Irish Legislation

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 122, 21 April 1887, Page 2

Irish Legislation

ME PARNELL IN TEOUBLE. [By Eleotrio Telegraph — Copyright.] | [reuters' telegrams.] j London, April 18. The Times has published the fadsimile of a lettter signed by Mr ParI nell, which is believed to have been addressed to Mr Patrick Egan. a week after the Phoenix Park murders. Mr Parnell explains that he was compelled to denounce the outrage as the only course open to him consistent with good policy, and although he regretted the accident by which Lord ' Cavendish was murdered, he admits that Mr T. H. Burke got no more , than his deserts. A tremendous sensation has been caused by the publication of Mr Parnell's letter. In an article dealing • with it, the Times says .that the published views of Messrs Sexton and Heally on the Phoenix Park crime are i mere unblushing denials of the accusation that the Parnellites were associated with the murderers. It believes t that Mr Parnell feared his life would [ be endangered if he publicly denounced the perpetrators .of the mur- , ders. The Times challenges him to ( explain the letter, and calls attention 3 to a speech he delivered two days after the tragedy, in which he suggested . that the deed was committed by enej mies of the Land League. It further , points out that in this speech Mr Par- * nell professed the utter abhorrence oi the heinousness of the crime commits ted by the enemies of Ireland, and, ie • conclusion, charges him with having been associated with the murderers. I April l9. Mr Parnell, in the House of ComII mons, declared that the: letter pub ~. lished in the Times is a villainous, j. barefaced forgery. . The Marquis of Hartington chal lenges Mr Parnell to prosecute Th< a Times for the publication of. the lettei . alleged to be signed by him concern - ing the Phoenix Park, outrage; ii ;s order that the matter may be subjec ted to a judicial test. - - c Mr Gladstone, at every opportunity s denounces the Crimes Bill, and de • clares that it will create crime through 0 out Ireland, and prove ineffective ii dealing with exioting crime. The American and French presi * assume that Mr Parnell after his in * dignant denial will arraign The Timei in a Court of law. Mr Gladstone, in an address to th< , organisation known as the Eighty Club, declares he never associated th< „ Parnellites with the crime, and it ii Z quite sufficient for Mr Parnell t« s deny the authenticity of the lettei The Times challenges an enquiry. 1 ___