The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1886-02-09 00:00:00

MR. GLADSTONE'S MANIFESTO ON
THE IRISH QUESTION.

Mr. Gladstone has imurd the ftillowinff addreesti
the electors of Mid-Lothian t—
"‘entlemen,—ltaving received • oommilmion from
her Mejeety to form a Government, and having
personally accepted the ofitoe it Find feed of the
Treasury, I have 41110 e MOCO to solicit A renewal of
the trust which little more than two months ago yt ii
°matted to me with so marked an expression of the
sentiment of the constituency. I need not now, at
in September last, ttouble you with any lengthy
exiseition itf my views, either t n Liberal policy at
large, or oil ifent Cc itoestions aff.s.tilo; Ireland,
the a:ins-mach if which it wirs hot difficult hi discern.
and which have •Ititti VIM. into the front rank id
pelitioal interest.. WU IVI MAW to totslify any
of the lending declarations of my butt address, eithe.
on Pending InNects Beitieli legislation or on th.!
basis and the notimmavy limit. of a policy for Ireland.
I fool earnestly hopml that the late Government
might have been enabled to make propoeals adeiplate
to the needs of the sister island, but at the moment
when an Pane altogether eeparate put an end to the
existencp of the Nlinismy it had beemtie evident that
this hope most lie almndoned. were Woe..
great Irish question. dentrumling our care—tmcial
order, the settlement of the land question, and a
prevaleet lIPMIIII for ttelf.government, extending
beyond what is felt in Great Ilritain, as to local
affairs, but necessarily subject in all respects to the
law ot Imperial unity. It e 1.,. made plain last week
that whilst all ideas of local 1111 l rut for !rebind
receded further end further into the distance, and
while on this very gocind it wet 1144.11 Y Isalsiblo to
hope for any enlarged Itatelllng of the land vmestion,
the one broad propoeal with which PaillAilltelliwaa to
he invited to deal was a renewal of epeeist' and
restrictive provisions foe the ClriMlllllll law of Irelmd
te,t„, the qoostlon of the hour—herbal the
wiwk of the esmelon. It will is• among the first duties
..f the new Government to use its import Ties
for forming such me estimate as only a Ministry can
torn. of the social atate id Ireland, especially with
regard to crime, to the fulfilment of emotes:ea, to the
premisee of low pricesiuijt ..psetsititre, and to
Personal liberty of Atoka). Th. COIII,e of policy as a
whole cannot Im smoldered without reference to this
examinathet, led beyond all iloul• the hope and
! pinepme of the Goverionent in taking office ie to
examine carefully whether it is not practicable to
lay some .4ber method of meeting the present case
of-Ireland, and ministering to its wants, both serial
and pnlitical--some methisl more safe and
, effectual, going nearer U. the source and the mat I
the mischief, and offering more promise of et.l,:h.y
than the method of separate and restrictive
criminal legislation. TO tbis task we shall whir*,
ourselvm under A •ro f.tod WC lof the resismitilelity
which in this free country weighs itisai the people iif
the three kingdoms, but which is csinorn•
! tested upon the adviser. of the Crown, Wh,.„ ‘„,
! many risks and rilmtacles beset the path we shall not
lightly count upon a favoureble issue, But we have
no doubt as to the great purpose which should guide
our course : and we shall draw comfort from the
belied that we are engaged in • work I lime —I
remain, gentlenten, your faithful and grateful tier-
veto,
" W. E. GLAIYSTON F."
Lutdon, Feb. 4.

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