Excerpt from The Speaker, Vol. 4: August 1, 1891

Mr. Parnell, who has had to face some private troubles of his own during the week, consequent upon his failure to pay the costs of captain o'shea's divorce suit, has again been giving evidence of the bitterness of his feeling towards the Liberal party. On Monday he made determined attempts to drag the name of sir william harcourt into a debate which he had raised on the case of the dynamiter daly, now a convict at Portland. The charge which has been freely made by Irishmen is that daly was incited to the commission of his crime by police agents. If this fact could be proved, the burden of guilt lying upon those who induced daly to act as he did would be of the heaviest kind, and there would be every disposition, on the part of English men - we trust of all parties - to deal leniently by their victim. But no evidence worthy of the name has been adduced in support of this charge, and until it has been proved to the hilt, the people of Great Britain will be naturally slow to believe it. In the meantime the attempts of mr. Parnell to connect sir william harcourt in some curious fashion with daly's fate are only noteworthy because they show how persistent is his determina tion to revenge himself, if possible, upon those who have preferred the welfare of Ireland to his personal interests.

Whilst the terrible railway accident in the suburbs of Paris has been the leading tragedy of the week, it is impossible to ignore the shocking accident at the Friars Goose chemical works, on the river Tyne, which took place on Sunday night. A number of condensers, each between eighty and ninety feet in height, were in course of erection, when two of them fell, burying a workman in the ruins. A number of his comrades at once ran to his rescue, but they had hardly reached the spot when two more condensers fell, burying them under a mass of stone and mortar. Seven men in all lost their lives by the accident; one of these lingering for nearly twenty-four hours, imprisoned by the legs under a mass of stone, from which it was found impossible to release him. Though the number of deaths caused by this accident is small compared with the mortality in the railway accident of which we have spoken, it is difficult to conceive anything more terrible than this catastrophe, suddenly bringing destruction and a lingering death upon workmen engaged in their usual avocations. It is pleasant to know that in this, as in so many similar instances, a heroism never surpassed on the field of battle was shown by those who sought to rescue their suffering comrades.

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