The Express.
London, England, 1868-02-12 00:00:00

THE LATE OUTRAGE IN CORR.-RIOTS IN
THE CITY.

THE AIN

COLONIEt3.

PRINCE ALFRED'S VISIT TO VICTORIA.
The Melbourne papers are still filled with long
accounts of the rejoicuigs and fetes consequent
upon the visit of Prince Allred to the colony. CORK, MONDILY Emma°.
When the November mail left, his royal highness The city has during the whole of this day been
had been only three or four days in Melbourne. prey to the most extraordinary excitement,
The formal landing and welcome had taken place ;
the city had been illuminated ; and the Prince had originating in the daring and unprecedented
outrage committed last night. The circumstanoes
laid the foundation-stone of the new town-hall
which the city of Melbourne is about to raise on of that outrage are these—Lest night Detective
the site of the edifice which has hitherto served the Courtenay, an inoffensive and most respectable
purposes of the corporation. Since then the scenes officer, was on duty at the terminus of the Great
in which the Prince has taken part have been, the Southern and Western Railway, watching the
Ar psia says, of a more social, and perhaps more departure of the 10.10p.m. mail train for Dublin
lei:Toy-able, character. His Excellency gave a grand
station
ball in the early part of the month in the
new Exhibition-building ; and shortly afterwards, with which it is connected by a dark and lonely
the Corporation Fancy Dress Ball, in honour of street, occupied exclusively with stores, and almost
the Prince, took place in the same building. It was deserted at that time of night. When at the end
by far the largest and most interesting occasion of of this street on his return from the station, the
the kind that -had ever taken place in the country,
detective noticed that two men were close
nearly 3,000 guests having been present. During
the month his royal highness visited the western . behind, and seemed to be dogging his
district, Ballarat, Sandhurst, and Castlemaine. In footsteps. These men followed him acmes
the first of these excursions he enjoyed some rabbit Patrick's-bridge, through Patrick-street, and
and kangaroo shooting. At Ballarat he visited the , through Northcop-street and Pembroke-street,
mine of the Band of Hope Company—the largest i narrow-woe -4einiseniestinar with the South
alluvial geld mine iirthe colony, and had att oppor- 1
-of - • - the - Dowling Forest I Mall, a broad and handsome street, and one of the

(FROM oua OWN

tunity seeing racing on
course. He made himself intimately ac-
quainted with the whole system of mining
in the alluvial, and was photographed—to
the great contentment of the miners of Bel;
larat—as he emerged from the shaft in the
garb of a miner, and dripping wet, after a consider-
' able stay in the drives. At Sandhurst he de-
scended the quartz claim of Mesas. Latham and
Watson, on Hustler's Reef, from which some very
rich returns have been obtained ; and there he was
shown the whole process of extracting gold from
the matrix. These duties were varied with
pleasing occasions of dining, dancing, and other
enjoyments, such as the necessarily rapid move-
ments of the Prince enabled the people to provide.
The Prince's stay in Victoria was to be pro-
tracted till the 4th of January, when the Galatea
was to proceed to Hobart Town, Tasmania, and
thence to Sydney and New eland. Nothing
would be done in the matter of the new elections
until the departure of the royal guest.
NEW SOUTH WALEI.
On the motion of the Premier, another sum of
5,0001. has been voted by parliament to make
I provision for the reception of his Royal Highness
the Duke of Edinburgh, who was to visit the
colony about the 21st January, by which time it
was expected that the new governor would have
arrived. A reception commission had been ap-
pointed, and in all parts of Sydney there were evi-
dences that the people intended to welcome with
much enthusiasm their illustrious visitor.
His Excellency Sir John Young, the governor,
was to leave Sydney by the outgoing mail.
Major-General Sir Trevor Chute would adminis-
ter the government during the short interval be-
tween the departure of Sir John Young and the
arrival of Earl Belmore.
•
SOUTH AUSTRALIA.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh has
written from Melbourne to his Excellency the
Governor, requesting him to express to the Recep-
tion Committee his satisfaction at the manner in
which he was received in South Australia. The
cost of entertaining his royal highness will be
under 15,0001., which is considered, says the
Register, to be very reasonable.
its proposed to erect a tower on the summit of
' Mount Lofty to commemorate the visit of Prince
Alfred to the colony. An influential committee
have been appointed, and the government have
granted a site. A scheme has also been started to
erect a Sailors Home at Port Adelaide to comme-
morate the same event.

