Mr. P. J'. Smyth, M.P., has addressed a letter to
the Land League at Tralee, in which be characterises the policy of Mr. Parnell's party in no measured terms :—" I am the advocate of a thorough measure of land. reform, but in exact proportion to my desire to promote such reform is my detestation of the policy truly described by Mr. Mitchell Henry as stupid, irrational, almost insane, by which a just cause has been sacrificed and our country dishonoured. Coercion was courted, and it has come. The cledicre was challenged, aud it is there. Letter- opening was invited, and it is revived. Nationality was put aside. Would the best Land Bill.in the world compensate for the disasters that an almost insane leadership has brought upon us to When I contemplate the political Moody-and-Sankeyism which appears to fascinate so many of our people, when I see Irishwomen, forgetful of the modesty that becomes their sex, and for which the women of Ireland have been heretofore cele- brated, turning stump-orators; when I read the imbecile counsels promulgated one day from public platforms and. with- drawn the next, I hang my head for shame as an Irishman, and the question forces irresistibly itself upon me, whither have fled
the pride the manhood, the virtue of our race. Non tali nec defensoribus istis, tempus eget.' " That is something like outspokenness. If there wore many Mr. Smyths, Mr Parnell and Mr. Dillon would be ciphers in Ireland,—as, indeed, one would have supposed that Irishmen would have had the sagacity to reckon them, but for the marvellous facts which tare us in the face. .
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