Two Assassinations in Ireland.

Patea Mail, 8 May 1882, Page 2

Two Assassinations in Ireland.

THE NEW SECRETARY STABBED.

( Reuter's Despatch to the Mail.)

London, Jsth, Lord ... Frederick Cavedish, the ; new Chief 'Secretary foi Ireland, and Mr. Burke, UnderSecretary, were - walking through Phoenix -Park, - Dublin,' -this'''evenTng. when they were both horribly; stabbed i° ■ No •. further particulars have transpired ; and so far as is known no arrests have been made. /

Lord Frederick CavendisV was brother of the Marquis of Hartington and second son of the Duke of Devon shire. Lord Frederick, had just, sue ceeded Mr W. , E,' Forster' as "the Minister- representing Ireland 'in Mi Gladstoh s-Gabmet ; and Was -regarded’ j-a? inaugurating a milder policy toward! Ireland, the first act of that polic l being the -please of Mr , Parnell anl other promi nenfc^agitators. Mr Forste had left the'Mihistry because he refnsei to be responsible for the. consequences <3 releasing those suspected persons wlioi the other: Ministers proposed to set a liberty. Mr Forster; ;then‘ attkckei the Ministry strongly,-from his place ii Parliament,: for relaxing their poerciv measures. ..Mr Forster bad madeVton of (he Irish provinces, -and-had orderei or sanctioned , the arrest of "many sus pected person's, Parnell an< several: other hvem berg of Parliament. Lord Frederick Cavendish appears t< Have gone to Ireland at this time, whil Paflianlieiit is silting th infbrihdiimsel by observation of the political conditioi of the ;;bbuntry,'-;'"ax|d" extent 4< which coercive: : .measnres be ; . re laxed. He was* accompanied by Mi Burke, the" parliamentary Under Secretary for Ireland ; and it would seem, -from their in Dublin r together, that some .change of system was contemplated by the Government. There had also been a change in the ornamental yet important office of Viceroy. These changes indicated some radical alteration ; but- before the new policy conld be explained to Parliament, a horrible,double murder has cut down two members of Government who represent Irish affairs in Parliament. The crime is one against civilisation. Its tendency will be to estrange the? sympathy \of igerferous politicians in every country, and shock the sensibility of mankind. Those Irishmen who wish to ameliorate the condition ,of their unhappy, country will repudiate all sympathy : with these outrageous murders.