Mr. Gladstone has written a very indignant letter to Monday's
Times, respecting the charge brought against Mr. W. H. Gladstone of evicting a tenant on the Hawarden estate. Mr. Gladstone denies that he has ever said that an evic- tion is a sentence of death—(what he did say was, that under certain circumstances an eviction might be a sentence of death) —and he rebukes the Times in very severe terms for its "wanton intrusion into the private domain so alien to the honourable traditions of the British Press." We sympathise with Mr. Glad- stone so far as the Hawarden estate goes, but we fail to under- stand why what applies to the admirably managed Hawarden estate in England, does not apply equally to the equally admirably managed Lamidowne estate or Brooke estate in Ireland. Intrusions "into the private domain" in Ireland have usually been copiously defended by that part of the British Press which supports Mr. Gladstone. But perhaps he regards the traditions of that portion of the Press as dishonourable. We wish he would say so.
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