Mr. Parnell committed himself on Tuesday, in a speech in
the Phoenix Park, to a passionate advocacy of the amnesty movement on behalf of those whom he called the Irish political prisoners,—in other words, dynamiters who had risked the- lives of innocent bystanders even more than they had risked the lives of those creatures of the Government whom they desired to injure. He quoted Mr. O'Brien's statement that no terms of peace between England and Ireland would be complete without a generous act of amnesty, and hoped that- this saying of Mr. O'Brien's "would muzzle that tyrant, Sir William Harcourt," who cannot well dispense with the help. of at least the Anti-Parnellite section of the Home-rule Party. Very likely it may ; for Sir William Harcourt is above all things a man of the world who will buy what he needs, though he will try to buy it in the cheapest market. But English opinion will hardly tolerate transactions of this kind at the hands of a restored Gladstonian Government. And if such a Government begins its operations with a " Union of Hearts' cemented by weeping on the necks of dynamiters, it will not, we fancy, be of long duration.
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