principal avenues of the city. In Pembroke-street
the detective stood for a moment under a lamp to
observe the men, and they slunk back into George-
street to escape his scrutiny. Pembroke-street, I
should state, is well lighted, and about midway in
it there was open at the time the Imperial Hotel,
so that it would have been dangerous for the men
to have molested the constable in that locality.
Thinking that he had shaken off his pursuers he
went on to the South Mall, intending to cross the
bridge at the end of the street, and return along
the quay at the other side, and so reach his
barrack. On the South Mall he met two sub-oon-
stables, Dorgan and Donnelly, and while he was
telling them of the suspicious circumstance which
had occurred, his two pursuers appeared at the end
of Bleasby-street, a narrow lane leading from
the Mall to Georges-street. Courtenay having
now the assistance of the two sub-constables
determined to apprehend and search the men,
whose conduct certainly afforded ground for sus-
picion. The constables were then at the end of
the Mall, under the strong light of two or three gas
lamps in the square formed by the bridge and the
streets at the other sides. The men continued to
approach, and the three policemen suddenly turned
to seize them. Dorgan did catch hold of one of
the men, and Courtenay was about to seize the
other, when this second man drew a revolver from
his breast and fired in rapid succession three shots
at the two constables, Courtenay and Dorgan, im-
mediately in front of him. He stood so close to
Courtenay at the time that the latter was almost
blinded by the flash, and could not distinguish the
features of his assailant. Courtenay and Donnelly
fell back before the tire, from which their escape
was almost providential. Dorgan, releasing his
prisoner, dashed at the man with the revolver, who
quickly wheeled round and discharged a fourth shot,
sending the bullet whizzing harmlessly past
Donnelly's face. The two men then turned and
fled swiftly down lileasby-street, from which they
reached Georges-street, and were lost to view.
None of the constables was armed, and having bad
startling experience of the daring character of their
assailants, they did not judge it prudent to go in
pursuit.
On the occurrence being reported to the county
inspector, a large constabulary force was got ready,
and patrolled the streets in various places until an
advanced hour in the morning, ea it was feared
that similar attempts at maassination might be
made upon the small patrols which usually visit
the city. During the rest of the night, however,
perfect tranquillity revelled. At an early hour
(PROM Ora OWN COBRESPONDINT4 in the morning were made of the houses
MALTA, FEB. 7. in Bleasby-street and the locality around, but
The greater portion of the squadron under the nothing was discovered.
command of Lord Clarence Paget having put to sea on the In the morning the several constables on street
eth instant for • fortnight's cruise, we have just DOW in i duty were furnished with a description of the
'
port the Endymion, frigate ; Enterprise, ironclad oonette ; ' man who had fired the shots, and about
midday Constable Duffy noticed in Patrick-
the Cockatrice and Wizard, gunboats ; and the Psyche and
dx, despatch v le. The Psyche is to take her de- street a man whose appearance corresponded closely
C
" with the description. He followed this man to a
Priam ta-marraw naming, conveying Lady PIPS 11" house in C treatsent for Sub-constable
family to Athens. It is to remain at the disposal of the eorgeadt , and
awaawader-ia.amer, who intends visit te c twain*, Dorgan, by whom the man was at once identified as
in it. , the perpetrator of the outrage of the previous night.
I The man was then arrested, and was ascertained to
The foreign men-of-wax in harbour are the Italian iron.
• be Patrick O'Brien, a mason and plasterer. Shortly
dad frigate Maris Pia, the Turkish iteeelattfrigate I afterwards, on private information, a second man,
Mahmoudia, and two Egyptian vessels. I named Eddy, was arrested. The capture of these
Her Majesty's mew steam troopship Himalaya is ex.
men created the greatest excitement in the city.
petted in Malta from Gibraltar about the middle of next I As O'Brien wan being removed from the place in
week with the 87th Foot, that are to relieve the 2nd bat- , which he had been taken to the Tuckey-street
Wien of the Bth, the King's. The latter gallant corps is police-station an enormous crowd of women and
expected to leave this garrison :.*-nit the 20th instant. lads, with a considerable sprinkling of grown men,
The transport Serapis is now daily looked for here from gathered about the police court, and kept up a
Qoeser&own with the BSth Regiment, on her way to tumult of groans and hooting, with occasionally
Alexandria. more menacing demonstrations. Several stones
The Esralishyacht Ariel arrived yesterday from Co,rfu were thrown, but none of the police were injured.
having on board a party of military officers who had gems 1 While the prisoners were atTuckey-street the crowd
on a shooting excursion to Albania. I grew in numbers and excitement ; and while the
Telegraphic communication between Malta and Alex- prisoners were being removed to the bridewell,
&adrift is still interrupted, owing to a fault on the line near 1,,,.var guarded, severe volleys of stones were
Benghazi, bat It is believed that the emamaaleatlea will t.irown. Ey which a few of the police were injured,
be restored in the course of to-morrow, the Hawk having but not seriously. The entire of Market street,
nearly succeeded in effecting the necessary repairs. The where the bridewell is, was occupied for some hours
frequent breaks occurring on Ibis line naturally suggest by a violent and formidable mob, and from time to
the expediency of replacing the present cable by a better time the policemen who remained outside to guard
one, witk the view of securing uninterrupted ceinmanica- the entrances to the gaol and the adjoining police
tion with the East. court were visited with a shower of stones. The
A sitting of council was held this afternoon, when a constables exhibited mast creditable temper, bear-
, moss interesting discussion took place on the subject of ing the provocation with great patience •
but the
t now
' education. What gave rise to the debate was a lecke of and then it became necessary to drive 'b
resolution■ moved by the leader of the elected bench, who, crowds constantly pressing forward, and in the
it seems, wished to bring the subject in ell its bearings charges made for this purpose several persons were
before the government, with the object of ventilating this hurt with bayonets and bekuis.
important question. There is no doubt that the present The prisoners were brought for examination
state of education in this island is not very satisfactory, before the magistrazes at 3 o'clock. when a curious
and that it urgently Galls for a reform, particularly in these conflict of evidence took place. Sub-constable
days, when the question of improving the intellectual Dorgan positively identified O'Brien as the man who
condition of the people is engaging the attention of the fired at Courtenay, and alleged that he got a per-
moat distinguished men both in England and other *Dun- fect view of Courtenay's assailant. Courtenay
tries. Although two or three commissions have, during himself, however, was equally positive that O'Brien
I the last few years, been appointed for the purpose of in• was not the man who fired the shot, but thought
(miring into the state of the local governm
pr ent schools,
oothiog hos Lew done with the view of it. vim them that he mig• ht be the person whom Dorgan had in
but it is now high time that the work be won custody. It was not alleged that Eddy was con-
, band. cerned in the outrage • but the constabulary ob-
- mined a remand in his case' undertaking to prove
The members for Leicester, Messrs. P. A. Taylor him to be connected with Fenian. As regards
and J. I). Harris, addressed their constituents in the O'Brien, the bench decided to commit him, upon
Temperance-hall, Leicester, on Monday evening ; Mr. the evidence of Dorgan, on the charge of firing, with
Alderman Tourn in the chair. The hail was densely intent to murder, at Courtenay.
crowded, not fewer than 3,000 persons being present. I Unoonnected with this affair there have been
A resolution expressive of approval of the counts per, several rows in the city to-day and last night, in
sued by, and confidence in the hon. members was unaid. ' which the police have been severely pelted with
measly adopted. stones. There has been manifested since the arrest
Yesterday morning a conference of the members of Mackay a lawless and determined spirit in the
and friends of the National Reform Union was held in mob ; and it is believed that the arrest of their
the Town-hall, Manchester. Mr. Gnomes Wrisiow, peed- chief, and the frustration of some meditated plan,
dent of tbil essoidotioe, occupied the chair ; and tilloort have rendered the disaffected who figure in these
those present were Mr. Bagley, M P. ; Mr. Jason Reid
it, I rows desperate. Much alarm has been occasionedM.P. • Mr. R. N. Philips, M.P. ; Mr. Hugh Mum.
Ashton ; Mr. W. Warburton• Mr. J. B. TOT ; Mr. i. 7 which is an absolute certainty, that
• Bradford ; Mr. inbablestra, Present ; Mr. I there area large numbs'. of men in the city armed
gambl• , Ball ; Mr. Snowden, Halifax • Mr. limajturre with revolvers, which, as this outrage testifies,
ley ; and repreeentatives delegated ham many of the the are only too may to use.
towns in the 'Northern and Midland 0011alat. The confer- Premutions hominess taken to meet any attempt
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THE MEDITERRANEAN.

