11 DECEMBER 1886, Page 2

As for the campaign which has thus received his Grace's

blessing, it is going on merrily. On Sunday last, Mr. Dillon, at Castlereagh (County Roscommon), surpassed himself in the violent Jacobinism of his menaces. He threatened what will be universally understood as an Irish Reign of Terror, whenever Home-rule should be victorious :—" I want to say a word of warning to the bailiffs, a word to that class of people who will side with the landlords in the coming struggle in this winter in Ireland, and that warning is this—that there is no man in Ireland, England, or Scotland who does not know who will be the Government in Ireland within the next few years. The little potentates, or heroes in their own estimation, who have the police to keep them to-day, and who think they can ride over the bodies of our people, I tell these persons that the time is at hand—and very close at hand too—when the

police will be our servants, when the Irish police will be taking their pay from Mr. Parnell, when he will be Prime Minister of Ireland ; and I warn the men to-day who take their stand by the side of landlordism, and signalise themselves as the enemies -of the people, that in the day of our power we will remember -them. The time has gone by when the Government of this -country can be opposed to the wishes of the people, and I warn you that in the struggle that you are going into this winter your enemies have a day of reckoning, and that we are not the men to forget who stood up against the people. These little men, these little agents, think now because they have the police ander their hands to-day that they can defy the people. But -we will see in the course of the next two or three years what will be the result when we have the power. And, as I said already, we will recollect those who stood against the people this -winter. I will go further, and say that officers of the law who make themselves prominent against the people by their harshness and cruelty, if they want promotion when the Irish Government is in power, will have to go elsewhere than to us to look for it."