Irish Affairs

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 86, 10 January 1891, Page 3

Irish Affairs

(I'RR UNITED IMJKSS ASSOCIATION.) London, January 7. It is believed that. Mr Parnell has . won over Mr O'Brien to his side. The rioters who were arrested this week have been sentenced to terms of . imprisonment. The couference between Messrs O'Brien and Parnell is ended, and it is officially intimated that a peaceable settlement ou the question of the leadership is expected. It- is reported that Mr Parnell agrees to retire from the head if Mr Justin McCarthy'resigns, thus leaving the whole party to elect a uew leader. Mr Arnold Morley, M.P. for Nottingham -East, is reported 'to have . warned Mr O'Brien that Mr Gladstone insists on Mr Parneii's final withdrawal from public life. Mr Dillon approves of Mr O'Brien teuipururily replacing Mr Pkruoll us leader of the pariy. January 8. It is reported that Mr O'Brien -agrees to .use his influence tv depose ' Mr Macarthy and secure his own' or Mr Dillon's election as chief of the Irish party. On his part Mr Parnell is to retire from active f-ervke unti! - .the next geaer.il election, aud to transtYx to -Mr O'Brien ten or fifteen thousand pounds of the League Junds for Tipp_«-Tary tenants. The fund ttv relief of distress of .Irish' families, started by Mr Balfour .and the Earl of Zetland, has reached i6ootf. Win. Moroney, of those who pleaded guilty to participation in the' .Phoenix Park murd rs, and was seuteuced to .teu years' penal servitude, las been released from custody. : Mr . Justiu MeOwDhy starts for iJouk.'gno ' immediately to interview .Mr O'iJrieii: ?■