The Express.
London, England, 1867-11-02 00:00:00

THE FENIAN TRIALS AT MANCHESTER.

MANCHESTER, Nov. 1.

The fifth day's trial of the five principal Fenian
prisoners was resumed in the Crown Court, at nine o'clock
this morning, before Mr. Justice Blackburn and Mr. Justice
Mellor. The crowd outside the Assize Courts was much
less than on the four previous days of the week, probably
owing to the rain ; but the scene within the building was,
if possible, still more animated, the presence of the
soldiery giving the building the appearance of • garrisoned
citadeL The attendance was the greater in the expecta-
tion that Mr. Digby Seymour, Q.C., would make his de-
fence of his clients Allen, Goa d, and Shore. The judges
took their seats punctually at nine o'clock.
Mr. Seymour then addressed the jury. In the oourse
of it he adverted to the evidence of the witness
John Thompson, the policeman who followed in the
cab, and who spoke as to the question of time ; he
also spoke of the pursuit and capture of Allen, who
was somewhat brutally treated by the people. There
was an alibi in regard toShore. Hedid not say it was • strong
alibi, but it was worthy of attention. William Trueman,
anerther policeman, spoke with regard to Allen and Shore,
bet with respect to Shore be did
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left hand. Other witnesses, spoke to Allen holding an axe
hasuasr in can hand and a revolver or revolvers in the
other. Mr. Seymour commented severely upon the dis-
hiteeen the vtlatenan; and the variant* be-
,.
=alitheidailhattions sworn to before the magistrates and
the evidence given in this court. He asked the jury to
give Allen and the other prisoners the benefit of any doubt
that justly arose from these diecrepancies. William Car-
rington gave no particular evidence, but spoke of seeing
Allen shoot Sproeson in the foot. Baxter and Howard
were witnesses from the gaol, and they took up the matter
at a later period, especially the pursuit and capture of the
prisoners. The next three witnesses he would deal with very
shortly. They were the two lads Pattinson and Mulholland,
and Hughes, and they spoke to the turning of the van and
the firing at or hammering at the lock. l'attinson actually
spoke to seeing the prisoners loading their revolvers
whilst they were running ! lie mike(' the jury if they
could credit such a statement? Mulholland was in training
for the law, and there was one qualification which be pos.
tested, namely, that he admirably got up hie brief. He
gave his evidence, however, with such glibness and levity
that he asked the jury to be careful how they gave credit
to his stieements. Mr. Seymour passed quickly over the
evidence of several witnesses, including H.lliday, Hughes,
Pickup, Griffiths Elizabeth Robinson, Mayer, Sperry,
Munn, and Knowles. Upon the latter witness Mr. Sey-
mour was particularly severe in his strictures, because of
the expression that the prisoner whom he saw at Albert-
street station appeared to be "playing " with his chains.
Of the evidence of Kate Riley lie bad nothing to say, and
would pass on to notice the evidence of Charles Thomas,
who if not guilty of perjury was guilty of something
almost equally criminal, and that was keeping back the
truth. Before the magistrates this witness said that
Allen seemed to be the ringleader, that he was firing
pistols and smashing the van door, and that he had a
hammer in one hand and a pistol in the other. Before the
magistrates lie spoke of random shots only ; in this court
he spoke with great apparent particularity, and swore to
• deliberate aim on the part of Allen. He appealed to
the jury to consider whether the evidence of such a wit-
ness was worthy of a moment's grave consideration. When
asked, " Did you keep this evidence back ?" the witness,
with a grin, replied, '' I did." What could be the motive
for such wickedness? He had heard of the reward, and
had tried to swear away the life of one of the prisoners.
The infamy of this men's conduct was only rivalled by
that of the woman Jenman in London, who had disgraced
her sex by similar conduct. Passing by the evidence of the
witness Hulley, Mr. Seymour came to that of Batty, whom
he did not accuse of deliberate misrepresentation, but he
did charge him with considerable exaggeration. Mr. Batty
said he saw a man, whom he identified as Shore, and whom
he described as seeing in a stooping posture, lifting a stone.
The witness was inaccurate, for in cross-examination he
said that his impression was that he was " going to lift"
the stone, and that, while stooping, • big stone fell upon
his head. If so, it was extraordinary that he should be
able also, as the witaess stated, to rise up and give direc-
tions, as if he were a ringleader, to persons upon the bank.
He submitted that is would he dangerous for the jury to
give eredence to such a fanciful and imaginative account of
what took place. He came now to treatof the evidence of the
witnesses who described what took place inside the van. The
first of these witnesses wasEromaHalliday,and her evidence
pressed forcibly against his client Allen. Halliday deposed
that she saw the pistol aimed at the unfortunate man
Brett ; that she caught Brett by his coat tails and pulled
him down, and that as he stooped the fatal pistol
went off ; so that lied she not pulled him down Brett
would not have met with a mortal wound from that shot
which was aimed at the lock. This was one view of
her evidence. But did she pull Brett down? Wheu before
