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The Exeter Advocate, 1890-12-18, Page 6•1111111011111111MINair THE 1111811 LE&DERS111P, farad! May Retire for a Time 88 Compromise, Mut onadstone's Home Rule Scheme would be Doomed — The Hierarchy Heade Against Parnell—cables From &damn and Dillon. A London cable Biqa Mr. Parnell haS gained another day. That in itself is a great adventage. It would be almost miraculous if the long and deeperate fight for his removal could not now be thrown over into next week, and as the House will probably adjourn on Tuesday or Wanes - day, the main battle can then be trans. fared to Ireland. Evente are following the iexact course foreshadowed in my previous despatches. This morning the committee appointed to wait upon Mr. Gladstone obtained an interview, and found the old man very wary and suspicions. He more than sus- pected a trap, and had all his guards out. He took a prelim- inary objection to the wording of the relution carried by., the meeting yeeter- day. as raising questione of controversy between Mr. Parnelle's veracity and his own. He said he would not be drawn into snob a conflict as that. This presented a bu- sier to any further negotiation. The com- mittee had no alternative but to return and report the check to the Irish party. Another meeting was aninrnoned and held without delay in room 15. The obnoxious words were expunged from the resolution And a deputation instruoted to seek another interview with Mr. Gladstone. Meanwhile Mr. Gladstone remained in his house talk - to Sir Wm. Harcourt and Mr. Morley. I understand Sir William strongly opposed kis entering into any further • negotiations on any terms whatever. Mr. Morley was trying all that could be done to effect a compromise. Brisk efforts are now being made to draw Tier. Gledetone into another meetbeg, but he seemed to feel steeltraps all around him and set tight. Mr. Morley went backwards said forwards several times, one of hie communicatione being received by Mr. Gledetone with emphatic ahakes of the head, while Sir William Harcourt gestic - Tasted in an excited manner. Mr. Parnell Int supremely indifferent to their move- ments, never once condeecending to oast a glance towards them. Another meeting of the Irish party was celled for nine o'clock to.night, but subse- quently Mr. Arthur O'Connor informed me it wes postponed till 12 o'clock to -morrow, as they could not get pledges from Mr. Gladstone as to the constabulary and land queetione in time te diecuss it this even- ing. I gathered from other members of the party that they had not much confidence • in arriving at a settlement by the road they were now pursuing. A friend of Mr. Parnell's assured me that his side were perfectly satisfied with the Mate of affairs. Two of the Oppositionmoon after expressed themselves to me as not very hopeful or -confident. They quite agreed with me when I remarked the greatest strategist of the week had been Mr. Parnell. He is a genius said one of them, warmly, but this gentleman is determined to throw the ,genias overboard, if he can manage it. It is learned that Mr. Gladstone at the oonference with the Irish delegation sug- gested a modification on the Clancy resolu- tion. He desired that no reference be made to the question of Parnell's leader- ship. He said Sir William Vernon Har- court and Mr. Morley had decided not to take part in the conference, and suggested that their namee be omitted from the resolutions, The delegates explained Mr. Gledstone's proposals on their return from Mr. Glad. atone to the Nationalist meeting, and an amicable discussion followed. Mr. Parnell was in the chair. The Clancy resolution wits rescinded by a unanimous vote. Mr. Bodmond then offered a reeolntion author- izing Messrs. Leamy, Redmond, Healy and Sexton to request a conference with Mr. Gladstone for the purpose of representing the viewa of the Irish party, and i. (pleating that an intimation be given them regrading the intention of Mr. Gladstone and his colleagues with respect to certain details connected with the land !lineation and the Irish constabulary, in the event of Home Rule being granted. Mr. Sexton seconded the motion, which wee zarried with only two opposing votes, Messrs. Chance and Barry. The meeting then adjourned, and the deputation immediately sought Mr. Glad- stone and imparted to him the new resole. Idon. Mr. Gladstone et onoe convoked an informal meeting of all hie colleagues with whom he could communicate. Sir William Hanoi:at, Mr. Morley, Earl Granville, Lord Herschel, 1dr. Arnold Morley and others responded. Soon after this confer. ewe met Mr. Glatietone intimated through the party whips that a second interview with the Irish deputation was unnecessary, their resolution and the written etatement of the committee having put him in full possession of the facts. The Parnellite members poetponed a further meeting until , to -morrow. At midnight no reply had been received from Mr. Gladstone, but one is expected early to -morrow. A Member of Parliament" cables from London: Mr. Parnell is playing out his game on the lines indicated yesterdey, and is forcing Mr. Gladstone's hand and committing the 