He is supposed to be, and I dare say is, a warm Nationalist, but he has a keen eye to business, and alertly suits his cries to his customers.

Recognising the Conservative member for North Tyrone, he promptly recommended us to buy the _Irish Times_ and the _Express_ as "the two best papers in all Ireland." But he smiled approval when I asked for the _Freeman's Journal_ also, in which I found a report of a speech delivered yesterday by Mr.Davitt at Rathkeale, chiefly remarkable for a sensible protest against the ridiculous and rantipole abuse lavished upon Mr.Balfour by the Nationalist orators and newspapers.

I am not surprised to see this.

Mr.
Davitt has the stuff in him of a serious revolutionary leader, and no such man can stomach the frothy and foolish vituperation to which parliamentary agitators are addicted, not in Ireland only.

Unlike Mr.
Parnell, who is forced to have one voice for New York and Cincinnati, and another voice for Westminster, Mr.Davitt is free to be always avowedly bent on bringing about a thorough Democratic revolution in Ireland.