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Show The Great Irish Question. London, January 13. The Irish local government gov-ernment bill will be delayed until the English Eng-lish bill is settled. Although promised in the Queen's speech, the Irish measure may not appear during this session of Parliament. The Parnellites are not eager to force the government to declare its Irish policy, Gladstone Glad-stone and Lord Hartington, it is said, disagree dis-agree as to the home rule platform, and the Duke of Devonshire is urging Lord Hartington Hart-ington to an open rupture with the ex-Premier. ex-Premier. . William Lecky, the historian, has written a letter on the Irish question, in which he declares that any English statesman that advocates the handing over of the property of the Government in Ireland to the Parnellites Par-nellites is either a traitor or a fool. To set up an Irish Parliament, he thinks, would be an act of wickedness unparalleled even in Irish history. What Ireland needs, he says, is the restoration of the liberty of the people peo-ple to pursue their business and fulfill their lawful contracts. Unless the law of the Empire be restored in Ireland, industrial ruin is inevitable and will be followed by anarchy, which can only be quelled by the sword. |