14 MAY 1881, Page 2

Mr. Forster made a very good and effective speech at

Bradford on Wednesday, chiefly in defence of his Irish policy, pointing out how certain it was that he should be placed between the two fires of those who objected to his measures for maintaining order, and those who objected to the inadequacy of those measures; and observing that even after the Coercion Bill,. he and the Lord-Lieutenant can commit to prison only on reasonable suspicion of offences which many men, who seem to be very dangerous men in the present state of the country, have not afforded any ground for. In referring to the Land. Bill, he defended strongly the proposed Court for fixing a fair rent; and believed that the Land-League party were opposed to the Bill,. because if it passed, their own occupation would be gone.