The Irish Question

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2, 17 June 1886, Page 2

The Irish Question

[BEUTEb'B TBLBGBAMB.I London, June 14. Mr Gladstone, in his manifesto, maintains silence "respecting the Irish Laud Purchase, and laments the necessity for another general election, especially at the present time) when the natural cry is for repose. He also deprecates the bigotry displayed by the Scotch and 'Irish Presbyterians,, and . denounces, what he- terms, the present paper union of Ireland and England. • % Mr Parnell and Mr Justin McCarthy have published damaging details of an interview with the Earl of Carnarvon, in which they insist that the Earl promised to grant a- protective tariff, and sketched out an Irish.- constitution on the model of colonial constitutions, and at the same time expresssed himself as personally in favor of Home Rule being granted to Ireland. Earl' Carnarvon has emphatically denied the above statement;'" :? ' ': The Fenian Brotherhood have issued a manifesto, in which they declare that the dynamite truce which has existed for some time past is how; at an end. : The newspapers declare Mr Glad- 1 atones manifesto to his "constituents j to be weak. • ■""', ■ The Moonlighters in the South and ! West of Ireland : have organised,themselves' IfatQ r a , ppdy, with; ja centrid council of control. v/ The Vatican haa advised the Irish Bishops to abstain from taking part in the approaching political strife.