Condensed Cablegrams.

Manawatu Herald, Volume II, Issue 270, 28 May 1889, Page 2

Condensed Cablegrams.

LONDON

Before The Times Parnell-Com-mission Mr WiHiam O'Brien stated that his paper, United Ireland, had never incited outrage. Mr T. Harrington, M. P. Secretary of the League, had always taken measures to suppress such branches of the National League as were gui ty of using strong language or encouraging outrage. He admitted being present at the Convention in America when John Finerty, the dynamitard declared they would get nothing from England but by the sword. On that occasion both ho (0' Brien) and Michal D ivitt had replied advoca<ingreconciliatory tactics. Pa rick Ford, editor of the Irish World, appeared to regard Mr Pamelas a mortal enemy, and he had told Foi'd that his action was imperilling ParnelPs po'icy. Mr O'Brien declared that personally he had not been connected with the commission of crime directly or indirectly. Boycotting, without intimidation, he thought was quite justifiable and constitutional. He admitted that he had advised the Mitchellstown tenants to fight for their homes. He thought it qnite a legitimate course to publish the names of the members of the League, though ho conldnot countenance thepublication of the names of those who abstained from j oining the League. He jus ified the resistance of evictions, and said his paper, the United Ireland, although it had never denounced secret societies, had tried to win young men from them. He disN.«nt.wl from, uumh that hacUppMUwfl

in the columns of The IrisHmWnV and declared that he had always fouua Patrick Egan acting in a constitutional manner.

! The witness stated that he had j never been a sworn member of any Fenian 1 Society, though he had never made any preterice of loyalty until the year 1885. Hie 1 witness also stated that i legality was inbred in the Irish people as the result of tile 1 oppression to which they had been subjected . Mr W 0' Brien admitted that he had denoun ed 600 Irish gentlemen for toasting the Queen, to whom he had referred as an old lady who had scarcely decently disguised her hatred of Ireland. The London press was responsible for the dynamite policy by pandering to the love of the people for sensation. He said he had attacked the Prince of Wales on the occasion of his visit to Ireland, be* cause he came to counteract the Irish National sentiment, and also that he might persuade the Eng'ish that Irish feeling was a bogus feel, ing. He would have advocated a rebellion in Ireland if he thought it would have been successful. Eegarding the Manchester outrage of the 18th of September, 1867, when poiic eman Brett was killed in a forcible rescue ot two Fenians, witness said he regarded tnC attempt at rescue as a perfectly honest warj are - He did not believe Allen, Larkiri, and Gould could be considered guilty of murder, and he for one held them in respect. This remark was applauded by Parntdl and Michael Davitt, who Were sternly rebuked by Sir James Haniien, President of the Commission, who threat' ened to expel them from the Court, Continuing his evidence, Mr O'Brierj said that resistance to evictions was mere child's play. It was true thai he travelled wi«h Patiick Ford, editor of the Irish World, when in ■ America. , Dr Cronen, JjSecretary of the Irisl ' American Brotherhood, andassociat( ' of Major Le Caron, has been mur 1 dered, his body, in a naked conditio i 1 having been found hidden in j 1 culvert in Chicago. Balme, Jacomb, and Co., wool ' t brokers, predict an advance in wool