NEWS OF THE WEEK.
MR. PARNELL spoke the truth when he stated in Par- liament that the letters attributed to him by the Times were forgeries. That is, in brief, the result of the investigation into that branch of the subject by the Special Commission, which practically ended on Wednesday in the withdrawal of the letters by the Attorney-General as "not genuine." Sir Richard Webster also offered on behalf of the Times an apology for the publication of the letters, which was repeated in a stronger form by the Times itself on Thursday, the paper " accepting in every respect the truth of Mr. Parnell's -statement" that "the letters attributed to him were forgeries." The Judges have agreed to make an ad interim report, subject to certain evidence from Mr. Houston and Mr. Campbell which may not be completed by the time we go to press ; but it would be affectation to doubt what -that report must be. All just men who agreed to abide by the result of a legal inquiry must, so far as the letters are concerned, fully exonerate Mr. Parnell. He has been grievously wronged, partly by the inexplicable folly of the Times, and partly by his own unaccountable obstinacy in refusing to submit the charges at once to an ordinary Court of Law.
