20 MARCH 1886, Page 3

Mr. Baron Dowse has reported a great growth of serious

crime in'Kerry, where there are three hundred cases of crime specially reported ; and in Galway, Chief Justice Morris reports a very grave increase of crime, where there are seventy-six cases of serious crime specially reported, as against forty in the corre- sponding period of last year, or nearly double. Mr. Morley, questioned as to the increase of crime in Kerry, admits it to be authentic, and of course regrets it, but, like Lord Spencer in the Upper House, has no remedy to suggest, except, indeed, the contemplated trial in Ireland of Home-rule, which may be fairly described as a new form of the old popular remedy,—" a hair of the dog that bit you."