The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-04-28 00:00:00

ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE THE
IMRE OF EDINBURGH.

The following telegram from the Itrl of Belmont,
Itydrmy, to the Duke of Baekingham and Obandoe wee
reeeirsd on Friday night :
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"0. the 12th March • person named O'Farrell de-
Eberagely shot his Royal Highness the Duke of Edin-
burgh in the back, at a nubile pic-nic given in aid of the
Restore' Home at Zllontarf, Nidle Harbour, Port
Jackson. Providentially the wound warn not fatal,
and he is now able to go on hoard his ship,
and hopes shortly to resume his duties. The
hall was easily removed on Saturday, the 14th
March, by Doctors Watson and Young. of Her Majesty's
ships Challenger and Galatea. O'Farrel fired another
shot the moment he was seised, which severely wounded
• gentleman named Thorne in the foot; the ball has
been extracted, and he is doing well. The assassin,
who avowed himself to be a Fenian, was arrested on
the spot. In consequences of the report of • media.]
board, Oommodote Lambert has ordered hi. Royal
Highness to return to England as soon as he ia suffi-
ciently recovered, which will probably be next week."
Imedialely on receipt of the news, the Duke of Rusk-
Ingham proceeded to Osborne to inform her Majesty.
The durpatch remised at the Admiralty Is from
Commodore Lambert, end is also dat ..1 from Point de
Galle. It states that the ball entered the back, half an
Inch from the spine, struck the ninth rib, followed
round the course of the rib, and lodged five inches
from the umbilicus, and fora Inches and a quarter
beneath the right nipple, having traversed a distance of
twelve Inched and • quarter. The same authority says
that on the 20th Marsh his Royal Rightism was "able
Ii go on board his akin."
The assassin was arraigned before the Supreme
charged with "shooting with intent to kill." The defence
to be set up was insanity.
On Saturday night, at a late hour, the Doke of
Buckingham and Chandos remised another telegram
from the Karl of Relmore, dated 3lsl Ranh, Sydney
which reports that his Royal Highness the Duke of
Edinburgh was still progressing favourably.
The Queen on Sunday received a telegram from his
Royal Highness, informing her Majesty that he is pro-
gressing most favourably.

Barrel:rm. Thomas Bpieer, Ashmore, farmer,
Bay 6, Loudon, Bankrupts') Court. Elso-ttr Sladir•
Bath-street, Mehrombe Regis, beer retailer, May 4,
Weymouth.

MB Marquis a Westminster has just forwarded
the monitaent donation of ri.ooo to the Royal
Hospital her Incurable., Patney-heath. This ia the
third gat of the same amotuat made by his lordship to
this obesity.

AFFIX PTIM ARRAFINFATION OF MM. HORT. —AR
datanpt WY made to ususioate Mr. Home, the
•• spintualist," u be was returning from the smut to
his lodgings on Thureday night. A fellow struck as his
nook ; but, owing to the movement of Hr. Home's arm,
the blow ruched his left sido, the &suer paring through
his Mottles and touching the skin. Throwing his arm
back in haste u he you homewsrd; he received • stab in
the back of the band. The hurts are trilling, but Mr.
Home...nerves were too much shaken to allow him to
appear in court on Friday.
EARL ROWELL ON Rusell has
published a sound letter to the Right Hon. Chichester
Pertesene, M.P., on the state of Ireland, In which his
lordship reviews at length the present state of the
question, which has been so mach modified by recent
scuts, lie arrives at the °occlusion that this I. the
Peover time for legislatiag for the Irish Church ; that
salami, in regard to establishment and endowment,
must he left to the voluntary principle ; and that the
plan of settlement advoseted by Mr. 0/adstone Is to be
preferred.

Tile Fastan Tata& —On Monday, at the Central
Criminal Court, before the Lord Chief Jtutioe and Mr.
Baron Bramwell, William Desmond, 28, bootmaker ;
Timothy Desmond. 44 (hie brother), tailor; Nrcholea
Enclish, 46, tailor; John reit-ege, 25 bootmaker ;
idanbani Barnet, slue Jickson, 27, no ocOupation ; and
Ann .geogee., 22, married ; were charged upon six
nnnnanee ludietments,and ids* try the like number
ii--,,ereuerrs inquisition; with wilfid murder.
arising out of the attempt to blow up the wall of the
Hones of Detention at Clerkenwell, for the purpose of
procuring the liberation of the Fenian prieauen,
Bunk Shaw, and CeestY• The male Prisoners were
deem* dressed, hat presented all the ordinary
isharactoristios of their MAPS—journeymen tailor, and
shoemakers. The female prisoner had the appanse
of a woman in the lower ranks of life. The
Indictment to which the prisoner' were called
ups. to plesvi charged them with the wilful murder
of glarah Anne Hodgkinson. They all pleaded "Not
Guilty," the woman Justiee adding 'I know nothing
about it." About 300 juror' bed been pissed on the
panel to provide against any possible contingency, as
each 'prisoner had the right of challenging 20. This
['girdle's% however, was but sparinglym
exercise], only
about half-a-dozen W n objections being
. No incident
Of special interest °marred during the first day, which
was eliefly rumpled by the preliminaries and the
examination of Mullani the approver. The thee" 01
the prosecution was that the eight wretched creatures
at the bar were all moreorloss lintiliastod in tho atrocity.
which is mid to have been insticatod by Burke himself,
with a view to hie own release ,• tbat the barrel of gun*
powder was fired by Barrett; that before the explosion
Barrett wore large whiskers, which he shaved off ins-
mediated, alter, and while in the house of Mullen!, the
informer he washed his face, on which there appeared
to be evidence of something like gunpowder. Barrett
we. egheequestlY arrested at Mawr. The
imp, for the prosecution occupied the Court daily
until Thursday, when the Lord Chief Juetles sell that
Ajui Julie. bag not bolo aiIOWIL Is say wig .0 b,

eimassited with the easepiney, sad the jury, la her
at some returned a verfet of " Not Golltl-*
ow▪ e that kissed Iterrett and shook hands with the
ether priaocers, and after some whispering With
Thuothy Desmond, retired. As, however, ante were
Other shafts, against her she was still detained in
asstally. An application was than made that O'Keefe
alight be disoharged, as he also was sot shown to be
conneeted with the tionspiracy, but the ledges declined
to haterfere. At the opining of the Court on Priday,
the Attorney-General stated that, baring errefoUy m-
attered the ease against O'Keefe, beau of opinion that
the svidinioe as to identity and complicity was much too
week to warrant the Crown in seeking a conviction.
He aloe thought that he was not called upon to pliiiieed
&Wad Anne Justice upon the remaining indictmenta
plaid her. The learned judges bonctirred. A verdict
of Not Guilty was thee taken in these.. of the prisoner
O'Keefe, and he and AMU! Justice were ordered
to be diseharged. Mr. Straight then addressed
the jury on behalf of Timothy Desmond, Mr.
Warner Sleigh for William Desmond, Mr. Keogh
012 behalf of Nioholaa English, and Mr. Greene
for Barrett. The latter learned weasel conaluded by
saying that be should prove an alai for his Aleut. Co
lileturday he ogled six witnesses to show that Barrett
wee in Glasgow on the day on which the explosion took
Oleic. The Attottisy•General then replied on the who
le
of the evidence and arguments. The case was Asada
before the Court on Monday, but had not concluded et
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