the magistrates this witness swore one thing, and in this
court she swore another. She was an alarmed and scream.
hug woman, frail, ImM-ring, on her way to gaol, twice con-
victed, and her evidence was utterly at variance with that
of the other woman in the can, Cooper, who was also de-
graded in character, and under a charge of felony, and she
said that the shot which killed Brett was not fired through
the ventilator at all. She pointed to a higher part of the
van as the point through which the shot came. She said
that Brett did not stoop down, but that he was standing
when the shot was fired which brought him down. Cooper
did not ooutirni Halliday as to the aim by Allen,
but upon every point of significance her evi-
dence was the very antipodes of that given by
that witness. What could be said of these startling
contradictions In this overwhelming difficulty would
they not take • favourable construction of the dim-
crepanciee, with a view to a mit4ation of the offence
with which these men were charged ? There was another
woman who gave evidence, Frances Armstrong. Before
the magistrates she spoke of her belief that Allen was one
of two men who were behind the van, and that the other
man hail dark clothes. According to her evidence the man
who tired the pistol could not be Alen, fur nature never
grew a moustache upon his lip, and the man whom she
sow had a moustache. He ought to be grateful that this
witness had been called. Did she speak the truth? Deal
with it as they liked, if there was any truth in her
evidence, Allen did not fire the fatal shot. Mr. Sey-
mour adverted next to the marks upon the van and the
position of the ventilators, with the view of showing
I that the evidence of one of the boy witnesses as to seeing
the man in a blue tie through one of the ventilators
' was not reliable. The evidence of the surgeon, Mr. Wood-
' cock, proved that Mr. Batty's impression was unfounded
when he spoke to the stone falling upon Shore's head, for
his wound was proved to have been mineral by a police-
man's baton, and not by a stone, and it wee the wound he
received when flying from the police. But his flying
from the police did not prove that he was connected with
this offence. He asked the jury not to lay too much
stress on the pursuit of Shore. The evidence of the wit-
now Dickin did not add touch to the facts. Dickin's evi-
dence affected Gould ; and why should their minds be dis-
tracted from the real facts of the case, which were quite
strong enough and serious enough to require the utmost
judgment of the jury? Why was it necessary to import
into the case the facts of the 11th September, as to whe-
ther or not Gould was upon that day in the street, and
as to whether or not he was acquainted with the men
who hail escaped ? It did not by any n cans follow
that because Gould knew Kelly and Deasy, therefore
he was endeavouring to effect their rescue upon
the 18th. One thing was clear—that the opportunity of
the policeman of seeing Gould was very slight. He did
not say that this matter had been introduced to create
prejudice, but he asked the jury to dismiss it trout their
minds as not of sufficient importance to deserve grave con-
sideration. Mr. Seymour next referred to the fact in favour
of Allen that he did not use hisrevolver upon his pursuers,
and that he fired that shot at the ground which struck
Sprosson. With regard to Gould, the effect of the evidence
called for him in substance was this. Gould did not deny
that lie was crossing that field. His ease was that he went
up to Belle V ue ; and in any view of the case that was nut
an improbable thing. It would not be at all &Math to sug-
gest a purpose in his going there which would keep him
away from complicity in the outrage. Further, his case was
that when the policeman Thompson drove up in the cab
for help to the gates of the prison, lie was there speaking
with the family of a person with whom he was acquainted.
If so, then, though he came so near the scene and though
he was caught in the field and at once surrendered, for he
gave no difficulty to his pursuers, yet still, upon the evi-
dence, and remembering also the weakness of the case for
the prosecution, it would be their duty to return a verdict
which would render Gould no longer amenable to the capital
charge. He hail called before them Miss Flanagan, and
they huh beant her evidence. He confessed he did think she
wee subjected to an amount of pressure upon many points
which might have been more pardonable in a given event.
She gave her evidence before the magistrates, and it was
one of the remarkable facts in this cue that a new
law which allowed prisoners to call witnesses in their
own defence had just conic into operation, and the wit-
nesses might be bound over by the committing magis-
trate, and their costs allowed by the country. It was •
merciful use of that law which allowed the postponement
of the case fora day or two, that the benefit of it might be
given to the accused. But there was one fact which
sprang from it ; the crown had her evidence in print ;
they hail had it for weeks ; and if Miss Flanagan could
be successfully opposed upon anything touching her
personal character, or her credibility, or the reliance to
be placed on her evidence, the crown and its
advisers haul ample and abundant opportunity. She
got into the box, and sai.l she did not wish to 'give the
name of a merchant in Manchester to whose children she
was governess, but would write it down for the learned
Attorary-GeneraL But of course the name was asked,

