New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-06-27

height but this may be due 10 oplicai III" ~
the National League has not yet repeaieu' ~
customs we know. curtsey to great k'hss' -"
Conrt Circular is witness to the truth of it when
Drawing Room is held, and the Clothes question
becomes n question of State. therefore recor"
Oh, foc. that Mr. parnell wore an uncommony long
black frock coat bnttonei from waist 10 the brown
beard which he now wears full and bIshy ana curl
ing. Mr. Gladstone's shirt collars are hlstorichi
Punch has made them so. MI farhel's oo''"
scarcely rises to historical proportions; II IL VI W"
kind known "A a turnover and but the faiutest rim
of linen is visible above the collar of his coat. OF
peyond the sleeves for which his tailor mas poo"
something too liberal IN cloth. THIS ptnnrN III
linen is perhaps protest against Belfast lie s'ooPs
a little. and the stoop enlarges ones view OF Una.
anterior norton of the skull which tho ravages OF
time have left unprotected by hair Not once does
he turns his face full to tho gallery. 1t IS TIE
Snaal,cr the Tories on his right the Miniseraists
or Radicals opposite. who have that front view OF
his v,sape which we in the other direction vainly
desire At most it is a profile to us; straight
featured high proved. square in the temnie
mouth and Jaw I'll buried in beard and mustache.
Altogether cold masterful face; colder still ana
more masterfu still when more OF 1t was visioie
and the beard shorn of as formerly.
The slight figure is all but motionless all through
tho sneecb TIE gestures are few and mex
pressve. The voice has hardly touch OF pathos
in IT, even when its means to be pathctic an"
declares lie and his cannot and will not part with
single Irishman. Its best quality is clearness,
which would be more effective if it were less mo-
notonous OF oratorcal quality Mr.. Parnel 10
devoid: never did anv man deliver to an eager
universe so many harangues so totally deficient IN
passon. IN rhetoric in sympathy, in persuasive
ness II matters little what they are deficient IN :
they are listened to: studied as the voice OF an
oracle is studied Mr. Gladstone said of Mr.. Parne
that he ana pamerston-at another time he added
Mr. Cnamberlain's name also-were the only men
be had known in the House of Commons who SAID
precisely what they meant; never more ana never
less This precision in Mr.. ParnelIs case is the
| oasier-to-dav at anv rate-snce he reads the
greater part of his speech from loosely written
manuscript carefully fastened AT the lett upper
corner that no leaf may be displaced in delivery.
! The manner IN which it is delivered Is dry, harh'
| desrotic the edicts of no crowned king could he
| more absolute IN tone. Here beyond question IS
man who knows what he wants and means to have
! it. As sentence after sentence falls IN measured
deliberation from those hidden lips. you cannot
| but think that this GOODNESS is the GOODNESS OF
contempt He is speaking to a body of men
whom he has often denounced rs an alien legis-
| latnre whom he hiss dehcd " ose rules ne has
broken whose laws he has trodden under foot.
whose most cherished traditions he has Knocked at,
whose dignity he has brought down; and who
IN return have cast him ont from among them
ONLY TO let him come back seven times stronger
than before. Between him and them is a fend; n
race feud If not blood eud He faces his Toes to-
day in new attitude. The greatest of them Ia his
foe no longer. bit his ally The Liberal party and
Liberal leader have capltulated Parliament itself
| has silently made terms with an adversary grown
too powerful for the nursery discipline 1t used to
apply OF course he feels the change ,.., :,
Presently the Arctic mood melts little. MI;
! ParueI has done with his figures ahout Ulster and
| his statistics of the four provinces, snd ms
geographical demonstrations of the lmpossihility Of
| carving out minorites for protection. lie turns
| upon the right honorable member for West BIZ
mingham with an anger which iscertainlv human
if not mhnman lie reproaches Mr.. Chamberlain
with bitterness in which the steadlness OF his
voice at last shakes He turns upon the Torres IN
temper there Is no installing he means mischief "a
his old or rather his recent allies, and he
condenses into "A couple of sentences charge oil
Tory completely IN Home Rule which sets the roo
ringing with Ministerial cheers Finally there
comes into bis voice note when inipresses the
Honse as a note of sincerity, when he procalns II'
belief that this settlement wonld be accepted by
Ireland as a final settlement. Nor does any one
doubt that the emotion with which the ex-prIsoneI
of Kilnainham recites the catechisn Of coercion Is
a genuine emotion. HIS prediction that Ireland
must be left to govern herself or must be governed
as a Crown Colony meets with a grim reception
from the House in general. Cover II up as he may
John Bul takes it as threat ana the lnurnuI
Mr.. Gladstone sat up during Mr.. Parnells speech
and listened TO each word as 1t dropped ice-coId
from Mr. Parnehs Ups; mastery expos,'i 10 IT. a.
matter is 10 more 10 be impugned than the phras,
Lac selected to express IT. With the exception
have noted il a speech aiapted successfully Il
partic liar purpose: statement of certain
: propositions proher of certain assurances
essential in the Judgment both of Mr. Claision,
and Mr. Parnell, 10 the further progress of thu
Home Rule cause But there are two men in Mr.
r Parnell-slx doubt according to Dr. Holmes
but two are enough for the moment There is al
orator and poor one political leader and very
, great one. ! shall not be thought martial TO Mr.
Parnell. nor am !. My account of him as he stool
and spoke in the House on Monday is not partial
1t Is impartial. But have this to add. His medl
ocrity in speec h-making is the mot convincn
proof OF his genius in council. Hi leadership rest
on something very different from comman Tim
stature, or from That coplous fluency OF rhetorl
which is the cheapest OF Irish talents.
1t is because Mr.. !arnell has known how TO guld
, n people that the House now listens lntently a
Mr.. Gladstone listens, to these hating sentences
. of purpose characteristic of Mr.. Parnell
, scarcely indicated. The v9ice falls at the end Of
phrase; the action as a whole is the action of a
amateur. As Mr.. Gladstone has done him the homo
e to borrow his principles he borrows in return--Ii
not much MIR. Gladstones curlons tiick of toucl
ing particular spot on his head with his thum'
With every word III writing before HIM. he seen
to be feeling his way from one end of sentence
the other and looks furtivcly out on his auditory
see how they take it. For snch traits nterestin
thew are to the observer the House cares lttl
e or nothing THIS proud assembly of Englishne
:. know well that the Irisinian WI o rs strugplln
with diffiCu t dictiOn to MAKE known his will il.
not their master, power with whom they mus
treat as with an equal. If they could forget tn
>. past with It's conflicts and its tragedies, the
would. think. feel that Mr. Parnel is speakin
his real conviction. Bnt to forget the past is ~
easy. Mr. Parnell himself cannot forget it. aud b
: sits down KIN in that other words than those
r Cancellation abide in the memory of his hearels
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Mr.. COwEY-sIR MICHAEL HICKS BEACH
Mr.. GLADSTONE-THE DIVISION
u FRoM THE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF TIE TRIBUNE
G LONDoN, June s.
I Between the sitting down of Mr PARCEL and III
a rising of the next impatient speaker there is
G dreary interval. 1t is known in House OF Common
n phrase as the dinner hour and lasts from to