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MARCH 25, 1886

The Insh Question.

As the time draws near when Mr. Gladstone is to present his scheme for righting the wrongs of Ireland, the ex- citement becomes greater and speculation more reckless) What Mr. Gladstone can accomplish remains to be seen. But we are of opivion,that there does*not exist a Party in the British Parliament who ean propound a scheme which will satisfy all. It may not be amiss just at this stage to take a review of the history of the [rish question, and then wait for the light which is promised us in the month ot April.

Going as far back as 1789, we have an uobroken line of agitation ; agitation which assumed such proportions in the eyes of British statesmen as required the enforcement-of Coercion Acts. From 1789 to 1802, an insurrection act was in From 1803 to 1805 martial law insurrection act was again in force from 1807 to 1810, and from 1814 to 1818, and from 1822 to 1828, and from 1823 to 1825. There it stopped ; but then came courts martial ,theu a Magistrate Coercion Act from 1834 to 1835. In addition to this list of restrictions, the Habeas Corpus Act has been suspended three times since the union. Weare all more or less acquainted with the history of coercion from O'Connell’s time down to the present, so that the dates need not be given here. These facts tell us—if they mean auything-—the state of the couatry requiring such enactments. Whether there was just cause ou the one side or on the other, whether British statesmen had reason to suppose Coercion Acts a success that they should so often have enforced them, is not the question. All we now do is simply to direct attention to the state of the country which can reasonably be inferred from the contiou- ous enforcement of such acts.

force.

was established. The

Oo more than one occasion the fires

which these acts were supposed to queoch burst out out with re- newed energy. The principal of these — those which took _ the

form of organizatioo—may be given as the Rebellion of 1798 which we wiil pass by. Then came the days of O'Connell and the Repeal Association. In January, at the weekly meeting of the Association, O'Connell announced that “ 1843 is and shall be the great repeal year.” He ab- stained himself from attendance in Par- liament to devote himself to that system of political agitation. The organization was to be supported and extended by means of subscription. Ou the 16th of March he addressed 30,000 people at Trim, and referred to the physica! force by which he was surrounded as some- thing much more effectual than idle pe- titioniag of Parliament. At the begin- ning of May, the agitation had become sufficiently formidable, to make a declar- ation of the intention of the Government a matter of imperative necessity. On the 15th of August the Hill of Tara saw a wonderful sight. Almost half a mil- liou people assembled, to hear the great man declare that the day was come when they would no longer be slaves—when the land should overflow with plenty, and every one should hold his half acre with fixity of tenure. Oa the 8th of October a monster meeting was to be held at Glontarf, near Dublin, but be- cause of the language used in calling it, the meeting was declared by the Govern- meat to be illegal, and on the 14th of that month O'Connell aud his principal associates were arrested.

Any careful reader must be impressed with the fact that the sagitation of O'Connell must in- evitably beget some movement, and hence will not be surprised that there should arise out of his work an organization which carrie! on Irish agitation. Tais was the Young Ireland Society. Identi fied with this movement we have such mea as Mr. William Smith O’Brien, Mearher, Mitchell aad Daffy; and the outcome of its work, what is koown

as the Rebellion of ’48. The movement came and vanished like a shadow. It never had any reality or

substance in it. Concerning it Mr. Justin McCarthy says, “ it was a literary and poetic inspiration altogether.” It is auother illustration of the fact exempli- fied in O’Connell’s movement, that in Irish politics, a climax cannot be repeat- ed or recalled.

Fenianism, which, according to Mr. O'Donnell, M. P., was bred in the camps of the American Civil War, if not ac- tually bora on its batile fields, was tho next to occupy the field. Its propagation | in Jreland was sudden, and its work | comparatively undefined. The _ pro- cession which attended the body

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listment of innumerable recruits to the | Parliamentary Notes.

Fenian cause. Fifty thousand men | we _——

marched in military order behind the —Too many of our legisiators are body through the streets ot the Irish | afliicted with the vice of volubility. In capital. A quarter of a million of peo-| five hour speeches on the Landry motion ple thronged the sideways aud the public iI arliament has lost another week. But places. The Fenian leaders recognized | the end has been reached at last, and the in the surging masses the raw materials | Government sustained by a majority of for their purpose, and the most sanguite | ninety-four.

boasted that there would sonn be au [rish | Tt has been stated that Mre‘Landry’s army on Lrish soil to equal the [rish | motion was submitted at the instigation

host which was collecting beneath the the Atlantic,

army was the not inconsiderable task of the Fenian Directory.”