Allen asked where were Barker, Emmett, and others
who stood in the dock in defence of their country ? He
proposed to review the evidence, but the judges stopped
him. He then declared himself, in the presence of
Almighty God, innocent. He did not say this. seeking for
mercy ; he would not have it if offered ; he would die for
his country ; he had done his duty to his country. He
concluded by thanking his counsel and Mr. Roberts, and
said his real name was William Philip Allen.
Larkin said no oue could regret Brett's death more than
he did, and he called God to witness that he did not use
pistols, or go there to take life, though he certainly did go
there to give assistance to those noble heroes. KeUy and
Deasy. The man that had taken Brett's life had sot
been taken—they had not got him. He had had a fair
trial, and he forgave those that had sworn his life away.
Gould said that every witness against him was perjured.
His name was Michael O'Brien, county Cork, and be was
an American citizen. Ireland, with its beautiful scenery,
was capable of sustaining treble its present starving popu-
lation, awl he charged its miseries upon the British aria.
tocrary, who be hoped would be driven from the country.
Mr. Justice Blackburn said this could do no good, and
he advised the prisoner for his own sake not to say it.
Gould said be preferred to say it. He hoped if his
blood was shat, his countrymen would rise a hundredfold
to do his memory and his country justi.x.
Msguire said all the witnesses had perjured themselves.
He had been away from his country ten years to India,
China, and Japan, but having returned, he came here on
furlough. He would admit that be had been drinking,
but his was a false identification. He had never gone out
of the house all day.
Shore said he was innocent of Brett's blood. He had no
intention of taking life, and had nothing to do with it.
If something of this kind had been done in
America to rescue Jefferson Davis, or in Italy to
rescue Garibaldi, it would have been considered a bold
and daring action, and have been applauded ; but in Eng-
land it was a crime. He should leave the world without
a stain upon his conscience. He was an American citizen,
and belonged to Ohio. His but words should be, " God
save Ireland."

Could and several other of the prisoners reverently re.
petted the words.

TES SENTENCE.

