IRISH AFFAIRS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3737, 16 February 1891, Page 2

IRISH AFFAIRS.

DETAILS OF MR GLADSTNE'S COMPACT. SURRENDER OF MESSRS' DILLON AND O'BRIEN. ; London, February 12. Mr Justin McCarthy has explained to his followers that Mr Gladstone bad given a written assurance that the Home Rule Bill should authorise the Irish Parliament to deal with the land, unless the question was settled beforehand, or in a specified period after Home Rule was granted. The Parliament would also be allowed the control of the Civil Police, replac - ing the present torce within five years.

Messrs Dillon and O'Brien surrendered themselves to the authorities at Folkstone to-day. February Is.

Messrs O'Brien and Dillon, who have been interviewed, state that they advised Mr Parnell to make the fight an impersonal one as far as possible.Mr Dillon says he would prefer to retire rather than serve under Mr Parnell.

SSveral prominent members of t,he Gladstonian Party have heen making financial arrangements with the party led by Mr Justin M'Carthy for carrying on a Home Rule'campaign, but decline to give any monetary assistance to evicted tenants.

The Times says that Mr Gladstone's promised concessions to the Home Bule amount to nothing more than empty words, unless separation pure and simple is intended. The same journal considers thst Mr Parnell'g jeal opponents in Ireland are the priests.

The Standard remarks that Mr Gladstone is vainly humiliated, since he sees Mr Parnell is inexorable.

The Daily Times believes that the rupture over the leadership of the Irish Party will eventually result in the triumph of the Liberal cause and the breaking up of Parnellism. Mr Justin M'Carthy declares that he conducted negotiations with Mr parnell on Jibe basi§ that it \yas impossible that Mr lßarneir could retain the leadership of the Party.

The news of the rupture between Meesr3 M'Carthy and Parnell has caused a gloomy feeling in Ireland, and it is considered to have grsatiy injured the prospects of the Home Bule cause.