13 DECEMBER 1890, Page 2

The seceding brigade at once deposed Mr. Parnell, acting "

under an imperative sense of duty to our country," and substituted Mr. Justin McCarthy as " sessional chair- man ;" and the majority, numbering forty-five, immediately drew up and signed a sort of pledge of fidelity to the principle of the independence of the Irish Party, and to the principle that they would never accept any settlement of the Home-rule Question " except such as satisfies the aspirations of the Irish people." Only seventy-two of the eighty-six Parnellites appear to be accounted for by the numbers given, and these, with the six delegates in America, who appear to be divided in the proportion of five with the majority to one (Mr. Harrington) with the minority, make up only seventy- eight of the eighty-six.