(A cry of "Bravo!") Iα the three provinces of Ireland out of the four there was not a representative following the Government. The three provinces fol lowed Parnell. And in that Ulster, about which there had been so much heard, there were seventeen representatives who followed Parnell and sixteen who fol lowed the Government. (Loud applause.) But even that did not represent the strength of the situation in Ireland, for of the eighty-five men there were sixty-six who were returned without a contest, the Government being afraid to chal lenge the verdict of the consti tuencies, and where contests did take place the figures were like the following: —Dr. Tanner obtained 5300 votes, the Go vernment man 250; Parnellite 5000, Go vernment 120. Of those who were re turned eighteen were candidates who had to fight a contest, and the sum total of their votes was 71,000, as against 36,090 for their opponents. After the election there were two petitions presented under the Corrupt Practices Act—one was by the Government and one by their own party. The Government petition failed, and the others were successful in ousting the Government man. (Loud applause.) These were some of the facts as to the men who followed Parnell, and to whom Mr Chamberlain would not appeal or con ciliate. He might go further and point out that when Mr Chamberlain spoke of the men who followed Parnell he did not onl> include the overwhelming majority who lived in Ireland, but he also included in his scornful definition the millions of the Irish race who were scattered throughout the world, and who were proud to enrol themselves under Parnell. These were the people of whom Mr Chamberlain thought it was states manlike to speak with scorn and con tempt. MR CHAMBERLAIN'S SPEECH. Was he (Mr Dillon) wrong in saying that the speech was one of despair as regarded the settlement of the Irish Question. The speech meant that that English statesman had abandoned the idea that the people of Ireland would be reconciled to the Empire and that they were to get up a reign of coercion and bind the people of Ireland by force of arms. Let him draw attention to the past career of this eminent states man in connection with Irish affairs. 