14 DECEMBER 1889, Page 2

Even Mr. H. H. Fowler, who has hitherto been the

one Gladstonian in the House of Commons who has emulated Lord Herschell's sedulous moderation, is getting bitter at last. In his speech at Wolverhampton yesterday week, he attacked Mr. Balfour with a vehemence almost equalling Mr. John Morley's, and spoke of his government of Ireland as that of " a tyrannical and unprincipled Executive," and further, of the magistracy of Ireland as administering justice in a "partial or corrupt" fashion. We fancy that if Mr. Fowler were invited to justify such language in a Court of Law, he would not find even a shred of evidence that any Court would so much as consider.