The Express.
London, England, 1867-04-04 00:00:00

LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 4, 1867.

THE LATE AFFRAY WITH FENIAN&

Mom ous OWN coaanpoimnrr.)

CORK, TunDAY.

An inquest was held yesterday, at thichelatown,
on the body of Crowley, the Fenian, killed in the
encounter with the troops in Kilcluney wood on
Sunday morning. A large number of witnesses
were examined, including the two stipendiary
magistrates who were in command of the military
party, and several of the soldiers immediately
engaged in the affray, from whose evidence a
tolerably minute account of this extraordinary
occurrence can be obtained.

First, as regards the locality. The wood in which
the fight took place skirts the high road leading
from Mitchelatown to Kilcluney, and is about
seven miles from the former town. The planta-
tions are about half a mile in length, and a quarter
of a mile in breadth, occupying the side of a sharp
declivity descending from the edge of the road
to a small stream in the centre of a narrow
valley. The road and stream are parallel, and both
sides of the water are fringed with trees. The,
timber in the wood is of about thirty years
growth, and there is hardly any brieihwood. The
district around is poor, the farmhouses few andl
far apart, and in many respects the locality was
well chosen for concealment. Early last week it
was reported in Mitchelatown that a party of
nine Fenians were hiding in the plantation, and
had visited several of the adjoining farmhouses to
obtain food. On this information—which, how-
ever, was conveyed in a very vague manner, as the
country people are not too well disposed to assist
the authorities against the Fenians—a party of
thirty policemen, under Sub-Inspector Bridge,
searched the district around the wood, but appear
not to have penetratedinto theplantations. On Fri-
day intelligence was again received of the presence of
armed men in the locality, and Mr. Neal Browne,
R.M.,forwardedarequesttoMajor Bell,cormnanding
the Waterford flying column, then at Lismore, to
waist the police in making a minute search of the
wood in which the Fenians were alleged to be
hiding. Major Bell's column consisted of about 120
men, made up of one troop of the 6th Carbineers,
small party of the military train and Royal Engi-
neers, and two companies of the 6th Foot.
Mr. Redmond, R.M., of Dungarvon, ac-
companied the column to Michelstown, whore it
arrived on Saturday. At one o'clock un Sunday
morning Major Bell's force, under the direction of
the two stipendiary magistrates, Messrs. Browne
and Redmond, and reinforced by a party of consta-
bulary, started for the wood, and at fiveli
o'clock, when it had become sufficiently clear,
to distinguish objects in the wood, the soldiers were
distributed in parties of three or four in the road
and at the flank of the plantation, in such a manner
as to prevent the possibility of any person leaving
it unperceived. Lieutenant Carey commanded the
party on the south side of the wood, Major Bell
directed the men at the north end, and Mr. Browne
took the police force with him to search a few
houses about a quarter of a mile further on. At
half-past 5 one of Lieutenant's Carey's men, a
soldier of the Gth, heard a rustle in the wood close
to the road, and challenged—" Who comes there 1"
Immediately two men, one armed with a revolver
and the other with a revolver sad a rifle, appeared
amongst the trees. The solder states that he
called on them to surrender, and jumped over
the hedge dividing the road from the wood.
The men retreated hastily, and one of
them fired his revolver at the soldier who
had challenged them. This appears to have
brought on the ?alit, for the soldier re-
turned the shot, and called out to his comrades.
four or five of whom dashed into the wood after
the Fenian, who were then running down the
slope, taking protection where they could behind the
trunks of the trees, and firing rapidly from their
revolvers the soldiers replying with their rifles
Mr. Redmond, who was in the immediate vicinity.
plunged into the wood on hearing the shots, anc
seeing that the two Penises had then ceased firing,
and were running for the river, which was about
20 yards in advance. With commendable discretion
and humanity he bid the soldiers to cease their'
fire too, and went on himself with a few of the
men in pursuit. They overtook the two fugitives
in the stream. Mr. Redmond presented his re-
volver at one who was unhurt, and ordered
him to surrender. The Fenian turned and raised
his revolver, but seeing himself surrounded by
armed men, did not fire, and allowed himself to
be captured. His companion, who was bleeding
profusely from wounds in his back and side, at
the same moment fell prone in the water, and
was dragged by two of the soldiers to the bank.
The military surgeon attached to the column, Dr.
Seagrave, was at once brought to attend the
wounded man, and ascertained that his hurt was
mortal. His body had been traversed by a rifle
ball, which entered about two inches from the
spine and came out under the armpit at the
opposite side. Another bullet had struck him in
the hand, and carried off one of the fingers,
breaking the stock of the rifle which
he held about the stock of the trigger.
A priest was sent for to attend the dying
man, and in the meantime Dr. Seagrave, after vainly
attempting to staunch the bleeding, read prayers
for lion from a prayer-book which the unfortunate
fellow had in his pocket. The prisoner was per-
fectly calm and collected as he lay on the bank. In
answer to questions put by Mr. Redmond, he said,
that his name was Crowley, that he had lived near
Cloyne, and had a sister there. He said that he
could not speak much, but that he would say more
by and by. He was allowed to lie for a short time
on the bank, awaiting the arrival of the Roman
catholic clergyman, who had been sent for ; but as
he complained of the cold of the ground, a door
was procured, and the soldiers gave their
coats to make a litter, on which he was taken
out of the plantation. The clergyman over-
took the melancholy procession on the road,
and administered to the dying man the
consolations of the church. The first house
met on the way was the residence of a comfortable
fanner, who with great inhumanity refused to
open his doors to the poor expiring creature, and
the other houses in the neighbourhood being only
filthy hovels, the mere atmosphere of which would
have hastened the man's death, he had to be kept
in the road until he expired.
The second prisoner was believed at first to be
the Captain Machire' who led the attack on the
Knockadoon coastguard station, and who was an
intimate friend of the deceased Crowley, living in
his house near Cloyne previous to the rising. The
police have some doubts, however, as to his
identity, in regard to which it appears to be tlifli-
cult to obtain authentic information, and to-day
it was sum inised that the prisoner might be a man
named 11`lvor, who was engaged in the rising in',
Tipperary, and who held the rank of colo-
nel in the American service. The pri-
soner had two anuuuuition pouches slung
from belts over his shoulder, filled with a
good supply of cartridges, and in his pockets he
had a diary, an officer's whistle, a small green
flag, some military plans, and a book on
infantry tactics. While the melee was going
on at the southern aide of the wood, the sol-
diers of Major Bell's party advanced in at the
northern edge, and Ensign Meredith, who was
in advance, saw hiding under a ditch a middle-
sized young man armed with a rifle and bayonet.
This man was captured by the ensign, and made
no attempt to resist or escape. He refused to give
his name, but he is stated to be a Virginian, named
Edward Kelly, whose name figures in some of the
depositions of the informers. The two prisoners,
Kelly and Mediae (or Myer), were lodged in the
Michelstown bridewell, and the body of Crowley
was placed in the union workhouse pending the
inquest held yesterday.

