A meeting of Mr. Healy's supporters was held in the
Ancient Concert Rooms in Dublin on Tuesday, and listened to a speech from Mr. Healy, in which he was what is called very " round " indeed witb Mr. Dillon, though in this rather anomalous sense of the word, "round" appears to mean "incisive." The chairman was Mr. W. Murphy, who began by saying that though the people of Ireland would not be taken in by the proposed Nationalist Convention which Mr. Dillon had sum- moned, a great many of the Irish Nationalists from the United States, and Canada, and Australia, and the Cape, would be taken in by it, as they had had no opportunity of watching the Irish political manceuvres of the last few years. None of the Parnellites, and not half of the true Irish Nationalists, would go near the Convention. He wanted to know what had become of the Paris fund, and declared that the Irish tenants had got more from the present Govern- ment than from the Gladstonians. Then arose Mr. Healy and declared that he was prouder of all he bad done in helping forward the new Irish Land Act, than of any- thing he had achieved in the last sixteen years. It would root to the soil 400,000 tenants who had got fair rents fixed, and give them a permanent tenure independent of the landlord. And it had also extended the limit of pasture farms that came under the Bill from 250 to £100 rateable value. He had thanked Mr. Gerald Balfour publicly for that Bill, "though he was not seeking a Resident Magistrateship for one of his brothers, nor a Sub-Commissionership for any of his friends."
