Mr. Parnell, in America, has done the Nationalists and Home-rulers
great disservice. Although Congress, with its singular want of dignity and forethought, has granted him its 4' floor" for an "oration," which Members did not attend to hear, the Press has been decidedly against him, and the people, Irishmen included, have subscribed scarcely anything for his agitation. They have insisted on confining subscriptions to the relief of distress, and on sending them direct,—the latter a device which, for some unintelligible reason, has greatly irritated Mr. Parnell. He has so completely lost his temper, that he has not only declared that the local -relief funds are expended in the landlord interest—an -assertion which the Catholic Bishops of Ireland have formally denied—but he has made some speech about the Duchess of Marlborough, who is spending herself for Irish benefit, which most Americans papers refuse to report, and which has brought down on him, even from journals in the West, a shower of indignant remonstrance. The Daily News' correspondent, a very cool observer, declares Mr. Parnell's mission an utter failure, and its effect has evidently been to -deprive the Home-rule cause of any favour the Americans were previously disposed to extend to it.
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