The Express.
London, England, 1867-10-12 00:00:00

THE FENIAN OUTRAGE AT MANCHESTER.

The lecturer, 31‘Auliffe, was brought before the
magistrates at anchester yesterday, having been re-
manded from time to time since the 18th of September.
It will be remembered that on the 18th, after the remand
of Kelly and Deasy, but before they were taken to the
van, two men attracted the attention of the polies ea
evincing active sympathy with the Fenian. One of these
men, ll'Auliffe, was seised by a policeman, at whom (ac-
cording to the policeman's statement) he aimed a blow
with a dagger. It was supposed after the attar* on the
van that he wsuLi be proved to be connected with the plot
which ended in the rescue. The police, however, have
failed to get any evidence as to the plot except what re-
ferred to its execution, and no complicity of the prisoner
with it has been shown. Yesterday the only additional
evidence given was that the prisoner was seen in company
with the woman who brought Kelly's dinner on that day
before the rescue, and who afterwards shook hands with
Kelly on the way to Albert-street station. Mr. Fowler
said under the circumstances he sliould be obliged to dia-

obarge the prisoner, sad he was socordinglyillowed to
leave the court.
LORD MATO'S TELEGRAM TO TIM MANCHESTER POLICE.

Yesterday Captain Palin, the chief constable of Man-
chester, presented the following report to the mayor in re-
lation to the telegram from Lord Mayo on the 18th ult.,
the day of the Fenian rescue of primmer', which has so
often been referred to as giving the authorities warning of
the intended outrage. The report was laid before the
watch committee, and after a lengthy discussion a special
sub-oommittee was appointed to further consider the
matter, and prepare a report on the whole question for
pneesteilem to the sex* meetas ei the city council :

" Town-ball, Manchester, Oct. 10,1867.

" The thief constable submits, for the information of his
Worship the Mayor, the following statement relative to
the receipt at this office of • telegram from Dublin, to
Septrintendent Maybury, on the 18th September, con-
cerning the safe custody of the two Fenian Ed-
monds, Colonel Kelly and Captain Deasy. It ap-
pears that the telegram was received at five minutes past
2 o'clock on the afternoon of the 18th, by William
Mellor, • junior clerk in she detective office who, as Mr.
Ma bury was not in the Town-hall at the Arne, opened
and read the message, which was handed to Inspector
Garner, who came to the office about 2.15 p.m. Inspector
Garner had come to report to Mr. Maybury that be bad
observed some suspicious-looking peeww loitering about
the court, and, not finding Mr. Maybury, he went in search
of Superintendent Gee, whom he met in Gartdde-etr•et,
near the City Court-house. He then informed Mr. Gee
for what purpose he had been to the Town-hall, and also
that he had seen a telegram warning the gaol authorities
to keep a good guard over the Fenian prisoners. Mr.
Gee states ' that when Inspector Garner met him in Gart-
side-street he reported that two men and • woman who had
brought food to the court for Kelly and Deasy had been
loitering about the court ever since. He sweated they
were Fonians, and thought they were watching for an
opportunity to rescue the prisoners. He had been up to
the Town-hall to tell Mr. Maybury, but he was not there,
but said there was • message there from him (as I under-
stood) that extra precaution should be taken for the safe
custody of the prisoners. In consequence of the informa-
tion thus received I inquired from Inspector Garner what
officers be had to spare that he could send with the van
he said, seven or eight. I told him to send them, and
that I would send four others in • cab to follow the
van close behind, and in this manner the prison van was
sent away. But before this took place, one of the two
men described by Garner and another man was, by my
orders, apprehended and sent over to the police station.'
The chief constable finds from inquiry that Mr. May-
bury left the office at • quarter before two, and did not
return until after the van had been attacked and the
prisoners rescued. Immediately on his arrival at the Town-
ball, about 4.25, be was informed of the attack, and
went at once to the gaol, the Fairfieldotntet police
station, and then to the Infirmary, and it was only
on his return to the detective office, between six and
seven o'clock, that the telegram was put into his hands.
Since the unfortunate event happened the conduct of
the police has been severely animadverted upon, and many
reports have been current and circulated in the newspapers
to the effect that the police knew on the night of the 17th
that there would be an organized attack upon the van. In
the Morning Post it was stated 'that intelligence of the
intended attack on the van was forwarded from Liverpool,
and similar information was sent from Scotland-yard
before midnight of the 17th inst. The Irish officers on duty
in Manchester also cautioned the police early on the next
day.' The chief constable, as is well known was absent
on leave, but he has felt it his duty to inquire from his
officers, and he is in • position to deny that any officer be-
longing to the Manchester police received any information
whatever of the intended attack either from Scotland-
yard, Liverpool, or the Irish officers on duty in Man-
chester. It as quite true that there were rumours to that
effect. Some of the officers about the court were told on
Monday that an attempt was to bo made to rescue the two
men Kelly and Deasy, and Mr. Maybury was informed of
it by Inspector Garner, who was one of the officers
to whom the statement was made. It was ih
consequence of the warning received, and of these
rumours, that such steps as were deemed to to
sufficient for the security of the prisoners were taken. The
prisoners were, contrary to the usual practice, handcuffed,
and the extra number of officers before stated were sent to
escort the van to the gaol. It may be well understood that
the probability of an armed attempt to rescue did not pre-
sent itself to the minds of the superinteudenta. The chief
constable emitting to express Lis belief that there are few
persons who, upon such information as the police were in
posaession of, would not consider that the precautionary
stele taken were quite sufficient to meet any emergency
which might be reasonably anticipated.
" W. HENRY PALIN, Chief Constable.
"The Worshipful the Mayor of Manchester."

