formist tendencies,' who plants an industrial colony on
the coast of Kerry, and has deep-rooted objections to that illicit trade
with France which in the last century was the sole method by which the
Irish people were enabled to pay their rents to their absentee landlords.
Colonel Goring bitterly regrets that the Penal Laws against the Catholics
are not rigorously carried out. He is a '_Police_ at any price' man.

'And this,' said Goring scornfully, 'is what you call governing
Ireland, hanging up your law like a scarecrow in the garden till every
sparrow has learnt to make a jest of it. Your Popery Acts! Well, you
borrowed them from France. The French Catholics did not choose to
keep the Hugonots among them, and recalled the Edict of Nantes. As
they treated the Hugonots, so you said to all the world that you would
treat the Papists. You borrowed from the French the very language of
your Statute, but they are not afraid to stand by their law, and you
are afraid to stand by yours. You let the people laugh at it, and in
teaching them to despise one law, you teach them to despise all
laws--God's and man's alike. I cannot say how it will end; but I can
tell you this, that you are training up a race with the education
which you are giving them that will astonish mankind by and bye.'

Mr. Froude's resume of the history of Ireland is not without power though
it is far from being really accurate. 'The Irish,' he tells us, 'had
disowned the facts of life, and the facts of life had proved the
strongest.' The English, unable to tolerate anarchy so near their
shores, 'consulted the Pope. The Pope gave them leave to interfere, and
the Pope had the best of the bargain. For the English brought him in,
and the Irish . . . kept him there.' England's first settlers were
Norman nobles. They became more Irish than the Irish, and England found
herself in this difficulty: 'To abandon Ireland would be discreditable,
to rule it as a province would be contrary to English traditions.' She
then 'tried to rule by dividing,' and failed. The Pope was too strong
for her. At last she made her great political discovery. What Ireland
wanted was evidently an entirely new population 'of the same race and the
same religion as her own.' The new policy was partly carried out:

Elizabeth first and then James and then Cromwell replanted the Island,
introducing English, Scots, Hugonots, Flemings, Du