The Express.
London, England, 1865-10-07 00:00:00

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WI FENIAN MOVEMENT IN =LAND.

DUBLIN, Planet Nicnr.
Martin A. O'Brennan was today committed for
trial. on the ensile of publishing in the Connaught
patriot a seditious and treasonable article.
Mr. Curran (who appeared for the prisoner) said,
after the evidence had closed—l do not know my-
self what opinion your worship may have formed
on these articles, but I think it would be very hard
to spell anything out of them like treason. They
are very ind,screet, no doubt—and that is my own
opinion—but my defence is that Mr. (Mennen
hal nothing to do with the printing or publishing
of them. The articles are from other hands than
his, although his name does appear on the registry
of the Fitesnp.odice. Of course, air, you will use
your own discretion as to what course you will
take, but that is the defence which I am instructed
to wake. 1 may add that 1 have known Mr.
&Brennan for many years. He is a very learned
lean in his own way. I never knew him to be
anything but loyal.
Mr. Strouge—'Thin comes under the Treason

felony Act. -
Mr. Barry—Yea.
Mr. Stronge—That is for compassing to levy war
against the Queen, and expressing that compassing
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b.; writing.
Mr Barry—Yea.
Mr. Strouge—l consider, then, I have no discre-
tion in the matter. 1 consider that the articles
pine within the meaning of the statute, and 1 must
soniudt him for trial.
Mr. Curran-11 ill your worship accept bail for

him 1
Mr. Stronge—That I certainly cannot do.
Prieouer—lo that case 1 must amist my *otiose'.
No matter who wrote the article it is laid at my door,
and my liberty has been aggressed. (The prisoner
was proceeding to read extracts from the articles in
proof, and to (*mutant upon them, when Mr.
Curran suggested to him that he had better sit

down.)
The prisoner declined to do so, and went on to
complain of the virulence of the crown in dragging
Lim from his wife and large family, at 9 o'clock iu
the morning, when an intimation that he was
wanted would have been sufficient, and also with
keeping him in close confinement during the night.
He said that if such treatment had been given to a
loan at Naples, the Attoruey-General and Solicitor-
General would have characterised it as barbarous.
He would enter his protest against his either being
remanded or put upon his trial, becaueeall through
his life his whole course had been to do as
his church taught—yield obedience to the laws
and to the monarch, whether di facto or de jure. He
had always been obedient to the Queen, and there-
fore, be did not wish to have her Majesty's repre-
sentative say that he bad violated his conscience by
violating the law, and thereby committing mortal
sin. He felt he Lad committed no crime, and vio-
lated no law of the land. He bad nothing more
foray. The magistrate might commit him or not
as he pleased.
Mr. Strouge—lt is my duty to commit you for
trial. It would b i unbecoming for me to make any
observation in reply to your remarks.
Prisoner—May I have the liberty of writing to

soy family
Mr. Stronge—You will have the liberty of writ-
ing subject to the prison regulations.
The prisoner was soon afterwards removed to
Richmond Bridewell.
The informer, George Augustus Frederick Gillis
upon whose information, it will be recollected, the
prisoner Moore was arrested, was this day arraigned
before Mr. Strange, in the office of the Pubes Com-
missioners, Lower Castle-yard, for being himself a
member of the Fenian Brotherhood.
Yesterday the prisoner failed to identify Moore,
and on this day Acting-Inspector Smith, G divi-
sion, gave the following information :—I was pre-
sent, and saw the prisoner sign his information on
the 27th September ; on Thursday, the bth Octo-
ber, I went to Gillis's residence, for the purpose of
getting him to give his evidence, and bearing his
Informations read over again, when he voluntarily
stated that he would take 10 years before he would
do what he had already dune, as his family would
be ruined.
Mr. Stronge (to the prisoner)—Have you any-
thing to say why I should not commit you on your
own information?
Prisoner—l have nothing to say. I expected it
would come to this.
Mr. Strouge—l shall send you for trial for con-
spiracy with the members of the Fenian Brother-
hood.
The prisoner was then removed.
At 5 o'clock this morning Joseph Jude, son of
the eminent hotel-keeper, Grafton-street, Dublin,
was arrested as a Fenian at }Linings:, where he
was the manager of an hotel belonging to his father.
In the city of Cork four additional arrests for
Fenianism have taken p!ace, namely, J. Mountains,
who keeps a shoebinding establishment ; William
Bagley, an auctioneer's clerk ; David Reilly, a
tailor ; and Alfred Nicholson, a proprietor of a
woollen factory.
A man named Keegan has been arrested in Corris,
county Carlow ; and two tradesmen, John Nugent,
carpenter, and John Bagwell, a shoemaker, were
arrested this day in Drogheda, and remanded by
the magistrates.

THZ DOUBT.' MUZDZB BY • LUNATIC IN EDIN-
-11IIIMIL-I'he Scotsman, is refereoce to this shocking oc-
geneses, which we briefly chronicled yesterday, says :—" A
fearful crime was committed on Thursday forenoon at the
Grange--a young man murdering his mother and Mater, in
broad daylight, io the public street, and 'boost under the
eyes of the neighbours. The murderer is s man of thirty
years of age, called John Hunter, who has bees from boy-
hood weakly in body sad erratic in mind, and whom for
several yei.ra it had bees thought prudent or foiled mess-
sary closely to conies within his father's house, in Dal.
rymplocreecent. It is supposed that yesterday the young
man attempted to leave the house, sod was intercepted
while so doing by his mother and sister ; and that It was in
anger at this interruption and with the view of freeing
himself from the confinement, which he had, on the whole,
borne very patiently, that he struck the fatal blows. He
bad armed himself, seemingly in his determination to lib*.
sets himself, with a piece of iron bar shoat eighteen inches
brag and one inch is diameter; and with this—when hie
mother and sister had followed him through the garde,
before the house, to the pavement beyond, eodeavouring
to persuade him to return—he felled his hapless mother
dead to the ground, and by repeated blows destroyed his
sister, lambed falba prostrate over her mother's corpse.
The appearance and dememioar of the prisoner (for Hunter
was speedily end witboot difficulty takes into custody), as
well as the statements of his family—whisk moves to •
respectable circle--plainly iodinate that when he committed
the crime he cues Mum. ; and the sad tragedy gives a wom-
bs that should be taken good heed to, of the dangerous
stature of the kindness by which persons in the unfortunate
emidition of the murderer see permitted to live without
proper surveillance and care."
A DY.AP MAN FOUND AMONGST • CAROO or
Oorroz—Tle• National Steamship Company's new stom-
a* QUO.D., Wee with cotton, arrived from New York at
Liverpool a day or two Mace, and amongst the balm of
eotton in the bold, when the cargo was discharged, was
found the dead body of a roma much decomposed. The
labourers having removed about tea balm from No. 2 hatch,
bawd a boodle oontsialag two *roof trousers, • cost, vest,
ant a pair of old blucher shoes, tied in a handkerchief.
After removing two hales more they saw the less of the
' The body lay iD a crooked position upon

Jenard. —_ _ lay
its back, and a bale of cotton railed upon the
bead sad chat. With the :fewetn of s shirt sod
bawl about the shoulder., body was naked.
Oe the bales agar, sad as some Isdian coat
begs, there were 'pros:awes of blood. A. inquest was
held yesterday at the borough Coroner's Court, white the
wassails stated that they thought it amenable that tbe
illesseeed could hath stowed himself where be wee toned
*resold have both placed there without the keowledge of
th. stevedores who stowed the cargo at New York. The