Mr. Parnell on Monday moved his amendment, which affirms that
landlords who have given abatements have not been assailed, opposes coercion, and looks for a remedy to Home-rule ; and the debate, which has lasted all the week, was to end on Friday in a division too late for our columns. His own speech, the drift of which we have pointed out elsewhere, was prolix and tedious, and except when he " warned " the House that coercion had resulted in dynamite and murder, produced little sensation. Mr. Dillon's was more foroible, he attributing every illegality, so far as there was illegality, to the unjust administration of the law, especially through packing juries, and treating his own con- demnation as a foregone conclusion. Mr. Dillon made, how- ever, a curious blunder in his logic. He thinks the decrease of population in Ireland a great grievance, and pointed out that it occurred to the largest extent in the richest districts. In the poorest districts there was often an increase. Very true; but may not the prosperity of the rich districts be the cause of the decrease, the better-off peasantry prompting their eons to emigrate ? It is not the poorest who leave Ireland.
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