The Express.
London, England, 1867-09-20 00:00:00

THE FENIAN OUTRAGE AT MANCHESTER.

MANCHESTER, THURSDAY E'VENTNC.

No further violence is reported to-day, nor is any out-
break apprehended. Nearly thirty prisoners have been
apprehended as the result of the chase last night and the
search in those districts where Fenian sympathisers are
known to resort. The whole of the prisoners were
examined before the magistrates this afternoon merely
to be identified as having been seen engaged in the
attack, and they were at once remanded for a week.
They are lodged at the central police station under a
guard of fifty of the 57th Foot, commanded by Captain
Halsted. An escort of the Bth Hussars accompanied the
prisoners when they were removed from the lock-ups to the
police-court and back again, a distance of about 200 yards.
The streets were much thronged with lookers-on, who at-
tempted no disorder.

The following are the names of the prisoners captured,
and the charges against them: —For wilful murder : Wil-
liam O'Meara Allen and Michael Larkin. For riot and
murder :—William Martin, clerk, aged 35 •; William Gould,
clerk, 30 ; Louis Moore, joiner, SG; Patrick Hogan,
labourer, 26 ; John Carrel, labourer, 23; Charles
, MOOT-
house clerk, 22; John Gleeson, labourer, 42 ; Patrick
Barregan, labourer, 49 ; Henry Wilson, clothes dealer,
28, at whose house Kelly and Deasy were first appre-
hended ; Michael Joseph Boylend, schoolmaster, 37 ;
William Wells, labourer, 29 ; Michael Corooran labourer,
29 ; Edward Shore alias Short, traveller, 26 ; John Butler,
weaver, 54; Patrick Cloney, scavenger, 69 ; Patrick Kelly,
labourer, Plt; Michael M'Ottire, clothes dealer, Smithfield
Market, 32; Patrick Daley, tailor, 36 ; William Luther,
striker, 19 ; James Woods, heckler, *2-2. The two Fenian
leaders are still at large.
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An exciting scene took place this morning at the A
Division police station, on the occasion of the prisoners
being placed in line for identification. A great crowd of
people blocked Albert-street, and manifested an intense
eagerness to secure a good stand-point whence they
could view the probable removal of the prisoners to the
city court.
In the rear of the station the military were dr►wn up in
line, each man having 20 rounds of ammunition. The
prisoners were arrayed along the main corridor, and as
witnme after witness passed up and down the line, the ex.
premien on the prisoners' countenances showed in most
cases that the men had something like the " courage of
despair." Occasionally some of the witnesses would have
to repeat their walk up and down more than one*. Not a
word was spoken during each single progress. The several
witnesses, after the inspections, communicated their know-
ledge to a sergeant in charge.
Charles Thomas, a plumber and glazier, identified Allen,
Larkin, and two others. He had observed them before,
during, and after the affray. Before the attack he was
watching them from over a wall, standing on a dog.kennel.
He saw one of them run from the Hyde-road Hotel and
give the word to the others, and immediately afterwards
the van came in sigbt. Two of the men, whom he is able
to identify, he saw drawing a revolver each, and they ap-
peared so deliberate that be said to a neighbour, " Good
Ood, these men are going to fight a duel." He observed
Allen, who was dressed in a light coat, with • pistol in
each band, and when he was not firing he was hammering
away at the van. He saw him fire the shot into the van.

Edwin Walton, a japariner, in Mr. Port's employ, An.
coats, besides observing Allen, gave much of his atten-
tion to another man, who appeared to be an officer of
the ;sag. He was well dressed, wore a hat, and the lappels
of his coat were bordered with worked Bilk. He also had
a light moustache. After the rescue this witness joined
in the pursuit, and while others chased Allen he went
after the well-dressed man. He came up with him at the
wall near Ashton-road, and helped to capture him. He
also identified three others.

Junes Mayer a barman, identiEed Allen and two others.
When Sergeant come headlong out of the van, Allen,
who had been a little distance exchanging his discharged
revolver for a fresh one, rushed to the front, and swore he
*fluid shoot anybody dead who came near. After the
flight the witness followed theta. Kelly and Deasey were
in handcuffs. When they got to a wall, Allen jumped up,
and got hold of Kelly's arms to pull him after him, while
some men below hoisted him at the same time. The other
officer tried to help one of the other men over in the same
way, but ho could not, and he ran away. This other man
was captured.

William Hughes, a locomotive fitter, in the employ of
4oyer and Peacock, identified six of them. He saw Allen
lie three times while the constables were kept at bay.
Oneof his shots took effect in Prowsen's heel, who cried,
"My God, I'm shot !" He also saw the other officer, the
man with the lappelled coat. He noticed, while they were
waiting for the van to come up, this man seemed to be
receiving news and giving orders.

