The Express.
London, England, 1866-05-22 00:00:00

ATTEMPTED MURDER OF A FENIAN

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r, MONDAY NIGHT.

Ai attempt was made on Sunday night to asses-
dads Warner, the Cork informer, who has been for some
time past living next door to the police-barrack in
Howth. appears that en flanday evening Warner, ac-
companied • by Constable Toomey, was walking through
Hearth, when a stranger ecoacted them, and •
brief conversation ensued, in the course of which
the stranger invited Warner and the constable
to • public-house to drink. This they declined
to do, but Warner beougbt the new-comer to his
own lodgings. Warner's account of what there transpired
is to the effect that about half-peat ten o'clock this party,
who, subsequently to his arrest, gave the name
of Edward O'Connor, asked him to chow him
the yard of the house, which Warner accordingly
did. He was standing with his back to the prisoner.
when he received a stab from a dagger in the right side of
the neck. He immediately made an alarm and attempted
to detain O'Connor. In doing so ho dragged aQ his coal
sad verb, and in the pocket of the former •
loaded five-barrel revolver was discovered. The
prisoner for the time, however, succeeded in eluding
capture, but was arrested at an early hour this morning
on the north Railway. D. 9Sesilw -whir seleselet
Warner, has pronounced his wound to be of • dangerous
character. Warner's depositions having been taken by
Lord Et. Lawrence, the prisoner was committed for trial.

Lord Otho Fitzgerald was elected for the county
of Kildare yesterday.

HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN.

The fourteenth annual meeting of the governors
of this institution was held at the hospital, Great Or-
mond-street, yesterday ; Mr. AilliUß KINVAUID, LP., in
the chair. The stated that the history of the four-
teenth year of threTorstpital was, like that of almost all pre-
vious years, • history of increased resources and increased
work,botk bsingstillfarbehindthe requirements of thepoor
and the aims of the committee. When the hospital:l;mi
in 1852 it contained but 20 beds. The total =town
now afforded was 37 beds for boys, and 38 beds far
or 75 in all. The number of in-patients admitted during
the past year bad been 658, the largest number in any
previous year being 581. The number of out-patients had
been 11,800 in the past year, the number in 1864 being
11,523. The donations from all sources during the past
year, including those given at the anniversary festival, bad
been somewhat smaller than in 1864. They amounted in
the former year to 3,538/. 18a., and in the year just
closed they reached only 3,2341. 10s. The subscrip-
tions, however, had increased from 1,9371. to 2,302 -
The ezi,:dPrinces ture had risen from 4,2811. to 4,6101. Her
Royal Highness the of Wales, happy in her own
children, thought of the poor sick children in Great
Ormond-street, and bad shown her sympathy by sending a
donation of 501. The Queen and their Royal Ilighnmses the
Princesses, and the Prince Leopold had, as in former years,
bethought them of the little ones to whom the Queen's
toys are es a gift from fairyland. Mr. Dickenson, the
chairman of the committee, added, that as regarded the
out-patients, they had quite reached the limit to which
they could go with their present staff and present buildings.
A plan had been before the committee of having places for
attendance in other parts of London, but that plan had
been given up, partly from the difficulties of the case, and
partly lest they should entrench on other institutions.
Then, with regard to the new building, the place where
they were to build had not been settled. The chair-
man, in moving the adoption of the report, con-
gratulated the meeting on the marked progress
of the institution. From what he gathered out
of doors he believed they had the confidence of the public.
Lord Gort seconded. Some conversation ensued as to the
best course to be pursued with reference to the increased
demand on the charity. It was stated that at present the
medical officers have to prescribe for about .i2O children on
each of the sir days of the week. One suggestion that was
made was that there should be depots in dillerent parts of
London, or that dispensaries should be affiliated with the
institution ; and another, that the better way would be to
meet the want by the establishment of fresh institutions
of the same kind in different parts of London. Mr. dames
Heywood stated that it was in contemplation to establish
an institution in the Edgware-road, under the superintend-
ence of Miss Ganett, who had qualified at Apothecaries'
Hall, and that there should be no men connected with the
institution. Eventually the committee was requested to
reconsider the question and bring up a report. The report
was then agreed to ; and the office. s having been re-
elected, and a vote of thanks having been given to the
medical officers and the auditors, and to the chairman, the
proceedings terminated.