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\u201cNo!\u201d es No t?« Don\u2019t 179 \u201cDon 1?Major Saunderson arose and said he had never alluded to Mr.Healy, directly or indirectly, because he had felt as regards Mr, Healy that he was unable to anbstan- tiate the charges so as to bring conviction to the minds of the members of the House, [Cries of \u201cHear, Hear.\u201d] The matter was then dropped.Subsequently, Mx, Sexton, resuming the debate on the Irish Crimes Act Amendment Bill, said that Msjor Saunderson had charged him with direct complicity in crime, If the accusation were well founded, why had the Viceroy of Ireland approved his present appointment as High Sheriff of Dub.Un?His name as a member of the League had been linked with that of Sheridan, the Invincible, but Sheridan was never à member of the Executive Council of the Land League.Did Major Saunderson in pointing to him [Sexton] mean in reality fo embarrass Colonel King-Harman, against whom the major had recently unsuccessfully competed for the new Government office of Parliamentary Under Secretary for Ireland ?\u2014 {Parnellite cheers]\u2014for Sheridan and Uolonel King-Harman once canvassed the same constituency together, Mr.Egan also, the treasurer of the old Land League, was at one time an intimate friend of Colonel King-Harmar.[Cheers.] They were fellow-members of the Council of the Home Rule League, Not only that, Mr.Egan wrote for the Colonel his political address to the electors, (Laughter), If past association with men charged with crime meant complicity in that crime, which side of the House was the deepest in assassination?It was manifestly an absurdity for Major Saun- derson to accuse the executive of the Land League of knowing that men were murderers beeause their names were mentioned In connection with the PHENIX PARK AFFAIR, He (Sexton) had never learned of any fact, or of anything shat had been proved, which would warrant him in changing the opinions he had always entertained, that Mr, Egan and those associated with him weze innocent of the malignant AND DAILY COMMERCIAL GAZETTE MONTREAL, TUESDAY.APRIL 19, charges brought against them.(Cries of \u201c Hear! hear!\u201d) Mbsjor Saunderson\u2019s attack was both mean and cowardly, It did not contain direct and explicit charges but it was composed of ineinuations founded on :candalous rumors, When exposed to the light of day not a rag of these scandalous fabrications would hold together\u2014not one of them would remain, whether they took the shape of a eimple lie or that of a manifest clumsy and malignant forgery.[Parnellite cheers.} hatever shape they might henceforth take, the speaker would henceforth pay no attention to them.The only way to argue with the sort of people who made such attacks was to horsewhip them er take them before the law.It was hardly worth while to take the former course with them, and in the present state of English public fee!- ing an action at law would be a farce if an Irishman were the plaintiff.Referring to the bill under consideration, Mr.Sexton said the measure threatened the existence of the Irish Nasional League, He would remind the House that the Lesgue was aided by the prelates and clergy of the Catholis Chureb, and sirugs gled to maintain the mors! law, yet this League so supported was stiematized as a conspiracy maintained by criminals and dynamiters.The blll iteelf was the grossest kind of an aitemptat VIOLATION OF THE MORAL LAW, The bill aimed to sweep away at one fell swoop all fhe cherished rights of the people, It was justified by nothing in the condition of Ireland.Tae boycotting practised by the Irish people arose naturally from the irrepressible growth of Irich public opinion.The only way to do without it was to obtain for the laws governing the people of Ireland the sympathy of those people.Mr, Sexton, continuing, said it was absurd to attempt to suppress a body so strong in the hearts of the Irish, and 80 p>werfully supported in Ireland and America, as the National League, which so far from being an accessory to and inciter of crime labored to put it down.If tho bill was passed it wou'd happily hasten the ruin of the Goverrment.The day which saw the downfall of the Government would witness the cessation of coercion, (Cheers) LORD HARTINGTON REPLIES.Lord Hartington, who on rising was greeted with cheers, said it was strange that the section of the Liberals now described by the Parnellites as the great sud generous Liberal party were the very persons who a short time sgo were denounced as perfidicus, venal, and in every way contemptible, The House had heard the only answer which Mr.Sexton thought necessary and sufficient to meet the charges against him and his friends, made chiefly not within but outside the House, Could the House accept that answer as sufficient?Was the bare denial of the existence of any proof, any kind of response at all to make to the evidence snpporting the accusation.