The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-11-15

vention of delegates of the various
branches of Irish National federatiOns
will be held in Dublin early in No
vembeI, and that this movement has
the approval of Irish leaders in Amer
lea. This convention will be preceded
on the same day by meeting of Nc
Carthyite members of Parliament, at
which it is expected Mr.. Healy will
propose vote of no confidence in Mr..
Mccarthy. 1t is expected by Mr.. Nc
Carthy's friends that DR.. Emmet's
tion, and that such q motion or any
other leading to further division will
be defeated by q decisive majority.
The object of the committee in calling
the meeting is to obtain an emphatic
declaration from both against dissen-
sion, and an affirmation of the prin-
ciples of party discipline, which have
been repeatedly broken lately, and
which are vital to the continued utll-
ity of the party. The proceedings,
therefore, Will be of the greatest inn
portance to the Irish cause, as, in ad-
dition to this crucial question, the
party will make corporate pronounce
ment on Prime Minister Rosebery's
speech of tonight and set forth the
lines of its Parliamentary policy dur
ing the approaching session of Par
lament.
Assuming that Lord Rosebery's de-
clarations are satisfactory to the party,
it is practically certain that the gen.
eral election will not take place until
next autumn. The interests of Ireland
are profoundly concerned in getting an
| amended land bill passed, and insur-
| ing that friendly Government shall
be in power in July, when judicial
officers charged with administration
of the new land bill will be appointed
for the next term of fifteen years.
Gladstone's land reforms have been
| rendered nugatory in all important
respects by the fact that the landlords
hitherto have had virtually all the
judicial appointments at their dis
posal.
Rev. Horace Wiler, a clergyman
who for many years has been trac-
ing the English ancestry of George
Washington, writes triumphantly to
the Times that he has fully estab-
lished the fact that the first Virginia
Washington was q son of Lawrence
| Washington, rec4 Dr of Purleigh, in
Northamptonshire, in 1899. He ad-
duces many seemingly conclusive
proofs from recently-discOvered docu-
ments.
All London has been laughing this
| week over the published correspond
ence between w. S. Gilbert and an
American lady, the Countess de Bre-
mont, who is employed on one of the
| literary weeklies. She wrote asking
for an interview. Gilbert replied that
his charges therefor would be twenty
guineas. The lady responded that while
she could not go to the expense, she
cheerfully looked forward to writing
his obituary for nothing. ThereupOn
the irascible humorist sent the CORES
pondence to the Times with very
petulant letter, and the lady threatens
suit for libel.
The Countess was, believe, Gin
cinnati girl, who sang for some years
in one of the Brooklyn choirs.
New York detectives may soon have
work to do in tracing Frenchrnan
who sailed from Havre about the mid
die of September by either the Cham
pagne or the Persia. In September the
dead body of a Spanish priest, Father
Segni, was found in a lodging house
here. 1t was supposed to be a case OF
suicide at the time, but the Argentine
Legation discovered that the priest
belonged to very influential family
in Buenos Ayres, and that he had a
letter of credit on his arrival in Lon
don for e40O. On September 7th the
letter was presented to the agents OF a
bank at Havre and the whole amount
was paid. 1t is now known that the
priest had been dead several days on
that date, and the person presenting
the letter is suspected Of the murder.
A Frenchman named Eugene was a
companion of Father Segni both on
ship and at the lodging house. He
disappeared just before the announce.
ment of the priests death. The Brit
ish consul at Havre is, by direction of
the home Office, inquiring whether the
person who presented the letter an
swers the description of Eugene.
The circumstance of Father Segni's
death, however, strongly points to
suicide.
The story of the Duchess of Marlbor-
ough's engagement to Lord William
Beresford is denied by her friends.
Lord William is on his way to his post
in India.
The Speaker, a leading Liberia week
Iy, whose editor is warm personal
friend of Mr.. Gladstone, says the
Grand Old Mans retirement is final
and absolute. This / understand to be
the result of recent strenuous efforts to
induce him to intervene IN the present
serious divisions in the party. The
gratifying announcement is made this
week, however, that he Is again able
to use his eyes freely in both reading
and writing, even the eye operated on
for cataract having regained much OF
its former power. BALLARD SMITH.
CorEdoDf