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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIX, Issue 17, 23 January 1891, Page 15

A few weeks ago we Irish World published from some of the Chilian papers the account of an attempt made by a special correspondent ot the London Times, one Mr. Thomson, to insult the Envoy Extraordinaiy and Minister Plenipotentiary ot the United States, Hon. Patrick Egan, in the personal apartments of the President ot the Republic, in the Palace of the aloneda at Santiago, and of the ready and able manner in which Mr. hgan turned the tables upon this woithy representative of the Forger. We have just learned from a special correspondent in Valparaiso the gratifying intelligence that the affur, when it became known, occasioned unbounded indignation amoDg the Chilian people, who ptseess to the lullest extent the old Spanish spirit of courtesy and hospitality, and who consequently could have no toleration for a London cad. So strong was the feeling, especially in Government circles, where Mr Egan is quite a favourite, that Mr. Thomson found it convenient to curtail his visit and clear out of Santiago immediately arid out of Chili within a few days although he had previously expieised his intention to remain tor several weeks.