TO-D/ 1 1 



joys \vi or wrongly, I will 



decide the i of sti ty. 



people, 



or ostensibly j> 



nee 



lie Government has often been obliged 

 ce the composition of the juries. A 

 number of crimes, which, for any pro' 

 period, are as good as unknown in the civil i 



of western Europe, occur every yt u in 



These are a i crimes i 



letters and intimidatior 



ile-maimin^ and arson, to boycotting and 



ass, ons of downright bestial savagery. Of 



rimes there were, from 1844 to 1890, no 



or than 35,534. In 1894 there were 276; in 



1893, 261 ; and in 1902, 253.* The danger of 



an organized Irish revolution which is to take 



place at a moment when England is involved in 



tical complications may, however, be c 

 mated as very slight. The '1 

 seemed at last to have furnished the opportunity 

 so long and so ardently desired by Irish patriots ; 

 but on that occasion the contrast between word 

 1 deed among the intransigeant party in 

 Ireland and Ann ,is conspicuously great. 



On the other hand, isolated outbreaks are not 

 im possible, though the last fe s have passed 



qui In every Irish town there is a cert 



sediment of irreconcilable Nationalist revolution- 



1 Thorn's Ofti tory. 



