IRISH AFFAIRS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2164, 17 February 1891, Page 4

IRISH AFFAIRS.

London, Feb, 13. 1 In a loiter to Mr O’Brien, Mr Parnell 1 regrets that the 1J mo Rule assurances l given by the Liberal parly are not sufii-' cient for the safegnard of the national interest, or *o jostily him in retiring from the heart of the parly. He states that as the spirit of ihedeadliest hostility to the union of the party is evinced from a quarter least expected, be will personal y attend to his duties in Parliament and pursue an active campaign in Ireland, j Mr McCarthy explained to bis fo'otvirs that Mr Gladstone had given a written assurance that the Home Role Bill should aaibnrise the Irish Parliament to deal with Ihe land unless lb« question was settled beforehand or in a specified period after Home Rule was granted. Parliament would: also be allowed the contnl of the civil police, n-, placing the present force within five years; fha party acquitted Mr McCarthy of blame for the rapture, and resolved to con'inoe to support him. ' Messrs Dillon and O’Brien surrendered at Folkestone to-day. , Messrs O’Brien and Dillon, who have been interviewed, state they advised Mr, Parnell to make the fight an impersonal on** as far as possible. ■ Mr Dillon says he would prefer to,-retire rather than serve under Mr Parne'l, February 14. Several prominent members of tbq Gladstone party, have been making financial arrangements with the party! led by Mr Justin McCarthy for carrying on the Home Rule campaign, but decline to give any monetary assistance to evicted tenants. Toe Times says that Mr Gladstone’s promised concessions to the Home Rale party amount to nothing more than empty words unless separation pure and simple is intended., The same journal considers that Mr Parnell’s real opponents in Ireland are the priests, . The news of the rupture between Mr McCarthy and Mr Parnell has caused a gloomy feeling in Ireland, and it is considered ;to have greatly injured the prosp p clsofthe Horai Rule cause. It is stated that the demand made by! Mr Parnell for an absolute pledge that the control of the police in Ireland would be conceded at an early dale, prevented an amicable settlement of the question of the leadership. . Messrs Dillon and O’Brien . will serve their sentences jn. Gaol, Tipperary. They tpet with a poor reception on their arrival in Dublin.