New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-08-25
DTYERSJON FOR ENGLAND.

We regret 10 nOllCc illdl INC lliSH pdtiIVtS
temporarily residing in America are making 1t
uncomfortable hot for England. They are not
blowing the British Empire skyward with dy-
Mantle, nor bCmbarGing it with shot and she'll.
Warfare of that kind entails more or less
bodily peril to the besiegers, and your true
Irish patriot always avoids that. lie fights Mt
the safe distance OF several thousand miles,
and his principal weapon is his mouth. with
that he does inghtiul execution aud eXcltes
among his admirers the most tumutuous
enthusiasm. Death and destruction are being
dealt out 10 England in this manner daily nov,
and the carnage is accompanied with at least
one effort to wrest the scepte for Ireland from
the hand of Victoria. The impetuoaity and
unanimity Of these assaults indicate that
they have n common inspiration, which we
thin6 we have found.
About two weeks ago IA roaring Irish news
paper, which is always ready to take any
course which can be depended upon to make
Its readers howl, published thrilling picture
of Arab Pacha, on horseback, with the smoke
and blood of battle around him, and accom-
panied the publication with IA startling an
nouncement that Arab was gallanty uphold
ing the no-rent banner III Egypt This novel
view of the existing disturbance in Egypt was
dwelt upon with much olOquence by the editor,
who supplemented his remarks with feryont
and plOus hOpe that the "accursed British
Empire and It's armies and navics may melt
"before Arab and the miasms of Egypt as
snow before the MONDAY sun 1t was the ed
itors wish that the great irish nation should
have hand in this final melting away of the
mud lac. priv tnI
that as Englands difficulty was lreands OPP
portunity, a part OF the game was to create
a diversion in England ITSELF That" he
added can he done in more ways than one"
1t has been done in more ways than one since
he gave the hint. The liIst demonstration was
made by a branch of the Land League in Phil
adelphia, which, seeing the announcement that
Arab was CALAMITY upholding the no-rent
banner" voted to send him $3.50 i'll money and
as many men as could he found who wished
to ioin Arabs army. a careful search of Phil
adelpha, however, revealed lCnly three men in
favor OF sending money, and only one of these
had any money to send. As for recruits not
one could be found. In view of this UneX-
pected but not Unprecedented lethargy OF
practical Irish patriotism, the League held
whole performance was not much OF n diver
sion," and we doubt if it alarmed England any
more than it encouraged Arab in his efforts to
keep the no-Tent banner aioat' a second
"diversion " occurred in Rhode Island on We'd
nesday, when five thousand laboring men, as
scmbled at cam-bake. and presumably more
or less affected by the staple sumner diet OF
that, region, clans and ice-water broke ont
into three cheers for Arab. They undoubtedly
had imbibed notion that AIabi was fighting
in favor Of high wages, eight hours day and
no rent for the laborng man. We doubt II
Arab so understands it. Still, it may please
him to know that the laborng men in America
are cheering him, and it may make England
tIenble "a she marches to destruction ut tie
hands of Arab and the miasms of Egypt.
If there is nothing really serious about these
TWO diversions the third Is portentous
enough to make amends for them Mr.. Will
lam i. Fitzpatrick Of Milwaukee, Wisconsin,
has written to Mr.. Gladstone, announcing
that he is the heir to the throne OF Ireland