Thomas Sperry, in the employ of the Midland Railway
Company, identified three as the men he saw running
across the line, pursued and pelted by some platelayers.
He did not know what had occurred at the time, but, as
be said, the platelayers " were making it so hot for them"
that he could not help noticing it.
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John Hayes, master brickburner, was in hie croft during
the nadir. He saw the whole affair. Two of the men
whom ho now identified were trying to turn the horses'
heads towards Manchester, and as they plunged a good deal
one of the men fired his revolver into the animal's nostrils,
and then b ,th of the men tried to pull the brute on his
haunches. Allen at this time was keeping guard, daring
the crowd to interfere. After Allen had fired severalsbots,
witness saw him go to a man on the other side of the arch
and change pistols. Two other men, whom the wittier
identified, took a leading part. One of them, cautioning
his comrades, said, " Don't shoot, or you'll hit Allen." (At
this time Allen was in the van.) Larkin seemed to be
taking charge of Desaey in the same way Allen was attend-
ing to Kelly. Witness followed the crowd as far u Ber-
wick, and was present when Allen was captured. Allen
had then twenty rounds of cartridge for breech-loaders,
but had been so hard pressed that he had no time to load.

A Court of Common Council was held yesterday
a* Guildhall, thia being the first after the vacation ; the
Lord Mayor presided. _ .

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THE DINNER QuairrioN.—Last night a public
meetin", convened under the auspices of the Working-
men's Club and Institute Union, was held at the hall of
die Clerkenwell Club, 46, Lower Rosonian-street, Clerken.
well, to consider the propriety of establishing co-operative
dining-rooms in the metropolis. Mr. Hamilton Hoare
occupied the chair. He said the contemplated movement
would be obviously for the advantage of the people, whom
it was intended to benefit, and the only difficulty in con-
nexi' n with it was with regard to the carrying out of the
details. The chairmen then introduced Mr. Pattiaon, of
the Working Men's Club and Institute Union, who, after
remarking that he had long felt the waste of health, time,
and money, on the part of clerks, working-men, and others,
accustomed to dine at refreshment houses, occasioned by
badly served and high-priced dinners, proceded to explain
how, in his opinion, the evil coUld be remedied. He
raid that a central association could be formed
to purchase provisions at the lowest possible rate,
and that in any locality • number of persona
might hire a house for dining and club pur-
poses. A good dinner of meat and vegetables could be
served for Ird., and no gratuity need be paid to the waiters.
?he cost of the dinner would be made up of the following
items, meat 4,1., potatoes Id., vegetables 2d., service and
ether expenses 24. A resolution to the effect that it was
advisable to establish dining rooms on the co-operative
principle was then put, and evoked a long discussion,
some of those present expressing themselves against
associating the movement in any way with the Working
men's Club and Institute Union. A gentleman who said
he attended in consequence of what be had seen in the
papers on the subject of City dinners, but who did not
wish his name to be given to the public, stated he bad
concluded the purchase of two buildings, one within ten
minutes' walk of the Bank of England, and the other in
the vicinity of the new law courts, in which accommodation
for dining purposes would be afforded on an extended
scale. He had also secured the leasehold of land on the
Brighton and South Eastern Railways, on which it was in-
tended to erect two homes for young men engaged in the
City. The resolution was ultimately adopted, and the
proceedings terminated.
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/sumo APTlTunn.—The claim of the African to
equal mental capacity with the European is illustrated,
against the Hunts and Cravrfurds at Dundee, by the emir
of young James Solomon, a pure negro, who has taken •
first-class second division certificate in the Oxford Middle-
class Examination, and means to matriculate in the Lon-
don University at Christmas. Dr. Aldom, of le ton, his
tutor, states that he is the son of a native Weelerui
minister on the Gold Coast, and when he came to Eng-
land hail bad no teaching but what he received in a native
whorl—English Independent.
As UNHAPPY SHOT.—In the fall and winter of
186)-6, the 50th Wisconsin Regiment, while on the way
from Fort Kendall. which they had been garrisoning, to
Fort Rice, camped one night at Crow Creek. While in
camp one of the captains spied what he took to be an
Indian on the brow of • hill about half a mile distant. The
captain called out to one of his men, and pointing out to
him the person on the bill, said, " Do you suppose you
can pick that fellow off ?" when the soldier answered.
" I'll try," and, drawing up his rifle, he fired, and the
man fell down dead. On repairing to the spos where the
dead man lay, they found, to their inexpressible asto-
nishment and mortification, that the man shot was •
brother of the captain who ordered the firing. Language
would fail to express the grief of the captain at what had
been done. The soldier was arrested and brought down
to Yankton on • charge of murder, but the grand Or, at
the October term of 1865, having failed to find an indict.
meat spinet him, he was releamod.—Ner York paper.

