The Irish Government has made an amusing but still provoking
blunder. The well known George Francis Train, the man who tried to lay down tramways on the Bayswater Road, and was fined, he says, about 20,0001. for not understanding that Bayswater is an aristocratic quarter, has been making Fenian speeches in America. He has all his life been making speeches, sometimes silly, sometimes humorous, but always " gassy," and always more or less absurd. The other day he was all for women's rights in Kansas, now he is for Fenians, and to-morrow he will very likely be declaring that the treatment of Peers in England is a disgrace " to the eagle which soars above the Alleghanies with a thunderbolt in its beak and an earthquake in its claws." He landed, however, on Saturday in Ireland, and, no doubt to his great delight, was arrested by the police as a Fenian leader, lodged in gaol, and fed on prison diet, and, finally, let out on his own statement that he was no Fenian. Of course he is going to declare war in the name of the insulted Republic, but really his arrest was a bit of silliness which might make Orangemen doubt the judgment of the Irish police. What is the use of a detective
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