(Caeers.) He had himself publicly declared that there was a connection between the Irish party in Pariiament, and a Fenian association in America, and be had expected that Mr, Parnell when Parliament met would deny the accusation and state the grounds of his denial, Mr, Parnell interrupting\u2014I stated that it was false, I eayeo still, (Cheers.) Lord Hartington\u2014\u201c À b'auk denial in the face of opposing proof is worth nothing, The statements made in the Times have been widely circulated and have never been shown to be wrong, and the letter printed in this morning\u2019s Times has justified every syllable uttered in associating the Irieh party with the Feuian scciety.Ford Egan, Brennan, and Sullivan wers the Fenian leaders, and the statements of the Times proved .conclusively that constant communications passed between Mr.Parnell and these persona, \u201d Mr.Parnell\u2014\u201c Will the noble lord give his reasons for supposing these gentlemen to be leaders of the Fenians in America?I do not know them as such,\u201d Lord Harlington\u2014* My bslief is based upon knowledge acquired when I was last in office.\u201d (Cheers) \u201cThere is also the fact that the same statements have repeatedly been made in the papers without contradiction.Can Mr.Paruell deay knowing that Alexander Sullivan has been the leader of the Clan na Gael?Mr.Sexton Las alleged that the reason why criminal proceedings was not raised egainst the apers was the impossibility of getting a air verdect from a British jury.That excuse Is not one that will have any weight with the people in the face of such grave and persistent Imputations, The country will not fail to attach due weighs to the fact that the Irish members have shirked an opportunity for disproving those cherges under oath, It has not been denied that Messrs.Parnell and Sexton have been members of a League with Egan, Brennan, Boynton and Sheridan, Mr, Sexton bas denied that Egan and Sheridan were on the executive committee but not that they were among the chief organizers of the league, Mr, Sexton\u2014* They were never anything of the kind.Lord Hartington\u2014* They were prominent members then, The assertion of the Times is that some of these men advocated assassination and that others were implicated in & conspiracy to murder,\u201d Mr, Dillon.\u2014\u201c Two of these gentlemen acted under me.I was he chief organizer of the Land League, When did they make speeches advocating murder,\u201d Lord Hartlngton\u2014* In 1880 and 1881.\u201d Continuing, Lord Hartington he could not make himself responsible for the statements in the Times, but would quote them, It was open to the Parnellites to disprove them if they thought it possible to do so.(Cheers,) The Land League and the National League had received large sums collected in America through the agency of the Irish World, a paper which openly advocated dynamite and assassination, It had been stated that T.P.O\u2019Con- nor was in communication with Ford and that when the American Land League was founded, having for its promoters, Messrs, Egan, Brennan, Sheridan, Boyton and Sullivan, a telegram from Mr.Parnell to the convention acknowledged it to be the most representative meeting that ever assembled to express Irish opinion, T.P.O\u2019Connor\u2014* Why do you not mention that I was present atthe Chicago Oonvention of 1883, sitting between O'Donovan Rossa and Ford, and suggest that by my silence I approved the new campaign of murder and arson In England.\u201d (Cheers,) Lord Hartington said he did not notice \\ that in the Times, but he had seen it as- 1887 serted that Mr.O'Connor was in 1883 in communication with Ford.\u201cThat was a lie,\u201d shouted Mr, 0\u2019Coa.nor, Lord Hartington\u2014\u201c These charges were criminal libels if untrue, exposing the paper to criminal prosecution.Yet no prosecution was ventured upon.