The Tamworth Examiner and Working Men's Journal. — 1874-08-22 (Tamworth, Staffordshire, England)

ICELAND AND IRELAND: A PARALLEL. -.... O. , Guards, in which regiment he served 'many years. , teeing to the recent visit of the King of Den- 'He was for twenty years in the House of Commons, I mark to Iceland, and its incidental proceedings having represented Wigan in the Conservative inthe Times says:—" A single letter changes Iceland tenet from 1840 to let? and again from hay, 1859, into Ireland, and the festival we have described to March, 1866. Far some time he Was Inspector. celebrated the triumph of Home Rule. We do not General of the Foot Gimrds ; and in 1870 went on I shrink hem' the parallel thus suggemed, and we special service to Canada, and in recognition of his ' admit that if the circumstances were the same the services while so employed, be was created a King • ht I same policy ought to be adopted. But the choice ' Commander of the order ef St. Michael and St. to be made between a legislative union, a federal George. I union, and a union of crowns must be ruled by A C•NGBANRD WIIE RC/MEI:Ea. The Usk , regard to the circumstances of each case and when correspondent of the Western DoiN Mil/ be. , the position of Ireland is compared with that of lieves that Henry Gibbs, the man now under son- I Iceland the dissimilarity of the pair is at once tence of death for the murder of his wife at St. apparent. The language of " Iceland is different Mellon's, is sdrionsly ill in the county gaol. Hs from that of Denmark, and the island is prac- ! adds that the coudemned man has written several tient'', as far retnovai from Copenhagen as Ja- letters to his friends, one of which is addressed maica is from London, and is, of course. infinitely ,to his father in Kent. In this letter, it, is stated, less accessible during the greater part of the year. he emphatically avows his innocence of the crime The Government a Iceland by Denmark was what imputed to him and for which he is sentenced to Lord Carnarvon would call that of 'a Cr wn colony suffer the dread penalty of death. Be calls on God of a rather severe type,' and until the last genera- to witnees.the truth of his assertion, and says that tion it was conducted in accordance with all the if he suffers he shall suner as innocently as mil mistaken Moms then prevalent throughout the innocent man ever suffered in this world. It is world on the subject of i rade, of monopolies, and of farther stated that in his conversation with the chartered and restricted corporations. These things prison warder, who is with 'aim sontinually in his cell, have been amended, but an attempt to fuse Den- te speaks in the most eateotionate teroae of his mum mark with Iceland into one is necessarily hopeless, derail wife, and "wishes in his heart 'ne could had through the difference of language and the distance out some clue to the reel murderer." He says ttat and difficulty of communication between the two. "God, in his own good nme, will clear him sit the It is needless to show how inapplicable these eon- 'horrible crime with which he is charged," and that siderations ale to Irelaed. We can applaud the if this is not done before he dies, it will surely be wise policy which Denmark has adopted towards i done after his death by sore iscans or other. lie Iceland with,,ut wavering in our i onfldence in the ; pap; scrupulous attentaa as his rel'{eous dutic•s, wise policy of cherishing and deveieping the unit- land is fond of repeating Is;, mei, which he says be cation of Great Britain and Ireland. We have, in. i ! .earned at the Sundae, aloe which he attended deed, long practically stamp our faith in the oon- ' when he was a little boy. He is ecrupu,onsly sietency of both hese ponlies, for Denmark is now 'retentive to hie personal appearanee, and seems beginning' , act tcwa ds Iceland only as we acted anything but east down. He is said to have slept forty y n "ice towards Canada." and eaten well up to the time when be was alleged to have been mime' with illness,  7