THE PARNELL ANNIVERSARY.
A demonstration in memory of the late Mr Parnell took place in Dublin in the shape of a procession from St. Stephen’s Green to the .grave of the deceased leader in Glasnevin Cemetery. - The affair was elaborately organised, being designed as a kind of rally of the Independent Party, and contingents were brought in from all parts of the country; but the greater part of the procession, , which numbered about 10,000 persons, was composed of in habitants of Dublin. No speaking took place in the cemetery, but a large meeting of the Parnellite party was held on the following night in the Rotunda v Mr John Redmond, M.P., presided, and in the course of a long speech declared that the hanging up of Home Rule after its rejection by the House of Lords had necessarily resulted in its disappearance from the list of urgent Imperial political questions, while the hope of its revival through a great agitation against the House of Lords was sheer midsummer madness. The Irish Land Bill had no more chance of passing than the Evicted Tenants Bill. The Govern ment was powerless for good. He would not be surprised if Mr Gladstone’s letter denouncing local option caused difficulties in the Liberal Party, which would give the nine. Parnellite votes a .deciding voice. He advocated an early dissolution of Parlia ment in order to bring Home Rule again to the front; and a resolution in this sense, and also one demanding an amnesty for. the political prisoners, were subse quently carried.
