THE IRISH PARTY.

Otago Witness, Issue 1926, 15 January 1891, Page 12

THE IRISH PARTY.

PROBABLE PEACEABLE SETTLEMENT OF DISPUTES. (Pee Pebss association.) London, January 6. Messrs Parnell and O'Brien are at Boulogne. Mr Vincent Scully, who was defeated at North Kilkenny, has given up his intention of petitioning against the return of Sir John Pope Hennessy, fearing exposure on his own account. January 7. The conference between Messrs O'Brien and Parnell has ended, and it is officially intimated that a peaceable settlement of the question of leadership is expected. It is reported that Mr Parnell agrees to retire from the lead if Mr Justin M'Carthy resigns, thus leaving the whole party to elect a new leader. Mr Arnold Morley, M.P. for Nottingham, is reported to have warned Mr O'Brien that Mr Gladstone insists on Mr ParneH's final 1 withdrawal from public life. Mr Dillon approves of Mr O'Brien temporarily replacing Mr Parnell as leader of the party, i January 8. It is reported that Mr O'Brien agrees to j use his influence to depose Mr M'Carthy and 1 secure his own or Mr Dillon's election as chief of the Irish party. On his part, Mr 1 Parnell is to retire from active service until • the next general election, and to transfer to Mr O'Brien £10,000 to £15,000 of the League's funds for a fund for the Tipperary tenants. ' The fund for the relief of distressed Irish - families, started by Mr Balfour and Earl ! Zetland, has already reached £6000. Mr Justin M'Carthy starts for Boulogne immediately to interview Mr O'Brien. Mr T. Sexton is proceeding to Boulogne, Mr Dillon sails for Paris shortly. It is possible that he will act as leader of the Irish party during the term of O'Brien's 1 sentence. It is believed that Mr Justin M'Carthy is anxious to retire from the leadership. January 9. Mr W. O'Brien, who was sentenced to six months' imprisonment in October last for inciting the tenants at Tipperary not to pay rent, but escaped to France and the United States, has now surrendered himself to the authorities. Mr O'Brien that Mr Parnell has agreed to retire provided he accepted the leadership of the party. January 10. It is reported that Mr O'Brien has joined Mr Parnell unconditionally. Mr Dillon declares that if the struggle is renewed the national cause will be lost. Mr Parnell states that he is determined to fight for the leadership, and that he is quite satisfied with the result of his conference with Mr O'Brien. The Executive of the National League in Great Britain is dismissing the officials appointed by Mr Parnell. Mr Dillon expresses his displeasure at the demands of the conference held in Boulogne and in consequence negotiations are delayed, January 12. Mr Healy considers it hopeless to parley with the Parnell section any longer. Mr Parnell was received with enthusiasm at Limerick. In the course of a speech he , stated that he was satisfied with the result | of his conference at Boulogne with Mr O'Brien, and would retire provided the Liberals would give an assurance of their intentions. i At a meeting in Limerick, Mr Parnell challenged Mr Gladstone to produce the 1 memorandum of the interview with him at

Hawarden. He declared that the Liberal leaders had no land policy, and that a fatal mistake had been committed in allowing the Radicals to abandon the peasant proprietary clause in the Irish Land Purchase Bill, thus leaving the Irish people to settle their own fate and the solution of the difficulty. He himself believed that the land question ought to be settled concurrently with that of Home Rule, or left to an Irish Parliament to deal with, otherwise it would be impossible to govern Ireland without stringent and strong coercion. Without a settlement of the land question Home Rule instead of becoming a source of strength and freedom would be a sham, ending in the resumption of the government by the Imperial Parliament. Referring to the proposals submitted at the Hawarden interview, he considered them distinctly worse than the provisions of the bill introduced by Mr Gladstone in 1886 for the future government of Ireland. Mr Parnell stated that he was willing to retire if assured that his opponents would promise four points — viz. : (1) a charter for the settlement of the land, or power to the Irish people to settle it themselves ; (2) power to secure the interests of labour and of artisans ; (3) the control of the Irish police ; and (4) to concede the appointment of the judges and magistrates in Ireland. Mr Parnell has been served with a, writ for alleged libel on Dr Tanner, member for Mid-Cork.

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