Mr. Morley replied in a speech which was very bitter
against the Government for not proposing coercion, though it would apparently have been much more bitter if they had proposed it. He treated the declarations of the Government as an "invitation and incitement to the landlords to proceed to evictions ;" made light of General Buller's mission ; insisted that only an Irish Government could put down crime, could help emigration, could undertake public works, or could do anything of the least value to the country ; and especially insisted that the notion of giving the same kind of local government to England and Ireland is thoroughly bad, since England and Ireland want totally different institutions, not the same. " England has got a thoroughly united population. The population of Ireland is, unfortunately, not united." Very true. Could there be a better reason for not handing over one part of it to the tender mercies of the other part ?
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