The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1887-10-01 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

JOHN BRIGHT.  The Moonlighters—who are the worst enemies the Irish people ever had— appear to have transferred their operations to London, if we are to believe the statement of a man named Henry Walker, of respectable connection, who has for twenty years been employed by the St. Pancras parish as sewer man, and has taken an active part latterly in political matters as a member of the East St. Pancras Conservative Association. During the last two years Walker has delivered open-air addresses as an English Orangeman. He lived in an isolated cottage in the disused burial ground of S. George the Martyr, Brunswick-square. According to his statement, he went on Monday on an excursion to Elstree, and returned about midnight. Ten minutes afterwards he heard the report of a pistol outside the window, and before he had recovered from the alarm he heard a second shot and saw a flash through the blind. He had been sitting near the window when the first shot was fired, and immediately jumped up. After the second shot Walker, with his son, went upstairs and looked out, but could see nobody. In the morning he spoke to Mr. Ansell, a neighbour, who said he heard the shots. They examined the front of the house, and found bullet marks and a bullet embedded in a wall under the window sill. Mr. Walker informed the police at Hunter-street Station, and has since been under police protection. He noticed a cab standing under an archway near the house on returning home on Monday night, and the police believe that the perpetrators of the dastardly outrage made their escape in the vehicle.  It appear, that Emin Pasha, to whose relief the gallant Stanley has been sent by a number of sympathising Englishmen, does not want relieving, and that, therefore, save for his own bmoefit and reputation as an explorer, Stanley might as well have remained at home. In a series of letters just received from Emin, dated Wadelai, April 17th, 1887, he expresses his heartfelt appreciation of the sympathy which is exhibited towards him and his people in England, but adds :—" If the people in Great Britain think that as soon as Stanley or Thomson comes I shall return with them they greatly err. . . . Sooner or later a bright future must arise for these countries ; sooner or later these people will be drawn into the circle of the ever-advancing civilised world. For twelve long years have I striven and toiled, and sown the seeds for future harvest—laid the foundation stones for future buildings. Shall I now give up the work because a way may soon open the Coast? Never." Evidently Emin Pasha is possessed of the stern independence and devotion to duty which characterised the late General Gordon. But it must not be forgotten that Gordon frequently sent home assurances of safety and refused to consider himself "the rescued lamb." The dreadful massacre at Khartoum, however, proved that the astute general was mistaken. Egypt is a country where the unexpected generally happens, and it is quite possible that Emin Pasha will want to be rescued when rescue is out of the question.  According to " Sepharial," astrologer and seer, we are fallen upon evil times. His reading of the heavenly bodies inthcat.es forthcoming disputes in high places, fighting, quarrelling, oppression, bloodshed, and war. - A great international war is to befall Europe. England will fight within eight of her own shores, a friend we the mask of treachery, and every English soldier is called upon to bear his arms. Royalty must beware of the 'poisoned hand of secret enmity, and the aristocracy is to fall before a multitude of evils. The Church of England is to be utterly revolutionised with new forms of ecclesiastical government. A rising is to occur in India among the Budhists, and will be followed by a most oppressive famine. In Afghanistan war will rage like a pestilence, and in Ireland a pestilence will be worse than war. Ireland is to see not only pestilence but much fighting, greivous slaughter, murder, and rapine. As to poor England, there will be a struggle between the aristocracy and the people. The landlords will have a hard battle to fight, but will rule with a rod of iron. "At last, the bias of the times and necessity will compel the landlords to relinquish their position and to concede some interest in the land to those who have itiriched it by their industry." This latter prophecy will prove comforting t 9 the tillers of the soil, and Mr. Goschen Will probably be interested in the information that" beneficial and lasting reforms will be made in taxation."