MR. PARNELL SKETCHED.

Manawatu Times, Volume V, Issue 131, 6 April 1881, Page 3

MR. PARNELL SKETCHED.

"An Old Hand j n who is ajso an old friend tolreland, thus describes, m- the Liverpool Daily Past, Mr. Parneira speech m introduciug the amendment to .fhe address m the House of Commons :— i '•* The astute and wary 'yQudg leader of social revolt at last got his opportunity, and spoke, for three-quarters or an Hour only, ffrom the place usually affected by Lord* Randolph^Ohnrchiil 'gild'. £ Mif . rr Af- « thiir Balfour. , His spare frame was habited with his usual plain indifference to effect, but his clear-cut, closely cropped bead was significant to thoie who knew him of the reftned and viubtle; Jesuitry which he has been the first to hring into Irish ! huhianitafiab'pbliticja. : Mr t Parnt'll'is; speech was; afterwards described by CMt. Gibaon as- one of the most adroit ever delivered in 'the House, and it deserved the tribute. - : The House was not very full, but the.right people were presmt. - Mr. Gladstone lost not a ,^rord. Mr. Forster listened like a fo^. Mr. flushed with interest, and m Bdm(B ..places I could not help -thinking with Bynij.athy. Th« blind Postmaster-Gene-ral came d.owu from his usual place at the upper oorner of the Treasury brnch, >nd sat about the middle, leaning forward upou ;h-is. stick to catch every word of tbe cool, audacious, remorseless statement of the powecful-Ltnd League chief And \ spite of the array ajjainst; Ps^rnell, it was ,a'speech of power, m which the tyrony, 'if it is tyrShy^the organisation v^^ whether it is tyruny of tiot^-df the f great agrariah revolt wat.: made personally; perceptible and incarnate. Speakers said afterwards that Mr. Parnt- JI did not speak \as he speaks oiitr of tlfc House. Who dboßp -But did hefblenchj or.faulter, or mitigate the m'eaningto.t ..his movement ? r .N.)t he. He literally sent.tlie steel o/ his icy, satiric voice into tfie very in/arrow af th,e .landlordsi treating them coolly a» a class ;Jtp*be dealt withJas^riatiiral, tnemres of the people; told the House that "this; caste " an I their abettors, if any, among the people would.be made by. organiß;i-? tion to obey the unwritten^kweof public opitiion .; and, .,ali.hj9Uffh^he__dfipxecated. ..utrage, and claimed to have miuimißeii it, avowed that iir a- country trained a* Ireland had" Been there could never be* any improvement if those who sought to improve |t iwere'torshrink fcbmitbepossibilityjor cettodafarqi outrages arming: out of asritation.. Tdbn't thiuk it would be pflssiHle to exaggerate the peculiar effect of. th^s speech of X^q 4 rish leader. Tti skill was perfect, h,utitwaanot, a« it were "c6iißpi«u(xu.s. 1^ w'as'all the more abso'nte because the sewret ofthe skill was severe' >im pliejjy jand .clear «iacerity x unaided- by any sort of visible artifice -exactly what 'would stab and perplex the greatest number of e^mie» arouufiv v Ka o«e ;wba heard the speech, will ever get out of hi* Wool, the exciting clii'l. sd'to speak, of its tone at' deafinj', nor will iiMy v JJfltener. forget tu ; e freezing scorn o£ tl\e" cabn'^as-" sage, m wliich the speaVer^dftaaeiridicu4ous tjie prusecutipB ;;a$ even ,tbe publica* ;tion of threa|eni.ng letters. Possibly the ■ reiioris of t be speech may not coAvey to tie full these impressiojasi which) to sprue extent are made" by Parnell*s voice and • maiinir, which from gheeF<fuleTinsi«teney are veiryipotentj But^sam- sure^-euterf pret arigh,t :r; ttie ; fediog ttf^tyerp aus.*.-, teptib,le auditor^ jj;iespeQtLyfi_of poUtica,