The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1882-05-20
[FRoM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.
NAY Z. 1882.

MAY 7, 1882.
The Irish crisis is the all-absorbing topic.
Long and bitter, and irregularly bloody as the
agitation has been, it has suddenly grown bitterer
and bloodier. Two high officials of England have
been stabbed to death in open day, and the situa-
ton is more than startling. On the End instant,
Gladstone came before the English Parliament
with "a most radical change Of policy. The mea-
sure which he presented, and which was i'm
mediately adopted, embraced three important
points :-The release OF all suspects not
charged with actual crime the lapsing of the
Coercion Act into September and the taking of
the Irish members into consultation over the
government of Ireland, including a proposed i'm
provement of the Land Act. The sensation it
crea ted may be imagined. The widest excite
ment prevailed in Dublin over the release of Par
nell, Dillon, and O'Kelly from Kilmainham gaol.
The order releasing them was sent at 3 O'Clock,
but they did not leave till ii that night, and
they went quickly to their homes, avoiding all
publicity. The Land League was jubiant every
where-here as well as in Great Britain. 1t was
a palpable victory and it was expected that a
better and brighter day was breaking for the
Irish cause. Forster, Secretary for Ireland, re-
signed in palpable chagrin over the change of
policy, and this made the feeling still more jubi-
ant-the cry being s. Forster is gone God save
Ireland " Then Lord Frederick Cavendish was
appointed in Forster's place, and yesterday
assumed the responsibilities of the Office. lie
was at Dublin Castle all day yesterday with Earl
Spencer, and left there at 6 o'clock. After dinner
he joined Thomas Henry Burke, Under-S ecretary.
and the two went for a walk in Phoenix Park.
As they were strullIng along one of the avenues
a car ratified up behind them. There were four
men in it and, as 1t came near the two officers,
two men armed with knives jumped down and
attacked them. In a few moments both lay
dying. stabbed through the throat and chest
many times. The bloody work was thoroughly
done, and the Secretary and Under Secretary Of
Ireland were dead before their assassins left the
spot, the car driving rapidly away. When dis
covered shortly afterwards by two gentlemen who
were riding bycicles through the Park, the two
bodies were twenty feet apart, the ground show
ing evidences of a hard struggle. Blood was
everywhere. ln addition to the dreadful wounds,
tie right ann of Lord Cavendish was broken.
There is no clue to the assassins The ~lateness
of the hour prevents further details as yet. but
the effect produced upon the Irish partizaus every
where has been sim pie conformation. Looked at
politically, the assassination is a CHASTITY and hor-
rible piece of folly, as harmful to the cause as it
was uncalled for. Ii was the work of individual
fanatics, and is as heartily denounced by the
Land Leaguers as by their opponents. The con-
cIliatury policy of Gladstone had produced a ces-
satiOn of hostilities and a quieter feeling. 1t was
believed that it would ultimately, considering
proposed measures, 60 far to soothe the bloody
agitation which Is daily costing lives. But there
is a wOeful bitterness in England to-day, and the
events of the week to come will be salient in his-
tory. Lord Cayendish was a son OF the Duke of
Devonshire, and brother to the Marquis of Har-
tington. He was, prior to his late appointment,
Financial Secretary to the Treasury. Burke held
the same position under Forster.
THE CHINESE TREATY.
Since the veto OF the Chinese Bill. Senator
Miller and his colleagues in Congress have been
industriously laboring on a new measure. The
new bill, which is identical with the other in the