The Conservatives are saying all the bitter things they can
think of against Mr. Gladatone's Government, while thanking God that they are not as other men are, nor even as those Liberals who ran down the Conservative Government so shame- fully when it was in power. So far as the oondition of Ireland is concerned, we do not complain that they triumph, though nothing that they did before they left office, or indicated their intention to do, had the smallest tendency to abate the evils in the growth of which they now appear to delight. But to hear Mr. Winn and Mr. Chaplin praising Lord Beaconsfield up to the skies for securing the Treaty. of Berlin, and holding Mr. Gladstone up to ignominy for insisting ou having that Treaty enforced, is certainly droll enough. And it is still drcller to hear some of them complaining of the repeal of the Malt-tax as a positive injury to the farmers, and of the Ground-game Bill as a Bill for setting class against class. The truth is that Tories are not bright, and they make matters worse by their convulsive efforts to blacken the Liberals for doing what they, as Conservatives, bad always previously blamed them for refusing to do. The Tories would do better to stick to Ireland and to the crops, and to dilate vaguely on the general disastrousness-of Liberalism.
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