The Home-rule party are in difficulties. It seems to be
admitted on all sides that Ireland is tiring of the Home- rule Agitation, and its little fruits. Perhaps the relative prosperity of Ireland is one cause of it, and the depression of the United States,—which send now hardly any surplus wages to foment discontent in Ireland,—another. But be the cause what it may, the chief of the Home-rulers themselves admit the want of popular sympathy, and are going to meet in Dublin next week, to discuss the cause and the remedy. Let us hope that they may be given grace to discover that the cause is the intrinsic folly of the demand, and the remedy, to withdraw it, and to substitute instead that perfectly reasonable demand for local reforms and municipal independence in which all the English Liberals would heartily support them.
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