1 FEBRUARY 1890, Page 2

The Liberal Unionist for February contains two very valu- able

opinions by Lord Selborne and Lord Bramwell, on the subject of Mr. Justice Grantham's decision as to the boy- cotting ease at Liverpool, and Mr. Frederic Harrison's conten- ton that no good lawyer can regard it as showing that the English law sanctions the main principle of the Irish Crimes Act of 1887. Lord Selborne and Lord Bramwell disagree completely with Mr. Frederic Harrison, though they admit that on certain minute and technical points, there are differ- ences between the law under which the Liverpool boycotters were punished and the Irish Crimes Act. Nothing is more remarkable than the astonishing difference which political bias produces in legal opinions.