MR C.S. PARNELL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 316, 9 November 1880, Page 2

MR C.S. PARNELL.

The following sketch of Mr C. S. Parnell, M.P., is from Vanity Fair of September 11th :—Some 40 years ago a scion of the noble house of Congleton was espoused to the only daughter of Admiral Stewart, of the United States Navy, and in the year 1846 their union' was blessed with a little boy, Charles Stewart Parnell, This little boy having grown into a big man, and having learnt all that Magdalen College, at Cambridge could teach him, turned his mind to politics. Fob owing in the steps of his grandsire, brother to Baron Congleton, who was a michty anti-Unionist, Charles Stewart has become a leader amongst Horae iiulers. and the prophet of the Anti* rent partyA union of Saxon, Mihsian and American blood has made the greatest agitator of the da/, and the people of the oppressed island hold him ?s a second l.iberator. Lord of the lovely Vale of Avoca, and brother of sisters who are celebrated for their beauty, Mr Parnell cares little for the amenities of life, and lie is most at home when his foot is on his native plarform and the excited Meiisian is before him. He is at this moment an acknowledged power which Ministers . tre at with deference, if not with kindness and he has it in his hands to do much for his country, either for good or for evil'. Mr Parnell is not a heavenborn orator, but an unbounded belief in hiiut elf has carried him on, and he is now always listened to both in ani out of the House of Commons, where he has sat or stood five years. His grateful countrymen have provided him with a variety of seats in it, but with not one easy one among them.”