Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1889-11-06 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

PARNELL COMMISSION.  Michael Davitre speech before the Parnell Commismion on Wednesday, opened with a description of the purposes for widely, the Land League was f 'untied. Murder and outrage were not the objects of the League, but the eonstitutienal and parliamentary reform were. Why, the League programme was to give landlords twenty years purchase for their hauls; this was to his thinking to generous an offer, but curiously enough it was very much like a scheme the Tory Government now proposed to apply.. Mr. Davitt was anxious to read a number of speeches as a reply to the allegation of the Tunes, that crime and outrage were not denounced at the Land Loetigue meetings. After some parley it was agreed that Mr. Pavia might put ia the speeches, even if they were a new matter but in the end Le contented himself with reading extracts from speeches delivered by hin.elf ; then he contended that this charge of the /laws was groundless. Mr. Devitt reviewed at some length the effect of English legislation upon the Irish people, and contended that if the programme which the Land League put forward at its inception had b2en adopted, Ireland would have been spared many miseries. Agrarian murders owed their origin to the conditions under which the land were held in Ireland, and had always been incidental to the land war in Ireland.  _ - - The bulk of Mr. Davitt's.npeinh during the afternoon had reference to boycotting and to criticism of the informers who gave evidence for the Time, lie declared that boycotting in one  form or another was as old as the moon, while it the evidence given by the informers, he said it was fantastic and unreliable. The crimes and belittles of Ireland he attributed to bad laws, and the eternal land war, and not to the Laud League. An interesting incident occurred shortly after Mr Michael Davitt had resumed his address in the Special Commission Court on Thursday morning. Mr Davitt was denouncing the informer Delaney, but said that in ;justice to him he ought to mention that recently. Hedid not get further,but withalaugh said the Attorney-General objected, saying he ev dently knew what was to come. The Attorney - General repudiated this remark, and Mr. Davitt turned to diseuss another point of the subject. Mr. Davitt delivered himself of one sentence which sent a thrill of sensation through the eoutt. "As sure, my lords, as you sit hero and listen to these remarks of mine, so surely do we know the names of the persons who subacribed the money that Houston gave Pigott, the amount of donations aunt dates upon which they were given. These things shall ha made public before long, and the partiee concerned shall have to take the consequences." Looking at the whole of the ri III( 8 case, Mr. Davitt asked their lonlships to report that the charges had not been sustained, and ought never to have been made.  Sir JaMCA Hanuen complimenud Mr. Daviit on his speech, and thanked him for giving them assistance which others had withheld. About one o'clock Sir Henry James rose to open his address, summing up for the Taos. Sir Henry James who had hardly made a beg-inning with his speech until after the luncheon interval, offered criticism to Sir Charles Russell's contention that modern troubles of Ireland were ettributable to old ills. Immense reforms had come about in Ireland, and a special commission had to deal with Ireland of recent yelus. The learned coimeel, saving Mr. Devitt was the father of the Land Lea,rue, went into an examination of eircumseances under which the League was formed and afterwards worked.