Mr. Balfour remarked on Mr. O'Brien's declaration that he is
willing to black Lord Spencer's boots, that Mr. O'Brien always seems to be anxious to blacken something ; a few years ago it was Lord Spencer's character, and now it is Lord Spencer's boots. For example, United Ireland wrote that "Earl Spencer is, and deserves to be, the most detested man in Ireland. His hands are red with innocent blood. He has shielded jurymen. He has superintended shameful jury- packing and purchase of perjury. He has suppressed evidence which might have acquitted an innocent man." Again, United Ireland said,—" Never did a British Premier face a British Parliament under more humiliating conditions than William Judas Gladstone, as he has been rightly called." Probably all that did not mean much. But just as little do Mr. O'Brien's present coarse denunciations of Mr. Balfour mean. The truth is that all language of that kind should serve to warn us how true is the proverb,—" Little pot soon hot."
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