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SIR MORELL MACKENZIE AND HIS LIBELLERS. Before Justice Denman in the Queen's Bench Division on Saturday, the action was brought forward in which Sir Morell Mackenzie sued Mr. Steinkopff for alleged libel. Mr. Finlay, Q.C., for the defendant, explained that Sir Morell Mackenzie having been called in to attend upon and treat the late Emperor Frederick of Germany, in May, 1888, the defendant, who was about to purchase the St. James's Gazette, wrote to Mr. Greenwood, the then editor, stating that when the Emperor died a storm would break out agninst Mackenzie, not because of the final collapse, but because of the many mistakes he was said to nave made." Again, that "Mackenzie would have to run the moment the Emperor died." w'1'1 conspiracy in concealing the fncttnatms Majesty was suffering from cancer "in order to prevent his Majesty being barred from succession. The defendant paid 40s. into court. and pleaded that that was sufficient; also that he had published an apology. The letters were abso- lutely private and confidential, but as a matter of fact, although not read in court, they were inadvertently published in a newspaper during the trial of an action brought by Mr. Greenwood against Mr. Steinknpff, The plaintiff had now administered interrogatories asking how and through whom in Berlin the defendant obtained the statements which he embodied in his letters, but he (Mr. Finhy) argued that the inlerrogatories were oppressive and un- necessary. Mr. Asquith supported the interrogatories. Their lordship, however, disallowed the intcrro-1 gatories on the ground that they were oppressive and irrelevant.

A BREWER'S DIVORCE. Petitioner Awarded zel,250 Damages. In the Divorce Division on Monday a petition for divorce., tiled by Mr. Herbert Gorringe, a manager in a brewery at E istbourne, was heard. Petitioner alleged adultery on the part of his wife Barton Norris Olney, now in the Dragoon Guarus, the son of a brewery proprietor at Ha.ilsham, Sussex. Petitioner and his wife were married in 1863 and they had at first lived at a house in the brewery kept by the co-respondent's father. The co-respondent had apartments with them, and tho wife attended upon them. Eventually she left her husband, and evidence was given that she litid since lived with tha co-respondent near Brighton.—A special jury found that adultery had been committed, and assessed damages against tiie co-respoudent at £ 1,250.

THE SHOOTING CASE AT LONDON GASWORKS. At Southwark Police-court on Friday Charles Biggins, a negro, was brought up on remand charged with attempting to murder a lighterman named Campbell, at Bankside, Southwark, last week. For the defence prisoner stated that he was attacked for going to work at the gasworks, and he merely drew his revolver to scare his assailants, when it went off accidentally.—He was committed for trial. +-

PRIZE FIGHT AT MIRFIELD. A prize fight took place at Miifield, between H udders field and Dewsbury, on Monday morning between George Brann,iii and Pat Higsins, in the presence of about 300 spectators. T welve rounds were fought, Brannan being the winner. Whilst the fight was proceeding a number of police arrived, but the crowd prevented them from enter- ing the ring. At the close of the fight the names of the btlligeivn's were taken.

The Body of a Missing Governess Found. About two months ago a German governess named Sophie Kober, in a professor's family at Newcastle, went out to post a letter, and never returned. The utmost search was made, but without avail until Thursday afternoon, when her body was found in the Tyne near Elswick.

A Threatened Strike Settled. The threatened strike at Messrs. Greenwood and Batley's engineering w.:rks, involving 2,000 men, lifts been settled by the firm withdrawing the un- skilled workmen.

A London 'Bus Overturned, An omnibus overturned in YVhitfchape!-road, London, on Friday owinc; to a wheel coming of*. The vehicle w.rs crowded. Twelve persons were injured, though none seriously.

