Show A BRILLIANT SCENE The Close of the Parncll Commission Recalls the Trial of Hastings Special to TiE HUULD Examiner Dispatch Lox DOS Nov 23By cable to the New York IIcaldTho Parnell commission closed its sessions yesterday Henry James sat down at 320 oclock after a striking peroration in which he held his audience while it was being delivered and evoked an outburst of applause at its close cose The applause seemed altogethor out of place for the thin old usher yelled silence si-lence I as he had more than once yelled it before in the hiS days during which the inquir has been going on For the first time since the explosion of the forged letters was there anything like interest manifested in the proceedings I fair Henry James has had pOOl audiences during the matter of fact setting forth of the dry details of his case for the Times he must have felt more than compensated by the presence of so large attentive and dis tinfui hed an ludiciue as that which filled the court Eel v ole who has been in anyway I any-way associated wita the case seemed to 1 have returned witness the drop of the I curtain in the Sisal act in the Irish drama Prominent politicians too were determined deter-mined t have one glimpse at least of the losing scene Next to Captain OShea in the early por I ton of the day sat Lord Uui lolph Churchill Near him sat Michael Davitt ian i-an iiitctested listener Loid btri ncdd I and Lord Campbell sat beside the judges Miss James occupied a position below lOam while the jury box was taken up by I a bevy of ladies who by nods and winks i ana other gentle indications i showed tneir I approval or disapproval of the Unionist lawyers remarks Later in the day as the hour for Sir I Hear s per ratioudrew near the stuffy little cm rt room became so crowded that Ito I-to move uom one portion to another was impossible Barristers in wig and gown i arrived in remarkable force Asquits was there so was Arthur Russell and so ws Arthur Connell Sir Robert Peel ir rived before the speech closed There will be some anxiety about the report a debate 01 two in the house of commons and the Parnell commission will take its place among the long long list of events which set every one talking today and are remarked re-marked as ancient histor tj morrow |