Mr. Parnell's speech was of little significance. He praised up
Mr. Gladstone and the Liberal Party in terms which should be set off against the terms in which he vituperated them before the Election of 1885. These praises should be interpreted as meaning nothing in the world except that the Liberals are serving his purpose now as effectually as they were opposing it then. He chaffed the Government rather cleverly for their concessions to the Unionists in the House of Commons, and he intimated that the Government had now consented to con- cede so much that Ireland would be satisfied, and give the Government no occasion to enforce the Crimes Act. For the rest, he said nothing at all tending to show that he and his party are at all disposed to let Mr. Gladstone and his Home- rulers off without receiving every pennyweight of the pound of flesh out of the heart of England which had been promised them, weighed out to the very last atom.
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