The Parnellites have been making themselves as unpleasant all the
week in the House of Commons as even Parnellites can, but Mr. Parnell himself has not taken the lead. On Tuesday, in Supply, Mr. Healy called Mr. King-Harman, the Under. Secretary for Ireland, during his absence from the House, a "returned convict," on the ground that when a lad of twenty- two he got into a scrape with the police, and was imprisoned for an assault. Mr. Healy declared that Mr. King-Harman was said to receive no salary, but that the Irish Members had "their own opinion" about that. He said that Pat Egan had written one of Colonel King-Harman's election addresses, though Colonel King-Harman, who had then returned to the House, explicitly • denied it; and altogether, Mr. Healy and Mr. D. Sullivan con- ducted themselves as ill as it was possible for them to conduct. themselves. Indeed, we must say that Mr. Courtney hardly, dealt out his usual severe justice to them, and that he interfered almost as much with Colonel King-Harman, who was defending himself against the coarsest and grossest of attacks, as with these unscrupulous assailants.
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