Mr. Gladstone, who left England on Wednesday for Bavaria, has
issued a pamphlet, which we have received only just before going to press, on the subject of the Irish Question. It is in part devoted to the explanation of the growth of h is own convictions, and in part to the exhibition of his own case against his opponents. We cannot, of course, attempt to deal with such a pamphlet without carefully reading and weighing it ; but we may remark that it contains one very important admission, which we should expect Lord Spencer and Mr. John Morley to view with dismay. It is this :—" I think it my duty explicitly to acknowledge that the sentence which has gone forth for the severance of the two measures" [the Home-rule Bill and the Irish Land Bill] " is irresistible, and that the twinship which has been for the time disastrous to the hopes of Ireland, exists no longer." In other words, "the sands" have now run out from the hour-glass, and the Irish landlords are to be thrown to the wolves of the National League,—a decree which, coming as it does from the author of the Irish Land Act, we can hardly understand or justify.