'entire Dish party to declarations of policy which maned be accepted by the English Home Rulers. It was resolved thie evening to form a committee, of which 'Mr. Parnell is a member, to open negotiations with Mr. Gladstone by a letter, which has already been written and sent. He is asked whether he will agree to hand ever the Irish constabulary and the settle- ment of the land question to the Home Rule Parliament when established, or ,undertake to deal with the agrarian difficulty himself in his own scheme; but the surrender of the constabulary to the Irish Pediment:it is An inflexible condition. If he consents to these terms, Mr. Parnell gives a kind of conditional undertaking to retire from the leaderehip for the present. He can safely make this offer, for if Mr. Gledstrne gives Tip the constebnlary a large aeotion of hie English supporters will raise a great out- cry, and what he gains by temporarily de - teeing Mr. Parnell will be more than lost in another direction. If be besitatee or evades the real iseue, Mr. Parnell will be in a position to boast that he has proved his insincerity, and OD go before the Irish people as the only man who bee adequately defended their Meein any awe he heft nothing to sacrifice by the _result. His power in the Home of Com. Mons would be moat formidable oven though he at on the back breechlivery deer strengthens' him in Irelend, in spite of tie hostile attitude Of the Catholic biltrarohy. Many Of bia opponente heve reeeived an anelattolee of telegrama to.dey froth their ocetettitriente dietetic* them to Vete foe Mt. Perm:ill. In the event of Mr, Gleidetone dedging, it would be filmed int - potable for them to Vote Ageinst hitt With- out incurring the atigraa of betraying the Irieh people. Mr. Parnell's ancladity and subtlety have never been more oonepioulonsly displayed than in the generelehip of the beet two daye. 111r. Tirn Healy and the leader came into eomewhat violent collision to.day, end had bad blood increasee on both sides. Mr. Healy is for showing no quarter and taking none. It is more and more evident that this is destined to !shatter the present Irish party and throve Ireland into a state of a most dengerone excitement and agitation. Par - Dement will certainly rise next week, and then the Irish members will be free to go back and fight it out. The winter will see the warfare transferred from the Conserva- tives to each other. The worst enemies of Ireland could intender have desired to bring about a more perilone state of effaire. The Catholic News has received from its Dublin correspondent, Thos. Sherlock, an Irish journalist, whose relations With the Nationalist members of Parliament are very close, a deepatole whioh says " On authority which I have good reason to con - eider excellent 1 make the statement that Mr. Parnell has assured at least two mem• leers of the Irish Parliamentary party that the oharge made spinet him by Captain O'Shea is utterly without foundation in fact, and that he looks forward to a near time when he will be able to prove as ranch, with good results to the Irish cause. These two membera are convinced that Mr. Parnell is simply biding his own time to vindicate himself at the precise moment when the vindication will have more effect for Ireland." The despatch makes men- tion of "tho private statement of a servant who lived with Mrs. O'Shea for three yeers, and who avers she was offered a large bribe to swear falsely that she had seen something more happening between Mr. Parnell and Pars. O'Shea titan would occur in the aerie of an ordinary gentleman visitor." Address of the Hierarchy. The Standing Committee has deemed it a duty to comnannicate by telegraph with their absent brethren of the episoopaoy, and have received up to this writing the adhesion of the bishop°, whoee names, with their own, are signed to the following address: "The Archbishops and Bishops of Ireland to the clergy and laity of their Bishoprics. "Very reverends, reverend fathers and fellow.countrymen: "The Bishops of Ireland oan no longer keep silent in the presence of the engrossing question which touches, not Ireland and England alone, but every spot where Irish- men have formed homes. The question is, Who in the future is to be the leader of the Irieh people, or rather who is not to be their leader? Without hesitation or doubt, and in the plainest possible terrine we give it as our unanimous judgment that, who- ever else is fitted to fill that highly respon- sible position, Mr. Parnell is deoidedly not. As the pastors of a Catholic nation we do not base this, our judgment and solemn deoleration, on political grounds, but simply and solely on the facts and circumstances as revealed in e London divorce court. After the verdict given in court we cannot regard Mr. Parnell in any other light than as a man convioted of one of the graveat offences known to religions society. Aggre. vated, as it is in his cam, by almoet every circumstance that could pcssibly attach to it so as to give it scandalous preeminence in guilt and shame surely Catholic Ireland, so eminently conspicuous for the virtue and purity of ite social life, will not accept as its leader e man thus