THE CHANCELLOR OP THE EXCHEQUER AT

RUOHENDZS.

The harvest home of the pariah and manor of
Hughenden was celebrated yesterday by a thanksgiving I
service in the parish church, and by a dinner and dance in
Hughenden-park in the afternoon. The fineness of the day
drew together • considerable number of visitors as well as
farm labourers and their employers, but an additional
attraction was the presence of the Right Hon. B. Disraeli,
the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who had announced his
intention of presiding at the dinner. At the thanksgiving
service in the morning, prayers were read by the Rev.
C. W. Clubbe, vicar of Hughenden, and an appropriate
sermon was subsequently preached by the Rev. C. Lloyd,
rector of Chalfont, and chaplain to the Bishop of Oxford.
After service dinner was served up to the visitors, farm
labourers, and their employers, in a tent which had been
specially erected for the purpose in Hughenden-park,
fronting Mr. Disraeli's seat, and commanding a magnifi-
cent view of the country around Hughenden and High
Wycombe. In addition to the Chancellor of the Exche-
quer, who presided, there were present Mrs. Disraeli, the
Rev. C. Lloyd, the Rev. Dr. Lee, Sir C. Y. Young, the
Rev. C. W. Clubbe, the Rev. J. Graves, Messrs. J. New-
man, T. S. Chapman, Coates, Hussey, Sc.
The usual loyal and patriotic toasts having been given,
the health of the bishop and clergy of the diocese was re-
sponded to by
The Rev. C. LLOYD, who proposed the health of the
Chancellor of the Exchequer—" The Squire of Hugh-
enden." He presumed that politics were barred at
such gatherings as this, and therefore he would
not say much about them, but perhaps he might
be permitted to say this, that when a man had taken
upon himself to extend the franchise of the country as
hU right hon. friend had done, he bad, in taking this step
of gathering together the people of his parish, done
one of the best things that could possibly be devised as s
safeguard to the step which he had taken in parliament.
When the aristocracy, the gentry, the farmers, and the
peasantry of the country came together, and instead of
finding themselves antagonistic, found themselves united
together with common tastes and common sympathies,
then they would pull together for the common
good. That in his opinion was the way to induce
men whom they entrusted with great powers to make
use of those powers for the benefit of themselves
and of the country at large. He was therefore of opinion
that such things as harvest homes were real safeguards.
They had baud a great deal on • late occasion of safe-
=is; but he thought that when they made • man a
d, they would never be afraid of trusting him with a
weapon. So long as he war looked upon as au enemy, it
might be desirable to have some kind of guard against
hint. He thought the Chancellor of the Exchequer had
supplemented the franchise which he had carried through
parliament in the most admirable manner by calling his
tenantry together at the harvest home in Hughenden.
(Cheers.)
The toast was drunk with great enthusiasm.
The CiiseclLLoß of the ExcHeulEß, in rising to
respond to the toast, was received with much
sheering. He said—l am extremely sensible for your
kindness in drinking my health to-day,and for the manner
in which you have received it. lam not quite up to poli-
tic in the month of September, and therefore you will
excuse my not dilating on the theme which my excellent
friend the Rector of Chalfont has so delicately alluded to.
(Laughter.) I have no doubt that his opinions are per-
fectly sound, but cn the present occasion I will merely say
that nothing gratifies we more than presiding at the har-
vest home of Hughenden. (Cheers.) On the present
occasion I am the more gratified because I think
I can congratulate all around me upon the re-
sults of this harvest. At the present, as there
always is, there is a very great controversy going
on am to the character and result of the general,
harvest of the world—not merely of England, not merely
of Europe, not merely of America—but we bear contrary
accounts and conflicting calculations on that all-important
subject. On the present occasion lam satisfied with the
limited horizon in which we live, and I think I can say
this without exaggeration, that when we met in church
this morning to return thanks to the Giver of all good,
we might sincerely return thanks for a moat 'statu-
tory and plenteous harvest in the parish of Hughenden.
(Cheers.) Whatever may be the amounts that may reach
us from other quarters—whatever may be the criticisms
which others may have arrived at, I think there
is no doubt that in the pariah of Hughenden
we ought to be content with the ingathering
which we have just accomplished. With regard to our
wheat harvest, I think from experiments which have
been made even in our wheat harvest, of which in other
places we have heard such contrary amounts, that we have
realised an average. As regards our barley, it has that bright-
ness which brewers love—(laughter)—and as for our eats,
rarely have I seen such a prolific and golden ingathering.
(Cheers.) Well, then, these are very great re.ults under
all circumstances, and alone would constitute a good bar.
vest, but when I look around me I remember and observe
that these results have been obtained in these varieties of
