New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-03-04
NOTES FROM LONDON.

LONDON, February 10.
! Harmony among the members of the Irish Parlia-
Yneptary party seems to be unhappiiy less perfect
than could be desired. Mr.. ODonnell, now that
Mr.. Healy is safely lodged in Kilmainham as
frstclass mlsdemeansnt. publishes characteristic
attack on him. He telegraphs to the organ of the
Home Rulers in Dublin demand to know at what
meeting Of the Irish Parliamentary party Mr..
Healy's County or Local Government bill was
agreed upon. The bill, in Mr.. O'Donnels opinion
is an antl-National bill for developing provincial
ism in Ireland. a." cries he III his anguish"I had
no notice OF It," / suppose il Is obvious that the
shameless creature who presumed to prepare an
Irish bill without letting Mr.. 0'Donnell know, and
for which Mr. ODonnell can take no credit, cannot
expect Mr. O'DonnelPs valuable support. But some
thing worse is in store for Mr. Heay and his accom-
plices " Had not the Dublin managers of the Ma
tiOnal League better JON the Wings at once 7"
shrleks the member for Dungarvan all the way
scross the Irish Channel. Now TO cali man u
Wing in ireland is very mach as If you should
adopt MT. Healy's own account of the Government,
and present HIM to public confidence a brigand
and cutthroat. Little did Mr.. Healy thinks his
words would thus fly back in his own face
The Parliamentary party is, IN fact In state of
como confusion. Mr. Parnell's walting tactics DO
not satisfy all bis nominal supporters in the House
OF Commons. and are i'll some danger OF being mis-
understood hy the rank and file in Ireland. Mr..
Heav has long been supposed to be willing to relieve
Mr.. Parnell of his troublesome and burdensOme
duties That Is one reason why he elects TO 60 TO
prison. There is spot in Ireland from which so
effective appeal Ice made to the passions Of the
Irish people as from Kilmanham-witness Mr..
OBren's recent election for MallOw. Mr.. Healy
VIII lose session. but session lost TO tie impatient
subordinate of Mr. PaTnell would be more than
made up by sessions TO come under Mr.. Hoaly own
craftsmanship of the Whole Parliamentary party.
This proud position he will not be allowed to attain
without Il conflict M FaIneu himself has sui to
he reckoned with. His expressions OF WEAKNESS and
impauence in II letter published tins week need not
be taken too seriously. And then there is Mr..
ODOnnel 1t is dfIcult to picture to oneself any
body Of men, even a body Of which Mr.. Bgga1 and
Glr. Callan make part, accepting the Talo of Mr..
ODonnell. But Mr. O'DOnnells views of Mr.
ODOnneu. like his views on other subjects. are
peculiar to himself, ana Lo evidently thinks it
worth trying. He. too. has q method of his own.
Mr.. HEAVY thinks he road to distinction lies through
Jail door. Mr.. ODOnnell considers that equal no.
toriety may be obtained at less personal inconve-
nlence by reviling Lord Mayor.
The letter OF today is a unique performance. Mr..
0DOnnel himself, who has a genus for vitupera-
Mayor on Thursday declined TO onen Mansion
House Fund for the relief OF Irish Distress on the
ground that the application proceeded from meet
ing at which the most insulting Ian guaCe had been
addressed to himself, his office and the English
public in general. Mr.. ODOunell WAS a speaker at
that meeting. and be now writes TO the Lord Mayor
to tell him that he received the deputaton with
turte-fed bOorishness, and that the funds which
ought TO relieve Ireland find their wa "into the
pockets of city Rwirders or into the fair round
paunch of civic gluttons." What Mr.. O'Donnell
said of Lord harrington have already referred to
40 sure to be taken in Ireland for an invitation to
assassnate Lord Harrington.
Mr. Ashton Dilkes retirement from the repre-
sentatiOn Of Newcastle is to be regretted for many
reasons, political and personal. he would be re-
GREETED if he had done nothing else than rescue
Newo astle from the sway of Mr.. Joseph Cowen,
man who is probably the best example now extant |
in England Of the irrecOncilable and imprac- |
ticable Radical. Mr. Ashton Dixie also is
o Radical anu an advanced Radical. But |
as he says in his parting address TO his con-
stuents he has found it possible to advocate those
radical ideas IN which the North County has
always taken the lead "while giving loyal sup
port TO the most liberal Government England has
ever seen" Mr. Ashton Dukes health has never
been strong enough to permit him to take that con-
spicuous part in Parliamentary work for which
his abilities and character fitted him. But he has
had marked influence upon the cOunsels OF the adj
vanced Liberals below the gaDgway among whom
he sat. He did as much as anyone to detach them
from their alliance with the Parnellite party an
alliance which not few of the less sensible II adj
Gals desired to prolong even when the aims and
methods Of the Parnellites became openly revolu-
tonarv. In Newcastle he was popular and trusted.
am afraid the state OF Mr. Ashton bikes health
is very grave indeed He has long suffered from
disease of the lungs. and is passing the winter. not
for the first time at .llgiers whence the accounts
Of his condition have lately been getting worse IN
stead of better Relieved from anxiety about his
duties to his constituents. he may rally, but his
letter shows that he himself had lost hope OF re-
suming for the present his Parliamentary career.
A Brussels letter to the Figaro of Paris conveys
the startling intelligence that veritable nsurrec
ton exists among the tribes of the elevated plat
eaus OF the Congo and that Mr. Stanley has been
extremely i'll received by these tribes. "A their
proceeds this correspondent are
with De Brazza, who understood how to win their
confidence by other means than rifle Shots The
kno wledgc and good faith of the writer may per-
haps be gagged by this last remark The truth is
that Mr.. Stanley during his whole sojourn OF w o
or three years the Congo, the agent of the III
ternatonal Association. fired not single sho in
anger. HIS business was TO cOnciliate and Lilo did
it with not less thorougbness than he had formerly
done the other thing. when the other thing was
necessary to his safety and the continuance of his
explorations.
On the same high authority you are asked 10 be-
Ieve that the International Association has of late
been actively engaged in recruiting considerable
military force which is at smomeut on its way to
Africa The officers mostly officers of the Aus
tro Hungarian army and their object is military
occupation of the Congo Ono of them has be-
guiled his leisure ny narrating 70 this lively writer
what he meant TO do when he got there. The pro-
jecs of the terrible De Braz1a to be defeated 1t
seems at any cost and this particular Austro- Hun