THE IRISH QUESTION.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 295, 7 May 1889, Page 2

THE IRISH QUESTION.

London, May 4. The Parnell inquiry still drags on its dreary course, but not many imports't pointe have been elicited, exoep ing an admission from Mr Parnell that he had made exaggerated statements with the avowed intention of misleading Parliament to achieve an object he had in view, which be considers justified the action he took.

A GREAT SCENE IN THE ST. JAMES’ HALL.

The Pall Mall Gazette, in tbe course of its report of the gathering in St. James' Hall, in honour of Mr Parnell, says Theo came another great scene. Rising as Chairman, Mr Merely called upon “ Mr Parnell.”

HOMAGE TO MB PABirXLL. Mr Parnell rose, pale and tall, with his left erm in a sling, a great white flower in his button-hole, and confronted the audience. In a moment every one was up. and for the next five minutes St. James' Hall was oven as Exeter Heil when the Salvation Army has one of its greatest field days, when the General has wrought his soldiers up to She highest pitch of ecstasy. Cheer followed cheer in endless succession. The whole hall was white with hankerchtefs. Ladiee waved their scarves and cheered, then waved their scarves and cheered again, as if they would never stop. Mr Parnell stood silent and unmoved. Twice only during Mr Morley's philippic his impassive features had relaxed as the ghost of a smile played over his lips. What a flood of thoughts, of reminiscences, of exultant memories must be surging through his brain 1 Interesting and pathetic indeed was that spare, slight form, apparently the most impassive of all the thousands there.

HR r ABN ILL’S SPMCB. It was 0001, measured, dignified. No men is less of a demagogue, no ra m less of the typical Irishman, all wit, enthusiasm, and eloquence than the leader of the Irish race. Mr Parnell laboured under a disadvantage in "W following Mr Morley. Now and then he ' indulged in vigorous thrusts, as when he lamented that the Government hod left the task of unearthing crime to amateurs, who had made a pretty mess of the work, and then he sneered at the Government tor fighting behind tbe pettieoats of tbe Timos. He warmly acknowledged the welcome extended to him in the name of Ireland, and insisted with much force upon tbe point the! no single het bad been substantiated by tbe Times whioh was not known to Lord Salisbury and Lord Carnarvon whsn they opened negotiations with him tor ths establishment, of a new Constitution for Ireland with an Irish Parliament. He referred to the skill of Sir Charles Bussell, whereupon wo all row and cheered amain, Mr Lewis, to whom he owed even more than all hie barristers, was not present. Then hl took us off to the land question, declared that the peasant who resisted eviction wai like a fly fighting an elephant, explained how it was that Irishmen became dynemltards, told us a touobing story of one oonviot who had seven years for importing arms, and wound up hie speech by an effective and eloquent declaration against all kinds of violence and in favor of that constitutional agitation which would soon give to Ireland all legitimate con rol over bur own affairs without interfering in tbe least with tbe interests of the Empire.