We have mentioned elsewhere several instances of an apparent change
in the popular temper, and may add here that on the 17th inst. the Tipperary Town Com- missioners unanimously resolved to request Mr. Dillon and Mr. O'Brien, "as the leaders whom we recognise and follow," to "remove Mr. F. R. Gill and Mr. J. Cullinane from all farther interference with our affairs," they having, as the Commissioners allege, been parties to the "scandal" of the attack upon Father Cantwell, "one of the most respected and devoted priests in the Archdiocese." The resolution has greatly alarmed, and therefore irritated, the League, and its mouthpiece charges the Commissioners with being the men really responsible for Mr. Dillon's arrest. The local agents of the League in the different counties are, in fact, so using their powers as to create a revolt against their tyranny, which, as the sufferers begin to see each other's faces, will pro- voke a reaction that may be perceptible even at the elections. With the best of the Catholic clergy, the bravest of the old Nationalists, and a large section of their own followers all against them, the more extreme Parnellites will find their influence sadly shaken, and may even learn the truth of the old saying that all revolutions devour their children. The League has never mastered Ireland as the Terrorists mastered France, and how many Terrorists escaped
