The Express.
London, England, 1867-11-13 00:00:00

AE•APPREUEYSION OF NtGLNT.

As John Francis Nugent, one a the prisoners acquitted
on the charge of murder. and agninvt whom a nolle prosequi
had been entered for • misdentennour, was leaving the
court this morning he was re-apprehended by Head-
constable Thomas Welby, of the Irish constabulary, on •
lord-lieutenant's warrant, on a charge of treason-felony.
Nugent was one of those who was concerned in the recent
rising, in the north of Ireland, at Drogheda, in March last,
and only escaped from the police on that occasion by
jumping from a window when they were on the point of
arresting him. He was handcutkil on being arrested this
morning, and removed to Albert•street station, and will be
taken to Dublin this afternoon.

STE P LTIIISERS WITH THE FENIAN CONVICTS.— I
On Monday evening a meeting of about fifteen gentlemen
and four ladies, presided over by Mr. D. Brewster, was
held at the Trevelyan Hotel, Manchester, for the purpose
of taking steps to " obtain a commutation of the sentence
of death recently passed upon the condemned Fenian pri-
soners." The chairman read • letter from the Rev. IL W.
11L'All, the convener of the meeting, in which that gentle.
man expressed his regret that he could not be present. He
advised that the broadest grounds of philanthrz.py should
be taken, and urged that a thorough union of the Irish peo-
ple with the English could never be brought about by stern-
nem. Mr. Michael Smith said that the whole circumstances
attending the recent outbreak were of a painful character,
and it was exceedingly painful that it should have caused
an outburst of passion in the public mind against the pri-
soners, especially as there was no reasonable foundation
fur it. The five prisoners convicted of murder
were guilty of a grave offence, hut it wee a
serious question whether the punishment of death
ought to be resorted to. The offence was only murder
technically and dt,t really. The offenders were men of
good character, fathers of families, and, for anything ho
know, good citizens. They did not shed blood until the
affray was nearly over, and then with great reluctance.
At their trial they all declared their sorrow for the death
of poor Brett. If then their offence was murder, it was
accompanied by extenuating circumstances. Looking at
the crime as be did, from a moral and not a legal point of
view, he considered that those men were engaged in •
political undertaking. They hail tried argument, agita-
tion, and moral 'anamon, and they had come to the conclu-
sion that nothing remained but physical force, and in re-
sorting to that force they were prepared oven to sacrifice
their lives. All that might be misguided patriotism, but
the men were acting from conviction. He, therefore,
considered that, on the grounds of policy, inte•
rest, duty, and expediency, the lives of the five
convicted Fenian. ought to be spared. Mr. L.
A. Atherley-Jones proposed • resolution forming the
meeting into a committee to obtain the clemency of the
crown for the whole of the prisoners convicted of murder.
lie said that in their minds these men were Garibaldians;
they thought they were struggling to obtain what in their
Opinion was a great and good end—the rescue of men from
what they considered unjust imprisonment. Mr. B.Whit-
worth, jun., seconded the motion. A Mr. Reynolds urged
the meeting not to attempt impossibilities. He rid he
considered there was no chance whatever of saving the
whole, and he thought they should refrain from attempt-
ing to obtain the commutation of the sentence of Allen,
he having been proved to be the person who fired the fatal
shot. The resolution was, however, agreed to, and a me-
morial in accordance with it was adopted. the sentence
of the law, in all probability, if no commutation be re-
ceived, will be carried out next Saturday fortnight. Allen
has been visited by his mother since his incarceration, and
Maguire was visited on Saturday last by his two sisters.
ice Mr. Just Blackburn having refused to receive the depu-
tation appointed on Friday last to wait upon him with re-
gard to Maguire's ewe, the memorial will be presented to
the Homo Secretary to-day by Mr. Watkin, M.P., Mr.
Baxley, M.P., and other gentlemen.
CONFERENCE OF " THE WORKING MEN'S CON-
STITUTIONAL AMBOCIATTON."—A conference of members of
" the Working Men's Constitutional Association " was held
yesterday at the Freemasons' Tavern, Great Queen-street,
at which the following associations throughout the country
were represented :—Bacup, Bath, Birmingham and six
branches, Blackburn, Bolton, Bristol, Carlisle, Canterbury,
Chatham, Colchester Crewe, Charlton, Croydon, Dept-
ford, Devonport Dover, Eccles, Falmouth, Gravesend,
Greenwich, Guililford, Hull, Harwich, Halifax, Hert-
ford, Hereford, Hastings, Idle, Ipswich, Kidderminster,
King's Lynn, Lambeth, London and Westminster and
four branches, Liverpool, Manchester, Maidstone, Nor-
Newcasle,Pecam, Penryn, Portsmouth, Reading,
Rochester, Rotherhithe, Shipley. Stale bridge, Stafford,
North Staffordshire, South °nett, Wakefield, Wool-
wich, Westminster, Yorkshire Union (Leeds), York-
shire Unicn (York), University of London (graduates).
Mr. Gond, M.Y. for Cambridge, was in the chair. Vis-
count Hohnesdale, M.P. was to have presided, but was
unable to be present. Letters of apology were also read
from the Earl of Dartmouth and the Right Hon. Gathorne
Hardy, H.P. The chairman said that this would be
strictly a business meeting. This great organisation de-
sired, by a perfectly constitutional course, to express the
views of its members respecting the government of the
country, and the aim they had was to make conservative
principles effective among the masses. The report stated
that the object of that meeting was to settle the rules and
to appoint the first officers of the institution. The object
of the union was to strengthen the local institutions
of this kind where they existed, and to encourage the
formation of them where they were not in existence, and
to establish a means of central action. The rules were
then read over, each rule being taken seriatim, and
opportunity was afforded for discussion upon each.
Mr. Cecil Raikes moved, and Mr. Wilson seconded, •
motion that the conference of 1%8 should be held at Leeds,
and, if so, that Lord Faversham should be asked to pre-
side. Mr. Edwards proposed an amendment that Binning-
ham should be selected, thinking that nothing could further
conservatism more than holding the first meeting of the
union in the stronghold of John Bright. Mr. Green
urged the claims of Leeds, and another representative
those of Newcastle. Birmingham wasthe town ultimately
chosen, amidst the loud cheers of its representatives,
the time being left in the hands of the council. Lord
Dartmouth was then elected president for the forthcoming
year. The meeting then proceeded to elect the officers, and
the proceedings closed with a vote of thanks to the chair.
man.

