2 FEBRUARY 1884, Page 3

At a banquet given to Mr. R. Power and Mr.

Leamy in the Town Hall of Waterford, one of the speakers asserted that Ireland would never be satisfied till Mr. Parnell was made Prime Minister of Ireland, with the Irish Parliamentary Party as his Cabinet, and Mr. Devitt as Leader of Opposition. But who is sanguine enough to suppose that they would be satisfied then P Even if Mr. Parnell were made Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and leader of the Ministry in an Imperial Parliament summoned to meet in Dublin, with Mr. Gladstone leading the Opposition, Sir Stafford Northcote at the bead of the Third, and Mr. Plunket at that of the Fourth Party, Ireland would probably regard it as but a slight instalment of her legitimate political expectations.