Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-06-27
FoRE1GN NEWS.
An Opinion Concerning the Irish Ques.
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An Opinion Concerning the Irish Ques.
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LONDON, June 24th.-The editor of the
Morntng Post publishes a communication
over his own nsme-Sir Algernon Borthwick
-on the condition Of Ireland. He admits
that the present legislative union between
Great Britain and Ireland exists only in
name. He says the present land bill is an
attempt at compromise between two social
systems resting on purposes and instincts
totally distinct, and it must naturally result
in disappointment, mutual recrimination and
failure. The Land League is the embodi-
ment of formal ideas and radical procliyities.
Justice to Ireland means, il effect, the with
drawal by England from her intentions and
her hoped-for results of union in 1881, viz, /,
the creation of homogeneous nation out of
utterly discordant elements. 1t is now pain
fully apparent that home rule in the so-called
Imperial Parliament is standing protest
against there being common ground from
which any common legislation can proceed,
when still statesmen have influence enough
and authority with their constituencies to
have facts, and lot wishes and asser lions.
made the guide of the nations policy and the
groundwork of its legislation. The Irish
race is sctuated by racial propensities and
customs, totally distinct from those OF the
English No union based on the common
system of law and industrial pursuits can
possibly obtain between them, except by a
consistent force on one side and the absence
of timorous concession to the rule of the
stronger. One other question upon which
we may make up our minds that the nation
has sooner or later to face is. whether Ire
land, as part of the United Kingdom, is to
be subjected and made obedient to the same
laws aud usages as ourselves, or is she, by ex-
ceptional legislation in Difference to her
origin, and in her compatible proclivities due
thereto, to be left outside the obligations and
responsibilities of the union, while still
component part of it. ] will leave this idea
for possible use aud expansion in the vivid
imagination of the Home Secretary, or as a
cud to be chewed OF sweet and bitter fancies
by the Irishman in his not unfrequent
passages to and from the sister isle.
Memorial to Gladstone.
LONDON, June 24th.-The Daily Telegraph
says A memorial to Gladstone on the In
ternational Monetary Conference at Paris
and the silver question is being signed at
most of the london banks. 1t urges the
Government to offer, as Germany has done
all such guarantees and practical aid as may be
in its power towards inducing and enabling
the bimetallic STATES concerned to rehabili-
tate silver.
No Further Use for Bombs.
BERLIN, June 24th.-A letter recently ad-
dressed to the Emperor of Russia and high
officials, assuring them they had not been
sentenced to death by the revolutionists, and
which is supposed to have emanated from the
leaders of the Black Division, concludes as
follows F" The Executive COMMITTEES deem
it quite unnecessary at present to repeat its
criminal enterprises, as the measures of the
new Ministers are fast driving the country
into revolution