r Irishman cannot sell his day's labour, he
must needs emigrate to some other country, where his only commodity may
be in demand.

While at Galway, I read with interest an eloquent speech delivered by
Mr. Parnell at the banquet held in the Great Hall of the Exhibition at
Cork. Mr. Parnell asked, with much reason, why manufactures should not
be established and encouraged in the South of Ireland, as in other
parts of the country. Why should not capital be invested, and
factories and workshops developed, through the length and breadth of
the kingdom? "I confess," he said, "I should like to give Ireland a
fair opportunity of working her home manufactures. We can each one of
us do much to revive the ancient name of our nation in those industrial
pursuits which have done so much to increase and render glorious those
greater nations by the side of which we live. I trust that before many
years are over we shall have the honour and pleasure of meeting in even
a more splendid palace than this, and of seeing in the interval that
the quick-witted genius of the Irish race has profited by the lessons
which this beautiful Exhibition must undoubtedly teach, and that much
will have been done to make our nation happy, prosperous, and free."

Mr. Parnell, in the course of his speech, referred to the manufactures
which had at one time flourished in Ireland--to the flannels of
Rathdrum, the linens of Bandon, the cottons of Cork, and the gloves of
Limerick. Why should not these things exist again? "We have a people
who are by nature quick and facile to learn, who have shown in many
other countries that they are industrious and laborious, and who have
not been excelled--whether in the pursuits of agriculture under a
midday sun in the field, or amongst the vast looms in the factory
districts--by the people of any country on the face of the globe."[1]
Most just and eloquent!

The only weak point in Mr. Parnell's speech was where he urged his
audience "not to use any article of the manufacture of any other
country except Ireland, where you can get up an Irish manufacture."
The true remedy is to make Irish articles of the best and cheapest, and
they will be bought, not only by the Irish, but by the English and
people of all nations. Manufactures cannot be "boycotted." They will
find their way into all lands, in spite even of the most restrictive
tariffs. Take, for instance, the case of Belfast hereafter to be
referred to. If the manuf