The Express.
London, England, 1868-01-03 00:00:00

THE FENIAN MOVEMENT.

List night a spesial meeting of the Metropolitan
Woridft Men's Conservative Areciation was held at RI.
,lammt-etzest. Westeelaster, for the pumas al
libetherhie the steps whites are bin tibia W thee body
towards holding pent pabßs imelhag Lanies, fag the
of giving exprendon ts the pepahr eldnerease of
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messing is not intended to be of a party ohmmeter, and
they hope that " every men, loyal le Qom and
counter, will seised, sad thet the meating will be IMmesas of strengthening the bands of the Finest goys*
meat, justifying it la etre" sessemes for dila
tea* summon the
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into. A :ea took PhDs In reformaso le
the Pees of m the dilindly in this Map* Wig
mused by the deo Lard Mayor to .sees
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request of the that be would preside in
event of the mimed* d a hall outside .
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matter was ultimately allowed to met in *wane% it
is the intention of the executive committee to take it up
on the next mmtunity. It wee announced in the course
of the emi that soma lading mem insladleg
liberals, have been and are being as
the subject of the meeting, sad that many have deedy
expressed their intention to speak to the meolatione whisk
it is proposed to salniih—lfeerly 8,000 MID have been
enrolled as special constables for the City of London
alone, irrespective of other parts al the metropolis.
They me n yews of sip or uporeeds, end are
connected with the City by reddens. or insinmet, er both.
Between sixty and seventy of her Majesty's servants
belonging to the Royal mews at Pindieo were sworn in as
special constables on Tuesday before the two county
traten who sat during the whole of Tuesday in P7'ml:
swearing in large bodies of men belonging to the General
Poet-office, London, Chatham, and Dover Railway Com-
pany, and many of the large firms in the aeighbonrhood.
The swearing In is rapidly progreadng in other dis-
tricts of the metropolis, as well as in most of the prm-
cipel towns end cities of the kingdom. In the pariah of
St. Paul Covent-garden, the swearing in continued yester-
day, and 1,214 have taken the oath. Mr. G. (stalk-
shank,Lieut.- lend of the 481 k Middlesex Volunteers,
attended yesterday and made arrangements with the
bench for an evening sitting at 8 o'clock for the pupae,
of swearing in a imp body of the members of his corps.
Lieutenant-Colonel William Nape, of her Majesty's
army. formerly adjutant of the Queen's Westminsters,
sad Major Charter, the present adjutant of that corps,
have kindly offered their services, and are now actively
in organiidng the forces, and arrangements; are
con redted for drilling the members of that division, in
compliance with the suggestion received from Lisatenint-
Colooel Swart, A.R., the officer appointed by the govern-
ment to superintend the whole of the special constables.
Oa Wednesday evening Lieutensat-Colonal *wart spent
upwards of an hour in inspecting the headquarters (at Old
Hummoms) of this division. Three gentlemen from Messrs.
Coutts', the bankers of the *Bread, yesterday received
their appointments to command the members of that
establishment who have been sworn in.
WOOLWICH, THURSDAY NIGHT.—The swearing
in of the whole of the arsenal artisans as special constables
his had the effect of individually testing each man's alle-
giance to the crown. It has transpired that a number of
Irish labourers refused to take the oath, and the matter
has been ordered to be rigidly investigated with a view of
ascertaining whether such refusal arises from disloyalty or
rigineV with the Fenian movement. An opinion is en-
that the Fenton have accomplices in the arsenal
who have furnished information on the pceition, contents,
and assailability of the different stores, and which infiu•
enced the Fenian in their recent intended attack. Great
disquietude prevails at Erich in connexion with a large
engineering firm employing a great many hands. A few
days ago some Fenian disaffection was alleged to have
been discovered amongst the Irish employes which led to
the (discharge of a large number of Irish ; and since that
time the police have been repeatedly celled out in great
numbers daring the night in consequence of the discharged
Irish having assumed a threatening attitude.

