The Poole Telegram. — 1882-06-16 (Poole, Dorset, England)

PATTERNS. TIN PRA CRNT. OFF FOR CASH. =mid,  The assassination of Mr. B nirke and his escort created a depressing, almost deepairinr, effect when it became known in the H .use of Commons on Thur 4.lay evening, an I the effron'.ecy with which, as usual, Mr. Parnell cud his party declared that the event was in no way connected with their agitation excited dingnet. More than one of the best-informed upon Irish questions Desert that this murder is the severest blow to personal seem ity which bast yet occurred. It has conclusively sown that the es imrany of an arms I soldi.r, which hue hitherto been deemed a complete protection, is really hardly any protection at all. ,Mr. Callan has thought better of bringing his threatened action again.t the Reform Club for expelling him. In fact, it would have been entirely useless, and Irish members have no money to throw away in xi-elves litigation. For a long time be wale by no meths a f svourite at the Club, a it when on the night when the news of the Phcenix Park assassinations was announced, he quarrelled with a member and called him a "cad' for giving expre.sion to very natural feelings of indignation on the subject, it was felt that ho hat reached "the end of his tetuer." It • is not no easy to say what will be the termination of the other and m ire aiiious dispute at the Reform. The defeated party have not yet put iuto execution their half threat of indiec:iinivate blsckballing. How they will take their revenge yet remains t b) seen. The empire of India is hatipy in enjoyiog the special attention of Mr. O'Donnell. This youthful legislat whose eye-glass and whose rasping sentences are so familiar in the front rank of Irish Obstruction, and who manages to combine the representation of Hibernian disaffection with journalistic work on the stuff of an English Conservative journal, and to harmonize a pronounced hatred of everything Saxon with the ambition of achiresaing Saxon juries and obtaining such loaves and fishes as are to be obtained at the English Bar. This many-sided member for Dungarvan distinguishes himself by the constant supply of gnat,thins be keeps on hand with respect to details of Indian administration. On Thursday night, for example, Mr. O'Donnell alarmed the House by enquiries nuggesting 11,000 persons in a single year hid been flogged in Indian genie, and that a large number of prisoners had been starved to death. And, as if this was not eufficiently shocking, he still further intimated that a huge amount of petroleum was on the point of being landed in Calcutta in so dangerous a condition that the whole province might aluaost ba expected to be in danger of being blown into the air. Mr. O'Donnell has a brother in a hign positi in in the Indian Civil Service, who doubtless enjoys the fun of finding quesions asked in Imperial Parliament which cense a flutter in the breasts of his superior officers. Hitherto there have not been many eggs found in Mr. O'Donnell'es mares' nests, and, although the Marquis of Hartington was not able categorically to deny all the terrible insinuations of Thursday evening, it may be confi tautly pre licted that nothing very horrible has occurred.