His notion is that were Ireland as independent of Great Britain, for example, in fiscal matters as is Canada, Ireland might seek and secure a fiscal union with the United States, such as was partially secured to Canada under the Reciprocity Treaty denounced by Mr.Seward.
"Give us this," he said, "and take us into your system of American free-trade as between the different States of your American Union, and no end of capital will soon be coming into Ireland, not only from your enormously rich and growing Republic, but from Great Britain too.

Give us the American market, putting Great Britain on a less-favoured footing, just as Mr.Blake and his party wish to do in the case of Canada, and between India doing her own manufacturing on the one side, and Ireland becoming a manufacturing centre on the other, and a mart in Europe for American goods, we'll get our revenge on Elizabeth and Cromwell in a fashion John Bull has never dreamt of in these times, though he used to be in a mortal funk of it a hundred years ago, when there wasn't nearly as much danger of it!" DUBLIN, _Sunday, June 24._--"Put not your faith in porters!" I had expected to pass this day at Castlebar, on the estate of Lord Lucan, and I exchanged telegrams to that effect yesterday with Mr.Harding, the Earl's grandson, who, in the absence of his wonderfully energetic grandsire, is administering there what Lord Lucan, with pardonable pride, declares to be the finest and most successful dairy-farm in all Ireland.

I asked the porter to find the earliest morning train; and after a careful search he assured me that by leaving Dublin just after 7 A.M.I could reach Castlebar a little after noon.
Upon this I determined to dine with Mr.Colomb, and spend the night in Dublin.

But when I reached the station a couple of hours ago, it was to discover that my excellent porter had confounded 7 A.M.with 7 P.M.
There is no morning train to Castlebar! So here I am with no recourse, my time being short, but to give up the glimpse I had promised myself of Mayo, and go on this afternoon to Belfast on my way back to London.
At dinner last night Mr.Colomb gave me further and very interesting light upon the events of 1867, of which he had already spoken with me at Cork, as well as upon the critical period of Mr.Gladstone's experiments of 1881-82 at "Coercion" in Ireland.
Mr.Colomb lives in a remarkably bright and pleasant suburb of Dublin, which not only is called a "park," as suburbs are apt to be, but really is a park, as suburbs are less apt to be.

His house is set near some very fine old trees, shading a beautiful expanse of turf.