Mr. Parnell made a clever speech at Kells, in the
County of Meath, on Sunday, in which he attacked Mr. Morley and Mr. Dillon ; but it was a speech that reminds one of the advice which Lord Westbury (then Mr. Bethell) is said to have given to his pupils Never make a mistake in logic ; it is sure to be found out. The facts remain at your disposal." Mr. Parnell declared that Mr. Morley, in his interview with him last Novem- ber, nine days before the verdict in the divorce case, urged upon him strongly not to retire, whatever that verdict might be, and that Mr. Morley perfectly well knew at the time that the verdict would go against him. This was reported on Monday. Mr. Morley replied in Tuesday's papers that he did not know anything of the sort ; that he had every reason to believe, on Mr. Parnell's own showing, that the verdict would go in his favour; and that, far from saying that he hoped Mr. Parnell would not retire, whatever the verdict might be, he had only expressed his confident hope that nothing would happen at the trial necessitating his retirement. Mr. Parnell, however, positively contradicts this statement in the Freeman's Journal of Wednesday, whatever the contradiction may be worth. Further, Mr. Parnell said at Kells that if Mr. Morley could not find him before the meeting of Parliament, to communicate Mr. Gladstone's demand for his retirement, it was Mr. Morley's own fault, as it was quite easy for him to find him again at Brighton, where he found him before. To' this Mr. Morley replies that Mr. Henry Campbell arranged the first meeting for him, and that he applied to Mr. Henry Campbell to arrange the next, but that Mr. Henry Campbell, after a day or two's attempt to find Mr. Parnell, telegraphed to hint that he had quite failed to do so.
