New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-08-25
BRITISH TOPICS.

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lFRoM THE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF THE rIInusE I
LONDON Aug ia meeting of the Home Rule
confederation was held on Saturday in the CRYSTAL
Ialhce. Delegates attended from various parts of
tne COUNTRY including fortytwO of the chef towns
III tne middle and north of England and Scotland
AH farnell presided, and sundry other Irish Mem
oeis W Parliament were present. 1t can hardly be
stiu tnat The meeting was one of great importance
put IL mad certain interest arising out of the de-
carnations made by individual delegates Ii throws
some light on the purposes of the Home Rulers and
On the spirit IN which they 90 to work. Mr. Parnell
urges DIS adheronts all over England to make Home
Inie the paramount issue in the coming cleo
t"h' lie would have Irish votes in English
constituencies given exclusively to candidates who
VIII vote for Parliamentary inquiry INTO Home
hue' The convention passed resolution in that
| sense Mr. Parnel said he had ascertaned beyond
uouDt that there were in Great Britain forty const-
uen''es III which the power of controlling the vote
lay WIN The Irish constituencies. These are pre-
clscy the tactics which the characterization people
TUG "ohan-suiira9ists and other crochet-mongers
uise upon thelr supporters. There must be dozen
such causes" What will happen if each band fol-
low the advice of their leaders, They will turn n
general election into general scramble. They will
not do much more.
y Dut Alr. PGrnell has contributed a phrase 70
the political vocabulary of the dav He has
found euphemism for obstruction. II il
not obstruction; it is "untring indnstrvy
Ihat Is the phrase which seems 70 Mr.
rarneil an apt and sufficient description of the
tactics by which the House of Commons has 40 often
eeoineu 10 become Drawing mob which have gone
idr 10 orlhg Parliamentary government into con-
tempt winch have been avOwedly adopted by the
minority as means of cOercing the majority: and
IrI .lu ho1,.
END so odious that Engishmen will be glad to get
rid OF them at any price.
us meeting. which Of course did nothing but
talk and pass empty resolutions, is reported in
al the London papers, and discussed in most of
tiehl' me Times writes about it In tone Of
nIgnity and determination worthy of its old self.
ana rare indeed In these its degenerate DAYS 1t de-
ciaieS ITSELF now as always, willing to listen to
any ana every claim for redress Of Irish grievances
A. wiz consider every such claim on its merits But
iI"lil not consider tho claim for Home Rule be-
cause that Is claim which, in the deliberate iudg-
meht OF all glishmen who have bestowed a mo-
ments thought on the subject tends to break ND
the Empire:
a., ~ Is not demand for equal rights and privileges
Dut one Tor the revival OF obsolete Inc IualiIIes
ana distinctions. As such decline Lot onlv
~ Grant an IT, Du5 to waste time in arguing about
~, any more thal we should waste time with n
political dreamer who should propose 10 save
aG community vast sum Of money by repudating the
national debt or to restore iudusr gl prosperity by pro-
mOithg the Importation of foreign manufacturers
so Iar as know Inything of English opinion on
the Irish claim for Home Rule believe il is fairly
enough expressed in this extract yet no Home Ruer
can be got % understand English feelng ON this
subject-not even so intelligent n man as Mr.. JUS
teo Mccarthy. In his capacity as historian. MIR
Justice Mccarthy has clearly set forth the copdi
lions which made success impossible to the great
repeal movement of 1913 under O'Connel
himself. With not less clearness and good
sense he describes the Young Ireland moyement
OF 1913, and holds it up to contempt Yet in his
capacity as politician of to-day and member of the
House OF Commons, the same Mr.. Justin Mccarthy
writes himself down Home Ruler. 1t is easy to say
that the circumstances are different, that the
aims OF to-days agitation are diff rent and so on
No doubt they are. But there is one thing which is
not different. but the same and that is the unal-
terable resolve of the people of Great Britain to
maintain the integrity of the British Empire That
is rock against which the waves of Irish discon-
tent and dsloyalty will beat In vain. now as here
tOfore.
1t is pretty clear that our friend Dean Stanley
will be allowed peace till he abandons his i'll
starred notion of putting up a monument in West
minister Abbey to the late Prince Louis Napoleon,
There has been a steady stream of protest against
this scheme ever since it was first heard of. On
Friday last there was a debate about it in the
House Of Commons. Sir Wifrid Lawson brought
it on. Sir Willrid is of those men who has the
courage Of his opinions; the courage to say what
he thinks without thinking whether it may
happen to be palatable to the Court-or 10
that society which echoes Court opinions so
far as it knows them. We Americans owe him
thanks for il, for too have interest, and deep
interest in Westminster Abbey. Sir WifrId said
the Abbey was a national building It is more than
that. 1t is a building in which every English-speak-
ing has part L; is national and it is also in
ternatonal. The sentence Sir Wfrid quoted from
the Bonapartist Committee in France ought to set
tie the question. The Bonapartists ROuher, Cas-
sagnac, Jules Antiques, and that gang-say:
great ueighboring people has shown itself jealous of
compete in the matter Of homage with England which
gives him place In Westminster Abbey by the sde OI
the usriOus dead who are her pride ana her glory
After that It is Of little for Sir Stafford North
cote to plead that such memorial has no political
significance. Sir Stafford, usually so plant, tried
to put his foot down this debate. His attempt to
stlfle discussion was promptly resented and over
ruled. There was a strong feeling IN the House
much too strong for leader Of Sir Stafords caiibTe
to suppress. And he himself made as long speech
about 1T as anybody-urgng the value OF silence as
volubly as Mr. Carlyle himself He contributed one
useful fact to the discussion. The proposal he sald
originated with the Dean himself and he declared
himself" authorized" to state that in no way did 1t
originate with the Queen. SO much the better 1t
viii be all the easier for the Dean to
drop tho project quietly. Mr. Beresiord nope
whom nobody Will suspect of sympathy
with anything radical liberal or popular,
pointed TO tllis ms the natural conclusion OF the
whole matter. Other members wandered off into a
dispute On the merits of the first Napoleon and 1.-THE
infinitely lesser Napoeons who came after him.
There were speeches on both sides, and on neither