We have stated elsewhere what we believe to be the
present position of the Home-rule agitation, but may' add here that Mr. Shaw, the nominal leader of the party, repu- diates the calling of a National Convention to consider the whole political situation. That would only, he thinke, weaken its effect. He would prefer a convention specially devoted to the land question, which urgently demands solution, and on which the Trish will be aided by some of the most influential people in the Empire. He declines, therefore, to be placed on the Committee appointed to arrange for the Convention. He has embodied this view in a letter to the Council of the Home- rule League ; but after much debate, the Council decided, by 13 to 4, that they must proceed on their course without refer- ence to Mr. Shaw, who will, of course, resign. The Girondins of the -Home-rule party are being rapidly weeded out. The Parnellites will soon be alone, and will, we venture to predict, speedily come to blows with their last remaining rivals, the consistent Nationalists, who, again, will divide into the ttvb inevitable factions, those of moral and of physical force.
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