Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1882-07-01 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

PRESS OPINIONS.  THE RECENT DISCOVERY OF CONCEALED ARMS.  The Times in this connection rernarks that the din. °every of a conceand store of arms in Clerkenwell having become the subject of a public prosecution, it is proper to touch upon the facts disclosed with caution and reserve. It is impossible, however, to suppose that, whatever may be the responsibility of individuals in. criminated or suspected, so great a quantity of weapons and ammunition could have becn collected and kept in secrecy except for treasonable or criminal ends. We have had, unfortunately, more than enough of proof that Irish disaffection is at the present time as reck/e,s and ruthless as stony former period in the history of Ireland. The determined and systematic ferocity of the agrarian reign of terror was not exceeded in blackness of guilt by the political munlers in the Ph rnixspark. It is in the highest degree improbable that the organizers of crime in Ireland will boldly face the consequences of an open conflict with the irresistible power of the Imperial Government. lint even this extreniity of wickedness and folly is not wholly impossible on the part of the desperate men by whom the Irish Executive is confronted."  The Daily News cannot help feeling that "whatever the destination of the arms may have been, the satisfaction felt at their discovery wool I have been greater had the police shown a little more shrewdness. The stable was taken early in February. Some of the arms were deposited in it before the end of that month, and they have probably been gradually accumulating ever since. The police mem to have been told by the neighbours the day before the seizure. and they at once ascertained the suspicious character of the contents of the building. A watch was kept all night, and early the next morning the place was broken open and the seizure made. This was not the way to Gad out very much about the people who were concerned in the business. It was putting up a notice at once warning them not to come near. The place should have been watched by detectives who knew their business till it had hien visited ; any visitors should have been I. Dewed ; and it is not impoisible that other deliveries might have taken place, and their source been trace.l. The simplicity with which the police at once make everything public suggests their incompetency to grapple with secret Fenian organisations.. In lamenting this new discovery, the Daily Chronicle contains the following: Within six weeks of the resignation of Mr. Forster, the soil of Ireland has been disgraced by a number of atrocious murders, a seizure has taken ttlace in London of a large number of arms apparently intended for an illegal purpose and the military authorities in Ireland have been forced to take precautions which cannot fail to alarm peaceful minds. Those precautions clearly show that the authorities are in possession of information which leads them to expect some overt act of aeditiou. And yet, while these treasonable &sigma are being hatched in the country, while the means for carrying them out is being secretly collected, there are men who advise the relaxation of Irish government, and who would, if their advice were followed, leave the Irish Executive at the mercy of those dmperate and plotting mi. :reams. Such men will doulolms make good their on n fo ly, and declare that the recent discovery of arms and she information which has alarmed the authorities in Ireland only furnish fresh arguments for abandoning that country to the tender mercie. of the Land League. No country ever was governed, or ever will be governed, on each principles, and any Government which attempted the task would meet with the moat grievous dimppointment. Lotus consider without passion the claims of the Irish people, but let us deal rmolutely with those who foster crime and sedition.  ENGLISH INTERESTS _IN