diseonored and wholly unworthy of Christian confidence. And farther, as Irishmen who are devoted to our country and eager for its elevation, and earnestly intent on securing for it the benefits of domestic legislation, we cannot but be impressed by the conviction that a continuance of Mr. Parnell as leader of even a section of tbe Irish party must have the effeot of disorgenizing our ranks and rang. ng in the hostile camps the hitherto united roes of our country. "Confronted with the prospect of con- tingencies so disastrous we see nothing but inevitable defeat at the approsohing gen- eral election, and as a result Home Rule indefinately postponed ,aoercion perpetuated the hands of the evictors strengthened and the tenants aimed), evicted left with- out a allow of hope of being ever restored to their homes. Your devoted servants in Christ. "Michael Logue, Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of all Ireland; William G. Walsh, Archbishop of Dublin and Primate of Ireland ; T. W. 'Croke, Arohbisbop of Cashel John Mc Evilly, Archbishop of Tuam ; James Donnelly, Bishop of Clogher •' James Lynch, Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin Francis J. McKormick, Bisbop of Galway John McCarthy, Bishop of Cloyne • Wil- liam Fitzgerald, Bishop of floss; Batholo mew Woodcock, Bishop of Ardah and Clonmaoknoise; Thomas Alphonsus O'Cal- laghan, Bishop of Cork; James Brown, Bishop of Ferns; John L3'Bier, Bishop of Aohonry ; Edward McGineis, Bishop of Kilmore ; Thomas MeGivern, Biehop of Dromore ; John O'Dogherty, Biehop of Derry ; Michael Comerford, Coadjutor to the Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin '• Thos. MoRedmond, Coadjutor to the Bishop of Killaloe ; Nicholas Donnelly, Bishop of Canoe." Ten minutes before the arrival of the Irish delegation, Mr. Morley, Sir William Vernon Harcourt, Earl Spencer and Earl Granville, who had been conferring with Mr. Gladstone, took their departure. Later.—The conference between the Irish Committee and Mr. Gladstone laeted an hour, and on its conelneion the dele- gates returned to the room in the House of Commons in whioh the proceedings of the Nationalists are heing held. The Chronicle publishes an interview with Cardinal Manning, in which he says his opinion is admirably expreseed by the manifesto issued by the Irish hierarchy, which he believes will gain in influence because it took due time to consider the question before issuing the mani- festo. He thought the manifesto would !carry great weight, both in Ireland and Americo. He agreed en- tirely with the views it expressed, both politically and orally ; lent Pitmen's retire. men* should be ramie compulsory on those of moral grounds, polities being a secondary consideration. Parnell's followere, how- ever, were justified in demanding hie reeig- nation on political grounds alone. The Standard says the English people cannot longer regard the quarrel with indifference. It is amazed that Gledstobe has consented to negotiate these questions. The American Envoy s Manifesto. To :Tustin McCarthy, M. P,, Vice -Chairman of the Irish Parliamentary party ; The manifesto which Mr. Parnell has just issued cuts SS oil from the last hope to which we clung, Anxious to avoid fmiy word that might embitter the Controversy, we shall not dwell upon the cruel injustice with which he treats the metzbers of the party that have fol- lowed him with a loyalty and affection stela as no loader ever experienced before. His recol- lection of this fealty to him in many an hour of trial might well have saved them from the imputetion that any section of them could have allowed their Integrity to be sapped by Liberal wire•pulleis, nor would we do More than enter a protest against this violation of rel eon- ntitotiorml prInuiple in flouting by antionstion tee decision of tbe bleated tepresentativea the people from whose vote e tee cheirnean of the parliaraeutary party receives his authority, and resortiug to a vague general appeal OVer their Considerations like these we ehould readily nave waived in the interest of national but the method in which, ignoring the erigin of the present calamitous situation, Mr Parnell endeavored to fasten the responsibility for it upon Messrs Gladetone and Kerley, compels us to dissociate ourselves iu the strongest manner from an imputation which we believe to be reck- less and unjust, We consider it unjust to the English people and lamentable from the point a view of iter - national good feeling to describe as English Wolves howling for his destruotiou these who have not been able to bring themselves to the salne view to which gratitude and the necessity for union impelled air. Parnell's own colleagues and countrymen. Whatever differences of opinion may exist as to the haste with which Mr, Gladstone's letter was communicated to the public, it was ob- viously not his hostility to home rule, but his earnest desire to save it from disaster that prompted Mr. Gladstone to write his letter. We have now to confront the statement that Mr. Parnell's leadership opens an impassable gulf between the representatives of Ireland and the Liberal party who have faithfully ob- served their part of the agreement as to the national claims of Irelaud. and the situation is aggravated by deplorable expressions of ill -feel- ing toward the British people, who have again and , again, within the past five years, manifested their determination to do justice to Ireland, and have by their votes, paralyzed the arm of coercion. In deliberately bringing things to this position, Mr, Parnell has entered upon o ra,.