The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-01-07 00:00:00

EXTRAORDINARY ROBBERY AT • GUNSMITH'S SHOP.

In broad daylight, at nine o'clock on Monday morning,
when the streets were full of persons going to business,
Mr. Alport's shop, at Cork, was suddenly occupied by
eight men armed with revolvers. Mr. Alport, who of
course was wholly unprepared for any visit out of the
eourse of triole, in an instant found himself, with his
nephew and assistant, covered by the revolvers of the
strange party, and was compelled to stand in helpless
silence, in the midst of his own splendid armoury,
while his choicest weapons—sixty revolvers, of four to
twenty chambers esch—were carefully selected and
made ready for removal. When these had be ii
serried away, about 1,500 rounds of revolver ammuni•
tion were selected with the same care. The shop was
held by six of the men until the party entrusted with
the removal hart got a good start, alter which :nay also
leisurely and quietly withdrew from the scene.

HATORTAITT ARIZ/STA AT MESTUTR.
Eight men were arrested on Tuesday, and sit on
Wednesday, at Merthyr, some of whom it is suspected
have taken a very prominent part in the Fenian move-
ment. On Thursday six more were captured st Dowlab.
They were brought before Mr. Fowler on the charge of
treason.felony. The only evidence offered was that of
Michael Keaton, an informer, who deposed to Flynn,
one of the prisoners, having attended a meeting on the
Mountain, where several persons had assembled for
drilL Flynn need Ter) violent language, snd told
Keaton that if he ever met him again he would be a
dead men before night. The prisoners wee, remanded
to Cardiff pol till Monday. It ha stated that Coffee,
who is in custody at Swansea, has also turned informer.

ATTACK ON • 000811 HT AN ARMED HAND.
On Tuesday morning an armed party attacked the
residence of Mr. Charles Mathew, brother of the lata
Father Mathew, st Lehena, Coutty Cork. They were
fired on by the inmates, and one of them was ahot,
but he was carried off by the insurgenta, who retired.
lINNIANISII IN Till BLACK COUNTRY.

At the Walsall police.court on Thursday, John Lavin,
• stalwart Irishman, was brought up under • warrant
charged with 'assaulting William Walker, • pabican
residing at Blozwich. From the provccutor's statement
it appeared that on the evening of the 2lst ult, the
prisoner and four other Irishmen went to the
prosecutor's house, and after staying a few minutes they
began creating • great disturbance. A strange woman
wait also there, and her life was threatened for haying,
as they said, sworn away the lived of their oonarados
at Manchester. The woman, however, male her
escape, and the four men then announoed that they
were Fenian', and demanded the company to drink
the following toast, which was proposed by the
prisoner :
r. Here', to my country, Ilkesim to France;
Hall to Old England.
When the boy. come back from lierrlkay
We'll make the - dance."

This toast the landlord objected to, and the Irishmen
were, after a great deal of trouble, got out of the bonne.
The prisoner, however, determined to be revenged on
the landlord, and, returning, he streak him • frightfol
blow on the temple with • stone, and as the landlord
fall back ineensible he broke the collar bone of his nook
in two plebes. After thia the prisoner expreered his
intention of having the prosecutor's heed clean off, but
he was prevented from doing further mischief. The
magistrates remanded the prisoner.