The Sun.
London, England, 1865-09-30 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, Sept. 29.
The interest connected with the arrests of the

Fenians is of the most languid kind compared with
the excitement in 1848, or at any previous time
when the Government was engaged in putting
down rebellion. Then the leaders were public cha-
racters, who had, by a course of agitation, become
well known, and had acquired a certain following
among the people. But the Fenian leaders are
nobodies ; their names were never heard of before
this movement ; and, therefore, when a fresh cap-
ture is announced the feeling of the public is simply
one of curiosity, like what would be experienced
when a fisherman hauls in his net, and the by-
standers look on to see what sort of animals he has
caught. An arrest was made yesterday morning,
however, in connection with which a document was
discovered that seems to implicate one of the heroes
of 1848—" Meagher of the Sword"—who has since
won distinction and become a General in the Federal
army. The person in whose house this document
was found is Patrick John Heyburne, a barber,
residing at 103, Thomas-street, in this city, where
•he was arrested, and with him Walter Birmingham,
a printer. They were brought up before Mr.
Stronge, at 2 o'clock, at the Police Commissioners'
office, Lower Castle-yard. Mr. Williams, chief clerk,
read the following information made by John
Smollen, one of the detective force :

" From information I got I went to the house, 103,
Thomas-street, and saw the prisoner Heyburne at the door.
I told him we came to search for arms and pikes. Thomas
Clifford, who was with me, found in a room off the shop a
green velvet cap and dagger. I searched Heyburne my-
self, and found in his possession the key of the trunk now
produced. I brought him into the same room in which the
cap and dagger were found, and in which I saw the trunk.
I put my hand into an old press in the same room and
pulled down the three pike heads now produced, which were
wrapped up in a piece of old newspaper. We took the
prisoner and the trunk to the Chancery-lane station. On
searching the trunk wo found in it a rifle bayonet, a dagger

buckles bearing the harp and shamrock, two drill books,
•And a book on musketry instruction, a reen cloth cap with
the harp and the word, " Liberty" in Old ; four printed
gi
lists, duplicates bearing 33 names in 1 nt, and 'two addi-
tional names in manuscript. After we lodged the prisoners
at the station we returned to the shop, and in the cellar
next the room kept by Birmingham we found a large
canister of powder (now produced). The house in which
the shop is situated is one house, divided into two parts,
the entrance to the cellar being common to both. We got
into the cellar by the entrance to Birmingham's shop. In
the police station, when the prisoners were brought there,
and the charge was read to both, Birmingham said to Hey-
burne ' This is a nice row you got me into ; they got the
powder in my cellar and I know nothing about it.' Hey-
burne said, 'Any powder they got there is mine.' I asked
Heyburne ' What was your powder in ?' He replied that
it was in a tin case, and contained some bullets. On exa-
mining the eerie I found it was zinc, and on examining the
powder I found some bullets, as described by the pri-
soner. I also found in Heyburne's waistcoat pockets some
percussion caps. I have no doubt that the said He yburne
is a member of the Fenian Brotherhood, and conspiring
with them to levy war against the Queen in Ireland, and
establish a republicangovernment, and that he had the said
arms and ammunition in furtherance of the object afore-
said."

• Patrick Clifford, another detective, made the fol-
lowing statement :
" On this morning I was one of the officers who went to
the shop of Patrick Heyburne. On searching the room
under the shop I found under the pillow a dagger and sheath
(now produced), and in the same room I found a green velvet
cap ; and after Heyburne was taken away in custody, upon
continuing the search for arms and documents, I found on
the shelf in the shop window the document now produced,
written in red ink, bearing the address 25, Wicklow-street,
and the date February 17, 1863, and directed to Major-
General Thomas F. Meagher, and signed Patrick John
Heyburne, Emmet Guard, Fenian Brotherhood.' No 20,
Wicklow-street, is kept by a man 'named Murray, and is
called the Barbers'-hall, a place of meeting for the barbers."
Mr. Stronge said he would remand Heyburne on the
charge of treason for a week.
Heyburne---You are very kind.
Birmingham said he was innocent, and that Heyburne
would tell the magistrate so.
Mr. Strouge asked Birmingham if he could find two re-
spectable men who would go bail for him in £5O each to
appear when called upon.
Birmingham said he could.
Mr. Stronge—Well, let him remain hero till he pro-
cures the bail.

Birmingham said that Heyburne always had access to
the cellar. Since ho (Birmingham) went to the shop he
ripped up a couple of the boards in order that he might
get down to the cellar, and not have anything to do with
the shop. It was an old cellar, full of rubbish.

