the Court sat, the large proportion of Nationalist representatives who were charged as suborners of criminal proceedings, the multitude of witnesses examined, the remarkable exposure of the forgeries, and the strange allegations of the counsel for the prosecution, which became directed not so much against individuals as against the Irish nation, or the vast majority of it that favoured. Home Rule. The lengthened speech with which Sir Henry James wound up the Commission was really an invective against the hostility shown by the Catholic population of Ireland to English forms of law and methods of administration. Judging from the appearances, it seems to be a matter of comparatively small interest to the constituencies what may be contained in the Commissioners' report when it is produced at last. The very name of the Irish chief was used in giving a title to the series of violently condemnatory articles out of which ihe Commission rose, and yet Mr. Parnell continues to receive the honour of Liberal constituencies throughout Britain. On Tuesday night of this week he was expected to have delivered an important speech at Nottingham, under , the auspices of the I.iberal Union in that town, but he was unfortunately prevented, by sudden indisposition, from fulfilling his engagement, which has accordingly been postponed. It may readily be imagined that Mr. Arnold Morley was much disappointed when lie received the telegraphic message from Mr. Parnell announcing his inability to appear at the meeting in Nottingham on Tuesday night, and this disappointment, it need hardly be said, extended widely over the Liberal constituencies of that town. But whenever Mr. Parnell is able to deliver an address at Nottingham, he is sure to cast ridicule on the inconclusive words recently spoken there by the head of the Government. Just at this period a speech from the chief of the Irish Parliamentary party would be singularly opportune. It cannot be forgotten that, sonic little time after the exposure of the forgeries, to which emphasis was given by the suicide of Pigott at Madrid, the capital of Scotland conferred on Mr. Parnell the freedom of the city in testimony of the great services he had rendered in the cause of his suffering country. If the great Irishman were regarded on this side of St. George's Channel as an arch-conspirator, he could hardly have hoped to receive so dis' tinguished an honour. Mr. John Morley when he spoke lately at Glasgow, a few days after Mr. Balfour, whose speech he may be said to have extinguished, made a good point at St Andrew's Hall, by expressing wonder how the Government would feel, and what they would do, in the event of the Commissioners framing a report which would accuse the charged Nationalist members with knowing too much about the crimes and outrages committed in Ireland. He declared that if they were expelled front the Parliament at Westminster, and new writs were issued to their respective constituencies, the very same representatives would be re-elected and sent back 1 to the House of Commons time after time. I La such circumstances no Ikea! would likely: