The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-03-19

~ - - ~ SAS.0AAAAA4.. NE "
Wednesday, Aorninef @Ar 4 N 70, ls1s.
The Fazzls OF xrsland's Diseonsens.
Either the Irish are the most perverse.
or tho English the most unskillful ip
Governing, Of Any people ,op the lace, of
1.-the GLOBE Of thea diff 1i}ie whicIi beset
them both. as they stand to each other
now, are in heir-natpre ipsuperable.
Perhaps both are in fanits: Certain 1t is,
that England's want Of success In pacify-
ing and, controlling the people OF Ire.
land. is the disgrace of her arms, her
policy and her ,hunazity Ss Ever. since
and befof6 the time that Unhappy Ire
land was delivered into the iron grasp Of
Cromwell, down to the present moment
sof defeat Of Gladstone IN his well-meant
scheme Of tranquillizing the Inland and
satisfying the. people, BY legislative xs-
dress. Of ;thei faults. tvadars 1Hhioh their
educational interests snhett, ,sstsaas=s aeo.-
uye attempts stand conspicnpusly forth,
studdihg history and testifyIng TO the
nal.administration OF $ England and to
E The 2. chronic. diseonten. Of Ireland. The
massacres OF Orom5 At Drogheda.
4bRxam and Wsl lthe; smoother
fpoHey Of mil Ter me4. al 10 efforts. Of Pitt
3. the Legislative. Union, tue blandish.
pts Of George ~, che various emant
pAion and reform Acts and other ooon.
liiatery measures sof Earis Grey aud
,Rqssell, and Psel's non.s .sectssian Queen's
Colleges. and this effort of'the Gladstone
Ministry; which goes as far in The, dirsc-
aion. Of Aatistying Irelaha' ha'ademBnds as it
was possible to lido aud. live+-all and
everything that has been attempted, has
soonsr or later resulted In failure. What
ever the advancement Of Ireland may
be, the spirit of her people remains per:
manently dissstisaed. t,Ifs as has been
said, the Irishman is nSvet at peace. ex-
'cept when fghting. he. enjoys. the peace
Of frequent disturbances: and Whatever
satisfaction, a. atate Of, ,pespetqal disoon-
tent may bring hffa. There seems, sb.
soiutely, -to:be no pep sqt1e for the; woes,
10 eare foe. tho nalRdlas alRdlas 81 g. itrahad. -
We hafe seaA ashsN1 tssiFpsegFsss MI.
FEonde .theie1niuept hissofian, made, id
this con1try- towards a solution Of the
problem ;ot lEpglFnaN s1hanagapent Of
Leland'scass. 4Fhe 4 taasmne sm intricaoies, the
same ineradicable: difficulties. environ
the subject tHFe5 5that eutsngle it iFEngi
iandssWsshd0ld SAgs 3h9usht19 adj
vanca Of ita. distaRE REetil1 l1ess. as shown by
its, defsat, that Mr.: Gladstones nntyersi-
tymeasure would hare been l6eeptable
and Welcome. ,s;It;is the last; of Q series
intended tofwork great and wholesome
changes in Ireland-the first being the
disestablishment OF the English Church.
and the second ithe regulation OF the
Irish land tenurcs. The design 81 was to
seeularize university education, without
giving umbrage to the Catholics. It's
basis was a university embracing several
existing colleges II. Ireland. Catholic and
Protestant, wherein the university facul-
ty proper should teach nothing which
has the remotest bearing on eccIesiasti-
cal questions. but leaving the separate
colleges to follow freely their Protestant
or Catholic bias. Every advantage was
to be put equally within the power of
the adherents OF ench faith. Intended
to please two sides, it secured the ap.
proval of neither. As q concession, it
went too far for the church at home and
for the bulk of the English people, who
feared tho precedent it would make. and
yet it fell far short Of the demands of
the Catholics, both in England and Ire
land. Even the Liberal Irish members
voted against it. What was excogitated
with the greatest care, and framed with
apparently conscientious convictions Of
its justice, its generous concessions and
benefcent tendency. has fallen between
two extremes OF opinion, and caused the
defeat of the Ministry, WHICH staked its
official existence upon it, Gladstone is
Justly disheartened, and Derby and Dis