The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1891-10-15
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NOTED sTATEsMEN BEAD.
WILLIAM HENRY SMITH.

FIRST Lord OF the Treasury and Gov.
eminent leader in the House of Com
mons, died in London on the 9th.
He was one of the representative
business men Of England, and is re-
puted to have left fortune of about
$40, 100000. His age was &C years
on June "a last. He entered Parlia-
ment in 1868, defeating John Stuart
Mill. After filling subordinate posi-
tons he was in 1877 appointed First
Lord of the Admiralty and Cabinet
Minister. 1t is said that the charac-
ter of Sir Joseph Porter, X. c. b.,
in "Pinafore,' was intended as a
burlesque upon Mr.. Smith at the
time he was made First Lord of the
Admiralty. Mr.. Smith developed
remarkable ability as leader in
Parliament for the present Ministry.
CHARLES STEWART PARNELL.
Charles Stewart Parnell, the Home
Rule leader, died suddenly at Brigh.
ton On the 9th inst. The cause of
death was congestion of the lungs
added to rheumatism. He was taken
down with his last illness four days
before death on returning home from
Ireland In that island he had been
travelling and speaking against his
doctors orders.
Parnell was born in 1916 at Avon
dale, County Wicklow, Ireland, and
was therefore only 40 years old at
the time of his death. On his fathers
side he traced his lineage back to
Warwick the King maker, who was
killed at Barnet in l471. His grand
father on his mothers side was Adj
miral Charles Stuart, one of the
foremost of American sailors, who
commanded the frigate Constitution
in the year 1912. His paternal
grandfather, Sir John Parnell, was
the last Chancellor of the Exchequer
of the Irish Parliament and was a
strong opponent of the union of the
two parliaments.
Charles S. Parnell matriculated at
Magdalen College, Cambridge, when
Is years old. When he graduated
he took an active interest in politics,
having been very deeply impressed
by the execution of the Manchester
rescuers. He determined to go into
Parliament as an advocate of home
rule, which Mr.. Burt had a short
time before invented as an improve
ment on Fenanism. Defeated for
County Dublin in 1874, he stood for
Meath the following year and was
elected. As speaker he was fail
ure before election and for some time
afterward, which made him be re-
garded as man of little ability.
His subsequent triumphs as Home
Rule leader and president of the
Land League astonished friends and
foes.
His downfall as leader owing to his
relations with Mrs. O'Shea, whom
he married after her divorce, is too
recent to be here described. Justin
Mccarthy, his successor by voice of
Home Rule Majority, thinks Par
Aell's death will re-unite the party.
Patrick Ford, editor of the Irish
World (New York;, significantly
connects the suddenness of the
deaths of Balmaceda, Boulanger and
Parnell. "These three men, said
he, occupied unique positions in
their respective countries. Each was
a dictator in his way. Parnell was
Enthusiastically one, and his death will
unity the Parliamentary factions.
No longer will there be one-man
power in Irish affairs" Mr.. Ford
concludes, saying, with the three
dictators gone, especially the one in
Ireland, see hope for the future of
Irish nationallsm.
Archbishop Walsh in the Dublin
Catholic has nothing but maledic-
tons for the memory of the departed
leader. According to this prelate,
his death was just judgment of
God on an unrepentant sinner. "By
the grave now open," says the
Archbishop, charity can scarcely
find place" Parnell, he says,
"has passed into eternity without a
sign of sorrow for the insult offered
to morality, for his offense against
the law resting at the base of society,
for his revolt against his native land
and against the anointed prelates
and ministers of Gods church."
Mrs. Parnell, the gray-headed
mother, reeled aud fell, going into
Mysteries, when reporter at Borden
town, New Jersey, apprised her of
her sons death. She blamed Michael
Davitt and the Irish Worlds perse-
cutions for her great afilicton. For
some time Mrs. Parnell has been
making an effort to get over to Ire
land i'll order to see her son, but for
three years she has been kept at
home by suits in the courts of Phila-
delphia.
SIR JOHN HENNEssY.
Sir John Hennessy, member of
Parliament for North Kilkenny, is
also dead. Immediately after the
exposure in the O'Shea divorce case,
Sir John contested the North Kill
kenny election, backed by Parnel's
opponents, and defeated the Parnel-
lite candidate by ll47 votes. This
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