The Life Of Charles Stewart Parnell - Ii

352 CHAELES STEWART PARNELL [1891
became unconscious from time to time, rallied now and then, but at length, about midnight, expired.
In the forenoon of October 7 the tragic news reached London, causing a profound sensation in all circles. Everywhere it was recognised that one of the greatest figures in British or Irish politics for a century had vanished from the scene.
It was decided that there should be a public funeral, and that he should be buried in Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin. On Saturday, October 10, the remains were borne from Brighton to Willesden. At Willesden the van containing the coffin was shunted between two sidings, and there it remained for an hour until the arrival of the Irish train from Euston, to which it was then attached.
The platform was thronged by London Irish—men and women—who came to pay a fond tribute of respect to the great leader who would lead no more. ' I shall come back on Saturday week/ Parnell had said when leaving Dublin on Wednesday, September 30. He had kept his word. On Sunday morning, October 11, the ' Ireland' steamed into Kingstown bringing home the dead Chief. In the forenoon there was a Lying-in-state in the City Hall. In the afternoon, followed to his last resting-place by a vast concourse of people gathered from almost every part of the country, all that was mortal of Charles Stewart Parnell was laid in the grave, under the shadow of the tower which marks the spot where the greatest Irishman of the century—O'Connell—- sleeps. '
I shall not attempt to give an estimate of Parnell's character. I prefer to let the only Englishman who was worthy of his steel bear witness to his greatness., bearing no traces of severe illness or Buffering I answered the hitter immediately, but, 1 think, when it reached Brighton Parnell was dead.* Throughout Tiuwlay, October 0, '1 'arnell suffered much. The rheumatic pains flew to his heart, ho of the «ame kind. Mostntnl i "Sing it* it.*1 Of nmrxtt ! rtiltwett* but hit kept {Hiking tit** it$ ttw I'Uw mil this litn**, Nnying: '* Hing It/1 iittcl n nuntht>r c»f ffilltiw* rut ttin tihttforin, Iw t«»nlt»n it, jttimui him. lUit 1 hcltl