5 SEPTEMBER 1908, Page 2

The annual meeting of the Irish Unionist Alliance was held

on Friday week in Dublin. Mr. J. H. Campbell, M.P., in a vigorous speech noted that in the year 1907 only five persons had been made amenable for three hundred and seventy-two agrarian outrages ; only thirty persons had been made amenable for three hundred and forty-nine cases of malicious injury ; in not a single one of a hundred and four cases of boycotting had the Government made any attempt to bring to justice any one of those responsible for intimidation; and finally, though three hundred and fifty-one persons had been prosecuted for cattle-driving, in only one ease had a conviction been secured. The blame for all this was not to be laid on the police and juries; the Chief - Secretary, and the Chief Secretary alone, was responsible.