The Kenilworth Advertiser. — 1880-10-02 (Kenilworth, Warwickshire, England)

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 2. 1880.  WHATEVER may be the issue of the present agitation in Ireland, no rightminded man can fail to be horrified at the repeated acts of outrage and even assassination which are marking its blood-stained course. The latest victim is Lord MOUNTMORRES, who was shot in the most cowardly manner. At present only one arrest has been made, and it is extremely doubtful whether justice will be brought home to the murderers. It is some consolation to know that the Land League indignantly denies any complicity in the affair, but we cannot altogether- acquit the speakers who have thought proper to address most inflammatory harangues to an excited people. They so word their speeches that calmly read in a newspaper in England there does not seem much harm in them, but when uttered to persons who are gradually being worked into a state of frenzy, they act like lighted matches on gunpowder and produge explosions, which bring ruin on all concerned. Rightly or wrongly these repeated acts of murder will be set down to the agitators, and we may expect to hear of stern measures being adopted in return. We would like to add that while we sympathise with those Irishmen who have suffered wrong, and who, perhaps, during the last two years have had difficulty in keeping body and soul together, we most emphatically condemn all acts of murder and outrage. When the miscreants who have been guilty of these crimes, who are probably not Irishmen at all, but American desperadoes, have expiated their offences, we should like to see a friendly policy pursued towards Ireland and Irishmen, believing as we do that the natives of the Emerald Isle are more amenable to kindness than force.  THE naval demonstration, about which we have heard so much lately, will either ' end in harmless smoke, or it will be the prelude to a series of acts, the ultimate result of which no man can foresee. The idea is that theMontenegrins are to attack the town under cover of the shells from the fleet, but if we may judge anything from the rumours sent home by special correspondents, the Montenegrins are in no great hurry to advance, and will probably wait till Dulcigno has been pretty well shelled before they even make an attempt. The Albanians, who at present hold the town, have secured some very strong positions, and it is said that in the event of hostilities, the Turkish regulars, who muster some 6,000 would probably help the Albanians. The Turkish authorities most peremptorily refuse to surrender either Dulcigno or any other portion of the Ottoman territory. Nay, further, they openly assert that they will protect the integrity of the Ottoman empire by force of arms, if need be, and will make no scruple at firing on Montenegrins or any other hostile force. So far as this country is concerned, we are place in something like a dilemma. On the one hand if we steam away without assisting the Montenegrins to capture Dulcigno, we shall make ourselves the laughing-stock of Europe; on the other it seems to us that if we shell Dulcigno, and the Turks return our fire, as they are pretty sure to do, it looks very like a declaration of war—nay, the actual commencement of hostilities against Turkey. It is doubtful whether either the French or German irouclads will materially assist us, and Russia may perhaps make a catspaw of us, laughing in her sleeve that Englishmen are at last playing her game. It would not surprise us if England is eventually landed in a war with Turkey, while the other European powers look on, waiting for their opportunity to rush in and divide , the spoil. The situation looks awkward.