The witnesses examined by the coroner yester-
day were questioned very closely by some mem-
bers of the jury with regard to the time at which
Crowley received the fatal wound—whether it was
inflicted while the shots were being exchanged, or
after the Fenians had ceased firing, and had turned
to fly ; and the jury appeared to think that it
would materially affect the case if it were shown
that the man had been shot down after the actual
resistance had ceased. The soldiers declared posi-
tively that the man must have been wounded
while he and his companion were firing ; the
military ceased to fire immediately on receiving
the order from Mr. Redmond, who gave it the
' moment he saw the two men tack for the river.
The jury were also curious to know whether the
hrisoners could have been captured without
aving been fired on at all. To which one of the
soldiers pertinently remarked, " Yes, provided we
were not shot ourselves." It is creditable both to
the military and the nuigiatrates that they seemed
anxious to remove the impression that they
had tired on the two men after resistance
had ceased to be offered. The verdict found was
that the deceased Crowley had died from the effects
of a gunshot wound caused by the tiring of the
military party in the execution of their duty.
Crowley was, as stated yesterday, a man in
comfortable circumstances, belonging to a class
which was scarcely at all represented in the ranks
of the insurgents, however many sympathiserswith
Fenianism it may contain, namely, the classof tenant
farmers. He was a person of considerable influence
with the Fenians in his neighbourhood, and his
name is mentioned in several of the informations
made by the approvers in this locality.
M'Clure and Kelly were brought into Cork to-
day, and will be taken for private examination
before the magistrates at the county gaol to-
morrow.