The usual proclamation was then made, and both Judges
put on the black caps.
Mr. Justice Mellor, addressing the prisoners, said—You
have been severally convicted, after a full, patient, and
impartial investigation, of the crime of wilful murder. No
person who has witnessed these proceedings can doubt
the propriety of that verdict upon the evidence that has
been given before the jury. Your crime was attended
by circumstances of peculiar audacity In the daytime
iu the immediate vicinity of this populous city, you sue:
seeded in rescuing prisoners from the custody of the law,
This is • crime which strikes at the very foundations of
civil society ; and were it possible that it could be com-
mitted without bringing down condign punishment upon
its perpetrators, it would deprive the subjects of the realm
of all sense of security for their lives and property, and
would completely throw us Lack into a reign of terror
and violence. The unfortunate man Charles Brett, whom
you killed, was not au ordinary citizen ; he was a police-
man charged with the custody of persons who were com-
mitted upon serious of enoes against the law, and you
made Min the victim of your violence, because, in the
courageous execution of his duty, he would not yield to
your unlawful threat.. I quite believe that none of you
entertained any actual malice against the individual
Charles Brett ; and 1 doubt not that you would have much
preferred that he should have yielded the keys and suffered
you to rescue the prisoners wham sem"e you had con-
spired to effect. While I say this, lam not the less per-
fectly convinced that all of you had resolved, at may risk
and by any amount of dangerous violence and outrage,
to accomplish your object, and that, in fact, Charles
Brett was murdered because it was essential to the
completion of your common design that he should be.
So far as the interests of the community are concerned,
there is no offence which can be committed of a grayer
nature, or which demands nt the hands of justice more
exemplary punishment. There is but one sentence
which the law assigns to the offence. It is not my
sentence, but it is the sentence of the law. I hare
not the power to modify it. nor to discriminate
between the various perpetrators of the offence.
I should be deluding you into • false security
if I were to hold out to any of you any
expectation that your lives may be 'pared, or that
you can derive any advantage from the points of law
which were urged by your counsel. I beseech you
therefore most earnestly to apply yourselves with all
diligence to make your peace with God. Repair, I entreat
you, in penitence and prayer, to the cross of Christ,
from which no penitent sinner was ever spurned sway.
I ha- e now only to perform the solemn duty which de-
volves upon me, to pale upon you the sentence of the law.
That sentence is that you, and each of you, be taken hence
to the place whence you came, and thence to • place of exe-
cution, and that you be there hanged by the neck until you
shall be dead, and that your bodies be afterwards Intrital
within the precincts of the prison wherein you were laid
confined after your reapeetive convictions ; and may God,
in His infinite mercy. have mercy upon you.
Before the prisoners left the bar, they reached over and
shook hands with Messrs. Jones, Cottingham, and Roberts.
The Court adjourned at 20 minutes past 8 o'clock.

A telegram from our Dublin correspondent last,l
night says :- -"The wounded policemen are still alive, but
Kenna is rapidly sinking. The corporation of Dublin have
voted 1001. for the benefit of the families of these men, and
have opened a personal subscription for the same purpose.
Three men were arrested this afternoon in • public-house
in Britain-genet. One had a ten chambered, and another
a six chambered revolver."

