The Parnellites held a Convention in Dublin on Tuesday, and
Mr. John Redmond, their leader, made a speech of some importance. He said Ireland was almost face to face with the ruin of the Home-rule cause, and was "in a position of -disunion, squalid and humiliating personal altercations, and petty vanities." Home-rule was not only hung up. but post- poned until the English people were converted. The case of the Evicted Tenants was put farther back than ever. The amnesty question did not advance, though for himself, however :he might denounce a man's method, he would never find fault with an Irishman, "however extreme his methods might be, if he suffered for his devotion to the national cause." The time had come when they should limit their patience and insist on a General Election. Constitutional agitation had, in the hands -of the Anti-Parnellites, sunk into a sham and a farce, and Irish Members must re-enter on the path of resolute inde- pendence. The speech was enthusiastically received, and a resolution was passed affirming that the present Government had forfeited the confidence of Irish Nationalists. This is 'regarded in many quarters as a full declaration of war, and undoubtedly must be unpleasant to the Cabinet ; but one is mever quite certain what Irish words mean. Mr. Redmond may only be swearing after all ; though we think he is in -earnest. In the second case, he withdraws nine Members from the Government side, counting eighteen on a division.
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