Yet France is detested from one end of Italy to the other, whilst Italians rejoice in the alliance with Austria.

In all this there is nothing unreasonable and nothing to blame.

Policy is not sentimentality, and the relations of peoples cannot be regulated in the same manner as the relations of individuals.

Thirty, twenty, ten, five years hence all the sentiment of the year 1893 will have vanished.

Irish content and satisfaction must, if it is to exist at all, rest on a far more solid basis than the hopes, the words, the pledges, or the intentions of Mr.M'Carthy, Mr.Sexton, or Mr.Davitt.Note that their satisfaction is even now of a limited kind.