Parnell Commission

A commi ion appointed by Act of Parliament in 1888 to try the charges brought against Mr. Parnell by the Times in their articles “Parnellism and Crime.” The gravamen of these charges was that Parnell and other Irish leaders were insincere in their condemnation of agrarian crime, and they were based on a series of letters sold to the Times by a certain Pigott. In one of these letters Mr. Parnell wrote that Mr. Burke, who was murdered in Phœnix Park, had only got his deserts. Under cro -examination Pigott broke down, and confe ed that the letters were forgeries. The Commi ion cleared Parnell and the other Irish members of the graver charges, but considered their complicity in much of the lawle ne of the Land League clearly proved.