They Are So Emotional, So Impulsive, So Impressible That Their Warm Hearts Are Easily Swayed By Demagogues Who Are Making Capital Out Of Influencing Them."

Old lady - "Making money by it, do you mean?"

Tam O'Shanter, with a decided set of his bonnet - "Making money of it! Yes, by all means. They have got up the whole thing to make money. But here in Belfast, where you are going," with a bow to the bride, "all is tranquil, all is prosperous. In fact all over the north there is the same tranquillity, the same prosperity."

Here, a new voice, that of an enthusiastic supporter of the Land League, joined in the conversation, and the controversy becoming personal the ladies disappeared into the ladies' cabin. There was an echo of drunken argument that was likely a continuation of the land question until the wind increased to a gale. The little boat tossed like a cork on the waves; there was such a rattle of glass, such a rolling and bumping of loose articles, such echoes of sickness, above all, the shock of waves and the shriek of winds, and the land question was for the time being swallowed up by the storm.

Belfast, with its mud and mist, was a welcome sight. The dirty-faced porters who lined the quay and beckoned to us, and pointed to our luggage silently, seemed to be a deputation of welcome to _terra firma_. At a little distance from the line of porters the jaunting cars were stationed to convey passengers to the hotel.

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