IRISH AFFAIRS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XX, Issue 57, 9 March 1886, Page 3

IRISH AFFAIRS.

Mr Gladstone is preparing a Bill providing for the appropriation of land in Ireland by means of State funds. The Bill will precede other Irisb measures whicb Government intends to present to Parliament, Tbe discussion of the Home Rule question is postponed till nest session. At a League meeting in Limerick on 31st January, the Mayor announced tbat the Leagne's Executive Committee had instructed him to discountenance boycotting. A party of moonlighters afc Tralee attacked on 30th January a process-server named Rae, aged 60 years, cutting off one of his ears and a portion of one cheek. Mr Sexton, presiding at a meeting of the National League, held in Dublin on 2nd February, predicted tbat at next election the Nationalists would combine with the Liberals, and return eighty-nine members to Parliament. Ireland, he said, was satisfied with. the temporary power of tbe Conservatives, who had abolished coercion and introduced a land purchase measure establishing the principle that the State should provide money for the extinction of landlords. He advised Mr Gladstone to avoid violence and disorder in Ireland by assisting the distressed peasantry with Government funds, and by protecting them from eviction until a Bill was passed to huy out the landlords. He urged Irishmen to remain peaceful while there was a chance of Mr Gladstone making efforts in behalf of {he Irish Nationalists. It was supposed at one time there would be a split in the Nationalist party growing out of- the Galway election, where tbe candidates were Messrs O'Shea and Lynch, the former put forward by Mr Parnell, and the latter by Mr Healy. When Messrs Parnell, O'Connor, and O'Brien arrived at Galway on the Oth they were met by a mob, wbo jostled tbe Irish leaders, and cried, "To h — with O'Sbea and Parnell I " Mr Healy, who arrived some time previously, hurried to the scene, and pushing his way through tbe crowd, said he would break the head o£ any man who dared to insult Mr Parnell. This restored order for a time. During a general meeting Mr Lynch made a speech in which he said that Mr Parnell had acted like a traitor to Galway in importing Captain O'Shea as Parliamentary candidate for the city when it had pleuty of good Nationalists. Mr Lynch added that although Mr Parnell was a great man, Ireland had made him. These remarks stirred the factions present into wild excitement, Mr Parnell ihen invited Lynch to a quiet con. yeraation, which was nob long over befor< Mr Lynch announced tbafc he had decided at Mr Parnell's request, to wrhiraw hii -name. -Mr Rdmond, Nationalist m.mber it Parliamen 1 , in a speech ab Monaghan, ot the 7th February, urged Iri-hmen to res trail tbeir feelings, and not to hamper the nev Government, wbich, be said, would tak immediate steps to stop eviction.. The Pall Mall Gazette publishes on 14tl February, what it asserts is Mr Gladstone' pl_u for granting Home Rub for Ireland The plan is vague as to many importan details, but it expressly _ provides for th establishment of a Parliament in Dublin This body is to consist of but one chambei lbs. members are to be returned by the sam electorate as is now established by the lates extension of the franchise, Thelrit-h peerog is to have no other Parliamentary repre .en tation either in Dublin or London than i provided by 25 Irish representative peers no* sitting in the Imperial House of Lords. Th country is to be redistributed for the purpos Of _? arliamentary elections in such a way tbs the membership of the new Parliament sha exceed the present Irish representation in tl imperial Parliament by about three to one, making the membership in tbe new body a- little over 300. The new Parliament is to be auxiliary in most respects to the Parliament in Westminster. The latter body is to retain absolute control over taxation m Ire_ land, and is given power to vote any Act pr the Dublin Parliament. Irish representation an the Imperial Parliament is to remain universally the same as at present, but Irish members will have a vote only on such matters as directly or indirectly affect Ireland. The Radicals bitterly denounce this plan, and the mosfc immediate effect of its publication has been to widen the breach between the Whig and Radical wings of the Liberal party. Mr Healy ridiculed the proposition in a speech delivered in Dublin on the 12fch. The Daily News oi 7th February, iu a signi- ' ficant leader on the political situation, urges its political party to prepare for another general election. The Observer of the same date gives Mr Gladstone's Cabinet only a short lease of power.

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