Mr. Lowther delivered at Middlesbrough, on Thursday, a speech on
Irish affairs, which shows that he at least. has no plan to recommend for the government of the country which he once attempted to rule, and the people of which, he says, with amusing naivete, personally liked him. He is furious with the Land Act, which, he says, is "one of the most gigantic acts of spoliation which have defaced history." He " should not hesitate to say that the grossest robbery and miscarriage of justice was daily taking place in the Courts." He dislikes the restrictive measures, objecting to the practice of locking up and releasing men. Yet all that he has to recommend is " a comprehensive and statesmanlike scheme of emigration." As if the stream of emigration had not been steadily flowing from Ireland for thirty tears, without in the least diminishing the discontent of the country, or the troubles of the British Govern- ment. Nothing is more remarkable, in the furious comments of the Tories upon the state of Ireland and the working of the Land Act, than the entire absence of any suggestion as• to any alternative policy. They are not even prepared to say that they would do nothing, arrest ill-doers, and wait for better times.
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