The Portland daily press., 1886-10-11
FOR EICN.
Discovery of a PIcr va..ass,ra.a
the Emperor of Austria.
rurther Religious Riots Between
hindoos and Mohammedans,
irish Landlords Pressing the Gov.
eminent to Suppress the Ma
tionaI League.

LONDON, Oct. 9.-The week closing TODAY
has been more than usually important one
In the first place, ChurchilPs speech at Dart
Iord mas done more than anything that has
yet happened to create confusion and dismay
IN the Tory camp. That speech unfolded
hadlcal programme, and, of course. Radi-
cal programme is a simple abomination tn
domfhls regular Tories in the United King
from breai5s storm 1 that h is brewing is kept
to 90. 90 tnat Churchill means never to aftam,t
thai II 1ill uls lst OF measures. and second
be on old Tory llnbe such an attempt il viii
two expectations expressefqrmer of these
question cannot be pushed aside tois!.ss
thing, and if it were, the Unionists' alliante'
would be Immediately smashed up. But the
mere putting forward of the Darttord pro-
graIhme secures spell OF power ana hence
among the regular Tories takes no active
form, no harm is done from the antiGlad-
stone point of view.
This brings once to the unique event at Ha-
warden. This event has produced pro-
found impression in every part OF the three
Kingdoms, for, in truth, the like never hap
pened before. No Englishman was ever be-
fore paid such compliment. 1t was the
first time Ireland, as it were, paid homage to
an English statesman. The effect on Mr.
Gladstone, himself, | have good authority
for saying, has been to confirm him, beyond
all possibility of change, in his determ1na-
tl0n to secure home rule before he dies, and
this fact, in its turn, has created the utmost
depression in the ranks of the Irish Loyal
lists in particular, for they know how power
full he is still with the English people. His
conviction now is that he lost at
the last election because the English people
had not been sufficiently instructed
in the facts of the Irish case, and, accord
ingly, he is himself determined henceforth
to lose no opportunity of giving them infor-
nation thereon. The English and the Scotch,
on their part, are most eager in theirs search
for knowledge, and already the new Irish
press agency, established In London Tor the
dissemination of Nationalist literature, is
overwhelmed with applications for treatises
of all kinds on the subject OF Ireland. In
Scotland, | understand, the National Liberal
Federation will distribute their tracts and
leaflets from house to house in all the Union
lists constituencies in that country,
In Ireland the situation Is growing more
and more strained and there are many who
expect some new development of the gov
ernment policy from the interview which
took place yesterday in Dublin Castle be-
tween Gen. Butler and the chief secretary.
The Irish landlords and the Tory organs in
London are putting severe pressure on the
government to suppress the National League
summarily, and it is clear enough that the
ministers would not long hesitate to take
such step but for the fact that an unusual
number of influential and well-known
themselves, and almost all declaring, as the
result of their inquiries. that the League is
an agent of peace and not of crime.
In Belfast the inquiry into the riots has
been going on so badly for the Orange party
that its legal representatives have aban-
doned their heroic attitude of abstention,
pocketed the insults showered upon them by
Judge Day, and gone back to court to pro-
tect their clients, If they can. They will
hardly be able.