Mr. Horace Plunkett has carried into effect his suggestion of
a Recess Committee of all parties who wish to co-operate for the benefit of Ireland, in spite of Mr. Justin McCarthy's snub. Besides Mr. Plunkett himself, the Lord Mayor of Dublin, the O'Conor Don, Mr. J. E. Redmond, Dr. Kenny, Lord Mayo, Mgr. Molloy, Lord Monteagle, and other influential men have consented to act on the Recess Committee, and for the present they are to concentrate their efforts on pushing forward tech- nical education in agriculture, and the provision of a separate Agricultural Department for Ireland. Mr. McCarthy's horror of joining any Committee that might be intended to under- mine the movement of Home-rule is somewhat cowardly, and does not strike us as very sagacious. He will find " Home- rule and nothing but Home-rule " will never fetch the Irish. "Ask for what you please, but take all you can get," is a maxim which apparently elicits a good deal more approbation from the mingled tenacity and voracity of the Irish tem- perament.
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