Yesterday week, Mr. Arthur Balfour, the Irish Secretary, made a
very able speech at Ipswich on the Irish Crimes Bill, in which he showed that the Government have a very much stronger case for their Bill in the amount of existing agrarian crime, than Mr. Gladstone's Government had either in 1866 or in 1870. In 1866, the agrarian crimes were not much more than half as numerous as they were in 1;';5 and 1886, while 1886 stands far above 1870 in the unenviable number of its crimes. Commenting on Mr. Gladstone's assertion that the Government want to pass their Crimes Bill in order to compel Irish tenants to buy the land from Irish landlords at prime based on unjust rents, he expressed wonder at the very different measure of charity extended by Mr. Gladstone to the British Government and to the Parnellite Party. "Party hatred," said Mr. Balfour, "like charity, believeth all things," only in an opposite sense.
