3 NOVEMBER 1888, Page 2

Lord Hartington made a very striking point of the announcement

which Mr. Gladstone put forth on the dissolu- tion of Parliament in 1885. " The grievances of Ireland," wrote Mr. Gladstone then, " such as we have known them in former years, have by the action of Parliament been happily redressed." Yet now he positively demands a great revolution in Ireland, in order to replace the Parliament of which he had asserted that it had thus happily redressed the chief grievances of which the country could complain. The truth is, that the doubling of Mr. Parnell's party by the elections of 1885, discovered to Mr. Gladstone almost tenfold as many new Irish grievances as the Crimes Act of 1887 has, in his opinion, made new Irish crimes.