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

Magi an Alfittarp.

PORTSMOUTH, Dsc. 15.
The Serapie, iron screw troop ship, Captain P.
C. Seedy, sailed yesterday for Alexandria, with a battery
of Royal Artillery, the 3rd and 102nd Regiments, and •
few supernumeraries.

ADMIRALTY, Dec. 14.—APPOINIVENT8.—Pay-
master Nicholas Giles, to the Royal Oak ; Chief Engineer
Charles Tucker, to the Indus, for charge of the engines
of the Aurora; Acting Engineer Peter kford, to the
Asia for the Volcano ; and first-class Assistant-Engineer
Archibald Hutchison. to the St. George for tenders ; Mid-
skipu as Gerald C. Langley, to the Lord Warden ; naval
cadet nominated, the Hon. Arthur N. T. Baring, Philip
A. Bentley, Fred. K K. Brock, Arthur M. Farquhar,
Herbert G. Paris, Henry Preedy, and Robert H. Walpole.

THE PROPOSED FENIAN DEMONSTRA-
TIONS.

DUBLIN, SUNDAY NIGHT.
No processions took place to-day in Killarney.
A placard signed by the O'Donognue and others
was circulated protesting against the interference
of the government, and declaring that while yield-
ing to armed force, no power on earth can eradicate
from their hearts love of Ireland, and of those who
served her faithfully. In Killarney a considerable
number of young men and women wore green rib-
bon and crape.

LEEDS, SCITAT.
No attempt was made by the Fenians to hold the
procession that was announced. The magistrates
made the most effective arrangements to stop any
demonstration that might have been tried. The
police took possession of Vicarecroft, where the
procession was to assemble, and did not allow any
person to enter it after one o'clock. Special con-
stables had been sworn in, and were told off for
duty ; and the military, consisting of the Royal
Artillery and the 70th Regiment, were in readiness
to act if necessary. Great crowds collected in the
streets, but all passed off quietly. The weather
was very disagreeable all day.

LIVERPOOL, SUNDAY Arrita.nootr.
The proposed procession of Fenian and Irish sympa-
thisers with the three murdered patriots recently hung at
Manchester, which has kept the town in a state of ferment
the whole of the week, and which was pompously an-
nounced last Sunday to take place to-day, has not been
carried out--at any rate no procession was visible at
the time of this writing, which is long after the hour
appointed for it to muster. This, so far, is a cause of
rejoicing, for had it taken place scenes of bloodshed and
rioting would most assuredly have mimed, for the mere
announcement of it roused all the old sectarian hatreds
once so disastrously rampant here. Various causes may
account for this unwonted display of common sense on
the part of the resident Irish, the chief being the notorious
fact that the preparations for putting down all attemrs to
defy the law were on the most extensive scale—military,
police, and special constables being ready to act with
vigour and prowpitude on the slightest sign of disturb-
ance. The failure of the attempt to rescue Burke and
Casey in London, and the universal indignation that cruel
and bloodthirsty outrage has povoked here, has doubtless
had a strong influence in fordi
ng the local Fenians and
their sympathising and misguided countrymen to keep the
peace, and the appeals of the Roman catholic bishop and
clergy have also doubtless had great weight with their ex-
cital.le flocks. Chief, however, amongst the causes of
peace here to-day wu the weather, which was most un-
pleasant.
The arrangements of the authorities to suppress any
rioting were on the most extensive scale. About 800 police
were within ease distance of Shiel-road, the majority under
oover and out of sight of the crowd. The county police,
about 300 in number, from Manchester, Wigan, South-
port, and other districts, were under the command of Cap-
tain Elgee, chief constable, and Captain Palms, and they
were stationed near the new judges' lodgings in Newshaui-
park, at the West Derby end of the Soiel-road.
In the stable-yard of the " lodgings " were sta-
tioned 200 of the local pensioners, under the
command of Major Faulkner and Captain Birch. Some
of these men, with bayonets fixed, guarded the approaches
to the " lodgings," which were for the day the head-quar-
ters of the county magistrates, several of whom, Mr. R.
Neilson, Mr. R. A. Mould, Mr. J. H. Macrae, Mr. T. D.
Anderson, and others, were on the spot the whole of the
afternoon. At the other end of Shiel-road the borough
police had their head-quarters at a large cab-stand, sod
here Major Greig, Superintendent Brennan, and a posse of
men were stationed. Close to, in a large rewery, about
500 of the local police, armed with cutlasses, were
stationed. These men had with them a large fire engine,
ready for immediate use, either to act against a fire or a
mob ; and a prismn vau was also in their charge, to be used,
if necessary, as a " lock-up." Between 1,000 and 2,000
special constables, mostly volunteers, were rationed
within easy distance of Shiel.road, and Major Bousfield,
Captain Robertson, and other well-known volunteer
officers were on duty at Major Greig's bead-quarters, the
cab-stand above-mentioned.

