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

ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL.

Official report of the present state of the the sufferers
from the late explosion admitted into Ibis hospital :
Arthur H. Abbott, aged 5 years, rupture of the right
eyeball, face terribly burnt and lacerated (dangerous),
progressing favourably.
Hannah Roberta, aged 30 years ; numerous and severe
lacerated wounds of scalp and arm, • rib fractured, and
back injured (dangerous), progressing favourably. Martha
Thompson, aged 10 years, interments torn off the face
and scalp, which are fearfully burnt and blackened with
gunpowder, dirt and glass : dead. Hannah Maria Thomp-
son, aged eight years, lacerated wounds of neck and seal
(serious), progressing favourably. Humphrey Evans, aged
66 years, lacerated wounds of face and back, severe shock
to system (very dangerous), better, but in danger. Seven-
teen other persons were also received at this hospital, all
more or less seriously injured, but able to leave the
institution.
At Clerkenwell Workhouse there are also five or six
eases, bat the only serious one is that of Charles Mauley,
who has sustained severe cuts about the head and body,
and injury to the eyes.

ANOTHER ATTEMPT TO MURDER. A POLICEMAN.
—At 5, late hour last evening information was received
at Scotland-yard that an attempt had been made upon
the life of a policeman on duty in Kennington-lane. The
acting inspector on duty at the Kennington-lane police-
station persistently refused all information, but from
other sources it was ascertained that a policeman had
been shot at, but without receiving any injury.
THE CAPTURE OF THE FENIANS BURKE AND
CAMET.—The Right Hon. W. Gathorne Hardy, Secretary of
State for the Home Department, has authorised the re-
ceiver to the metropolitan police, on the recommendation
of Sir Richard Mayne, to pay Mr. Thomson, the inspector
of the detective force, Scotland-yard, the sum of ten
guineas, seamark of approval of his courage in apprehending
at the risk of his life the Fenian leaders known as Colonel
Richard Burke and Colonel Casey, and a further reward of
2/. has been awarteddtipolice-constable Fordliam, E,
for the firmness he • eyed in effecting this capture,
though ignorant of the desperate character of the wen.

JUVENILE " FaxiAlcs."—A schoolboy at New-
bury has narrowly escaped death by hanging, under rather
singular circumstances. It appears that a number of lads
under instruction at the National School in that town
were in their play hour amusing themselves by a game to
which they attached the title of "Feniani.m.^ With
boyish humour they were in their own way giving some-
thing of a representation of the proceedings of the Fenian.
at Manchester ; several arrests were made, and the game
went on until it was decided by the youngsters to present
the closing scene in the Manchester tragedy. For this
purpose the group of lads adjourned to a r.eighbouring
mahout*, where three of them volunteered to enact the
scene on the scaffold. The brat boy who cam* forward
was Alfred Twitchen, around whose neck a scarf was fas-
tened by a slip knot, and he was thereupon suspended
from a b.am, where he hang for a few seconds, until his
face became blackened, and there was fear th .t strangula-
tion would ensue ; happily, however, the knot slipped,
and Twitchen, falling to the ground, escaped an untimely
end. He had suffered sufficiently from the thoughtless
freak as to beco.ne insensible, in which condition he was
removed to his home, but be has now nearly recovered.
The boys engaged in the affair were summarily punished,
and the narrow escape of their companion will probably
leave a lasting impression on their mods.
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LONDON, MONDAY, DECEMBER N.

