New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-09-24
NOTES From LONDON
MIR. PARNELL AND THE FNGLIsH-SIR II.
WOLFF MIR. SALA IN AMERICA

n-op ,sal FOR an iDdovendent Irish Legislature Is
nre.ty much the same among people and pohtlclans
Of all ranks; or ancng all VINO nave said anythl
about il. The hlGg is lmpO 3slble observes the
Epgl;shnan. in what Mr. HealY calls his phle2-
mat m inner. The London papers say it Is imp0s-
sible Mr.. Broadhurst SAYS it IS impossible. Lord
Harrington saws 1t is impossible. lhc Tory leaders
say nothing hut hey cannot keep silent long, aud
m, aatlme the paper which supplies good deal of
the brains to the party, The stan lard, agrees WITH
tine OF ers in saying impossible to Mr.. ParncPs
proposal The 2rJmptness OF Mr.. Broadhursts neg
awe Is striking tor Mr. BrOadhurst represents if
ANYBODY re- pre- eats those very working classes to
Unom tne irish look as their allies, and FIR ON
whom tnev ex yecs to receive the boon which the
exIsting English electorate with its middle class
majority, has denied them.
in fact the English have thus farchiefy occupied
Themselves not with spacuiations on the pOssiblli-
ties of irish Independe ice, hut on the motives
which led Mr. Parnoli thus suddenly to show his
hand They have long known that MIR. Parnell
me ant indepen ielce. The point OF this new de-
parture is In ais declaration that he Is going to
press his demand for an Irish Pariamentin the next
English Parliament Every other irish demand is
10 be dropped AMI the Irish leader stakes every
thing Oil this Que chance. Whyf
he English is that he had
no alternative. Mr. ID witt was pressing hun too
closely. Ills own party WAS gejung ont of ntnd
The alternative before him to adopt this policy
or sec som ,bo ~ els, adopt it and by adopting il
snpplant Mr. Plrnel in the leadership of the party.
HIS own judgment was against IT. Hs would have
preferred playing waiting gams. He saw clearly
enough the danger of roueing the Imperia. feeling
in England, and of enabling his opponents TO saw
that ne was proposing tn break u the Empire. lie
would have liked to fild out some hing about the
real mood of the mysterious millions who enter
next year into thu vast Inhenta ice of the Empire.
But having 70 choose. he chose rs We know, and his
tone of conf ience ooaceals say English critics. a
profound apprehension as to the Or babie
consequences of this daring decision. What he re-
tains in any Gaze, is the handing position he
has won IN Ireland He will control the coming
elections, nominate all candidates. and go back to
Westminster with eighty or ninety followers
pledged TO obey him to resign for those who
will.
In the speech which Mr.. Parnel made yesterday
at the Lord Mayors dinner In Dublin there is
abatement of the tone he first ad opted He re-
iterates his threat of making government in Eng
land impossible unless the government of Ireland
is granted to the Irish. lie even strengthens it.
lie an wers Lord harrington III words that breathe
the Interest defiance :" II it be sought to make
impossible Tor our country to obtain the right of
administering her affairs. we shall make all
other things impossible for those who so seek"
He retorts, fairly en- bugh upon Lord Harrington
that other things which he SAID 1t would be
madness TO grant to Ireland have been granted;
the franchise Tor one The burden of Mr.. Paruelrs
song Is ever the same there nothing impossible
to q united and determined country. We heard
the Sonth say the Sd c thug for four years. aud
tn South was united and Ire and is not. The Eng
hsh response very much what we of the North
used to make. Ireland cannot have separation IN
til four millions of people overcome thirty
millions The plea for moderation is less familiar
to Mr. Parneis lips still less ia nliar the warn
ing against ontraGe which, in its present form at
least Is heard for the first time from the Irish leader
Better late than never. He accompanies it with a
warning certainly not less significant that if out
RACES are to stop. evIctlons must stop.
In pre- sing his demand for Independence. Mr..
Parneli will find saws The Times, that he has to
deal not with either party IN England separatelv
but with both parties at once. IRISH independence
is one of those questions on which Engllshmen
know no distinction of parry. The policy now an
nOunced by Mr. Parnel finally closes the door TO an
alliance with either party in England. More than
that it renders certain tIe long run, an alliance
between both parties against Nh. Parnell and his
followers. / abrldge the stern sentences of the
effect INT it is followed by an adm ssion that rs
said the Tory party the Tory leaders have still
to be heard from. Lord Harrington has spoken out
with his us al drectness. lie has defined the at'l-
tude of the Liberal party. Bat uoboIv. not Lord
Salisbury and not Lord Randolph Churchill. has
done as much for the Conservatives. There is no
other leader of that party whose declaration would
be accepted as authoritative And 1t must be al led
that Mr.. Chamberlain has yet 70 be heard from.
Nobody can affirm that Lord Harrington and Mr..
Chamberlain are likely always to take the same
view OF say the same thing.
Mr. Healy, NJ f., wis Is the ablest Of Mr.. Par
neiPs ieutenants. discusses Hone Rule in Tho Con-
temporary for September. Mr.. Healv is ALWAYS in
terestlng and not less 50 because he sometimes
bl lrts out things which his colder and more politc
chief prefers to conceal. The recent speeches Of
Mr. Parnell we're more opsn than usual and his
statement Of the immediate aim of the party he
controls is more authoritative than Mr.. Healy's
can be. But 1T may be doubted whether the indis-
cretions of the younger man are not calculated.
There is, at any rate, no danger of mistakIng his
meaning Here. for example, is a sentence:
Tic thing for EngIshmen to realize
is that the Irish demand Legislature which shall
control everything IN the island from prison TO
palace, aud every official from tue Judge TO the
hangman.
That is putting the matter in words which Saxon
and Celt alike can understand. The particular OBJ
ject of Mr.. Heays paper is discussion of Mr..
Chambcrlans proposals for local government IN
Ireland. lie disnisses them with contempt.
Sir Henry Drummo nd-Wolf7s mission makes but
slow progress at Constantln )pe. Yet the time be-
fore him IS strictly limited. He must finish at
reach Cairo, and have done with
Cairo by next February. The Salisbury Ministry
Is expected to hold on till next February, but no
longer Before IT goes it is under obligations to
provide good post for Sir Henry Wolff, and 1t is
supposed that the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS of
Madras is the place he covets. Mr.. Grant Duffs
term will not be out TIL toward the end of 1886,
but there are prccedents for naming