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Letters from Ireland. — PROTESTANTS AND PARNELLITES. TFROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.] One of the principal objects that I had in view in visiting Ireland was to ascertain for myself, by actual personal investigation and intercourse, the opinions of Protestants out- side Ulster upon the Separatist movement headed by Mr. Gladstone and Mr. Parnell. Mark, I say the Protestants outside Ulster. To have made any inquiry into the views of the Ulster Protestants would have been super- fluous, for all the world knows what they are, and that they are implacably and irrevocably opposed to Home Rule-or Parnellite ascen- dancy. Moreover, I have always held that the Ulster Protestants, however much they may challenge our admiration, are certainly not in need of our pity. Whatever may befall, they may be trusted to give a good account of themselves. They will never be vanquished, for they are numerous, wealthy, and brave, and they are so situated as to be able to concentrate their forces rapidly and to command their re- sources without delay. If Mr. Parnell and his henchmen were to be enthroned to- morrow, the Ulster men would simply take to their arms and wage war to the death for supremacy, and they would undoubtedly win. With the Protestants of the South and West the case is very different indeed. They are but few-not more than 250,000 at the outside. Indeed, it is probable that their numbers are now reduced much below that figure owing to the constant decimation of their ranks by emigration. They are scattered over three provinces, not more than a few hundreds of them being found in the most populous towns, while frequently only two or three families of them can be found within a radius of several miles, so that they are not able to depend upon each other for mutual support in time of need or danger. Wealthy and educated they undoubtedly are, for although they constitute only one-tenth of the population, they possess more than half the property, and it is from their ranks that the learned professions are chiefly recruited. They are the largest employers of labour they are at the head of the most extensive businesses; they are the principal and almost the only-supporters of charitable and educational institutions—in short, they con- stitute the most valuable elements of Irish society, whether considered materially, men- tally, or morally, and their disappearance would be the most terrible calamity that could happen to the Irish people themselves. Now, these people, while they are quite as much entitled to our admiration as the Protestants of Ulster, are also deserving of our sympathy as well, simply because they are a weak and struggling band in an enemy's country. They have made a noble fight, standing up bravely against persecution, contumely, losses in business, social ostracism, &c., and, having done all and borne all, they still stand. Bat why? JJecause they have had behind them the Imperial power of Great Britain. Under Home Ilule that mighty safeguard would be withdrawn from them, and they would be left defenceless and exposed to the greed and the malignity of their hereditary foes. With the Parnellites installed in office in Dublin, the Protestants of the South and West would have two alternatives open to them—and only two; they could either leave the country altogether, severing the ties which bind them to the homes of their forefathers (for the majority of these families have been there for a century or two), and sacrificing their pro- perty, or they could remain to be harassed and bled to death. The majority of them would prefer the former alternative. The passing of a Home Rule Bill will be the signal for a new exodus, and this body of faithful Protestants would make their escape from a worse than Egyptian bondage. And whither would they go ? Anywhere, so that they could get out of sight of the British flag, which would then be to them the emblem of treachery and disgrace. At present they are proud of their relation- ship to the great British Empire they realise that they have a share in its glories, its achievements, and its traditions. But if the British Empire casts them off, not for their faults, but for their feebleness—if for their very loyalty they are to be abandoned, then their pride will be turned to shame, and resentment will take the place of content- ment. They will curse the country which threw them as a prey to rarening wolves merely in order to win votes. Are they to be forsaken ? This is a grave question for the Protestant people of Great Britain, and especially for the Nonconformists among them. These Non- conformists supply Mr. Gladstone with the backbone of his party, and the majority of them are prepared to use their power in order to hand their brethren in Ireland over to oppression and robbery. British Noncon- formists are the first to cry aloud against what they call clerical domination in this country, and yet they are ready to hand over Irish Nonconformists to an ecclesiastical tyranny compared with which the most odious clericalism in England is perfect free- dom. If they succeed they will supply one of the most colossal examples of selfishness, of perfidy, and of blind stupidity to be found on the pages of history. I, for one, shall refuse to believe that England, the country which spent £ 20,000,000 in freeing the slaves, which spent another k.20,000,000 in. rescuing two or three missionaries from the clutches of King Theodore, of Abyssitva, which sent an expedition to deliver the heroic Gordon in Khartoum—that England, the mother of free nations and the asylum of the oppressed, will cast off her own loyal children and hand them over to lawless and bloodthirsty men. This is too discre(fitable to be -believed until it becomes an accomplished fact. It is easy to say glibly that no harm will come to these Irish Protestants under Home Rule. Who are the best judges as to this? The people who live among the Parnellites in Ireland or the people who do not ? Beyond all doubt, the former alone can speak with authority on the point, and their testimony is unanimously to the effect that their position under Home Rule would be so intolerable that they would have to leave the country. During the past month I have conversed with Protestants of all shades in the South and West of Ireland Episcopalians, Wesleyans, Quakers, Presbyterians, Haptists, and Congregationalists—and they all say the same thing. One of the things that most impressed me in Ireland was the calm, deli- berate statement of a venerable and saintly lady, who possesses wealth and resides in one of the most beautiful houses I have seen in the country, that if Home Rule were passed she would at once leave Ireland. Her chil- dren would do the same. What would be the result ? That the many people they now employ and befriend would be left to starve, and that the religious and benevolent insti- tutions which they (with other Protestants) generously support would soon have to close their doors. What would you do if Home Rule passed 1 asked a member of a firm which employs hundreds of men, if We should clear out,, was the emphatic reply. These are facts, and they are not to be explained away by the jaunty utterances oi Iioma Rulers. I The mere introduction of Mr, Gladstone's Home Rule Bill knooked down the value of Irish securities by L30,000,000 in one week. If the optimistic views of British Nonconfor- mists as to the effect of Home Rule are correot, it is a singular fact that all the Pro- testants of Ireland should be so blind to their own interests. I met two Protestant Home Rulers in Ire- land, and only two, and one of these was the secretary of the Protestant Home Rule Asso- ciation. These people, notwithstanding their pretensions and their bounce, are a mere handful. They are very anxious to impress the British public with the idea that they are numerous and influential. As a matter of fact, they are contemptible as to numbers and impotent as to power. They consist of three classes:-I. Doctrinaires, who deal in abstractions and are out of touch with the work-a-day world, men who are utterly ignorant and helpless as regards prac- tical affairs. 2. Men who have axes to grind, and who are making friends with the Home Rule Mammon, so that it may hereafter receive them into offices, 3. Men who are disinterested, but at the same time stupid and perverse. The men of character among them are cranks those who are not cranks are not men of character. Among the Protestants of Ireland their influence is nil; they count for just nothing. For the most part they are merely nominal (Christians, as is evident from the fact that they support the Plan of Campaign and other Land League methods, which no true Christian could do; and the quality of their Protestantism may be judged from their joining hand in hand with Papists to establish Romish ascendancy. Mr. Oldham, the secretary of the Protestant Home Rule Committee, tried to make a con- vert of me, and I presume he put the case of the Protestant Home Rulers as forcibly as it could be put. Here it is in brief:-Undtr local government, such as now exists in Great Britain, Protestantism in the South and West of Ireland, where its adherents are in the proportion of four to fifteen of the population, would be simply annihilated (a very good reason, by the bye, for not giving such an extension of local government), and would be able to exist only in three counties even of Ulster—Down, Antrim, and Tyrone; whereas under Home Rule, with a separate Legislature and an independent Executive, the Protestants would be able to gain one-third of the representation. Moreover, the Catholics would then split into two parties, the Catholic Liberals and the Catholic Ultramontanes, who would be irreconcilably opposed to each other, and thus the Protes- tants would form a third party, holding the balance of power. No doubt shallow-minded people would j think this plea a very plausible one. But let it be observed that it rests entirely upon two ass uiiipt ions :-First, that Ulster would accept Home Rule, and send representatives to a Par- iament in Dublin to make up one-third of the epresentation, which Ulster never would do; and, secondly, that the Catholics would divide into two parties, so irreconcilably opposed to each other that they would allow Protestants to profit by their divisions, which is even a more wildly improbable supposition than the other. It is part of the game of the Protes- tant Home Rulers to deride the loyalty of Ulster. Mr. Oldham asserted that the Ulster Loyalists cared not one jot for their connection with Great Britain, except for what they could gain out of it; that they will be loyal just as long as it pays and no longer; and in proof of this he pointed to the attitude which some of the Northern farmers are assuming on the subject of com- pulsory land purchase. Now, even supposing this cynical view of Ulster loyalty to be true, it must be admitted that self-interest is a very powerful motive, and that the Ulster men would have a mighty incentive to fight, even if nothing more than their property were at stake. But this view of Ulster loyalty is not true; it is a gross and despicable libel upon a noble body of men and women. The Ulster people rightly value their property much, but they value their position as children and heirs of the Empire even more, and they value their Protestant religion most of all. Should they ever be put to the test, which God forbid! they will show to the world that they can throw their property to the winds in order to preserve that without which no property would be worth the keeping-their freedom, their manhood, their inheritance in the glorious Empire of Great Britain, which they have helped to build up. I put to Mr. Oldham this question If it is so clear that Home Rule will benefit Pro- testantism, how is it that the Protestants of Ireland, not only in the North, but even more in the South and West, are intensely and unalterably opposed to Home Rule ? How is it that, although they formerly followed Mr. Gladstone almost to a man, they are now almost to a man against him ? I could get no reply. Let the Protestant electors of Great Britain, especially the Nonconformists among them, pause and reflect before they incur the fearful responsibility of driving their co-religionists out of Ireland, and thus deprive that priest-ridden country of the example of the good works of men and women who now shine as lights amid the crooked and perverse generation which inverts every principle of truth and righteousness.

