Mr. Parnell has been elected Sessional Chairman of the Home-
rule party in Parliament, by a majority of 21 against 18 for Mr. Shaw. Mr. R. Power (not Mr. O'Connor Power, as has been erroneously supposed, for he was absent, and wrote a letter which does not appear to have been decisive on the rival claims) and Mr. Brooks proposed the re-election of Mr. Shaw, to which The O'Gorman Mahon and Mr. Biggar moved an amendment in favour of Mr. Parnell, with the result we have already given. It is noticeable, however, that Mr. F. H. O'Donnell and Mr. O'Connor Power were neither of them present at- the meeting, and that neither seems, even by his letter, to have given any decided opinion on the personal issue. Mr. A. M. Sullivan was also absent. We trust that this shows that the chief tacticians among the Home-rulers are sufficiently doubtful of the success of Mr. Parnell, to wish to keep clear for the present of identifying themselves finally with the arch-agitator.
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