Mr. Chamberlain has made - two very striking speeches this week
at Liverpool. In the former, he dealt with the subject of Ireland, maintaining that the Government had no right to suppress such an association as the Land League while it kept within the law, and while its professed object was to remedy a very great grievance of the Irish people, the existence and extent of which were fairly admitted by the Government. On the other hand, so soon as the objects of that association became manifestly illegal,—so soon as they tried to force the action of the new Land Commission, and to terrorise the people into abstaining from having recourse to it for the redress of their grievances,—it became the duty of the Government to suppress it, especially since it was aggravating the very popular griev- ance which it was formed to redress. Mr. Chamberlain declared his perfect willingness to use force as a temporary expedient for the restoration of order, especially when the more permanent cure, the redressing of the grievances which caused the disorder, had been also commenced ; and he declared. in the strongest way against any dream of dissolving the Union, as fatal to the tranquillity and prosperity of Ireland and England alike.
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