A QUESTION OF POLICE.
“The rapid increase both of buildings and population which has taken place in the Metropolitan Police district of late years has outrun the increase which it has been possible to make to the Police Force.”—Sir Charles Warren, in his Official Reports, 1885, 1886.
“The average applications for admission to the Metropolitan Police Force now amount to one hundred per diem.” Statistics, October, 1887.
Sergeant Punch (inspecting would-be ex-Unemployed). “So, my Lad, you want to be a Constable! Rather enforce the Law than break it, eh? That’s right! Hem! The Force has long been undermanned. We must see if we can’t make room for you!”
Ne Plus Ulster.—Mr. Chamberlain seems to find the heart of the Irish Question in Ulster. Does he expect to find its solution there? He appears to set little store by the wishes of those not inconsiderable portions of Ireland which, as he says, “do not form a portion of the Ulster plantation.” All other parts, even of the favoured province, “though geographically part of Ulster, are not parts of what we know as political Ulster.” This certainly narrows the Irish Question. But does it simplify it? We have all heard of those who are “more Irish than the Irishmen themselves.” Mr. Chamberlain seems to be more Ulsterish than the men of Ulster, though they, to be sure, on his own showing, are virtually English and Scotch. In declining to look beyond Ulster, it may be asked whether he looks into the Irish Question at all. Altogether Irish—very!