ABSTRACT
The news of the flight of Pigott, which burst through the Probate Court into the crowded Strand this morning, rapidly spread over the Metropolis. The one matter prominently before the public which might conceivably yield disclosures mortal to the Government was the Parnell Commission’s inquiry. The position was, in fact, especially encouraging for the Radicals, and it was they who were most conspicuously active during the remainder of the Session. The Radical Labouchere busied himself, therefore, with private attempts to get a complete confession from Pigott, while that worthy, well aware that Parnell’s lawyers held strong material against him, played alternately with the notions of selling The Times to Labouchere and Labouchere to The Times. The Government, therefore, was compelled to go into Recess under the sting of a third humiliation, almost more vexatious than those connected with the Parnell Commission and the Royal Grants.
