THE PARNELL INQUIRY. MR PARNELL AND THE ACCUSATIONS. London, February 8.

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THE PARNELL INQUIRY. MR PARNELL AND THE ACCUSATIONS. London, February 8.

Sm R. Webster, Attorney-General, stated during the course of the proceedings yesterday that ho would not attempt to connect Mr Parnell personally with murder, bub he would undertake to prove that he had deliberately allied himself with persons whom he knew to be murderers. Major Lecaron said he became chief of the American Fenian organisation. The Irish Republican Brotherhood of America employed Gallagher to dynamite buildings in London, and it was witness who revealed the plot and caused Gallagher's arrest. He himself organised Riol's lebellion in Manitoba, and supplied the necessary funds. For years the Irish members had promoted outrages. He produced a letter from Egan proposing to establish a branch of the Irish Republican Brotherhood in Australia. He also deposed that Mr Sexton assisted Egan to the Cape and to the continent. An attempt had been made to shoot a returned Australian named Holloway, for buying a farm from which the tenants had been evicted at Teakle, County Clare. London, February 9. Before the " Times "-Parnell Commission to-day, Major Lecaron underwent a severe cross-examination at the hands of Sir Charles Russell, counsel for the Parnellito?, but his testimony was not shaken. Ormskirk states that though Mr Gladstone received the reports of Major Lecaron as to the doings of the Invincibles and Land League, he proposed to entrust the destiny oE Ireland to Land Leaguers.