Show predicament thim THE dispatches yesterday contained startling statements in rela relation tiou to the position of charles stuart farnell immediately mediately iely following the phoenix park murder it will be remembered that at that eParnell time tim JarDell wrote a letter com committing mAtting himself and bis to a condemnation of the atrocious deed and thereby disarming much of the hostile feeling naturally directed against ireland and the irish recently the london timea has been publishing damaging dama eing statements against parnell and his hii cohorts calculated to overthrow the tb law abid ing attitude they have for some time assumed and ind as aln or what I 1 it coq considers siders such prints an alleged autograph ante graph letter from par nell to egan shortly after the murder in which it appears that the condemnation of that bloody deed wasl merely a matter of policy directed by a desire to hold the politics I 1 scale level until the greater weight gould could be placed on the irish side parnell has now been heard from and his partisans are at work then being now engaged in the task of comparisons pari parl sons sous and other expert duty while the irish statesman himself flatly re tes the whole thins thing and so does his american lieutenant egan par nell calls attention to certain facts and things making it altogether improbable on the surface of the question that he wrote or knew of such a letter being written as that published by the times and this morning to add to the weight of his disclaimer the pall mall gazette Oa sette one of the moet maet influential fluent ial newspapers published la in great britain alter after reviewing the case demands that the editor of the be sent to the dock clock towel toek as a punishment unish I 1 ment for his transgression transgress lon it in Is also noteworthy that the times is in alone in its support of this most ex I 1 tra mord ordinary inary proceeding parnell was never better or worse situated as the case may be than now if the letter proves to bella be a weak invention of the enemy he becomes at once more prominent and stronger than ever but if it should be shown to be genuine his cause to is gone and he be will be drag dragged e down to the lowest depths of info iby appearances at present favor the term former er result |