From the two cartoons in Punch if from no other reading we should know that again the chief topic at home of the week ending; December 13th was Mr. Parnell. Tenuiel's carton represents Hibernia—a very Joan of Arc—holding the head of the leader of her tandem, the leader bearing the face of Parnell. The title is '*In Difficulties and the legend:—Distressed Hibernia.' 'If your leader turns vicious, and kicks over the traces,—where are you?'" Harry Furniss' cartoon, Parnell's Parliamentary Puppets. The Strings ina Tangle is one of his marvellous chawings with fifty or more portraits in it, these being the pets which are dancing higgleely-pigaleay to Parnell's playing on the violin, while behind the deposed leader, whose crown lies at the foot of the stores on which he is standing, is the monstrous profile G.0.M., with his ear "closed to Who, like Dillon and O'Brien, have suffered I while Ireland lies prostrate and for the Trish cause. and those who adopt the weeping in the foreground, If the ca-views of Davitt. The Irish are far purer in tastrophe has wrecked the cause of Ire-their domestic relations than most nati land for the time, it has also wrecked and the divorce suit will weigh heavily in the balance against him. To an the Radical party, for even Labouchere is a it would seem that Mr. Purnell will allows that "there is hardly a kick left in all the more as he now us asa Party." Not that there is any instead of Union, and his victor rowing up of the sponge. The Pal! Mali, disastrous to the irish cause. With a gener-deed, is as sanguine as ever. Ite leader ous, impulsive, sentimental people, however, is illustrated witha very well-drawn cartoon like the Irish, it is impossible to predict of Parnell sawing off the end of what will occur, when reason ig on one side, Rule branch on which he is si and sentiment on the other.
Gladstone sits comfortable and secure in My good Irish friends, do you want Home the fork watching Parnell over his glasses, Rule? If #0, can you tell me how you are to while a chorus of Pigott and Parnellites down belo favour in the Imperial Parliament? This you it except by securing a majority in its "That's right, Charley, cut hit off." would have had if Mr. Parnell had not been article itself is headed, God be praised, declared guilty in the Divorce Court. The Home Rule is Saved" majority of the English Liberals, rightly or wrongly, decline to fight for Home Rule so These memorable words, which Mr. Glads-ong as he remains Irish Leader. because of tone used on Saturday, will, we cannot doubt, this verdict. How. without them can you get awake a responsive echo both in Ireland and a majority for Home Rule? But in Irelad. in Great Britain. God be praised, Home the hierarchy, the principal lieutenants of Rule is saved." It has been at a bitter cost, Mr. Parnell, and some at least of the electors, but all true Home Rulers will feel a great demand Mr. Parnell'sretirement The result sense of relief that the salvation has come. is that the Irish Nationalists are split up. The striking interview with Mr. Healy which Does this strengthen the cause of Home Rule? We publish in another column will give the If Mr Parnell had not qualified himself for Boglish reader a better idea perhaps than he the Divorce Court none of this would have has had before of the conflict of emotions happened. If even now he were to withdraw, which has been raging in the hearts of Mr, we should all again be happy family. Parnell's old followers. We still think that Whose, then, the fault? Is it yours? Is it the Patriots made bad blunder at the outset. ours? No!' The fault is Mr. Parnell's, and They could not, we will grant, have been the it really is monstrous that you should' abet first to throw a stone at the fallen d 5 but him in declining to pay the penalty. they need not have been the most effusive in condoning his offences. Now, however, that The Suturday Review delights in the the blunder has been repaired, every Home crisis, because it involves, to the Suturday, Raler will echo Mr. Gladstone's sentiment, the moral and political' discomfiture of and commend the courage and patrivtisin Gladstone and the Gladstonians,"* What-which have led the majority of the Irish reever be the result", it says," Mr, Parnell presentatives to save Home Rule" even at has done something to rehabilitate himself the sacrifice of their leader. Courage and by the excellent fight he has shown againat patriotism ure qualities which never fail in their appeal to the Irish race, and the rally the curs and rats of his