I do not recollect that boycotting was ever made a portion of Government statistics before. Mr. BALFOUR. We have made statistics before on boycotting. Mr. GLADSTONE. Yes; but I am speaking of the ancient and traditional practice which this Conservative Government are always so indisposed to follow. (_Opposition cheers and laughter._) Statistics of crime deal with facts and matter of record; statistics of boycotting, as far as I understand, are matter of opinion. ("_Hear, hear._") What amounts to boycotting,--what is the test of it? There must be, and will be, cases of harsh and unreasonable persecution under the name of boycotting. It is never to be forgotten, though it is very common to forget it, that when you have a state of things that prevails in Ireland,--old and sore relations of friction between class and class, the sense of still remaining suffering or grievance, and consequent instability of social order,--the criminal elements that will always subsist in every community (though I thank God to say that I believe they subsist in Ireland more narrowly than almost anywhere else), I will find their way into social questions, and undoubtedly you will have bad, and very bad, cases exhibited in matters such as these. Therefore the exhibition of particular instances is a very unsafe and insufficient test. They ought to be quoted with great accuracy. The right honorable gentleman has been defending to-night his chosen instruments of the present year. ("_Hear, hear._") Yes, but he was met immediately with point blank contradictions on matters of fact, and at present I shall enter no further into that question, which evidently must be made the subject of further examination. ("_Hear, hear._") But the right honorable gentleman gave us last year a case of boycotting which was touching to the last degree,--the case of the Galway midwife. (_Cheers and laughter._) Does the right honorable gentleman say that the instance he selected last year--the instance of the Galway midwife--was well founded? (_Cheers._) Mr. BALFOUR. Absolutely correct in every particular. (_Ministerial cheers._)