19 JULY 1890, Page 2

In the same debate, it is satisfactory to observe that,

in spite of Mr. Dillon's high-flown and tremendous denunciations of the Irish Secretary, he has to admit that, as he represents "a very poor district," he cannot repudiate altogether the money spent by the Irish Board of Works in that district, since, in spite of the waste, his constituency must gain by it. Surely that wrath is not of a very terrible and tragic character which can smile a little, under the mask of indignation, as it becomes conscious of the comfortable help that is stealing into con- stituents' pockets. Mr. Dillon's bark is, after all, we suspect, a good deal worse than his bite. But why overdo the bark so monstrously P