doubt some Members of the present | Member for West Birmingham this House are unaware. "There are," he said, "twe policies before the nation-two policies which alone have support." And speaking of the policy of the Tory Party at that time, what was the ex-years' experience, undoubtedly seemed pression he used? He said "Reflect, in the name of Almighty God, in the sanctuary of your chamber, in the sanctuary of your heart and soul, reflect what it is, in this year of 1886, after nearly a century of almost continuous coercion, becoming weaker, more and more odious, and less and less effective as we go along, and repudiated now by the large majority of your Representatives-reflect what it is to propose this as an alternative to the policy of Local Government in Ireland! It is for you to consider it for yourselves, if there are Conservatives among you, to consider for yourselves what you have to do, and to consider what it is you have to answer.' That was the statement of a man. (Prolonged interruptions.) It is evident that, with the voice and lung power with which Providence has endowed me, it is impossible for me to continue to make way against this discourteous treatment offered to a responsible Minister of the Crown, which is new to me and to many experienced Members of this House. I have only this much to say in conclusion. I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Newcastle (Mr. John Morley) for his signification of disapproval of the conduct of his supporters, and I should have been still more so if it had come earlier from the right hon. Gentleman his Leader. I suppose hon. Gentlemen opposite are carried away by the exuberance of their feelings at the thought of the great triumph in reserve for them. But I am not at all sure that these feelings are shared by all the Members of the Party opposite. We are told they represent the Party of the right hon. Gentleman opposite, returned to the House of Commons in a triumphant majority as the result of a General Election. But I should not have thought from their appearance that right hon. Gentlemen on the opposite Bench represented a triumphant Party. I must confess I have never seen a more dolorous expression of countenance than that pervading the Front Opposition Bench during the speech of my right hon. Friend the afternoon. As I watched them across the Table, and when I saw there was not a single man upon that Bench with either the courage or the chivalry to get up and reply to what, after many to me to be the unequalled indictment brought against them by my right hon. Friend, I said to myself this is not the attitude of men who have either hope, belief, or confidence in their cause. No, Sir; it is the attitude of a Party to whom the still small voice of conscience has whispered-as at times it whispers to us all-that for the sake of Party and political gain they have betrayed the highest interests of their country, and that they are predestined and foredoomed, at no distant. date, to irreparable disaster and disgrace. (12.0.) Question put. (12.5.) The House divided:-Ayes 350; Noes 310.—(Div. List, No. 1.) Main Question, as amended, put, and agreed to. Resolved, That an humble Address be presented to Her Majesty, followeth : MOST GRACIOUS SOVEREIGN, as "We, Your Majesty's most dutiful and loya Subjects, the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in Parliament assembled, beg leave to thank Your Majesty for the most Gracious Speech which Your Majesty has addressed to both Houses of Parliament. We feel it, however, to be our duty humbly to submit to Your Majesty that it is essential that Your Majesty's Government should possess the confidence of this House and of the Country, and respectfully to represent to Your Majesty that such confidence is not reposed in the present Advisers of Your Majesty." To be presented by Privy Councillors. MAIL SHIPS ACT, 1891. Copy presented,―of Order in Council, dated 5th August, 1892, entitled The Mail Ships (France) Order in Council, 1892 (South Australia and Western Australia) [by Act]; to lie upon the EAST INDIA (INDIA OFFICE, RETIRE Table. EDUCATION (SCOTLAND). Copy presented, of Minutes of Evidence taken by the Committee appointed to inquire as to the best means of distributing the Grant in Aid of Secondary Education in Scotland, with Appendices [by Command]; to lie upon the Table. Copy presented,-of Minute of the Committee of Council on Education in Scotland, dated 11th August, 1892, providing for the distribution of the Sum available for Secondary Education under Section 2 (1) (b) of "The Education and Local Taxation Account (Scotland) Act, 1892" [by Command]; to lie upon the Table. MENT AT 65). Motion made, and Question proposed, "That this House do now adjourn till Thursday