The third reading of the Irish Crimes Bill was carried
yester- day week, after an adjourned debate commenced by Mr. Bryce, in one of his most interesting and thoughtful speeches, though it was not a speech in the drift of which we are at all able to concur. As Lord Hartington, in replying to him, remarked, Mr. Bryce, in a speech teeming with the fruits of education, made light of the opinions of the educated classes, just as Mr. Gladstone did when he appealed against the classes to the masses. He maintained that after asking Ireland for her voice and opinion, we refuse to listen to it,—he means en a single point,—but so, too, after asking the English counties for their voice and opinion on subjects like the Corn Laws, we refused, and quite rightly refused, to listen to it, and that for the very excellent reason that the voice and opinion of the rest of the Kingdom had pronounced that listening to the voice of this section of the Kingdom on that point, would be fatal to the interests of the whole. Lord Hartington's speech was very vigorous. He contrasted the so-called intimi- dation of the Primrose League with the intimidation of the National League, asked if any one had ever heard of the Primrose League holding Courts and denouncing those who au not implicitly obey those Courts, and inquired how bag it
would be, if that should ever happen, before we should insist on the tyranny of the Primrose League being put down.
