The Irish-Canadian Rangers, a regiment of Roman Catholic, and Protestant
Irishmen voluntarily recruited in Canada by Colonel O'Donoghue, have been making a tour of Ireland this week, and have had the most gratifying reception from all classes and section of the Irish people. They visited Dublin and Armagh, Belfast and Cork, and everywhere Protestants and Roman Catholics, National- ists and Unionists, combined to give them a hearty welcome. To any one who knows Leland and the rigid caste-walls that have . severed one party or one faith from the other, the Irish-Canadian Rangers must seem almost to have worked a miracle. We con- jecture that the enthusiasm and tact of the Canadian officers have counted for much in achieving this welcome result, but after all even they could •not have appealed to the bonds of sympathy that unite all Irishmen the world over if no such sympathy existed. The Irish-Canadian Rangers, who are Irish and yet stand outside the domestic quarrels of Irishmen in Ireland, have pointed the way to happier things.
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