On Monday, the Times published a facsimle of a letter
pur- porting to have been written by Mr. Parnell to some of his associates in the Land League after the assassinations of 1 2. It was dated "15/5/89," and ran thus :—" Dear Sir,—I am not surprised at your friend's anger, but he and you should know that to denounce the murders was the only course open tons. To do that promptly was plainly our best policy. But you can tell him and all others concerned that though I regret the accident of Lord F. Cavendish's death, I cannot refuse to admit that Burke got no more than his deserts. You are at liberty to show him this, and others whom you can trust, but let not my address be known. He can write to House of Commons." The letter was not signed on the same page, but at the top of the fourth page of a small sheet of note-paper, "Yours very truly, Charles S. Parnell." The Times mentioned that the bulk of the letter is not in Mr. Parnell's handwriting, though the signature is. That journal is in possession, according to its own statement, of many other documents containing Mr. Parnell's acknowledged signatures during the same year, and in some one or other of them, it declares that every one of the alleged peculiarities in this signature which are relied upon as proving the signature to be forged, can be paralleled.
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