Mr. Trevelyan delivered an interesting speech at Leamington on Wednesday,
on behalf of Mr. Peel, the Speaker, who is the candidate for the enlarged borough of Warwick and Learning-
ton for the next Parliament. He spoke with very great warmth of Mr. Peel's discharge of his duties as Speaker, and anticipated that 360 Liberals would be returned to the next Parliament to support Mr. Gladstone. He thought. that no Liberal flattery of
Gladstone could be compared with the Tory flattery which consisted in carefully imitating his policy, except, indeed, where the Tories go beyond him as regards their refusal to renew any portion of the Irish Crimes Act. He thought it impossible to ex- aggerate the importance of the course taken by the Conservative Government in accepting the alliance of the Parnellites. "When the Conservative Party unites with the Nationalists to get rid of special legislation against crime, and of the Viceroy who- believes that such special legislation is necessary, it may have been a smart thing to do ; but of this you may be certain, that we have seen the last Crimes Prevention Act in Ireland. From this time forth it will be the business of statesmen, not to prepare exceptional legislation for the pur- pose of obliging the Irish people to acquiesce in the institutions- which they have got, bat to alter those institutions into such a shape as will command the confidence and good-will of the Irish people." Yes ; but can that be done without altering them into such a shape as will command the distrust and ill-will of the British people ? We greatly doubt it. Mr. Trevelyan's assumption of the possibility of doing what he suggests is more sanguine than we should have expected from an ex-Irish Secretary.
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