Massy. But wherever the information has come
from it is clear that it has been given, and there
are at present in the hands of the police as many
as a hundred warrants for the arrest of men deep
in the conspiracy.
9 P. m. —The city has continued much disturbed
all the morning. Large crowds of people have
assembled on the Parade, in the neighbourhood of
the central police-station at Luckey-street ; and
in the charges made to disperse them as many as
seven persons, chiefly young lads, have been
wounded by the bayonets and sabres of the police.
The latter are endeavouring to prevent the crowds
from forming in large masses, and small parties of
horse and foot are sent through Patrick-street,
George's-street, and along the Parade every live
minutes, by which means the mobs are kept mov- 1
ing. Up to the present there has been no
serious collision, as the mobs readily yield
before the constables, who have now taken
the bayonets from their guns, and simply knock
those they encounter about the body with the bar-
rels of the carbines. No respectable persons pass-
ing through the streets have, up to the present,
been molested ; and things are now wearing a
better appearance than they did an hour ago.
However, we shall have, I fear, a great deal of
trouble and tumult during the night, from which
deplorable consequences may arise. The worst
element in the mob consists of the brats of boys,
and young and excessively dirty girls, with factory
hands, who make all the noise, and throw all the
stones, which provoke charges, that lead to other
and innocent people being injured. At night a lot
of these mischievous urchins began to shriek for
the " Irish republic," and in the charge made to
disperse them, one man was stabbed severely in the
body, and a young lad cut down by a horse police-
men, receiving a dangerous wound in the head.
Neither of the victims had anything to do with the
disturbance more than in foolishly consenting to
be present.

