CABLEGRAMS.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 328, 23 July 1889, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

Loxdon, July 81. Mr Northcote, the Homo Secretary, re. fuses to allow a reward to be offered for the apprehension of the Whitechapel mi»r. deters. •/, The freedom of Edinburgh has been, conferred on Mr Parnell. r - The Irish League intends to demand the appointment of a Committee of the Honse to inquire into the connection between the Irish Patriotic Union and the articles on Parnollism and Crime which appeared in the Times. The Admiralty has accepted tenders tot seventeen vessels to strengthen the navy in accordance with the Navy Defence Bill passed this session. The man who conferred to having committed the Whitechapel murders has proved to be a lunatic. Mr Parnell, responding to an enthusiastic reception in Edinburgh, said Ireland would thankfully accept Mr Gladstone's scheme ofsettlement as an end to the strife o centuries. In the libel action brought by O'Brien against the Marquis of Salisbury, based on alleged allegations in the letter's speech at Watford, a verdict was returned for the defendant. Mr Parnell, in a letter to the Dublin Freeman, states that he would never haveentered the Court had he not understood that the Commission would inquire into the Pigott conspiracy.