At a meeting of the members of the South branches
of the Irish National League of Great Britain, held on Tuesday at Walworth, Mr. Justin McCarthy made a rather elaborate speech on the political situation. He remarked that Ireland bad not changed at all in her attitude towards Home-rule, while England, Scotland, and even Wales had changed so much, and that Ireland can never be satisfied without a liberal concession to her desire for a separate Government and Administration. Nevertheless, he took a very serious view of the dissensions amongst the Irish Home-rulers, and said plainly that if unity could not be restored, "Irishmen must give up any idea of Home-rule for the present generation." We are not so sure of that, as it seems to us that the more unlikely, or even im- possible, of attainment any desired object becomes, the more passionately do the Irish people cleave to " the idea" of it. But of course Mr. Justin McCarthy is quite right, that if the Irish party care less for the objects on which they are all at one, than they do for the objects on which they are all at odds, they will not have any appreciable chance of attaining even the objects on which they are at one.
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