next." (Mr. A. J. Balfour.) Motion agreed to. House adjourned at twenty-five minutes after Twelve o'clock till Thursday next. On Amendment proposed to Question [8th August], "That an humble ddress be presented to Her Majesty, as followeth : 'MOST GRACIOUS SOVEREIGN, We, Your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal Subjects, the Commons of the United Kingdom f Great Britain and Ireland in Parliament assembled, beg leave to thank Your Majesty for he most Gracious Speech which Your Majesty has addressed to both Houses of Parliament." -(Mr. Barton.) And which Amendment was, At the end of the Question, to add the words,-"We feel it, however, to be our duty umbly to submit to Your Majesty that it is essential that Your Majesty's Government should ossess the confidence of this House and of the Country, and respectfully to represent to our Majesty that such confidence is not reposed in the present Advisers of Your Majesty."Mr. Asquith.) Motion made, and Question proposed, "That those words be there added." Question put. The House divided :-Ayes, 350; Noes, 310; Majority, 40. AYES. BRAHAM, WILLIAM (Glamorgan, Rhondda) BARRY, EDWARD (Cork, S.) BAYLEY, EDWARD (Camberwell, N.) THERLEY-JONES, L. (Durham, N.W.) AKER, J. (Portsmouth) ALFOUR, J. B. (Clackmannan) BENN, WILLIAMS (Tower Hamlets, St. BENNETT, J. (Lincolnshire, Gainsborough) BRUNNER, J. T. (Cheshire, Northwich) BRYCE, JAMES (Aberdeen, S.) BURNIE, R. J. D. (Swansea, Town) BURT, THOMAS (Morpeth) BUXTON, SYDNEY (Tower Hamlets, Poplar) CAMERON, DR. C. (Glasgow, College) COBB, H. P. (Warwickshire, Rugby) COLERIDGE, BERNARD (Sheffield, Attercliff) COLLERY, B. (Sligo, N.) COLMAN, J. J. (Norwich) COMPTON, Earl (York, W.R., Barnsley) CONYBEARE, C. A. V. (Cornwall, Camborne) CREMER, W. R. (Shoreditch, Haggerston) CROMBIE, J. W. (Kincardineshire) CURRAN, THOMAS B. (Kilkenny) FERGUSON, R. C. MUNRO (Leith Burghs) FIELD, WILLIAM (Dublin, St. Patrick's) FINUCANE, J. (Limerick, E.) FLEMING, C. J. (York, W.R., Doncaster) FOLEY, P. J. (Galway, Connemara) FULLER, G. P. (Wilts, Westbury) GANE, LAWRENCE (Leeds, E.) GARDNER, HERBERT (Essex, Saffron Walden) GILHOOLY, J. (Cork, W.) GLADSTONE, W. E. (Edinburgh, Midlothian) GLADSTONE, HERBERT (Leeds, W.) GOURLEY, E. T. (Sunderland) GRENFELL, W. H. (Hereford) GREY, Sir EDWARD (Northumberland, Berwick) GROVE, ARCHIBALD (West Ham, N.) GUTHRIE, D. C. (Northampton, S.) HARCOURT, Sir WILLIAM (Derby) HEALY, THOMAS (Wexford, N.) HEALY, TIMOTHY (Louth, N.) HIBBERT, J. T. (Oldham) HIGGINS, CLEMENT (Norfolk, Mid) HINGLEY, B. (Worcester, N.) DILKE, Sir CHARLES (Gloucester, Forest of HOARE, HUGH (Cambridge, Chesterton) DIAMOND, C. (Monaghan, N.) Dean) DILLON, JOHN (Mayo, E.) HOBHOUSE, CHARLES (Wilts, Devizes) HOLDEN, ANGUS (York, E.R., Buckrose) DODD, CYRIL (Essex, Maldon) DONELAN, Captain (Cork, E.) DUNN, W. (Paisley) EDWARDS, F. (Radnorshire) ELLIS, JOHN (Nottingham, Rushcliffe) HOLDEN, ISAAC (York, W.R., Keighley) HOLLAND, W. H. (Salford, N.) HOPWOOD, C. H. (Lancashire, S.E., Middleton) HOWELL, GEORGE (Bethnal Green, N.E.) HUNTER, W. A. (Aberdeen, N.) HUNTINGTON, C. P. (Lancashire, N.E., Darwen) HUTTON, A. E. (York, W.R., Morley) INGRAM, W. J. (Boston) JACKS, W. (Stirlingshire) JACOBY, J. A. (Derbyshire, Mid) JOICEY, J. (Durham, Chester-le-Street) FENWICK, Captain H. T. (Durham, Houghton- JONES, Major E. R. (Carmarthen District le-Spring) JONES, BRYNMOR (Gloucester, Stroud) JOSSE, HENRI (Great Grimsby) MOLLOY, B. C. (King's County, Birr) KAY-SHUTTLEWORTH, Sir UGHTRED (Lanca- MONTAGU, SAMUEL (Tower Hamlets, White KITSON, Sir JAMES (York, W.R., Colne Valley) MORTON, E. J. C. (Devonport) KNOX, VESEY (Cavan, W.) LABOUCHERE, H. (Northampton) LAWSON, Sir WILFRID (Cumberland, Cocker- LEAKE, R. (Lancashire, S.E., Radcliffe) LEVESON-GOWER, G. (Stoke-on-Trent) LLOYD-GEORGE, D. (Carnarvon District) LOGAN, J. W. (Leicester, Harborough) and Bromley) MACFARLANE, D. H. (Argyllshire) MUNDELLA, A. J. (Sheffield, Brightside) NEVILLE, RALPH (Liverpool, Exchange) NORTON, Captain CECIL (Newington, W.) O'BRIEN, WILLIAM (Cork) O'CONNOR, ARTHUR (Donegal, E.) O'CONNOR, JAMES (Wicklow, W.) O'CONNOR, T. P. (Liverpool, Scotland) OWEN, THOMAS (Cornwall, Launceston) PAULTON, J. M. (Durham, Bishop Auckland) MCARTHUR, WILLIAM (Cornwall, St. Austell) PICKARD, B. (York, W.R., Normanton) MCCARTAN, M. (Down, S.) MCCARTHY, JOHN (Tipperary, Mid) MCDERMOTT, P. (Kilkenny, N.) MCDONNELL, M. A. (Queen's County, Leix) MCLAREN, CHARLES (Leicestershire, Bosworth) MAINS, J. (Donegal, N.) MAITLAND, W. F. (Brecknockshire) MAPPIN, Sir FREDERICK (York, W.R., Hallam- MATHER, WILLIAM (Lancashire, S.E., Gorton) PICKERSGILL, E. H. (Bethnal Green, S.W.) PINKERTON, JOHN (Galway) PLAYFAIR, Sir LYON (Leeds, S.) POTTER, T. B. (Rochdale) PRICE, Captain THOMAS P. (Monmouth, S.) |