The annual Convention of the Irish National League of Great
Britain was held at Bradford on Saturdaylast. The report claimed that its members had always been free from the spirit of dissension which had distracted other organisations ; and Mr. O'Connor in his presidential address practically laid down the interesting law that the volume of American subsidies varied inversely with the amount of dissension in Ireland. On the other hand, they of the Irish National League of Great Britain had kept their unity intact. "The labours of the members of the League," he continued, "were dictated exclusively by the love which every true Irishman bore to his country, and bY _ . their unselfish desire to see it free. They. therefore felt veiy.
much inclined to ask the people of 'Ireland why they did not act in the same spirit." The moral effect of exile in England, which was so freely illustrated in this eulogy of the National League of Great Britain at the expense of institutions across St. George's Channel, reminds one of the old saying that "Ireland is a grand country to live out of." The flourishing financial state of the League was strongly insisted on. It may be added that amongst the chief items of expenditure were £96 for Irish distress, and £108 for demonstrations.
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