Slit STAFFORD NORTNCOTZ ON nonagund.
The Right Hon. the Secretaryof State forlndia at
as chairman of the Devon Quarter Sessions on Wednesday,
and in charging the grand jury the hon. baronet said :
I think I may congratulate the county upon the general
appearance of the calendar. There is no appearance of
any unusual amount of crime, or anything to disturb us
in our apprehensions as to the public peace in this part of
England. There is, no doubt, a certain amount of un-
easiness in the country generally as to the condition of
the public pe►ce, and even, as some persons say, of the
public safety ; but I think you may satisfy yourselves
that there is no reason whatever for anything like alarm.
There are no doubt a very smell number of persons who
have an object such as is very diffioult to define, and
who are very recklessly proceeding in different parts of
the country, especially in some of our larger towns, in a
manner to cause considerable annoyance, and sometimes

considerable damage to those age nst whom their efforts
are directed. But I believe that I may say that the pro-
ceedings of those people are very well known, that there
are abundant precautions taken against them, and that the
confidence which the government has in the good feeling
and loyalty of the whole population, with the most trifling
and contemptible exceptions, is such that there is no
cause for uneasiness or anxiety as to the condition of the
country. If it were necessary, the government have that
perfect confidence in the spirit of all clause that they
would not shrink from calling for any exceptional Mea-
sures for the protection of the public peace. But the go-
vernment are perfectly satisfied that nothing of the sort is
necessary—that the measures which have been taken of in-
viting special constables, in certain places,to come forward
and give their auistanoe, in order to show what the feeling
of the groat mass of the nation is, will be sufficient both to
reassure and comfort all loyal and well dieposedpersons;and
to show those who have any other designs that the great
mass of the people are against them, and that they can have
no hope of being able to do anything beyond isolated acts
of mischief. It is most desirable that there should be •
general feeling of confidence on the part of the people, and
that there should be no disposition to attribute to any
considerable number of our fellow-creatures designs or feel-
ings which certainly are not properly attributable to them.
It would be • most serious misfortune for the idea to get
abroad that general discontent and a general feeling of dis-
loyalty is prevailing in this country. It certainly is not
the ease. All that we have to guard against are isolated,
very foolish, and insensate efforts of • very small knot of
persons, against whom adequate provisions have been
taken. At the same time it is advisable, especially in
large towns, that persons should be ready to come forward
and give their assistance as special constables, or in say
other manner, to prevent attacks being wads without any
reason to be assigned for them, which may cause • great
deal of annoyance, and even lead to more serious COnlie-
qaenaes.

In the course of yesterday it was understood in
the royal borough that the Mayor of Windsor, Mr. J. W.
Wellman, had within the last few hours received a letter
from an anonymous writer, warning him that at a certain
specified time attempts would be made by Fenian to at-
tack two places in the town when ammunition was stored.
One of them was laid to be the volunteer magaose , and
the other a gunsmith's, in Peucod-street. Means were
promptly taken to secure the safety of the arms and am-
munition at them establishments ; and in the mane of
yesterday evening there was a private meeting et the ma-
gistrates to take any necessary steps for the safety of the
public. Mr. G. H. Long, the magistrates' clerk, accord-
ingly, at the testiest of the mayor and justices, made ar-
rangements for swearing in a number of constables. In
the evening at 7 o'clock, the Mayor (Mr. J. W. Wellman),
Mr. W. R. Barrie, Captain Darby, and Messrs. J. Jones,
Pearl, and Holderness, borough magistrates, together
with kir. Long, attended in the Council Chamber of the
Town-hall, for the purpose of swearing in the special con-
stables. A large number of the members of the Windsor
Rifle Volunteer Corps and the Volunteer Fire Brigade at-
tended to be swam in, the volunteers marching to the
place of meeting in a body, with the band playing " Rule
Britannia." Captain the Hon. Leslie Ruthvsn, the com-
mandant of the Windsor corps, and Lientement =say
Captain Evans, commandant of the Eta Osage Etas
Corp*, the Revs. Stephen and Henry Hawkey. sod •
number of influential residents were also prees.t The
mayor having explained the reasons for aliing the mess.
lug, Mr. G. Long stated that it haling been intimated
to the police that attempts would he made upon the
Windsor volunteer depot, the gunsmith's, end the gas
works, the magistrates, in view of what was taking Mass
all over the country, lad determined totake wish nursers
as would preserve the public pesos. Mr. Hands also
addreseal the meeting. The volunteers respeoled nest
loyally, Captain the Hon. Leslie Rothvea. Lkonlinanil
Ellison, and Captain Evans being the Hest swam in. n.
Ear. Stephen Hawtrey and the Rev. H. Hawtrey ales
took the oath to serve. and their example was followed b
those in the room. Mr. Chief Saperintendait Davis wag
to London in the afternoon for a supply of Ouncheons.

cAirsupossans.

At a meeting of the magistracy of Cambridge-
shire, held yesterday in general meter emelsee, for the
transaction of the eutepheary ef the eetrety, the
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