Morning journal and courier., 1881-10-18
CENsURE OF MIR. GLADSTONE.

MT. Jennings, the London correspondent of the New York World, has excellent facili- ties for getting at the real state of public opinion in Great Britain, and what he has to say concerning the impression made there by
 the arrest of the Irish agitators is, therefore,
 valuable as an aid to correct understanding of the situation.
 Of course, says MT. Jennings, public opin-
 ion in England is hostile to MT. Parnelrs pe- culiar views. The Land Act puts the Irish
 tenant in a very much better position than
 that occupied by the English farmer. The
 latter would be quite satisfied with land bill
 containing the principal features of the Irish act, and he cannot see why the Irish tenant
 should reject such boon. "Mr. ParnelPs
 theory that all the land in Ireland belongs in
 equity to the tenant is not countenanced by
 the English farmer, who with equal reason
 might contend that Parliament should go be-
 hind the Domesday survey and restore the
 soil to the descendants of the British Celt or
 the Saxon, if they can be found If MT. Par
 nell had contented himself with using the League organization for the purpose of en-
 abling the tenant to extract every possible
 benefit out of the Land Act, the English land reformers would have heartily supported him. But English opinion is not yet quite advanced enough to tolerate naked confsca- ton, and by preaching it Mir. Parnen has estranged his most powerful allies. One of the most advanced Radical papers in Eng land said the other day that if the doctrine of original claims was to prevail against title deeds the Irish property holders in the Unit ed States should, to be consistent, make prompt and ample restoration to the North American Indian.''
 But while there is no great sympathy for Mir. Parnell, except among the extreme Radi- calls, tAe feeling against the ministry $ dc scribed by MT. Jennings as intense. Such concessions as Mir. Gladstone has asked for have been freely granted. The House SUD- ported him in establishing precedent which, when applied to the English land laws, will almost revoIutionize the relations between landlord and tenant. When he demanded extraordinary powers, involving the suspen- | sion of the habeas corpus act, he got them, | and when he delayed pressing English and l Scotch reforms on the ground that it wss necessary to devote his whole attention to |
 
 after all this, it is seen that the Premier is 1 wholly unable to restore order in Ireland or 1 remove the country from within a measura- l ble distance of civil war The people are l fast losing patience with him, and unless l matters mend rapidly he will have to face an angry and sullen House next session." It is l also felt that Mir. Parnell has been unjustly l dealt with in first having been violently at | tackled by the Prime Minister and then cast l into prison for replying MT. Jennings sum- l mary of the situation IS ''that Ireland will be | neither cajoled nor coerced into submission; | that the demand for the repeal of the Union | will be supported by an increasing number of l English Radicals, and that the lawlessness in l Ireland, combined with the now weak, now | despotic attitude of the government, vii l eventually result in the disgrace and over | throw of the Gladstone administration.