ARRIVAL OF THE MARIPOSA WITH THE ENGLISH MAIL (VIA SAN FRANCISCO). GENERAL SUMMARY. [Dates from Europe up to March 18th.]

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 356, 3 April 1889, Page 4

ARRIVAL OF THE M ARI PO S A WITH THE ENGLISH MAIL (VIA SAN FRANCISCO). GENERAL SUMMARY. [Dates from Europe up to March 18th.]

Parkelt, received an ovation at the banquet of the Eighty Club in London, iVSarch Bth Lord Speucev congratulated him on his vindication, and admired his forbearance and dignity. Hoyt said it would be difficult for the Government t*o prove it Avas not in collusion with the "Times." Parnell replied with a Home Rule speech. Lord Rosebery moved a vote of thanks. British ship Vandalia, from Perth Am boy, with petroleum, for London, was sunk oft'Bognor, March 7th, in a collision with an unknown steamer. The Queen's drawing-room at Buckingham Palace on February 251h was marked by the largest attendance ot the winter season. The dresses were mainly darktoned, in deference to the recent Court mourning. Waliis, of Birmingham, won the lightweight boxing championship of England and £200 on March sth, in London, knocking out Goode, of Battersea, in ten rounds. Countess Laiish, daughter of Duke Louis of Bavaria, has been condemned to perpetual exile by Prince Lutpold, Regent, tor the prominent part she played in the events which led to the death of Archduke Rudolph of Austria. The American baseball teams played in the Pare Aero«talique, Paris, on March Bth, before a largo crowd. The President sent a note regretting his inability to be present. March the 2nd was the seventy-ninth anniversaiy of the Pope, Leo XIII. He received a number of cardinals, who tendered their congratulations. In his address the Pope referred to the oppressions of the new penal code, and the suppression of the funds of the fraternities, and also bitterly attacked the Italian Government. The Pope is in splendid health, and is preparing an enc\ elical on the necessity of peace in Europe. Captain Wissman arrived at Alexandria February 25th, and will recruit several hundred blacks at Caiio to accompany him on his expedition into the interior of Africa from the East Coast. Later despatches nay he failed to secure any recruits. An Austrian petroleum ship exploded in the harbour of the French island of Bone on March 7th. Four of the crew were saved and nine perished. Only two bodies were found, the rest having been blown to atoms. Viscount Mandeville, eldest son of the Duke of Manchester, failed on March 6th for £120,000. He married an Ameiican lady. Miss Yznaga. His bankruptcy is at tributed to gambling and li v ing in excess of his income. John Dilloa. M.P., mailed from London for Australia, March 6th. A large number of enthusiastic friends gave him a send-off. Captain Tohn Evinson. famous as an engineer and designer of the American monitor war vessels, died in New York on March Bth. Ex-President Grover Cleveland has resumed the practice of the law in New York city. He was elected honorary member of the Chamber of Commerce on March 7th. Emperor William, the Empress, and leading dignitaries ot the Court and State attended the banquet given by the French Ambassador at Berlin on March 6th. It is represented as a brilliant affair.

THE FORGED LETTER. The confession of Pigott as to the forging of the letters said to have been written by Farnelt, and relied on by the " Times " in the late investigation to prove its case, created tremendous excitement. From all sides come bursts of execration. On February 27th the "Times" accepted as true Parnell's statement in the witnessbox that the letters were forgerie3 and expressed regret fully and sincerely for their publication, including in this expression the letters falsely attributed to Egan, Davitb and O'KeUy. It is reported that Parnell has asked £100,000 damages from the paper. William Henry Smith, Govei nmenb leader in the House, has withdrawn the " Parnellism and Crime "' pamphlets from all his news stands. All the Unionist newspapers censure the "Times" for its "inexcusable folly."' Pigott, the forger, had fled to the Continent. It turns nut that two warrants were issued for his arrest, but that they are waste paper so far as the Parnell case is concerned. Perjury is not an extraditable otfence, and the kind of forgery which Pigott committed for the " Times " is not literally . criminal as if he had forged a cheque, bill of exchange or similar instrument. At the sitting of the Commission on February 27th, Attorney- General Webster announced that Pigott had written to Shannon from Paris acknowledging he had forged the far. .similes printed by the " Times," and other letters. He used genuine letters of Parn ell's and Egans, copying closely several words in a general character, and tracing tho actual writing by holding the letters up against a window-pane, and following line for line. The second batch of Parnell's letters he imitated from u fac -simile. He alno confessed he did not pee Bie*lin in New York, as he testified in Court. He admitted that ho wrote the conversation he had with Davis at L lusanne only from memory, and fabricated the letters which he told Houston he found in a bag, and described the process by which he did it ; and finally he said Labouchere's account of the interview with himself, in the presence of George Augustus Sala, is correct. Balfour warned the '• Times " a year ago that Pigott was unreliable. A despatch from Madrid, March 2nd, says Richard Pigott was arrested at the Hotel dcs Ambassadeurs the day before under the name "Ronald Ponsonby," the initials corresponding with those on his baggage. He had arrived from Paris on the preceding Tuesday, and soon after arrival sent a despatch to London. He took his ariest coolly, and threw the officers off the scent with an excuse that he wished to get his overcoat. He retired to an alcove and there phot himself, dying instantly. His head was terribly di&rigured. A note-book was found on the body containing the addresses of several Irishmen. The despatch Pigott. sent to London was addressed to Shannon, the "Time?'" Dublin solicitor, announcing his safe arrival ab Madrid, and giving his addres*. Shannon was in the office of Soames, the " Times' " solicitor, in London, ab the time. Soames notified I the police of Pigott's whereabouts. This j led to the arrest and suicide. '■ The Dublin "Freeman's Journal" states that among Pigotb's documents were found ' letters from Salisbury, Lord Sballbridge, \ the Duke of Argyle and the Earl of Derby, j