-th and fatal path upon which every con- sideration of Ireland'a safety, as well as of per- sonal honor, forbids us absolutely to follow him. In the future of a party thus isolated and discredited, we cannot imagine how any Irish- men can see anything but destruction of the hopes of aelf-goyernment, happiness and neaee whioh, but a few weeks ago, were on the point of being realized for our people, so tried by many years of sacrifice and suffering. What Mr. Parnell asks us to do, turipped of all Bide issues, is to sacrifice all the hopes of an early settlement of the Irish struggle to his resolution to maintain his personal position. We are driven to choose between our leader and our cause. In that sad eervice we cannot hesitate.— JOHN DILLON, WM. O'BRIEN TROMAS O'CONNOR, T. D. SULLIVAN, TH014,1.13 P. GILL, Mr. Herrington refused to eign the doom ment. Faraell's Passionate Attack on McCarthy Heames Impertinent Question. The London correepondent of the Journal says: At today's meeting Mr. Clancy, with the approval of Mr. Parnell and his followers, will propose a compromise for a settlement of the differences between the two factions of the party. Mr. Healy then proposed that all the communications which had passed between the Irish Parliamentary party and the Liberal leaders be read. After a prolonged squabble over this proposal, Mr Healy moved that the chairman read the whole of the doonmente bearing on the position. Mr. Parnell objected. He insisted that the delegates prepare a report of their inter- view with Mr. Gladstone and submit it to the meeting. This course, he said, was absolutely neoessery in order to put the public in possession of all the facts. This ceased a heated debate Mr. Sexton finally said that he and his friends felt that these interminable proceedings should be brought to a close, if not by the action of theeohair, by some other metals. If his friends, he said, were in the minority they would gladly retire, but the foot that they were in the majority placed the obligation upon them to exercise their powers. After a brief adjournment Mr. Redmond read the report of the delegates, including letters of Sir William Vereon Harcourt and Mr. Morley, referring them to Mr Gladstone as the sole leader of the Liberals, empowered to speak in the mane of the party, the letter of Mr. Gladstone deolinieg a joint consideration of the questions that the delegates might submit to him in nom-. bination with his oolleegues, andeteepally, Mr. Gledstone's last letteleetri 1E6 /ilia - Parliamentary canons. At the conclusion of the reeding of the report there was a scene of great confusion. Mr. Abraham and Mr. John O'Connor rose from their seats simultaneously, when Mr. Parnell declared that the latter had the oor. Mr. Abraham persisted in an effort to move a reedit:1ton. He tried to read it, but °mild not amid the clamor. He then handed the resolnt ion to Mr. McCarthy who rose from his seat and was apparently about to read it when Mr. Parnell, who throughout the exoiting scene had remained standing, grasped the resolution from Mr. MoCarthy's hand, at the same time saying: "1 won't receive it." Mr. Parnell and Mr. McCarthy stood addressing each other, bat their words were rendered inaudible owing to the confusion. and cries of "Chair," " Order." When quiet was restored, Mr. Parnell said : "Until the party deposes M3 you chairman." Mr. Barry—You are not onr chairman. Mr. Parnell—Yee, and Mr. McCarthy attempted to move a resolution surrepti- tiously. Mr. Healy—Give us back our resolu- tion. Tbe disorder and interruption were re. newed. Mr. Parnell continuing to rule that Mr. O'Connor had the floor, Mr. Barry exclaimed, "You're a dirty trickster," which caused a further uproar. Mr. Pernell—Respect the chair. Mr. Sheehy—We will respeot the obair if it respects the party Mr. Arthur O'Connor appealed to his friends to show every poseible respect to their late leader. Mr. McCarty said he had only risen to a point of order. Some one hedbanded him a paper, and the chair- man etrtick it out of his hand. Mr. Parnell—I took it out of your hand. Col. Nolan—He did not strike your hand. Mr. McCarthy insisted that the paper was struck out of his hand. Mr. Parnell—You were about to put some resolution, thereby usnrping my functions. Mr. MoCarthy—I was not. 1 expected courtesy at your hands. Mr. Healy moved that Mr. Abraham's motion be heard. Mr. Parnell—I refuse to put it. Mr. Healy—Then I'll put it myself. (Cheers.) Par. Fitzgerald—Who are you? You are not the leader of the Irish people. John O'Connor—Healy is not the leader yet. Mr. O'Conner then moved that the meet- ing regrets and calls the attention of the country to the fact that, though the original resolution was altered to meet Mr. Gladstone's objections to negotiate,be