, 1891-01-21

AoACApd1 NOOIlClA G1AtG WILL " OOOAdHO RAAAAO
sentiment on SO important a matterP
The Irish fpud has been going on in q
very active fashion ALI the week, two rival
tdil ions of United ireland having appeared
in Dublin, Mr.. O'Briem's being called at
first Suppressed" United Ireland, and af-
forwards " Indispensable" United Ireland.
aud published At the Offices Of the Nation
and The Irish Catholic. The scene of war
has been chiefly, however, in Cork and in
Kilkenny. In Cork, Mr.. Justin Nc Calthy
aud the Anti-Parnellites have effected a
Judgment, and have been holding meetings
at which there was great confusionand muah :
fighting. In these, it is stated, as in XII
kenny, even the priests themselves took an
active share. Again, in Kilkenny (wtere
tn" election takes place on Monday, the
passion ard fury have been very great,
Mr.. Parnell him, elf having Il Il his eyes
seriously injured by a bag OF lime, where
in apparently there was some -four m:0-
gled, 80 that the lime plastered itself og,
the eyes, and could not be easily e.t
gagged even by medical hep THIS 3sS.
tardiy injury, howe yer, III %ere CT taat
it should be Inflicted on any enc. is time
retyibution when il is suffered Ey Nj.
Parnell, who, as The aataoC on 'H- greet
b0ycottlng movement. hae been tat ajjr"es
source O~fhGndrelS 0ftheSe wicket .-ttl )
both so man ana beast. We profoundly
regret the il cident, but cannot regret thai,
if any one was to he made to suffer, it
should have been the originator of Il ten
years anti-social war. The incident occur
red in a very fierce affray on Tuesday in Bal.
linakill Market Square, where Mr.. PANEL
was speaking for Mr.. Vincent Scuily, tho
Parnellite candidate TOR Kilkenny while
Michael DAvitt was speaking for Sir John
Pope HenneSey, the Anti Paruellite candi.
date, whom, however, Mr.. Parnrll himself
originally brought forward, and 10Y fierce.
~ denOuu ces. We fear that Mr.. Parnell'S
Eufferings have been serious, hut on Thurs
day be spoke iu public again, though with
bandaged eyes.
The Town Council Of Edinburgh have carried
unanimously a report regretting that Mr.. Par
nell's name was put on the list of burgesses,
ordering it's removal, and the transmission of
a copy of the resolution removing it to Mr..
Parnell. That open avowal Of penitence for a
very hasty and ILL., coDsidered course, which
was, we thoroughly believe, very unpalatable
to the majority Of Edinburgh citizens, is credi.
table to the Edinburgh Town Council, rs show
ing that they are not ashamed to admit that
they were wrong so soon as they themselves
are conscious Of it. We trus. that the con-
seriousness of error applies to the policy no less
Lndn 10 the personal act, ana InaC EQlnDurGn Is
already disenchanted Of its s~pasmodio rally for
Home-rule.
On Thursday, the ReichsanzeigSr published
the full text of the German Emperor's speech
at the Education Conference. It contains
some very character site utterances. 'FWe
find ours elves" said the Emperor, cat the
turning-point CT a general forward movement
into the new century. Ny ancestors, with
their fingers on the pulse of time, have ever
kept a lookout for what might come to pass,
and thus remained at the head If the move
ment which they had resolved to direct. l
believe ! have mastered the aims Of the new
spirit Of the expiring century. As il $40
question of social reforms, so in this master
also | have decided not to oppose the lew
tendencies" Referri~& 70 tie controversy
between the advocates of c moea1 and tss-a
of e classical education, he sclarod that
hitherto they had gone from Thermory De by
Canns to Rosbach and Vioaville; bat he
would lead the youth CT Germany from Sedan
and Gravelotte, by Luethen and Roso 'ch,
to Mantineia and Thermopyle." The notion
of the young Kaiser mastering "the aims
of the new spirit" and condescending not
ITO oppose the new tendencies is in many
ways a comic one but, at the same time,
it is pleasant to find a man who has 80
atronO a halief in himSolf