The Liberal Unionist for November, printing Mr. Glad- stone's strange
letter which imputes the horrible cruelty to animals- by which the agrarian campaign in Ireland is so often carried on, almost as much to those who are responsible for the agrarian system in Ireland, as to those who commit these cruelties, places side by side with it a list of the recent atrocities of this kind which have been committed,—one of them, for instance, involving the burning of some of these poor creatures after saturating them with paraffin Does Mr. Gladstone seriously think that any sort of injustice to human beings would in any degree whatever excuse those human beings for taking a comparatively slight revenge on the author of the injustice by acts which inflict exquisite torture on per- fectly innocent creatures, which have no more to do with the injustice than Mr. Gladstone himself,—or, rather, a great deal less, for he perhaps, if his Irish conscience had awakened earlier, might have prevented it, which the tortured horses and cows could never by any possibility have effected ?
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