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Al the Fermata have threatened to burn the shipping
and dock warehouses, special arrangements were made to
prevent such catastrophes. All the fire-engines were pre-
pared for immediate service; constables—many in private
clothes—kept constantly going round the dock quays, and
marine, from her Majesty's ship Donegal were sent on
board the gunboat Viper, which is moored off the landing
stage, so that they could be landed in the town in a few
minutes. In fact, no arrangements for preserving thu
peace could have been more perfect, and up to this time
they have been perfectly successful. In fact,. quieter Sun-
day has rarely been known in the town.
At nearly all the Roman catholic chapels yesterday
black-bordered memorial cards were freely distributed.
The cards bore the following inscription "Of your mercy
pray for the souls of the martyred patriots, Allen, Gould,
and Larkin, who for the love of Ireland were executed at
Manchester, Nov. 73,1867."

Daylight on Saturday showed that the terrible
effects of the outrage at the Clerkenwell House of
Detention were not exaggerated in the reports pub-
lished in the morning papers, rithough in the con-
fusion and darkness of the previous night several
features of the occurrence passed without notice.
Through the whole of Friday night crowds lin-
gered about, wherever they were permitted to con-
gregate, feeding upon the plenteous rumours that
were abroad as to coining catastrophes, and on Satur-
day morning the confident prediction vnuiconveyed
from mouth to mouth that Nawgate was to be
attacked, and all the prisoners set free. Panic
at the first was natural, but the panic on Saturday,
and even yesterday, was much greater amongst the
crowds in the locality than on the night of the
occurrence. While the poor wretches, moaning,
and bleeding, and torn, were being hurried away
upon friendly shoulders, the bystanders appeared
to be too amazed to speak much ; but on Saturday
and yesterday such a specimen of an indignant
British crowd might have been seen as it
is not good frequently to witness. As
the visitors of all classes have moved
away to give place to others, it has been easy
to gather that the predominant ideas which have
taken possession of their minds are, first, the utter
insanity of the attempt, as well as the inexcusable
nature of the deed ; and, secondly, wonder that
the cause should have produced an effect so deadly.
One of the House of Detention officials stated that
had not the time at which the ordinary criminals
are exercised /XVI ohik.ngea trom afternoon to
InOrning, prisoners and warden to the number of
at least 50 must have been exposed to the full
force of the enormous mass of brickwork which was
showered in fragments over the yard. If the ob-
ject of the crime was the rescue of Burke and
Casey, as the popular verdict without dissent de-
clares it to be, the rescue would have been of a kind
which those notorious individuals could not have
desired, and the only explanation would appear to
be the ignorance of the men as to the power
they were letting loose. In the interests
of common humanity one would be glad
to know that nothing more was dreamt
of than the creation of a slight breach in
the wall, but there is little ground for so lame •
palliation as that. No official confirmation has been
given as to the supposed Fenian origin of the affair,
and the universally received belief seems to require
none.