It is difficult to understand what could have
prompted the desperate resistance offered by these
men to the large force by which they
were surrounded. It was impossible that
they could have escaped or have even
hoped to escape from the position in which they
were, and their firing on the soldiers was an act of
the wildest desperation. They must have been
exposed to the fire of at least a dozen men, and
the wonder is that M'Clure escaped unhurt. Their
recklessness can only be explained by the surmise
that they believed they would be hanged if cap-
tured, and that they were determined to die in
fighting, selling their lives as dearly as they could.
The wood in which they were is believed to have
been a familiar rendezvous, but the report of a
large quantity of arms having been found in it is
unfounded. The only weapons taken were the two
rifles and two revolvers belonging to Crowley and
M'Clure.

The Freeman's Journal gives the following ac-
count of the funeral of Crowley, from its Mitchelatown cor-
respondent, who writes on Tuesday:

To-day I had an opportunity of seeing from the win-
dews of the hotel the funeral of Crowley as it passed along
the main street of the town. It was certainly an extraor-
dinary spectacle, and one that greatly surprised the magis-
trates and others who came hero with the flying column. ,
First carne a procession of women four deep, each woman
carrying a large green bough ; then followed a scattered
group of women ; next the coffin, borne upon men's shoul-
ders, although a hearse had been engaged and was actually
in the procession. The plumes were white, the deceased
having been unmarried. The coffin was covered with black
cloth, and on the lid were small laurel branches. His sister
who had arrived in the course of the morning and claimed
the body, walked after the coffin as chief mourner, her
head covered with • dark hood. She was accompanied
by relatives. Two clergymen walked alongside, appa-
rently comforting the afflicted woman. The procession
closed by a body of men who walked silently along. Almost
every shop in the town was partially rioted, as • tribute
to the deceased. A shopkeeper in the town, with whom I
was conversing on the subject, anti who bad nut put up
any shutters, said to me, referring to the display made at
the funeral, "That would not be done for the Earl of
Kingston, if he were going to be buried." The family
burial place of the Crowley' is nearly 30 miles from this
town, and the body, I was told, will be brought along
the road through the country for the entire of that
distance. Referring to the deceased's man's position in
life, and his very excellent character, I asked a magis-
trate how it was such • man came to be • Fenian.
" I will tell you," said he, " what I bear the towns-
people state. He had an uncle a priest in
this town who was flogged in the year "38. The rancour
engendered by this outrage seems to have been cherished
in the family, and to bare made treason an heirloom with
its descendants. However, I offer no comments. In the
dischargeof my duty I relate what I have heardon the sub-
ject with the view of accounting for the strange exhibition
of feeling made to-day at the funeral. The same shop-
keeper, to whom I have before referred, told me that there
would hare been a much larger attendance of men were it
not known that the police would mark all the men who
appeared in the procession, and that it was in conse-
'luence of this the women, who did nut fear the police,
made the strange demonstration I have mentioned. The
police speak in high terms of the sister of the deceased.
They say she in evidently a respectable woman, and Reed
with great propriety. She appeared to suffer poignant
sorrow.

