New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-04-12

organizer In all there are twenty-seven COM
| missioners, including many more men hardly less
| representative than these.
The only serious criticism on this body is
that it is too able and too numerous and will
never agree on anything But it is not expected
TO agree Its duty is to take evidence and to hear
all sides AS for reports and recommendations there
will be not one but several. There has been some
| fuss about the non-appointment of Mr. Davitt
| whom the Anti-Parnellites wanted. Mr.. Mccarthy
threatened to take the sense of the House on his
exclusion, but could not get forty members TO
support his effort to have the question declared
| urgent There are more than forty firebrands in
| the House of Commons ready TO blaze up at n
moments notice, but Mr.. McCarthys skill in ap-
| plying the bellows is not great Nobody bps any
| claim to appointment nor would the English
public relish Mr.. Davitts presence on Royal
| Commission.
The performances of the week in Parliament
will not be deemed important, except in the i'm
mediate vicinity of Westminster. There have.
however, been incidents which have some bearing
on the everlasting Irish question. One of Mr..
Gladstones most faithful and fiery young disciples,
Mr.. Munro Ferguson, started a little scheme of
Scottish Home Rule in the House of Commons
itself, and got 1875 members to support him; but
| they not enough Then the pleasing
spectacle of all the Gladstonians voting in favor
of the AntiParncllite candidate for committee and
| all against the Parnellite. The Irish Land Pur-
chase bill came up on Thursday and again on
Friday when Mr.. Labouchere took, as he often
does, the lead of the Gladstonian party lie pro-
posed amendment by which the Imperial guar
antee of Irish land stock should be omitted MI
Gladstone followed his follower submlsSlvely
enough, urging that the country had pronounced
&c
against his own land bill in 1856 on this very
ground Mr. Balfour replied with neatneSs that
Mr. Gladstones bill had been rejected, not because
it pledged but because it periled, Imperial credit
Mr. Labouchere's amendment was rejected Dy
ninety.f majority, respectable figure The
McCarthyites contributed to its respectablllty Dy
declining to support the Observation-Disclosures pro-
posal There is in fact, q state of friction be-
tween the English Radicals and the lrlshmen
whether Parnellite or Anti-Parnellite. kind OF
Dutch auction is going in Ireland, either party
being on tiptoe to underbid the other in loyalty
TO the existing Union. Till this contest Is coll
cluded, each is equally shy of seeming to accept
English support or TO bestow any OF lts own Oh
any English proposal OF English leader
Mr. Parnelis Phoenix Park speech on Sunday
is here regarded as more explicit ueclaIa'ioh
than he has heretofore made in favor oil dyhain'e'
If not for dynamite, he is ut any rate lor uSn"-
| miters, and rails at the English GoVerhmehO iol
not releasing from English gaols those nliSsuiuou
| enthusiasts who, about 1885, proved their paul
ofism by blowing up or trying to blow up, the
railway stations and bridges of London. There
might almost be reconciliation on this ground
between Mr. Parnen and Mr.. Patrick Ford Ills
plea-I mean Mr. Parnells, not Mr.. Fords-for
amnesty to what he calls political prisoners seems
10 TIE English really large identification oil the
Irish cause with the dynamiterS and theT pay
masters beyond the Atlantic" lie asserted UhaC
Mr. Gladstone had some negotiations in 1885 "itn
the dynamite party, and even receiVea solne Vi
them at Hawarden. This surprising story mas
been as might be expected, energetlcally demed
by Mr. Gladstone. There are those who THINK
dynamite dead policy. If it was ever dead, MI
Parnell seems likely enough some day to resurrcct
it, Nor was it dead in Tipperary, even without
his help
The Lord Chief Justice sitting Ill Cork, has
lust passed sentence of seven years penal servl-
tude on a patriot who had a dangerous explosive
in his possession These explosives were used to
enforce the edicts OF Mr.. OBrien to carry on the
Plan of Campaign. Boycotting was used much
more commonly, and two men were convicted ana
sentenced respectively TO eighteen months ana
years Imprisonment for posting up DoycottlhS
notices Others were sentenced for moonlight
ing for which ten years' penal servitude dld not
seem to this just judge too much On the whole,
the state of things in Tipperary is improving and
emigration to America has increased and Is IN
creasng rapidly
more pleasing picture may be seen BY who
ever will turn his eyes to tho West Coast, where
Lady Zetland and Miss Balfour are visiting. Lady
Zctland is the wife of the Lord Lieutenant Of
Ireland and Miss Balfour is a sister to the Cher
Secretary. tic man who if you believe all you
are told. is the most hated of all the Oppressors
of Ireland These two ladies are looking after
tho disbursements Of that fund for the relief of
Irish distress which, started it was by LORD
Zetland and Mr. BalfOur exceeds quarter OF o
million of dollars. Their visit includes that dis
.rict where light railways are building, as an
official contribution 10 the relief of the most con-
oested and impoverished parts of the island. Well,
:, onnears that these two ladies, bearing these
two hated names are received by the people of
the country with cOrdiality and gratitude. Mr..
Rolfour's name is in fact received with cries or
" Cod bless him." Elsewhere in Ireland it might
not be So any more than Mr.. Parnelrs now Is
by the very people who' Few months since
,,aiIed him as devcrer. But about what hap
Mons in Achill there Is no dispute and 1t Is
Lilo, IN he told by anybody any story about
InoIand which somebody else does not immedi-
ately contradict.
Naval experts in England have for some tme
,oo, aware that an attempt toward an American
navv was in progress. The English pubic is
inst beginning to take an interest in this effort
The interest is stimulated. perhaps, by that tall
Italian talk about sending Italian ironclads on a
trim to New-Orleans. "The Times prints an
account of what it politely calls the new American
navy. and discusses it editorially. The editorial
is worth attending to, because IL is the "orK oi
an authority in shpbuildlns, whoever ne may pe;
He thinks it right that the ofited ota'es shouiu
ha,,o navy He admits handsomely that we
hoe distinguished. even glorious, naval traditions,
that ve are renowned for the novelty and audacty
% our mechanical inventiveneSs. We are, how
~ -.Lnnd rather too bnldlv and lght-