The election of the American President occurs on Tuesday, November
6th, and as numbers will run close, the Irish vote is all-important. The party leaders are, therefore, trying to attract it by " twisting the tail of the British lion." The Republicans, in a burst of fury, partly real and partly affected, declared that the President was "England's man," and that Lord Sackville's advice to his bogus correspondent—given textually elsewhere— showed the retaliation proposal to be merely an electioneering dodge. Mr. Evarts, the leading lawyer of New York, a man greatly liked in England, says this in so many words. The Democrats, dismayed at this imputation, insisted that the President should act. Orders were accordingly transmitted to Mr. Phelps, who saw Lord Salisbury on Sunday, and transmitted the result of the interview, which was, it is reported, that Lord Sackville should have leave on important private affairs. The Irish did not consider this enough, and on Monday the American Secretary of State sent to Lord Sackville a long letter complaining of his conduct in advising naturalised American citizens, and imputing bad faith to the President, and handed him his passports.
