Mr. Courtney spoke to his constituents at Lanivet, near Bodmin,
on Thursday, and commented to them on the fact that the change rf Government had not changed, and could not have changed, the practice of carrying out Irish evictions, when the tenant could not or would not pay his rent. Mr. Balfour had been fiercely assailed for doing exactly what Mr. Morley is now -doing just as Mr. Balfour did it, and what must be done under any Government, unless the land of Ireland is to be left in the undisputed possession of idle and thriftless persons. He remarked with more condemnation than in his last speech, on the mode in which the Evicted Tenants' Commission had been mismanaged, and concluded by professing his determination -to keep as open a mind as he can for Mr. Gladstone's Home- rule Bill, though he confessed that he could not imagine one that he should approve. Is not that making a rather forced march in the direction of impartiality ? A mind that has 'considered and rejected the principle of a measure, need hardly trouble itself to examine impartially the details before announcing his judgment.
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