grain in a district where the root crops are equally dis-
tinguished. Nor ought we to tenet, my friends, at this
moment that this satisfactory and prolific harvest has fol-
lowed one of the finest hay harvests that can be remembered
on the Chiltern-hill,—so gnat and plentiful that seen the
aftermath will exhibit almost as fertile a condition as
our pastures have in less favoured year. in the month
of June. (Cheers.) Well, then, my friends, I think we
have a right to he satisfied, and we ought to be grateful
for the harvest we have just in-gathered in this district
and parish. At this moment lam speaking only of this
parish, with whose interests I am so intimately connected.
and with whose feelings I so deeply sympathise. lint I
think, as far as I can take an impartial survey of our
rural world, there are other things in this parish of not
less importance upon which we may equally con-
gratulate ourselves. In the first place, it is • matter of
great satisfaction that at this moment in the parish of
Hughenden there is no able-bodied labourer who
is not employed at good wages. (Cheers.) We are
indebted, no doubt, for this result to the happy circum-
stance in some degree of that runt manufacture, and the
prosperity of that rural manufacture, which convert, the
raw material of our beechen woods into the convenient
form of chairs for the accommodation not only of England,
but even of the colonies and foreign parte. But I an, glad
to say that we are indebted for that satisfactory result to
another and not less efficient cause, and that is, the
highly improved husbandry of this district and this
parish. (Cheers.) It is on amount of the skilful rotation
of crops ; it is on account of the various and often costly
manner in which our lands are now dressed, and the great
head of stock that is now maintained on the farms of this
parish, that that result of the population being well em-
ployed and employ slat high and satisfactory wages, is equally
at least to be ascribed. And these are very satisfactory
results. (Cheers.) Well, then, there is another circum-
stance in our rural life in this parish in which I think we
may find congratulation, and it refers to • subject which I
have more than once brought under your consideration,
and that is the dwellings of those to whom we are pecu-
liarly indebted for the labour which cultivates our fields
and gathers in our crops. There has been for same time a
continuous improvement, I am glad to say, in the resi-
dences of the peasantry—of the labourers on the soil of
this parish. (Cheers-) Some time so I mentioned this
subject, and, indeed, more than once I have dwelt upou it
in your presence. These are legitimate and proper occa-
sions on which we ought to touch upon these sub-
jects. lam myself very much in favour of build-
tog new cottages for the labouring population,
but at the same time I know that that is a process which
can only he very gradually carried out. I won't enter into
any controversy upon that subject, because this is not a
moment fur controversy, further than to repeat what I
have often said, that those take a very limited and too
contracted view of the case who, in building cottages fur
the labouring population, look only to the immediate re-
turn in the shape of rent. There is an immediate return
far more valuable than rent, which is to be acquired by
giving the labouring population dwellings which conduce
to their health, to their strength, and to their happiness.
(Cheers.) But I would make this remark, because it is
one essentially practical and applicable to this parish,
that you may do a great deal to improve the dwell-
ings and increase the comfort of the labouring class
without absolutely building new cottage.. You may im-
prove those that exist. (Cheers.) Now, I believe there
are three things which a labourer in the Chiltern Hills
most desires, the first is a porch, the second an oven, and
the third is a tank. I have for some time been extremely
anxious that every labouring man on my estate should
have these three sources of comfort and happiness—a
porch, an oven, sod • tank, and I ant very glad to see that
the example I have set is spreading, and I hope when we
hold our next harvest home that we thall find that it is •
custom of very general adoption. (Cheers.) But whether
I look to our harvest or whether I look to the general con-
dition of those who are mainly associated in it, ingathering
I think I can congratulate the proprietors, the cultivators,
the fanners, the occupiers, and the labourers of this pe-
rish on its general prosperity ; and I am sure, from whet
I have seen this morning, that I am addressing a society
dweepholyingrathtee"'ful theion of
Giverthseoefallgrgeosodnt advantages,esatove aremwe
are indebted for these blessings. (Cheers.) I trust that
the prosperity of Hughenden may long continue. It is
founded on sound principles, and, under the blessing of
Providence, ought not to be subject. or at least ought to
be superior, to most of the vicissitudes that interfere with
human occupation. I am obliged to you very
sincerely for drinking my health on an occasion like
the present. Your kind feelings I greatly appreciate and
your good opinion will Aways be my best reward I thank
you heartily. The right hon. geutleman resumed his seat
amid great cheering.

