16 JUNE 1888, Page 3

Lord Rosebery was also very eloquent on the iniquity of

sending to prison any man who, like Mr. Dillon, has not only charmed audiences in England and Scotland with his eloquence, but charmed them by the earnest belief which he inspires in his genuine sincerity. Well, for that matter, John Brown inspired belief in his genuine sincerity, but nobody reproached the Confederate Government with sending him to prison and hanging him after his attack on Harper's Ferry. And besides, Mr. Dillon's genuine sincerity is not of a species to exclude passion of a very unscrupulous and mischievous kind. When politicians undertake to render the existing government of any country impossible,—and that is what Mr. Dillon has undertaken in Ireland,—their friends must not whine when they are sent to prison.