Mr. John Redmond addressed a meeting of the National League
in Dublin on Monday, and declared that Mr. Dillon did not really represent the Irish people fairly at all. In the first place, nearly half the Anti-Parnellites, both within and without Parliament, are Healyites ; and in the second place,. there are all the Parnellites opposed to him as well. As for the recent Convention, he declared that, though he had travelled much in America, there were not three of the well-intentioned gentlemen who had attended that Convention from the States whose names were familiar to him. The only conciliatory motion made in that Convention, the only one tending to- reunite the divided Irish parties, was Father Flynn's, and that was withdrawn because it was clear that there was no support for it. Mr. Healy had been treated as a sort of political jackdaw of Rheims, and cursed with bell, book, and candle, but his feathers are none the worse for the operation.. The support given to this Government by his section of the Irish party was, he held, perfectly justified. It had been in office over a year, and there had been much less coercion than under Mr. John Morley.
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