, 1881-03-06
His Present Posing as the Irish Co.
eroionist and the Dutch
0ppressor'
General Breakdown Of His Con-
stituti0n Under the Woes
Of Government.
.Parnel! and Dillon Equally Unfortunate
in Their Direction OF the
Irish Cause.
4 Vessel Wrecked Off Sunderland, En-
gland, and Eighteen Persons
Drowned
THE 1RISH.
FORSTER.
rAf3 FN,},JA

THE 1R1SH.
FORSTER.
Special Cable. -
DUBLIN, March 5.-Secretary Forster was
laboriously engaged from early morning tt
late at night on Friday in investigating the
condition Of the various districts in ireland
| likely to come under the Coercion act
Fifty Stipendiary MAGISTRATES and over
| a hundred police inspectors were sum-
moned personally by telegraph from the
west and south; and each was separately ex-
amined on the latest statistics Of crime in
his own district, as well as in regard to
| Illegal drilling, secret combinations, md
| suspected leaders. 1t is understood that
| Mr.. Forster requires, first, proof
| that each district Is now sutii-
| cient1y disturbed to warrant Its being
proclaimed; secondly, proof Of some overt
act on the part Of each individual arrested
declining to act on mere suspicion or known
connection with illegal organizations. Many
Leaguers have already fled. The Govern
ment hope that comparatively few arrests
will be necessary.
| THE LAND LEAGUERs,
despite the heavy blows that have fallen
upon them. are not yet by any means
beaten i'll Parliament, as 1t is found that
10 measure can possibly get beyond
its second reading unless under vote Of
urgency, and thus the tenth week Of the ses-
sion will begin with blocks of bills on all
kinds Of business. The Government cannot
get urgency voted without the consent Of the
Conservatives, consequently they are largely
at the mercy Of their opponents in spite Of
the great victory which they won at the polls
st the last general election.
THIS POSITION,
naturally, Is regarded as most yeyatfous by
the whole Liberal party, whose leading or
gan, the Spectator, complains bitterly to-day
that the Liberal majority in the House of
Commons is utterly paralyzed, and
says: "Thus the ninth week Of
the session has passed, and
we are not even in sight of a measure that
the Liberals can take satisfaction in.'' SIM
liar repinlng comes from all parts of the
country. The main result of the Speakers
rules is, after all, to throw the control Of
public business into the hands Of the Con-
seryatiye minority. The Irish members are
indefatigable in opposing dilatory motions
to all bills not backed by an urgency vote of
two-thiris of the House. This deadlock of
legislation has been
4 SOURCE OF GREAT MULTIPLICATION TO MR.
GLADSTONE,
whose complete recovery has been much
retarded by his anxiety. Although able to
appear III the House. the Pre1hier
look very much broken, and 1t is
scarcely probable that he can long continue
to support the present strain Of care
and overwork. I understand, upon good
authority, that the shock Of his recent
fall in getting out Of his carriage did
not tell so severely OH him as the loss Of
blood from his scalp wound, which left him
terribly weak. That his administration
should have done no more than pass Irish
coercion bills and push the war in the
Transvaal is
"a GROUND OF POPULAR REpRoAcH
against him, which causes the Premier sin
ccre distress. The DisarnlIng bill, it is gen.
orally understood, has only now been taken
up in Difference to Conservative opin-
ion, the Cabinet having last week.
las was announced in the
dispatches at the time) decided to drop it.
The entire political situation, in short, is one
Of such confusion and cross-purposes as has
scarcely ever been chronicled in Parliament
tary history.
MR. PARNELL
has almost broken down under the strain to
which he has been subjected. It is
understood that he will return to
his old policy Of quiet and stolid
obstruction, and dtscountenance the violent
tactics which have brought SO much dis
credit upon his contingent. Mr.. Baxter
is anxious that the Government
should adopt more rigorous rules
for crushing obstruction than those
now in force, and there is considerable anxi-
ETY. to know what Mr.. Gladstone will do
1Shen Alr. Baxter suggests that the course in
the House of Mr.. Dillon has ably seconded
his chief i'll bringing discredit upon
the Land League. His frank declaration
that he favored landIord-kiline and civil war
was too much even fur Mr.. Labouchere, and
the League branches in Westport and other
parts Of the disturbed districts have
FORMALLY REPUD1ATED HIS SENTIMENTS.
THE general belief here is that Mr. Dillon
wished to provoke the Government into ar
resting him, but, although the Coercion
act is now in full force, he is
still at large and likely to remain so.
The act, moreover, does not give those ar-
rested much opportunity for posing as mar
tyrs. Those arrested will enjoy the privilege
of having their food supplied by friends out
side, aud there will be no chain-gang
or treadmill, not even picking oakum.
Klmainham Jail, in Dublin, has been Sc
.lected as the place Of confinement for pris-
'oners arrested under the act.
TIE uoME-KULE MEMBERS
held a conference after the division on the
Disarming bill last night, at which it
was decided that twenty-three Of them
should leave for Ireland next week
and hold mass-E1eetings for the discussion of
the Coercion and Disarmine bill tomorrow
week. Mr.. Parnell urged his followers to
speak out boldly, and there is strong
probability that some of them will get
into trouble. The Coercion act authorizes
the arrest Of any person who is declared by
warrant OF the Lord-Lieutenant to be
guilty, among other things, Of e. Incitlng
to an act Of violence or intimidation.
and tending to interfere with OF disturb tho