The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-10-16 00:00:00

FUNERAL OF THE FENIAN MARTIN.

One of the largest public demonstrations of ta.
Fenian Brotherhood in the metropolis occurred on Sink.
day in connexion with the public funeral of Edward
Martin, on whole, body, supposed to be that of the
Fenian Colonel Kelly, an inquest was last week held
at King's College IlospitaL It was then proved to
the satisfaction of the coroner and jury that the
deceased SWIM a man named Martin, but enough came
out in evidence to show that Martin was connected
with the Fenian movement, and, judging from what
occurred on Sunday, he must have held • high position
in the Brotherhood.
On the conclusion of the inquest the body was re-
moved to the premises of an undertaker in the vicinity
of the hospital, and at a subsequent meeting of his
friends and emaciates it was resolved that, as a mark
of respect to his memory, and in acknowledgment of
his services to the Fenian movement, he should receive
a public
The Emigration question continues to occupy thecarry o?tftTeeraarlr'snanedineantaeoluTtitwter:s wthasenarnlctglanw.
attention of the working class, and especially of that flounced that the funeral was to be solemnized at twelve
unfortunate section of those which is unemployed. o'clock on Sunday morning, and that a procession with
Under the auspices of a society which has just been band and banners would be formed on Lincoln's-
started, the first of a series of meetings has been held inn-fields,ecemt aurydataeleeeimwpraytotnhe near Stratford. fin°
here, and some rather startling statements have been Saturday afternoon, however, a'statement appeared in
made, which I will neither attempt to substantiate nor some of the evening papers that the Commissioner of
dispute. It was stated that there are now a million Police had issued an order that the procession would
and a half of working men unemployed in the United not be allowed, and if formed that it was to be broken
Funeral Ce:::iirladninttraeneeietetalaSa:futrede Saturday night,
Kingdom, that there are more than two and a half up. The :Ed airtileou%
millions of acres of waste lands "to the south and west that there 'vais anyy truth in the above' report, ;It was
and east of London ;" and that, if a million acres were resolved, in order to avoid any pretext for police inter.
brought into crop it would give *year's employmentto ference, to dispense wi h the band and banners.
140,000 mechanics and labourers, at an average wage both sexes
asenleenilf'cleoeck, ona.SrVaye,Tojeniin.gicTowjois,oaf.
of £5O per annum. Resolutions were adopted in favour inn-fields and the adjacent streets. Coto twelve o'cl ck
of emigration and of home colonisation, and arrange- these crowds became largely augurented, large sum'
'vents are being made for a deputation to Govern- hen, no doubt, being attracted by the expectation of
went calling on them for immediate action. On police interference. From that hour the " Fields" and
the other hand, one of the speakers, Dr. Edmunds, the neighbouringsstreets were blocked up by _ a dense
The mass
_of people. he
than
order, however,
urged that Government had no more power of prevailed, and no more than the ordinary number
finding employment for the unemployed than they of policemen were to be observed. Shortly after
had to stop the tide or control the weather; that twelve o'clock the organized bodies who were to
the working classes had partly brought their distress i PleeeledlenThweenieeenable'rearsohtitihe
upon themselves by their strikes; and that our .akoerdeprairtn I!inu coinh'es:
in order
Society of Labourers mustered over 1,000
working people spent forty millions a year in drink, strong, under the direction of the president and secre.
Any one of these statements affords scope for argument, tary ; the members of St. Patrick's Brotherhood
on which I have no intention of entering, but there mustered nearly 3,000 men, while unions and other
can be no doubt that emigration is one of the most Zeg,Orzattleeuewhiulee being uniuderthle e`filpereg'tteenadbuenucet
fitting remedies for the distress which indubitably of Messrs. Hogan and Boulgee, who 'acted as mar.
exists here to a large extent; and although Govern- shale. The marshals and officers of the various lodges
ment cannot directly find employment they might with wore green silk scarves, with a black crape band and
the sanction of Parliament, do much to promote emi. green rosettes on the left arm, while nearly every man
gration. They might, for instance, under certain con- raewo.m.matiiwi,ns the prwocomessai fornon—woso thre w
aesseeere. a conasaeid
er-
ditions, provide free passages, or nearly free, by the riband with a piece of black crape attached. At least
aid of some of those Government vessels which are ..s0 per cent, of those formed in the procession were
lying idle. Whether it be the duty of Government to Irish, composed of the better class of mechanic.,
aid emigration or not is matter of dispute, but one artisans,an anaiureta etsi;.:ri f(lNliskv:lreebecominllyy, and :ea,
p.m. cannot be disputed--that it is only by free or I:tt?.oi,t respectably
c.l ing their Fenionws";:pgates. Mean'
assisted emigration that we can lessen that class which time the funeral corCge was being marshalled in
is so painfully large. Voluntary emigration always Stanhope-street. It consisted of a well appointed
hearts., drawn by four horses and two mourning
takes away from us that clam which we can much less
coaches, with two horses each; accompanied by the
afford to spare. requieite number of attendants. The mourners con.
