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The Town Council of Edinburgh have carried unanimously a report

regretting that Mr. Parnell's name was put on the list of burgesses, ordering its removal, and the transmission of a copy of the resolution removing it to Mr. Parnell. That open avowal of penitence for a very hasty and ill-considered course, which was, we thoroughly believe, very unpalatable to the majority of Edinburgh citizens, is creditable to the Edinburgh Town Council, as showing that they are not

ashamed to admit that they were wrong so soon as they them- selves are conscious of it. We trust that the consciousness of error applies to the policy no less than to the personal act, and that Edinburgh is already disenchanted of its spasmodic rally for Home-rule.

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