The Anti-Parnellites do not seem to be heartily united even
among themselves. Mr. Dillon has written a letty declining to be chairman of the Board of Directors of the reconstituted Free- man unless he is supported on the Board by Mr. Sexton and Mr. O'Brien. He expressed his distrust of Mr. Healy, who wanted, he thinks, to have the use of his name and influence, without really giving him any power to control the conditions on which the amalgamation of the Freeman with its Irish rival was to be arranged. It is plain that Mr. Dillon absolutely distrusts Mr. Healy, and it seems probable that Mr. Healy has no confidence in Mr. Dillon, though he wished to have the use of his influence on behalf of the amalgamated papers. It is a very pretty quarrel ; but when we are told by the Radical papers that Unionists should console themselves in the prospect of Home-rule by considering how little these Irishmen love one another, we altogether demur. In the first place, we have no wish to see Ireland ruined by falling into the hands of a quarrelsome crew of professed patriots. In the next place, if anything could make Ireland dangerous to England, it would be the sort of quarrels amongst her rulers which would tempt some of them to call in foreign influence and foreign power to settle their internecine strife.
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