Two important speeches were delivered in Ireland on Tues- day.
At the fortnightly meeting of the National League, Mr. T. Harrington accused Mr. William O'Brien of endeavouring to palm off on the people of Cork "the lying argument" that the Parnellites had done all in their power to wreck the Liberal Party. Every man of common-sense in Ireland knew that the Home-rule Bill was dead, and that any attempt to revive the question mustbe by a new Bill. Mr. Harrington then referred to the eviction of the De Freyne tenants in North Roscommon. "Only a few years ago, if such things had taken place in Ireland as had recently occurred in Roscommon, there would have been hundreds of soft-beaded Englishmen over in the country, and photographs of the scene would have been taken for the purpose of being shown, by means of magic-lanterns and otherwise, all over England." "Where," he went on, "was Mr. Shaw-Lefevre, who had identified himself with the Plan of Campaign '?" Mr. Shaw-Lefevre had given a per- sonal pledge to the tenants of the Louth estate that he would see them brought back to their homes. Had he kept his word to the tenants on that estate P Mr. Harrington certainly knows how to rub it in on the raw, and, with a quick-witted people like the Irish, his words will have a certain effect. Still, the fact remains that the Parnellites are politically extinct.
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