still refuses to confer with the party uneee Mr. Parnell is removed. Mr. O'Connor urged that Mr. Gladstone's reply proved Mr. Parnell's contention that it was impossible to get a direot answer from him. Mr. Gladstone, he mid, wrie sacrificing Irish interests to a manufactured English feeling. fie believed that Ireland would regent such dietation. Before Mr. O'Kelly seconded the motion of John O'Connor, another some occurred. This was due to Timothy Healy shooting, " Who is to be inklings of the party ?" Cries of "ehrtme" came from all parte of the room and William Redmond shouted " They must be badly off to reeort to argu- rnertte like that." Mr. Parnell referred to Healy es a cowardly little mandrel who dared in an aesembly of Trial:men to insult a woman, This denunciation of liettly was received with cheers and coneiter cheerer. John O'Connor, continuing, said he pitied Welt membere who Were obliged to wept the leaderehie Of S eoWeret who dared to insult it women. He defended Mr, Pernell's station in divulging whet paesed at the Hawarden meeting pub, a course he said, was entirely juatifiable. Hdr. ()Kelly, in seoonding O'Connor's motion, warned the Healyites of the grave responsibility of forming a separate party. Mr. Abreltam followed Mr. O'Kelly. He pointed out the danger of a Liberal defeat at the general eleotion in case their action should induce Mr. Gladstone to retire. As Parnell refused to resign they would be eventing in respect to themselves if they longer delayed bringing matters to an Lome, the Chairman having ignominiously treated and torn Mr. MoCarthy's resolution. Mr. Parnell—That is untrue. Mr. Abraham declined to enter into an alteroetion, but repeated that it would be shameful to %How the minority to continue making the party a laughing stook. Par- nell and his adherents desired to appeal to Owner, but his side was quite willing to abide by the decision of the Irish people. He proposed an aimindenent that Parnell's ohairraanship be terminated. Mr. Nolan proteeted that Mr. Abraham was out of order'and a equabble °mined, the opponents of Parnell taunting him with allowing the introduction of Clancy's amendment against the wishes of the party. Finally Parnell decided that Mr. Abraham was out of order, whereupon Healy !shouted "Bravo, bravo." "Nr. Beaty," said Mr. Parnell, "1 won't stand very much more from you. The amendment is only admissible as a substan- tive motion." Mr. Arthur O'Connor, in a quiet epeech, protested against the obstructive tactics of the minority, whioh he said would indefin. itely delay the decision that the majority had a right to record. Mr. Parnell interposed that O'Connor was well qualified to lecture them on ob. satiation—daughter) —but he was wander- ing from the resolution. Mr. O'Connor—I am leading up to the amendment. We have been very modest., There is danger that over -moderation may be misconstrued as shirking our duty. Mr. O'Connor continued amid a cres- cendo of approving cheere to argue that the time had arrived to cease talking and to sot and put an end to what was rapidly becoming a disgraceful farce. " I ask the overwhelming majority of this party," he concluded, "at once to record their de. oision—if not here, then elsewhere." (Ctere.Parnell—Mr. rnell—Mr. O'Connor knows it is not an amendment. Mr. O'Connor—Very well, if it cannot be put here it must be elsewhere, Justin McCarthy said he thought that the time had come to dose the debate. He had hoped up to last night that Parnell would still help them out of their terr;ble national difficulty. He felt that it vi• ; be a waste of time to disease matters fur- ther. He suggested that all agreeing with him withdraw. The Parnell Wing. After McCarthy and his followers with- drew Col. Nolan, in a speech to those remaining with Parnell, said whatever Parnell's position WaS in the next two or three years he would be ranked with O'Con- nell as the greatest Irishman of the last three centuries. Parnell said : "The deserters knowing we were going to Ireland to -morrow, clam- ored for a decision, beortnee they dreaded the lightning of public opinion in Ireland. Gentlemen, we have won the day. (Loud Cheers.) Although our ranks are reauced, I hold the chair still. (Cheers.) Although many comrades have left ns, Ireland has power to fill their plaoes. 1 little know our gallant country if I am mistaken in the opinion that when she gets an opportunity she will freely exercise the power. Parnell further said that the deserters stood in the contemptible position of men who, having pledged themselves to be true to their party, their leader and their conntry, have been false to all. (Loud cheers) John O'Connor's resolution was carried by sociamation. The Majority Meeting. LONDON, Dec. — The opponents of Mr. Parnell who withdrew from the National- ists' meeting in a body last night, held a meeting in a conference room. The meet- ing by unanimous vote elected Mr. Justin McCarthy chairmen. It is the intention to appoint a council of eight members to mishit the chair. When Mr. MoClarthy had mistimed the obeir the meeting proceeded to consider the following reselution: We, members of the Irish Parliamentary