One result of the split in the Irish Party is,
at all events, good,—a good many of the tenants of Lord Clanriearde's Portumna estate having received notice that the payments to support them are not forthcoming. And being discouraged by the split in the Irish Party, they have come in and made the best terms they can for themselves with Lord Clanrien,rde's agent. The "Plan of Campaign" on that estate is therefore collapsing. There have been many more deserving and better victims of the "Plan of Campaign" than Lord Clanricarde, as the Irish leaders made it their policy to strike at some of the best as well as at some of the worst Irish landlords. But we can only rejoice at the collapse of a conspiracy to break contracts wherever it occurs, though we rejoice most when it occurs on the estates of landlords who have a much deeper sense of the duties of ownership than Lord Clanriearde.
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