THE IRISH AGITATION.

Thames Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 3439, 2 January 1880, Page 3

THE IRISH AGITATION.

The effervescence of Irish agittfion is brief and frothy, Mr ParneU,la few weeks ago, seemed to be on the jpint of assuming an authority over the dejpcratio forces in Ireland which might be compared with that of O'Connell. But the.aodern demagogue is of a less potent moqjd than that of a former generation. Thi Irish masses threw tip their caps and^outed themselves hoarse when the cry jf-<" No Bent" was raised. Their exclment, however is already abating, and w| leave probably, a shame-faced sort of pcfitence Behind. The-failure of Mr Parnelin his attempt to reconstruct Homa Eule through the machinery of a flitional Convention was probable a: main cause of the prominence [which has since been given tcj the Anti-Bent movement. This, in Icn, is to be worked by a " machine," to £rrow a word of frequent use in African politics, and on Tuesday last the |lrish National Land League " was founjed by twenty or thirty gentlemen who mt in a room at the Imperial Hotel.| r£he demonstration^ was not very imtaing. Mr Parriell was the only ntemjkr of Parliament present, and he was ot^prse Chosen president of the Associate by the admiring Poor-Law Guardia^and patriotic newspaper reporters whaieem to have constituted the majority of tbi land reformers. Mr Biggar, though afcent, was entrusted with the important itieg of treasurer; and Mr Michael J^fjtt, whose claito to popular favor consUg in the fact that he has ended a term & j m . i prisonment as a convicted Fenian, j one of the secretaries. Major O'Gorma lite , 'Mr Biggar, was absent, but he contrived to the weight of the proceedings a s4mn afiiTmation, based, he assures ug,i n a careful study of history, " that the K nc h Kevolutionists has less * cause fbf the violence they displaced than the peasantry have now"'?^ Notwithst«|i n g these noteworthy adhesions, Mr |> ar . nell's new " machine" is appi^y wanting in- representative autb|ity. The Home Bule r membew, with fy or two exceptions, have given no oount«| nce to an undertaking which, is not| n | T intended, to prolong and aggravate i ta . tion, but to do so for the pofc ca ] advantage of Mr Parnell alone. |^ n appeal -to the Irish race " was adi[ e fl j and- Mr Parnell was intrusted wit|the duty of bringing it personally befoi tae Irish in the ( .United States^. In a " Kent" is to be collected by the^i. Bent agitators, at»d the Irish Am£ n8 are invited to contribute to this m«f or carrying on the war against the lanjfojg and the British connexion.—Titnea.jg When a unmarried 1 woman of un^| a j n ng« says she has remained sinj?kj om choice, the means that she is self.n|fc.