What if the Sheriff is a strong Nationalist, and makes default?
The only thing to be done is to appoint an officer empowered to carry out the decree of the Court.

Of course if the Irish Ministry are bent on enforcing the judgment, if the Exchequer Court, whose judgment, it may be, has been overruled, is zealous in supporting the authority of the Privy Council, if the Irish people are filled with reverence for tribunals which are really English Courts, all will go well.

But Mr.Gladstone himself cannot anticipate that novel constitutional machinery will work with ease, or that on the passing of the Home Rule Bill the disposition, the traditional feelings, and the sympathies of the Irish populace will be changed.

Suppose that _A_ is Lord Clanricarde; suppose that _X_ is an evicted tenant.

It is not common sense to believe that the judgment in his lordship's favour will as a matter of course take effect.