The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-07-10
Small Pension to Dickens
Daughter -in-LaW.
Preparations For a Big Par
nell Demonstration.
A ScOrchlng Criticism of Professor
Thonps0n's Sealing Report.

London, July l0.-The widow Of Charles
Dickens, the younger, has been granted =
small civil list pension peing In very
straitened circumstances A note
worthy coincidence is that the same list
includes Anthony Irollope's widow.
Preparations are already Oh foot In
Dublin for tho Parnell anniversary
demonstration in October and it is be-
lieyed IL will bo larger than eyon last year.
On the day following the procession, a
convention of Parnellitcs from all parts OF
Ireland will DO held TO consider the best
way of spreading tho organization inde-
pendent OF the league, which is already in
ilourishing condition. Mr.. John Rod
mond, the Parnellite leader expresses
himself as being confident of the future.
He points TO the dissonsion between John
Dillon and Mr.. Timothy Healy as proof
that the anti Parnellite party is breaking
up. The election of MIR John Hayoen for
Rosscommon will be most significant of
success OF the Parnellite movement for the
last few years. Mr.. Hayden has been for
years in direct conflict with tho bishop of
Meath, who has published repeated pas
turals denouncing him, from tho altar.
The bishop also forbade his flock under
the pain OF mortal sin to read the West
Meath Examiner, MIR. Hayden's paper. But
In spite of oil tins, the paper ilourishcd
and now Mr.. Hayden himself Is about 20
be returned without opposition 0s MEM
ber Of Parliament, the clerical party not
venturing TO run candidate against him.
Thompson Criticised.
Mr.. J. ii. Leibes the expert on sealing
of the American Commercial Company
has sent To the Hon. j. W. Foster the
United States seal commissioners. n severe
criticism OF the report recently made TO
the British government by Prof. D'Arcy
Thompson. In his communication Mr..
Leibes says PROF. Thompson is doing
everything in his power to assist in the
destruction Of the few seals still remain
ing on the Alaska seal islands. Had he
been the paid attorney for the Canadian
sealers he could do DO more than he did
In shading all the material facts. He
acts as the mouthpiece OF the Canadian
sealers and could not do more than he did
, to represent them in the sealing busi-
ness. HIS entire report Is written In
favor of the few firms which are now so
largely engaged in the pelagic sealing
business. He quotes from american re-
ports whenever 10 suits his purpose and
calls them correct but contradcts alI
former American statements when Dot
favorable To his views sr
Referring to Prof. Thonpson's state
mont that the 80. 600 nals seals taken last
year could have boon taken as easily as
100, 900 could have beon taken 20 years
ago, he points out that tho entire male
catch en- both Seal islands for the last
seven years amounted To only ITO. 432
while tho total number of senls taken
was 90 COO Mr. Leibes asserts that he can
give satisfactory proof that 80 per cent of
the seals taken are females notwithstand-
| lag the Slxnrn statements made Dy the Can
adam sealers that they capt ire mostly
males, ms tho skins are sold in the London
markets and can DO examined.
Suppressed the Figures.
He declares that Prot. Thompson Sc
cured from the firm OF &. nj. Sampson
,& Company figures which were so
strongly in support of the American con :.
tention that he suppressed them. Most OF
the natives end old residents on the
islands testified to Prof. Thompson that
the dead pups found in such large num-
bers died because their mothers had been
killed by tho traders but this subject, he
AYERS, the report touched on very lightly.
although admitting that half OF them
died from that cause. The statement that
many pups ara killed by bulls drowned
in tie surf or snothered in tho sand he
contradicts. declaring that bulls never Kill
pups and no endorses tho contention OF
Prot. Jordan, who made the investigation
for tho American government that only
: per cont OF the pups perish from other
cause thar the loss of their mothcrs. Mr..
Leibes concludes his letter with an
Impeachment of tho accuracy of the re-
turns from 1896 of A. X. Milne Cana
dian collector of customs at Victoria.
These show that tho year catch amounted
To 90, 600 skins orediting the Bering sea
with 20, 0U0 of which 1910 wero males
and Is 600 females. The collector was
imposed upon by masters of vessels he
believes. with false returns. Had he ex-
nmined the skins as Is now done in the
United States and according To the Pari-
sian treaty, he would have found the re-
turns TO be false, as could be proven by
London dealers.