There could be @P worse guide to what the home-dwelling Englishman is interested in, and thinking about just now, than the current English newspapers, two-thirds of—whose columns ave at present devoted to Irish news arising from the settlement. Anyone who imagines that the space given to that news in the press is. an indication of public interest here would be grievously out in their calculations. There was certainly a feeling of relief in the average man's mind when the nows was first published, but it did not arise from an overwhelming satisfaction that the age long quarrel was ended, or from a convietion that his country had escaped a grave danger. It merely arose from a long frustrated hope that he would now never be bored to death any -more with tha alternate whines and threats of vitiier the Irish or their curious English sympathizers.
For long the average man has read nothing of the Irish news in the newspapers except the little that can be grasped from a cursory glance at the headlines. If the headlines were not revealing cnough, he would glance down the text for the name "Ireland," just as 20 years ago it was the custom for a reader of a periodical to make sure that the anecdote he awas reading did not end in an advertisement for somebody or other's patent pills. The presence of the
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