ABSTRACT
One of the most noticeable was the Land League Convention, which sat for three days, at the Rotunda in Dublin, to discuss the Land Act. Ministers had been anxious to see how the Land Act would be received in Ireland, and the Tyrone election had convinced them that, in some parts of the country at least, there was a disposition to recognize the importance of the boon which had been conferred upon the tenantry. Mr. Charles Stewart Parnell himself made it clear that he was prepared to watch the operation of the Act jealously; and he announced that the duty of the Land League would be to provide test cases by means of which the precise value of the measure might be ascertained before any general use was made of it by the tenantry. All the preparations were now, however, being made for the great blow, which was meditated against Mr. Parnell and the Land League.