ROYAL VISIT TO ST. BARTHOLOMEW's HOSPITAL.—
At half-past I o'clock itriterday afternoon the Prince of
Wales and the King and Queen of Denmark visited St.
Bartholomew's Hospital. They were received by Mr.
Paget, the senior surgeon of the hospital, and by Mr.
Forster White, the treasurer, and were attended by some
of the members of their suite. They spent upwards of an
hour in the different wards of the hospital. When they
were in the Abernethy ward, Mr. Paget introduced the
sister of that ward to his Majesty as the senior sister of
the hospital wards. His Majesty was then shown the
operating-room, and he viewed with great interest the
chloroform inhaling process. He then visited the museum,
and admired many of the curiosities in it. The Prince of
Wales spoke to several of the patients in the wards and
took especial interest in the case of • little girl in the
Lucas ward for • surgical operation. The royal party hav-
ing bean shown over the hospital, which contains over 500
patients, left the building, expressing t4eir gratification at
the great care taken to secure comfort for the sick in
that institution.

WHAT THE JAPANEME HAVE TO EXPECT.—It is a
hopeful symptom of the readiness with which this skilful
people adopt the applituroes of modern civilisation, that in
Nagasaki and Yokohama the manufacture of Western
false weights and measures is said to be progressing satin
factorily ; while modes of adulterating food, formerly
unsuspected by them, are being rapidly and extensively
introduced by some of our most experienced adulterators.
It is only to be expected that, with the spread of our com-
mercial relations, they will acquire from us new and more
scientific methods of fraud, and before lung we may anti-
cipate with pleasure the news of the first Japanese bank-
ruptcy. This is a commercial novelty which cannot fail
deeply to impress a people who have been limited all their
lives to the narrow teachings of Confucian morality. Al-
though Ted() is • city nearly as large as Loudon, except •
few religious mendicants there is scarcely a beggar to be
seen. It a anticipated that the complete financial revo-
lution which the introduction of the Western commercial
system will produce, may largely increase this portion of
the population, and enable the Japanese government to
adopt our admirable workhouse system, with all the in-
cidental advantages of " guardian's," • " poor-law board,"
fie., at present unknown to them ; and the Prince of Sat-
suma, when he understands political economy, will never
again be so absurd as to have the whole infant population
of his principality vaccinated at hie own private expense
as he did the other day. He will also see that in highly
civilised communities a free system of national education
is not considered necessary, one of the benighted delu-
sions under which he is now Warming ; and be will pro-
bably abolish the free schools devoted to the inculcation of
the moral precepts of Confucius. In fact, Confucius him-
self will, before long, be found out to be an impostor, and
the great principle of self-sacrifice, which lied at the root
of Jammers public and private morality, will be perceived
to be • delusion and a snare. The Japanese will no longer
put his duty to the race of defunct Ilikados first, and his
country second, and his prince third, and himself last,
as at present ; for he will bear from the professing Chris-
tians with whom he associates that the only principle
they know of is " to look after number one ;" and so, what
with contact with the flippant Frenchman, and the vulgar
Englishman, and the smart Yankee, the Japanese will be
cured of those sentiments of patriotic fanaticism which
find their development in an exaggerated form in self-
immolation, and even justify political essaminaimins ; but
he will also be cured of all those heroic qualities which
' contrast so favourably with any possessed by those with
whom he has recently come in contact. Ile will lose that
simplicity which enables him to believe profoundly in
great principles, which knows not the meaning of compro-
mise, and which prompts him to throw away his life with-
out a thought in the discharge of what he believes to be
dm
his ty.—Blockwood's Maya:int for April.

[STAMPED, id.

italuil itn7s Military.