and he could not complain. Of course his lordship was BANQUET To rHs RIK NOMMEN MACLEOD.
right when be said there must be no &limey to Nem
people's feelings in a court of justice. There was no heti-
tation on Miss Flanagan's part except that she wished to Last night the Rev. Dr. Norman Macleod was
guard from annoyance a family with which she was con- entertained at a public dinner at Willie's-rooms,
Kiag-
neoted. It was not to protect Gould that she gave end-
dance, but simply to declare what she saw. He street, St. James's, on the occasion of his leasing the
claimed for that lady that, although she was a governess, country, with Dr. Watson, as a deputation from the eata-
she was an educated woman, • woman who had been en- blisheet church of Scotland, to visit the different mission
trusted with the charge of the children of one of their stations of that church in India. A large number of
brother merchants in the town of Manchester. He asked the friends and admirers of Dr. Macleod usembled upon
them to do her justice, and not lightly treat her oath. She
bad either given evidence which was open to the charge of the occasion, including the Rev. Dr. Watson, the Rev.
wilful perjury, or she had given evidence which ought to Professor Plumtre, the Rev. Dr. Young, Mr. Canliffe,
the Rev. Dr. Raleigh, Mr. Alderman Lusk, ALP., the Rev.
relieve Gould from complicity in the outrage. She had
proved for him not altogether an alibi ; that weakness W. Denton, the lie?. W. T. Bullock, Mr. Sella Martin,
might have suggested or cunning devised ; but she had
stated that the last time she saw Gould he was going' Pmlrra, Mr. Spalding, Mr. Macrae Moir, Xs. Bane,
towards the arch, and, therefore, she did not remove
Mr. Blackett,
and Mr. Straban '
Mr. J. M'Ewan. The VeMr. J. S. Virtue, Mr. Raze,
from Gould so far complicity in the matter, but it was Mr. J. C.
clear he could not have been at the place and fired the Rev. Dr. AMID* Dean of Canterbury, Presided
shotsend done the deeds that some of the witnesses said Letters expressing sympathy in the object of
he did. Mrs. O'Leary confirmed Mils Flanagan's evidence, , the gathering and the regret of the writers
He [Wreathe jury to do justice to her and to the prisoner, :at their inability to take part in the proceedings, were
and to give that educated young lady, who had not shrunk read from the Duke of Argyll, the Dean of Westminster,
from coming forward here to do what to her must have the Rev. Dr. Vaughan, the Rev. Chas. Kingsley, Mr. A.
been the most painful of duties, to parade her fair young TralloPe, Mr. Kays, and others.
lace and be the cynosure of so many eyes in this court, the
credit that she would never do that if she were not sup.
ported by the instinct of duty to tell the truth and save
the priaossr. After eommentMg an the alibi for Shore,
the learned counsel said that before he resumed his seat he
bad to ask the indulgence of the court. While he bad
been ■yanking be had received • letter *hi& Ito would
like their Lrdahips to read. lb wee • esebmunisatkin from
a person who was anxious to give some evidence of a par-
ticular kind with regard to the cross-examination of one of
the witnesses.
Mr. Justice Blackburn—lt is very late, but if you will
let me see the letter, if I can indulge you I will do so.
After reading the letter his lordship said—l doubt ex-
tremely whether this would be evidence, and, in the next
place, I don't think it will help you.
Mr. Seymour said he thought it his duty to lay it before
the court. He proceeded to comment on the evidence of
Ridgway, who had been examined that morning, and who,
though he saw the firing through the ventilator, did not
identify Allen, but identified another man. He asked the
jury to add that to the evidence of the woman Armstrong,
and to other facts of the case, and pause while it was yet
in their power. Under trying circumstances he had done
his duty. To make this place or this occasion the place
of the scene of war or headlong comments upon the
policy of others would not he becoming in him.
When a man became an actor and a dramatist, he
ceased in a court of judos to be what to his (Mr.
Seymour's) notion the English advocate ought to be. He
hoped that, when this trial became a matter of history, it
would be said of those who represented the prisoners at
the bar that they had contributed to the maintenance of
British justice, and that they hail endeavoured to help
the jury and the court to a right conclusion. He that was
the Searcher of Hearts el..ne knew that he had been ani-
mated by no other intention. He had wished that out of
this great trial, this solemn occasion, British justice
should come in all its purity, without a murmur and
without • stain. lie knew how sensitive were the feel-
ings of his countrymen, and how every act would be read
and scanned by other eyes and hearts that beat with those
whom he represented behind him in the dock. He hoped
the verdict of the jury would go forth with the respect of
the community, and come back to them with the sanction
of every civilised country.
Mr. Serjeant O'Brien then addressed the jury on behalf
of Larkin and Maguire.
The Attorney-General having spoken,
Justice Blackburn finished summing up at a quarter-
past six. After retiring for about an hour, the jury re-
turned with a verdict of Guilty against all the prisoners.
On the usual question why sentence of death should not
be passed, all the prisoners in turn made rambling state-
ments.

