The Express.
London, England, 1863-09-08 00:00:00

SEDITIOUS ORGANISATIONS IN IRELAND.

The Belfast News Letkr makes the following
observations :—" Seditious mgannations have always •
same as well as a local habitation. In 1798 the rebels
were united Irishmen. lo 1803, they were eons of free-
dom or what not. In 1848 they were young Inlanders.
Five years ago they were P hcenix mem, and to-
day they are Fenian. and sons of St. Patrick. The
objects and orpnuation of the Fenian brotherhood
we have already fully explaieed ; and although we
do not believe that it numbers anything like 80,000
men, that the American brethren smart have been
alm:idy drilled and armed in Ireland, there are not
wanting indications that the coespireey is wide-apreed, and
has many adherents. The Fenian," it seems, are to hold
themselves in readiness for anything that may tura up. A
war with France, now perhaps the most improbable event
that 01111 be imagined, or, what is far more likely, a war
with America, is what they are to look out for with
anxiety. The herald that makes proclamation that America
and England are foes will, without knowing it, call the Fe-
DM= to arum— not to protect, but to assail their country.
Vast numbers of Irishmen have gone to America, and the
belief is entertained by the ignorant that they will ate day
come heck with ta vengeance, as the Nation wee **MS.
sanely rid. Go amongst the peasantry of the south and
west, tend even of the districts adjacent to the metropolitan
county. and, if yon have their confidence, you will dis-
cover that sooner or later they expect that • French or
American war will involve England in that difficulty whisk
in to be Ireland's opportunity. It is a sort of traditkm
among the people that the French will noose day come
and liberate Ireland. They never dream of asking them-
mine what liberty it ia they require and have not
obtained ; what grievance they gram under and mow*
have lightened or removed by ImUmate means ; or what
aomesioa of freedom would follow upon • French occupa-
tion of their Emerald Isle. The fact that such • tradition
exists will not be denied by any one who is familiarly ac-
quainted with the peasantry ; sad within them twelve or
fifteen years there hat been superadded to it a hazy notion
that the mass of the Irish emigrants would at the first
opportunity come back to their country, sot to amend hare
under Entish rule the evening of their days, bat to drive
the Saxon for ever from the shake of Ireland. That such
feelings exist is amazing ; but when we know that teas of
thalami& of the peasantry solemnly attribute the famine
of 1848-7 to the coonexion of England and Ireland, we may
well believe anything of the ignorance and trejadiees of
scab men. Now it is became of this ignorance sad this
prejudice that we say the government should at ones step
in and check any open display of seditious feeling. From
Sliavenamon to the Ribbon Lodge is but • step ; and there
kith scoundrel so contemptible but be is able to pull a
trigger behind a hedge.

RODBIZT OF 3001. nY Two CLIMES AT HULL.
At the Hell Policonurt, on Friday, Richard Ale Bader
Wm. Bien, a clerk, lately in the employ of We nn
Reahangs Brothers. sitipbroiters, Hull, and Wm. Haan
Had.on, lately a clerk in the worries of Hr. T. W. Peters,
shipping agent, Hull, were charged with bromide( epee the
ash box in the safe of lbws. Itemhaoge's adios, mad Wean
therefrom about 300 f, jn notes sod gold. Oa the 17th of
Ilereh Wit the primmer Sighs absconded? sad ea examina-
tion of the safe was made, when it was chseovend that the
whole of the contests in mosey bad bees abstracted.
lindsce had left his employ and joined Bette. Nothing
teas beard of the prism:airs until the 'An of August,
whoa afte- baying (aniseed all the money by travelling is
Wales, Scotland, and England, they delivered themselves
tip to the polio, at Newcastle. The prisoners wen emoi-
witted for trial at the senses.