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CHATHAM, AP= 3.
This morning Mr. H. T. L. Corry, M.P. First
Lord of the Admiralty, accompanied by Mr. C. Di: Cane,
M.P., civil lord ; Rear-Admiral R. B. Robinson, Controller
of the Navy ; Major A. Clarke, Royal Engineers, Principal
Director of Admiralty Works ; and Captain T. Brandreth,
private secretary to the First Lord, arrived at this dock.
yard from the Admiralty on • visit of inspection to the
naval establishment at this port. On arriving at the dock-
Sard, their lordships were received by Captain W. Houston
tewart, C. 8., superintendent, and the other officials of
the establishment, and having traneacted some official busi-
ness with Captain Stewart and the other beads of de-
partments, proceeded on a tour of inspection of the
establishment, visiting the ironclad ships Hercules
and Monarch, in the inspection of which they
were occupied • considerable time. Both ',easels,
although commenced but a comparatively short time since,
are in a very forward state, there being little doubt that
they will be completed and ready for launching by the
close of the present year. The members of the board also
inspected the Blanche and the Myrmidon, unarmoured
ships, which will be ready for launching during the
present summer. After taking luncheon at the official
residence of Captain W. H. Stewart, C. 8., their lordships
and the other members of the board resumed their inspec-
tion of the establishment, during which they visited the
dockyard smithery and witnessed the operation of forging
in one piece the ise iron stemposit for the ironclad
frigate. The remainder of the afternoon was devoted by
their lordabips to a lengthened visit of
i inspection to St.
Mary's Island, where they spent some hours n going over
the extensive works now in erogress for the extension of
the dockyard, by the formation of additional docks and
basins, this portion of the inspection occupying their lord-
ships until late in the afternoon.
WOOLWICH, APRIL 3.

His Royal Highness Prince Arthur previous to
entering upon his studies as a cadet at the Royal Military
Academy was under the inatniction of Professors Lovey
and Felling—the former for French and the latter for
German. A few days since the gentlemen named, who
have for some years been attached to the Academy, re-
ceived from her Majesty the Queen a large sired portrait
of the Prince, which was accompanied by • letter ex-
pressive of her Majesty's gratification with the proficiency
which his royal highness had attained in French and Ger-
man under the tuition of the professors, and hoping th►t
the portraits would long remind them of their pupiL

ADMIRALTY, APRIL 2. APPOINTMENTS.
Masters—J. G. Stobin, is command, to the Vindictive ;
G. Marsh, to the Minotaur.:
Second Master—J. Henderson, to the Minotaur.
Lieutenants—T. V. Williams, to the Chanticleer; W.
H. Childers, to the Canopus ; F. S. Clayton, to the
Donegal • J. R. D. Cooper, F. Durrant, F. G. Jambier,
W. G. De Cool, and H. P. Greentell, to the Minotaur.
Sub-Lieutenant--C. J. Fellowes, to the Minotaur.
Master's Amistant—J. Jeans, to the Minotaur.
Paymaster—W. H. Richards, to the Minotaur.
Assistant-Paymasters—W. A. Stevens, to the Minotaur ;
E. Grant, to the Research.
Midshipmen—E. C. liobkirk, F. H. Taber, T. Holmes,
H. H. H. Brooke, H. L. Megum, K C. Chippendale, W. L
Rundle, and J. A. Horne, to the Minotaur; R. W.
Fawkes, to the Bristol; and C. S. Fuller, to the Chanti-
cleer, as supernumeraries to fill the first vacancy.
Clerks—A. Turner, H. Howell, and F. B. S. Robinson,
additional, to the Minotaur.

Aatiatant•Clerk—W. E. Gill, to the Minotaur.
Naval Cadets—The Hon. G. M. Bennet and C. W.
Fallen, to the Minotaur.
ADMIRALTY, APRIL 3.—Areournalorns.--Com-
mender N. 11. Smith, to the Minotaur.
Lieutenants the Hon. K S. Dawson, to be flag lieute-
nant to Rear Admiral Warden, C.B. ; G. G. Webber, to
the Bellerophon.
Surgeon H. Loney, to the Royal George.

WAIL-OFFICE, Dimwit 30.—Thu Queen has boon
graciously pleased to give orders for the appointment of
the following wheels of the Royal Engineers, via. :—Lieu-
tenant-Colonel Wilbraham Oates Lennox, V.C., Lieute-
nant-Colonel Gerald Graham, V.C., and Lieutenant-Colo-
nel Anthony Charles Cooke, to be ordinary members of
the military division of the third class, or companions of
the most honourable Order of the Rath.—Caatle.

