Morning journal and courier., 1883-12-12
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUlRTERS. IN PARNRLL'S HONOR. A Grand Banquet in the
 Rotunda. THE TESTIMONIAL IN MONEY. An Aggressive Speech by
 the AgitatOr. CONGRESS FILING UP WORK. Nearly Two Thousand Bills
 in tEEe House.
 
Nearly Two Thousand Bills
 i'm tEEe House.
THE OLD WORLD.
Ireland.

The Parnen Testtpson.aiZPrssent at 6 1 Grana Banquet in the ROtunda-Th, | Speeches of ParneII and Davttt
 DUBLIN, Dec. 1.-The grand panque
 tendered MT. Charles s. Parnen in connec l tion with the testipaehial presentation wa ! given to night in the Rotunda. It was z 1 magnificent and enthusiastic affair and over
 six hundred people sat down to the dinner l the hall being decorated with the national l and American eolors and the tables lsder With flowers and patriotic devices. Therl
 were no less than twehsyfout members o | Parliament closely identified with the Home | Rule party interests present. 6hafles Daw- l son. M F., lord mayor of Dublin, presided ! and made an address. Many 3ongratuiator5 ! telesraIns which had been received both from America and England were read amidst J address said that the Irishmen Of to day were l little better than slaves and were working \ out a sentence of political servitude from which their own hands alone could free them They must look to themselves and active or | direct interference from abroad must not and could not be expected. To night they had gathered to express their gratitude and do hsnor to Mir. Parnel1, who was not only their leader in Parliament and at home, not only their trusted champion, but as well the 'sprime minister of. the will of the Irish nation" tcheers and applause). Mir. Thomas Sexton, the member from Sligo,
 was received with cheers and was applauded when he said that Ireland's strength increas- ed with England's growing weakness. England was not only no longer mistress of the seas,
 but her commerce was decreasing and her trade monopolies were being lost to her (cheers). Ireland was resolved to be free
 and would be free (cheers)
 The Lord Mayor read an address and made
 ths formal presentation of 8 check repre-
 senting e38 ,O00 of the popular subscrip- ton testimonial. The audience became wildly
 enthusiastic as Mir. ParnelI appeared on the platform. He WAS thankful he said to find evidence that there were so many who like
 himself sympathized with the trembling and downtrodden tenantry whose condition was little better and in many cases worse than
 that of the South African negroes. He sym-
 pathized even more deeply with the Iaborers
 whose lot was no better than that of slaves and whose lives were simply one prolonged
 struggle for existence. To sustain an exis-
 tence as nation under such circumstances
 was difficult beyond anything for which his-
 tory had ever given a precedent. Out of these
 outrageous conditions had arisen the Nation
 al league against an overwhelming and op-
 pressive landlCrdism. This uprising of an
 ovsrridden people Parliament had chosen to
 call scheme of gigantic robbery. Not only
 was this not true, but no national movement had ever been made against such odds as had
 been against the Irish people with equal
 moderation, discretion and the utter absence
 of crime and passion. The people had
 stifed their feelings or controlled them
 and abided by the law which had, however, not helped their wrongs. He referred briefly and forcibly to the fact that the British government should have thought 1t necessary to overrun the country and place peaceful and lavabiding citizens
 under the surveillance of regular troops to the number of thirty thousand, and to make it their duty to support police and constsb- ulary force of fifteen thousand. The writ of habeas corpus had been often suspended of late and the late lamented chief secretary, Buckshot Foster had imprisoned over g thousand IrisLmen without any sufficient
 cause. The present coercion act was the DSS6 r6SulG OE Ln0 COuBIQ0fEt1Ou C1
 all of England's best lawyers and statesmen
 and the outcome of much study. Under it
 neither the life nor liberty of any man waf
 or could be assured. He deliberately ridi.
 cuIed the appeal of Lord Harrington to aban-
 don the methods which had been employed to oppose English Tnisrule. There could
 never be any amalgamation between the Irish
 party and liberals until after the coercion
 act had been repealed and the ministry had voliou of fnraad ovation
 This emigration was simply murderous
 to Ireland's life, while the classes against whom it was enforced were subjected
 to untold misery and suffering They were treated simply as animals on whom social ex- periments might safely be tried. Such meas ures as the coercion act and enforced emigra- tion might much better have come frapn Ire lands natural enemies, the Tories. from V hom such policy might have been expected than from the Liberals who had travelled about much like wolves in sheep's clothing and had done their best to run Ireland and cripple her parliamentary representation by false promis- es and broken pledges. The present viceregal administration and the castle executive were the meanest, feeblsst and most contemptible that the country had ever known. Earl Spencer was the weakest viceroy Ireland had ever had and was not worthy to be bottle holder to Foster, the great educationist. Even Trevslyan had surpassed Foster in his efforts to rob the people of their legal rights. All their rulers were dishonest and MT. Harrington of the Londonderry Sentinel was kept month after month in jail while the authorities knew that he was entirely innocent and only imprisoned him out of revenge. The events in Ulster showed that force had only been used for the benefit of the minority. The cause of the people was progressing slowly, to be sure, but surely and steadily and patience alone was needed. MT. Gladstone would not dare to enforce the coercion act at the next election. If the Irish were not per mitted to govern themselves they would at least be in position to decide who should govern England. If Ireland is included in the franchise bill the extension of the voting power will make it free country within the present generation.
 Greeting from the Parnen Committed
 WORCESTER Mass, Dec. 1.-The follow ing cablegram was received tonight:
 To Ray TT T Conaty treasurer Parnell