TOWN EDITION. Evening Post TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 1881.

Evening Post, Volume XXII, Issue 28, 2 August 1881, Page 2

TOWN EDITION. Evening Post TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 1881.

THE IRISH SYMPATHY MEETING. «. The meeting convened last night to express sympathy with the Irish people in their endeavonrs "to maintain an existence on the soil they cultivate," was characterised by an orderliness of conduct and a general moderation of speech very creditable to those who organised and took part in the movement. It is seldom that a denselycrowded public meeting, held to discuss a subject which appeals to some of the strongest sentiments of human nature, passes off with such thorough decorum and quietness as that of yesterday evening. With one single exception, the speeches were strikingly temperate and reasonable in their tone — that exception being, of course, the expression of regret on the part of Mr. Lundon that any of the Irish landlords had escaped assassination. Wo feel convinced, however, that this utterance was a slip of the tongue, owing to the speaker being carried away by his excitement over the grievances of his fellow-countrymen, rather than an expression of deliberate conviction, and we are sure that such a sanguinary sentiment would be strongly reprobated even by those who heartily sympathised with his indignation against the wrongs of Ireland. It is freely admitted by the British nation as a whole, and by their representatives in Parliament, that the Irish tenants have suffered grievous injustice and oppression. The Irish Land Bill, which has passed the House of Commons, and also its first reading in the House of Lords, is an earnest national effort to redress a national wrong. It is greatly to be hoped that it will be attended with the happiest results in restoring peace and prosperity to the long-disturbed Sister Isle.