13 MARCH 1909, Page 3

We do not doubt for a moment that Mr. Birrell

feels most deeply the horror of Goldrick's murder, but unfortunately he cannot say : "I have done all that could be dono to prevent and punish such crimes," He has yielded to the sophistical pleas of those who pretend that in Ireland crime can be killed with kindness. Crime based on the predatory instincts, as agrarian crime in Ireland is at the present day, can never be killed but by a stern enforcement of the law. The cant about the uselessness of coercion is unendurable.