, 1881-01-08
G N E A L w s.
(Er0m the Spectator

90 ~ AuRy uGSAWS OCUu RvktOI
It is demi-oficially stated, however. thas
it has not been broken up. Admiral Sir
B%eauchamp Seymour remains In COM
mand, and 40 soon az the Powers have
discovered that Turkey will not yield, aud
have decided on the nsedful measure Of
coercion, an order from the Admiral will
suffice to reoall tbs ships to the reudez.
vous arranged. The effect OF this arrange
ment is that the Concert OF Europe 10 90
far maintained that action 10 common is
still contemplated, and its instrument
kept ready at hand. That 10 not sufficient,
of course, to enfrsnchise Epirus and Thes-
sally +; but it ia q step towards the end, and
il the Sultan issues any rash order, may
prove o very important one. The Powers
are assumed by Tories to bs divided into
two groups, but events might easily hap
pen which would %reunite them, and they
could act at twelve hours notice.
The negotiations. must occupy some time.
while Greece finishes her preparations
and it would have beeu useless to keep a
feet riding at anchor on the coast OF the
Adriatic, where it could accomplish no.
thing. The next ''demonstration" must
No mUE0 tlatUi6 AIOIH OOIlsk &ukIQOQl6s
Mr.. Paruell and the rest OF che accused
Land Leaguers applied Of Saturday to
the Quesn's Bench Division for a post.
ponement OF the trial. The arguments
were very lengthy, but they all amounted
to this.-that If Mr.. Parnell were absent
from bic place 10 Parliament on January
9th, his cause would suffer. The Lord
Chief Justice, Sir G.. A. May. refused the
application, 10 a speech which assumed
too clearly that the ,raversers were guilty,
and drew down . covert rebuke even from
three Judges sitting with him, though they
concurred in the decision. The error 10 most
unfortunats-one of those perverss Incl.
dents which only occurin Irish sfairs-and
has led to an outburst of fury against
the Judge of the most extravagaut kind,
one speaker being even supposed to have
melted his assassination, though that 10,
we think, an unfair construction Of his
words. The Lord Chief Justice 10 punish.
ed by the irreparable injury his want OF
impartiality has done to his own cause;
but it will be we'll if it be possible to
arrange thst indisposition should prevent
his presiding at the trial. We wish the
system of appointing partisan lawyers to
the Bench were a~brogated in Ireland.
They are possibly as impartial as any
other leading barristers, but nothing win
make the local public believe il. It
should be noted that the same Judges
acceded to an application to restrain the
Evening Mail from comments on the case.
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Mr.. Parnell made two speeches at
Waterford on Sunday,i n which he declared
bis intention OF obtaining the soil of IRE
land for the people of ireland, and this
without any breach of the Constitution,
at least, so long as sit suited" the leaders
of the people to keep within the bounds
of the Constitution. This was we suppose,
q hint that it might suit the leaders Of the
people to transgress the limits of the
Constitution but whether in order to
stow that this would not be needful, or to
show that. if nesdfuI, any breach Of the
Constitution deliberately made would be
q formidable one, Mr.. Psrnell computed
the force of those identified with tho
present land.lsws and of those opposed ia
those laws as amounting respectively to
about halfa-million on the enc side, and
FIVE millions on the other. His object
was, be said. to remove the poor Irishmen
from the barren soil which they are trying
to cultivate on the west coat, to the rich
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