As we go to press we hear that Sir Henry
Wilson has been murdered near his house in Eaton Place. Though we are not informed yet of the details of the crime, it would be absurd for us to pretend that there can be any doubt as to the motive of the crime. It was clearly the act of Irish gunmen. Sir Henry, as one of the Members sent to Westminster by an Ulster con- stituency, as the military adviser to the Northern Government, and as a man who spoke his mind fully and fearlessly, was an object of special hatred to the Irish extremists. What will be the consequences of the murder we cannot tell. But what should be the spirit in which it should be received by the British People and the British Government we have no doubt whatever. It must not be tho cause of reprisals or of vengeance, which might easily fall on the innocent and miss the guilty.
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