Omaha daily bee., 1883-08-15

mite prisoners at Liverpool will have the
effect of ending all nitro-glycerine enter
prises for some time to come. The Dub
lin organ of the Irish party heartily APP
proves the sentences, and says that nc
punishment is too severe for such cow
ardly criminals.
Mr.. James McDcrmott, of Brooklyn,
is now comfortably lodged in Jail in
Liverpool, and speculation is rife as to
his case. The statement that he came
over to be q queens witness in the dyna-
mite case is disproved by the result, and
could hardly have been seriously enter
tanned by people acquainted with Me-
Dermott's character for shrewdness and
intelligence.
Some persons, claiming to be we'll in
formed, aver that the government has
evidence that he was implicated during
one of his visits to Dublin, with the Pho.
nix Park conspirators, and notably with
Number One" with whom for a short
time the police confounded him. 1t is
possible that Mr.. McDermott proposes,
by exposing himself to arrest and to a
cruel vindictivo and futile prosecution by
he British government, to purge himself
of the aspersions that have been of late
cast ON him by Mr.. Davitt and others.
The authorities here are greatly desir-
N that Carey's murderer shall tie tried
ut Cape Town. The murder took place
twelve miles out at sea, and consequently
outside of colonial jurisdiction, but it is
thought that the venire can be legally
changed to the Cape, where it is believed
n conviction for murder i'll the first de-
gree can be secured.
In London ODonnell would be con
sidered by a vast number of people rs n
hero or a political criminal, and his trial
would provoke excitement and popular
feeling, whereas at the Cape there exists
no such sentiment, and he is regarded as
a common assassin only.
The Australian authorities having re-
fused to allow Kavanagh and the other
informers to land at Sydney, because
they would have Immediately had to
undertake to guard them against assas-
sination, the home office has telegraphcd
to transfer them to the man-of-war Mel
son, where they remain. 1t is said to be
under consideration to put them ashore
on one of the Samoan or Friendly islands,
where they cannot die of starvatian, and
where there are no lrishmen to slay
them.
The interest in the Deuteronomy man
uscripts grows rapidly, but the worldly
minded are intensely skeptical as to their
genuineness. The deciphering advances
steadily, and grows more interesting,
while it is watched with the closest atten-
ton by scholars in every part of Europe.
1t is noteworthy that the geographical
Inconsistencies in the received version do
not exist in these manuscripts. If the
slips be forgeries, only IA scholar of the
greatest eminence can have produced
them.
The unblushing insolvency of the Duke
of Teck, and the condition of the royal
mendicants generally, continue to be
freely discussed. The Duke of Ed
inburgh went to Moscow to see
his brother-in-law's coronation, and on
two thousand pounds to pay the expenses
of that trip. Mr.. Labouchere made u
spirited attack on the measure, calling
attention to the fact that four thousand
pounds had already been paid for the
English ambassadors expenses OF the
same occasion, and saying that his royal
highness, ought to defray his own ex-
penses when he wanted to visit his rela-
tions. The grant, however, wa voted
by a large majority, though it would
have been the other way if members had
voted according to the convictions which
they express outside the house.
There is a rapidly growing resentment
regarding these highway assaults on the
public purse by members of the royal
family, particularly when it concerns his
royal highness, the Duke of Edinburgh,
whose parsimony and domestic meanness
have become notorious. No one believes
his excursion to Moscow cost him the
60, 900 which he has just received.
Sir William Armstrong has been con
sidering the problem of the increase in
population in England, and has made
public his opinion that its rapid growth
is adverse to moral development and pro-
notes poverty, and that further mere
ment must be controlled by legislation.
His idea is that the state shall limit the
number of II mans children.