Mr. Stronge said the case seemed to be suspicious. The
gunpowder was found in his cellar. At present, however,
he would order him to be discharged, if he procured the
bail; and if nothing serious transpired he might not have
the pleasure of seeing him again. The impression on his
mind was that he was not answerable for the things found,
but under the circumstances he could not take upon him-
self the responsibility of discharging him without bail. .
Birmingham said that was the first time anything was
ever said against him.
Mr. Stronge said he was glad to hear it. It was very
foolish for men to allow themselves to be led by dishonest
knaves, and so get into serious trouble.
Heyburne was then removed, and Birmingham
detained until the sureties for whom he sent came
to enter into their recognisances.
The letter addressed to General Meagher, which
appeared to be a voluminous document, was not
read.

Later in the day another arrest was made near the
city, the prisoner being the reader of the late Irish
People. It appears that in consequence of informa-
tion received by Superintendant Ryan, of the G,
or detective division, to the effect that some person
or persons connected with the Fenian conspiracy
were secreted in Merrion - house, Merrion - view-
avenue, that officer directed Acting - Inspectors
Hughes, Smollen, Dawson, Giles, King, M'Der-
mott, Wolfe, and Rothery to proceed at 3 o'clock
yesterday afternoon to ascertain if such were the
fact. On arriving at the locality indicated they
found the house apparently unoccupied, the doors
and window shutters being all closed. Having sur-
rounded the premises front and rear, so as to cut
off all escape, one of the detectives sought admission
at the hall-door, and, on knocking, a man made his
appearance at one of the back windows, but, observ-
-ing that the police had taken up a position on all
sides of the house, he jumped out of the window on
the slates of the shed beneath, when he was arrested

search having been instituted., nothing*
in the place except a bed, which was laid on ,
floor, and several minor articles of furniture. The
occupant of the house turned out to be a man
named Denis Downey Mulcahy, who described him-
self as a medical student, and who, it appeared, had
been secreted there since Sunday, the 17th inst.
Mulcahy had been employed as "reader" of the Irish
People, and on the day the police seized the staff
and materials of that journal he abandoned his own
lodgings in Merrion-cottages, and took up his resi-
dence in the lonely house referred to, where he
remained up to the time of his arrest. On being
searched a number of documents were found on his
person, the nature of which has not transpired. He
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By a telegram received in town last night I learn
that in Limerick yesterday, in consequence of infor-
mation Made before a magistrate in the Doonass dis-
trict,county of Clare, nearly adjoining this city,
four men were arrested by the constabulary charged
with Fenianism and high treason. Their names are
Thomas M'Donnell, Arthur Stretch, Thomas Houma-
ban, and Martin Burns. Books of drill instruction
and some seditious documents are said to have been
found in their possession. They were brought
before Mr. Bell, R.M., who committed them to gaol
until the 6th of October, when they will be brought
up for examination. Another telegram states that
further arrests have been made in Derry, and that,
in addition to the persons in custody at Killaniey
for alleged Fenian practices, as already announced,
five others were arrested last night in that town
and two this morning, all charged with a similar
offence.

Sanatory State of St. George-the-Martyr,

Southwark.

The sanatory state of this parish has recently been
very much discussed in the vestry of the parish and
out of doors, consequently the medical officer,
Dr. BATESON, submitted his report to a meeting
of the vestry held last evening, in the Vestry-hall,
Borough-road, which was presided over by the Rev.
Dr. Hugh Allen, the rector of the parish. He entered
into a long and elaborate statement to show that the
parish in respect of sanatory matters was not worse
than its neighbours, and that in some respects it had
the advantage of them. After alluding to several
places such as Maypole-alley, Westcott-street, and
St. George's New Town, the sanatory state of which
was being attended to as much as circumstances
would admit of, he stated in his report that during
the four weeks ending the 16th of the present month
the deaths in the parish had been 125, being at the
rate of 25 per week, and that only one death had
taken place from fever. The district was in fact at
the present time healthy, and as so much had of late
been said as to the bad sanatory arrangements con-
nected with it, he compared the number of cases of
fever which had occurred in it from the year 1861
up to the present time as compared with the num-
ber which had occurred inLondon. From this state-
ment it appeared that the number of deaths from
fever in London was 1,794, while in St. George's the
number was 33 ; in 1862 the number of deaths from
fever in London was 3,634, while in St. George's
they were 107 ; in 1863 in London they were 2,892,
in St. George's 89 ; in 1864 in London they were
3,689, in St. George's 135 ; for the first two quar-
ters in 1865 they were in London 1,666, and in St.
George's 40; while for the five weeks ending the 16th
of the month the deaths from fever in London were
241, and in St. George's one death. From these
figures it would seem that St. Seorge's was not de-
serving of the castigation which had been cast upon
it. It was, no doubt, peculiarly situated. It was
densely populated, and the population was crammed
very much together. There was a population of
125,980 to the square mile, while 24+ yards only
were permitted to each person ; whereas 48 yards
were considered the requisite space ; but notwith-
standing all these drawbacks the deaths among
these 125,980 persons allocated to the square mile
WAS but 29 dead to 1,000 living. The report en-
terecLiuto a detail of the stets taken, and being
taken, to improve the sanatory state of the parish,
arguing that they were all that could have, under
the circumstances; 'oedia desired. Sanatory like po-
litical reform was of gmdual rt-r 1 sometimes of slow
progress. They were now doing their best to sow
the seeds of it, but it would be their children and
their children's children who would reap the full
fruits of it.

