The Irish have not been quite justly treated by the
Press in descanting on Jubilee incidents. Everywhere outside Dublin and Ulster, they have abstained from joining in the gratulations ; and in some places they have behaved very badly. In Boston, Massachusetts, for example, they hooted the British and Scotch Associations, which, on Irish principles, have a right to honour their own States; and in Cork they paraded the black flag, which is either Fenian or piratical. It is not fair, however, to blame the Parnellite Members who returned their tickets for the Abbey, as "disloyal." They have publicly announced their disloyalty, and are but true to their professions. They are in rebellion, though not in in- surrection, and were right in avoiding what would have been for them a dishonest observance of the forms of loyalty. The thing to regret or to blame is their feeling, not this manifesta- tion of it; or, rather, the thing to grieve over is the perversity which induces them to detest most the reign under which most has been done to remove their grievances. They honoured George IV., and they curse Queen Victoria. There, for English- men, is the sting of it. The more friendly we become, the hotter their hatred grows.
