NEWS OF THE WEEK.
411HE meeting at Ballycoree, near Ennis, which was prohibited 1 by the Government, was not held on Sunday. But in place of it, the Nationalists held two meetings, one in Ennis itself on Saturday ; and one at a spot outside Ennis on the Limerick road on Sunday, which was subsequently dispersed by the soldiers and police tinder Colonel Turner's command, when they discovered where the meeting was being held. Mr. Dillon, accompanied by Mr. Stanhope, M.P. for Wedneabnry (who has recently played the part of Fidus Achates to Mr. Dillon's rather melodramatic /Eneas), arrived at Ennis on Saturday night, and immediately proceeded to address the visitors who thronged the lintel. Mr. Stanhope prayed Heaven to forbid that the Irish people's conflict should be with the English people. It was to be only with the Tory Government, who in this matter " would be condemned throughout the length and breadth of the island." That is just what remains to be seen. Apparently, even if we accept Mr. Gladstone's own sanguine view of English con- situencies, it is condemned at most by from 15 to 22 per cent. more electors than supported Mr. Gladstone's policy last year. Even if that should yield a majority, the condemnation which would be passed could hardly be a condemnation extending through "the length and breadth of the island." There is a disposition in some quarters to speak of the popular vote as if it were a class vote, unless it supports Mr. Gladstone.