Many of the military and scientific men who
visited the ruins on Saturday morning discussed the
probabilities of nitro-glycerine or gun cotton having
been used instead of gunpowder ; but the balance
of opinion (which a little observation of the slight
structureof the houses opposite, thenarrowroadway
in Corporation-lane, and the immense height
of the wall, only two bricks thick, supports)
does not warrant the supposition that anything
but gunpowder was employed. Indeed, some of
the medical reports say distinctly that the faces of
a few patients, whose names are given, were black-
ened from the explosion of gunpowder. An officer
from Chatham, who was present, stated that 100 lb.
of gunpowder—which is but a small part of what
it is supposed was used—would have wrought all
the mischief that has been done in Corporation-
lane and the adjoining thoroughfares. During
Saturday morning fragments of wood and 'brick
were picked up in various out-of-the-way places
within a 200 yards' radius, and amongst them
was a portion of the infernal machine it-
self, found on the top of a house in Rosoman-
ateest. It was part of an oaken cask, three-quarters
of an inch thick. As stated before, showers of
bricks were hurled against the House of Detention,
where many windows were broken, but, as we are
informed by a statement placed outside of the
prison entrance on Saturday, none of the prisoners
were injured. This unusual announcement was
explained by the next sentence—" No visitors to
prisoners this day."
The streams of visitors, in spite of mud, and rain,
and barriers, and walls of impassable police, hose
continued unabated from Saturday morning till
last night. Corporation-lane was closed to all
but a privileged few, although last night announce-
ments were posted outside the end houses that the
public would be admitted to them to view the
ruins for sums varying from sixpence to a penny.
The fact that the houses themselves ter-
minated the row so nearly demolished
by the explosion did not deter many from
paying their money and gratifying their curiosity.
If the thousands upon thousands who have been to
Clerkenwell since Friday evening could have seen
the sight unobstructed, they would have never
forgotten the spectacle. On the one side was the
ghastly breach in the wall, with heaps of powdered
bricks and mortar covering the open space, and
with a deep cavity far below the foundation level.
On the other side of the lane there were scanty
remains of a house immediately opposite the spot
where the barrel was placed, while the houses on
either side, as detailed in Saturday's paper, were
sufficiently destroyed to be uninhabitable, but not
enough to remove recent traces of the occupants
who, in the midst of their daily toil, were, for no
fault of theirs, maimed, killed, and despoiled, to
satisfy the diabolical designs of men whom they had
never injured. Furniture remained as it was before
thee x plosion , save that it was covered with white duet,
or surrounded by little articles of humble house-
hold use rudely shaken from the nails that held
them ; walls were to be seen rent in twain, but still
decorated with simple ornaments placed there by
hands that would perhaps touch them no more ;
and articles of clothing in one house at least
dangled out of the aperture where the window
once stood. It was said by one of the cheery fire-
men who worked hard the night through to save
anything that safety could reach, that for an hour
after the explosion a kettle could be seen
in an upper room whose wall was stripped
off, completing the homely singing and boiling,
which a poor creature who was killed on the spot
had no doubt waited to welcome. The paramount
thought with which one leaves the wreck is one
of surprise that it involved no greater loss of life.
The explosion was heard as far as the Crystal
Palace.

The government have sent 5001. to meet the
immediate distress that is occasioned, and words
of praise for so spontaneous an act would be hack-
neyed. On Saturday morning Mr. Disraeli's pri-
vate secretary, and a gentleman direct from the
Poor-law Board, came, not so much to see what was
needed as to do what generally is not
done without a good deal of routine
reporting—namely, to dispense funds to the
needy. The Home Secretary, too, and Mr.
Liddell, the new under-secretary, were there, and
a lady sent by the Princess 'Christian came to
inquire how far the terrible accounts published
were true. An officer from the Queen's household
came also on a similar errand, her Majesty having
previously sent a telegram to the Royal Free Hos-
pital to know how the sufferers were progressing,
and to express her sympathy with them. To-night
there is a public meeting called by the church-
wardens for the purpose of taking whatever steps
may be deemed best for raising funds. The distri-
bution of the money sent by the government
is, we believe, in a measure to be
laied by the police. Yesterday, amongst r:tter
prompt actions of the same kind, they gave se-
veral pounds to a poor woman who was prematurely
confined in consequence of the explosion. We have
been unable to discover how many are rendered
homeless, but the majority of the eleven houses
were very thickly tenanted, and many of them by
poor people who could ill afford to lose a stick of
their furniture. Amongst other subscriptions
was one handed to the sitting magistrate at Bow-
street on Saturday, with the following letter :—" I

