The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-10-01
AC...OSS THE BORDERS.
Matters Of Moment In Europe and
Elsewhere.
Ireland Affairs In Afghanis-
tan The Fight with
the Turcomans.
Diaz and the Mexican Presidency.
ENGLAND.

LONDON, Sept. 8D44The Iau Mall Ga
sette, In leading article comedies tina
| the complaints OF the Irish teDan
farmers gro mostly genuine, and tina
they are for the moment unable to pay thei
rent. and that they believe In their right I,
remain OH the land In every event. They al,
fresh from the exhortations OF the mos
popular politician of Ireland (meaning Mr.
ParnelD to stick to their homesteads at what
ever consequence. II O general refusal to pay
rent Ia followed by wholesale eviction this
again will almost certainly be followed by {
series OF agrarian murders, and unless thu
Irish executive ID prepared to support land
lords by measures amounting to little less thar
military occupation OF o large part Ut tbs
country, landlords will have To choose be-
tween virtually conceding tenants claims
| iixity Of tenure and giving the signal for al
outbreak of something hardly diatinguishRble
from civil war. The anti-tenant agitation Ii
| only one among. other. symptoms Of the gen.
eral unrest Of Ireland for tie moment Il lie
urgent, but even II the worst pinch Of agra
rtan distress were relieved by q universal re-
duction Of rent, there would still be much to
disqulet us In the condition OF the country.
The enthusiasm BY which Mr.. Parnell's pro-
ened the hands Of the more moderate Home
Rulers, and enboldened the ultras, and
among It's first results was somewhat
to preeipitate the proposal to assemble na-
tlonal convention. The fate oil this particular
project Ia at present uncertain. but the agita-
ton upon which the more violent section OF
the Home Rulers have entered will la one
shape OF another produce its inevitable re-.
volts.
The troublous prospect In ireland is not
really affected by the success or failure OF any
given scheme for organizing pressure upon
the government The present temper OF the
Irish people and their leaders concerns us
much more seriously than any particular pro-
temper lremnins what 1t semi.sedit ious
among the people and reeklessly incendiary
among the lenders the situation must be i
grave one, whether the convention ever meets
OF not. It should be noted that an old statute
which prohibited conventions in Ireland has
been repealed.
The Times, ID leading editorial article on
the disorganizing effects Of parnells policy,
sa vs 1t would become really formidable only
II IL should extend all over Ireland. TfIe
Times does not believe that 1t will do go.
Nothing, Il eays, will tend to paralyzs the
antl-rent project more affectuafly than the
IN harvest prospects which is
reported from the greater part OF Ireland.
A meeting Of delegates from the South York
lions a at Barnsby decided to resist any ss rsdac
ton OF wages to the utmost. The Iron
workers ut Hartlepool and Stockton have
followed the example of the iron workers at
Jarfow and resumed work. under protest
The strike Of cotton operatives at Wigan
continues, and about 1900 operatives at Moss
ley have accepted the masters terms.
SIMIA, Sept. 3O.--A dispatch from Shutter
gardan, dated the twenty seventh instant,
says. aen. Sir Frederick Roberts has arrived
here. His party was fired at by a large body
OF Mongols, near Jagathana, and five Sikhs
killed. The Mongols were repulsed with
loss. The latest news from Cabnl states that
all la quiet there Dakka was occupied with
out opposition yesterday. News from Man
dalaya to the twenty second instant reports
all u,lat there.