\u201d (Cheers.) Lord Hartington then proceeded, deprecating the prolonged discussion of the bill.The Liberals who opposed coercion, he said, excused themselves on the ground that now they were Home Rulers and must oppose coercion, But that was no reason for the country, which unmistake- ably pronounced against Home Rule at the last election, It was enough for Parliament to be convinced that the law did not prevail in Ireland, that the League law was superseding the ordinary law.It was certain that the Government would succeed In restoring the authorit of the law.It was impossible that the Government of a great country should be permanently paralyzed by tke machinations of secret societies.(Cheern.) MB.GLADSTONE\u2019S SPEECH, Mr.Gladstone upon rising was loudly cheered.He said if the bill passed the political subscriptions from America, which some of the speakers had condemned, were likely to increase, not the Irish subscriptions alone, but those humane contributions which were reflecting such a splendid light upon America.He and his supporters had been charged with inconsistency in proposing coercion in former times and opposlog it now.He might [admit feeling shame over the failure of coercion, but he did not refuse the lessons of experience, (Cheers.) He believed, and s0 seemingly d.d the Oon- sorvatives of 1885, that though coercion in 1882 reduced the amount of crime, it had made the Irish more determined than ever to combine, Finding no permanent result from that course the Liberals looked to some other, The mandate given at the last election was to govern Ireland without coercion.When the Liberals peased the Coercion Biil they passed remedial measures also, Were the Gov- crnment\u2019s remedial proposals a reality or an imposture?(Cheers) He would withdraw that expression and say illusion.(Laughter.) Did the Government intend to stand or fall by their relief bill?Before they went to a division to-night, he hoped and expected they would give a clear, unmistakeable and unequivocal answer to that question.Mr, Giadstone complained that the Government had withheld from Parliament tion regarding the atate of crime in Ireland, of which there had been no sufficlent inerease to justify the bill.The only increase was in menacing letters.Were these outrages?(A voloe \u201cyes\u201d), Then he had been subject to hundreds of outrages, (laughter) but they were always perpetrated by what was known as the utloyal lawabiding party of Ireland.(Parnellite cheers), They proceded from the most pious persona in the Kingdom, mostly at the time of the disestablishment of the Irish church.(Laughter) Proceeding to deal with the bili Mr.Gladstone contended that the clauses embodying the White boy, acts ought to be set out in full.The essence of the bili was to suppress any combination to secure areduction of rent, He repelled and repudiated the allegation that it was a Crimes Bill.It was not intended to suppress existent crimes known to the law, but it wae a bill that made things crimes that never were crimes.Conspiracy was already a punishable crime, therefore the introduciion of the conspiracy clause in the present bill might fairly ba called nonsènse, À tenant refusing to pay rent had the prospest held out flto him of obtaining a reduction by becoming a bankrupt.At the same time he would get the benefit of six months\u2019 hard labor (laughter), It was a bill almed at a nation (Parnellite cheers).The boycotting which was dose in Eugland, especially among the upper classes, was done in wantonness, Ia Ireland it was done from necessity, (Caeers.) The more bills of this kind were passed the more the House would strengthen Mr, Parnell\u2019s influence.He had no doubt the bill would lead to an increase of crime and secret societies, Legislation against a nation was vain and futile, The combinations in Ireland could not be suppressed TLe question was by whom were the secret combinations to ba guided ?He maintained by those who were responsible to Parliament, not by secret agents.The Government were most unwittingly going to encourage even extreme forms of violence.In his opinion those familiar with the idea of dynamite and the dagger looked with satisfaction upon the proceedings cf the present government.