The Parnell Commemoration, which was held in Dublin on Sunday,
was a very remarkable display. The crowds were• enormous, and the ceremony took the form of a mock funeral and a procession of ten thousand people, which included the Lord Mayor of Dublin and representatives of other public bodies. The Irish, whose dramatic instincts never fail them,. gave a sense of despair to the whole pageant,—despair at the thought that the leader whose grave was heaped with wreaths could not lead them to victory. Ivy was worn by almost all those who walked in the procession, and the Timex' corre- spondent notes that on the Saturday, and " as a prelude to the commemoration, Ivy Day,' a new anniversary in honour of the dead chief,' was observed by his followers." The funeral-car, which was the chief feature of the procession, was banked high with wreaths and crosses. It was followed by thirty-one carriages, and deputations of the usual kind. " The demonstration," says the Times' report, " was altogether one of the most melancholy dramas ever witnessed in Dublin, and, so far as it expressed a real sentiment, one least likely to kindle popular enthusiasm. It brought together, however, a larger concourse of visitors from the country than any previous. exhibition of the kind."
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