SERIOUS O‘CURRENCE AT ALDERSHOT.—Yester-
day an accident, which it is feared will end fatally, oc-
curred to • private soldier named Joseph Coleman, of the
Ist battalion 18th Royal Irish Regiment, while at target
practice at the rifle ranges, South Camp, Aldershot. It
appears that a party of recruits, under the command of
the Inspector of Meaketry, had been at rifle practice, and
had piled their arms, when some of the men commenced
larking. One of them, named Private Edward Halpin,
was seen to take his rifle and to load it with ball cart-
ridge. Some of the party thereupon called out, "Halpin
is loading his rifle," but the incident did not, as it ap-
pears, provoke any further notice, until Private Halpin
shouted, " Look out, Coleman," at the same moment
pointing the rifle at a man of that name. The rifle
was fired, and the bullet struck Coleman's right hand,
shattering it fearfully, and entered his right shoulder
close by the joint, where it lodged. The wounatsl man
was directly removed to the hospital of the regiment,
where several of the principal medical officers in camp
emunined his wounds. It was decided that the poor to.
low's arm must be amputated from the shoulder, and the
operation was successfully performed. Private Halpin
was immediately confined m the regimental guard-room.
Late in the afternoon he was taken to the hospital under
military escort, when the depositions of Private Coleman
ware taken. Both men are quite young soldiers. Private
Halpin is a short and by no means soldier-like man in ap-
pearance, and does not look more than nineteen years of
age. Although he was seen to charge his breechloader
quite deliberately, the prevailing impression among his
comrades is that the occurrence was purely accidental, and
that the prisoner loaded his weapon intending to com-
mence firing at the target as soon as the order should be
given.
SHOCK !NO MURDER AT MANCHESTER.—Yester-
day morning a smart soldier-like man, named Joseph Wood,
aged 3d, and recently employed as a letter carrier at the
Blanchester Post-office, was brought before the magistrates
charged with the murder of his wife, Elisabeth Ann Wood,
aged 33 years. The police stated that they were not yet
prepared with evidence. The murder was supposed to
have taken place about 7 o'clock the previous evening, at
10, Back Ash-street, Oldham-road, but no notice was
given till about 3 o'clock yesterday morning, when the
policeman on the beat was summoned to the house, and
found the unfortunate woman lying in a corner of a bed-
room, with her throat cut and several gashes on other parts
of her body. She had apparently been dead some hours.
The prisoner came into the house about 20 minutes after-
wards, and was taken into curtaly. On this statement
the prisoner was remanded for further examination. On
inquiring at the Livesey-street police-station, to which the
prioner had first been taken, it was stated that he had
been a soldier, and had served with some distinction in the
Crimea. He wore a medal, and besides • pension of 9d.
per day he was in receipt of ~1. • year for meritorious ser-
vices. On the police-officer on the beat receiving intend
ence of the murder he went to the house, and found
the deceased lying in a corner of the bedroom,
with her head resting on a pillow. She was
almost covered with blood. There was • cut on
the upper lip, and • deep cut under the right
arm, but her throat was not cut, as stated aleve. Ste
was lying in a pool of blood, and a knife smeared with
blood was lying near her. A rum with blood on the blade
was also lying on the floor. Three children of the prisoner
and the deceased were lying on a bed asleep, in the saute
room. The prisoner entered the house about 20 minutes
after the policemen arrived, and on being examined he
was found to have his bands stained with blood. He was
drunk, and stated that be knew nothing about it. He
had been drawing his month's pension that aay, which
was 235., and be had about W. left. A long brush
handle was found in the room, and it is gathered from the
statements of the children that the husband and wife,
shout? o'clock on Tuesday night, had been quarrelling
and had fought, the husband with the knife, the wife de-
fending herself with the brush handle. The brush handle
had a great number of cuts upon it. The wife IEOI had
some rum with her husband during the day, and it in
thought possible that in her helplessness from that cause
she may have lain down and bled to death frost wounds
which might not have proved fatal but for neglect. The
eldest boy is ten years old, sod is named Inkerman. The
second child, also a boy, is named Alma—the pri‘oner
having a fancy that led him to name all his children after
battles in which he had fought.
The death is announced, after a lung illness, of
Mr. lladdeley, C.E. He was the inventor of the patent
canvas now used by the fire brigade, the patent hose reel,
the farmers' fire engine (which is made by Merryweather
and Sons, of Long-acre). and was for years connected with
the dlerlscinics• Maw:loge. He bad for twenty years been
an inspector of the Royal Society for the Protection of
Life from Fire, but owing to ill health he retired a few
months ago, the committee awarding him 200 f. as a mark
for past services.
BREAK FAST. —EPPS'S COCOA.—The very Agreeable
character of this preparation has rendered it *general favourite.
Nee:ermine anti ■•O3/11illg. with a refined awl giatelal flavour
developed by the special mode of preparation applied, this COO*
is used as their lialdtual beverage for breakfast by thourands
who never UMNI COCO. before. "Cocoa stands very much higher
than coffee or tea." Dr. Daman says, "and contains every Ingre•
client necessary to the growth and austeaanco of the body." It
is made simply by pouring boiling water ut milk on the prepare-
tten as sold. lib., Ilb , and llh packets. This Cocoa, as being
EirlSZed
by.pas. Epps, the llonneopathic Chemist Orb bas-
in thb country, is very generally celled Eppe's Bosom-
pantie Cams.—ladvertimmentj

