The Express.
London, England, 1867-10-31 00:00:00

THE FENIAN TRIALi AT MANCHESTER.

MANCHESTER, ocr. Jo.

The Crown Court at these assizes wasoperied thin
morning at nine wire:: Mr. Justice Blackburn soil
Mr. Justice Mellor took their seats on the bench. This
prisoners Alb. n, Larl.in, Maguire, and Shore were
immediately placed at the bar, and the trial proceeded.
The prisoners ha l been brought from the New Ilailey
prison under a strong military guard, as before, but the
crowds in the streets this morning were not nearly so
great as yesterday and on Monday. The excitement which
could induce thousands of people to Ming about the neigh-
bourhood the whole of the past two dreary days of rain
and fog, from the earliest hours of the morning till the
prisoners were recor.veyerl to prisonat night, must hays
been something extraordinary. The anxiety to
get standing room only in the court has beet
great, and ye,terday it was uncomfortably crowded.
If anything was necessary to give force to the allegations
made by Mr. Dighy Seymour in applying for the removal
of the trial to the Central Criminal Court yesterday, it
was shown immediately afterward. by the almost general
applause which followed the refusal of the judge to comply
with the application ; and ag.,iu, when Mr. Roberts, the
solicitor to the pri.ouers, was ordered into custody by Mr.
Justice Blackburn, when a similar burst of applause was
only chalked with diffioulty by the Akins ee the COWL
Mr. Roberts ti.s no ilmbt remlen4 hirmielf very iiipopuble
by the pluck, pertinacity, and devotednem to his clients.
manifested in the examinations before the magistrates; ,
but these are qualities in an advocate which do not usually '
rouse in an Englishman feelings of dislike and antipathy
such as are shown here very generally by the public. It
should rather be set down to the strong feeling Which un-
doubtedly
.is felt against his clients. It is usual to hear:
in all places of public resort, even among persons of re-
spectable position, expressions of unqualified @stuttered,
in thohope that all the prisoners will be hanged.
This morning the court is less crowded th►n it has yet
bees, but that is no doubt the result of strict orders gieei
to the police to exercise more discretion in the admission t
of the public, so that the proceediags may be leas liable to :
interruption from the noise which is always caused by •
crush. The gallery for ladies has been unoccupied all the ;
week, and in the body of the court to-day there are not
many more than a dozen present. Though the crowd
►bout the court is moderate, nevertheless there has bent '
a constant flow of people to the door all day, tad many
thousands have had to be refused admismou.

Parboils connected with the defence may confidently that r
they have strong reason to believe that the man whir
actually shot Iliett has hitherto c.caped detection, the
evidence that Allen is the wan notwithataniling.

Several witnesses were examined. troutley, the polio&
officer, who was shot in the thigh, said that when
witness was about to get off the ♦on he saw 20 to 30 re-'
volvers, and saw Gould tire a abut, which grazed the back
of &policeman's coat. lit had been in the iutir.sary ever,
since. Two vrituesacs to-mot-low will colupkte the case
for the prosecution.

THE REFORM LEAGUE AND. FEMAMS3I.

The Council of the Reform League met !at
night at their rooms, Adelphi•terracei Mr. IlliKklNAN is
the chair. There WAS a crowded attendance of mend, n.

