At Torquay, on Monday, Mr. Gladstone repeated his accusa- tion
that crimes had been constituted in Ireland out of actions which are fair and lawful, and even necessary, in Eng- land, and declared that the true authors of the "Plan of Campaign" were the Government, because the Government had not accepted Mr. Parnell's Bill for dealing with the great fall in prices in the autumn of 1886; and he declared that the Liberals never had obstructed the Government, "except in cases when to do otherwise than resist would have been a total forfeiture of our public duties." He gave an account of the Bill appointing the Parnell Commission, which seems to us to omit all the more impressive features of that complex political transaction, and to record only those which the Parnellites wish to remember; and he claimed for the Opposition that throughout this Parliament they had done their best to pursue an honourable course. At Falmouth, on Tuesday, he remarked that the Government appeared to wish to apply to the Irish nation principles of government "which are hardly fit to be applied in a menagerie to the taming of wild animals ; " and at Redruth he praised Mr. Conybeare (by whom he was accompanied), as "a brave, an honest, an upright man," who is as anxious to promote the maintenance of law among ourselves "as any other citizen," and he predicted that Cornwall would return a strong Glad- Etonian representation at the next General Election.
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