own party, and of Ireland to the Patriot side should now those loathsome hypocrites of another who be secure. Ireland has yet to be appealed to, put the Serenth Commandment in their aroused, informed. With astonishing mode: kets till it had been endorsed by Mr. ration, the Patriots have left it to Mr. hugh Price Hughes "—a confusion of msenell to exhaust the machinery of public opitapliors which we do not expect in a journal nion there. Now it is the Patriots' turn, which is uvthing if not literary. How Mr. Public opinion begins to rally to them already, Parnell's attitude strikes the Saturday in for publicity and reflection are on their side. seen in its first leading article, It will be iesthood is on their side. Almost noticed that it contains the usual, and happily, the organiser of the League) is also ery, Nationalist of any mark (except, un-indeed inevitable, hit at the Americans on their side. They have the orators, the and we might also imagine, from the way enthusiasts, the men who have done the work which the Unionist papers have now on Irish soil. Now that at last they have aken up Mr. Parnell, that a second alban met Mr. Parnell with a courage matching his between the uncrowned king and the Con-own attdacity it should not be long before the servative party was in contemplation most ignorant kern in Kerry sees the fallacy of the pretence that Br. Gladstone's most Yet, if Mr. Gladstone keeps silence, what moderate letter of "dictation" had never remains for the party except doleful reco been penned it would not have been equally tion of the fact that. the Policy of " double. impossible for a party of the fire-escape to shnfiie"—as the Prime Minister well has carry the General Election, on which hang the called it—has been exposed once for all? hopes and aspirations of Ireland. In Engl And, while this is their own sad state, a the courageous coup d'etat of Saturday will glance at the party upon whose united vote have a stimulating effect on public opinion no Jess than in Ireland. So long as it was uncer-they were relying reveals the equally discon carting spectacle. of the Trish leader, whom tain whether the Irish members would pr for fondly imagined that. their neral could cashier with " nod, maintain dee: measures or men, English Liberals were naturally in a state of suspense. Now that the Rght for his political existence, using every ite and, to all appearance, majority of the Irish Party—a majority large in numbers, and overwhelming in character and influence—has cleared itself of all com-resource of hi absolutely unseripulous asta veness, now dodging nimbly, now, strike plicity with Mr. Parnell's base intrigue and hard, pulling the wires in Iveland. with one felch treachery, the sympathies and the hand, and managing the debate at West-
{go out towai efforts of English Home Rulers wil once more minster with the other; now obstructing the the Irish cause. proceedings for his deposition, and now ad-Truth puts the crisis very plainly ministering dignified rebukes to those who accuse him of it, '*ruling out" his opponents The x that still remains to be solved is and ruling in his friends, and. ell with whether the Irish will stand by Mr. Parnell, coolness, a brazen audacity, and a command or side with the majority of their Representa of the various arts of political escroguerie it must be remembered that At Parnell has ives against him. In estimating probability which testify with an almost scientific clearness to the American in his blood. What appealed to their imaginations for years. The may be the event of the conflict is, at the very mystery that surrounded him told in his, moment of our writing, uncertain; but the favour. He made the Party that he has led. last, move which Mr, Parnell has succeeded: All that has been done by the Party has been in imposing on the revolted section of his ascribed to him. Under his lead, all jealousies party is one which is calculated to place both were hushed, and the internecine quarrels, them and Mr. Gladstone in a position of the always heretofore so ruinous to Ireland, dis-profoundest embarrassment. appeared. Moreover, he still holds in his hand the organisation of the National League, The Spectator considers that if Irish and its officials and its wire-pullers are with Home Rale has not suffered a mortal blow, him. On the other side are arrayed the it has suffered a serious disaster which may Roman hierarchy and the priests, the men prove mortal if the Unionists are wise and.
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