The New York Irish World advises Mr. Parnell to make
the English House of Commons " the laughing-stock of the world." " This," says Mr. Patrick Ford, " is one of the ways to educate the brutal English masses who have mocked at the appeal for justice of the Irish people." Mr, Parnell, who now loftily
denies all connection with Mr. Patrick Ford and the Irish World, though it has been shown how cordially he once acknow- ledged his debt in that quarter, will be cautious, we fancy, how he follows this advice. For if he does, ke will certainly lose the one great advantage he has gained by recent events,—the help of Mr. Gladstone and of an important section of the Liberal Party. He will soon have to choose between playing his game so that he loses this alliance and falls back into the old Irish tactics, and playing it so that he retains this alliance. If he chooses, as it is barely possible that he may, the latter alterna- tive, we shall at least have some compensation for the great disaster of Liberal dissension. If he chooses the former alterna- tive, we cannot but hope that the Liberal Party will very soon be again reunited in resisting him.
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