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Manifesto Issued by Gladstone.
LONDON, June Gladstone has issued
the following manifesto to the electors OF
Midlothian
GENTLEMEN; In consequence OF the defeat OF
the bill for the better government of Ireland
the Ministry advised, and her Majesty was
pleased to sanction, dissolution of Parliament
for decision by the nation of the gravest and
likewise the simplest issue that has been sub
lnitted to il for half century. 1t is only a
sense of the gravity OF this issue which induces
me- at a period OF life when nature cries aloud
for repose to seek. after sitting in thirteen Par
liaments, seat in the fourteenth, and with this
view TO solicit for the fifth time the honor OF
your confidence. At the last election / en-
deayored in my addresses and speeches to
impress upon you the fact that great crisis had
arrived III the affairs of Ireland Weak as the late
Government was for ordinary purposes. it had
great advantages for dealing with that crisis. A
comprehensive measure proceeding from that
Government would have received a warm and
extensive support from within the Liberal
party, and would probably have closed the
Irish controversy within the present session
and have left the Parliament of 1855 free to
prosecute the now stAgnant work of ordinary
legislation, With the multitude OF questions ii
includes, nay earnest hope was TO support the
late Cabinet in such course OF policy. on the
26th of last January an opposite policy of cOer
ciOn was declared TO have been the choice o,
the Government, the Earl OF Carnaryon alone
refusing to share in il. The Irish question was
thus placed i'll the foreground, TO the eX
clusion OF every other The hour, as al
felt was come. The only point remaining
to determine was the manner III Wh1cl
it was to be dealt with. In my opinion, the pro
posal OF coercion was not justified by the facts
and was doomed to certain and disgraceiul fail
ure, Some method OF governing Ireland 0thel
than coercion ought, as | thought, to be sought
for, and to be found. Therefore, viewed without
regret the fail Of the late Cabinet, and wher
summoned by her Majesty to form a new one,
undertook it on the basis of an anti-coercior
policy, with the fullest explanations to those
whose aid / sought as colleagues. When L pro
posed to examine whether it might not be posi-
Dle TO grant Ireland a domestic Legislature and
maintain the honor and consolidate the unity OF
the Empire, a government was formed and
You will now, gentlemen understand how
and why it is that the affairs of Ire
land, and not for the first time, have thrust
aside every subject, and adjourned our hopes OF
useful and progressive legislation. As a ques-
tion of the first necessities of social order it
forces itself into the van. The late Cabinet,
though right in giving it that place, were, as we
thought, wrong in their manner OF treating ii.
1t was our absolute duty, on taking the Govern
ment, if we did not adopt their method to pro-
pose another. Thus, gentlemen, it is that this
great and simple issue has come upon you, and
demands your decision. Will you govern Ire
land by coercion, or will you let Ireland man
age her own affairs? To debate in this address
this and that detail of the lately defeated bill
would only be to disguise this issue, and
would be as futile as to discuss the
hating, stumbling, ever-shiftIng and ever-ad-
yancing plojects of an intermediate class
which proceeded from the seeding Liberals.
There are two clear, positive and intelligble
plans before the world. There is the plan OF
the Government, and there is the plan OF Lord
Salisbury. Our plan is that Ireland should
under well considered conditions, transact hei
own affairs. His plan is TO ask Parliament &c
renew the repressive laws, and enforce them
resolutely for twenty years, by the end OF which
time he assures us, Ireland will be fit to accept
any government in the way of local govern
ment on the repeal of the coercion laws, you
may wish TO give her. l leave this Tory
project to speak for itself in its unadornec
simplicity. and turn to the proposed policy o.