There is reason to believe that next session the slating of several well-known Fenian leaders— the
Government intend to introduce a bill to regulate the deceased having no relatives in London - having
metropolitan and suburban railway traffic with the taken their places in the coaches, the coffia con.
especial view of accommodating the working dares. It taining the body of :hdef.dseiciesisstfewd
hearse,
brought, and,
is said that some three quarters of a million of palms insteadin frint of it, ogn placed
shoulders of ehaaerfe-fs7d7zeciiamerei men.
belonging to the poorer dames have been displaced The coffin was of oak, covered with black cloth, and
by houses being pulled down for railway stations and studded over with white nails and plates. The cortege
approaches in and near London, and that these rail. then proceeded with great diffirmlty, owing to the
crowd, up Stanhope•street, Great Wylilistreet, and
ways do not afford accommodation to more than about
Great Queemstreet, into Lincoln'sdno-fields, accom-
-6,000 a week of the working class. It is probable that •
nied' by 100 delegates from the lodgee in the Brother.
both these statements are somewhat exaggerated, but, hood and the other societies. Oa arriving in Lincoln's-
that the working classes have been driven from London, inn-fields the cortege was halted, and the ei flin was
and that railway accommodation does not meet their " placed inside the hearse, with the cry of " Hats off !"
who„,icshearoas.
then joined
too. bs),e,
tocTmaollsaf prevent- Thl
wants, are undeniable facts. The interference of ,
Government to compel this accommodation will be ! procession
to its' destination, aid an far 'efero:Le'thauere
rather a delicate task.— 1 being any hoetile interference on the part of the
'ln matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch , police, they did all in their power to facilitate the
Is paying too little and asking too much," i progress of the procession. As it pas se.l thrinigh the city
—wrote Canning in a poetical diplomatic dispatch; and the procession comprised fully 6,000 persons, walking
aNtVllaetecthlapel Church
and
was joined by a
I think the association which has been formed here to 000 e'coltieen Pe.nt.,l
procure cheap and regular railway accommodation for bodies at Mile.end, Bow, and tg.r'ird.llord,yfromerwhicii
the working classes has similar Dutch notions. It asks 1 place the road to the cemetery uas iiol-11 with cniwde
that trains should be run from five till eight in the " of people. So great was the cross,! at the gates of the
morning, for distances of from five to eight miles from burial-ground, that it was with the utmost difficulty
the nre.repolis, for a penny per person, and that the , thoooe,rd'h,Ttrnaroreartolthttahoeore more immediately concerned
e
taker ri. a return ticket ale ulil be enabled to return at i At the conclusion of the Pk rvice the funeral cortege
the some price at any trine if the same day. rarlia- , at once returned to London, end the procession iiriii.e
meld, we may be Pure, will not i.epose terms so unfair ' up. Although the crowd woe great, the utmost order
I prevailed during the day.
Its the r ai' ways Mt tVC:IO. Tide would be going a long way I
too far in the right direction. In comiection with Notwithstanding the fact that a corouer's jnry at the
cheap railway fares - .nd more intimately connected King's college Hospital returned a anoint declaring that
with them than most people think—there hi another tti:de,,syed Martin, Colonel oltobtepl . Kweel I y ap r
.:.t-rritler'iaelid 'Pei sr.e., le cstocrn;nl'iemctel
matter which will in all probability occupy the atten- , with the Noverioneot sti,l susoect tiot Edward ilsrtio was
Con of Parliament next session, and toot is railway I tiretel:i'grt';'2,t,,/i.ellolyots,KaenllyeeZrAy.',.,l:::trtil:4,7aerre t:llll,amT
men
compensation for injuries, it being now pretty issuer- I had a season the cheek, and each ot then, had received a
ally agreed that, however good nay be the princrple of , ii.a2,towneetast:,%aitnaii,:dtteleaolstslirmtN)iolgillreliwnhoo. knew
ed Kelly
Lord Campbell's Act, it permits gross injustice to be i belief, after looking at Meru, and then loPnrlXg at the
revengefully inflicted on the railway companies. photograph of Kelly, that Kelly and Martin were one and
the same man. At the inquest it was eticite I that Mar.