CORK. VISHAY NIGHT.

YR. J. F.

pitunt.

This gentleman gave his annual conoert at St.
James's Hall last night, when his cantata, " The Ancient
Mariner," was performed fur the first time in London, and
the sisters Doris made their first appearanoe in England.
The first part of the concert oommenoed with Mozart's
overture to Idomeneo, capitally played by an excellent
orchestra, consisting of many of our best instrumentalists,
conducted by Mr. Barnett. This gentleman, who has for
some years been known as a brilliant executive pianist,
has also been conspicuous among English musicians by
various efforts in the higher branches of composition.
His earnest study of his art, and ambition to excel
in it, have been manifested by several elaborate, be-
sides many mailer productions, chief among the
former being his grand orchestral symphony first
performed at the fourth concert of the Music►l
Society in 1864, and afterwards repeated elsewhere. The
cantata, however, now referred to is perhaps the most
ambitious of all Mr. Barnett's efforts, since to realise by
music the lurid and ghastly word-pictures of Coleridp's
legendary poem requires dramatic genius and vivid ima-
gination that are rare among composers. Of the merits
and characteristics of Mr. Bansett's work we spoke fully

Constables Thompson and Carney were tired at
from the corner of Castle-street, at eight o'clock,
by a person unknown. The constables fled. At
eleven o'clock a man in Mulgrave-road was stopped
by two policemen ; he fired a revolver at them,
and ran away. One of the constables discharged a
rifle at the man, who fell, but rose and escaped.
Two men were subsequently arrested near the
spot, one having part of a gun in his possession.
The man who fired on the police in Mulgrave-
road has just been arrested. He was concealed in
a house in Dominick-street ; his nose was shot off.

CONCERT.

THE FENIAN AND PRESS PROSECUTIONS

IN DUBLIN.

DUBLIN, TVIRDAT NIGHT.

on its production et the Birmingham Festival lest year, en
the sane time recording the decided meccas which it
achieved there—a result which hasbeengaiteequallodby its
reception last night.

Drama.

