12 NOVEMBER 1892, Page 2

The most telling part of Lord Salisbury's speech was the-

part devoted to the great object-lesson we have had on the effect of Home-rule on a judicial mind, in Sir James Mathew's- curious outburst of partisanship. The Evicted Tenants' Com- mission itself, he said, is a very trivial matter. It cannot do- much mischief, and perhaps will do none; but it does teach us how a strong and highly cultivated mind is warped by being removed to a partisan atmosphere. "If these things- are done in the green tree," said Lord Salisbury, "what will be done in the dry ? It tells us what is coming. We all know some of the characteristics that would probably attach to Home-rule. We know that it would be a perfect Saturnalia of insolvent debtors. We knew it would be a time of woe to- all minorities, whether financial, political, or religious Bat now that we see that even an English statesman with, some character to lose, and an English Judge whose position has been sufficiently appreciated,—if to these the presump- tions of English law are reversed what will be done when the Executive Government consists of those men whose character has been sufficiently described by the Special Commission ? " That object-lesson will telL