New-York tribune., 1881-11-27

with the appointment VI oN
Adiutant- General of the Army.
LEADING TOPICS IN LONDON.
PHASES OF THE POLITICAL SITUATION - DEL IL"
TINES EXPECTED IN IRELAND - TIE iiN'n
ASSISTING THE TORIES.
IBY CABLE TO THE rRIBUfE'l
,o~noS Nov. 26-Prince Leopolds betrothal 10
Che Princess Helena of Waldeck causes SURPRISE as
there were whispers of his intention to marry III
the British peerage. The encourage OF 'he ooui'
,vere aware that he had gone to the Con'iheh' "
select bride. The general public have regaroeu
his health as q bar to matrimony. lie suierS n''
uueut attacks of hemorrhage from the pores
through defects of the skin weakening the whole
tone of the system. His intellectual tastes cuuio
and geniality make him popular The puphc are
clad to regard this step as sign OF improving
health and in his case prefer that nc should marry
princess rather than British SUBJECT Lor'
lorne's case is bad enough; on all state occasions
the husband sits below the SALT If the Prince mar
ried a commoner as her husband he would be CON-
,e,led to show publicly his wifes inferionty on all
occasions of precedence. The Radical press is pre-
parinr for the usual attack on the expected farla
nentary grant.
TIE STATE OF IRELAND.
Ireland 10 still the bitterest element in the Minis
terial programme The Increased outrages during
the past fortnight have led The Times ana other
Journals to demand further measures OF repression
Is considered that this step is foreshadowed III Loru
Monks and Lord Cowpers recent speeches. 1t is
trne that the decisions of the Land Court have not
been Immediately followed by calm, but none of the
ourages seem to be the result of organized action
The Land League is absolutely dead. but its teach
ings Hnger and bear intermittent fruit
rs the result of individual action The " No Rent"
manifesto encouraged few outbursts OF vindic-
tyeness but the Land Court is free to access and
its decisions are so rapidly gwen and completely
favorable to the tenazt, that tbe result must be
pacific. Months may be required to eradicate the
three years lawlessness The Government de-
cline to adopt the advice of impatient hlends'
Private reports show that rent is more freely
paid A significant case has occurred ON Pollard
Urouharts estate. Thirty laborers were dismissed
because Mr. Urquhart got no rents. The laborers
thereupon compelled the farmers to pay up. Ihe
Ministers will take further repressve steps till
they see the effects of the winter but if such should
be necessary they will not hesitate. The Cabinet
are determined at all costs to maintain the law and
give chance to the Land Court.
THE LAND BILL DEFENDED.
A remarkable article appears IN hacmiHdn''
Magazine by Richard Pigott, who was for
many years Editor of The IrishnIan and The FId0
of Ireland His approval of the Land
Act vies with the terms in which Sir
Charles Gavan Duffy referred to it, He regards 1t
as an enormous boon, and deals at length with the
Land League leaders. He exposes their objects, and
says agitation is no longer needed and only contin-
uesbecause it pays. He denounces tho NO Rent"
agitation as heartlessly malevolent, and
warns Irlshmen against the evil counsels
of unscrupulous interested guides, whose motives
ore greed, gain or lust of political power.
TIE DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE INDIGNANT
The Duke of Cambridge still busters at Sir Gar
net Wolseley's appointment, and threatens to re-
sign. The Court party urge him to remain. or the
post may pass forever from member of the Royal
Family, and the Duke of Connaughts chances would
be gone. All this is just little farccal.
Everybody who knows the Duke is perfectly
sure he will never resign. He lacks the moral cour
age of his martial courage we know too much from
bis Crimean experience. Though careful of the
soldiers comforts tho Duke is unpopular because he
persistently objects to various army reforms.
His favoritism, too gives offence. Good
nature rather than judgment selected Lord
Chelmsford and Sir William Colley for
the Cape--the one a known incapable in the
Geld, while the headstrong ambition of the other
was predicted long before he assailed Majuba Hill.
AN RIsH-IoRY ALLIANCE PROPOSED.
Though Howelps defeat at Stafford was not
wholly owing to Irish detection, the assistance
given by the Irish that occasion to the Conserva-
tives and the Irish opposition to Mr. Ashton
Dixie the other night, and their moro recent
conduct in Marylebone, are rapidly estranging
Radical svmpathies with Irish aspirations. Mr.
ODonne NJ. p, is carrying the policy of exaspera-
ton so far as to advocate a Tory-Irish alliance
and compensation of the landlords How the Sal
isbury and Lowther schools will approve the decar
atoms of their new prophet when he declares that
the Conservative policy in relation to agrarian
reform is practically identical with the plat
form of Dayitt and Parnel, il is not for
me to say. 1t is not unlikelv that the Irish