The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR P.M. Resurrexi. TUESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1885.

Thames Star, Volume XVI, Issue 5005, 27 January 1885, Page 2

The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR P.M. Resurrexi. TUESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1885.

Thb inrentor of that powerfully destruoagent, dynamite, baa, apparently, a great deal to answer for, when the occurrences of the past.few years in various European cities are taken into consideration. This explosive and many with somewhat similar properties, have been reported as being used successfully in France, Germany, Russia, Italy, and lastly,'though unfortunately, it has of late been more frequently in England. Anarchists have sought iB aid for purposes in some cases openly expressed, but in late instances, in Great Britain particularly, for reasons which are wrapt in mystery. The dastardly attempts' made recently to wreck various Government buildings in London come under the latter clause, and until the culprits are discovered it would be as^well to refrain from charging a nation with the villainy attached to them. We regret to say that the idea exists, not only in the minds of persons ever ready to believe that every treasonable atrocity, committed in the United Kingdom emanates from a portion of it, viz, Ireland, but that journalists who should be, and as a rule think they are> leaders of public opinion, fall into the same error of placing to the credit of that country each and every diabolical movement chronicled. This is not only very unjust, but tends to seriously interfere with the settlement of any disagreements which may exist between that portion of Great Britain and its governors. It seems irrational to brand a whole nation as out-throats and murderers because a few of those born within it have been guilty of horrible crimes; it is most unreasonable to associate an assembly of men formed for such political purposes as land reform, and other changes in internal government, with a band of creatures whose bloody work has caused the diecorning world to shudder; it is beyond the bounds of common sense to herd together, even in imagination,men—who seeklegitimately and constitutionally to remedy wrongs which may be even exaggerated by them in the eyes of their opponents— with a gang of unprincipled ruffians, whose actions have unfortunately cast a blot, undeserved though-it may be, on the country which they disgraced by being born in it. TakiDg into consideration all these things, it would be, we imagine, as well to find out positively who is respon» sible not only. for the execution of the late villainous attempt to wreck the Pub-, lie Buildings in London, but who are the originators of the dastardly scheme, ■before atcribing the action to what may prove to be a wrong source. United action on the part of European Powers generally might be, with advantage, taken to make most strenuous efforts to quell those inhuman and unnatural attempts, not only on property, but on life, and doubtless other powers will follow the lead America has taken in such a direction.