MR GLADSTONE'S PAMPHLET ON IRELAND.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2239, 13 November 1886, Page 1 (Supplement)

MR GLADSTONE'S PAMPHLET ON IRELAND.

A pamphlet by Mr Gladstone on the Irish question has beeu published. It is divided into two parts, " The History of an Idea," aud " The Lessons of an Election." He defends himself against the charge of precipitancy iv bringing forward his Irish scheme, and maintains that he only displayed promptitude. To have missed the opportunity would have been not less clearly wrong than to reluse to wait till it can:e. In the second part of the pamphlet Mr Gladstone principally seeks to draw attention to the bearings of the late elections on the Irish question. His estimate of the loss of the Liberal strength at the elections in consequence of the schism is two-sevenths. There was nothing in the recent defeat to abate the hope or modify the anticipations of those who desiied to meet the wants and wieihfb of Ireland, as the Dissentient Liberals seemed now to be pledged to an immediate and la rare concession, while even some Ministerialists had declared themselves favourable to a large concession. Ho repudiates the statement thifc his measure this year meant separation, and asset ts that It eland disclaims the idea of separation. In a postscript Mr Gladstone comments on the Ministerial proposals in respect to Ireland, and sops in them a he.ivy Mow to coeicion and remarked progtess.

Yrsuvios is proposing the Autumn tourists a treat, as it is just now sending forth vsist volum?s ot vapour to a very lofty heisjhl, and has also belched forth from t.ime to time that black smoke which is indicative of more than ordinary internal commotion.

Cab»i\ t al M v\ni\(J, sjxwking theother day .it Old i {all College 1 , pionounml himself ;iii enemy ot giamtmir. "As for Euglit«h, >% lie .'•ay.*, " I have a great ani-ino-ity auaiust jrritiniiian'.iii'-. (Jiammar does come in the order of nature. We speak if because we have learned it, from our earliest consciousness (,'i iimnarians are tho-e who come after and abuie us for our use of our mother ton^iv 1 . I know no a ibject more abstract ana niet.ipby.sical than grammar. It, treats ci persons, of actions, passions in all the 1 elation of lime and of circumstances, and of all conditions under which thought (m ( < be conceived and language can bespoken. That is not a scieneo for beginners. It is a tot turn intended for u«. %> His Eminence evidently would have "little sympathy with the cour-o that deals so minutely with (he analysis of sentences and other bosh of the Kind — calculated only to confirm the dunce or form tho pedant.

The "Sydney Bulletin" thus make meirj' at our expense : — Long years of •jrovernmeiit have taught tho New Zealand people how to get revenue out of most thing's— even other people's misfortune*. Bmkiuptcy is a fine ar* in tho Britain f >r the South, md, 'iftcr a goo I mmy attempt-), the Government hive learned how to make it pay. List year there weto 1800 bankrupts in the colony, and the fee* paid to the Treasury under the Act cirao to £18,r2G. The Gloveru-ine-.t piid for mmairing and winding up the estates, £9918, and, of course, picketed the odd £8608. Tho sum wa.»n't much, but it was on tho ri>rlit side of the ledger, acd it was no douht comforting. Meanwhile the creditors got on an average throe shillings and a farthing 1 in the £. Let in hope they -wero comforted too." " Mr. Fkruuson." — In a recent communication to the I) dly Telegraph, Mr. Sala, writing from New Zealand, says; — "This, for a wonder, is the suunieht and bilmiest of mornings in Wellington. Never mind tho 'chookablock' plethora at tho hotel.". I forget now that for many hours I was a houseUs.s wanderer on the To Aro flat, disdainfully repulsed by Boniface after Boniface, and ruefully recalling that famous but inscrutable mysterious "utterance of the very first year of the Viotori.m epoch: 'It's all very avjll, Mr. Feiguson, but you can't lodgo bore.' Mow strangely do these unbidden memories rise, after a long lapse of years, before us! Who was Ferguson, and -where did he seek to lodge, and on what ground was he denied shelter ? It wore as booties*, perhaps, at this distance of time, and with so many railes between Wellington, New Z-il.md, and the oili«a of Notes and Queries, in Wellington-street, Strand, London, as to ask who Walker \va*, and why, nearly fifty yu.ii'N atfii, he yas deiwvely connected wit 1 * i certain <oat, some 'tiu, 1 and the ue v Penny Post. 'Cu'lum mmHtiiu.im,' &'\ I shall not descend contented to the tomb uulil I have solved the mysteries of Ferguson ana of Walker." With reor.ud to tho above reference to " Mr. Feteruson," a correspondent of Notes and Queries, Thomas E".rwaker7 wn'tes as follow*:— "I should not like Mr JSala, io 'descend to the tomb' until one of his queues, at lea-t, has been solved. About the time to which Mr. Sala alludes the celebrated Mirquis of Water ford was in full swing, and had a fiienrl, a Captain Fenru-on. At the end of one their 'sprees' they had become separated, and the marquis found his wav home to the house of h\> undo, the Bishop or Archbi^bop of Atm.mh, a large mansion at the south, comer of Charles-street, St. Janie^Vsquaie. The marquis had gone to bpd, when a thunlering knock come to the door. The nuiquis, RH^pet'tinjy who was iV np')licir.r, threw up tho window and «.i\l, "ir i- all v«iy fine, Ferguson ; but y"i d<wi % t lod^re here.' For in..ny years the -pvinsr bec'ime popular, and tko I'ttni'-u hi-s took a deep hoM on my memory, witioh still retains thorn, 1