The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1886-04-17

the British House Of Commons wit
messed such a scene as within its
halls and the adjacent streets recent
Iy, when Mr.. Gladstone introduced
his Irish bill and made his explana-
tory speech. Almost in his first
words he struck the keynote of the
long controversy, when he said in
England the law was felt to be Eng
fish, in Scotland it was felt to be
Scotch, but in Ireland it was not
felt to be Irish, but something alien.
He proposed Parliament sitting in
Dublin, elected by the Irish people,
to win their confidence to the law of
the land. That was the grandest dec
laration made by an English minis
ter for generations. He declared
coercion had been a failure, and if
the same test of proscriptive laws
had been applied to the English and
Scotch as to the Irish they, too,
would have acted as the Irish have.
The surroundings were such as to
inspire the great statesman and ora
tor to his mightiest effort. He had
the English speaking people of the
whole world for keenly interested
audience. He had about him the
warmest sympathizers and the most
bitter opponents. including noted
men who until lately had follow
ed where he chose to lead.
The sentiment of London was
strongly against him, and of all the
great dailies of that city only one
the News-yesterday gave him words
of encouragement. The other papers
bitterly denounced his plan, much
as secession was arraigned at the
outbreak of our civil war. "The
scheme is dictated by alien conspir-
ators beyond the Atlantic said the
London Times, land its effect would
be to subject Protestant Ulster to
the rule of an assembly in Dublin
elected by the peasants and domi-
mated either by the Priests or the
paid agents of Mr.. Ford Appeals
to national pride, jealousy of foreign
intervention, and the old sectarian
feuds were hurled at Gladstone to
divide and intimidate his forces, but
with what success remains to be
seen.
1t was big day for the national
lists members who may be said to
have camped the night before in the
House and so secured good seats in
the morning that enabled them to
shout and cheer in unison-a great
thing in the House of Commons,
where they have a way of coughing
speaker down and show no mercy
to opponents in discussion. Itmarks
the interest on the debate that five
hundred dollars were freely offered
for seats in the CALLERS. They only
seat LAG spectators and were divided
by lot among the $40 members, for
whom there are only $40 places on
the floor. So half the members were
compelled to stand ON the seats and
Hobbies.
Throughout Great Britain and
Ireland, as we'll as the ocean sepera
ted British colonies and the United
States, there was the most intense
interest in the proceedings of the
day. Our cable dispatches give in
teresting and graphic description of
the scenes in and about the Parlia-
ment House, as well as a full report
of Mr. Gladstone's speech. There
is matter in it for study and rehec-
ton, and intelligent comment must
be deferred. Mr.. Gladstone seems to
have satisfied the Irish members,
and at the same time retained the
bulk of his Liberal supporters. A
decisive vote involving the fate of the
bill and the ministry is not expected
for few days.-Pittsburg Post.