Altogether Ireland has claimed a big share of our attention this week, perhaps the most interesting and certainly the most lively debate of the week in the Commons has been that which took place last evening a motion by Mr. Arthur O'Connor calling attention to the disproportion between the taxation of Treland and its taxable capacity." The Government had promised last evening to the Irish members for the debate, in consideration of their having consented not to delay the passing of the Burlget resolutions by discussing the question on Budget night, But last ni formidable private Bill stood in the w: that which the County Council is promot: ing for the supply of water to London from the Welsh hills." All the London members, unionists and Liberals, hud turner up to discuss this important measure, which proposes to build ata cost of some eighteen million pounds an aqueduct from the Welsh lakes to London, capable of supplying us with two hundred millions of gallons of pure water a day. But the Irish would not brook the idea of a long discuss a practical subject blocking their purposeless debate, so they howled down the mover of the Bill until the speaker consented to send for Me. Balfour, who was not in the House. The Government has no power to interfere in the matter of private Bill, but Mr. Balfour induced those interested in the London Water Bill to give way and postpone their measure, to the infinite disgust and indignation of the leading Liberal organ, the "Daily News" which this morning attacks vehemently the Liberal Speaker, the Government, and the Irish members. From becoming Luperialist it seems that the "Daily News" is about to become Anti-Home-Rule.
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