Men are turning out these favourite instruments of
feminine correction, in a rough state, by boat loads. When the
coster's done a-jumping on his mother, he should thank Ireland for
his clogs. When the festive miner rejoices, his dancing would lack the
distinguishing clatter which is its richest charm, without alder grown
on the banks of the Donegal Finn. The countries were made to run in
harness. One is the complement of the other. The brainy dwellers of
Hibernia know this, and stick like limpets to England. Only the
visionary, the lazy, the ne'er-do weels, the incompetent, the
disorderly, the ignorant, the ambitious, want Home Rule. The
contemners of law and order want to flourish and grow fat. The Healys
and Sextons and all of that ilk know that while under an Irish
Parliament their country would be ruined, yet that they themselves
would pick up something in the general confusion, while Dillon, like
Mrs. Gargery, could be ever on the rampage, carrying out his promises
of dire revenge, and flourishing like a young bay tree. Nobody here
rejoiced when the bill was reported amended. They are losing faith in
its merits. Their simple faith received a severe shock after the
return to power of the Three-acres-and-a-Cow Government. Then the
Labourers' Dwellings Act proved a fraud. The peasantry asked the
neighbouring landowners for an acre of ground and a new cottage. A
neighbouring J.P. to-day told me that he had more than twenty
applications from people who are now awaiting the gold mines, the
great factories which the new Irish Government are about to open. If
you would remain poor, vote for the Unionist candidate. If you would
become rich beyond the dreams of avarice, if you would occupy the
place of the Protestant landlords, if you would preserve your immortal
soul from eternal flames, vote as instructed by Father Gilhooly. A
patriot priest yesterday said that the Day of Independence would be
the "Day of Ireland." He should have called it the _Dies Irae_.

A Scottish Covenanter, not of the straitest sect, has no faith in the
Home Rule Bill. He said:--"The people up in the mountains, those who
want Home Rule, or rather those who have voted for it and expect to
benefit by it, are all of the class no Act of Parliament would ever
help. They don't farm their land, and they don't want to farm it. Half
of it lies to waste every year, and they cut turf which they get for
nothing, and sell it in the small towns about for three or