11 JUNE 1881, Page 1

Mr. Parnell addressed a meeting of Irishmen in ,Hyde Park

on Sunday, in a speech which he would probably describe as " moderate," but which was, in reality, a demand that Govern- ment should cease to enforce the law in Ireland, and in form something even more unjust than that. After giving a history of Colonel Hare, who, he declared, had evicted eighty families from his estate, and who after this speech may consider himself as for- mally denounced as the Czar, he maintained that Government could ascertain the history of any landlord, and that it ought to ascertain it, and specially refrain from assisting one who was "unjust." In other words, the Government is not to permit any creditors of Mr. Parnell to sue him, unless it has first ascer- tained what the moral character of each may be. A low- charging saddler may have a writ, but a high-charging wine merchant must go without his money. A more grotesque form of tyranny was never suggested, or one which Irishmen in their sane moods would more speedily reject ; yet the Irish present applauded because Mr. Parnell denounced most of the landlords as unjust men, abused Mr. Forster, and asserted that the Irish people have been "too patient,"—a significant hint, which ought to have been uttered in Dublin, not London. The meeting, by way of encouraging Mr. Gladstone and the Liberal majority in their painful efforts for the good of Ire- land, " resolved " that " the Government is criminally respon- sible for the deplorable condition" of that country. After all, is it of any use even to attempt to benefit a people so irrational P