One of our moat active, if not one of our meat
brilliant dramatic authors is Mr. T. J. Williams, who has
fairly earned the distinction of being nearly our only living
farce writer. The Lyceum is now playing one of his little
piers called Who's to Win Hint ? which the manager brought
out so stealthily that most of the journals were ignorant
of its existence. The Surrey has a more pretentious drama,
called the Peep-show Mae, which serves as • serio-conde
prelude to the pantomime; and the Olympic. which is now
our chief vaudeville hones, hat produced another little farce
by the tome author, called One too Men; for Him, which
has the invaluable support of Mr. Charles Mathews. Mr.
Williams generally draws his materials from French or
foreign sources, but this ls no injury to the public or the
managers. The managers know exactly what they are
buying, and the public sleep as soundly after an Anglo-
French force as after • purely English one. It is only
fair to Mr. Williams to state that he has • happy knack of
bitting the public taste, and of all farces produced iu
London during the last twenty years, with the single ex-
ception of 130. r and rox, perhaps few have hid such a
long life as In on parte Francais. The Olympic is now
the recognised home of comedy, and with • company in-
cluding Mr. Charles Mathews, Mrs. Stirling, Mr. Horace
Wigan, Met E. Farren, Mr. G. Vincent, Mr. It. Soutar,
Mr. Ashley, and Miss Louisa Moore, and a programme that
mostly contains four short pieces, there ought to be no
lack of genuine amusement for playgoers.

Patrick Lennon was found guiltyof treason-felony
to-day ;he was proved to have led the attack on
the police barrack at Stepaside and Glencullen.
The Attorney-General announced that he would
be tried for shooting at Sergeant Kelly, with intent
to murder him. _ _ _

A true bill was found to-day against Mr. Sul-
livan, for publication of seditious libel& in the
Weekly News.

MR. LOWE AND THE REPRESENTATION OP
THE UNIVARSITY OF LONDON.

In a letter to Mr. Julian Golclecuid, M.P.,
and MO graduates of the University of London who had
pnawaired b with a thipthilies, 311 e. Leese asespth the
poetise of a candidate for the honour of representing the
University of London in parliament. Mr. Lowe holds that
as the university was founded on liberal principles by
liberal men, and is the truest and fraeat expression yet
attained of all that is free, progressive, and unsectarian in
education, the person who aspires to represent it ought to
bold thoroughly liberal opiniens, and be • member of the
party to which the university owes its is:intense. He re-
fers to his votes and speeches daring the 15 years which
comprise his parliamentary life, and to his labours on
many royal commissions and on select committees,
and then proceeds to speak of the present and future.
After a reference to the course he took upon the Reform
Bill, he says that the question is decided, be hopes
events may prove him to be wrong, and has no wish to re•
viva the controversy. " One duty is, without loss of time,
to adapt ourselves to the great change that bee taken
plus. We mot expect a much greater demand for
equality than heretofore, and ought to pass our institu-
tions in review, modifying such things as seem likely to
wound this feeling, and founding ourselves upon princi-
ples which will bear the test of diseased= in • democratic
assembly. The redistribution of seats is forced upon us
by the change in the franchise, sines what has been
already done is quite inadequate to bring these two parts
of the measure into harmony with each other ; I voted last
year for a larger disfranchisement of email boroughs, and
shall be prepared to do so again. I dissent from the de-
structive conservatism which would keep the House of
Lords just as it is, and would gladly see that house
enabled better to resist pressure, by being placed
more on the footing of • Neste where distinguished
merit might find a place beside rank and wealth.
It is not safe to etas everything on the vote
of • single chamber. I view the revenues of the so-celled
church of Ireland as the property of the state, the appro-
priation of which may properly be changed with a due re-
spect foe vested interests ; and the church itself as an en-
lust institution, irritating to Ireland, and discreditable to
as in the eyes of foreign nations. I wish to preserve mixed
education in Ireland intact, and for all other students than
those in the Queen's Colleges to found a university in Ire.
land similar to oar own. Several parliamentary investiga-
tions of the state of Ireland in which I have been engaged,
while they have thoroughly impressed upon me the vast
imperial importance of appeasing her discontent and pro-
moting her prosperity, have also taught me that the evils
of Ireland are mainly nodal, theological, and monomial
They cannot be remedied, and may easily be aggravated
by legislative interference with contracts between private
parties acting with full knowledge. The Universi-
ties of Oxford and Cambridge ought, I think,
to be governed by such graduates as are con-
cerned with their teaching and discipline. The
universities and all collegiate endowments should bet pen
to all persons without religious tart, and withou re-
quiring them to be members of any college or hall. The
collages should enjoy full powers of legislation and self-
' peerament, and should contribute from their revenues
Whatever may be required to give the universities more
tenable. power, and • more oomplete and efficient staff of
peelemore. The time has owns when, if we wish to be
well governed at home, or respected abroad, we must maks
education accessible to all. This can be done without any
immediate destruction of the existing sythem, by estab-
lishing secular schools, supported by rates wherever eolith-
Cary exertion fails."