EXPECTING "JACK THE RIPPER." POLICE ACTIVITY IN THE METROPOLIS. The Veto York Iferald (London edition) says :— Jack the Ripper" is expected by the police to visit London again shortly, perhaps to commit another murder, and possibly before the expiration of the week. Even now he is believed to be on the Atlantic on his way to London in a cattle-boat from the United States. Special detectives, including some from Scotland Yard, are now at Glasgow, Queenstow".), Belfast, Liverpool, and Southampton, and, in fact, at every port at which vessels call that come from America. Strict, care- ful, and patient investigation, both in this country and in America, has placed the police in possession of sufficient information to make them anxiously await the arrival of a man whom they profess to have grounds for thinking is intimately con- nected with the Wliitechapel murders. Who wrote the "Jick the Ripper" letters to the police- Dr. Forbes Winslow and others? Had the writer anything to do with the murders? How many persons were responsible for the letters that were regarded as "authentic" "Jack the Ripper" letters ? Although the actual perpetrator of the Whitecliapel tragedies has not yet been caught, the police are not without hope that evidence Kfill shortly come into their possession to warrant the arrest of a man at one time residing in the East-end upon tho charge of being an accessory before the fact. But little has been heard of these tragedies: Gr some months the horror occasioned by them has died down long ago the usual crowd of theory-mongers who are sure they could secure Jack if their own utterly impracticable theories could be carried out, have ceased their well- meant endeavours that hindered the police the public no longer think about the murders or care about them, and except that the police precautions have in no way been relaxed in the East-end, matters are in pretty much the same condition I that they were before the first of this series of crimes took place.

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