New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-10-17

the rallylng point arounl which the people will
adsrt themselves to the new conditions
It,s hardly necessary to say that his Ideas are
hst,ar adapted TO Berlin than to England or
Amsrica His work, In fact Is intended rs warn
Ing 70 those of his countrymen who believe tha'
Enqlieh constitutional theories can be prou.ao"
sdapteo to German practice. some OF MS rea''ne7
of history will have to be followed very Cautiously
Fsw will aaree with him that In the course OF the
.,orIoor IVA, C,eorqe Ill. often Of his own aocor
and in his own person, represented tine INTEREST o.
tho State in firm and manly fashion" Ills remarks
-, 4h. h,storv of the Irish Parliament tt|SZ-leool
are still more surprising Soon after the estao"sh
mani of TINT body he saws, IL became apparent
that the want of ooherenco In tue ec'o'ai ''iio'
mud the animosity then obtaining oo'"oo WI"
nationalities made Parliament liKey 10 onu"'o
imnossb BILE" No ono would suspect from 'h'' " ~
nj uniting the case, that the eIectot"l Julius
vere only the English ascendency faction com
posed of paceh Dlders. pensioners, ana o"ners VI
rotten boroughs-the same upper c'asSo' "'o'o
personal serv es and pr Vieges Dr. uhes1 consumer
essential TO wel-or Tered State; and that the irsh
neonle proper comprising four-hfths of the in
bab,tants could neither sit in The Parliament OF
their own country nor vote for its members. AT
the date OF the Legislative Union II 500 DR. Gnelst
makes tho strange assertion that the Roman
Catholics of Ireland had acquired the same
political rights as the mem 5ers OF the English
Church Far from it, They were expressly
excluded from Parliament by the Act or Union. and
Catholic emancipation was not secured until thirty
years later One OF the most notorious scandals OF
modern Irish history is the action OF tho English
Government in promising emancipation. breaking
Its promise. and then nursing the resultant agta-
ton so as to carry out what Mr. Gladstone calls the
blackguardism ard baseness" OF the Act OF Union.
But DR.. Gneist .ooks upon the Union with entire
approval. With regard to the means By which
that measure was elected. he says that the
PRINCIPLES of the ACQUISITION and transfer Of
political rights along with property-a principl
founded upon his favorite theory of the personal
service of the upper classes-had become 40 firmly
ingrained that at the time of the Union Pitt pur-
chased the legislative franchises Of the Irish
nomination boroughs. Why not state the truth
fraHklyi What Pitt did was to bride the ownors
of the rotten boroughs to vote Tor the extinction oil
their privilege. He spent over fl .250.Oo0 IN
Tia way, paving each patron OF rotten Oorongh
at the rate OF 81 5000 for each vote for the mon
which he was able to control IN the Irish P3flla-
ment and rs some OF the lortlg owners controlleh
six or seven seats the personal services OF the
upper classes seem TO have been in TINS Gaze con
siderable source of profit. Nearly nifty OF Tie upper
classes were. moreover bought with Deeraees OF
promotions IN the peerage.
Dr. Gnrists booS l. not easy reading. ana the
translation is atrOcious TIE language is hardly
Englsh. the construction remains German ana the
grammar IL enough to make the hrch-ro JUMP
from the nali OF its own accord. Mr. Il. Jshery
Shre. of the lnner Temple, must be IA gentieihhn o
extraordinary cifrOntcry 10 put before the PnbIic
such "A reckless performance. lhr pnDllsnrrs nave
done something 20 make the book still less accept
able bv printing It without an index. Inc blame
for TINS omission, however. belongs chiefly to the
other side of the ocean although the copy before before
ia bears American imprint. it is of English
manufacture