IRISH AFFAIRS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 9040, 16 February 1891, Page 2

IRISH AFFAIRS.

By Eleotbio Tblegbaph.—copybigh'/.] (Peb Peess Association.) London, February 13. (Beoelved February 14, at 10.30 a.m.)

Several prominent members of the Gladstone party have been making financial arrangements with the party led by Mr Justin M'Carthy for carrying en a Home

Rule campaign, but decline to give any monetary assistance to evicted tenants. The Times says that Mr Gladstone's promised concessions to the Home Rule party amount to nothing more than empty words unless separation pure and simple is intended. The same journal considers that Mr Paruell's real opponents in Ireland arc the priests. The Standard remarks that Mr Gladstone is vainly humiliated since he sees that Mr Parnell is inexorable.

The Daily News believes that tho rupture over the leadership of the Irish party will eventually result in the triumph of the Liberal party and the breaking up of Parnellism. Mr Justin M'Carthy declares that ho conducted negotiations with Mr Parnell on the basis that it was impossible that Mr Parnell could retain the leadership of the party.

The news of the rupture between Messrs M'Carthy and Parnell has caused a gloomy feeling in Ireland, and it is considered to ha7o greatly injured the prospects of the Home Rule cause.

February 14, (Hecelvod February 18, at 6 p.m.)

It is stated that the demand made by Mr Parnell for an absolute pledge that the control of the police in Ireland would be conceded at an early date, prevented an amicable settlement of the question of leadership.

Messrs Dillon and O'Brien will serve their sentence in Clonmel gaol, Tipperary. They met with a poor reception on their arrival in Dublin.