Mr. Lowe spent the greater part of his telling speech
in reinforcing Lord Mayo. He said, "We get into this vicious circle,—Ireland is miserable because capital can't be brought into it to take the people from the cultivation of the land, and capital can't be brought into Ireland because Irishmen will assert that the condition of the country is worse than it really is." The vicious circle is not quite that, but rather this,—Ireland can only be cured, according to Mr. Lowe's economy, by capital ; but capital won't trust Irishmen who have no stake in the country as it is, and a deep thirst for revolution,—and until Mr. Lowe finds his way out of it by making Irishmen prefer the law to revolution, he will not do much for Ireland. He was very rabid against the priests to make up for his Toryism about the land. On the Irish Church his tone was manly, just, and earnest.