EDUCATIONAL OODOSZIM.—The congress ap-
pointed to be held at Birmingham on Wednesday, the
13th instant, under the direction of the general com-
mittee, of the Scholastic Registration Assestatina, will
meet in the Midland Lettings at 11 °Week, a.m. The
Rev. J. D. Collie, D.D., P.C.P., head muter of the
Bromsgrove Grammar School, will preside. No alteration
has been made in the subjects for discussion, which are as
follows :-1. How far will the proposed Scholastic Regis-
tration Act tend to raise the standard of education
throughout the country, and promote the interests and
efficiency of the scholastic profession ? 2. How far is the
science of education capablo of development in this coun-
try by thu more specific training of educators, and by such
measures as the institution of • special faculty
of education in the universities of Great Bri-
tain and Ireland ? 3. What means can be adopted
for training teachers for upper and middle class
schools! The following gentlemen constitute the local
committee :—Rev. G. 1). Boyle, M.A., Messrs. J. T.
Bunce, J. Chamberlain, and R, L Chance, Rev. .1. D.
Collis D.D., F.C.P., Rev. 11, W. Dale, N.A., Mr. G.
Dimes:, M.P. Rev. C. Evans, M.A., Kr. 8, Evans, M.A.,Mr. B. W. Fester, M.D., Mr. J. D. Goodman, J.P.
Rev. W. Cover, )LA., F.G.S., Messrs. J. A. Langford,,
W. Middleniore, J.P. ; C. Ratcliffe, J.P. ; G. Robertson,
F.E.1.5.; A. Ryland, W. L. Sargent, J.P. ; and C. T.
Saunders, Lev. Nash Stephenson. KA., Mr. B. Timmins,
and Rev. W. Wilkinson, 1).1). Further particular may
be obtained from the hon. secretary, Mr. Barrow Rule,
Aldershot, and, on the rdth and 13th Nov., at the Midland
Institute.—Educefional /iota.

THE FANCY BREAD Questrion.—A meeting has
this week been held at Leicester in reference to the
bakers and the "fancy bread question. The chairman,
Mr. T. Emery, in opening the meeting, congratulated
those present upon the improved aspect of the question.
Notwithstanding they bad met with seine adverse deci-
sions before the magistrates, they had gained ground, and
had a clearer course before them, and knew what their
opponents intended to do. Five convictions had been ob-
tained against bakers for the sale of bread without weigh-
ing ; but with reference to the summonses which bad been
' taken out against them for delivery without scales and
weights, they had not been so successful, and the same
remark might also be applied to the action taken with re-
ference to fancy bread. There was an uncertainty as to
the true nature of fancy bread, and that could not be de-
termined until the question bad been tried in the Court of
• Queen's Bench. The movement in Leicester, so far as it
had gone, had accomplished great good, and had succeeded
in improving the condition and urges of the trade, and he
might say that there had been an improvement in the
weight of the bread and in the size of the loaves. He
was surprised at the course taken by those con-
nected with the trade, in the actions tried be-
fore the magistrates ; there seemed to be a
determination to sell the bread in any way rather than
observe the fair usages of trade. Acoordiug to their evi-
-1 deuce, fancy bread was quite different to what it was in
other towns. Fancy bread in Nottingham was considered
to be bread made of milk, fine Sour, butter, and such like
. ingredients, and not ordinary bread. Cottage' loaves and
sin loaves could not, therefore, be fancy bread, and if there
was any loss caused by evaporation they must take it into
account and charge extra for it, but they must observe
what they considered to be law and sell it by weight, and
; not by denomination. Mr. Simpson raid there was •
'species of " flattening" amongst the bakers, as well as
' amongst the trade unionists in Sheffield and other places,
for lie knew that in the case of • baker who refused to join
the combination amongst the bakers and flour sellers, the
union went to the miller who supplied him with flour, and
persuaded him not to supply him with any more. The
resu:t of this was that the baker had to go several miles
for his flour, and the union, not content with compelling
him to go out of town for his flour, tried to persuade the
second miller not to supply him, but he refuge,' to listen
to them. This, lie thought, was as bads species of flatten-
ing as any they had read of iu Sheffield.
ZOOLOD ICAL Suell ETV'S GARDENS, RECENT'S PARK.
—A fine walrus has just been added to the Zoological
Society's living collection of animals, having arrived
yesterday by steamer front Dundee under the care of the
superintendent of the society's gardens. This udnwl, which
was brought into Dundee at the beginning of the week by
one of the whaling vessels of Messrs. Alexander Stephen
and Son of that city, has been purchased by the Zoological
Society for the suns of 'calf. It is rather larger than the
'sea-bear, which lately ionised such an attractive feature
in the society's collection, and is apparently very healthy.
Upon one 'aerials occasion some jean; ago a young
walrus war received by the Zoological Society, but this
animal was in an exhausted state ou its arrival, and lived
truly • few days in the gardens, so that the prva ut
rpeei-
men of this scarce and little-known creature way be con-
sidered as a novelty of no ordinary description.

