At Ballinasloe, on Sunday, Mr. Dillon mourned over the "Plan
of Campaign :"—" What has been the result of division in our ranks P Why, every landlord has become quite impudent and insolent again. No reduction, no civil landlord, nothing
but pay down on the nail or take an ejectment When we had the Plan,' the landlords were very civil, and very much obliged if the tenants paid their rents even with a reduction ; but now they are beginning not to be afraid of empty farms, because a certain individual, whom we thought we had got rid of for ever—the well-known landgrabber—has reappeared on the scene." From this it is pretty clear what view Mr. Dillon will take of the screw to be put on landlords, if he can only get his own way in Ireland. The "Plan of Campaign" is what he heartily approves still, and if he does not have recourse to it under Home-rule, it will only be because, when he can get hold of the Administration itself, he can apply a more effective screw in its place. We wish the British constituencies would pay a Mae more attention to the actions and boasts of the Irish lcaders. What Ireland would become, if they ever got untrammelled away, we can conceive best by imagining the instalment of the principal leaders of the National and Land Leagues in the fall panoply of official power. It is sometimes asserted that there is absolutely no danger whatever of the revival of religious persecution under Home-rule ; but when we read of the disentombment, after ten days' burial, of Patrick Kenny, a Catholic converted to Protestantism, at Besebrook, near Newry, and the transfer of his coffin to the Protestant rector's doorstep, we cannot feel by any means so certain of the new tolerance as we should like to feel.
