Mr. T. P. O'Connor repudiates the idea that Messrs. Dillon
and O'Brien intend to raise money in America for the " famine." Indirectly, their efforts will, he told a correspon- dent of the Cologne Gazette, tend to relieve the distress ; but directly, their only object is "to collect money for political purposes." Mr. Balfour must see to the distress. The cause will want " much money " this winter, and as soon as the purpose is achieved, the fugitives will come back and " surrender themselves to the British Executive." The precise sum wanted is £100,000, and, in spite of the furious quarrel raging in the Irish-American camp, half that amount will probably be obtained, especially if the appeal can be made just before the elections. The Irish vote must be worth more than that to the manufacturers, who alone benefit by Pro- tection, and who are frightened to death at the annoyance which the rise in prices and the impending ruin among importers are causing in American electors. We have never seen why Parnellites should not raise money in America, pro- vided they do not raise it by falsehoods, and wish very much that all Parnellite Members were rich men. That would cool the fervour of their Jacobinism, though not of their national aspirations.
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