The record-union., 1891-10-09
THE DEAD IRISH LEADER.
FUNERAL SERVICES TO BE HELD
ON SUNDAY NEXT.
Mrs. ParneIl Frustrated With Grief
Press Comments on
His Life.
Special to the REcoRD-Ux1ox.

special to the RECoRD-UNIoN.
LONDON, Oct. S.-The Times SAYS: AL
| though Parnell lost his unique command
ing position won by the shrewd manipu-
lation Of political passion, because OF his
vices, yet he retained power of consider
able Importance. Like Boulanger. the
proXimate cause of his fall was indulg-
ence in illicit passion. In one case the
passion operated to paralyze the man
himself; in the other it arrayed his foes
and RIVALS against him. Parnell owed
his success to his power to note and his
keenness in trading upon the weaknesses
and vices of humanity. For men and
women, whether immediate colleagues or
peasants, serving as counters in his
game, he had nothing but frigid apathy
and contempt, which the traffic in
the baser impulses of the man
well fitted him to inspire. That with
a character essentially, he succeeded
in inspiring actual enthusiasm is the
highest evidence of the greatness of his
intellectual ability. 1t was combined and
correlated with an entire indifference for
moral restraint of every kind. Although
once fully recognized by Gladstone, this
popularity was conveniently forgotten
when it became desirable to capture a
/ Parnellite vote. Contrasting his charac-
/ ter with that of the leader of
the House of Commons dying on the
same day William Henry SMITH. we
find absolute honesty of purpose and un-
swerving regard for the greater and
smaller rules of conduct making Smith
| fit to work for the English as people,
pursuing honest ends in the spirit of sub
stanti2l integrity. Parnell would have
failed for lack of Smiths qualities, had
he not been dealing with men and a
movement contrasting in every essential
respect with the general tenor of Eng
lands policy and conduct.
MRS. PARNELL FRUSTRATED.
BRIGHTON, Oct. 8.-Mrs. Parnell is still
prostrated with grief, and though weak
and exhausted from long watching and
the terrible shock experienced, she posi-
lively refuses TO partake of any food or
refreshment, and will only see her
daughter. a family council will be held
| to-day, and the necessary arrangements
for the funeral will be made, after consul
tation with a committee Of the Irish mem
bers OF Parliament, who have been de-
puted to take part.
1t was decided at the family council
held this afternoon. that ParnelPs re-
mains be accorded public funeral. and
that the body be inferred at Avondal.
County Wicklow, Ireland, where the
dead leader was born.
FUNERAL NEXT SUNDAY.
LONDON, Oct. st has been decided
that the funeral services of Parnell will
be held at Glasenven, village a short
distance from Dublin, on Sunday next.
The body will arrive at Dublin Sunday
morning, and will be taken in state to
the City Hall, and the funeral proceed
from there.
DR.. Gowen, when asked the reason for
post-mortem, said it is to be made at
the wish Of the physicians, and with the
consent of ParnelPs friends. 1t was not
ordered.
The doctor added that during the pa
TENTS delirium, some hours before he
died, he talked constantly of ireland and
what he would do for her if he lived. In
a brief, lucid interval he said, and they
were almost his last words: LET my
love be conveyed to my colleagues and
the Irish people,
Late tonight the physicians decided not
to hold the proposed post-mortem. The
remains have undergone a rapid change,
so rapid, indeed, that it has been found
advisable to close the leaden coffin.
There will be no religious ceremony here.