Mr. Dillon has gone a good way in his declarations
at Waterford. He said on Wednesday or Thursday, that if Mr. Redmond is returned at Waterford, and if a fair number of other constituencies uphold him and his party, he (Mr. Dillon) had no doubt as to the proper course to take. "He should feel bound to tell his fellow-country- men that there was no hope in constitutional agitation any longer; he would retire from Parliament, and he would feel himself at liberty to do what he was sorry he had not been able to do for fifteen years,—that was, to attend to his own business." We could not desire anything better ; but it is not constitutional agita- tion, but very unconstitutional agitation, in which Mr. Dillon has been engaged ; and we heartily desire to see the Irish people in a condition of mind which would give no hope to such agitation. Apparently there is not at present much hope for either unconstitutional or con- stitutional agitation in Ireland. All agitation there tends to be unconstitutional, and even that, fortunately, does not
prosper. In Mid-Armagh no attempt has been made to run a Nationalist candidate. Mr. Dunbar Barton, Q.C., Mr. David Plunket's nephew, has been returned without opposition.
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