Daily globe., 1883-10-29
GREAT BRITAIN.
Especial Cablegram to the Globe

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LONDON, Oct. 2S.-The Marquis of
Lansdowne's friends continue to be very
apprehensive for his personal safety in his
new position of governor general Of Cana
da. It has been announced that the Feni-
ans have made explicit threats against his
life. The Marquis has been
notoriously imprudent in stirring up
against him the hatred of the Irish e1-
tremists. His appointment to the Cana
dian vice royalty, so soon after his open
rupture with the Gladstone cabinet on the
Irish land question, is admitted to have
been made for the purpose of shelving a
renegade politician who might become
troublesome. AS soon as the appoint
ment was made, which was several moHths
ago, the marquis and his wife arranged a
series of farewell visits throughous Ire
land. From the Parnellite point of view
Lansdowne's record as an Irish landlord
is bad enough. His open rupture with
the cabinet on the land question was
worse than his record, but the
fact that he consorted intimately with the
l.
men, and accompanied Sir Stafford North
cote in great revival of Orange enthusi-
asm, is deemed as the acts of politician
who has succeeded in carrying Protes-
tants against Catholics. Besides this the
Dublin Castle government have already
found reason for proclaiming six of the
most important Psrnellite meetings, upon
the ground that the Orangemen were de-
termined to break them up by resorting to
rioting. Now during the whole of this
bitter and ill-conditioned campaign Sir
Stafford Northcote was the guest of the
Duke of Abercorn at Baron's
Court. So was at the same
time the Marquis of Lansdowne. They
both held forth daily against nation alism,
and when Sir Stafford Northcote went
through the country on Tory stumping
tour, Lansdowne arranged to accompany
the bitter conservative orator throughout
the campaign. The campaign has done
more to stir up strife in Ireland than all
the other happenings of the past five years
put together. The principal loss resulting
from the revived feuds between the
Orangemen and Catholics has fallen upon
the Nationalists. Their ranks have been
depleted of thousands of Protestants, who
had joined the league. It is impossible
to convey to Americans anything like
correct idea of the bitter feelings of re-
sentiment entertained by the Nationalists
against Lansdowne. Although he took no
really active part in the recent Orange
revivals he is believed by the leaguers to
have been at the bottom of the whole bust
ness. The friends of the marquis forsee-
ing trouble are loud in their explana-
tions that the presence of the marquis and
Sir Stafford Nortncall at Baron's court at
the same time was merely coincidence.
Their explanation is to the effect that
Lansdowne had engaged passage in ship
of the Anchor line and the point of depar-
ture of the ships is in the north of Ireland;
that the Duke of Abercorn, though pc
litical foe, being close personal friend of
the governor general, was placed at the
foot of the list of these
whom the marquis had arranged to honor,
because His Grace's seat, being in the
north of Ireland, afforded a place where
the Governor and his family could conven-
iently and comfortably wind up their fare.
wells. This explanation is regarded as
very fimsy; The Irish leaders pronounce
it very insulting. 1t certainly has not
Modified the leaguers. Many profess to
believe that he is doomed man and do
not hesitate to express their fears that his
career as Governor General of Canada may
be cut short by repetition of the Phoenix
park horror.
Special Cablegram to the Globe.
LONDON, Oct. 28.-The government has
just become conscious of its eggregious folly
in postponing Sir VIM. Vernon Harcourt's
new municipal bill. A pamphlet called
''The Bitter Cry of Outcast London" has
raised the widest Indignation. Lord
Sslisbury's article in National Recie,D,
called "Laborers and Artisans Dwellings,"
has made the evaporation still more
bitter, the Standard declaring that such
more than a hundred party speeches.
Societies are formed to help discharged
convicts while honest women are LETT to
strive and respectable girls are turned
from the doors of asylums because they
lack the necessary qualifications of vice.
Lord Salisbury proposes state interven-
tion. He afirms public loans are justi-
fed by ingenious considerations Of public
policy even if all of humanity are cast
aside" He thinks the working people
should be transferred to places outside the
town, where good houses should be built
for them. Dozens of other remedies have
been proposed by other writers. The Fall
Mall Gazette says: ''The man who lives
by letting pestilential dwelling house is
morally on par with the man who lives
by keeping a house of i'll fame" A
correspondent writes, what is the use Of
dealing with tbs fringe of the subject?
Why not go boldly to the root? That root
is the insensate and reckless multiplica-
ton of the human species. AS long as
that goes on unchecked all the lawgivers,
moralists and philanthropists can do is
whitewashing . sepulchre." Thus at last
the politics of the poor have come to the
front. The liberals are frightened that