[TWOPENCE

THE "SUNDAY EVENINGS FOR THE PEOPLE"

QUESTION.

A public meeting, convened by the National
Sunday League, was held yesterday evening in the grrat
chamber of St. James's-hall for the purpose of considenng
the steps about to be taken with regard to the recent sup-
pression, by process of law, of the Sunday evening lectures
at St. Martin'sdialL The attendance was both numerous
and respectable, the door and galleries of the hall being
fully occupied. The platform was also crowded. Sir Joni(
BOWRING, who was called to the chair, announced that be-
fore be addressed the meeting some correspondence would
be read by Mr. Morrell, the secretary, and afterwards Mr.
J. Baxter Langley, and Mr. W. Shun, the solicitor to the
League, would give a short history of the Sunday lecture
movement, and of the legal proceedings which had been
taken to stop it.
Mr. Moaaett read letters from many public men ex•
pressing regret at being unable to attend the meeting, in
the object of which they thoroughly concurred. krona
their correspondence the following extracts are taken
Earl Granville (in reply to an invite to take the chair)
regrets that his necessary attendance in Paris at the time
will prevent his doing so. In a previons letter his lord-
ship alludes to his having on every public occasion declared
himself in favour of innocent and rational recreation on
Sunday. Mr. J. S. Mill, M.P.,saya: "As there sui,lthink,
be no doubt in the mind of anyone who does not consider
the dogmatic inculcation of religious tenets as the only
proper use of Sunday, that the 'Sunday Evenings for
the People' are calculated to supply a want, and do a
great deal of good ; it is very much to be wished that the
question of their legality could be fully and fairly tried
before the proper tribunals. The late proceedings at Bow-
street seemed to hold out the hope that the issue would be
fairly raised before the superior courts, and that the Sun-
day evenings would not be interfered with while it wail
pending. I much regret If anything has mulled to defeat
this reasonable hope."—Marth 16.—Again, on March 21, he
writes that the pressure of parliamentary duties would
prevent his coining to the meeting, unlessit were a matter
of great necessity—he rejoices that Lord Amberley is
moving the question in the house, and expresses his wil-
lingness to subscribe to the defence fund. Mr.
Samuel Morley says that while his personal sympathies
are not with the Sunday Evenings for the People,
at the same time he disapproves of enacting or putting
in force any legislation which shall prevent us from holding
meetings which be believes are not disorderly and do not
interfere with the peace and liberty of others. The free-
dom which he claims and takes for himself be wishes to
concede to others. Professor Goldwin Smith (having
previously expressed his willingness, cinnunstaaces per-
mitting, to take part in the Sunday Evenings for the
People), regrets that it will not be in his power to attend
the meeting. Mr. W. IL Gregory, M.P., bas never held but
one opinion, and has invarielilyexpreassal it in the House of
Commons, that innocent recreation, whether by the open-
ing of museums and galleries, or by attendance on evening
lectures, is perfectly compatible with the proper observ-
ance of Sunday. This is essentially • working man's ques-
tion, and that it should not have been more frequently
• urged.by that class surprises him. The apprehension that
a relaxation of the.puntanical observance of the Sabbath
would bring with it the introduction of labour on that day
is perfectly visionary ; he has seen no signs of it in Dublin.
Sir Colman O'Logitren, M.P., will support Lord Amber-
ley's bill; and theHoh. IL W. Grosvenor, M.P., thinks
the objects of the League ought to be widely known.
Sir John Lubbock encloses If. for the defeuce fund, with
the remark that, " our toleration is only akin deep after
all." Mr. Samuel Courtauld sends 26/, with lest wishes
forsuccess. Mr. E. I'. Wolstenholine, lot. ; and Mr. U.
Etches, of Derby, 201. Mr. Goeelsen, M.P., Mr. P. A.
Taylor, M.P., Mr. Hervey Lewis, M.P., and Mr. Joseph
Cowen, ALP., also sympathise with the objects the League
' has in view.

