Morning journal and courier., 1886-04-17
MAX 0'RELL'S LETTER.
English Politics Irish Affairs-M.
 Pasteur-Franz Liszt-Sarah Bern hardt,s Tour-AR ARecdote. Especial Correspondence Of the JOURNAL AND CoUR

I 1 Pasteur-Franz Liszt-SaraEl Bern- hardt's Tour-AR ARecdote.
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 1 LONDON, April 3. l To the Editor of the JOURNAL AND COURIER The retirement of Mir. Joseph Chamber l laiE, president of the local government, and | of MT. Trevelyan secretary for Scotland, from 1 MT. Gladstone's government, the political parties of England may thus be described so 1 far as their views upon the Irish question are concerned. The Liberal, headed by MT. Gladstone, are for home rule and paying off the Irish landlords. The Radicals, headed by MT. Chamberlain are for home rule but will not have theBritish taxpayer undertake to buy Ireland for the Irish. The Wings, led by lord Harrington, and the whole of the Tory party are against both home rule and na tion- allzation of the Irish soil upon any terms. Messrs. Cham berlain and Trevelyan are ready to do an act of justice to Ireland, but they do not see why England should spend a penny about it. They deal with landlordism after the Brazilian fashion, by extinction Mr. Gladstone maintains that the Irish landlords are not responsible for any state of things which they did not create, and he wants to give them a pecuniary compensation for taking the property from them and handing it over to the Irish. In 8 word MT. Glad stone proposes to make a reform; MT. Cham berlain proposes to make a revolution. As
 
 first measure of MT. Gladstone is sure to pass; but it is not impossible that Mr. Glad stone should be beaten on the financial ques- tion, in which case the Irish question wou be put off to the Greek Kalends. Then the Tories and their Whig friends would have a chance of putting down an instruction in Dublin and Cork. Such is the situation leave you to imagine whether the English are in state of suspense, and will be so till the eighth of this month when the motion is to be proposed in Parliament
 Now English reformers hope that by grant ! ing the Irish the control over Irish affairs, l the latter will not ask for more that the 1 great question of the day will be settled and I that henceforward the English and the Irish I will form one happy family for ever and ! ever. Well, I have just returned from Ire ! land, and do not believe a word of it. For | centuries the Irish have hated the English, l who i'll return have despised the Irish. Con l sessions and reforms are granted by England | against her own will, and what is granted | angraclously is received ungratefully What ! ever the Irish will obtain they will use as means to obtain more, and they will never be l dent nation. Read the Nationalist papers. They know that MT. Gladstone has it in con compilation to ask the House of Commons to | sanction 8 loan of 150, 1000, 900 pounds sterl- l ing to Ireland. It might naturally be expect | ed that Iris men would show some sense of !
 
 payer is asked to render them, and that they | would hasten to give the assurance that, if I the loan be guaranteed by England, they l would look upon it as debt of honor, to be | paid come what may in the future. Such is not the case. The Irish orators and writers are content to rely on the theory that the land ! wilt not bear rent. If England, they say, l guarantees loan of 150, ,000,000 pounds and ! it is af' erwards repudiated by Ireland, she l will have no just cause for complaint, seeing ! that since the union she has wrung from Ire l land much more than that in the shape of ex- ! cessive taxation. (So far as that is concerned l believe the Irish right.) Such is the Ian ! guage that is used in the south and west of ! Ireland, by all those who have the ear of the | people.
 Besides the two plans of home rule and ! buying off the landlords of Ireland, another | scheme is afoat for the formation of peas ant proprietary in Ireland, similar to that which exists in France and some parts of 1 Germany. Some English people think that the last named scheme is the only one that has chance of success. Here again am afraid the English making a great mis- take. Peasant proprietary is successful in France, because the climate and the fertility of the soil enable the French peasant to grow l whatever he likes. It is successful because | men and women are sober, industrious and | in the rural districts of France. ! An Irish peasant would starve on a piece of !
 
 ant to live and save a little cash every year. 1 do not know a more pleasant being on earth 1 than educated Irishman, but I do not know more lazy, careless individual than an Irish peasant. One of the greatest literary events of the country the production of II. Gustave ! Flauberts F'Salammbo" in 1869, and I had I often wondered how it was that this work ! had never been translated into English. So l it is with great pleasure that see that Messrs. o. 1,I, |. fishers, have just brought out splendid ] translation of the famous masterpiece of the chief of the realistic school in France. In 1858 NJ. FIaubert went to Tunis, ana thence ! to the ruins of Carthage where he remained l foT long remains 1ms saopng fbe in prdhd tha city. The result of this journey was the creation of .'Salammbo" 8 story which has been quite properly called the Resurrection of Carthage. This grand epic is the work of an archaologist, historian and novelist, all combined in great artist. There are scenes in the book which are imperisha- ! ble as diamonds, such as the banquet and riot of the barbarians outside the walls of Carthage, their contemplation of the cruel fed lions on ths road to Sicca, the preaching l of the revolt by Spendius, the penetration into the temple of Tanit by night, the con temptation of Matho enshrouded in the veil by Salammbo, the arrival of Hamilear from Si- ely, the interview in the tent, the Carthage ! nian prisoner in the ditches filled with wa ter, the woes of Hanno, the deaths of the barba. ians entrapHed in the defle, the sacri- ices to Moloch and the death of Salammbo. | The word pictures in the original are beauti- fully preserved in the English edition I have 1nder my eyes and the translator, MT. M. French Sheldon, is to be congratulated upon ais achievement If this task has not been l attempted before I have no doubt it is be- l cause of the difficulties it presented.
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