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Mr. John Redmond has issued an important manifesto on the

subject of the National Volunteer movement in Ireland. After emphatically denying that there is any antagonism between the aims and policy of the Volunteer movement and those of the Irish Party, and deprecating the controversy as calculated to ruin the Volunteers, Mr. Redmond explains that up till two months ago he thought the movement premature. But the effect of Sir Edward Carson's threats upon English public opinion, the occur- rences at the Curragh, and the successful gun-running in Ulster had entirely altered the situation, and the Irish Party some six weeks ago had decided to support the movement, with the result that it had spread "like a prairie fire," and that all the Nationalists in Ireland would shortly be enrolled.

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