15 APRIL 1922, Page 3

As we go to press (a day earlier than usual

owing to the Easter Holidays) the Irish news is possibly a little better. It is said, that Mr. Michael Collins and Mr. Arthur Griffith, and Mr. De Valera and Mr. Cathal Bruga for the anti-Treaty section of Sinn Fein, are to attend a Conference called by the Lord Mayor of Dublin to consider a truce between the Irish leaders. The Roman Catholic Archbishop, Dr.. Byrne, has been associated. with the Lord Mayor in promoting, the Conference. We must hope against hope that peace and not fresh bombs and revolvers will come out of the new movement. Though we cannot profess to be optimistic, we trust that the Nemesis of crime, of which we spoke last week, will prove lees drastic in its doom than we feared.