Wilms it is impossible to exaggerate in a
political point of view the effect of the recent
Fenian outrages, there is equally no question that
they have a serious bearing upon trade. Com-
merce can support and overcome many evils, but
popular disturbance and uncertainty are drawbacks
that in these days at least are not easily with-
stood. No ono cares to buy or sell when the
whole current of affairs may be suddenly altered
by some unforeseen event against which it is im-
possible to provide. Probably the present
agitators reckon upon such a result. They must
have heard that trade is one of the vital sources
of English prosperity, and may imagine that the
more they can injure it the better for their cause.
A series of movements that may reduce half the
factories in Lancashire to short time, and pro-
portionally diminish the iron and coal supply,
form • desperate but an intelligible mode of
warfare. It may be said that Fenian out-
breaks are not likely to damage our internal trade
to a very great extent, since there must always be
a certain interchange of commodities. We wish
but cannot believe it. Our foreign commerce,
however, will chiefly suffer. The tele-
grams that by this time have conveyed the
news of the Clerkenwell prison explosion to nearly
every country in the Old and New World will in-
directly affect the credit of even our most eminent
bankers and merchants in London. To a foreign
mind the impression conveyed will be simply that
there is an end to English security. fence,
although it is generally unsafe to make any predic-
tion on the course of monetary affairs—since no
others are so much liable to be swayed by popular
prejudice or by favourite and not seldom erroneous
ideas—there appears good reason to believe that
the large class of foreign depositors in England
will become a little alarmed about the security for
their money. Perhaps we may find the foreign
exchanges on Tuesday to be falling, gold again drib-
bling out of the Bank, and in short the same signs of
apparent distrust that were the accompaniments of
the after-crisis—the three months of the Bank
rate at 10 per cent.—in 1866.

On the other hand, there is a more favourable
side of the question. To give a parallel illustra-
tion. A year and a half ago foreigners were
taking their money away as quickly as
possible. A month or two later they
were only too glad to send their deposits
back. In the first instance they feared a mercan-
tile collapse ; in the second, they were satisfied
that it would not happen. The effect was merely
a revulsion of feeling. At first sight the stoppage
of one or two great firms was feared to be the
precursm of a general destruction of English com-
merce. The event turned out differently. In the
same manner the Clerkenwell and other outrages
are pretty certain to be deemed the precursors of
the destruction of English prosperity, and with it,
of course, of English commerce. Again, we think
our foreign critics will prove to be in the wrong.
Somehow or other we shall get through the diffi-
culty. For the time we may have to suffer no
small inconvenience and loss, but it can hardly
last for long, and just as we recovered from the
commercial panic of 1866, we ought to recover
from the mere semblance of a political panic in
1867.

Passing from the trading tothe investing classes,
it does not appear that the latter have suffered
much, if any, discouragement. Consols have cer-
tainly receded a fraction within the last day or
two, but that is no uncommon circumstance at the
end of the week. The public are, as it might be
anticipated, in no wise alarmed respecting the
safety of the Three per Cents. As regards
other securities, there is an evident
falling off in the demand for foreign bonds,
a circumstance more to be approved than other-
wise. The fruit of the recent advance is, as usual,
to be found in the reiterated notices that a fresh
batch of loans is about to be introduced. Cer-
tainly, foreign Governments are insatiable bor-
rowers, and nine times out of ten the money is
used for unproductive, if not harmful purposes.
With regard to home enterprises, railway stocks
continue almost stationary in public favour. The
fluctuations are of comparatively little moment,
seeing that they are almost entirely the conse-
quence of mere speculative dealings. BonA fldo
transactions are, as a rule, few, and of those that
take place it is difficult to find whether the majority
Are rather for realization than for permanent
investment.

Yet there is no doubt that railways, properly
managed, must prove a sure and productive in-
vestment. Unceasingly have these columns exposed
the abuses of management, the lavish expenditure,
manipulation of accounts, additions to capital,

construction of branches that may pay 20 years
hence, but not before, and a hundred other short-
comings. Still, we repeat, railway property is
tangible. It rests upon solid security. Even in
the worst cases, if its present date is bad, there is
at least the hope of a future. The same may be said
of the Irish trade. In old times Irish merchants
and manufacturers were prohibited from English
markets, but if the Ferns= wished to abolish the
policy of exclusion they would find that it had
already been done away with many years ago.
Already in some departments of commerce—corn,
_ _

for example—lrish traders take a prominent part.
It is useless, however, to press these points.
The commerce of the United Kingdom, there is
no possible doubt, is more or less damaged by
this kind of secret war which the Fenian are
carrying on. The sooner the evil is radically
removed the better.