GENERAL SUMMARY.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3805, 9 March 1881, Page 2

GENERAL SUMMARY.

San Fbancisco, Feb. 15

Parnoll Flies to the United States.

A story is current in London that the Government interrupted the Land League correspondence, and opened many of its letters. It is understood Mr Parnell will sail direct from Paris for the United States, as a document found on Davitt just before he was arrested in Dublin criminates him and mauy important persons in the present agitation.

There is strong talk about Mr Parnell's continued absence in Paris.

The Irish party iv Parliament are now utterly disorgauis'ed.

Kelly and iJarry have not been in the House for a week. Their whereabouts are unknown.

There is a disposition among the leading Leaguers to leave for America, but the Irish Press implores them not to deseri their cause. The Coercion Bill. A great anti-coercion meeting was held in Hyde Park. Afterwards the procession halted in front of the Guards' Carlton Reform Club, hooting and reviling members. Precautions were taken by the Government, but no display of force was made. The Basuto War. General Colley's first defeat by the Boers was a crushing one. The Boers j might have annihilated him bad they pushed their advantage. General Colley left all his wounded. • The Mersey Steel and Irou Company

in Liverpool have gone into liquidation, liabilities £358,000. The Fenians at "Work. Lieut. Percy Roper, R.E., was found murdered at Brompton barracks on Feb. 11. It is belived he was killed by Fenians.

At a Convention at Rome, Garibaldi, President, adopted a resolution demanding universal suffrage in Italy.

A mass meeting of Socialists was held in New York to arrausje an efficient political organisation. • The attendance was principally of Germans. Captain Ead's Nicaragua Ship Eailway Bill was laid on the table of Congress.

The Russian Government have consented to the occupatiou of the Astronomical Station at Valadiovstock by the United ! States Naval officers to measurement by telegraph of the longitude in Japan and China. Famine in the UralDistress is so great among the Ural tribes of liussia, that parents are selling male offspring for grain, aad are leaving the females to perish. The Land League decided to invest in the United States the £700,030 now in Europe. Three steamers have been chartered to convey troops to Port Natal. The garrison in the late sortie from Putscheftroom killed 30 Boers.

Ex-President Jefferson Davis is about publishing a " History of the Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government." Tremendous quantities of snow have fallen in the Western States, and travel by railroad or otherwise is virtually suspended. A full meeting of the Land League Executive Committee was held on the 14th, Mr Paraell presiding, at which it was resolved to carry on league in all eventualities. The steamship mail subsidy has been defeated in the U. S. Senate. Very Latest. London February 15. It is rumoured in Cork that the Fenians in America and the United Kingdom are aiding the Boers with men and money. It is also said that 500 American adventurers have gone to the seat of war. Large bodies of Boers are reported to be moving south of .Newcastle, apparently to attack. A reinforcement of 100 seamen is ordered from Sheerness to form a .Naval Brigade.

The Times says :—At a meeting of the executive oflicers of the Land League at Paris on Sunday, Mr Parnell stated that the funding of £70,C!J0 of the League's money had finally been arranged. A manifesto will be issued explaining everything that has been done with the funds by members of the League, and this would be published soon after his return to Ireland. Mr Parnell said it was also intended immediately after the passage of the Coercion Bill that the Irish members of Parliament should hold a conference in Dublin. They would thus place themselves at the head of the people, and meet the blow Government is aiming at the organisation.