The bitterness of party spirit grows greater. every day. On
Tuesday the Parnellites demanded, merely to waste time and keep themselves en evidence, that the three Members detained in Kilmainham—Messrs. Parnell, Dillon, and O'Kelly—should be released on parole, to vote in the division on the Closure, a pro- posal which elicited speeches sufficiently described elsewhere. The motion was, of course, withdrawn, and we only want to record here that Mr. Gorst, a Tory in grain and member of the Fourth Party, not only advocated the release of the Members, but said that after paying the utmost attention to the Premier's speech, "the only reason for the refusal which he could under- stand was that the three votes were likely to be given against the Government." One expects a wild taunt of that kind from the Parnellite Members, but Mr. Gorst is not only an English- man, but considers himself, in a special sense, the representa- tive of the English borough Tories. That he should lend him- self to such an imbecile burst of spite as this charge, which the Premier had just repudiated, and which he must have known to be unfounded, shows that the party thermometer marks "blood heat." No Members were more strongly for coercion than the minute faction to which Mr. Gorst belongs.
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