Show The Grand Old Man LONDON April 21 Gladstone writes I attach very high value and importance to the manifestations now incessant of American Ameri-can as well as Colonial sympathy with the Irish people in the crisis created by tho causeless insulting and insiduous bill at present before Parliament Apart from the particular and more or less formal acknowledgements acknowl-edgements I am not of the opinion that it will be proper or expedient for me to take it upon myself to address any general communication com-munication to America on this subject which however I noticed and may again notice in Parliament Still I am very anxious that the people of this country should have the means of understanding how much beyond the range of any sectional impulses and how truly national the movement move-ment in the United States has become and in this view I would recommend that an endeavor en-deavor be made to present some estimate of the aggregate number of persons by which the recent meetings in America have been attended likewise especially the estimate of the number of governors mayors senators sena-tors representatives clergymen and other officials or highly responsible persons by whom such meetings were countenanced or supported |