The Express.
London, England, 1868-01-29 00:00:00

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1 ' PARIS axenirrioN FIRSTCLASS SILVER MEDAL, 1887. ~,,
JOHN BROCIDEN'S VALUATION of GOLD. a
' I ' 24 Man On Is I.9carats../I3 3 81 9 carats ..L1 11 10 •
t i 4 1./4 4 11/ 17 earns. 10 t 8
carats owns .... i 1! lb ii
pis oure. Wanda- 116 71 7
23 carats.. 4 1 0 is cords.. 213 1 6 carats .. 1 1 20 fl
U carats (British Warns.. 2 0 ei 5 carats .. 017 5
nanduesti 117 101 LI carats.• 1 6 0 4 estaiss-.. 41 IA S 1
21 cants.. 314 4 Limns.. 2 1 51 3 c.nats - 010 n _
20 carats.. 310 04 11 carats.. 115 11 3 ousts .. 0 7 I/ w
carats.. 3 7 3 10 carats.. 115 41 1 .utrat ..
elanuf4ctory, 16, Hearietta-stroat, Covenbparden, London, W.C.
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TEN EvEnno, THE BartoY3xlesk"-11---El• TF.D CL1;13.-A WIFE
WELL WoN. mama &Ahern, linckstone, Howe, Kendal,
Braid._ Weatharsby, &e, • and ties Robettaoo.-After
1 =AN ETTER PER-VERBI6 uP THE BRIGAND.
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PRINCESS'S
THIS Ev33lni, THE COLLEEN HAWN. Mr. sad Ws. Dion
Boaricault.- After which THE ;
STREETS oF LONDON. Mr.
Vining, Messrs. Murray, Shore, Neville. Forreater
An. Addis., Mellen, lc.
M . Minos ilswerthy, K. Barnett. Rachel Rainer, and
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STRAND.
THIS EVILInso. OLD SALT. Mr. Emery and Min Nally Mount.
...After which THE CALIPH OF BAGDAD. Mews. Theme
and James ; Mesdames Ada Strantsorough, Johnstone, Harland,
Holt, &c.-And COAL AND COKE.
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HOLBORN.
TRH EVItir.SO, THE FLYING ScVD. Messrs. Atkins, Price,
; Garden. Arthur, Westland, and Wilmott : Mesdames Mundt,
Goodall, Lennox, awl sauuders.-Conclude with VALENTINE
AND ORSON. Mdlle. Montero, Little liuwells, &c.
BRITANNIA.
I ' THIS Esssnro, DON QUIXOTE ; oft, SANCIIO PANZA AND
HIS WIVE TPIRIZA. Aim Lane, &Misses ?Alen& Booth : Pao-
tomicalate Mews. Wane, Lou* Newham. Vreltl ; Milne.
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C. stephau and Alias Bose Nathan.-And WHO DU/ IT!
HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
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TO-1103WW-Menalret, tli. c.tol Afternoon, 411. Situ.
LONDON, WEDNESDA Y, JA-VUARY 29.
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ANoVnEn torch has been carried into the
villanous cavern where the Clerkenwell mur-
derers prepared at leisure their infernal plot.
( PATMeN Mi:LLANY has turned "approver,' and
. ^'• is now as ready to lend a hand in thrusting tin
necks of his countrymen into a noose a
, he lately was to help them blow up in
I English neighbourhood. Yesterday, when Oa
crowd which filled Bow-street Police-court wa
\I expecting to see this man take his place at th
bar, ho entered the witness-box, pale and fearful
like the double-dyed traitor ho is, and wit
tremulous voice professed his desire to be ez
ermined as a witness for the Crown ; and 1
it is the duty of the 1 loverrunent to go
as much light as possible thrown upon this daz
affair, his evidence was accepted. The lino of e:
amination taken by Mr. GIFFARD soon show(
that he must have previously placed his stor
of information entirely at the service of the pr
attention.
1.1 hIia.T.ANY says that he was sworn in a Feld:
last March, and was 'made a Centre. Since Ap
his means of existence have been premier
and a strike having thrown him out of work,
occupied his abundant leisure with plans for Oil
turning British rule in Ireland and setting up t
Irish Republic. His disclosures take up t
Clerkenwell plot about a week before the outrm
and begin with the incidents of the Holborn nu
ing. The talk at this interview was mysteric
and impressive. An " object in view" i
vaguely referred to, and so important was
)i I deemed that all agreed that money must
raised in some way. The follows went about
1 businea.s as systematically as if they had a
pious or charitable work on hand, dividing
burden of the task between them, and r
assuming his own share of responsibility.
volunteered 11l get V. ; others, 18s., 121.,
les. This part of the story does not favour
notion that these men were acting as agents
) a great organization, disposing freely of in
funds—such as must be supposed when we
of the purchaaes of arms which BURKE and of
% are sworn to have made. MULLANE repre
1 that it was difficult to raise money to buy
powder enough for the Clerkenwell oxplo
After this meeting there was the 1
i coining and going, conference, inquiry,
report, the work of conspiracy being diver
with an occasional private quarrel. At le
two days before the fatal outrage, BAR
O'NEILL, ENI:LISII, and others, with 31e1
t himself, met at WILLIAM DESMOND'S house;
on thin occasion the nature of the intended
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, was freely discussed. Notes wore compared
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1 II each conspirator told, like the Witches in Mo
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what particular contribution ho had brought •
work of death and destruction. The powde
been obtained, and before the meeting was
the barrel, the truck, and all else that was
site to make the apparatus of murder compli
meeting was then appointed at W. DESAION.
the next day. MIALANY did not atten
but on the evening of Thursday, the day bet(
explosion, ho saw Bauxerr, whom throughi
evidence he calls JACKsON, and learned fro
that the attempt had been made that day, 1
some reason had not succoodetl, and that
lintended to repeat it on the following cli
will be remembered that at a very early a
I the inquiry the police deposed that on th
Thursday a barrel had been taken into C
tim-row on a truck, and deposited agair
prison wall. On the night of Friday, v
1 London was under the excitement of the c
, ! MULLANE met BARRETT, who had chant
personal appearance by shaving off his 1
and wearing a different coat, and BARRI
told him that he had lighted the fuse W
. ploded the barrel, that he feared identi
and was going away.
This is the substance of Meraaa-x's di
as to the Clerkenwell crime. They n
perhaps, add any one fact of signal impel
those elicited by the inquiries of the pr
they supply some missing links in the
evidence, and render the whole story of
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more coherent. Taken by themselves,
meats of an apprOver might have little t
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m
the significance of the more solid tostim
creased by the light reflected. MULL
Sir THOMAS HENRY yesterday that he
" great deal more about the case," and
having chosen his part, evidently wants
clean breast of it. He says that Bai
him that he and another man went dow
street armed with revolvers, and MIL
all day, watching for an opportunity,
not arrive, of shooting CORYDON, the
Certainly, if these Fenian* do us some I
must be acknowledged that they have I
destroying one another. MULLANT is
of this group who has turned upon his
and if the prosecution should have
which everybody expects, it will be ir
t owing to the evidence of these two met
now a view of the type of character a
, which have produced this great crin
see how well adapted they were
. to injure us and bring the cons]
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ruin. The wretches who plotted the
explosion were men with a certain am
cunning, but utterly incapable of for