THE rolSoNlNti or A GIRL 1W i'llos1.1101:1*A.
Yesterday afternoon Mr. Wood., the coroner for the wes-
tern division of Surrey, mamma the inquiry at the l'af tot
Forest•green, into the circumstances of the death of
Grace Moore, aged years, who, as suspected, had died
from the effects of phosphorus. Several other witnesses
were examined, and the jury, after a leeigthineil consul-
tation, returned the following verdict We And that
the ileeemed died from the effects of phosphorous poisming,
but, at tho same time, the jury say there is not sufficient
evidence to induce them to my whether the poison was
token inadvertentlyor iritlithe intention to d, stray life, or
whether it was administered by any other person them was
not sufficient evidence to show ;at the same time the jury
&sleet° add, that in their opinion them arc t material
facts kept back by those witness:a who are most of them
related to the person under suspicion of havifig caused the
death of the deceased."

Tint FATAL (;17N ACCIDENT TO COLONEL HAE-
, RIS.oN.—An inquest was held on Welnesd.y, at the sil-
-1 lege of &Hingham, near Alusrick, respe.itiug the uleath of
Charles Henry Harrison, 12 yearn of age, zolouel of the
ra Mads Royal Artillery, who was killed by the sceidentol
firing of a breech-loading fuwling-piece un Tue.lay het.
at Capheatou. The ..taident appeared to have occurred
while
sir
Heawarth N'illiameom, Bart.,
m.r., explain-
ing the structure of a central fire breech-loader, iuifil had
dropped the cartridges into the barrels, awl whilst dosing
the breech, one of them anent off. Just at that moment
Colonel Hanison Lad been crossing in trout, not three
yards off, uind the contents of one of the mrtridges
lodged in his left leg. The inside of the leg
below the knee was completely blown away. The
wounded gentleman suffered • great deal from loss of
blood, but by the aid of handkerchiefs. a temporary tonsi-
quet being made, the bleeding was stopp-'d. The medical
evidence of Dr. Robertson, of Glututon. was to the effect
that death ensued from shock to the system. The tle-
ceased bail been subject to varicose veins in the lepu. The
deceased gentleman, after the receipt of the wounds, haul
taken the band off. Sir Hedworth Williamson. who had
been well nigh distracted, endeavoured to soothe hint ; and
afterwaruls, when assured that no bolos wine broku is. he
was most careful in his instructions to apprise Sit Its i worth
of the Lod. The Hon. Athol Liddell depo.eul at the Mum ‘t
to the circumstances, and also stated that Sir Hefluortli
was !I most skilful and careful man with the fowling piece.
The jury, after bearing the evidence of one of the game-
keepers, who gave confirmatory testimony. returned a vet,
diet of " Accidental death."

AFIIIIENT ON TIIE VALE OF NEATII ItAILWAY.—
A very painful sensation has been produced in the migh•
bourhood of Abenlare, iu conacquence of its becoming
known that s respectable woman had been knocke.l down
by a passing train, while walking &clam the Vale of
Neath Hallway, and cut almost literally to pieces. not
deceased, who resided at a farmhouse locited a short
way from the tunnel, was crossing the line on
the Abenlare side in order to make a mar cut.
Unfortunately at that part of the line there is a culla
and also a very sharp gradient descending towards
Abetment, so that the engine-driver has not the same
command over his locomotive as he would have at a
straighter and more level part of the railway. The eleven
o'clock train from Merthyr was lira:man% at its usual
speed, and whether the young woman was paralysed with
fear or did not hear its approach cannot be determined.
but the engine knocked her down and the train paean'
over her, almost cutting her topicces. Her death almost in.
etantly transpired, and her clothes were afterwards found
torn to friginents and scattered all over the line. The
mutilated corpse was taken up with all despatch sad re.
moved to await an inquest. No blame is attached to the
engine-driver or guarti. or in fact to anyone save the uo•
fortunate young woman hereelf.