The record-union., 1891-03-07
LONDON GOSSIP.
PARNELL ASSURED OF STRONG
SUPPORT IN AMERICA.
The Rumors That tBurdette-CouttsI Is to
Be Named in Divorce Suit
Denied.

| copyright, 1891, by N. Y. Associated Press.
LONDON, March 6.-Parnell's delegates
| to America will leave on Sunday. They
are greatly fastened by cable assurances
of warm and widespread support of their
America compatriots.
United ireland contrasts the departure
and prospects of O'Connor, Kelly, Red
mond and Harrison with the partial col
lapse of the McCarthyites' mission
preparations. The McCarthyites at first
arranged to send Abraham, Kenney and
Flynn to act with O'Connor. Abraham
refused, Kenney and flynn were sur
prised, and 7. P. O'Connorpacked up his
traps to come home. Now single en-
bassador, Mr.. Fox, goes to represent the
failing faction. The firmest English
friends Of the McCarthyites are beginning
to despair of their ability to make head
way against the vigor of the Parnellites.
Parnell has shown his usual skill in the
selection of his emissaries. All, except
ing Harrison, are trusted Nationalists,
and can appeal with confidence based
upon past personal history to Irish
Americans.
to bid for the labor vote. It was also
meant to entice Davitt, but only stirred
up Davitt's bile.
Writing to the Labor. World, Davitt
predicts that Parnell will not humbug
the workmen. He denounces him for
making a hypocritical profession of in
terest in labor whilst actively fomentino
racial feuds between the English and
Irish democracies, and accuses him of
being ready to wreck the home rule
movement to pave the way for compact
like that of 1888. ~
Philadelphia papers haveibeen received
here in which Mr.. Burdett-Coutts is
named as defendant in a divorce suit,
and frank illusions are made to the par
ties concerned. Even the most careless
gossipers would not have associated Bur-
dett-Coutts with scandal in England.
where his character and mode of life have
placed him above suspicion.
The mistakes made by the American
papers have been as great a shock to the
baroness as to her husband. The latter
tonight writes the Associated Press to
state that the report that there is prob
ability of his being implicated in a di-
vorce suit is absolutely untrue With
reference to the affair as linked with
another name, it is now known that no
publicity is probable.
Since the San Francisco fracas. when
Mr.. Mackay vindicated his wife's honor.
the other party, instead of prosecuting
Mackay on the spot, has done nothing in
the way of vindication, unless inspiring
suggestions emanated in some Of the
American and European papers that
Mackay assaulted him from behind.
Mackay's London solicitors, in prose-
cutting the Anglo French paper for libel,
believe that they have hit upon the origin
of the incitement to the Hbelous article,
and it will add additional interest to the
proceedings if proof is produced connect
ing the San Francisco incident with the
press attacks in Paris.
The work of taking the census of the
British Empire began Thursday in India
1t is expected to show 2S0, ,000, 900 inhabi-
tants in India, against 254, ,000, 900 in 1881.
The British Isles will be taken a month
hence, and it is estimated that the popu-
lation will show an increase of Is per
cent.
Lord Lytton has come from Paris to
have conference with Lord Salisbury on
possible issues arising from Empress
Frederick's visit to Paris. He does not
fear that the relations between France
and Germany have been seriously
strained. He tacitly blames the Empress
for her imprudence.