New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-07-06
NOTES FROM LONDON.
Del ,rrNG TO THE IRISH. THE POLICE,

+bat the we'll disposed Irish. wh' IN It's OelieI'
vastly outnumber the disafected, do not make tne"
voices heard in denuncaton OF the dynamite poioS.
No doubt it is but we saw lately what ene o'E', %
the Land League had to say about H. anu ''c
longpa,e that organ used about outrages was hoU
,e,selv the language of denunclatlon Iher
sIancc continues this writer, implies consent or at
loast sugrests complaccnce. So thinks CORE
snondent who addresses this journal WITT drastic
proposal: Let every employer OF labor IN chg'llo
o,ve the ,nurlerous race from his employ. and IN
three months time they would be so scarce III our
country that the police could look after the remain
ing few as easily as they do in Paris Ihis suggcS-
tion has been made before but Is not likely 10 DC
acted on That an Englishman should oher Such a
suggestion is in the opinion OF The Globe the iau''
of Irish,ncn BE the fault where it may, nothing
like a delberate penalty viii be exacted from the
race The danger to Irishmen IN London Is from
nm irreprcssIble burst of popular wrath FOLLOWING
close on some murderous attempt An explosion oil
7nat sort can neither be planned nor prevented
Everybody hopes il NAV never come bnt every
body agrees that, should 1t come 1t would not heed
10 come twice
The English police have had good many oppor-
tuulties of making acquaintance with dynamite
and uitro-glycerinc in various shapes ana circum-
stances They have learned that what appears to
be saw,lust or tobacco. or flour biscuits, may be q
deadly explosive But they are still at times niue
ipd,screet in handling the stuff. You remember the
conragt GUS officer who drove through the streets OF
Iondon with a bomb full of nitro gycerine- He
r,sked his Ike and that Of a good many other people
Conrare however n not what is lacking to the
police Only the other day i'm birmingham, after
the search in Egans garden. two jealous policemen
we're discovered vigorously pumping water over
closed can of imperiectly prepared explosives. An
inspector stopped them aud examined the contents
of the can Ills report was that II Few drops "i
water had found their way inside. the thing would
have gone off, and there would have been vacancies
In the police force.
Mr. Howard Vinccnt's place is not to be filled M.
lie was known In the police world ~ Director OF
Criminal Investigation one Of those clumsy titles
dear 10 the official mind Of England. An assistant
ronnissnnorship of police he to Toe created In room
of the Directorate MI Jcukiuaon. meantime, he
pefn,anontly established In London. whore there iH
Thought ~ Doe. ~ the moment, more litah cfn' I"
detect than m Dublin. No better detective IL
known H. tho Kingdom lliH services In Dublin
we're of the highest value, aud 30 thoY must bo hero
n he were allowed 10 roorgauIo and increase the
fore la plain clothes under him. II was said long
since of the English detectives that they do every
thing but detect II * not so much that Their
hands are tied by statute and that most of the
ustbods in familiar usc on the Continent are denied
e. them The traditions of the force are againlt IT'S
efficiency There are too few capable men, ana too
few men altogether. They Lack hcxibilIty. ana
they act in accordance with certain rules which
seem 10 have been devised expressly IN the interest
of the criminal classes. Take the scotland Yard
,xposon the other DAY. 10 was known that tho
irish meant to blow up the place The chefs
looked about and made mp their minds that the
dangerous point was where the urina stands They
told of a constable - watch 10. He watched II rs
constabes time out Of mind have watched places.
lie had beat. He walked mp and down a certain
distance from the objective point of the enemy.
While he watched for them, they watched him.
When his back vas turned, nothing was easier than
10 deposit a package of dynamite and walk away.
II two men instead Of one had been put on guard
with instructions that OF the two was always to
have his eye tho spot, the attempt mast have
failed
"Not for the Franchise Dill,' IL the sIdehead to n
dispatch You print announcing that Mr Forster de-
clinod to attend a meeting at Bradford favor of
the bill The inference II a violent one. MT FOrs-
fer has spoken for the Franchise bill Parliament
and out of TO- He of the first to INSIST that
Ireland must be included In it, He Is for the bill,
the whole bill and nothing but the BILL and few men
have done more for It, These are days when Mr..
Forster is the object of 80 many baseess calumnles
that Won win | am sure, be glad 10 set right mis-
take which Americans and Englishmen alike would
regard as a very damaging one to statesman who
II true Liberal can now be found IN pUoic life
The British Post Office has distinguished itself
afresh For ten or fifteen years II has listened with
placid indifference 70 the complaints of the service
between Queenstown and London, and the weekly
DELAYS of the United states mails. Now, AT last, to
put an end Ito them once for all, It abolshes the
service That is It's idea Of improvement and re-
dress The abolition is made the plea of the in
,r Ina Atlantic SIC If that
means ANYTHING. it means that the journey from
Queenstown to London now be made more
quickly by sea 10 Liverpool than overland via Dub
lin and by few hours Channel passage to Holy
head That is a very doubtful proposition at best,
and when Won consider the frequent delay OF big
steamers from their inability to cross the bar at the
mouth of the MerseY, 1t becomes more doubtful
still The real truth is that the Post Office never
was and is not now willing to incur the expense of
special trains and steamers by which alone good
service from Queenstown to London could be Sc
cured And 50 the public convenience and the
efficiency of the Department are again sacrificed
that the enormous profit made by the Post Office
may not be diminished
Itmay be added that the Sabbatarlanism Of the
London Post Office stands IN the way of our reap
ing the full benefit of the speed attained by the
Atlantic steamers. The Oregon. for example. ar
riyes at Queenstown Saturday and her letters
might easily be delivered in London the next day,
and ought 10 be. But the next day il Sunday, and
on Sunday there il no delivery in London. The
metropolis is the one largo town in England whore
the Post Office closes its doors and refuses either to
distribute or deliver letters. Nobody has ever I'M
derstood why letter-service which is not wicked
elsewhere in the United Kingdom should be wicked
in London. Even in Scotland where a sad facc and
solemn idleness stringcnty demanded
than in England, the mails may be had for the ask
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