Yesterday week Mr. Healy made a speech at Crossmaglen, in
Armagh, on the general drift of which we have commented suffi- ciently in another column. It undoubtedly proves that whether he wished to divide the Anti-Parnellite party or not,—and he has since disclaimed entirely any intention of doing so,—he wishes to alter its policy, and to persuade his colleagues to attack Mr. Morley and the Government for not carrying out the arrangement for which Mr. Jackson had prepared the way und.:.- Lord Salisburf, pointing to a grant to the schools of the Christian Brothers, which would render the elementary schools of Ireland more decidedly denominational. But there was one passage in the part of his speech referring to the new Irish Land Bill, on which we have said nothing elsewhere, and which, if rightly reported, includes an unusually frank admission. Insisting on having the Commissioners who fix the rents drawn more from the class of farmers and less exclu- sively from that of bailiffs and land agents, Mr. Healy said, "I can only tell the Protestants of Ulster that if they think the Catholics over half -Ulster, and the South and West of Ireland, are any longer going to commit outrages, in order that they may get cheap farms, they will find that the people in the South and West will no longer take the chestnuts out of the fire for them." That reads like a very frank admission that hitherto the people of the South and West have com- mitted outrages with this view. Perhaps that is why Mr. Healy wishes the schools of the Christian Brothers to receive a grant from the Government,—in order that the outrages of Catholics may no longer be committed in order to help Protestants to get cheap farms.