party, solemnly renew our adhesion to the principle, in devotion to which we have never wavered, that the Irieh party is and always must remain independent of all other parties. Further, we declare that we will never nnter- tain any proposal for a settlement of the home rule question except such as Eatisfies the as- pirations of the Irish party and the Irish people The resolution, which was proposed by Timothy Healy and seconded by Mr. Sex- ton, was unanimously adopted. The result was immediately communimited to Mr. Gladstone. Upon learning what had been done, Mr. Gladstone said, "Thank God, home rule is saved." The conference of the McCarthy party was prolonged until after midnight last night. Ur. McCarthy presided throughout the session. A committee, consisting of Messrs. Murphy, Barry, Morrough, Healy, Sexton and Power, was appointed to draft a prospectne for a limited company to establish a daily newapaper in Ireland to be devoted to the interestu of the Nationaliet party. Harry Webb, the treas- urer of the new company, opened a list and the members present subscribed £1,020. It is probable that United Ireland will become a daily publication. The nominal (melted of the cornpany proposed is E100,000, of which £30,000 will be paid up. The major- ity piny are keenly alive to the disadven- tage of the leading Nationalist papers siding with Parnell, and the whole of the machin- ery of the National League being under his control. They aro hopeful, however, that the bishop and priests will assist them to obtain a popular verdict. Both Bides are preparing for an immediate campaign in Ireland. Messrs. Sexton, John Redmond, C. Rielly and others who were present at the cloaing scene whet the majority seceded from the Parliamentary caucus request that it denial be ramie of the sensational state- nients printed in certain English pepers, and probably in some American journals, to the effect that some naernbere of the canons stood upon tables and threatened to fight, and diet it was neceesery to call in the police to quell the disturbance. On the contrary, it ie stated that the members who seeeded left the room without any &eerier, and almost in Silence, no offensive epithete being exchanged. As they quietly filed out thoee who remained kept their seats without remark until all had left. The season is rapidly nearing When we'll all take a ride And go gliding, sliding, glimmering Down the Toboggan Slide. While I VMS in Parie," said the re- turned ballet girl, " I saw Bernherdt as Cleopatra. It Was wonderfal." 'Wise sho anythieg like Cleopatra herself, as yout remember her ? " tatted the jealotte chorus girl. Some of the etevedoree in London who eattok are now relnirning Work. TELEGRAPHIC BC lefleTART. A branch of the Ontario Bank hes been opened at Sudbury. Cold to the amount of 0250,000 hate been !shipped iron Londou for New York. The body of Joseph leiree, the engineer who lost his life at letchine, has been found. The Inaperial Board of Agrioulture's in- quiry into the Atlantic) cattle trade is pro- gresaing briskly. Navigation closed at Owen Sound yes- terday. Twenty-five vessels of all desorip. tons will winter there. A daughter of Edward McCabe, King- ston, fell from a high chair and died from cononesion of the brain. Engineers supposed to be employed by the Canadian Pacific are striking a line for a new bridge at Niagara Falls. News of the death in California of John C. McGregor, it well-known commercial traveller, has reached Toronto. An Indian constable was enspended at London yesterday for supplying liquor to the Indians on the reservation. Advioes from Wellington state that the general elections in New Zealand resulted in the return of an equal number of Gov- ernment and Opposition candidates. A mass meeting of Irishmen, convened at Montreal, passed a resolution of confi- dence in Mr. Parnell as a political leader. Emperor William has ordered that prayers be offered in the churches for the safe accouchement of Empress Victoria, which is expected to take place early in January. The returns of revenue and expenditure for the Donainion for the month of Novem- ber show large decreases in receipts as compared with the corresponding month hist year. The negotiations for a treaty of com- merce between Austria, Hungary and Germany ere making no progress, the oonference in session at Vienna having thus far been barren of reeult. The cold is so intense at Quebec that an Ice bridge has formed across the St. Law- rence River. This is the earliest period for the ice to forra on the river within the memory of the oldeet river man. A prominent Colchester farmer says that Colchester South township is prac- tically run by a gang of thieves. They have become so daring of late that the respectable citizens do not know what to do. Wm. Wolverton, a Grand Trunk engine driver, known as "Billy on time," dropped dead at the Boneventure depot, Montreal, on Saturday afternoon. Inteetinal perfor- melon is thought to have been the otinee of death. Chas. Klop and Emil Vogt, Elizabeth City, N. J., Anarchiste, convicted of in- citing to riot at it picnic in August laet, were Saturday sentenced to State Prison, the former for two