- • ----- The debate of Tuesday and Wednesday resulted
in a con- siderable scene, when the discussion on the second reading of the Arms 13i11 was resumed, on Thursday, and Mr. Parnell reappeared, though he took hardly any part in the debate Mr. Dillon explained. the language in which he had ad- vised Irish farmers to arm themselves by the following extra- ordinary statements :—" If he (Mr. Dillon) were an Irish farmer, and a party of men came to evict him and his family, be would decidedly shoot as many of those men as he could, and abide the consequences." " He was himself insulted three days ago by a company of soldiers at a railway-station in Tipperary, who eneevingly shouted, in the presence of their officers, who did not attempt to 'restrain them, 'There goes the Land League !' Was there any more effectual means than that of provoking civil war ? They had no means of waging civil war in Ireland. He wished they had V' Mr. Dillon is extremely sensitive. He is proud of being a Land Leaguer, but thinks it a" most effectual means of provoking civil war" when he is greeted as the spirit of the Land League, No doubt, on those terms, civil war may easily be proveked, even though there be no means of waging it.
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