Nelson Evening Mail. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1891.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXV, Issue 243, 13 October 1891, Page 2

Nelson Evening Mail. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1891.

So far there is not muoh sign of the breach in. the Irish party being healed. Whatever may happen in course of time Mr ParnelTs followers seem to hare their angry feelings intensified by his death, and they make the moßb absurd accusations. They charge their opponents in a vague sort of way with murdering their leader. This of course means nothing ia particular. No one really sußpeots that Mr Dillon or Mr McCarthy bribed a Brighton lodging-house keeper to give Mr Parnell damp sheets, and the accusation is certainly not made againsb Lord Salisbury or Mr Balfour, to whom Mr Parneli'a life was of great service in keep, ing up the division among the Home Rulers. _ A reconciliation between the two factions is pretty sure to come sooner or later, but id is hardly likely to happen before the next general elections which cannot be long delayed. The men on both sides have for the best part of a year been straining their wits to find out unpleasant things to say of each other, and though the quarrels and reconciliations of Irishmen are often wonderfully sudden it is improbable that they will consent to aot together at all events for a year or two. So long as the memory of Mr Parnell is fresh his deposition from the leadership will raukta ia the mind* of

his friends and will intensify their dislike towards their opponents, To keep the feud alive there is the question of the disposal of the Bum of money now lying in the bank at Paris. The chances are that there will be a lawsuit as to possession, and nothing more tends to keep a feud going than a contest in the courts over money. In the September number of the Nineteenth Cewtwy Mr Gladstone enters into a somewhat elaborate calculation of the probable result of the coming goneral election, judging by the byeelections during the existence of tho present Parliament. He points out that his party has won two-sevenths of the Conservative or Liberal-Unioiaisb seats which have become vacant, and he calculates that it will win in the same proportion at the general election, thus apparently gaining a substantial majority m the House of Sommons. The Spectator, however, points out an oversight of Mr Gladstones's which considerably affects | the argument. Such forecasts as a rule are more curious than profitable. It has often happened before now that hopes drawn from a succession of bye-elections have proved quite delusive. The country apparently is well satisfied with Lord Salisbury's admiastration. Law and order prevail in Ireland, the foreign polioy of the Government commands general praise, and the legislation has been of the most liberal oharacber. The one subject of division is Home Rule and that is much less in people's minds than it ÜBed to be. If the Irish party were united Mr Gladstone would be enormously strengthened. The Irish vote is of importance even in England and Scotland and so long as the present division lasts that vote will be split up, and Unionists mil secure seats whioh otherwise they would have no chance of gaining.