LAB DRIVERS AND THE METROPOLITAN TRAFTTC
BILL.—A numerously attended meeting of cab drivers was
held last evening in the Cambridge-hall, Newmamatreet,
Oxford-street, for the purpose of " considering the ob-
noxious lamp and other oppressive clauses in the Metro-
politan Traffic Bill, and to adopt such measures as may
then and there be deemed necessary." Mr. J. S. Gower
occupied the chair, and said that looking at the meeting
that had been held by the masters a short time ago, who
represented 4,000 plates, be thought there was no
doubt that this unjust act would be repealed, seeing that
master and man worked together. The chairman went on
to state that east, west, north, and south not a lamp had
been seen by him, and this gays him every confidence in
the result of their agitation. He feared, however, that
after the first of next year the Secretary of State would
prove the reverse of lenient. Mr. G. Mann moved, " That
this meeting declares the compulsory use of lamps to be
obnoxious, because the oil becomes thick and freezes in the
winter season and will not burn, and that as the lamps
will be liable to inspection between sunrise and sunset,
and as experience bas shown that the penalty would be in-
flicted on the driver and not on the proprietor, it coo-
eiders that the enforcing of the act would be attended
with great difficulty and loss." The motion was seconded
by Mr. R. Evans, and carried unanimously. Mr. F. Behr
then proposed, "That this meeting declares that it canal-
ders,from its practical knowledge, it would be detrimental to
both employers and employed, to hare one shilling hiring
from the stand and sixpence off the stand, as it would in.
crease the sixpenny traffic with no advantage to the public,
and would cause more dissatisfaction than the former law
has done." Mr. G. Smith seconded the motion, which was
carried unanimously. It was then moved by Mr. G. W.
Turner, and seconded by Mr. Sawyer, "That it is the
opinion of this meeting that it is unjust to legislate against
cabs end not against the more dangerous traffic, and
that the only necessity for doing so is that parliament bad
the power ; therefore we, in conjunction with the pro-
prietors, do resist with all justifiable means in our power
the oppressive, obnoxious, and tyrannous act."

THE LIGHTING 07 HYDE-PARK.—An improve-
ment has just been effected in the lighting of Hyde-park,
by the substitution of • new kind of lamp for the defective
ones lately in use. They are constructed on • new prin-
ciple. The old• fashioned gas lamps are so constructed that
the rays, instead of being deflected downwards, are allowed
to ascend, and thus a great quantity of valuable light is
lost. The new lamps are so contrived that the light will
be shed directly down upon the pavement beneath.
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