Mr. Parnell has made two announcements in the last week
of some importance, one that he trusts Mr. John Morley's Irish policy, though he does not trust Sir Williarn. Harcourt's, or even Mr. Gladstone's ; but it is very doubt- ful whether Mr. Morley will accept this compliment to him at the expense of his leader. The other announce- ment is that of his new programme, which he made in a speech delivered at the Leinster Hall, Dublin, on Thursday. He distinguished between local self-government and national self-government in this way :--Local self- government is the power of administering locally principles laid down by the central Legislature. National self-government is the power of determining for the nation by what principles they are to be governed. He declared for a National Legislature in Ireland, and one that shall not be liable to be overruled by the Parliament at Westminster, or any other body. He was content, however, to give the Crown, or the Viceroy, a veto on the Acts of the Irish Legislature. In other words, he means to make the Irish a separate nation, though under the same Crown with Great Britain. That is certainly the logical outcome of the Nationalist principle. He also insisted on the necessity of taking the superintendence of the Irish Constabulary entirely out of the bands of the British Government.
