PARNELL V. THE TIMES.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1851, 9 February 1889, Page 1

PARNELL V. THE TIMES.

London, February 5. The action brought in the Scotch Courts by Mr Parnell against Mr Walter, proprietor of the Times, has been dismissed bn a technical point in favor of the latter. Major Lo Caron, military organiser of the Fenian Association, has given evidence before the Parnell Commission. He deposed that Egan bad told him Mr Parnell was a revolutionist to the backbone, bat had declined to join the -society known as the Irish Republican Brotherhood, because it was thought that bit* connection with the latter, if it became public, Would destroy hi« u«elulnt*es. Mr Parnell told witness ih'»t no’liing bat force of arms would ever fring about, the redemption of Ireland, and 'ln* did not see why an insurrection should not succeed if only they could procure sufficient supplies of money and arms. They had a discussion as to the number of men and the amount of money that would be requisite. He stated that the following were active revolutionists Matthew Harris, M.P, for Galway; O, Thomas Sexton, M.P, for Belfast; W, T. Brennan (who was secretary of the Land League), M. J. Boytob, and Patrick J. Sheridan (who were among the organisers of the Land League), and John Walsh, organiser of the Invihoibles conspiracy in Ireland. The witness stated farther thit Patrick Egan, Treasurer of the Land Leagne, had refused to complete the audit of the League funds, and admitted paying the expenses of Dutch officers to enable them to proceed to Bechuanaland to assist the Boers, who were invading what is now British Bechuanaland. Major Le Oaron also swore that Mr Parnell had advocated the amalgamation of the Land League and Olan-na-Gael organisation. February 6, Mr Parnell has appealed against the decision in the action brought by him against the Times in the Edinburgh Court of Session. In the course of evidence to-day before the Tiraes-Parnell Commission Major Le Caron disclosed the plans of the United Baotherbood dynamite campaign of 1882, and stated that 9000 dollars of the skirmishing fund had been spent in arming vessels and in other offensive operations. Major Le Caron, under examination before the Parnell Commission, said that the Fenians in America plotted another invasion of Canada in 1870 after their attempts in 1886 bad been ignominiously defeated. He asserted that members of the Olau-na-Gael had been employed by Mr J. J. O’Kelly, member for Roscommon North, to ship arras to Ireland, and that they bad received Mr Parnell and Mr Dillon in America in 1881. He

produced secret papers, passwords, and cyphers of the society, In cross-ex-amination he confessed that he bad been secretly supplying information about the conspirators to the English Government for years.