Daily Honolulu press. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1886, 1886-01-26
FOREIGN NEWS.
English Clamoring for More
Coercion in Ireland.
Threats of Arms and Mar
tia1 Law.
STARVATION OF THE IRISH.
A Bill Against the Reciprocity
Treaty.
A Japanese Branch Bank for
Hawaii.
AMERICAN NEWS, &C.,, SO.
AMERICAN NEWS, &c., 80.
British Alarm Over Irish Affairs.

New YoKK, Jan. 1.-THE W0ridS
cablegram says: The great bulk OF the
English people and the great majority
of both British political parties are lit
orally bowling for a renewal of the coer-
cion acts in Ireland, for the suppression
of the National League as body Of
conspirators, and for the punishment
Of the leaders as traitors Your cor
respondent has had an interview with
Mr.. Gladstone, Mr. Chamberlain, Sir
Charles Dixie, Lord Harrington, Mr.
George Otto Trevelyan and majority
of the other Liberal and Radical lead
ers, and while he has found that there
| is wide divergence between the views
entertained by the average Liberals and
Radicals, he is convinced that the lead
ers believe that British public opinion
will demand renewal of coercion in
Ireland, and ruthless stamping out of
the national spirit.
Tie Army and Navy Gazette de-
nounces the project of employing the
military in any Irish land war. 1t says
that "the officers now on service in Ire
land are disgusted with the work of en-
forcing legal processes with the bayonet"
The Methodist clergy of Ireland, at
their recent meeting in Dublin, adopt
ed resolution stating that any legisla-
ton tending to dissolve the union will
prejudice the moral and material inter
ests of Ireland. The Methodist press
of England has also recently adopted a
hostile attitude toward the Home Rule
movement These instances show that,
for the first time in its history, the Meth
odist Church of Great Britain is being
used as partisan in politics.
New YORK, Jan. I7-T'he Zs76Nne's
cablegram says Lord Carnarvon's
resignation marks the collapse Of an in
teresting experiment. The viceroyalty
of that amiable nobleman was the out
ward and visible sign OF a Tory-Parnel-
lite alliance. He went to Dublin to
make an honest effort to govern Ire
land by means Of the ordinary laws, re-
linquishing the crimes act, and relying
on Mr.. Parnell's cooperation in main
tainlng order. This well-meant en-
deavor to repress crime by the help of
those who, as Englishmen put the case,
are interested in its success, ends with
Lord Carnarvon's return to England
Both parties agree that the condition
of Ireland was never more alarming
than it is at present Earl Cowper's
warning that the country was on the
eve of the most formidable strike
against rent yet seen is already justified.
The league has organized combinations
among the tenants over large part Of
the country. 1t. undertakes to fix an
arbitrary per cent of reductions, and
prohibits all payments to landlords who
refuse to accept the leagues scale.
Judicial rents, held, according to Mr..
ParnelPs dictum, to be no more bind
ing than other attempts of landlords to
enforce payment by legal means, are re-
sisted by organized force. The land
lords on their side are organizing also
The Duke of Devonshire, Lord Hart
| ington's father, owning 10000 acres in
Ireland, has accepted the presidency of
the Irish Defence Union. The most
urgent appeals have reached the Gov
ernment; menaces, not the less urgent,
come from the other side.
| United ireland, the chief Parnellite
organ, declares with all solemnity that
it regards the agrarian struggle as never
during the century more serious than it
is now; that the population Of several
counties is ready to take up arms, and
that the people will not submit either
to eviction or punishment for resis-
tence 1t openly threatens reprisals if
the Government attempts to enforce
the law. The Archbishop of Dublin
in yesterdays speech, echoes these
threats.
The Irish will press for measure to
prevent evictions The Tories and
Liberals agree that Parliament must
prevent the tenants from confscating
the property of landlords.
New YORK, Jan. I7.-The HeraIFs
cablegram says: The FtSeman'S Journal
of to-day has powerful article on the
Cabinet resolve 1t fears the worst and
says: at would be idle for the Irish
people to disguise from themselves the
necessity of calmly preparing for catas-
trophe. The concession OF our claim
for self.government is inevitable if the
Irish people cannot be driven by force
from their present lawful peaceful, con-
stitutional, but determined attitude.
England before now has, in a similar
situation, resorted to the horrible expe-
dient OF deliberately driving our people
TO desperation for the purpose OF main
tanning her rule. In the face of the
utterances of the English press, in the
face of the rumors everywhere rife, in
the face of the threat that Lord Wolse-
ley will be sent over to dragoon the
country, and in the face Of our own
knowledge of the utter want of princi-
pie of some members of the admins
tration, we cannot forbear discussing
the possibilities, the inevitable result OF
which would be Of character that no
one having the feelings of human