CABLEGRAMS.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume XIII, Issue 708, 5 May 1883, Page 3

CABLEGRAMS.

COLLATED FEOM EXCHANGES. LONDON", APEIL2B. Arrests are being made daily in Ireland of persons implicated in the recent conspiracies to murder. Evidence of the complicity of the accused has been supplied to the police by informers. In the House of Commons to-day Mr Trevelyan, Chief Secretary for Ireland, stated that a widespread conspiracy to murder had been discovered in .County Clare. The Executive hoped to jbe able to unmask the whole plot. So many of the Irish prisoners have volunteered to become informers that the Government are seriously in selecting those whom they will accept as . Queen's;.e,yidence..,;... It is expected, that an application will be made by the British Government to the Government at Washington to extradite a.number of Fenians who are implicated by the fresh disclosures made regarding the proceedings of the Invincible Society. E.eefe has been executed lor the murder at Cork. Mat 1. Stanley, one of the crew belonging to the ship British Commerce, which was run down and sunk in the Channel on Tuesday last, clung to a quantity of wreckage for several hours, and was rescued in a very exhausted condition. Fitzharris, the cab-driver, has been arraigned for participation in the Phmnix Park murders. The Very Eev. George Henry Connor, of Windsor, is sinking rapidly, and it is not expected that he will survive long. ; The American branch of the Land League have adopted the Philadelphia platform; : _ Mr J. O'Connor, a prominent Parnellite resident at Cork, has beenimprisoned for refusing to give evidence before the secret inquiry which is being held at Dublin Castle. A letter addressed to Mr Forster, containing explosives, has been discovered by the Post-office officials, who stopped the delivery of the letter. The Republique Francaise believes that New Guinea will be made a penal settlement, and it treats the annexation as an accomplished fact. A telegram has been received from Hong-kong reporting that great excitement prevails throughout China in consequence of the state of affairs in. Tonquin, and the action of the French Government in pushing its claims in that country. The French men-of-war have been warned of an attack of Chinese, andi have been ordered to keep watch on the coasfcV Kilmainham' Gaol is now guarded night and day by soldiers. The Hawaiian Government have protested against the excessive emigratiovof Chinese to the Spanish Islands. C. A. Stephenson Sir J^^^^H^^^^^^^^^^^Kg^^mmand r^^^^^^^^H^^^^^^^^^^^^^^H t^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^l

Secret inquiries at Dublin Castle to hear the evidence., of informers continue daily. As-no deTails are made public, no intelligence can be gained of the evidence thus adduced, but the Star Chamber manner in which the proceedings are being conducted has given, rise to some ugly suspicions. It was stated in Dublin that Joe Brady, one of the conspirators, had confessed to the murder of Lord F. Cavendish and Mr Burke. . , . The Freeman's Journal says that "No 1," whose name is Tynen, was in Dublin until, the first day James Carey was examined. He then managed to. reach Bremen by way of Hull. From Bremen be proceeded to Havre, and thence to New York. He was a member of a Volunteer corps. The Mormons have been holding jubilee meetings all through Utah territory, because of the failure of Congress to pass Edmund's Polygamy Bill. Judge Lawson, at Belfast, sentenced 12 members of the Armagh Assassination Society, convicted of conspiracy to murder, to terms of penal servitude ranging from five to ten years. Frank Bryne has resigned his secretaryship of the National Land and Labor League of Great Britain, and will goto the United States and settle dovvn. Girls by hundreds are leaving Galway for America, under contract to work in the New Hampshire cotton-mills. The Duchess of Marlborough has given to Luke's Fund L 3600, the amount that remained over from the Irish Belief Fund collected in 1879-80. < The Superintendent of Public Instruction in California has forbidden Mongolian children the use of the public schools. Crop reports for April Ist say that the present outlook is unfavourable throughout the United States, and the" prospect is 20 per cent, below last year's crop, which was by 20 per cent, largest ever grown there. The Vatican has expressed displeasure that Archbishop Croke, of Cashel, should have opened a subscription to the relief of Parnell. The Government has ordered prompt relief treasures for the starving people of Loughrea. A man named Howett was indicted in Dublin for posting a dynamite packet addressed to Earl Spencer. Minister Lowell refused to intercede for Michael Boyton, arrested at Kildare on March 27th, as a subject of America. Boyton had not proved his American citizenship. Mr H. Blyth, an Englishman by birth, a pioneer on the Pacific coast, and probably the largest land owner in San Francisco, dropped dead in his room in this city on April 14th,