Mr. Dillon has announced to the electors of Tipperary his
intentionof quitting politics. His health, he says, has so failed that it is impossible for him to do his work as it ought to be done. "I am sure it will not be possible for me to take any part in Irish politics for the next few years, which will be, I trust, years of prosperity and success for our country." The National- ists are dismayed at Mr. Dillon's retirement, and call upon him to die in harness. There is, we believe, no reason to doubt that Mr. Dillon's health absolutely requires a southern climate, or that he would risk a northern one, if affairs in Ireland were going his way. He is, however, a Nationalist, not a Paruellite, and sees little hope from the battle as it will be waged, and therefore feels justified in attending to himself. His de- parture is significant of the situation. It gives no pleasure to • Englishmen, bitter. Secessionist as Mr. Dillon has always avowed himself to be. Better ten open enemies, than one treacherous friend; an army of Irish insurgents in the field,. than twenty members striving to ruin the assembly from which alone they derive any influence they may possess.
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