A curious incident occurred at the meeting of the National
Federation—the Anti-Parnellite organisation—on Wednesday.. Mr. Bodkin, M.P., the chairman, declared that Mr. Parnell, in spite of "the last wild year of his life," had done good service to the country, but was at once interrupted by cries of " No, no," and " He did not do good work ; it was Healy." Mr. Healy spoke next, and declared that it was only their own faults that could prevent the accomplishment of their desires. He appealed for toleration for Mr. Morley, and pointed out how much hampered he was by having to work through a staff on whom he could not rely. " He would mention one small incident to show the way in which the officials acted. They were having a new Lord-Lieutenant, and they had read in the papers that the Castle Comptroller, Lord Charlemont, better known as Colonel Caulfield, had given the order for the Viceregal liveries to the man who had just been knighted before the Tory Government were out of office. He referred to Sir Robert Sexton, and it was stated that the remainder of the order was given to an Orange sympathiser." That is a delightfully Irish complaint. Imagine Mazzini furious because the Viceroy of Lombardy had not employed a carbonaro tailor to make up the Austrian liveries.
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