Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-05-28

The situation is nOvrl-Charles Stew
 at Paruell in association with William Ewart Gladstone, premier of England,
 In the task of etfecting a settlement
 Ot Irish grleveances and putting an
 end to the preventible causes of Irish
 distress.
 Mir. Psrnell IS still young man. He
 was born in the year 1850, at AvOndale,
 ID the County of Wicklow, Ireland, the
 son of gentleman who was at one time
 high Sheriff for the County M, ath. His
 mother wss the daughter of an Admiral
 in the United States navy, aud this con-
 nection gIves additional interest to the
 story of the young statesman's life. Mir.
 Parnell's grandfather was the last
 Chancellor of the Exchequer of the
 Irish Parliament, and bitterly Op-
 posed tine identification of Irish
 with British interests in the Par
 lament of the Uulttd Kingdom. The
 subject of our sketch vas educated at
 Magdalene College. Cambridge, Eng
 land, from whence he was graduated.
 In lS75. he was elected member of
 Parliament for Meath, and represented
 that constituency until the general elec-
 ton of lSSO, when ne was returned for
 three constituencies including the one
 he had represented so long He pre-
 ferred to sit for the city of Cork. He
 belonged at the beginning of his Par
 hamentary career to the Irish Home
 Ruiy party, III which he soon rose tO
 emlnence although a Protestant ana
 personally not popular with the leading
 members. This fact probably accounts for his failure, In lS.9 to reconstruct the party by meaus of national convention; out Ill October of the same year, he founded and was made first President Of the National Irish Land League. The harvests of lc77 and iSIs we're very bad and that of 1879 a total failure. Irish discuntent rUse accO dingly, and NIT. Parnell and his fel- low Land Leaguers' opportunity of sue cesstul agitation. Iheir objects were m brief: l. A reduction of rents and refusal 1 tO pay If such reductions were refused: ! 7. A final an entire change m the Iand 1 laws, peasant pr rptIetUrsLip to b'. sub | stituted for that of landlords. Simul- | with an agitation which ID I loSU made Mir. Paruell the supreme ITisls man and the virtual ruler of hIs country, 1 means of reiitf were adopted for the rehef of Irlsh distress, ID which both England and the United States tOOK conspicuous part. In Jan uary, 1880, NIT. Pdruell visited the United otsIes and created fe, ling winch crys- talhzed itself Tn the formation of Land League ass. elatIons that have proved the main financIal support of the home Two years ago this month le was chusen President Of the HOnlS kuie party ID place Qf MT. < jShiSEE 3S. S..
 r.F-. e Il the Grown against Mir. Paruell ana Cvs tain of hls association, which resulted n a trial brought to an intermediate issue, but their virtual acquItal by the non- agreement of the jury. When he took his seat for Cork, the young statesman was made leader of the Irish | party in the House of Commans. His | taetIcs of obstruction produced a strong | feeling against him in England, and ! under the Coercion Act. which was | thought necessary by Mir. Gladstone'z | government n order to the restoration l ot the power of the Grown m Ireland, he ' was, in October 1881, arrested as "sus- | pect," and imprisoned in Kilmainham | jall. He was released only the other I day as the result of letter to the prime | minister in which he IS understood to | uhhc OuSlcu HIS tOoPcldtAuh "AbH tht T regular authorities in the restoration of | order and the devising of measures in- tended to obviate the causes Of political 1 trouble in hls native land. He had | scarcely resumed his seat m the Com mons when the murder of Lord Freder- ! ick Csvrndish, the chief secretary, who | had succeeded Mir. F. rster and was the | minister of conciliatiOu, and of Under | Secretary Burke created a degree of | cOnsternation which temporarily check | ed concerted action by rhe British Gov ernmeDt and the Irsh party, but ont of | which, 1t Is believed, good will result, as NIT. Parnell and his followers are evi- ! dencing that right feeling which will | prevent the adoption of a reactiOnary | policy by Mir. Gladstone aud his asso- ciates in Government.