| Show HOME RULE DEFEATED A london dispatch which is ia altogether too brief in view if af the importance of the information it conveys con veye announces the defeat of the irish home rule ruie bill by the british haae or of lords lorda by the derisive decisive vote of to 41 the largest vote ever recorded in the house rhe phe result was not unexpected it was on the tb contrary a foregone conclusion so 80 far as aa the present parliament to ie concerned therefore the bill in ia killed billed and when on oil some future occasion a now new measure of similar import shall hall be krou brou ht bt forward thoo the hard work of getting it through the various stages of consideration in the lower house will all have hare to be done over again but it mut muot nut not be thought for a moment that mr gladstone a labor on this question tion has hag been lu vain neither does it allow follow that the obvious consequence Is ia or should be un an appeal to the country if the country had bad anything to do with the election ejection of the members of the house ot of lords lorda ucb such appeal might be proper and add but their lord lordships ships in their seats are far above the power dower ot of the elec electors elecio tort rf they are there by reason of blood or royal favor not by reason of brains or popularity if mr ulai stone slone should decide to go to the people 19 therefore for an endorsement endora ement of bin bia P policy the most moat that lie he could ex pact would bethe be the return of a friendly majority maj orlly of cof this he be has bag already the only further result would be a moral but wholly ineffectual rebuke of the lords by the people which he knows knowe quite as well as aa an any one else would be a matter of deupre supreme indifference to their titled highnesses when the prime mi jinlat aint r or a introduced or labored by him in ie defeated by a vote in the only elective part of parliament the house of corn coin mon then and then only I 1 ie an all appeal to the country the obvious and ad logical and proper recourse for many years leading lead log men in the british empire have been inquiring oue one of another what 8 the use ure ot of thle house of lords of buross ouro few accent acceptable answers have been given this latest vote which overturns and vetoes the will of the people an unexpressed expressed through their elected will make the question still ma more re ugly for the aristocrats ariato orate hence tile the observation above that mr labor has baa not been in vain he may have contrived in a purely honorable and open way to assist tile the house or of lords to dig its own grave |