At this stage of the proceedings* figure representing the
goddess Ceres was brought into the tent by some of the
farm children and presented to Mr. Disraeli, by whom it
was exhibited to the company. The goddess wore • blue
robe, and her bead was composed of ears of oats, while
barley and wheat did duty for her arms and feet.
The CHAIRMAN, in giving the next toast, said—l was for
a moment a little dashed and daunted, for I feared that
one of the most ancient customs of England had been for-
gotten on this occasion. I believe that I bold
in my hand • representation of the goddess
Ceres. For centuries this figure, thus dressed
up, or in robes of similar manufacture, has been brought
forward. She is represented on this occasion mainly by
that golden harvest of oats, for which in this parish we
are particularly gratefuL I need not say that this reminds
me—for my mind is full of the subject—of those who per-
haps are more interested in the success of the harvest than
even other classes intimately connected with it. We are
in this parish favoured, I believe, with the presence of •
body of farmers who, take them altogether, may equal, I
believe, perhaps more than equal, those of any parish in
the county of Buckingham. It is not merely that they
are skilful farmers, and bring to the cultivation of the soil
a knowledge of the country and of all those artificial ad-
juncts which develop its qualities, but they are men
who are sensible of their social duties as farmers
and as the great tillers of the mil. They look upon
their occupation not merely as one of a commercial cha-
racter, but they remember and they fulfil their duties to
those who are dependent on them. Indeed I have gene-
rally found that the skilful farmer is • man who most ap-
preciates the good qualities of the labouring man under
him. He knows the value of such • character, and he is
the person who is always found the best master. I most
congratulate the farmers of Hugbenden on their great suc-
cess and prosperity this year, and I now propose that you
drink their health., and 1 trust that they may have many
and happy returns of seasons like the present. (Cheers.)
Mr. COATES, a tenant farmer, briefly responded.
The CHAIHIIAX-1 now propose to you the health of
another order in the agricultural hierarchy, inferior in im-
portance and utility to none of these whose health' have
already been drunk. His the health of those to whom we are
peculiarly indebted for the ingathering of the crop, and
for the preceding process of agriculture which has brought
about that result. So far as I can form an opinion of my
neighbours—and I am happy to say I live when I au, here
much among them—the labouring clam In this parish is
one of which we may be proud. They are skilful husband-
men, and they are influenced generally speaking by •• great
sense of duty. In proposing the health of the labourers I
should like to connect with the toast the name of one who
has been long working oe my own estate, and in the occu-
pation of a tenement of mine, who I think represents in his
own person many of the best qualities of the English hus-
bandman, and that is, Hatt, who I believe is now working
with Mr. James Leigh. In drinking the health of the
labourers of Hughenden perish, I shall connect with the
toast the name of Hatt, who has long worked on the soil,
and who has always been a model of what • skilful, inde-
pendent, and excellent husbandman ought to be. (Cheers.)
Mr. Harr, • venerable farm labourer, briefly responded.
The Rev. C. W. CLUBBE next gave the health of Mrs.
Disraeli, which was drunk with enthusiasm.
The Rev. C. LLOII.I briefly acknowledged the toast on
behalf of Mrs. Disraeli.

The CHAIRMAN—My friend, Mr. Lloyd, in proposing m
health a short time ago, made some public allusions which
I did not at the moment encourage, but I may say this
now, that certainly something did happen this year which
made me make a great many speeches in another place.
(Laughter.) But I believe that on no occasion, such is the
natural moderation I hops of my nature, did I ever make
so many speeches in one day as I have on this occasion.
(Laughter.) I thought, therefore, when the hut toast was
proposed that if the grateful feelings of my wife were ex-
pressed by the rector of Chalfont, it might spare your
hearing my voice again. That is the only reason which
prevented me from expressing my delight at the manner
in which you received the health of one whom I may be
permitted to say, without wishing to offend anybody pre-
sent, is the best wife that ever lived. (Hear.) But I find
there is another toast that ought to be given, and which I
give with great sincerity, and that is "The visitors who
have honoured us with their presence today."
The toast was responded to by the Rev. Mr. Graves, and
the proceedings at the dinner were brought to a close. The
rest of the afternoon was spent in a dance upon the lawn
fronting liughenden Manor.