Mr. Redmond made his anxiously looked for speech on com-
pulsion in Ireland at Waterford on Friday, October 6th. With an imperturbability which takes away the breath of an Englishman, but which to an Irish Nationalist is apparently normal, he declared that "the real responsibility" for what had happened--i.e., the rebellion—rested upon the British Government, and that it was idle to imagine that the relations between Ireland and the Government could continue as they had been before. Those relations had been and must be fundamentally changed. Considering that Mr. Birrell conducted the government of Ireland exactly on Mr. Redmond's principles, even after the Coalition had been formed, this is probably the most impudent statement in recorded history. Mr. Redmond of .course has an explanation ready of his statement, but it will, we venture to say, find few supporters in this country. It comes to this, that since the war Ireland had not received sufficient sym- pathy from the British Government—the crowning wickedness being that Sir Edward Carson received a post under the Crown ! What an outrage on Ireland !
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