SION HOUSE, COUNTY TYRONE, _Feb.

3d._--Hearing nothing from Mr.Davitt yesterday, I gave up the idea of attending the Ripon-Morley meeting last night.

As I have come to Ireland to hear what people living in Ireland have to say about Irish affairs, I see no particular advantage in listening to imported eloquence on the subject, even from so clever a man as his books prove Mr.Morley to be, and from so conscientious a man as an acquaintance, going back to the days when he sat with Kingsley at the feet of Maurice, makes me believe Lord Ripon to be.

How much either of them knows about Ireland is another matter.

A sarcastic Nationalist acquaintance of mine, with whom I conversed about the visitors yesterday, assured me it had been arranged that Lord Ripon should wear the Star of the Garter, "so the people might know him from Morley." When I observed that Dublin must have a short memory to forget so soon the face of a Chief Secretary, he replied: "Forget his face?
Why, they never saw his face! It's little enough he was here, and indoors he kept when here he was.