18 FEBRUARY 1893, page 2

Sir Charles Gavan Duffy, An Older And Better Nationalist...

any of those who at present represent Ireland, has given his opinion of the Home-rule Bill. He likes it, with large. amendments, holding, as any genuine Nationalist would, that......

Lord Randolph Churchill, Who Resumed The Debate On...

a very effective speech. He denied that there was any excuse for the Bill. Even Ireland herself seemed to be of that opinion, inasmuch as, instead of increasing the Home-rule......

On The Government Side, The Debate Was Continued By Mr.

Atherley-Jones, who, though he supported the Bill generally, declared that we might as well import into this House eighty French Deputies, or eighty Members of the Reichsra,th,......

After This Exordium, Delivered With All His Natural...

spite of the burden of eighty-three years, Mr. Gladstone passed to a sketch of his proposed measure. The statutory Irish Parliament was to involve no dissolution of the - Union.......

Mr. Gladstone Spoke For Two Hours And A Quarter, And

when he sat down, the late Solicitor-General, Sir Edward Clarke, followed him with a very skilful criticism, pointing out how little excuse there is in the present state of......

We Do Not Think That Foreign Opinion Will Much Affect

the fate of the Home-rule Bill; but it is interesting to see how the new plan strikes foreigners at first sight. The Americans are favourable, conceiving that the rights granted......

Mr. Balfour Opened The Debate On Tuesday. He Showed That,

before extending Household Suffrage to Ireland, Mr. Gladstone had met the argument that it would involve an immense Home-rule majority by saying that the English majority the......