years, the latter for six months. Clerk MoPhereon, of the U. S. House of Representatives, has jast had printed the unofficial list of members -elect of the next House, showing 88 Republicans, 234 Demo- crats, 8 Farmers' Alliance, 1 uncertain and 1 vacant. Two children of Wm. England, of Am- herstburg were playing, when the eldest got bold of a bottle of liniment and gave some of it to her little brother. The child was soon stricken with spasms. Doctors were called and used a stomach pump, but death resulted. Sir Richard Cartwright will speak at Mitchell on Monday, December 15, and at Clinton on Timidity, December 16. At Guelph on Saturday he addressed a splendid meeting of the farraers of Welling- ton county. Ex King Milan has returned to Paris from England. He is greatly enraged at the reheat of Queen Victoria, the Prince of Wales and Lord Salisbury to reoeive him. He has hired it palace in Paris. His annual allowance is 030,000. Three eighty -horse power boilers in the sawmill of Byers es Co., Columbia'Pa., exploded Saturday morning. The boiler house was destroyed, and B. R. Foroy, a resident of 'Williamsport, and C. Singer, the fireman, were terribly scalded. The former will die. Pretty Alice Smith, one of the most in- teresting of the witnesses for the prosecu- tion in the Birohall trial, is now Alice Smith Blount, having married Joseph Blount, the Niagara Palle policemen. The marriage was celebrated in Buffalo City Hall at 4 o'clock yesterday after- noon. Thos. Savigny, a young man employed in John Armstrong's provision store on Water street, Peterboro', fell through an open trap door last night and had his nose nearly torn off by striking his head on the edge of the boarde. The almost dis- membered organ was stitched on by a physician. Emperor William, in a recent speech, finds fault with cramming pupils in the High Schools with Greek and Latin to the neglect of modern history, which, ha says, has the effect of produoing muddle-headed would-be reformers ot society and " hunger candidates" for the ranks of journaliam. Two employees of the Ontario Paper Mill, Watertown, N.Y., met with a terrible death Saturday. They were lowering the flood -gates at the flume when a long lever with which they were working slippet from their grasp, and swung around with great force, striking the men and inflicting injur- ies from which they soon died. Their names were Soper and McLaughlin. Saturday morning Judge Horne looked over the evideece in the OaSe of Aid, Egan, clearged with [Amid ing lettere from the Windsor poen:facie, and then ordered Magis- trate Bartlett to release Egan on 512,000 bail. The bonds were furnished by one for e8,000 with Egan's own name, and 114,000 with Samuel Blanning, D. T. O'Shea and Joseph Maisonville as sureties., Egan was released from jail at noon. During the hurricane which swept tbe Atlantic coast on the let inst. tho Diary - land was boarded by it terrific sea, whioh clashed those on deck in all directions and wept everything moveble overboard. When the water subsided the lifeless bodies of Capt. Joseph Luokhuret, Boatswain Joseph Dogwell and Second Cook George Tyler were found lying against the rails, where tho waves had dashed them. Wm. Rowlands, formerly of the township of Howard, Kent county, sent to the peni- tentiary for shooting his wife, died on Thursday, Hifi body was forwarded to his home in Chatham to day. Hie son William in Kingeton on Saturday stated that his father was riot in his right mind when he killed hie wife. Despatches from India stete that wlaile the Second leettalion of the Third Goorkint Iteglatebt was on the march in the Chin mils rieveral of the Men were etriolten with °bolero. The troops went into camp at Guotheit. /entre were thiety men out of it total of Ili* atteeked, who andotimbed to the aitlesee. The bettalion atibliegtiontly broke !Heap and returned to Rangoon. During the march many more soldiers were attacked by cholera. A Model Wife. A model wife iS the woman who looke after his bousebold, who niekes her hospi. Way a delight to bine, and not a burden, who has learneci that a Raft anewee will turn away wrath ; who keeps her sweetest smiles and most loving worcie for her bus. band ; who is bis confidante in Borrow or in joy, and who does not feel the neceeeity of explaining her private affeirs to the neighborbood • who resents the rights or husband and children, and in return hee due regard paid to her; who 'snows thab. the strongest argument is her womanliness, and so she oultivatee it ; who is sympa. thetio in joy or in grief, and vsho finds work for hands to do; who is not made bitter by trouble, but wi20 strengthens and sweetens under it ; who tries to conceal the faults of her husband, rather than blazon them forth to an uninterested publio ; the woman whose life -book hes love written on every page; who makes it home for it man,. it home in it house and in a heart, a home that he ie sure of, it home that is full of love presided over by one whose price ita above rubies. She is the model wife. Football. The proposed ' visit of the Canadian Rugby Football team to New York, which has been engineered on the Canadian side, by Mr. W. J. Fleury, of