The attempt to revive the four-horse coach of what ' (du was in the habit of getting leave of absence from
hien
aserienpilrerfaate:hoffeilereane'sdprtienti7do,frfc;4l,Nston ; ale;d it
some people call "the good old caching days" does not
appear to be successful. One of three coaches, very for thrgwar eeks. Now, dueler that 'time the aterewsta3alanisreenst-
nicely appointed, has been running during the summer cue of colonel Kelly occurred. That Martin was Kelly Is
between London and Tunbridge Wells, but it has now still taheillb. enie,teennoteoepeulynioiteedteteeictievees.lteeoet
eoet hk
er se we eh,
e.,
statesi
been taken off the road, and the forty horses that that Edward Martin was employed at the I riA People office
worked it have been sold. The coach may, of cosine rerunattiewr imn tririer, Pantaricrettreheet.wrule c ;Lowliest well'c..eedp
be new again nst spring. But these coaches generally in the printing-business, and hearing th St the Ithh People
have not been EA nod to pay, and have been run rather i roitibenedn riel;:ed.hAteasscastpsetists France,tt?..st i s etn,i
sf
et
dh It 1
she et:In:Ito
for the pleaterre of the drivers than for the profit of g
seaweed the name and title of Colonel Kelly, wael that it
the owners. a ti er and owner being in many cameo one , wae he who carried out in that came all his so-called patriotic
and the 63111.. I h Brighton-I.ondon coach is also to I "r"'"g'me't.".
be taken off t e rosil till next spring, when it will re- '
commence rounin. This mode of travelling is very EXECUTION OF A SOLDIER
agreeable. in fine weather, but the small number of ' AT EXETER.
people that can be accommodated, and this only during On Monday morning the execution of Private 'rsylor,
for the molder of Corporal Skullen at Devimport. took
a portion of the year, strongly contrasts with railway
place, under the recent Act of Parliament, within the
travelling. , walls of the Devon County Prison at Exeter, where
A place of great historic interest is now attracting 1 since his conviction at the (ffil Bailey about three weeks
specialattention, inasmuch as it is on the eve of being [ ago he has been confined.
d It, will be rememberedi that the prisoner and the
thrown open to the public permanently. Bunliill Fields
burial-ground, some historians assert, was a place of Decev,"7.p. iost.w rerf:on
good
sepulture for the llondeis, and for many centuries it is on the night of the 27th July last he scaled ti"-'te
known to have been a burial-ground. It is recorded 1 b wrack wall, went to a house of ill fame, where
i he gist too drunk to return, and did not appear at
that " in 1549 more than one thousand cartloade of
human remains" were taken to Bunhill Fields "from tehneeebaacrer:iiclosta TAU the next day. For that he was
was
ss
qe.isi
see seven
to
the charnel of St. Paul's Cathedral ;" a
•n - " was here Skulled tinixttettedirillishamnediatuweralrol
that Defoe tells us one of theme monster graves was evaded. On the 31st July the prisoner was brought not
dug which the Great Plague necessitated. "Some for drill, and the corporal discovered that his knapsack
graves were dug so large," he says, "as to hold a
twee not complete, wheremvin he sent him tack with
thousand bodies each ; and into these huge holes the , '
annoyed
On the prisoner's return he seemed very much
living, wrapt in blanketa and rage, threw themselve thatn'liee wou'ldtezacoirrartmanotul,tw:i9
thieieardmeteoa mutter
among the dead, in their agonies and delirium." But the drill the prisoner followed the de ceased, and whilst
the place has some Idessing aretociations. A long list within seven or eight paces i I him he deliberately
of Enclanire worthies found in Bunhill Fields their lifted his rifle ar-d, shot him through the head. The
last earthly reeting. place; among them that great rhnsaton j,re did not deny having hitisinng. fired the
him,
but said
writer just alluded to, who made history read like no- the devillZtreampted him to Irs: ituiwnTheimPriansond prisoner
mance, and made romance read like history; and John ' being sentenced, burst into team, but on his arrival at
Bunyan, the" prince of dreamers ;" Owen, the Puritan Exeter he seemed in an entirely different mood, for he
divine; and Dr. Watts, whose hymns and children's was seen to smile at the station on notieing the eager.
