The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-05-25
No Interruption to Business or Legislation,
and the BritOn Consumes His Beef
and Beer in Quiet.
Cosby Description OF a Visit to the
Houses of Parliament.
Archbishop Croxe Advises Submission to
the Orders of the POpe-FOreign
News of All Kinds.
ENGLISH POLITICS.


A Vain Search After "Terror'- Scenes in the
Commons and the House of Lords.
Correspondence of the Indianapolis Journal
LONDON, MAY 12-The recent boast of the
great and only Rosa that "our dynamite has
stricken terror into every English heart''
reads strangely on this side. The difficulty
is to find the terror. There is no Interrupt
ton to the rush of business, places of amuse-
ment are thronged nightly, the course of leg
islation still drags along at Westminster, the
average Briton shows his usual quiet relish
for beef and beer, royalty makes itself daily
visible to common eyes on the thorougbfaTes,
at the theaters and in the opening of public
exhibitions, as at the international fisheries
to-day, and, in fact, everything appears to be
lovely, excepting the weather. From the
English point of view, it looks as though any
dismay or fear that may be lurking around
these islands just at this time must be located
at Kilmainham Jail, where six men await
execution for foul murder; or, if London is
infected at all, then surely, from appearances,
the terrified class are not the populace, nor
the authorities, but the half dozen conspira-
tors who at Bow street. in the firm grip of
British law, are undergoing examination as
l write for treason-felony. On the very
night on which Rossa's boast was uttered,
paid visit to the houses of Parliament,
Here, if anywhere, l thought, the nations
alarm will show itself, and being fresh from
America, with the American imprint stamped
alike on clothes, countenance and speech, l
was apprehensive of some difficulty in gain
ing admission. Instead of this, however, I
was received, figuratively speaking. with
open arms, and found about me so few pre-
cautions against attack that, had carried the
necessary materials, with the heart of an
ODonovan beating in my breast could
have blown the whole institution into
cooked hat. A shilling was ample to bribe
one of the three policemen at the door to
take in my card, and half a crown, am
sure, would have sent the others skip
ping, leaving the entrance without
guard and entirely at my mercy. While
waiting for response Earl Snaftsbury
passed He was within reach OF my arm.
Here, 1 thought to myself, is a deadly enemy
of Ireland, for anything that gives prestige
to England is, of course, detrimental, by as
much as 1t strengthens her moral or political
standing before the world, to the country
which England is holding in bondage, and
Earl SALISBURY is the bloated British phi
lanthropist of whom your readers have heard
so much. A pale-faced, Notwithstanding
rather stoopy old gentleman of eighty-three
winters, walking with a cane whose slow, de-
liberate clack on the marble floor kept exact
pace with the movements of n rather weak
pair of legs; l could have gotten away with
him in no time. Little did he dream what
danger might be near as he walked TO the
peers passage and then came back to where
| was standing and entered the e-cham Der
of the House of Commons.
THE HOUSE OF LORDS.
But the member from whom | had sought
admission was now looking for me. He did
not know me from Adam, and what assur-
ance had he that my references
were not fictitious. Yet this unsuspicious
man was kindness persontied in his treat
ment of me, one of the first things he pro-
posed being the pleasure SO rarely accorded
to strangers Of a peep at the House of Lords
while in session. Their lordships, to the
number of about seventy-fve, appeared to be
taking life very comfortably. There was
nothing terror stricken" in their appear
ance, and did not find them so overburden-
ed with dignity as | imagined they would be.
As to their looks, ! was pleased to see cor
roborated the theory to which, for personal
reasons l have always stoutly adhered, viz:
that beauty OF feature in the male species is
not a necessary accompaniment of either
great ability or the right to be looked up to
in the world, Earl Granville was speaking
as entered. In the amiable and con6ding
manner of this accomplished diplomat who,
being the foreign minister, stands forth as
England's representative in demanding the
extradition of Sheridan and Walsh, there was
something exasperating to one who had Just
read the telegram from New York saying that
all classes here were in panic of fear. The
noble Earl was attired in a regulation
suit of broadcoth and his benevolent coun-
tenance was lit up by a bland smile. What
he was saying was scarcely ineligible TO one
standing so far away but like Lord Shafts
bury, he seemed undisturbed by the least
suspicion of danger and went forward with
his address as though nothing had ever hap
pened. The House of Lords, should say in
passing, is chiefly remarkable as a legislative
body for its conservatism. 1t is an open Sc
cret that influence from this source had
much to do in defeating the affirmation bill
Whatever may be said against tine personal
character and habits of some of the members
Of this upper tribunal, the peers, considered
as a class, are strongly attached to the inter
ests Of the church, and, whether deserYedly