The Express.
London, England, 1867-12-16 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 16, 1867.

FENIAN OUTRAGES.

THE CLERKENWELL EXPLOSION.

LATEST PARTICULARS.-(THIS DAY.)

This morning a statement got abroad that the
man who actually set fire to the fusee had been arrested.
At Bow-street station, however, the officials positively
said that the statement in question was false. They
also stated that no arrest bad been made since Friday. We
believe, however, that upon this latter point, at least,
they are under a mistake. A man was arrested yesterday
on suspicion of being the person who fired the train. He
was confronted with the eye-witnesses of the outrage but
they failed to Identify him. He was thereupon set at
liberty.
The prisoners Allen, Desmond, and Ann Justice, are
not, as has been already stated, in the House of Deten-
tion. They are confined in a much stronger prison, which
from its situation can be more effectually guarded. They
will be brought up to-day under an escort to Bow-street
police-court. The authorities particularly desire that the
name of the prison in which the accused are at present
lodged should not be published ; but the secret is no
doubt as well known to Fenian head centres as it is to
other persons.

All this morning hundreds of persons visited the vicinity
of the prison in order to view the scene of the explosion.
Inspector Potter, of the G division, this morning re-
ceived 501. to distribute amongst the sufferers by the ex-
plosion, on the part of the government. The funds set
apart by the Chancellor of the Exchequer for the relief of
the sufferers by the calamity are being given away in
MUMS of from 21. to 51. The windows which have been
smashed by the concussion iU the neighbouring streets,
are being repaired by quite an army of glaziers.
This afternoon their Royal Highnesses Prince Arthur
and the Princess Mary visited the spot.
No other deaths have taken place at the hospitals. We
were informed this afternoon that all the wounded, with
but one or two execptions, are progressing satisfactorily
towards recovery.

ATTEMPT TO FIRE A CITY WAREHOUSE.
The report that an attempt had been made to fire
the extensive premises of Messrs. Perna% clothiers,
Bishopsgate-street, has attracted a large number of

persons to the spot during this morning. The
premises were closed at 2 o'clock on Saturday, after
which time there were only four female servants and two
shop•boys in the house. From the statement of one of
the boys, it seems that at about a quarter to 11, when
everything was quiet, he heard a noise resembling that of
a bottle being broken, and on looking out of the window
he was alarmed at the appearance of dames at
the lower part of the building. With the others
in the house he ran downstairs; but in the
meantime assistance had arrived, and it was dis-
covered that the damage was confined to the door in the
court at the side of the premises. It is thought that phew.
phortui was employed, and it is the opinion of the
police and others that the affair is another outrage on the
part of the Fenians. Just before the attempt was made
a man wearing a flannel jacket was seen standing
at the end of the court. He left hastily after first looking
down the court, and immediately afterwards the flames
were seen. Messrs. Parnall give employment to over 3,000
hands.

ALLEGED FENIAN OUTRAGE IN
GROSVENOR-SQUARE.

The Morning Post gives exclusively an account of an
attempt on Saturday night to set fire to a house in
Grosvenor-square. It would appear that about 1 o'clock
yesterday morning a policem►n on duty in the vicinity saw
dames bursting from the wi tulow of the library, a front room,
of No. 4, the property of Mr. Freke, broths/ of Lord Car-
bery, late in the possession of Earl Fitzwilliam, and now
in course of interior reconstruction. He found the

window of the room covered with a phosphoric sub-
st►nce, from which the vap3ur proceeded, and the
room within alight. Having sprung his rattle, he was
quickly joined by three other policemen. In the
meantime the watchman in charge of the premises,
in a state of great alarm, had opened the hall-door. The
constables on getting into the library found that a bottle
containing the substance known as " Greek fire" had been
thrown at the window, but fortunately only the neck
of the bottle and a small portion of the contents had
entered the apartment. A considerable part of the floor
was on fire, but the flames seem to have been soon extin-
guished. Tho night porter states that he had just com-
pleted his round of the house when he heard a crash at
the window,' and on making his way upstairs be was
nearly suffocated by white smoke. The perpetrator of the
outrage escaped.