Morning journal and courier., 1881-08-24
Wednesday Morning, August a4, 1881.
DIssATIsFIED ENGLIsHMEN

Mir. Jennings, the able London core
 spondent of the New York World, has for 8
 long time believed and prophesied that ''the
 people" in England would soon make trouble
 for those above them, and his last letter
 shows that he has not yet changed his mind.
 He thinks the ''signs;of the times" are not just
 now giving much encouragement to those
 who believe, or persuade themselves that
 they believe that social disorder can never
 raise it's head in England. He says: The
 Bradlaugh affair may be, as the Times seems
 to think, utterly insignificant from personal
 point of view, but the readiness with which
 large numbers of the populace stream forth
 to the support of anybody who is momenta-
 rily in the position of an opponent of law,
 order and authority is not by any means an
 insignificant matter. For MT. Bradlaugh the
 mob cares but little; it knows nothing of
 him except that he is antagonistic to the
 ''powers that be-" and that is all that it is
 necessary to know. In the same way the late
 Dr. Kenealy was the idol of the populace for
 8 time, but he had far less plausible cause
 to base an agitation upon than Mir. Brad laugh. What the ''people" want is some one to represent the principle which is antagonis- tic to authority, or, as more frank state- ment would put it, to the established insti- tutions of the land. In former days the spirit
 was ascribed to the existence of injustice and oppression, but since 1882 successive govern ments, and the Liberal party especially, have been pretty constantly engaged in redressing grievances and making concessions of vari-
 or1c ,1c oE fkc f,,,r, was warranted to extinguish the last smouldering embers of discontent The re- suit of it all is that it never was easier than it is to-day to get mob together to "mareh" against anything you please, and the Radicals having ruled that any exercise of lawful au- thority is to be reprobated, and that safety is to be found only in yielding whatever may be demanded these things being so, there is a tolerably strong inducement offered to men like MT. Parnell, on one side of the channel and like MT. Bradlaugh on the other, to push on their private enterprises without much fear of the consequences.
 Mir. Jennings predicts that the land bill will fail to satisfy Ireland, and that it will not be long before something will have to be done to pacify the English Land League-a body which is comparatively little heard of at present, and which is not even united in one compact organization. It formed part ly of 8 society which is very active in all parts of the country, and which is known under the name of the Farmers Alliance MT. Jennings says: The avowed object of the league is to obtain revision of the land laws; the real object, to secure division of the land. Many people seem to suppose that hamburger" is malady which never attacks anybody but an Irishman They will perceive their mistake before many years are over. Next session Mr. Gladstone will intro duce the first measure of series for the al- teration of the laws relating to the land. This he has pledged himself to do, and it is well known that he is eager for the work, so that he is not likely to fall short of his promises
 If Mir. Jennings does not take too gloomy 8 view of affairs in England it is no wonder that, as he says, the feeling is becoming gen. eral among Englishmen who have any prop srty at stake that it would be an excellent thing for them if they and their interests could be transferred bodily to the United States. Order certainly seems more secure here than in almost any part of Europe at present, and it also seems likely to continue sos