Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1877 — Irish Discoutent. [ARTICLE]

Irish Discoutent.

Tliis brings me to the question of Irish discontent. There can be no doubt that it is quite as deep and passionate as ever. Of course it ought not to be if Mr. Gladstone’s predictions were worth anything at the time he disestablished the Protestant Church in Ireland. Thenceforth, he assured the world, the Irish would be contented and happy. What are the facts? Au Irish landlord of the greatest influence in his own country assured me the other day that never had he known the country to be in so disturbed and dangerous a condition. “Everywhere,” said he, “ the peasantry are being drilled with the utmost care and regularity, and they are now all well armed. The police dare not interfere. The people hope that England will get to war with Russia, and then they expect to give her some trouble, and’they will do it, too.” It would be of little use to tell this to the majority of Englishmen, for they would only laugh at it. Yet it may turn out to be anything but a laughing matter. In the event of a foreign war there would not be many troops to spare for the suppression of insurrection in Ireland.— Afr. Jennings' London Letter in the New York World