CABLEGRAMS

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 272, 12 March 1889, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS

London, March 9. The Standard states that the copper bubble has burst. Earl Spencer, speaking at the Eigh y Club, said that Mr Parnell had borne with unexampled dignity and patience the slanders that had been heaped upon him. He charged the Government with complicity in the matter. .

Lori Roseberry endorsed those views, and said that Mr Parnell had been grandly received in England. The destiny of Ireland he thought was indissolubly entwined with that of England. He refrained from making any reference to the Parnell Commission. Of the numbers of persons arrested at Gweedore on the charge of being implicated in the murder of Inspector Martin, twentyone have been discharged.’ Fourteen prisoners, including the Rev. Father McFadden, are now being tried. Before the Parnell Commission the case for the Times is now drawing to a close. General Boulanger, in addressing a public meeting at Paris, said that any attemp: to create ill-feeling and to bring about a war between Italy and France would be nothing short of criminal.

HM.S. Sultan, an Ironclad carrying 19 guns, belonging to the Mediterranean fleet, has been wrecked at Malta. No lives were lost.

The ex-King Mihn’s son, who succeeds his fatheron the th one of Servia, will take the title of Alexander 1. His ttiother. Queen Natalie, will return at once to Belgrade. Politically the aff irs of the country are unchanged by the abdication of Milan. M. Rochereau, manager of the Comptoir d’Escompte de Paris, committed buicide through fear of a threatened collapse of the Copper Syndicate, of wh’ch he was the principal financier. On the announcement of his death a thousand depositors besieged the bank, aud two million sterling was withdrawn. Th« other banks having come to the asistance of the Comptoir, it was Enabled to meet all demands.

A Radical Cabinet has been formed in Servia.

The regent’s manifesto reaffirms the existing national relations.

Washington, March 9. Mr Biyard, Secretary of State, denies that any conflict has arisen between the Germans and Americans at Samoa.