Mr. Parnell spoke twice at Nottingham on Tuesday, and at
Liverpool on Thursday. In both the former speeches he aimed at soothing English amour-propre, and was almost as " 'umble " as a famous character in "David Copper- field." He disowned all wish for Separation; declared that the only desire of the Home-rule Party was to apply Irish capital and Irish local knowledge to the development of Irish resources, the construction of Irish harbours, the cleaning out of Irish rivers, the reclamation of Irish waste-lands, and the working of Irish mines. We do not know what prevents the Irish capitalists from devoting themselves to many of these works at present. Mr. Parnell identified himself with a great enterprise for the transfer of the Irish peasantry from land which does not pay, to land which does pay cultivation; but the enterprise turned out a failure more complete and conspicuous than any with which he taunts the British government of Ireland ; nor did the apology made in his Liverpool speech for this failure show in any degree that the enterprise would have succeeded under Home-rule. Mr. Parnell was most emphatie in repudiating the help of the British taxpayer for his industrial experiments. Perhaps if he ever gets the chance of attempting to stimulate Irish manufactures and commerce by the use of purely Irish credit, he will learn how easy it is to eshaust the command of exceedingly limited and meeedingly shy resources.
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