26 MARCH 1881, Page 2

But it would be far too sanguine to indulge this

hope much. Mr. Justice Barry, indeed, in opening the Spring Assize at Cork, declared that there had been a great decrease of crime since January 1st, and that he could not restrain his hopes of improvement. On the other hand, Mr. Dillon, M.P., in speaking at the Woodford meeting on Sunday, used his usual violent language. " The man who took a farm from which an honest man had been evicted would be treated, as he was treated that day, as a traitor, a swindler, and a robber ; and no honest man would speak to him, or deal with him, or allow his children to speak to him." Mr. Dillon knows very well that the qualifica- tion involved in tho word " honest" is no qualification at all, and that his language is virtually a denunciation of everybody who takes a farm from which any one, honest or dishonest, has boon evicted, "as a traitor, a swindler, and a robber,"—and that to incite Irishmen so to treat him is to incite to civil war.