26 NOVEMBER 1881, Page 1

The papers are full of hints that the Government intend

to try further measures of repression in Ireland. They justify these hints by a speech delivered by Lord Monck to the Magistrates of his county, in which he said that only force would put down out- rages such as have recently occurred ; and another by the Lord- Lieutenant, Earl Cowper, in which he said that the work just now was to drive the sullen discontent which he thought had always existed back below the surface. That the Government may be compelled next Session to propose further measures for strengthening the law, and to add greatly to the strength of the police, is probable ; but we doubt their having recourse to new executive measures. What is there left to try, except martial law ? and that will not enable the Government either to secure evidence, or to arrest any one whom they cannot arrest now. All it would do is to make punishment certain and severe in the case of prisoners captured red-handed. But are there any such, and if so, why are they not in Kilmabiliam ?