19 MARCH 1870, Page 11

The Ministerial scheme for the repression of agrarian crime in

Ireland promised by Mr. Gladstone on Monday, in a brief and somewhat obscure speech, was fully described on Thursday by Mr. Chichester Fortescue. We have elsewhere carefully analyzed the plan, which is limited strictly to the prevention of agrarian crime by diminishing incentives administered through the Press, and the cure of the terrorism exercised on witnesses and juries, and have only to remark here that the Bill is expected to peas rapidly and almost without opposition, that the only serious criticism passed on it is that it does not go far enough, and that Mr. Gladstone has declared that in the very last resort, but only in the very last resort, he will suspend the Habeas Corpus. The temper of the House, and we fear of the English people, is rising fast, and is exasperated by a new form of outrage, visits of armed men to farmers in county Mayo, to threaten them, unless they take oath to break up their pasture lands.