Show 1I HERALDING THE STORM The Pall Mall Gtttc Gazette publishes n I rumor that the English Government has given orders for sixty cells in Mill F bank Par prison for the Teccptiqn of such ParneUite I members of tfie louse of Common as it arrest may deenrdecessary to during the 4 Coercion bill coning This struggle on the but is a rumor only even l1 a and rumor it has n most ugly I threatening look Time fact that 11 L per of the standing and influence of the 1 j 1 7 c Pall Mall Oasetle feels justified in publishing such matter is in itself ample and unfortunate evidence that the English government prepared to go to the extremity of disgrace and bitterness In the present temper of f the Irish people and it may be significantly added that the English and Scotch people largely I share in this temper prediction fails in power to measure the violence of the storm which wouhl break over the United Kingdom in the event of sixty members I of parliament being arbitrarily consigned to prison for resisting on the floor of pub c legislation and representation a I measure meas-ure which they and their constituents look upon as a most flagrant act of injustice There can be no question but that popular popu-lar feeling in the United Kingdom is wrought up on this question of Irish coercion co-ercion far beyond the vision of the stubborn stub-born blindness of the Tory Ministry The government is not setting its heel aR of f old upon the already bended neck of Ireland It is throwing down the gauntlet gaunt-let to a united and enraged Nation The arrest of the Irish members of the House of Commons would be the spark the Nation is wailing for a spark that will kindle a conflagration con-flagration throughout the land that will consume ancient institutions and rotten prerogatives as in the blast of a furnace English royalty will end with Victoria and the House of Lords will be swept away Noble landmarks will be obliterated oblit-erated The movement once inaugurated there will be a purification as by fire The warrants which consign the Irish members to Millbank prison will be the deathwarrants of the Tory Ministry and of English royalty |