ENGLISH FEELING ON THE IRISH QUESTION.

Dunstan Times, Issue 984, 25 February 1881, Page 3

ENGLISH FEELING ON THE IRISH QUESTION.

Signs are tint wanting that iho influences of the Irish precedent are being gradually felt in England. A day dr two ago an Irishman, living in one of the pridrest quarters of London, when applied to for his rent, declined tdpay. They paid, ho said, "no relit iii ould Ireland,” and he did not St-o why ho should be at a disadvantage as compare! Hrith his c'Oitlpatriots, because circumstances compelled him to live in England. The tone of the speeches delivered during the last few days on the Irish crisis is significant, and it is curious that among the law-abiding and order-loving people like that of Great Britain more stress should be laid upon the necessity of removing grievances ih Ireland than of putting down afiarchy. til London the conduct of the Government ih regard to Ireland is the theme of universal denunciation, and there can be ho doubt tbit if the opinion of the prfevinces on this matter were the opinion Of the capital, indignation meetings would bo heM throughout the length and breadth of the United Kinadom. There is only one explanation for this contrast of feeling between the metropolis and the country; that the country continues as Radical as thfi last general election showed it to lie, and thitt it awaits the Irish Land Bill with extradrdinary interest, because it sees in it the herald of legislation which will shortly l-e unavoidable in England. *• If,” said one of the subordinate members of the Government the other day to his constituents, “an Irish Land Bill, givinu fixity of tenure. is passed, the detrland for a similarmeasure in England will become irresistible ; and this the farmers know.”. But if the farmers know it so do the landlords, and tbit circumstance alone will intensify the resistance to airy such proposal which the Government may make next session.