(Cheers) Iu his view the bill was poison.He would not present it to the lips of Ireland.It must be presented by other hands ; and it would be an honor and a source of happiness te think that he is permitted to have the smallest share in dashing it to the ground.Mr.Gladstone resumed his seat amid loud cheera, Mr, Balfour and Mr, Parnell rose togs- ther and after standing sometime amid cheers and counter cheers, the speaker recognized Mr, Balfour.MR.BALFOUR DEFENDS THR BILL, Mr, Balfour began by advising Mr.Sexton, if he could, to bring an action for libel against the Zumes as the best way to refute the charges made by that paper.Asto the pledge asked by Mr.Gladstone in reference to the land bill he said, of course, the Government were committed to every bill of firat class importance, They complained that the Opposition denounced the measure which he believed would do more to sto the harshness of the operation of the lan law in Ireland than anything ever pre- posed by the Government of England, He also maintained that the Government had given the House as much statistical information as any of their predecessors, All they had taunted Mr.Gladstone with was with having consented to twenty-one coercion bille.Proceeding to justify the bill, Mr, Balfour said the case against the Government ae regarded boycotting, was practically abandoned, Every one knew that the League used boycotting asa means to carry its object, Mr.Harrlogton\u2014*1 take all the responsibility for the conduct of the League and brand that statement as altogether Inconsistent with the facts,\u201d Mr.Balfour thought nobody but Mr.Harrington would venture to do so, (Laughter).In conclusion, speaking from experience, he should say that what bad failed in the past fifty years in Ireland was not coercion, but remedial legislation ; and much as he desired equal treatment for England and Ireland, be | informa.\" ! felt that it would be unsafe and useless to attempt to build up a system of equality on the shifting sands of Irish lawlessness, (Cheers).MR.PARNELL\u2019S SPEECH.Mr, Parnell followed.Ha said Mr.Bilfour had, with characteristic unfair- words would have reachad the outside world, the ten minutes he crav.d to refer to the vile, barefaced forgery\u2014[Cheers from the Irish members] \u2014printed in the Times, obviously for no other purpose than to influence the division.He thought he was entitled to have an opportunity to expose this deliberate attempt to blacken his character in time to reach the outelde world.There was no chance now.Ia addition to passing this coercion act the dice had to be loaded.Great organs of public opinion were to Y | be permitted to pay miserable creatures to produce these calumnies, Who would be safe under such circumstances.When be heard of the concoction In the Times ke supposed that some autograph of his bad fallen into the hands of à person for whom it was not Intended, but when hs saw the letter he saw plainly that the signature was an sudacious, unblushing fabrication.Hs failed to understand how the conductors of what used to be a respectable journal could have been hoaxed and bamboozled into publishing the letter as his, (Cheers.) Members who compared the forgery with his signature would see that only two letters of the forged signature bore any resemblance to his autograph, snd the Times could have seen the same.Ha never heard of nor saw any such letter until it appeared in the Times.[Parnellite cheers,] Ita phraseology was absurd, and its purport preposterous, and every part of it bore evidence of an absolute and irrefragible want of genuineness, He had never known the late Mr, Forster\u2019s life to be in danger, or that there was any conspiracy against kim.He did not know anything of the conspiracy of {the Invincibles, and nobody was more surprised than himself when the blow fell upon their victims, If he had been in Phceaix Park that day he would gladly bave stood between Lord Cavendish and the dagger of the assassin, or between the dsgger of thé assassin and Mr.Burke, (Irish cheers).He had suffered more than any other man from that terrible deed, and Ireland bad suffered more than any other nation.It was absolutely untrue that the National League had any communication whatever, direct or indireet, with the Fenian organization in America.He never had any dealings with any body in Ameriea in respects to the proceedings or doings of any societies.All his sayings and doings in connection with Irish public life had been open and above board.(Cheers.( As to the bill under discussion, it was the most drastic measure proposed since 1833, It would empower the Government to subject their political opponents to treatment reserved for the worst criminals in Eagland.