Lord Londonderry, speaking at Burton-on-Trent on Tues- day night, reasserted,
in spite of Lord ICimberley's state- ment at the Lord Mayor's banquet, that Ireland is already less law-abiding than it was under the government of Lord Zetland. Lord Kimberley's figures were vitiated by his mixing up trivial with serious crimes, and taking them all together. "Within three months the cases of murder and moonlighting had doubled, when compared with the returns of the previous six months, and there were proofs that boycotting was on the increase." Lord Londonderry also made an attack on the Evicted Tenants' Commission, which he termed "a Commis- sion for the purpose of benefiting men who had been found guilty of criminal conspiracy," and he justified Mr. Car- son for denouncing the Commission as "a farce and a sham" simply because he was not allowed to cross-examine the tenants' witnesses. There Lord Londonderry was cer- tainly wrong. In Ireland neither party appears to be able to keep its temper when there is any chance of inflicting a wound on the opposite party.
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