12 MAY 1888, Page 1
Mr. Parnell's speech was divided into two principal portions. In
the first, he went back into the history of his negotiations with Lord Carnarvon, and maintained that Lord Carnarvon's interview with the late Mr. Dwyer Gray in 1885, and his con- versation with himself on the subject of an Irish Parliament, were much more compromising to the Conservative Govern- ment of that day than Lord Salisbury is now at all willing to admit; and there we have, we confess, always agreed with Mr. Parnell, and think that he proved his case. Nevertheless, we have no doubt that Lord Carnarvon perfectly understood that he was at the time the only Home-ruler in the Cabinet, though he must have seen signs of wavering amongst his colleagues, or he would never have entered on those unfortunate and disastrous negotiations.
