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I no protests against the Coercion mill. As to grantq £o '}'" eoun "1" 'h:rt.in::dw taoths.;:ak' ;-: the general question of Home Rule, he was in-- oo E },'m' ue train which: it is favor of some scheme of local self--government | * homely o SIBl um:;rops t'. '-"-"t::'- brief fo'; é,e four divisions of the Unitefipxingdom qu:: impossibDie to do justice in & brief re-- which would relieve the Imperi i Po + 1 Trom some of the great mase 'of work That mas | pyeocye Breqbarel snd . 9 Clarte, and D urdening it, but that r y A » i on rnoa'o i eta ME afogort 'and "heh® mevun ToE | will progroning as this page goen to pross. success until it commanded the confidence , o of 'the Protestant minority of Ireland ; They had heard with regret of the trouble be-- © tween Lord Lansdowne and 'his tenants. ~A ' leading Land League paper in this country had : described Lord Lanspowne and his class as THIEVES AND ROBBERS, | who should suffer the fate of their class. It was a significant fact that Mr. Parnell l had _ refrained _ from _ denouncing the violent lu.ngua%e used by some who | claimed _ to e -- his" supporters and | by what was called the assassin press. He referred to the fact that many leading Liberals -- in England had deserted him. Where was Mr. Cfiamberlain-- [ Mr. CHAMBERLAIN--Here! (Laughter.) Mr. CLARKE, continuing, referred to the ° course taken by Mr. John Bright, Lord Hart-- |\ ington and others, _ In conclusion, Mr. !Cl.\.rke said that while he could not j | see eye to eye with his countrymen | on this question ; he was an Irishman and not an alien. _ He desired the prosperity, but he believed that that prosperity would be gained, not by making Ireland a separate nation, but ' by allowing her to remain a portion of the |\ Great Britain Empire. (Applause.) Mr. STRATTON said that the preceding speaker had no right to impute the Attorney-- General the motive of a mere desire for political gains. The member for Toronto had quoted many opinions against Home Rule, but tye opinions he quoted were those of a privil-- eged <class. (Cheers.) The hon. gentleman had spoken as if this were merely 'a Catholic question. He forgot that nearly all the great leaders in the Home Rule had been Protest-- ants. _ He had referred to the verdict given by the English people ; but he (Mr. Stratton) ventured to say that if an appeal were made by the English"people now, that decision would be reversed. They found that j those who opposed Home Rule in the British Parliament had virtually closed ihe mouths not only of the Trish members but of the Eng-- | lish members also who favored Home Rule. He asked the hon. member for Toronto how he would like, for any offence he might be alleged f to have cominitted, to go to London to be tried |i for that offence. Yet that was what this ; ! Coercion Bill proposed to do. It would , | have Irishmen tried in London for offences they might be slleged to have committed in their own country. Was that British fair play? 3 He thought, in conclusion, that the British ; Government could not do a wiser and a better thing than to celebrate this jubilee year of Her Majesty Queen Victoria by giving to Ire-- ' land that measure of local sel%-govcrnment' which would alone make her happy and pros-- , perous. (Applause.) R Mr. METCALFE said that it might have been as wise for the Attorney--General not to have moved these resolutions. But as they ! | had been moved he must express his views. |\ He had always favored Home Rule for Ireland, believing that it would promote not only the _ happiness _ of Ireland but _ the : | prosperity of 'the Empire. It could be | a means of great economy if the enormous body of soldiery were removed from Ireland. (Apfvlause.) Moreover, if this difficulty were . | settled, there would be a hundred Irish emi--