Mr. Harcourt's Druidical speech on Wednesday was not so good,
though skilful enough. He put, indeed, the argument against entails well, and against the enforced preservation of
game admirably What would you think if, when a corn- factor leased premises for his trade, his landlord required that he should always keep a few hundred rats in his granary ? What would you think if a dairyman were under compulsion to keep a stock of cats amongst the cream, or the butcher to keep a con- stant supply of flies amongst the meat ?" And he answered Mr. Lowe's rather absurd remarks on the Geneva arbitra- tion with great force, saying more forcibly just what we said of Mr. Lowe's speech. But when he warnedthe Government that the people of England would not allow any interference with Trinity College, Dublin, went for violent reductions of expenditure and the abolition of the Income Tax, and suggested the United States, with an army of 24,000 men and no navy, as a model for us, Mr. Harcourt was talking buncombe of a bad kind,—to which, by the way, he is not at all averse, when it suits his hand.
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