Mr. Harrington and Mr. John Redmond have been making great
exertions this week to stir up Irish feeling against the Anti-Parnellites on the ground of their alliance with Mr. Glad- stone's Government. At Milltown, County Dublin, last Sunday, Mr. Harrington said that the Anti-Parnellites had sanctioned the proposal to drop Home-rule during the next session, and to let MT. Gladstone push forward measures popular in England.
deelered‘thftt the Irish people had never been consulted ahotit'eurtieelf baitain, and .thare they would not endorse it. The evicted tenants and the "political prisoners" (the trrtamitere) were, he said, abandoned, and all because the most incepable and stupid leaders" with whom a people were ever cursed had given themselves into the hands of an English party. The same evening, Mr. Redmond said at Cork that in demanding the release of the dynamiters, "they did not stop to inquiie, and they did not care whether they were guilty or innocent." They knew that Irishmen never gained anything except through the efforts cif men similar to those whose release they demanded. He himself never approved the use of explosives for the bringing about of justice ; but Mr. Glad- stone having admitted that it was by acts of this kind that the eyes of Englishmen had been opened to Irish wrongs, those who had adopted these methods ought to be released before Ireland and England could make peace. Mr. Justin McCarthy has so far been stimulated by these very frank declarations, that he has been making appeals for sub- scriptions for the evicted tenants, while the Parnellites desire to force Mr. Morley to bring in as a Government measure the proposals for the relief of evicted tenants which they hope for. We do not know how the Gladstonians will like either to be associated with the Parnellite apologists for dynamiters, on the one hand, or, 'on t4e other hand, to see their majority dwindling by nine votes if the Parnellites stay away, and by eighteen if they vote against them. But they chose their allies freely, and must reap what they have sown.
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