He has gone into it with all his usual earnestness and ability.

This is not a matter of politics with him, but of patriotism and of business.

He tells me he has already secured very large orders from the United States.

I hope he is not surprised, as I certainly am not, to find that the Parliamentarian Irish party give but a half-hearted and lukewarm support to such enterprises as this.

Perhaps he has forgotten, as I have not, the efforts which a certain member of that party made in 1886 to persuade an Irish gentleman from St.Louis, who had brought over a considerable sum of money for the relief of the distress in North-Western Ireland, into turning it over to the League, on the express ground that the more the people were made to feel the pinch of the existing order of things, the better it would be for the revolutionary movement.
The Irish Woollen Company will, nevertheless, be a success, I believe, and a success of considerably more value to Ireland than the election of Mr.Wilfrid Blunt as M.P.for Deptford would be.
As to this election, Mr.Davitt seems to feel no great confidence.