New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-10-26


| Is les prosperous than it was. This he proves
BY figures showing a decrease In acreage under
cultivation, figures which the next day were cha'-
enged. He attacked the law and the administra-
tion OF the law In Ireland. The law is bad, the
administration Of 1t worse. "The Irish ought 70
hate the law" He regrets that they DO not ex-
press their hatred more violently. This Is his
sentence: The conduct Of the administrators OF
the lsw is such as amounts to continual provoca-
tion to breaches of law, and to make it perfectly
wonderful that these breaches OF law are not IN
Ireland infinitely more frequent than they are.
He adds: THE Government itself is Of all
the greatest master and most perfect pattern OF
1legality." He discourses at length on Tpperary
and once more calls on the civilized world to
remember Mitchelstown," his own version of
| which he retclls He attacks the courts and the
police with equal violence To exclude jurors
known to be parties to the same conspiracy for
| which the accused are to he tried. Is ITO make
the law odious intolerable, hateful" To put
Mr.. Shannon on the Bench at Tipperary "a
gross injustice and scandal. II is impossible TO
carry indecency further" He accuses the police
Of brutality and cowardice, and their superiors of
wantonness and insolence land that provocative
course Of conduct which makes obedience to the
law nearly impossible"
tinualy throughout the address of an hour and
| a half. It reads more like Mr.. O'Brien than Mr..
| Gladstone Never before has this thrice Prime
| Minister Of England abandoned bimsclf to such
| excesses OF speech lie has apparently abandoned
also although Of appealing 10 the sober sense of
| the intelligence of the community Froh be-
| ginning TO end this long harangue is one undis-
guised appeal to passion. He succeeded perfectly
for the time being with his audience. which cheered
| him to the echo. II is impossible to say that he
| NAV not succeed with the wider audience which
| he reaches in print But there was once an Eng
| land which would have refused to believe that
| Government Of Englishmen could be the vile
| scoundrels whom Mr.. Gladstone would now make
! them out
Ecces is beyond cavil, important. The Glad.
stonian victory is the more gratifying to those
| of Gladstonian faith because they did not really
expect TO win. The cool heads. or the cooler
| heads, among that party thought they should
cut down the Tory majority but not carry the
| seat Eight hours had much to do with the
matter Mr.. Egertons miners, who were ex-
| pected to vote for him, because the EgertOn
| family had always treated them well, resolved
finally to vote for Mr. Roby, in hope that he
would treat them better still In other words.
they prefer Parliamentary Eight-Hours act to
1 "
The mining vote has swollen the Liberal vote
largely, and probably gave the Gladstonans their
| victory.
! Still Home Rule was quite much an issue
as eight hours Eccles records its verdict against
what is called Balfourism. Mr. Roby stood
| squarey on the Home Rnle platform, which. more
| over, rang with denunciations Of Mr. Bai0urs
| latest move in Tipperary. That was the freshest
xhn Htnhf NJ
Dillon and O'Brien seems not to have deferred
| good Gadstonians from putting on record their
detestation of Mr. Balfours present policy. Eccles
| is O division of South Lancashire, where the
atmosphere is Tory and this Tory defeat Is the
more damping for that reason. Too muoh
Significance will be given to this. as to other
by-elections; but this is on the whole a greater
blow to the Government than any of them
Mr.. Balfour and Mr.. John Morley have been
exchanging broadsides all the week, with perhaps
| no great practical result beyond the burning OF
| much powder Both spoke at Newcastle for
| which Mr.. Morley sits, and both devoted them
selves 10 Tippeary. Mr. Balfour's analysis of
| Mr.. Morleys account of the Tpperary scuftie was
adroit and damaging, and the effect of it is not
perhaps wholly neutralized by Mr.. Morley's reply.
| II has to he admitted that Mr.. Morley is contra
| dcted on material points, not only by Colonel
Caddell the officer in command of the police, and
| not only by spectators Of veracity, but by Mr.
John O'Connor, an Irish NJ p, who was by his
| side Mr.. O'Connor's story and MI Morleys
cannot lc reconciled. Each, no doubt, believes
himself to be telling the exact truth. Mr.. Balfour
replied to Mr.. Morley through The Times, and
Mr. Morley rejoined in the same columns. Con-
sidering what he has said of that paper, 1T seems
| odd to see him pleading his cause there. How
ever, everybody still has to write to The Times. y
| from Mr. Gladstone downward. Both speeches
| and letters deal with many matters whose In
| trinsic importance is microscopic Four men got
their heads broken at Tipperary, sticking-plaster
| only being required to mend them. Mr. Dalfour
| has been much reviled fOr putting the case In
| this realistic way, but the fact is not disputed.
| Mr.. Dillon now desires it to be understood that
| he misunderstood NJ Blowitz's question, or was
himself misunderstood by NJ. Blowitz. The qucs-
ton to Mr. Dillon was. says NJ Blowitz lIavo
you renounced the dynamite polcy?' Mr.. Dill
| Ion thought he was asked whether the dynamite
| party had been renounced. Ills answer, he ad-
| mits was correctly given, namely, that ever since
| Mr. Gladstone's speeches that party had been re-
| nounced and that we always considered the
dynamite party our greatest enemy and obstacle y
The proceedings at Tipperary continue in the
usual style but now attract little attention. They
| were. however diversified on Tuesday by the COM
| initial of Mr. Sheehy, NJ. p. to prison for q week
| for contempt of cOurt-a tardy vindication OF
judicial dignity. An application by the accused
| to summon Mr.. Balfour before the court for his
Newcastle speech was refused
Mr.. Stanley received OIL Thursday the honorary
degree of LIZ d. from the University of Cam
bridge The Congregation held was an ordinary
one but with extraordinary circumstances and
attendance, and altogether a memorable occasion
Mfr. Stanleys welcome is described as hearty, but
By no means enthusiastic and the students dis
turbances made the public orators address in Latin
| inaudible.
| Tho ronlr of the Rartfelnt familY 70 Mr.. STAN