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Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXVII, Issue 9648, 13 February 1892, Page 4

Me Eedmond having, according to the cable, declared that the indispensable condition of the reunion of the Irish Parties in the House is the expulsion of Mr Healy, we may conclude that the breach is at last within measurable distance of healing. Of course Mr Healy has been very conspicuous in the fight. That is his fortune in all fights; and it used to he remembered in his favour by these very men who are now insisting upon his expulsion. The enforcement of that condition is manifestly impossible, for Mr Healy has only to say “ No’* and nothing can put him out of Ms seat in the House of Commons. Even if he chose to go, he could not forget the interests of his constituents so far as to forget to consult them, and they would certainly send him back to his place in Parliament. It is apparently out of Mr Healy’s power to retreat. Nor is it wise to ask him to efface himself. It would certainly have been more generous to have remembered that if he has fought ho has also received some hard knocks. Mr Healy has been assaulted, attacked with dynamite, though not hurt, and of course he has received the usual platform treatment, receiving much the same as he gave the enemy. It would therefore have been more generous to have made no conditions. That, we presume, will be the next phase of the reconciliation process. That the thing has come to a first step at all is of itself sufficient ground for supposing that there will be a second, which in turn will he but the preliminary to the shaking of hands all round. The logical position is that the personal element vanished from the situation when Parnell was buried. Irishmen always eventually respect the logic of the position.