MR.

DILLON'S FORGETFULNESS.
[Sidenote: Mr.Dillon.] Everybody who has ever met Mr.Dillon knows that he has a singularly even and equable temper, except at the moments when he has been stung to passion by the sight of some bitter and intolerable wrong.

When, therefore, Mr.Chamberlain made him the subject of a fierce attack on account of a past utterance, he was dealing with a man who was as little influenced by such attacks as anybody could well be.

For days Mr.
Chamberlain had been trying to bait Mr.Dillon into speech; and for days Mr.Dillon had positively refused to be drawn.

At last it seemed to some friends of Mr.Dillon that if he did not speak his attitude might be misunderstood, and that he would be supposed to entertain, as part of a settled policy, what he had really uttered on the spur of the moment and under the influence of intolerable wrong and provocation.