the Government. Our opponents, gentlemen
whether Tories or seeeders, have assumed the
name of Unionists- deny them the title to it,
In intention, indeed, we are all Unonists alike
but the union they refuse to modify in its pres
ent shape, paDer union, obtained by force and
fraud, and never sanctioned or accepted by the
Irish nation. They are not Unionists, but paper
unionists. A true union is to be tested by the
sentiments of human beings united. Tried by
this criterion, we have less union between Great
Britain and Ireland now than we had under
the settlement Of 17S2. Enfranchised Ire
land, gentlemen, asks through her lawful
representatives for revival of her domes-
tic legislature, not on the face of it an
innovating but q restorative proposal. She urges
with truth that the Capitalization of Parliament
has been division of the people, but she recog-
nizes the fact that the union, lawlessly as it was
obtained, cannot and will not be repealed. She is
content to receive her Legislature in a form di-
vested of the prerogatives which might have i'm
paired her imperial interests, and better
ADAPTED than the settlement of 17s2 to secure to
her the regular control of her own affairs. She
has not repelled, but has welcomed, the stipula-
tions for the protection of the minority. To such
provisions we have given, and shall give, care
full heed but | trust Scotland will con-
denn the attempts SO singularly made
to import into the controversy the venom
Gus element of religious bigotry. Let her
take warning by the deplorable riots in Belfast
and other places in the north. Among the ben
efits, gentlemen, l anticipate from your accept
anee of our policy are these The Consolidation
of the united Empire and great addition to its
strength; the stoppage of the heavy. constant
and demoralizing waste of public treasure; the
abatement and gradual extinction of ignoble
feuds in Ireland, and that development of her
resources which experience shows to be the
natural consequence of a free and orderly gov
ernment; the redemption of the honor of Great
Britain from the stigma fastened upon her al
most from time immemorial in respect 10
Ireland by the Judgment of the whole civil
lied world; and lastly, the restoration oi
and the regular progress of the business of the
country. Well, gentlemen the first question
now put to you is, How shall Ireland be gov
erned? There is another question behind 1t, and
involved in it How are England and Scotland
to be governed? You know how, for the last
six years especially, the affairs of England and
Scotland have been impeded and your I'm
perlal Parliament diScredlted and disabled. All
this happened while the Nationalist were but
a small minority of the Irish members, without
the support from so much as handful OF mem
bers not Irish. Now they approach ninety, and
the views of the Irish nation" 1t is impossible
to deal with this subject by half measures.
They are strong in their numbers strong IN
British support. which brought 3l3 members to
vote for their country strongest of all in their
sense of being right. But, gentlemen, we have
done our part the rest remains for you, the
electors of the country. May you be enabled to
see through and cast away all delusions refuse
the evil and choose the good. l have the honor
to be, gentlemen, your faithful and grateful
servant, WM. K. GLADSTONE.
The Disorder in Ireland.
DUBLIN, June 13th.-A serious riot oc-
Cured in Sligo last evening, and several
Protestants' houses were wrecked.
GANGS OF MooNLIGHTERs."
LIMERICK, June 13th-The police have
received, through an informer, important
evidence against members of q moonlight
gangs in Clare, Limerick and Kerry. All
the gangs are perfect organizations. directed
by chiefs, bound by oaths and having q
system of passwords. Several arrests are
impending
RIOT AT SLIGO.
DIlOOs IS5luciitc Oh
leading Orangeman was burned last night
by a mob. The military charged and shot
some of the rioters Extra police have
been drafted, and the town has been quiet
to-day.
ORIGINATED BY CATHOLICS
SLIGO, June 13th.-The rioting was orig.
mated by Catholics, who were angry be.
cause somebody had destroyed the rails
surrounding the Bishops palace. They
gathered in thousands, and attacked the
houses of Protestants, and molested ano
hooted many persons. The windows o.
every house in which it was known O
Protestant dwelt were smashed. The
County Club house, the Constitutions
Club, the Methodist Church, the residence
of the Congregational minister and several
chapels were attacked and wrecked The
Orangemen made no attempt to retaliate
The Mayor, a Nationalist, and several ol
the magistrates, penetrated to the front ol
the mob and tried to appease them, but
without avail. The Riot Act was then
read, and the soldiers were ordered to cleal
the streets with fixed bayonets. A general
stampede ensued, during which sixteen
rioters were arrested.
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