(Cheers,) The great heart of the English people was, he believed, against the bill, and he hoped the country would make its voice heard before the committee stage was reached.He trusted in God that the English nation and Parliament would be saved from the peril and degradation of passing such a measure, [Cheers].Sir Bernhard S:mme'son\u2019s amendment to the Crimes Bill, to the effect that the bill if passed would increase the disorder in Ireland and endanger the union and the empire and therefore should be rejected, was defeated in the House of Commons to-night by a vote of 370 to 269 and the second reading of the Crimes Bill was agreed to without a division.The result of the division on the amendment was received with cheers, but there was little excitement, Sir Henry Hussey Vivisn and Messrs, Talbot and Winterbottom, Uaionist members, voted with the minority on the amendment.\u201c PARNE LLISX AND CRIME,\u201d The London \u201c Times\u201d Prints a Damaging Letter from Mr, Parnell, Who Pronounces it an Impudent Forgery \u2014Kndignation of the Parnellites\u2014 Comments of the Metropolitan Press, LONDON, April 18\u2014The Times, as a proof of its assertion at the conclusion of its articles on \u201c Parnelliem and Crime,\u201d that it had further documentary evidence, prints a fac-simile of a letter signed by Mr.Parnell, and supposed to have been addressed to Mr.Egan to pacify his eub- ordinates when Mr, Parnell publicly denounced the Phenix Park murders.The letter fills one side of an ordinary sheet of note paper, and is in a strange handwriting, \u201cYours very truly, Chas, S.Parnell,\u201d in Mr, Parnell\u2019s writing, is at the top of the other leaf.The Times sugg ests that the signature was thus written so that it could be torn off if nececsary.THE LETTER, which is dated simply, \u201c15, 5, 1882,\u201d without an address, is as follows :\u2014\u2018\u2018 Dear sir, I am not surprised at your friend\u2019s anger, bus he and you should know that to denounce the murders was the only course open to us, To do that promptly was plainly our best policy, but you can tell him and all others concerned that though I regret the accident of Lord F, Cavendish\u2019s death I cannot refuse to admit that Burke got no more than his deserts.You axe at liberty to show him this, and others whom you can trust also, but let not my address be known.He can write to the House of Commons,\u201d COMMENTS OF THE PRESS, The Globe, commenting on the alleged Parnell letter, says : * Until the horrible accusation that Mr.Parnell wrote the letter Is proved we shall discredit it.\u201d The Pall Mall Gazette says: * Until the authenticity of the letter shall be absolutely proved there will be no need to discuss the contents,\u201d The St.James Gazette says: \u2018The letter is a grave document but It will not do regard it as genuine until Mr, Parnell shall be heard from concerning it?\u201d The Times says: \u201c Mr, Parnell cannot expect that a simple repudiation of the letter will have any weight with public opinion.He must bring more solid proofs to annul the effect of the disclosure.\u201d WHAT THE PARNELLITES 8AY.The Parnellites all declare the letter an infamous concoction and a deliberate invention to publicly slander the leader of the Home Rule party.They say that \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 SINGLE COPIES THREE 2 SUBSCRIPTION $00 a TRAD\u2019 even on the low ground of expediencies, Parnell would be tbe last man in the world to write a letter containing such damaçeng admissions, They contend, therefore, that all the resson in the cose proves the letter to be a forgery on the fice of § pointing for proof to the c n'ents ness, refused him, at a time when his ) Othe document, especially to the writer\u2019s warning the person notto disclose the addrese, while no address in given, The fact that the signature is the only part of the letier in Parnes writing is by iteelf, the H-me Rulers argue, proof that the whole thing is a fraud, as according to them, while it would be difficult to obtaln enough specimens of Parnell\u2019s handwriting to enable a forger to imitate to the extent necessary to successfully palm off & whole letter as his, it ia pot at all difficult to obtain his signature, Mr.Parnell, the agent of the ssscciated press is authorized to state, will categorically deny that he wrote the letter, Mr.Parnell will make this denial in the H use of Commons.The Editor of the Times will be summoned to the Bar of the House to explain the authorship of the letter.IMPUDENT FORGERIES, LoNDoN, April 18,\u2014Ia an interview to-day Mr, Parnell pointed out that although at first sight soma of the letters in the Times fac smile printed thiei morning appeared to resemble his autograph, a close comparison showed a decided and atriking difference in many important points, The forgery slopes upwards, the genuive handwriting downwards, Mr, Parnell always places a fall point after the initial \u201cS\u2019\u2019 in hisname which the forgery omits\u2014The \u2018x\u2019 in Parnell, and the \u201cC\u201d in Cha.are quite diffsrent from anything he has ever writien\u2014 The letters \u201cCh\u201d in \u201cChas.