THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi TUESDAY, JANUARY 13, 1880.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3448, 13 January 1880, Page 2

THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi TUESDAY, JANUARY 13, 1880.

Late advices by the mail show that the late departure of Mr Parnell and his brother Home rulers—namely, the antirent agitation in Ireland—is bearing evil fruit, and the disturbances in that country, which we had hoped were to be but dark pages in the history of the past, bid fair to be revived in all their rancourous intensity. Jieceut events show that the Irish nation when in a state of quietude is but 'a powder mine, ready to explode when anyone can be found with the will and the power to apply the torch. In the present instance the Guy Fawkes has been Mr Parnell. Circumstances have assisted the of his object. The present commercial and agricultural distress, prevalent in the United Kingdom, has affacted the peasant of Galway as well as the tenant farmer of Lincoln, and the Irish landlords, not too sympathising with their somewhat thankless tenants, have, in many instances, exercised their rights as possessors -of the soil. This and other circumstances have afforded an opportunity to the leader of the Home Eule party, and it being taken advantage of, the country is in a state of ferment. Lesser lights in the National party by their stump orations have not improved matters, which have come to Jfcuch a head that in the interests of law and order the Government found themselves under the necessity ot arresting three Irish agitators for sedition. This action has inflamed the seditious feeling still more, and it is impossible to say where the agitation will end. W e fear that strong ■ measures will have to be adopted to obviate the chanco of an open rebellion; indeed, our calograms today are by no means reassuring, containing as they do intelligence of conflicts between mobs and the police. Ireland's blood is evidently at fever heat, and the cooling process will be anything but an easy task for the British Government.