MR. DILLON'S AUSTRALIAN CAMPAIGN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVI, Issue 9435, 5 August 1889, Page 5

MR. DILLON'S AUSTRALIAN CAMPAIGN.

Regarding Mr. Dillon's Australian campaign, the London correspondent of the Melbourne Argus writes on June 21 f — " The London correspondent of the Freeman's Journal, apparently adopting" opinions expressed in some of the letters received from tho delegates, ventures the remark that the adverse press comments upon Mr. Dillon are ' written under orders from Downing-street.' The Spectator thinks the difficulties encountered by the lenders of the Irish movement in Australia can be explained on very different grounds. It regards Mr. Dillon's reply to tho pressing interrogatories addressed to him in Melbourne as an admission ' that the funds of the League are diverted to objects which, however morally justifiable, are acknowledged by the Nationalist leaders to savour of conspiracy and treason.' Mr. Dillon'a, reasons for not saying how the Land League's money is Spent may be, it says, perfectly sound and perfectly bona fids. but, if they arc, they entirely overthrow fcho contention that the Parnellifce movement has from first to last been conducted solely on constitutional lines.' The Spectator holds that there is a great deal of solid sense in The Argus criticism in regard to the delegates' appeals for money. It endorses the contention that the Parnellifces would have no difficulty in raising half a million of money in England ' if the heart' of even their English allies were once touched. The attempt is not made for two reasons—' firstly, because the Parnellites see that the mass of the Gladstonians do not really like either them or their cause, and therefore they do not dure to run the risks of a fiasco ; and secondly, because they know that if English people were to give money, they would demand a rigid account of the way in which it was expended.' The necessity for rendering such an account would, however, make the money practically valueless, for it would mean no expenditure in secret service, which is the essence of all revolutionary action. The Parnellites, therefore, prefer to pile up money in America and Australia, where no questions are asked, to making an appeal to England." The Manchester Examiner of the 18th inst. contains a letter from a correspondent which states that the fact that Archbishop Carr sent Mr. Dillon a £50 cheque and his blessing has made a profound impression on the mind of Dr. Vaughan, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Salford, brother of the late Archbishop Vaughan, of Sydney, who, unless there is a subsequent "hitch" in the programme, is the destined successor of Cardinal Manning at Westminster. Dr. Vaughan is a strong Unionist, and, like the Duke of Norfolk and many of the English Roman Catholic gentry, utterly at variance on all social and political questions with the Parnellite priesthood of Ireland. It is said that his Lordship, on having fcho paragraph about Archbishop Carr pointed out to him, at first inclined to believe it as being an act of " direct contumacy," but, on his being assured of its correctness, he, with the characteristic caution of his order, reserved his judgment until all the facts were before him.