Many grave and deliberate men not given to dreaming, considered that the aid of the United States would be given in restoring the independence of Ireland as a reward to the Irish for their share in restoring the authority of the Ameri- can Union.

But it was not to be so. Whether the government or the nature of things put an end to the Brotherhood we do not assert; but it passed to the majority. O'Donnell himself confessed that * the so-called Fenian insurrection is rather to be regarded as largely the desperate attempt of the hottest heads and fiercest hearts of the organization to do some- thing to justify or at least fo save from shame the proud predictions which had filled the columus of the Fenian press, aud the addresses of the Fenian leaders, while American citizenship was still stung by the recognition of the Southera belligerents and when American com- merce was stil! infuriated by the exploits of the Alabama.

The death of the Fenian Brotherhood was not the death of Ireland’s hope. It may have taught Irish leaders that inde- pendence was not to be obtained just then. But they did not cease to work. There is something fitful in lrish agitation it is true; but during the last twenty years there has been a steady movement, and organization has appeared under Land Leaguers,Home Rulers and Nationalists. As the movements under the rule of these organizations are fresh in the miods of our readers, we need not enter the field or recount the progress made. We may now raise the question, “What are the grievances concerning which lreland complains ?” O’Counell, in a document datel 27th July, 1841—‘‘The enumeration of the grievances of which the Irish people complain”—sets torth the whole matter under ten articies; but as the greater part of these are things of the past, we need not enter intothe dis- cussion of them. All inequality of the commercial advantages has been done away with. The civil rights of the Catholic population have been restored to them. ‘The prizes of professional and of political life in Ireland, and every British dependency, have been throwa Open, in law, aud ta fact, to Catholic as well as Protestant Irish.

Whatever Ireland has jto complain of it is not lack of legislation; for between 1801 and 1833 it has been computed that 114 commissions, and 60 select com- mittees sat upon [rish affairs, and within the same period of time Irish affairs were the subject of no less than 4,118 public, and 197 local acts of parliameot. How many have been passed since,we are not prepared to say. Any one, however, acquainted with the history of Ireland, can imagine, but on every occasion the problem had to be taken up atresh, the evil to be probed more thoroughly than ever, some new cause to be sought for in explanation of the phenomena before them, with only this result for certain: that the cause of the trouble evidently lay in something which all previous remedies had failed to reach. Past legislation may, however, have had this effect, that, in removing miuor grievances, the major now present themselves to Mr. Gladstone’s cabinet.

These may be taken as Land Reform, Home Rule and Independence. As regards the first of these it is almost

beyond a doubt that any scheme brought forward will be _ vigor- ously opposed eapecially if it

looks towards increasing the national debt; for it must be remembered that though confiscation of the lands of the old Irish lords has not been reversed, yet the hand of time has passed over them, and the question has reached the stage at which, in the opinion of many reasonable men, the reversa) of an in- justice is but an injustice the more. However strong this feeling may be the land question must be firmly taken in hand aud dealt with as it deserves. This and Home Rule are the only questions which are likely to perplex the Govern- ment. The question of Independence we cannot view in any other ‘light than one which will find an almost united opposi- tiou from the House, and for that reasou not likely to form a part of the platform of any party. We cannot regard either au absolute or a qualified separation of the

Bellew McManus, one

of the rebels of °48,

who |

two countries otherwise than a dishonor to one, and a serious misfortane to both.

died in San Francisco early in the year} The mere geographical position of the

1860, and whose remains were borne

two countries makes them far more fit to

through the cities of America and across | exist as one nation thaa as two. Not

the Atlantic to their fiaal resting place | ouly are they more powerful for defence in Glasuevin, was the ceremonial which | against a foreign enemy combined than announced that the period of active pre- | separate, but if separate they would be a paration had arrived, and that the gen-| standing menace to one another. Parted eral design of the party of insurrection | at the present time and with their pre- was now fixed. From the 80th of | sent feelings, the two Islands would be, October, 1861. the day of the arrival of | of all countries in Europe, those which the funeral ship at Queenstown, to the | would have the most hostile dispositions 10th of November, the day of the inter- ' toward oue another,