the latter rending money to holp Pigotfc " unmask the Parnellites." The English detectives sent to Madrid for the purpose, leadily identified the body of the suicide as that of Pigott, and the English Consul ordered it to be buried. Parnell pays he feels bound to care for the fout childron Pigott left.

THE PARNELL COMMISSION continued its investigations on March 7th. Ex-Fenian Coleman testified that Macauley told him the League paid him $200 to shoot Burke. Coleman also testified that he had acted as a Government spy in America and received .$l,OOO for such services. Soames, the "Times'" solicitor, testified that W.ilsh said he could produce documents to prove that Parnell and O'Kelly were connected with the importation of arms into Ireland. He did not know Walsh's whereabouts. (Laughter.) The sitting was adjourned till Tuesday, March 12th, owing to the absence of the •* Times' " witnesses.

THE GERMANS IN AFRICA. Advices from Zanzibar to March 6th report sovore fighting at Bagamayo on Sunday. The Arabs attacked the German landing: parties furiously, but were driven off by the combined fire of the men-of-war and the attack of the sailors and marines. The Aiabs fought desperately, never receding an inch until the dead and dying lay around in lai'ge number's. Theie was no attempt at flight until their chief, Bashisi, fell, mortally wounded. The Germans recaptured two cannon which the natives had taken in a former battle. No effort was made to take prisoners. The Germans remained strongly entrenched at Bagamoyo, tosmooth the way for Wiseman's expedition. In Berliu, on the sth, the Emperor gave a bi-eakfast to some membeis 'of this expedition, and announced to them the affair at Bagamoyo. There was great excitement at Zanzibar on M arch 7th, over the fact that th<j captain of an Arab dhow, after being granted a pass by one German rnan-o'-war, was fired upon by another and killed. Crowds surrounded the Sultan's palace, clamouring for revenge. They were referred to the German Consul.

THE FRENCH CABINET CRISIS. The Floqueb Ministry resigned on February 14th, in consequence of the defeat of the Go\evninenb by a vote of 307 to 218, on the question of the postponement of a debate concei ning the revision of the Constitution. Carnot was completely surprised. Boulanger was a passive spectator of the proceedings in the Chamber, Immediately alter the adjournment he issued a manifesto to the electois ot the Department of the Seine. He claimed credit fur the overthrow of a discredited Ministry.A new Ministry was organised under the leadership of M. Tiiard, which on the 2nd won a decisive victory on the vote upon M. Languei re's demands for the interpellation against the Minister of Justice for ohe suppression of the Ligrues dcs Patriotes. The Government was sustained by a vote of 348 to 220. Boulanger publicly denounced Minister Tirard lor striking down the League. Five thousand letters were seized in the office of this League on March 3rd. A cursory examination showed that a large number of them were from subalterns and field officers in the army, and indicate the adherence of the writers to Boulangism. The Government intend to criminally prosecute the chiefs ot the League for conspiracy against the State.

A FLURRY IN COPPER. A despatch from Paris, March 6bh, says that when the Government proposed to inquire into the doings of the copper monopoly syndicate there, the shares of the Societe" dcs Metaux and Comptoir d'Escotnpte fell heavily on the Bourse. There was a run on the bank for a, short time, but not a serious one. M. Deufert Rocheiau, director of the latter financial organisation, had a, quarrel with one Heutsch, a colleague, on the subject of engaging the Comptoir in the metal syndicate, and as a consequence, Rocherau, who had sunk his private fortune of six million francs in speculation, blew out his brains with a revolver. Copper declined -£4 per ton in London on March 6th, prominent operators fearing the collapse of the French syndicate. On the same date, the report from Boston was to the effect that at the then price of Chili bars, the average cost of 150,000 tons of surplus copper in the hand s of the syndicate showed a loss of $5,000,000.

KING MILAN'S ABDICATION. King Milan has been suffering for months from a nervous malady, and became worse since the death of Rudolph, Ciown Prince of Austria. He looks .veil outwardly, but is subject to paroxysms of violent excitement, followed by complets mental prostration and insomnia. He declared he could not continue to govern except with danger to his rea=on, and perhaps his life. The Servian policy will not be changed under the Resrenc)'.

STANLEY'S RETURN TO EMIN BEY. A private letter from Bonyala, on the Congo, received in New York, March 6th, says that Henry M. Stanley, the explorer, had started on his journey to rejoin Emm Pasha, and would not return by way ot the Congo. On September 14th, when Stanley's courier, bound for Europe, arrived at Telli with a letter, he was taken sick, so his intelligence will be delayed. Tipoo Tib did not join Stanley as the latter requested in his letter already published, written at Ugaraba, August 17th, but sent Said Ben JMahded in the wake of Stanley to spy out the country and to make raids for slaves in the new territory opened up.