The All-for-Ireland League held its Convention at Cork on Sunday
last. The main resolution, proposed by Mr. William O'Brien, welcomed the Government Home Rule Bill as offering a reasonable basis of permanent reconciliation between the two countries, but having commended the principle of the Bill Mr. O'Brien and the other speakers proceeded to tear it to pieces in detail. A. resolution was adopted declaring that the Bill as it stands would complete the death of land pur - chase. Mr. T. M. Healy condemned the finance of the Bill as absolutely unsatisfactory. Mr. O'Brien declared that nobody but a place-hunter could go into raptures over it and Lord Dunraven wrote to say that as it stood it was an anti- Federal measure which could not be adapted to Britain. Mr. O'Brien assures us that no sane Irish Nationalists will think of rejecting the Bill, but he is extraordinarily successful in proving that there is a great deal of method in such madness.
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