NEWS OF THE WEEK.
.MR. PARNELL, with great want of decorum, received on Thursday a deputation sent up from Dublin, Cork, and nine smaller towns, to congratulate him on his success in refuting the charges brought against him before the Commission. The reading of the addresses occupied an hour, during which "the uncrowned King" remained seated, let us hope with his hat on. At the conclusion of this fatiguing ceremonial, Mr. Parnell rose and made the extraordinary speech of which we have quoted the most remarkable passages elsewhere. It was a speech penetrated through and through with anger and despondency,—anger against the Commission as incompetent and unfair, and despondency as to the Home-rule cause. He affirmed, indeed, that he expected its triumph, but explained that his Parliamentary agitation was an experiment, that he could not keep an " independent and uncorrupted representation of Ireland" in Westminster for ever, and that if he did not get Home-rule so that Ireland could commence her "nationhood," he and his eighty-five colleagues would quit Parliament. The meaning of that threat is not clear, but it was received by the Mayors, Aldermen, Town Clerks, and others present in deputa- tion, with enthusiastic applause. Land, one fancies, though not near, is still in sight from the tops.
