The Kenilworth Advertiser. — 1890-08-16 (Kenilworth, Warwickshire, England)

DIFFICULTY. On a broad view of the facts of the Irish agitation it seems to the Spectator absolutely impossible to deny that the political question in Ireland was utterly and conspicuously subordinate to the agrarian question. And still more it ignores the chief ground of hostility between Mr. Gladstone in tits new phase, and hie old colleagues, which has not been due to his Home Rule policy, which they could understand, but to his inventing excuses for all those acts of the Irish irreconcilables whereon ho used to pass those grand and vehement censures in which the earnestness of his character shone forth. But beyond and above all this, the Liberal Unionists say that Ireland, after all, is only a subordinate portion of the United Kingdom ; that the true welfare of the whole is more than the trim welfare even of a part ; and that it is quite conceivnble that even if Ireland herself were to gain in prosperity by the proposed constitutional change, though that is not their 7wn view, the new looseness mid weakness of the United Kingdom would far more than overbalance the advantage of the change. These are the points on the strength of which we maintain that it is not hatred of Ireland, and still lees depreciation of Mr. Gladstone, which render it necessary for Liberal Unionists to resist the rashest policy which has ever been proppsed in this cesttury, and to insist that Mr. Gladstone, great aud magnanimous though he nifty be, has sliewn a want of coherence in his political purposes, and a reckleseness of intellectual resource, .which render him no safe leader for English  ,pletions,  become.  t—the  Libersl.  at.aatm.asta tOCECUTION. Whether there are to be any repetitions of the Auburn experiment is, in the opinion of the Saturday Review, a question that chiefly concerns the people of New York State. They at least know what to expect when the will of the faddist becomes the law of the land. Without doubt they are learning the lesson aright Li profit by it, foreseeing possibly that the campaign of the humane execrp tioners, begun and continued in clamour, will end in clamour, and " the people" will rage furiously for repeal. Conviderieg the fussiness and excitement that have attended the movement, such a fate were a proper and dramatic conclusion. Like the illustrious orator in "Paradise Lost," the leaders had Joked for the apprebat ion of humanity, anti do now hear the his of pehlic scorn. That the =rent was twice switched off and thrice applied is a very ugly circumstance. It sliews there was dis'must aswell as bungling among the scientific', as it es incredible that non-professional hands directed the experiment. All accoents agree in describing the scene as extremely loathsome. Nothing could be more discordant mitt) a silent, swift, and certain execution, such as was promised, than the excitement, the morbid curiosity, the profuse newspaper discussion, that preluded and accompanied this affair. The details of the experiment itself, horrible though they ere, are not more sickening than the picture of the eager crowd of spectators, the swoonjugs, the hysterical sympathy, and other elements of a sensational show. Ti' judge from the reported language of an eminent physician present, it might have been the sufferings of a martyr in a cause worthy of sympathy, instead of a murderer's execution under the law of the land. Perhaps the doctor considered too well the holy cause of science. Certainly no com Veter way of diverting sentimental sympathy from his victim to the criminal was ever offered in the name of justice or Lionanity.  From Mn.