New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-02-28
PARNELL,S MOVEMENTS.
THE ANeLo-IRIsH CONFLICT.

TIE GOVERNMENT CHARGED WITH TAMPERifd
WITH LETTERs-How SIR WILLIAM HAhooohi
MET THE ACCUSATION
tepon THE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRrB UkEl
LONDON, Feb 15.-Thers was time when LONDON
%. so1ta tsdt does not take much to agitate Lon
dom in this sense OF the woro-py e"o "q''
q Wbsre,s erifathsr This dlstraoting interroga-
tow uaa stencilled on the walls and pavements OF
tine cspital with wearisome pertinaolty. sometimes
n took the form of query as to personal Identity
~ tbs great unknown, but whether the Dig piack
letters asked who's Grifhthsi" OF wnersS
Cretbs ,n thew did manage after time TO stimulate
certain degree of curiosity about this previously
unbeard-o of Individual In the END IL was percoi'eu
that this like the mysterious ana more pcielnpoiS
"Ozokert" was but an advertising tricA' 0l'in'no
bacame known finally as the safe man, Though
who or what the safe man is remains 10
tbis day and to most people secret in which they
take no interest whatever. Other puzzles followed,
each less interesting than the last, until last week,
when from mouth to mouth passed the question,
Where's Parnelli Anybody who could answer that
conundrum, or who would profess to answerlt, could
command the attention OF any auditory Tor at least
half a minute The difficulty of the situation. in
fact did not arise from the Of solutions to this
new political problem. but from the multitude of
Them and from the irreOOncilable contradctOriness
of the various explanations of the great Home
Rulers disappearance He has been in Paris IN
Frankfort, in Calais, in Boulogne, and again
in Paris, which, in these days Of Cooks
personally conducted parties, is not wonderful The
wonderful thing is that he should have been in all
these places at the same moment. 1t is trte to say
that blessings brighten they take their flight yet
il NAV be said that Mr.. Parnell has never been so
interesting person as since he has quilted London
II he would promise never to come back, his ab-
scnce would excite an enthusiasm in England al
most equal to that which attends his presence In Ire
land. One Of the two Liberal Journals which make
1t their present business to harass Liberal Govern
ment by flank attacks has been publishing day after
day in big type brief paragraphs composed IN equal
proportion of unfounded assertions and ingenious
conectures the whereabouts OF Mr. Parnell, ana
as to his object In secretng himself from the gaze of
his admiring fellow-subjects. He has thus become
considerably moro important person than he was
when here in the flesh. when he acted for the most
part as a thorn in the peoples flesh.
Ont of all the more or less plausible hypothesis to
which Mr. ParnelPs absence has given rise the two
most plausible are those which ascrlbe his departure
to desire to deposit the funds of the Land League
in safety, and which account for the prolongation
of his Journey by an apprehension that he would be
arrested on his return. There appears to be no
doubt that he did 20 TO Frankfort, and that Frank
fort banker has in his keeping the $3OOOOO or
whatever the sum may be- which is destined 10
abolish the Irish landlord rst and the British rule in
Ireland afterward Solar good. sto the arrest. the
only probable cause have heard assigned for that
ia the finding of certain papers the
person of Mr. Michael Davitt which gravey
COMPROMISED Mr. Parnell. If Mr.. Parnell feared
immediate arrest his fear could not spring from the
Protection bill which is not yet law. nor likely to
be for another week. am inclined TO think. how
ever that he does, did, fear that the Government
might Law hands on him. and that his apprehension Is
due TO a belief that Ministers have got hold OF
some evidence, on which they may or may not
think it wise to act but which does tend to prove
that Mr. Parne has put himself within the power
of the existing law. Anybody who has read MS
specches knows that it is his pride to represent him.
self as carrying agitation strictly within his
legal rights But his speeches within the last four
months have also shown that tho Land
League and the cry OF Land Reform are
with hun but means to much WIDER emu.
A slight incautiousness IN the pursuit OF
that wider end would be quite enough to give the
Government such hold on this Home Ruler rs he
might not find it easy to shake oil. Dayltt was no
toriously conspirator. He hated British rule aud
the British, and longed TO free Ireland from the
"base. bloody and brutal Saxon" Mr. Paynell was
very closely associated with him. Their objects
were much the same, though their views Of means
may have differed. However, tO-day's nows is that
Mr. Parnel is really coming back tomorrow. and
that those sheep in wolves clothng-Or wolves III
sheep,a clothing whichever it may be-whose Parli-
ameutary bleat Is turned readily into howl that
is not Parliamentary at all will once more have
n shepherd. When Mr. ParDell is abroad
they are all abroad. The genius Of obstruc-
ton accompanied that pale-faced fisherman
across the Channel. Mr. Biggar has been gone. too.
and " Tim " Healy. and altogether, the remaining
Parnellites have shown themselves sadly deficient
in the power of getting up really credtable Irish
row. The town has become dull. With the aid Of
sundry English Radicals, Mr.. Joseph Cowen at their
heal they have blocked the wheels of legislation
for day or two and wasted two three sessions
of the House in Committee the Protection bill.
But the performance drags There Is plenty of bit
terness but not much yigOr or skill IN the speaking
and manwuyrng of the last few days. The English
Radicals find small comfort in their allies and those
valuable members of society who look to politics as
an amusement will welcome Mr.. ParnelPs returni
PARYELI- kocHERoRT AND VICTOR HUGO
1t Is but poor consolation to hear, we do to-
day by telegraph from Paris, that Mr.. Parnell has
had an interview with that pestilent mailman
Rocheforl and that he has told Rochefort he merely
wanted 10 turn the United Kingdom into dual
monarchy on the Austro-H Hungarian pattern--usng
legal and constitutional means 70 that end but adj
uniting armed revolution to be impossible. After
ALL there Is an element Of harmlessness in Mr. Par
nell which one may almost call udicrous. evolutOn
which in no event is to use arms is not n formidable
revolution Next to his desire for the establishment
of an Ango-Austro- Hungarian-H bernian kingdom.
Mr. Paruelps strongest wish seems to be for All in
PRODUCTION to Victor Hugo. He will find ii less diff
cult and the result agreeable to
himself Still more agreeable to you will
be the announcement that Mr.. Parnel has
abandoned his intended visit TO America.
Nothing has produced better impression here than
the protests of the American press against the use
of America as O training ground for Irish treason.