Mr. Gladstone intimated both on Monday and Thursday that he
had some new plan to propose for the repression of agrarian outrage in Ireland. On Monday, in answer to a question from Lord J. Manners, he stated that Government had several changes in the laws under consideration which would all be "within the principles of the Constitution." On Thursday, in answer to a question from Mr. Bentinck, he reaffirmed the intention of the Government to resort to exceptional measures if necessary, declared that they wanted no stimulus from private questions, but declined to Make promises upon a subject "so immeasurably grave." It is rumoured that among the measures intended is a reorganization of the detective police, which, we fear, will not accomplish much. The police will be called spies, and their evidence will seem to Irish juries made to order. As we have tried to argue elsewhere, it is to a reform in the law of evidence that we must look for
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