A large number of persons, relatives and friends
of the inmates, presented themselves at St. Bar-
tholomew's Hospital yesterday afternoon, but it
was deemed unadvisable to admit them in the pre-
sent stateof the patients. Mr. M'Cullagh Toner,
M.P. for Finsbury, who has spent the last two
days in promoting arrangements for the welfare of
the injured persona, having consulted with the
surgeons of the hospital, and been supplied with
the necessary information, addressed some tran-
quilliamgremarluitothecrowd,whichthenwithdrew.
The police late last night had no new arrests to
report. A man was taken in Clerkenwell in the
marina. but Ln
;pa not detained in custody long.
I The maCreant who lighted :!uiCso i! known; and
can be identified by several personi. For the pre-
sent, however, he has baffled the keen search 1..4
is being made for him.

On Saturday evening at dusk the three persons
in custody were brought before Sir Thomas Henry
at the Bow-street police-court. Had the case been
an ordinary one, it would have been heard before
the Clerkenwell magistrate, but the peculiar cir-
cumstances under which the crime was committed
led to a departure from the usual custom. A crowd
assembled at an early hour in King's-cross-road,
expecting to see the prisoners, while crowds as-
sembled in Bow-street to see Burke and Casey,
who were under examination during the morning.
The police kept their secret well, but during the
afternoon it oozed out that the Clerkenwell pri-
soners were coming to Bow-street. When the
van came up about four o'clock, strongly guarded
by mounted police, armed with swords and pistols,
there was a slight hooting at the prisoners, but the
demonstration was not general. The van had
scarcely stopped and the mounted police stationed
themselves around it before the street received
such reinforcements of spectators from some
hidden shelter they had sought from the rain that
traffic for the moment was suspended. The pri-
soners were however speedily placed in the dock,
and presented the appearance of ordinary working
people, with no special characteristic of either face
or manner.

They gave the names of Timothy Desmond,
Jeremiah Allen, and Ann Justice, and the charge
preferred against them was "with being concerned
with others not in custody, with the wilful murder
of Sarah Hodgkinson, aged 35 ; Willian Clutton,
55 ; and a girl named Minnie Abbott, aged 8
years, by wilfully and maliciously firing an explo-
sive substance, supposed to be gunpowder, at Cor-
poration-lane, Clerkenwell." To this sad specifi-
cation the name of the poor child who died
yesterday afternoon will have to be added. The
prisoners looked round the court once or
twice searchingly, but not nervously or
anxiously. Superintendent Germon undertook
the formal duty of bringing forward the
charge, it being intended to offer only sufficient
evidence to justifya remand. The evidence, so far
as it has gone, is conclusive. The first
witness, who was Mr. Moore, chief warder
of the House of Detention, narrated that
between two and three on Friday afternoon a
policeman told him a man was loitering about out-
side and refused to go away, and he saw the woman
Justice, whom he had known as a visitor to Casey,
join the loiterer. Allen was there, and the group
appeared to be reconnoitering the prison. Allen
had also been noticed on the top of one of the
housesnesx, and he was then seen to come down and
talk to five or six others. Mr. Moore said he con-
sidered this suspicious, and went down to tell the
governor so, but while doing this the explosion
took place. Mr. Moore added an interesting piece
of information as to the internal arrangements of
the prison. It was to the effect that upon the,
explosion being heard, the warders went to the
stores, supplied themselves with arms, and rushed
into the yard, to find no manly opponents, but the
50 or 60 feet of the brick wall that the murderous
ruffians had blown down. After some irrelevant
remarks the witness withdrew. _ _

