22 FEBRUARY 1896, Page 3

At a meeting of the Irish party in Dublin on

Tuesday, Mr. Justin McCarthy moved the election of Mr. Dillon as chair- man, to which motion Mr. Healy moved as an amendment that one more effort be made to secure the services of Mr. Sexton. The amendment being rejected by 37 to 25, Mr. McCarthy's motion was carried by 38 to 21, on which Mr. Dillon took the chair. His position will certainly not be a luxurious one. There is no real unity in the party, the Healyites being perhaps even more opposed to the Dillonites than either division of the party is to the Parnellites them- selves. Ireland, so far as it is favourable to Home-rule, is -divided into three unequal fragments, the Dillonites being the most numerous and the followers of Mr. Redmond the fewest.