The Assassination OF THE SECRETARY AND UNDER SECRETARY FOR IRELAND.
[beutee’s telegrams.] LONDON, May 7. No fresh particulars regarding the assassination of the Irish Secretary and Under-Secretary have transpired. Nothing is known beyond tho fact that their bodies were found horribly stabbed to death in Phoenix Park, and that the crime was committed in the evening. Mr Parnell has issued a manifesto, in which ho states that the name of Ireland will be sullied until tho assassins have been arrested. A Cabinet Council was held to consider tho situation. It is stated that the leaders of the Conservative party will support the Government if they proclaim martial law in Ireland. Both Houses of Parliament will adjourn to-morrow out of respect to the deceased. MELBOURNE, May 8.
The Victorian Government has sent a telegram to Mr Gladstone, expressing the universal sympathy of the colony in regard to tho assassination of tho Irish Secretary and Under-Secretary.
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Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2522, 9 May 1882, Page 3
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