meot at Dubliv, was a time of intense |

— , of excitement aud profound emotion in |

lof the Government. But the statement

banner of the Disuaited States beyond | has been denied by the Hon. Mr. Thomp- anti How to turn that mass Of! son and other Ministers; and it is more processionists and spectators into an}

than likely that Mr. Landry’s motive was to “get ahead” of his compatriots in the House, and to give his name a prominent place in the debate. That it was not framed by the Government is evident, from the fact that it is worded to catch the vote of every member who, on any ground whatever, might regret that the traitor had been hanged. Apart, altogether, from those who sym- |pathised with him because of his race and religion, then there are some who “ regret” that Riel was hanged because they are opposed to “ Capital Panish- ment,” and others who “ regret” because they believe that in allowing the law to take its course, the Government made Riel a hero and martyr in the estimation of a large part of the populace of Canada. Thus it will be seen that Mr. Landry’s motion was evidently framed with a view to obtaining for it the largest support that could possibly be obtained. That the Government met the issue squarely shows that they felt sure ofthe strength of their case, and that they have been borne out triumph- antly by such a handsome majority, proves the soundness of their jadgmeat.

---The question of the execution of Riel having thus been disposed of, Mr. Blake will no doubt, at the earliest opportunity, attack the policy and admiuisiraticn of the Government respecting the North- west; and another long debate will, therefore take place in the great Can- adian talking shop. We may, however, indulge the hope that some little busi- ness willin the meantime be done. The estimates are to be tabled at once, and it is probable that the Budget Speech will! be delivered on Tuesday next.

—It is pleasing to notice that of the speeches delivered on the Landry motion, two of the best were delivered by members for the Maritime Provinces. The reputation of Mr. Landry (of Kent, N. B.) has risen decidedly ‘as a result ot his fluent, pointed and logical address; and Hon. J. 8. D. Thompson has been classed as a speaker with Mr. Blake. This may, perhaps, be too high an esti- mate of the oratorical abilities of the Min- ister of Justice ; but should he lack any- (hing in this respect, we are well assured that he is far ahead of Mr, Blake in the sierling qualities of sound judgment and high principle.

—The continued illness of Sir Joha A. McDonald is, on the other hand, a_ sub- ject of regret and anxiety to all his friends. But the Opposition journals having re ported that ** he will not appear in the H ouse again this Session,” his re- turn at an early day, with health renew- ed,may be confidently expected, —for Grit prophecies, like dreams, always go by contraries.

—The Montreal Gazette remarks that he who looketh not upon the wine-cup when it is red may take comfort to him- self when he reads the tollowing para- graph from a recent circular of the United States Treasury department. The ingredients of the peculiar “ fruit juice” therein described do not strike the mind as likely to form an appetizing compound, though it is evident that the trade init is not a small one, else cus- toms regulations regarding it would not be issued. He who avoids the bar- keeper's seductive mixtures, evidently escapes taking many a strange draught that would not tead to improve the tone of his stomach. The circular reads as follows :—

So-called “fruit juice,” which, upon examina- tion, was found to consist of a concentrated solu- tion of an artificial napthaline dye, containing pyroligneous acid and starchy and saccharine matter, free from alcchol, does not constitute the fruit juice specified inthe tariff act, but being a preparation employed for coloring liquors or wines, is dutiable at the rate of 50 per cent. ad valorem, under the provision ia schedule A, T. L, new, 117, for ** coloring for brandy.”

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The value of an investment is best shown by its improvement in the past ; its present valueand its prospective advantages. The facta and figures now stated by the Equit- able go to show that that company has never taken a backward step; it has ad- vanced in the face of opposition ; it has withstood the influences of civil war, finan- cial panics and periods of business depres- sion. Its remarkable growth, and the fact that in every essential particular it has sur- passed all other assurance companies, in. cluding those organized many years before it, prove the justice of its claim that it offers future benefits and advantages which other companies can hardly expect to attain.

la January, 1880, its assets were scarcely over $100,000. Ten years afterwards they amounted to $10,500,000. Ten years later to $37,000,000. And to-day they amount to $66,500,000.

Its surplus, which is lirger than that of any other company, on whatever basis it is calculated, amounts to between thirteen and fourteen millions.

Its total income for 1885 was over $16,- 500,000, and during the year its premium income showed an advancs of $1,400,000, its surplus an increase of $3,300,000, and its asseta an increase of over $8.900,000.

Ireland. the fuseral, as it proceeded slowly across > island, was marked by the gathering Of sympathizing multitudes aud the en-

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