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LONDON, August 30.-Ireland is again
to the front. Mr.. Parnell's speech re-
mains the sensation of the day. Stor-
les of outrages are rene we'd with blood
curdling frequency. The banner Of
separation is lifted aloft, saluted by a
nations cheers. Wild talk of armed
rebellion is revived. The alarm has
flashed like wild6re the length and
breadth of the land. The Liberal
press raise the cry, "the union is in
danger;" Liberal orators are trumpeting,
"Down with separation" and Liberal
stock is booming. Gladstone is back to
lead the Liberal hosts, Parnell furnish
ing the battleshout. The declaration of
separation gives new color to the i'm
pending party struggle in England. 1t is
send God to the grand old man in
the hour of direst extremity. The
! Tories say the outs are tainted
with the Parnell alliance; they
may be hand in glove with
the traitors, aiders and abettors of sepa-
ration. So "down with the Tories and
separation" and cup with the Liberals
and the Union" The Devonshire Club
orators have raised the cry on hundred
platforms, The National, City and Re-
form Clubs whose emissaries penetrate
to every town and hamlet in the King
dom, have sent the shout echoing all
along the line. Thank God, fervently,
CALCULATED the Liberal chiefs, for Mr..
] pn nd
crystallizing fast in favor of Irish home
rule, decided long ago that separation
means blood. The Nationalist campaign
has been one-sided, Parnell debating
ana Gladstone yielding. Nothing in
Parnell's demands touched England's
safety, but separation sounded the death
inell of England's power. 1t is an enemy
on the threshold inside the gates. Insu-
lar security ceases with the snap of insu-
lar soidity. The Times at last says so.
1t is the unsaid creed of every statesman
of the country. Public opinion inexora-
bly, DEGREES the maintenance of the union
and is fixed and unalterable. Other men
before Parnell have started out with great
glory for separation. They have usually
ended in small reforms of local abuses.
But the present generation Nationalist is
stunned with its own uproar and loses
the echoes OF the past in the confusion
of the present Parnell assumes differ
ence between himself and Ireland's
patriots gone before. He has advanced
further, achieved more and come nearer
to political independence. The English
take different view. There is a wide.
spread opinion that Ireland has been
grievously misgoverned. She is the pet
of the family. To Parnell belongs the
credit of bringing all this about. English
! opinion recognizes this, and is ripening
for home rule, not only in Ireland, but
in England and Scotland, too. But when
you come TO separation you bring up
against stone wall. Parnell will have
to batter down the stone wall. He is fill.
ed with the idea that he can do it, and
the Liberals are calling up their legions
to man the ramparts. The preservation
of the Union will be the campaign cry of
the Liberal party. 1t would be droll if it
were to become the campaign cry of the
Conservatives as well. l learn that a
sworn report of the alleged tire asonable
speech of Mr. John O'Connor, NJ. p, has
been procured by the Dublin Castle Off
Gals to submit to the Crown lawyers. In
this speech Mr.. O'Connor, as reported,
declared that rifles and bayonets would,
if necessary, be appealed to in the fight
to free Ireland from British rule. The
words are construed to be reasonable,
and 1.-THE Speech coming as 1t
does just after the expiration
of the crimes act, followed by
agrarian outlages in Kerry, boycotting
in other districts, and a general tendency
to renewed terrorism, has created some
excitement in administrative circles.
A careful survey of the registration of
the 100000 newly eniranchised rural
voters yields extraordinary results. The
Conservatives have completely outgener-
aed the Liberals all over the field. In
many districts where the Liberals expect
ed to poll large vote, it was found that
the laborers would have to walk several
miles to deposit their ballots. They,
therefore, procured the insertion of a
clause providing that no voter should be
compelled to walk more than three miles
10 polling station. But singularly
enough no provision was made for polling
places to render this clause workable. The
question of accommodation was left en-
tiIey to local officials. An eXamina-
ton of the polling places selected by
the Sheriff reveals the fact that voters
generally will have to walk from five,
six and po,s bly, even seven miles across
country, no other means of locomotion
being procurable The joke of the
thing is that the walkers on theil
weary journey will have to pass poll
ing places belonging to other districts
similarly treated. The manner in which
the whole business has been muddled by
the Liberal managers and contrived by
, the Conservatives is eXasperating tn
Liberal chiefs and causing unlimited re
joicing at the Carlton.
The Tories have dished the Grads
and Wings in another point not less i'm
portant. 1t is unlawful to hire carriage
for conveying voters to the polls, bu
any owner of carriage or wagon ma,
= carry the ballot troopers. AS nine GU
: of ten of all the carriages and convey
, ances of every description in the shire
belong 10 squires, the Liberals are ltkel
| to have a melancholy time of it trampin
, abont countTv roads on election daN