The Irish "irreconcilable," as Mr. Gladstone denominated him, Mr. J.
Martin, spoke in reply to Mr. Gladstone ; but did not find much to say beyond reiterating that the Irish people did not thank the British Parliament for passing measures which they had never asked at their hands, while they had asked for the power of apply- ing such measures as should seem good to them for themselves. He contrasted the general crimelessness of Ireland with the wide- -spread crime in England, and asked if the report of the Com- anittee sitting to inquire into the infanticide so general here -would lead to a "Protection of Infant Life (England) Bill." Mr. Martin hardly perceives that the sympathy of the respectable. -classes of any country with a particular kind of crime, is a condition of things requiring far more exceptional measures than -even a far greater prevalence of crime with which there is no such sympathy. One burglar with a friend in every country gentle- man's house will spread more insecurity and terror than ten who have no such adventitious aid. One kind of crime in which Society is an accomplice, does more to undermine the foundations of the State than ten which Society detests and seeks eagerly to expose and punish.
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