The CHAIRMAN read a letter from the ('Donoghue, M.P.,
dated, " October. ta, in which he ea.
pressed the gratiucation he had derived from reading the
proceedings of then eeting of the irst. The general
tone of that discussion had greatly increased the eon&
dence which ho had reposed in the League, yid had gt greatly
strengthened belief that the mass of Englishmen, of
whose political opinions and aspirationshe took the League
to be the exponent, were animated by a spirit the'
most friendly towards Ireland, and by is their*
the most earnest to co-operate with her for
the attainment of those comtitutional rights which
will give the
inpeoplo of both countries • legi- •
timate influence the direction of legislation. lie
was far from interpreting the proceedings of the 2nril to
be an incitement to physical force, or t, isolated deed., of
violence, which everybody must riprobate but he slid
interpret the proceedings to 1111,11 that, as in the judge ens
of the League the evils inflicted upon Ireland by En,;ligh
class legislation have been grievous, manifold, and emltir-
ing, the longing of :irdent Irishmen in their arid, leelleso
of consequences to tbeinaelvea, to appeal to phis -i.AI force,
cannot in reason he pronounced to be unwarrants.l.le. and
does not Merit the brand of which the t mut-
hearted, the vacilating, and the Xbetturs of misrule, mould
stamp upon it.
A letter was then read fiom Mr. ]kale, in which ho
said—" Nothing could exceed my ustoninhnien: at reading
this morning in the slip from the newspaper which you
sent me the account of the marvellous miaxon,true-
tion put upon my letter to you of the l!'th instant, by
sonic, in fact most of the 'pc:skein at the meeting of the
League Council lat.t Wednesday : the chair....n and Mr.
Acland and Colonel Dickson being marked eseeptions. Te
stigmatise that letter as a denunciation of Fcbiatiiiiin wag
to wholly misinterpret its spirit and object. and to throw
over the express and declared opinion of the eounril. is
its report at the previous turtling, as to the iriesi-tiblo
force of the moral tn.pre.t.ion of pill-lie opinion. That was
the great text of my letter—a letter jileilem: the It-cure
League actually to assist the Irish people to the
utmost in obtaining justice ; but without 0110 word of
denunciation of the motivea or oppreciation of the
patriotism of the Fenian., puintirg out the ob,ertiona.
practical as well as moral sod theoretical, to the em-
ployment of physical force, for the rearms of national
grievances, so long :/s they are remediable by peac.ful.
bloodless, and constitutional means. To oppose min
government suit oppression by arms may become a sacred
duty, but not, in my opinion, until violent
have been all tried and hided. From that opinion I
shall never swerve, nothing but absolute necessity cue to
ay mind justify the having recourse to the arlatretuent
of civil war. lam prepared to labour to the Lamont to
obtain justice for Ireland. let those who rind fault
with me outlabour me in their efforts for this purpose,
and I shall rejui. e in their success. I have nu thus• fur
more ; my sentiments are before the League and the
world—it is for the League to say hew far they are worthy
of them and myself—Yours faithfully, El /MOND deist Fs..
A letter was also read from Mr. Easter Lingley, which
will be found elsewhere in our column..
Mr. MANTLE said that he hail oleo in that room and
elsewhere told Clow wholica id him that thel.taguehli9idd
be careful how they acted in public (01:1IIS. No 1114 a
sympathised more strongly with the Irish people then he
did, but he thought it was right that the League should
all cases adhere to their policy of moon,) ftnee.
hear.) He did not charge any one who spoke there last
Wednesday with being the advocate of prism e aisination.
Ile had nu doubt their encodes would be only Rho glad to
foist that principle urn the Le..gt:e. (•• Hear," and
"No.") Did not public rumour say that the cournil of
the League was a gang of Yeiliatis Hear,- and
" No.") The influential journals of tile d..y r 1,1 so. and
the business of the council was to Pee that • tese people
no longer lies' in the narne of the League. Illear, hear.)
He asked them to pass a resolution stat.ng 1.1...: ;be couned
of the league, neither as a body or by it. nalividual
memben ever did countenance privets; itiscts:tin: :ion— i hear,
heart--or secret organisations for political purposes.
(Hear, bear.) Ile begged to woe., a :sits:lt:tr. to tl,at
•
effect. . . . . .

Hr. Omen, who was received with chrils. tin
resolution. He proceeded in a h ipe,i what
be said, and to show that it did not eo;:o..i: in any
way to physical force principles.
Mr. J.mEl^t GI EDELL:. ITIOVC.I. :s an .:...entln:ent.
"That this council area nu reason to :leasoieibLis
motives, which only its enemic. Lave i:nl. ited to it: and
this council is prepared to be judged—to or La by
its
_past career, and by its responsible
Mr. WllivronD seconded the tit.

After considerable discussion ti.c ‘,..ectt .• stood ad-
journed.

THEEDINI:II:I:IIWORKiNCM I:N., .T..
DI,4KArI.I. We (S,,t,liisl,l) t' ..t the l'• '.tad
Council of the nudes Delegates for ar'i 1., ills
melon Tues,k) night, when 311110t4011 W4l.
°lowly adopt. ,l, to the effect that the cum • all
connection with the ~o-called wotkini: men 14 1. mart for
presenting un addreas to the Chancellor of the
RiTuAcism.-- The Archbishop of had
expressed to the Rev. C.. 1. Itidsila..e, of I'.
stone, his great displeasure at the intro.l n of this
" Litany of the Holy Child Ji sus.. in:o t!.e -hi]. :0: :-t.
Peter's, and has received a promise that it 0..,11 re% er be
weal again.
CRYsTAL PALA4.E.—The display ..; •%. k: :his
evening will be the last this PC:0.11. i :•.. Ina
the principal features of former disp:. rs. i dol !ay
consists mainly of the illuminati, ii atoi the
aerial fireworks--including the hen ba o: M. Itlige:eri.
prepared expressly for this occa,itni, kii.l the coloured
shells of Mr. Brock—it is rendered quite in.ieponden: of
weather. The display will coninit T.CI. ::t 4, o r,, ck.
SOUTHAMPTON. OUT. V. —AnotLeT loath fr,la
yellow fever took place on board the Atr.,:o tl.iP more n`
The deceased was ■ tneman `,.ave. uho has b.,ea
buried at sea. Two others ate nut expeq.ted It- survive the,
day.