The Times of Wednesday publishes another of its articles furiously
condemning the Parnellites as men leagued with societies organised for murder, and at its close offers a grave warning to the authorities. It believes that the dynamiter section of the Irish conspiracy is weary of inaction, that it has determined to signalise the passing of the Crimes Bill by some great blow, and that the time selected will be the Jubilee festivities. It affirms, indeed, that a secret society has issued a circular calling for money "to get up a pyrotechnic display in honour of the Queen's Jubilee ;" and urges the Government and the police, " who have had fair warning of what is in contem- plation," to omit no precautions. Assassins who ask for money are seldom very formidable, as some one of them is sure to perceive that he would get more by giving information ; but it is quite possible that the enrages may use so dramatic an opportunity
to strike some blow, not during the Jubilee procession, when the crowds would inflict summary punishment, but just after it. Any outrage of the kind would completely wreck the prospects of the Home-rulers, who would be crushed for years, as the Catholics were by the Guy Fawkes plot ; but we are by no means certain that they would be deterred by that consideration. There are Irish Extremists who would regret Home-rule as destroying or diminishing their excuse for hatred of England.
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