" BAITING" Refs.—At the West Bromwich
Police-wart on eaturdsy, John Charley, landlord Of the
White Hart beerhoues, Overead, was charged with keeping
a.plaes for the " belting and fighting" of rata. Mr. Travis
permeated, and Mr. Motteram, of the Oxford Circuit, ap-
peared for the defendant. Mr. Motteram *aid that belting
and fightiog were two very different thine, and inquired
upon which the prosecution meant to proceed. It was thee
r'ueed that the charge should be taken as one of
nties," and Police-sergeant Payne was sworn. He
said that at lulf.past nine o'clock ma the night of ffatur.
day, the 15th ult., be went, with two other odium, to the
defendant's house, and on proceeding upstairs, he found,
is what was apparently a club room, from 100 to 150 per-
' toes sasembled. Thom wan a rat pit composed of wire,
two ands half feet in depth, and between three and four
feet in diameter, in the centre of the room, anti it wee stir-
rounded with ropes and stakes. On the appearance of
witness and the other officers. some hesitation was mani-
fested as to commencing proceedings, bat after a little
time the defendant Charley cried out, " Bring them in ;
all right lads." Twenty rate were then put into the pit,
and a dog was lest after them ; he worried about fifteen of
them, and, appearing exhausted, he was takes out for a
isio-t space, when he was again turned is, and finished the
remainder of the vermin. The defendant woe present all
the Vose. By Mr. Motternm—l won't dispute that it
wee rare sport. (Laughter.) I like many other " little
passe." (Continued merriment is court.) I can't say
whether the dog did not "settle" all the rats is a minute
and • half. I and the other of eers were there for about 15
minutes. We did not tell the defendants not to do it. (A
laugh.) Mr. Motteram referred to the 13th Vict., cap. 92,
Leo. 3, under which the information bad been laid, and ob-
served that the question hail been decided by the ma of
"Clark r. Hayes," as to the meanies of the words " •
*uneasily used for bailing," Ac. In that mae a cockfight
bei Wert place in a quarry, and the Court of Queen's
Bench bad quashed the conviction co the grounds that
such • piase did oot ootne within the maiming of the Act.
Here the cue was very different from a cock-debt, for who
°sorbed heard of "baiting • rat!" If the law recognised
such • term the owner of every rick-yard in the country
would render himself amenable to the uentities under the
All The learned gentlemen contended dust the Act bad
been ganged to prevent bull and badger baiting, and
was never 'intended to apply to the killing of vermin
like rats. Mr. Travis remarked that in the present case
there was the worrying of the dog by the rate. Mr.
Motteram—Well alter the summons, then, to the baiting
of the dog, if you like. Mr. Travis said there was a greet
distinction between a quarry and the room of a public-house,
to which from coos to two hundred people were assembled.
The beech announced that they considered the charge had
been clearly proved, and indicted a hoe of lia, with the
meta, and in default of payment, directed a distress warrant
to be issued. Charges against a number of spectators for
aiding sad abetting the rat-baiting were then heard, and the
magistrates ordered them to pay a fine of W. each and the
expires, or be imprisoned for twenty-one days with hard
labour.

SERIOUS CARRIAGE ACCIDENT AT SHEFFIELD.—
A very alarming accident occurred about eight o'clock on
Sunday evening. It appear. that Mr. Patrick Heine, egg
and butter dealer. of Northetreet, and a female named
Barge were returning into the town in a gig 'belonging to
Mr. Hama. The bone took fright, it is said, at a lamp in
Highlields, and dashed down the bill towards the town
at a fearful pace. Unfortunately Mr. Haire could not
keep it in the road, and it swerved at the bottom of
Lsoldowne.road, and run against a lamp-post. The col-
lision was extremely violent, and the effects most disas-
trous. The occupants of the gig were thrown out with
great violence, and the female bad her collar boss broken
and received serious injuries to the bead. She was promptly
satiated by persons who witoeesed the accident. Mr. Bailie
had pitched upon his bead, which wee very severely con-
tueed,-and it was feared that his skull was fractured.
After the collision with the lamp-post the horse dragged
itself clear, and promoded with unabated speed up the
Moor. Opposite the Mail Inn a roan named Hcathode
was struck and knocked down. He was injured on the
heed so seriously that a fatal remit was apprehended by
many persons, and he was at once removed to the Public
Hospital. The bores was non afterwards stopped, but the
gig was completely smashed. —3Aejleld Independent.
SINGULAR DROWNING CAER.-00 felendely last,
an inquest was held before Mr. C. J. Woods, at EIS ngham,
on the body of William Sims, a !wicket/diet residing thee,
and who met hie death in a most extraordinary manner by
drowning. It appears that there is a large Flood connected
with the brickeeld, in which there are a good many thh, and
oo Sunday morning about seem *Week the doomed went
out with the view of catching some for bit breakfast.
In consequence of the late dry season, the water was
very low, being only about six inches deep, but below
it them was a residuum of thick mud. The deceased appears
to bare walked late the water till be sunk nearly to
ea knee, and then boot forward with hie hands to seize the
Bah, but in dales so he overbalanced himself, and on titia
down hie bands to raise himself up they bosoms embedded
in the mud, end baler unable to extricate himself he was
drowned. About half-pest seven o'clock be was found in
this position by a roan named Henry Banger, and on being
I taken out life was extinct. The jar, rstaraed au epee
verdict, there being so seldomm as to how the deceased cot
into the water. He was 38 year, at sgs, sad Ina a married
maa.—Waft BeffEr