The Kenilworth Advertiser. — 1890-04-19 (Kenilworth, Warwickshire, England)

JURORS AND THEIR DUTIES. 'Commenting on the executMii of Richard Davies and the letters which have appeared in the Press from certain of the jury engaged in the case, the Saito-day Review remarks that all persons who serve on juries will do well to remember that, as soon as their verdict is delivered, they have ceased to be jurymen in that particular case; they have no interest in it, and are no more entitled to be heard on the subject than ally other spectator of the trial; and it is as nearly as possible certain that, if they wish to avoid making rather conspicuous fools of themselves, the best thing they can do is the ordiway and constitutional thing—namely, to hold iheir tongues. It is, moreover, desirable to endorse, as emphatically as may be, the protest 1 which has already been most propeily made against the unmanly, unconstitutional, suit jidie ent pesofice of addressing letters and tel. grim.' directly to the Queen when comparatively It eitanate efforts to prevent this execution of convicted criminals seem likely to fail. Supposing such communications actually to reach her Majesty, she cannot constitutionally deal with them otherwrsethan by referring there tothe Secretary of State, who is responsible to Parliament for the advice he gives. All that they can do, therefore, towards attaining the desired end is to suggest a personal respomibility which does not really exist, and so to give pain and anxiety to Alk August Lady, whom every one of her subjects ought to be anxious to save fromboth.They can de one other thincand one only, and that is to advertise the offenders. And self•advertisenient has really been at the bottom of the whole disturbance about these two extremely unattractive murderers. THE CHANCES OP LTREP AL TtErUNION.  Suppose that the gent.rei 4.11-ctiou should give a ”,ajority of flfty, sixty,or eighty to the Government, will, asks the Sptaktr, the Liberals straightway fling down their arniv; drop the Irish question for good and all,and rush to embrace the men in the country  or on the floor of th. li'use who have enabled the Tories to beat them ? Even if human nature in the genercus soil of Liberalism could rise to these heights ' of magnanimity, still the Irish question has an awkward trick of never allowing itself to be dropped. The Irish demand will remain, and Liberals have given pledges to satisfy it, from which a hostile majority at an election can no more relieve them than hostile majorities relieved their forefathers from fidelity and perseverance in insisting on Catholic emancipation 80 years ago. Suppose, on the other hand, that the el. ction ends in a majority of 60 or eighty—not for Ministers, but for Mr. Gladstone. This would undoubtedly enable him to crown his great career by its greatest triumph, but we see no reason to think that it would bring back the dissentients to the fold. Nobody has taken into account the poseibility of a third case—the event, , namely, of a narrow majority on one sideor the other. Suppose, for the sake M argument, that either the Tories have a margin of twenty, or the Liberals a margin of twenty. Will that settle the Irish questioq for a generation to collie? Clearly it will do nothing of the kind. A Liberal Minister with a majority of twenty, unless it ellanced to "be of unparalleled and miraculous coherency, could never carry a Home Rule Bib through conisnittee, and even if he did, that august sub-division of the Carlton Club that dwells in another place would pretty certainly make bold to throw out a measure with so attenuated a balance in its favour. On he other band, we have seen quite enough of the difficulties of coercion during the last three years, even with a majority of a hundred behind coercion, to be sure that iii Minister could persist in it when the hundred had sunk to twenty. Then indeed would •• the. game of law and order" be all up. In this by no means inconceivable case, therefore, of a narrow majority, on whichever i side t /night be, the next election mould decidedly not settle the Irish question for a generation; nor for a twelvemonth, and the re-union of the party would be as far off as over.