The Herald of Wales. — 1888-07-14 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

PARNELL NA 11 8 AN EXPLANA.  TION.  In the House of Commons, on Friday afternoon, Mr Parnell made a personal explanation. He said he had attended at the law warts in the hope that he would be called as a witness in the O'Donnell Clift, and thus have the opportunity of denying the Timer charges upon oath. He specified various letters athibuted to him, and mentioned by the Attorney-General in the late trial, and emphatically declared they were palpable and absurd forgeries. Mr Justin McCarthy also made a personal explanation. Saturday's Freemaa's Joarisal says .—No sane man who knows Mr Parnell could pretend be is the simpleton to put himself into the power of men with halters round their necks for murder, and beeome an accessory before and after the fact. The action of the AFROS and other ooereion papers denunciates that the whole affair was got up for a political purpose, while as to Mr Parnell's refusal to submit his owe W jury. [the partiality of Thursday's inry was not calculated to alter his dm:lesion] it would be like going to law with a certain parsonage holding the court in the centre of his palm. .ill the ingenuity malignity could produce or money buy has. been pressed into the service of the Timse to besmirch Mr Parnell, but it has lamentably failed. The patient dignity of the Irish lesder has discomfited his foe*, and earned for him the renewed and lasting allegiance of his friends I and id all honest men. The same journal's London correspondent says that among the Gleclatonilui members the greatest satisfaction was expressed with Mr Parnell's unanswerable eaptaaarion, The Dublin Daily Express says ;—"Mr Parnell basing refused to bring the :aster into court, it is nothing short of bunkum for bins now to play the part of an aggrieved Mon te*lase he was not given an opportunity of denying on oath the series of allegations made against him. In referring to his alleged cor'respondence, the element of doubt immediately 'taps in, and nothing that he says of fancied discrepancies in the signature to the letters litit.inuted to him can avail to convince the people that he hoe 'toted other than an unmanly part 111 hot Meeting his accusers in the only legitimate way open to him, namely, In a court of law. The Times has acted with splendid courage and indomitable pereeverentie In unmasking what is fervently believed to be a criminal conspiracy of enormous magnitude, prnviding that the power of the press is as real and is useful as its moatenthusiastic champions could desire.  The Dublin Daily Express correspondent says :—Concerning Mr Parnell's explanation to-night, an English legal authority points out to me a few stxiking peculiarities. As regards the letter of Egan to Carey (November, 1881), Mr Parnell made a mistake. It was never alleged to have tken hound in Carey's house. As regards the Jotter of the 9th of January nom Kiln ainham, it was never alleged to have been io Mr Campbell's handwriting. It was distiortly stated that it was not known in whose handwriting it was. As to the letter of May 16th, and the alleged change of signature, Mr Parnell's explanation is not consistent with hia explanation about the faeaimile letter given last year." St. James' Gazette of Monday: states that the two gentlemen wno advised Mr O'Donnell not to go into the witness box were Sir Charles Russell, Q.C., and Mr Lockwood.  Tuesday's 1. says :—We cannot regard Parnell's proFosal as • serious n, and we do not for a moment suppose that the Government will eousent to, waste public time in discussing it again. It indeed a demand for Mr Parnell' tspuliion from the House were brought forward by an adequate and responsible body of mewbera on the ground that the charges advanced in the recent Wel oughz. Out to be mot by a mere furmul coL,tradintLn it might be difficult for the tiovernimut, even in the present state of ablic buskers, to uvoid giving a day for such  purpose, but when Mr Parnell himself has the I coolness to ask for a day to discuss a proposal which Parliament rejected last rar as an evasive sham, it must be assumed that 1 the answer yid be sharp and deeitivo.