poems are immortal ; and many men whose names "Thwerieti?migiehttohteers'a7d
derfuiliieed forward to see him.
have been familiarised by history. As far as poseible moment in the condemned cell,
pnifi3o,7e.r siannicessihis
of no
of historic interest has been preserved ; education he has most been at all commtlicativeowinti;
tombstones have been recut and re-set, and the place any of the officials with whom he has come in contact.
has been laid out as a kind of garden. It lathe garden At one time he spoke of an illustration he had seen in
of Death, and more adapted for "meditations among ttpwaapiei raeofdetrehe muttetr
hoof
ma
steanilfitrhaata Aldershot, and
the tombs" than for recreation, hilt the great change by that in committing the offence. He selnepintflicluenncdeld
from what the place was is a boon to the public, at night, and took his meala regularly, and his cony-
ohict, the governor states, was remarkable good Plill e
Upon the guilt of the unhappy man who is about to his arrival at Exeter' aHe wee not visited by e
take his trial for the double murder at Wood Green friends ; but this may y
be accounted for b ilie fact ' f his
t
there canscarcely be two opinions. but still he is only his relatives are in very humble circumstances,
s artel 'rot-
committed for trial, not trio -I, and yet no sooner was side a considerable &stone, from Exeter. Theprieorier
he committed than The 'ft n? es commented on the case, exhibitedlch penitence and resignation, and ri-eiive l
and signiricantly reuiarked, '" It remains lobe peen with
Rev. J. thankfulness-eID „the.,
fens isnsisisreass,tiodu;s of the chaplairi,
whether the full sentence of the law can be carried regret and sorrow for the errine, and
ea,qiumeinttaelyd kitiLdteaf
out against the prisoner, considering the very aggra. loaded his rifle when he was sent back by the deceased
voted nature of the provocation he received." The to load his knapsack.
leading journal
usually
sea a
good
example to it.
eiaTehae
Monday
slept well from midnight until half-past
brethren in not commenting on a case before it haswnhaoyrienniiiartiinine/,
wwihtehnte was attended by the
chaplain, until four minutes
been legally decided, but as Homer sometimes nodded, to eight. After leaving the il'if
so the Jupiter of the press occasionally commits an the culprit was conducted tf!) thrucnotrtr-Warmiat eight
error. The remark of The Times, however, is just the gallows had been erected. He appeared 'grweaetry
what many people, doubtless, have said. The terrible distreseed, and on the way to the drop wept bitterly.
narrative of crime still furnishes ample material for yae
untreemebled ; icoTewh at on mounting the scaffold, and
or place under the beam. Whilst
coriversetion. Never was a wholesome moral taught Calcraft was I p acing the rope round his neck, Taylor
in a more dreadful way. said, "Don't put it too tight; you might throttle me
A vast amount of speculation has been indulged in before my time." When it was satisfactorily adjusted
as to the authorship of the famous "Letters of . be added, "It won't hurt me, will it?" Whilst the
Junius," and the question has not yet been decisively chaplain sr,it ;",ladisig the burial service, Taylor
have mercy upon me." The drop
answered. We are, however, promised a solution of then fell 'with o ' a craeh. He struggled a few minutes,
the problem. The lion. E. Twistleton, according to and sighed heavily.
the first number of the new literary paper, the A crowd of 300 people assembled outside. The black
deadenty, say that he believes be has arrived It the flag was bolded, but could scarcely be seen in conse-
true answer to this question, by the aid quence of a heavy mmist.of a scientific
expert in handwriting, aml it iei added that he will
soon enable his readers to judge of the value of his dis-
covery. But meanwhile it may he remarked that the
public have no confidence in these so-called experts.
They have made a pretty mess of it in giving en idence I
on several celebrated trials in our own time, anti the '
dictum of any "expert " as to the handwriting of a
past generation will be received with a grain of salt.
The medical officer of health for Marylcbone makes
a very unpleasant statement in his lest migithly report.
He gays that of 464 cows in that parish 310 have been
attacked by the foot and month disease, besides some
thirty-five or forty others that were removed either
on the appearance of symptoms or on recovery. This
disease, he adds, seriously affects the character of the
milk, and ills proved that this cliseased milk baa been
mixed with that from healthy cows and sold to us tin-