The Irish feud has been going on in a very
active fashion all the week, two rival editions of United Ireland having appeared in Dublin, Mr. O'Brien's being called at first
" Suppressed " United Ireland, and afterwards "Insuppres- sible" United Ireland, and published at the offices of the Nation and the Irish Catholic. The scene of war has been chiefly, however, in Cork and in Kilkenny. In Cork, Mr. Justin McCarthy and the Anti-Parnellites have effected a lodgment, and have been holding meetings at which there was great confusion and much fighting. In these, it is stated, as in Kil- kenny, even the priests themselves took an active share. Again, in Kilkenny (where the election takes place on Monday), the passion and fury have been very great, Mr. Parnell himself having had his eyes seriously injured by a bag of lime, wherein apparently there was some flour mingled, so that the lime plastered itself over the eyes, and could not be easily disengaged even by medical help. This dastardly injury, however, if it were fit that it should be inflicted on any one, is true retribution when it is suffered by Mr. Parnell, who, as the author of the great boycotting movement, has been the indirect source of hundreds of these wicked cruelties both to man and beast. We profoundly regret the incident, but cannot regret that, if any one was to be made to suffer, it should have been the originator of a ten years' anti-social war. The in- cident occurred in a very fierce affray on Tuesday in Ballinakill Market Square, where Mr. Parnell was speaking for Mr. Vin- cent Scully, the Parnellite candidate for Kilkenny ; while Michael Davitt was speaking for Sir John Pope Hennessy, the Anti-Parnellite candidate, whom, however, Mr. Parnell himself originally brought forward, and now fiercely denounces. We fear that Mr. Parnell's sufferings have been serious, but on Thursday he spoke in public again, though with bandaged eyes.
