THE LEAGUE AND MOONLIGHTERS. London, May 7.

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THE LEAGUE AND MOONLIGHTERS. London, May 7.

Tjie cross-examination of Mr Parnoll was continued to day. The witness [' admitted having made advances on be. half of the League from his private funds, and the Couit directed the production of the cheques, pointing out th.it it was clearly the duty of Mr Parnell to search for and produce these documents for the satisfaction of the Bench. The witness declared that Patrick Ford garbled his American speeches when publishing them in the " Irish World," in order to convince the readers of that journal that his (Mr Parnell's) views were ultra-advanced. He had never stated this before;] Parnell also admitted that when speaking in ISBI he was aware that Davitt had reported the existence of dangerous secret societies in the West of Ireland, but ho bad never denounced secret societies. Leaguers might join the Clan-na-Gael without treachery to j the League, but they would bo traitors if they advocated the use of dynamite. Re-examined by Sir C. Russell, the witness stated that Ford advocated and collected funds for dynamite purposes in ISB3 and 188-1, but he veered round in 1884. He wns afraid the outrages were the work of the lower class of Fenians and Ribbonmeu.