Show A LOOK ABROAD the situation af affairs on other lands at this tima may be said to be on the calm and peaceful although there are ripples on alie surface here and there and the usual amount of war rumors and prophecies of evil in england the home eule campaign proceeds in a quiet way the chief interest for alie present being centred in tho suit between mr and the london tunes which began last week the main question to be settled by this legal contest is whether mr parnell is actually the author of certain letters published in the times showing that the home enle leader is in sympathy with the violent and criminal methods of the fenian brotherhood and othe organizations which laivo been carrying on a secret warfa rein behalf of ireland if aliis can ba proved it will of course be a serious blow to the cause of homp kule in england and elsewhere it wil subject mr parnell to the just reproach of being a friend of the dynamite con an aider and abettor of asa ins and agrarian criminals aal will wholly destroy liis influence with th english Li berds and with many others ho have espoused his cause from purr and hissa motives and who have co sympathy with the species of warfare corned on by means of capner and dynamite bombs mr english mr gladstone would most assuredly have no form of fellowship a man who was proved to bo in sympathy if not in alliance with a band of murderers but there appears to be no prospect whatever that tho charges against mr parnell will be sustained his ground of de fence will bo that the bitters to him are forgeries and thit he never lias committed himself openly or secretly to the support of violent and criminal methods of procedure in the effort to brina the government to terms on the question of home anlo one thing is quite certain that unless the times can prodico onoro direct and positive evidence of its charpes thania now to be in its possession the krisl must undoubtedly result in a triumph for mr and bis col mn m n WS a w |