FENIAN ALARMS IN THE PEOVINCEIL —OH Wed-
nesday night double sentries were placed in the garrison at
Tynemouth Castle, an armed picket was held in readiness,
and the men of the detachment of the 32nd Regiment, with
the artillerymen, were kept in barracks. Arrangements
have been made also to swear in a large number of special
constables at North Shields. The watch committee at
Warrington having considered it necessary to apply to the
Secretary of State fur a supply of revolvers for the police
force, a case, containing revolvers, ammunition, &c., was
received in the early part of the week. There are exten-
sive military stores in Warrington, and the storehouse be-
longing to the local volunteer corps contains 400 stand of
cities. Strong guards are on duty at the volunteer armoury
and at the militia barracks night and day. The question
having been raised as to the necessity of the presence of a
magistrate at the county gaol in Salford in the event of
any attempted attack or intrusion over the prison walls,
or in other illegal manner, the point was submitted by the
vesting justices to the Home Secretary. A reply has been
received that the presence of a magistrate is not necessary,
and that the civil or military force in the prison has full
power to repel any such attack in the moat effectual way
they can.
IPSWICH CLERICAL AND LAY CONFERENCE.—The
conference was resumed on Thursday morning, the Rev.
E. Hollond again presiding. The first subject was " The
right use of the law." The subject was introduced by the
Rev. J. Richardson, incumbent of St. Mary's, Bury St.
Edmund's. The Rev. Joseph Berdsley, lecturer at St.
Marylebone, then delivered an address on " Ritualism ;
ite origin, tendency, and antecedents." A paper was
then read by the Rev. S. Garrett, incumbent of St. Mar-
garet's, Ipswich, on "Christian unity and its counter:elle."
In the course of his address he recommended union with
the established church of Scotland, whose principles were
evengelical, and who differed only from the church of
England in the minor point of the form of church gov( ce-
ment. The rev. gentleman did not appear to regard episco-
pacy as of paramount importance, averring that he
should. prefer an established presbyterian church to a non-
established episcopal church. The last subject was
"Evangelical rel4ion ; what it is, and what it is not,"
which was treated by Mr. Ryle. After a short discussion
the conference ended.

THE Disreass IN CORNWALL. —The distress in
Cornwall is @till of a very serious character, if we may
judge from the reports presented at a meeting of the
County Distress Fund Committee, held at Truro, on
Monday last. Perhaps the moat convincing statistics are
supplied by Sergeant Sambells, stationed at St. Just, who
gives *list of 46 families, including 347 souls, whose deep
distress, in that one parish alone, has come under his
personal knowledge. He say. they are almost without
bedding and underclothing. The average earnings of
these 347 souls, received at the last pay day, amounted
to only :".s. 3d. per head for the ;month. or about 2d. a
day including all the family. One family of seven
received the incredibly small sum of sixpence for
their month's support A woman and six children
figure for 12a., laing less than three farthings per day
for each person's support. Another family of seven got
Vs. 3d. during the month ; another of seven got 190. Gd.,
and the instances are very many in which nu more than a
penny apiece per day has been received to find house rent,
An, clothing, and dour, and in which animal food must
be entirely beyond reach. Sergeant Setubal, says:—
" Many mothers of the abovenamed families are obliged
on Saturday nights to put their children to bed for the
purpose of washing their clothing, so as to be able to put
it on clean on Sunday mornings. as they are unable to
provide more than one suit of clothing for each child, and
that is very poor in many eases. By far the highest
receipts of any family in the list above quoted are those of
a widow and three chLdren, who got about fivepence a day
each." A large number of reports of a similar character
was presented to the meeting.— Western Doily Prat.
MAKTER. OF THE HORSE'S-OFFICE, OCT. B.—The
Queen has been pleased to appoint George Walter Grey,
Esq., to be page of honour to her Majesty, vice Paget, re-
signed.— Gazette.

(TWOPENCE

MR. GLADSTONE, M.P., ON !INFORM.

NORWICH, FRIDAY.
A meeting of the advanced liberals of this city
was held last evening—Mr. A. M. F. MOIGAN an the chair
—to concert measures for the future political organisation
of the working classes.
Mr. G. Lvirse, secretary of the Norwich Compound
Householders' Committee, read the following letter which
he had received from Mr. Gladstone:—" Hawarden,
Chester, Oet. B.—fir,—l have the honour to acknowledge
the receipt of your letter, and to state in reply that my
opinions on those provisions of the Reform Act which bear
upon the subject of rates have been fully and frequently de-
clared during the debates of last session ; and to those de-
bates I mast referyou rather than to any euocinot sumffuni
of them, such as I could now convey. I have no objection,
however, to state that those provisions, although better
than others which stood in the bill as it was at first intro-
&toed, are still of a most inconvenient end annoying cha-
racter, and likewise that they would admit of great and
effectual amendment. These are the opinions which, up
to this time, I have seen no reason to change, and I shall
look with interest to the evidence the autumn and winter
may supply with respect to the feelings of those whose
practical experience of the subject in their several neigh-
bourhoods will be likely to command public attention, and
if lam correct in my views, speedy redress.—l am, sir,
your obedient servant, W. E. Gunerotin."