Canon MacColl is a most decided Home-ruler ; but some
of the Parnellites are too much even for hie patience. In a letter to the Daily News of Friday, he accuses Mr. O'Brien of visiting Canada "in order to vent his vindictive spleen against Lord Lansdowne by making him odious in the eyes of a portion of the people of Canada." " And to gratify his petty spite, Mr. O'Brien deliberately runs the risk of postponing the cause of Home-rule for years." ‘Vhat Mr. O'Brien has done that every Parnellite is not doing at all times, we entirely fail to understand, or why a malicious attack on Lord Lansdowne should be worse than a malicious attack on Mr. Balfour. Canon MacColl disapproves also of Dr. Tanner, and calls upon the leaders of his party to "put the muzzle" on him and his " tomfooleries," which threaten to cost the Irish the snpport they are seeking from British constituencies. We have elsewhere observed that the House of Commons is wanting to itself in not expelling Dr. Tanner; but is his language, offensive SS it ie, more intolerable than his leader's policy of obstruction P The one degrades, but the other paralyses the House of Commons. If Canon MacColl supports the Parnellite ends, he must learn to eapport also the Parnellite methods,—difficult though the task may be for a scholar and a Churchman.
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