The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-01-31
Events Which Happened and
Men Who Lived Then.
THE vExED IRISH QUESTION
The straws Which Indicate How the
"Grand Old Man" will Finally
Come Out.
BELFAST. January 2, 1886

| a WrlVer IN an EQSilSQ mOutQly Da;
been entertaining his readers during the
New Year by review of important
events that transpired in 1775-events
important to England. The war with
America had terminated and M Adams
was received by George III as the first
minister from the United States. Viii
liam Pitt, then only 26 years of age wa:
Chancellor of the Exchequer and Prime
Minister, position he had attained
while he was but "a years of age. "The
Westminster Scrutiny" which resulted
in riot, occurred over certain election
returns. The result was that Fo1
brought an action against the high
bailiff of Westminster for f100.eO and
received from the jury verdict fol
$1,000. Animated discussions were
going on in Ireland over Parliamentary
reforms. also vigorous attempts were
making to obtain the elective franchise
for Roman Catholics and for greater
freedom for Irish trades and industries
while Pitt himself detained against
the jealousy that England displayed
towards Ireland, the object for the ac-
complishment of which the agitation
was inaugurated failed and serious riots
in Dublin and other large towns fol
lowed. 1t was this year also that War.
rem Hastings sailed from India after
having been Governor General for thir-
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war against him in Parliament was COM
menced by Burke, whom Macauley
refers to as the greatest man then liy-
ing Than the early scenes in the I'M
peachmentofHastings there is little more
interesting in English history. The
established church had become almost
Wesley was now 50 and still hard at
work; Paley published Moral Philosophy,
the most elaborate of his works Blair's
lectures on. rhetoric also appeared this
year. For nineteen years before this
time William Cowper had been writing
poems at the little town of Olney, which
has since become famous because OF
him. In 17S5 he finished 1.-The Task, y
and he suddenly leapt iuto favor
through the medium of that peculiar
production, John Gilpin." 1t was
picked up and read by celebrated elo-
cutionist and in q short time was read
in every inn and recited to the untold
delight of all who heard it. This made
his works, so serious and almost melan-
choly in their nature, sought after, and
he became famous. There were then in
their vigor VIM. Hayley, now known as
a friend of Cowper, rather than for his.
own literary merit; and James Beatie,
author of The Minstrel, (which George
III pronounced the finest poem in the
English language, a position which late
generations has by no means been will
ing to accordit. Robert Burns was 26
and this year wrote his "Cotters Satur-
day Night; Hannah More still lived.
John Howard was yet alive and of hun
it was said by Dean Millman perhaps
no man has assuaged so much human
misery" The monument to Howard
was the first ever erected in st. Paul's.
That satirical "Peter Pindar," (Dr
John Walcot) by no means free from
scurrility, was still working in this wear.
Sheridan the dramatist wrote THE
Rivals in 1775. Richard Cumberland was
then famous as. a dramatist, essayist
poet and novelist. He was hon0red
with a grave in Westminster and his
coffin was exposed while the grave was
making in which the remains of Cbas
Dickens were to be inferred. GEORGE
Colman, Mrs Cowley, the author of fT6e
Bellies Strategem," and Macklin. autbor
OF The Man of the World, had NOT Vet
departed from this scene. Garrick and
Foote, the. actors, died in 1884, but Jobn
Philip Kemble and Sarah Siddons. the
former never surpassed and the latter
perhaps never equaled, were then
famous. She was 80 then and he was %
Joseph Grimaldi, the prince of clowns
was 6 years old, but appeared this vear
as a monkey and made Sensation
Hume, the historian, was dead, Roherf,
son still lived, but had done writing hnt
Gibbons. the unrivaled, this wear AM
shed his famous work on the Shores Of |
Lake Lucerne.r Sir Joshua REYNOLDS |
.he artist, was 81 years old. Benjamin
West, the American, also lived. IT was
le, that introduced into figure PAINTING
he, actual costumes T0f the times fbs
ct plan or form then being to dress All
igures in Greek or Roman dress. while
] ains borough, & George Romneyi and
ohm Singleton Gopley, like West, was
American bOrn--were famous. yGamb-d
ing was the common pastime ard !
aides of the highest nobility were The
'roprietors of gambling dens. =. i.adv
'uckinghamshire, Lady, Archer IND
.adyz Mount Edgecombe = were 50
Iotorious for their gambling probenG.
les that they Were commonly known &c
Faro's daughters. 70 Baioonine was IN
ogue and the first catastrophe oecurred
june OF thiSyear caused bysfre while
the air. Robberies were FREQUENT
persons were sentenced IN
cath on June 18th, 17S5 for higbway
obbery and on that day week fifteen ~ :
hem were hanged together. The death
also chronicled this year of Mar
cameron, who lived to be 139 wears oId !
There is no rival to the Irish question
! British politics. There is noibing 8
nat begins to approach it in imnore
ance. tits the subject of every sueecb
ne burden of every editorial. CriYn;no
on and recrimination is the order NJ 4
lie day. The very people who som ~
me ago laughed at the promises S-o &c
arnell. that he would force conditions
ON the British Parliament. now recoa
ize as a stern fact the remarksbTs
nportance to which the subject has
rived. Every person is endeayorina
cast the blame upon everybody elsa 3
Id amid all this fire and furv fbs U