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T ELEGRAMS
ST. CROIX STA:ION.
Uondon,
Mareh
sth.—-A speech
by
Sir
Horace
Plunketi
at Dublin
last
right
in
which he sharply eriticised the New Irish
Home
Rule
Bil!,
taken
in
conjunction
with Mr. Mac Pherson’s
defence
of
the
Irish adminisiration in the House of Com-
mons
tormed
the
basis
for
comment
In
somre
of this morning’s
newsbapers,
she
“Daily News”’, severely
condemning
the
new
Hoimne
Rule
measure,
as
‘‘Can
the
Insincere
jugglers,
who are thus mocking
the
maddened
victims
of
their
own
cowardly
policy,
be
relied
upon
to
give
real
effect
to
the
slight
promise
of
happier
development
which
may
be
hidden
in its crooked
pro-
mises’”’.
‘‘l'he Morning
Post’’
charges
Viscoun:
FKrench
with
responsibility
for
the
present
shametul
position
and
tells the Viceroy that his duty is to order
afier
a
time
given,
all prove
.
guiity of
erimes
ot
violence
to be fourtmartialled
and
shot,
otherwise,
it says,
he ouglt to
resign.
Viscount
French
was
appcint-
ed
to govern
Ireladd,””
the same
paper
declares.
‘‘He
has
lailed
and
he riust
know
he
has
failed.
and
it
is
inzon-
ceivable
how
he
justifies
his
conti-
nuances
in office.””
The ‘‘Graphic’’
to-
day features
a
Dublin
despatch
saving
that
the
Irish situation
is
changing
re-
markabiy.
{he
despatch
declares
chat
nothing
can avert
an Irish
tragedy
ex-
cept
the
utmosi
conlness
on
the
g;;t
of
the
authorities,
and
that
any
%o~
crease
1n
violence.
and
martial
law
will inevitably precipitate
such
a
ira-
gedy,
causing
dapgerous
complica-
tions
in
the
relations
between
Eng-
land and
the United States.
The
chief
danzer,
accordingto the
*'Graphic’’ ad-
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its way across
the continent,
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York, which
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