The county 9f Dublin, at all events; has expressed itself
pretty clearly about Home-rule. Mr. Parnell, the Liberal Home-ruler,. received last week only 1,235 votes against 2,183 given to Colonel) Taylor. In 1865, when CaptainWhite contested the county, he re- ceived 1,644 votes against 2,096 forColonel Taylor; in other words, Mr. Parnell was hi a minority more than twice as great as Captain White's. It is clear that plenty of Liberals voted for Colonel Taylor expressly to defeat Home-rule,—the Ballot telling- against that cause. Even if all the voters who stayed at home (817 in number) had voted for Mr. Parnell (though, of course, it is fair to suppose that a proportionate majority would have voted the other way), Colonel Taylor would have been returned by- 121 votes. It is said, we believe truly, that men came from all parts of Ireland to vote for Colonel Taylor, simply as a demon- stration against Home-rule, and that he had a great majority of the wealthier Roman Catholics on his side. As Dublin is the county which ought to gain most from the stimulus of an Irish Parliament, and also the county which has in the highest force- the advantages of political discussion, we may regard the result as a very ominous sign for the Home-rule movement, and a very- good one for Ireland.
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