The Home Secretary addressed his constituents at Birming- ham on
Tuesday, reminding his hearers that Mr. Gladstone's Irish measures had not only been withdrawn by him and his friends without any explanation as to the form in which they would renew them, but had been contumeliously rejected by the leaders of the party in America which supplied the Home- rulers with the greater proportion of their funds. Mr. Patrick Ford, of the Irish World, who holds the strings of the American- Irish purse, had said that "he would not hear of the Irish nation being deterred from dealing at its pleasure with such subjects as land, as religion, as Customs duties, as military affairs ; and he said that he objected to the Irish nation being bound to the Throne and to the dynasty." Referring to the spread of disorder from Ireland to England, Mr. Matthews mentioned that in the disorderly series of the Trafalgar Square meetings, 112 members of the Metropolitan Police had received injuries, but "not one single case of misconduct had been brought home to the police in London."
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