Condensed Cablegrams.

Manawatu Herald, Volume II, Issue 279, 20 August 1889, Page 2

Condensed Cablegrams.

LONDON. Later news of the Maybrick case shows that although Mr Justice Stephens' summiug up was favourable ou the fir.t portio-i, the conclusion was decidedy adverse The feelim* is so strong in Liverpool that it is deemed advisable to afford Mr Justice Stephens police protection. He is now guarded by 150 police. Mrs Maybrick att ibutes ti:e vtrdict to the Judge's strictures on her infidelity. The petitions in favour of a reprieve are extensively signed, and includes the signatures of ths leading barristers and merchants of Liverpool. In the petition for wai ded to the House of Commons the pet tioners made a strong point of the divergence of the medioal evidence. Mr Matthews stated, in the Bouse of Commons, that the petitions would receive full consideration. He remarked upon he outrage of Mr Justice Stephens that it wis un English to mob a Judge for doing his duty. This remark was loudly cheered. Those of the dervishes who succeeded in escaping from the attack of the British and Egyptian troops were reduced to such extreme disttew that ovot*2ooo voluntarily wox-

rendered. FOREIGN. Boulanger s manifesto i elates somestartling incidents which occurred during his term of office >s Minister Df War. He asserts that he was fully justified in incurring large expenditure in the spring of 1887, when the Schnabe.be incident created such a sensation. He maintain* that France and Germany were never nearer war than at thaw time. Ho then proceeds to describe how the authorities discovered that aa attache at the German Embassy ho. Paris was conducting . a vast sjst oni of espionage, especially over tb*? Foreign Office. Efforts were made to discover the place in which the attache secreted the documents before forwarding them. The German police were successful. At a favourable opportunity, the documents abstracted were copied and rep aeed during a single night. The information thus obtained induced the French authorities to alter their plans of operation, and by this means checkmated the enemy. The discovery of this espionage led the French Government to pass a law to punish s^iies. . The nf <uuf * sto created an immense sensation.