Mr. Parnell's challenge to Mr. Maurice Healy to join him.
in resigning their seats for Cork, and test the feeling of that constituency by a double election, has been accepted by Mr.. Maurice Healy, after consultation with th-e Bishop of Cork. Mr. Maurice Healy expresses himself with the utmost confi- dence that Anti-Parnellites will be returned for both seats ; while Mr. Parnell of course holds that not only will he him- self be returned by a large majority, but that his nominee will be returned in Mr. Maurice Healy's place. If this political duel comes off—which is as yet uncertain—it will be a very
dramatic and exciting one,—to Unionists, dramatic and exciting -without any great political importance. Of course a serious division in the party would in some respects help the Unionists by weakening their opponents. But, on the other hand, the more complete is the victory of either section of the Irish "Home-rulers, the greater will be the danger to Great Britain, and the quicker will the people of Great Britain be to appre- hend and measure the extent of that danger.
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