Now that he finds himself struck down by the iron hand of this remorseless tyrant, why should he not cry aloud and warn, not Ireland alone, but humanity, against the appalling crimes meditated, not this time in the name of "Liberty," but in the name of Order?
What especially struck me in talking with Mr.Balfour to-day was his obviously unaffected interest in Ireland as a country rather than in Ireland as a cock-pit.

It is the condition of Ireland, and not the gabble of parties at Westminster about the condition of Ireland, which is uppermost in his thoughts.

This, I should say, is the best guarantee of his eventual success.
The weakest point of the modern English system of government by Cabinets surely is the evanescent tenure by which every Minister holds his place.

Not only has the Cabinet itself no fixed term of office, being in truth but a Committee of the Legislature clothed with executive authority, but any member of the Cabinet may be forced by events or by intrigues to leave it.

In this way Mr.Forster, when he filled the place now held by Mr.Balfour, found himself driven into resigning it by Mr.
Gladstone's indisposition or inability to resist the peremptory pressure put upon the British Premier at a critical moment by our own Government in the spring of 1882.