No sooner had Mr. McCarthy and the majority left the
Committee-room on Saturday, than the Parnellites passed unanimously Mr. John O'Connor's resolution regretting Mr. Gladstone's evasion of the questions put to him ; and in speaking to that resolution, Mr. Parnell made a short speech, claiming to have won the victory in spite of having been left in the minority, and boasting that Ireland would soon fill up their ranks again. Ireland, and Ireland in America, he said, were both on his side, and the majority had admitted this in seceding from a position which was no longer tenable. This is a convenient position for Mr. Parnell to take, and we believe that, so far as regards the attitude of Ireland and Irish America, he is right. But it is impossible to deny that even in Ireland and in Irish America the split counts for a good deal, that the money will no longer flow in as it flowed in before, and that the ranging of the Bishops and of a con- siderable number of priests on the Gladstonian side will profoundly affect the issue even in Ireland.
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