The meeting was subsequently Wressed, is movers and
seconders of the resolutions, by Mfr. Sheen, the ker. W.
Kirkus, Mr. J. Westlake, the Kev.. W. Dasooigne, Mr.
W. B. Hodgson, LLD., and Mr. Charles Mackiy, LL.D.
The resolutions, which were unanimouslyassented to, were
as follows:
1. That, In the opinion of this meet hut, true religious freeloss

is inirossilde wider any system or lawwhich enablea any one body
of re isionisbi tat suppler the religions 'lva-rabies of any other
persons. and that, therefore, without approving or condemning
any particular form of worship Or religiiiii maistation, It pro-
tests against the offensive proceedings adopted by Mr. Baxter.
the representative of the Salthatarian party, as oppoted to the
principles of religious freedom, inconsistent with the sentiment
of Christian charity, and as unworthy if the enlightened lite-
rality of the age in which we live. That this nieetbig
nevertheless rejoices that the nature of the art of parliament
21 Geo. 111.. c 49. will now stand exposcil by the proseeut ion
against the promoters of the Sunday Evenings for the People,
and that the infamous nature of Its twirl:mints Ming known, it
must ere long be swept away, with wierolosilete and tyrannical
laws. or amended to suit the requirements of the lime. 2. That
lids sheeting emphatically records its condi musition of the pro_
lis of Mr. Robert Barter, the chairman 4 the Lontailay
0 Society, In seeking to suppress the Sunday Even-
ings for the People: grst,Thy the use of the most offen-
sive weans provided by en obsolete law; and, second,
by the abuse of his influence with the ilidilleses
marlstrates, and his threats to deprive the prig eta, 4. of St.
Martin's-hall of his music theme . and thin meeting therefore
plesiecs Itself to summit the committee of the aAotiation by
subeeriptiona for the defence of these actions, itethrated lay
bigotry, arid pursued and mnltiplksi in a spirit of fanatical
vindictiveness. 2. That a memorial to the ithlitleici magis-
trates, setting forth the farts, and the threatened *low° of
their licensing powers, and a petition to the Home of Commies
in support of the motion of Lord Andre:ley. for a repeal of this
21 tlerii Ili. C. 49, be signed by the chairman to behalf of this
meeting.
The meeting separated at a late hour, after passing a
vote of thanks to the chairman, and snaking a subscription
towards the defence fund.