In the Manchester speech, Sir George Trevelyan added to the
Whig Pharieaism of the earlier speech a violent attack on the imputations now current against the Parnellites for their con- nection with the dynamiters and the party of violence ; and attributed the bad manners of the Hones of Commons to this revival of imputations which render calm debate impossible. Sir George forgets that the newest feature of the situation is this, that the Irieh Party have invented and are defending the " Plan of Campaign," and are defying the Dublin Law Courts, while the Catholic hierarchy, as a whole, are gone over to the Parnellites, whom, during Sir G. Trevelyan's regime, the Bishops for the most part distrusted and kept in check. That alters the situation altogether, and renders it absolutely essential in strengthening the criminal procedure, to expose afresh the relations of the National League with the party of violence and intimidation. Both Sir George Trevelyan's speeches leave on careful readers the impression that Sir George now stands out for keeping a strong central hold on " law and order " in Ireland, chiefly for the sake of consistency, and that, in fact, he is opposed to the only steps by which such a hold could be either secured or maintained. In other words, Sir George Trevelyan is now much more of a Home-ruler than of a Unionist for Ireland, in any intelligible sense of the word "Unionist"
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