Mr. Parnell is to receive the freedom of the City
of Edin- burgh on July 20th; but the Lord Provost, justly holding that the Town Council have resolved to pay him this honour against the wish of the greater number of Edinburgh citizens, declines to take any part in the ceremony. Mr. Parnell has hardly shown the political tact for which he generally receives credit, in accepting the honour. After the informal plebiscite had shown how large a proportion of the citizens of Edinburgh disapproved the proposal, Mr. Parnell would have better dis- played the "moderation" imputed to him by heartily thanking his Edinburgh friends, and declining to accept what so many of the municipal voters were not in the least disposed to confer. Perhaps, however, he is desirous of as good an oppor- tunity of "misleading" the citizens of Edinburgh as he had in 1881 of misleading the House of Commons.
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