The next witness, a policeman named Sutton, of
the A reserve division, gave some direct testimony
of the crime. He had been engaged in the special
duty of watching the outside of the House of De-
tention ever since Burke and Casey had been
imprisoned there. Justice visited the prison
at one o'clock, while Allen waited outside, and
when she came out she joined him ; they conversed
together, were joined by Desmond, with whom
they conversed for 20 minutes, and upon proceed-
ing to part a fourth man came up. This person
accidentally pushed against the policeman, who
was in plain clothes, begged his pardon, and asked
a trifling question, to which the detective, with
professional candour, replied ho was a stranger in
the place. The man then walked off, having
afforded Sutton a full opportunity of knowing
him. Desmond, who was, it appears, particularly
to be watched, went down Corporation-lane, and
soon returned towards St. James's
-walk, drawing a
truck with a barrel, which he put upon the pave-
ment, and continued up the walk, after stopping a
minute or two. Sutton followed him, but at what
distance he did not say. He next says he heard
a tremendous explosion, and then saw Allen and
the woman running away fast. He caught the
woman, and another officer the man ; and Desmond,
in running round the prison wall about the same
time, was pluckily caught by Sutton, and held by
the hand he could most conveniently disengage
from the woman. He held both until assistance
came. _ . .

This was the evidence in chief, and the cross-
examination was trilling. The prisoner Desmond
asked the witness whether he could swear he left
the public-house more than two minutes, and the
officer said " Yes." Desmond told him he perjured
himself. The worthy magistrate rebuked the pri-
soner, and asked Allen what he had to ask ; and to
which the prisoner appealed to said all he had to
say was that he was helping Desmond, whom he
had seen intoxicated in a public-house. Justice
denied that she had ever run with Allen, where-
upon Allen added hastily, "It was enough to
make any one run, was such an explosion." In
reply to a question Sutton said the explosion fol-
lowed the placing the barrel upon the pavement at
an interval of ten minutes. At this point the
remand was asked for and obtained, leaving one
thing unexplained which many in the court and
many out would have liked to have cleared, namely,
why, with so much suspicion, if not absolute
warning, of impending mischief, and with such
close tracking of the prisoner, time and opportunity
were allowed for the fixing of the barrel and the
insertion, lighting, fizzing, and burning of the
fusee, all of which details are declared to have
been observed plainly by different witnesses. If
one might form an opinion from comments heard
on the spot yesterday, this is a matter the settle-
ment of which will be very gratifying. No doubt
further evidence and a little cross-examination will
make all plain.
No information is as yet forthcoming as to where

£4OO Rnwsnii.—MOßDlll AID 01:TRAGIC BY EXPLOSION
OP GUNPOWDEIL—Whereas about 3.45 p.m. on Friday.
the 13th inst., the prison wall of the Middlesex House of
Detention, ClerkenweU, was blown down by the expkedon
of gunpowder, maliciously placed there, and several houses
in Corporation-lane were destroyed by the explosion. and
diver persons killed and dangeronslT mutilated thereby,
SOU reward will be paid by her Majesty's government to
any one who shall give such information as shall lead to
the apprehension and conviction of the persons who con-
veyed the gunpowder and wend the above explosion. And
the Secretary of Stan for the Home Department will
advise the grant of her Majesty's gracious pardon to soy
accomplice, not being the person who actually set Are to
the ganpowder, who shall give such information as shall
lead to the same result. A further reward of 100/. will
also be paid to anyone who shall give such information as
shall lead to the apprehension and conviction of any ao-
complicee in the offence, not being the perms for whose
apprehemon and oonviniou a reward of 3001. is offered.
The gunpowder, it is believed, was brought in a large cask
on a darkooloured truck, with low sides. Information to
be given to the Commissioner of Police of the Menopolis,
4, Whitehall-place, London ; at the Detective-office, Great
Scotland-yard ; or at any of the metropolitan polios
stations.