Toronto is off. The Toronto World thus remarks on the - subject : The Staten Island Athletio Club sent a, very cordial invitation for it Canadian Rugby teem to visit New York to play at their tournament on Saturday, and no doubt would have allowed a very liberal amount for expenses. A number of men , were asked and consented to go and anti' et eplendid excursion rate aecured. It was found that the team could be taken there and back for less than e200. But they did not care to tonola their own pooketbooke, and yesterday wired for a guerantee of 11500, which was, of course, refused, and the local men deoided to stay at home. Consequently it splendid chance of showing what Canadian Rugby men could do against crack United States kickers was lost, and also it most likely opportunity fort inaugurating a regular international Rugby contest. The Staten Island Athletic Club made s serious error in failing to negotiate with the Ontario Union, nhen it thoroughly representative provincial fifteen world undoubtedly have been sent to Gotham. Father Ignatius. Rev. Father Ignatius, the Benedictine monk, who is conducting an active apos. toile crusade in this country, looks like a Catholic priest. He wears it black serge gown, fastened with ES cord, and mounted at the throat with a large hood that. reaches closely to his ears. Hie gray hair is cropped ehort ; he is clean shaven, and has a pleasant, round face, with small nose end eyes. He is it ready speaker, and adds great force to what he has to say by facial expression and hand gesture. Speaking in New York recently, le asked his hearers to. abolish reason in accepting religion. " Rea- son," said he," cannot grasp the infinite. Religion appeals to instinct, not to reason. When a young man gets married reason doesn't influence him, but instinct does— During our mission, then, we shall let all the arguments of logic go to the devil. The reporters here can take that down." A Runner Under Arrest. Thomas Humphrey, a long-distance run. ner, well-known in sporting circles, was ar- rested in Toronto yesterday morning on s. grave charge. Detectives Slemin and Dimorin went to the house on Young street. where Humphrey was living and arrested him, showing him a warrant that charged him with having ozm tbe 3let of May last outraged a girl named Agnes Barnes, aged. about 16 years. The prieoner was lodged in No. 2 station, and upon appearing before Dlr. Baxter, J. P., yeeterday, he pleaded. not guilty, and was remanded to Wednes- day, bail being accepted in two sureties of $500 each. For some reason or other the warrant was not sworn out for a month after the time of the alleged offence, and than the man could not be found. While the prisoner was in the dock the &Pe snider came into court, and upon seeing Humphrey gave it as her opinion that he was not the man. She had seen him but once, however, so that the police decided to wait until Wednesday, by which time the young girl Barnes will have arrived in the city from the country. The Season of Loving and Giving. Judge : "What is truly hsppy time Christmas is l" remarked the coal mer- chant. " Yes, indeed," replied the flour dealer; "11 is the helpful season, when mercy and charity rnle, and when we ehould look with pity and love on our fellovs-creeitures." "How pleasant it is," the co31 dealer resumed, " that there is it time like this, when sordidness is forgotten and no one tries to take an advantage of a fellow. creature." " Indeed it is," assented the flour men, chant. "By the way, 1 think I can safely put the price of flour up it half dollar on the barrel now." "01 course you oati," replied the coal dealer. "1 marked up the price of coal a dollar it ton yesterday." An Excellent Substitute. Detroit Free Press " What are yew doing here ? " asked the policeman. "Ins my bed for the night." "But you'll freeze here." "Oh, no, I won't. I've got a anbetitute for bedquilts." " I don't sea it." " But I've got it. 'There'sa chap in this town who has insulted me several, times, and who's going to get an awful licking some deg. 1 just imagine I've met him—peeled off my coat—called him a liar —knocked bim clean tlarongh a fence, and I'm so warmed tip that I wouldn't thank, anybody for a blanket. You go right along and let me alone. I'm all right and as warm as natural gas.' The chess match between W. Steinitz, of New York, tlae champion of the world, and bider Gunriberg, of London, who is welt known as a stroeg player, begins teday at the rooms of the Manhattan Chem Club. The club has provided the sum of 111,050,. to cover the externem of the players, and from which will also be paid the sum of 1120 for each game won, 610 for each game lost and 010 to each player for every garne drawn. In addition to the above £75 has beat subscribed by English amatenrs for the winner of the match, which is to be de - aided on the "ten games up" prinoiple. In the case of both players having scored eight wins each the match will be declared drawn. Con T. Murphy, atither of "Ivy Leaf and " Fairies' Well," has entirely re. written "The Waifs of New York" for Katie Enanaett and directed the stage pros dilation et Forepatigh's Family Thwart* thie week, Arg