Mr. ELLIOTT moved the adoption of the report,
and that it be referred to the Sewers' Committee,
with instructions that 500 copies of it be printed
and circulated among the ratepayers, and that the
thanks of the meeting be awarded to Dr. Bateson
for the able manner in which it was drawn up.
Mr. ARCHER having seconded the motion, a long
and animated discussion ensued upon it, and it was
agreed to.

RECENT WILLS AND BEQUESTS.

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(From the Illustrated London News)

The will of Richard Cobden, Esq., M.P., late of
Dunford, near Midhurst, Sussex, was proved in the
Court at Chichester. The executors and trustees
appointed are Thomas Thomasson, sen., and Thomas
Thomasson, jun., both of Bolton, Lancashire, cot-
ton spinners, and Mrs. Cobden, the relict. The
personalty was sworn under £B,OOO. The will is
dated April 1, 1865, and is witnessed by John Ro-
berts, M.D., 75, Grosvenor-street, and Richard
Fisher, Hill-top, Midhurst. The testator died on
April 2, the day after the execution of his will, at
the age of 61. He was formerly a manufacturer at
Stockport, and a director of the Manchester Chamber
of Commerce, and had been a member of the House
of Commons since 1841. He has left to his wife his
furniture, pictures, books, wines, carriages, horses,
&c., for her own absolute use, and has also bequeathed
to her a life interest in the rest of his property, real
and personal ; and at her decease the same is to be
equally divided amongst his five daughters.
The will of Sir Robert Hermann Schomburgk,
Knight, formerly her Majesty's Consul at the Island
of St. Domingo, afterwards Consul at Bangkok, in
Siam, was proved in the London Court, on the 20th
ult., by the sole executor, Edward Buxton, Esq., of
Ealing, formerly of Ampthill-square. The will is
dated Nov. 26, 1848, and is attested by H. Holste,
Harrington-square,
Office,and bEudtwnarodwvFzceh-ss,etchreetnaroyf
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to the Northern Assurance Office. Sir Robert died
on the Ist of April last, at Berlin, at the age of 61,
and at the time of making his will is stated to be a
British subject, and was knighted in 1844. Sir
Robert was an eminent naturalist and geographer,
and a member and fellow of many English and
foreign societies, and had received several foreign
orders. Sir Robert has left the whole of his pro-
perty in England, St. Domingo, and elsewhere, to
his sister, Louisa Theresa Schomburgk, of Merse-
berg, Prussian Saxony.
The will of John Allan, Esq., late of Leadeathall-
street, shipowner, and of St. John's-villas, Lewisham,
was proved in London on the Ist inst., by the exe-
cutors, viz., Mrs. Allen, the relict ; and the testa-
tor's three sons, John, Henry, and Charles. The
personalty was sworn under £90,000. The testator
died on the 29th of May last, having executed his
will in 1862, and added four codicils. He leaves his
wife a liberal legacy absolutely, and a life interest in.
his freehold and leasehold estates and in the residue
of his property, which, upon her decease, will be
divided amongst their children. His freehold and
other estates in Yorkshire will devolve to his son,
John Harrison Allan ; a freehold in Herne Bay to
his son Charles ; certain leasehold estates to his
daughters Mary and Elizabeth. Out of the residue
he leaves £lO,OOO to his daughter, Harriet Poland,
and £4,000 to each of his daughters Mary and Eliza-
beth. There are the following charitable bequests :
—To the Merchant Seamen's Orphan Asyhtm,
£100; the Ladies' Samaritan Society for the Relief
of the Paralysed and Epileptic, Queen-square,
Bloomsbury, £lO.

A CASE OF CHOLERA.--A poor woman has died
at Parion Drove, Wisbech, of cholera, after an illness of
only a few hours. This is the only ease yet reported in
this district.—StamArd Mercury.