NEWS OF THE WEEK.
TT is with a positive sense of humiliation, rather than any ordinary pain, that we quote from the Daily News the following sentences of a letter from Mr. Gladstone, addressed, the Daily News says, to a correspondent of its own. "The sentiment," writes Mr. Gladstone, "ascribed to two gentlemen in your enclosure is one which I must strongly disapprove. The Irish are a -Very humane people, and the history of an -occasional deviation from humanity in regard to cattle has a peculiar 'history, which ought to make us blush as well as them." Evenlhe houghing of cattle and cutting-out of horses' tongueia bythe Irish malcontents, are, in Mr. Gladstone's mind, due to the English !—who ought, on the same principle, to be held responsible for the murder of Lord Frederick Cavendish.
• It follows that if Irishmen go on committing these cruelties on animals till Home-rule is granted—that is, for ever—they will remain a "very humane people."
