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Show j Gladstone's Diplomatic Skill. New York, February 5. The Post's London Lon-don special says: Gladstone's address to his ; constituents received great praise for his j skill in the sympathetic allusion to the Irish question without showing his own hand, j There is no special comment on it. As the i Daily Xews says, he has set the world talk-i talk-i ing for two months, and sits by listening. ! The proposed scheme for Ireland's pacifi-; pacifi-; cation, it must be remembered, is simply I announced. No draft of it is yet known to ! be in existence, and many eld Commoners are chary about expressing opinions ' relative to its success. John Bright ! is one of them, and he says he will i not commit himself to a bill until he has : seen it. He further says he believes any i settlement at this time to be hopeless, He i might think otherwise if he could believe that the Irish really desired a settlement j ' favorable to the existence of the Union, but i he doubts this latter theory very much. In-i In-i deed, there are many Liberal members of I the Honse of Commons who insist that ! nothing short of absolute separation will ! ever satisfy Ireland And this point they j will not concede. They will vote for reform I of the broadest kind, but not for disunion. |