But he can hardly have gone further than certain persons calling themselves English Liberals went when the assassins of Napoleon III.

escaped to England.

And he has a capacity of being just to opponents, which certainly all his associates do not possess.

I was much struck to-day by the candour and respect with which he spoke of John Bright, whose name came incidentally into our conversation.

He seemed to feel personally annoyed and hurt as an Irishman, that Irishmen should permit themselves to revile and abuse Mr.
Bright because he will not go with them on the question of Home Rule, in utter oblivion of the great services rendered by him to the cause of the Irish people "years before many of those whose tongues now wag against him had tongues to wag." I was tempted to remind him that not with Irishmen only is gratitude a lively sense of favours to come.
I find Mr.Davitt quite awake to the great importance of the granite quarries of Donegal.