At a meeting of the National League, held in Dublin
on Tues- day, Dr. Kenny declared that they ought to send back the pre-
sent Government to the country defeated and disgraced. Other speakers followed in the same vein. Mr. George Coffey said that the Government could not deal with the land question, which could be settled better by the Tories than by the Liberals. The Tories had the men and they had the money to carry out a settlement which would be generous to the landlord party and provide funds to facilitate a settlement of that question. Mr. O'Neill said that if a Tory Government were returned again to power it might prove to be a blessing instead of a curse. The Anti-Parnellites said similar things about Liberalism in 1885. In that year Mr. T. P. O'Connor, Mr. Justin McCarthy, Mr. T. Sexton, and Mr. T. M. Healy, signed a manifesto to the Irish voters in English and Scotch constituencies in which the following passage occurs :—" We feel bound to advise our countrymen to place no confidence in the Liberal and Radical party, and, so far aa in them lies, to prevent the government of the Empire falling into the hands of a party so perfidious, treacherous, and in- competent."
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