The latest rumours about the Irish negotiations appear to be
that the two factions have extorted from Mr. Gladstone their own terms about the police and the land, and that on Thursday, the 12th inst., they will formulate an agreement which will be sanctioned by a majority of both Committees. The leadership will be placed in commission, Mr. Redmond representing Mr. Parnell, but the Member for Cork himself will retain his seat in Parliament, and virtually guide all action. There is, however, a report that at the eleventh hour Mr. Parnell has produced a new demand, and that a section of the Gladstonians who have been impatient of Irish dicta- tion all through, are pressing their leader to give way no further. We shall see in a few days ; but in any case, efforts to be rid of Mr. Parnell will fail, for the simple reason that he intends to remain, and that the American Irish and urban Irish at home think him indispensable. Among the blind the one-eyed is king, even if all the blind are Jacobins and the king is untrustworthy.