\u201d are abnormaliy long and the \u201cS\u201d and \u201cP\u201d are the only letters in any way resembling his genuine autograph, The pen at the beginning of \u201c A\u201d in the forged * Chas\u201d was evidently taken off the paper whereas, in the genuine signatuse it du always written without a break.The forgery, Mr.Parnell says, is the work of a person accustomed to penmanship and writing a flowing hand, whereas, his own writing is always in & cramped style.Mr, Parnell further said that the letter end signature were impudent forgeries and that he strongly suspected the identity ofthe forger He was uudecided whether to prosecate the Times or not, \u2014_\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 THE ROYAL CANADIAN ART EXHIBITION.Visit of His Excellenoy to the Galleries To-day, A Olass of Original and Meritorious Works to be Shown, The exhibition of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts will open at the Art Association Galleries, Phi:lips Square, to= morrrow.The evening assembly will take place at eight o\u2019clock to-day, when the members and honorary members of the Academy will meet His Excellency the Governor-General and, Lady Linsdowne, and a private exhibition will be given.Toe rooms will be opened to the public on Wednesday morning, at nine o\u2019clock, and a large atlendance of epectators is ex pected.A representative of the HuraLD yesterday visited the galleries, and was allowed a peep at the works of art to be shown.Over two hundred are on exhibition.About one hundred of thzee are vile, and one hundred water colors.À few architectural designs will also be shown, and three busts will represent the work of the sculptor.Our native artists are to be congratulated on the present sppearance of the exhibition, There is an improvement in the tout ensemble of the display which will be apparent at a glance, The exhibition will afford cur wealthy and cultivated citizens an opportunity to add to their collections.Ose neei not be a millionsire to coms mence a collection of w.rks of Canadian art, and there is every rcason to believe that as an investment for the future, dealing in Canadian art is perfectly safe, Those who are foriunaie enough to own works by Krieghoff or Bogt are we:l avare that the values of thes: pictures have increased about five hundred per cent.Canadian artists are not yet a-king euch sums for their work as have beeu paid by art lovers for pictures o! lluropean fame: yet there are specimens of native art nof at the R.yal Canadian Academy Exhit tion that would be à credit to any collet.tion where originality and merit are ape preciated, As the exhibition proceeds Tee HERALD will notice the worka exzensively.Fols lowing is a list of exhibitors; Balfour, Jag.,, A.R.C.A Martin, Henry, A.R.Barnsley, Jas.M.C.A.Bell, Alexandra Mr:ss, Ch.E.Boisseau, A, A.R.0.A.Miles, John O.Bruenech, George MacKarthy, Hamilton, Brown, Lily McEntie A.RO.A.Bunnett, H.R.McLeanan, L.B.Brymer, wWm., B-C.0'Brien, Le Ra P.R.C.Capello, L.G.Finlay, John Q.Coanelly, Jos., R.0.A.Reid, G.A., A.R.C.A.Cox, A., A.R.O Reid, Mary H.OA.Day, Forshaw, R.C.A.Richards, Frances Dignam, Mary E Rolph, J.T., A.R.O.4, Dunlop, A.F.,JA.R.C.Raphael.Wm., R.C.A.A.Bmith, James, ** Edson, Allan, R.O.A.Scott, W P Forbes, J, 0., R.C.A.Sandham Henry, R.0.Fowler, D., R.O.A.A.Frechette, Achllle Smith, C.Alexander on, F, O.Shrapnel, E.8,, A.R.O Griffiths, Jas., R.C.A.Smith, F.M.Bell, R.0.A Gray, J.W.Hannaford, M., A.R.C.A Taylor, A.T., ARO.Judson, W, L .Lambe, Lawrence M.Verner, F.A.Lambe, Sarah M.Watson, Homer, R.C.Lambe, W.B.A.Martin, E.May Wilson, J.Martin, T.M., R.C.A.Patterson, A.D, RC.Matthews, M, ¢ A.ee THE ANCIENT CAPITAL.QuxBEC,April 18.\u2014The Grand Jury today returned a true bill against Ferland, accused by the Attorney-General of mia- appropriating Colonization money ia Montmorenci.THE WEATHER.METKORGLOGIGAL OFriom, ToroxTo, Ont., April 19, 1 s.n.Prob.bilities.Lakes and Upper St.Lawrence\u2014Moder- ate winds, fine weather with a little higher temperature.Lower St.Lawrence and Gulf\u2014Modere ate to fresh winds, fice cool weather, Maritime Provinces\u2014Increasing east to north winds; cloudy, e\u20acool weather with snow or gleet, more especially in southern p