MR PARNELL.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2894, 5 July 1882, Page 3

MR PARNELL.

The “ World " is very severe on Mr Parnell, who, it says, “ at' the close of the present session will probably retire from the leadership of ,the Irish party. Within the ranks of the party there has arisen an extreme section, who do .not relish the comparative moderation of the member for Cork ; and the accomplished and cultured Healy will before long become the leader of the Irish party. I can conceive no greater descent from blatant defiance to pitiful appeal then the demand of Mr ParneU to the 1 British Government for. police protection against his own quondam allies, the American Fenians. The darkest dungeon was a place' of pride in comparison, and Mr Parnell knows it. One can scarcely defy Downing street and whine for the friendly care of Scotland Yard in the same breath, and all the hireling pens in the Land League will hardly suffice to maintain the tribune’s dignity. It is an open secret in the Irish party that he dare not go to Ireland, and in London when not in the House, he is virtually in hiding. It is patent, moreover that Mr Parnell is not free to act as he promised on Monday night. The terror of the Fenian knife is over him, and the bitterness with which he denounced the new Act for the preservation of order on Thursday contrasted strangely with the bated breath and sympathetic accents in which he engaged his party to sustain Mr Gladstone. It is evident he fears , the ‘ circles’in New York more than the ire of the Cabinet. A return to Kilmainham would, I think,,be a sentence of joy and relief to him; at this moment.”