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.M soldiers are on duty withinthin
• the
prison, any about 200 . "limn in
plain clothes were probably never so ii:."%er°u3 is
one locality.
The following is the official report from the
hospitals .

ST. BARTHOLOMEW'S HOSPITAL.

Caleb Beckett, 28 years • was not injured by the explo-
sion, but was braised by falling roof ; progressing favour-
ably.
William Thictener, 53; cute about face, concussion;
progressing well.
Thomas Wheeler, 10 ; ent in neck and back of
bead, the ring finger andthumb of right hand compelled
to be amputated, slight ooncusaion.
William Abbott, 11 years ; lacerated hands, face, and
neck portion of his nose cut off, suffering from 001101111i011.
John Harvey, 48 ; alight scalp wounds.
Henry Hodgkins, husband of ons of the deceased persons,
aged 33 ; slight wounds in right arm and head.
Mary Mosey, aged 60 ; severe cuts of the face, wound of
the temporal artery, and great prostration. Dangerous
state.

Maria Abbott, aged 34, mother of the poor children of
the same name ; several cuts about her face and eyelids.
Mary Ann Chidlebird, aged 30 ; large wound on left aide
of forehead, her eyelids and faro soorched.
Elizabeth Thompson, aged 17, sister of children who are
injured of the rme name ; severe cut on forehead.
Maria Giles, deep out on forehead.
Elizabeth Holder, aged 56; slight cuts in face and fore-
head by glass.
Elizabeth Hodgkin (mother of deceased), seed 61; severe
cuts of face, forehead, and left eye destroyed, and left tem-
poral arterrcut. Very serious ore.
Thomas Hartley, eight years ; cuts about the fax all
over, and a very germ shock to system.
William Thomas Perry, aged au years ; severe cuts of
head and all over face, severe shock to system.
Martha Perry, aged two years ; slight cut of the finger,
black with gunpowder.
Elizabeth Will ems; severe cute about the bead, face,
and eyelids, and • very large lacerated wound of the arm.
Harriet Thompson ; severe wooed of head and bruises
of fax and limbs, very bad lacerated wounds of both arms.
Sarah Hartley, 41, and her son, 13 months.
Mrs. Hartley, severe wound of left ear, nearly cut off,
and under side of neck and forehead.

end hea

Martha Evans, 67 ; very deep mit at back of neck, and
head and face injured.
Mary Ann Mills, 46; deep wounds in face, forehead, and
eyelid. ; doubtful as to recovering sight.
Ann Bennett ; deep wound in her right cheek.
Mary Ann Young ; cuts about face and forehead. There
were two artificial respirations for a quarter of an
hour before she recovered ; was apparently dead, but by
the patience and science of the medical gentlemen this
patient is still living and progressing favourably.
Anne Abbott, aged 2 years ; slight concussion.
Elisabeth Thompson, 40 ; concussion.
Charles Perry, aged 3 years ; slight shock.
Ada Mecklenburgh, 15 months ; also slight concussion.
John Abbott, aged 13 ; numerous contusions of face.
Anne Croft, aged 8 years ; concussion, and was to all
appearance dead when admitted ; has a severe lacerated
wound on the outside of the left knee and a portion of
the tibia chopped off.
With the exception of those in the foregoing lists speci-
fied as being in a dangerous condition, all the cases are
proceeding favoumbly.

LIFEBOAT SERVICES.—During the storms
of the present year the National Lifeboat Institution has
contributed to the saving of 1,027 lives from various shipwrecks
ana n 3 vessels from destruction. The Institution also expended
428,1:45 In the same period on its Lifeboat Establishments, in
addition to granting 42.444 for rewards. 'The Committee of the
Institution earnestly appeal to the public for assistance to
enable them to meet the continued heavy demands on their ISO
Lifeboat Establishments.
Contributions will be thankfully received by the London and
country bankers, and by the Secretary, Richard Lewis, Esq.. at
She Institution, 14. John-street, Adelpht. London.