The Sun.
London, England, 1867-05-08 00:00:00

IREL AN P.

DUBLIN, May 7.

Some rather alarming particulars have been pub-
lished about Cody, or Byrne, who on Saturday
night attempted to stab one policeman and shoot
another. When arrested the prisoner was searched,
and on his person was found a printed document,
containing the names and addresses of the judges
now presiding at the Special Commission, together
with lists of the names and addresses of the Crown
counsel, of the jurors who tried Burke and Doran,
and of the witnesses produced for the prosecution.
The document is in pencil. The handwriting cor-
responds with that upon an envelope found with
the prisoner and addressed " Mr. Michael Cody."
A terrible significance is given to this discovery by
facts connected with the prisoner's career. He is
reputed to be the Fenian Centre for Callan, county
of Kilkenny. Up to a late period of the autumn of
last year he was confined' in Mountjoy Convict
Prison under the Lord-Lieutenant's warrant. He
was liberated on condition of going to England, and
was escorted by the police from the prison to the
North Wall, and seen off by the Liverpool steamer.
He again returned to this country for the purpose
of joining in the insurrectionary movement. The
circumstances of his first arrest, on the 18th of
April, 1866, are as follows :—Private Maher, of the
Bth Foot, gave information that Byrne and a man
named Thomas Baines, who was sentenced to penal
servitude at the last Commission, were in the habit
of seducing soldiers from their allegiance, and that
on the night of Saturday, the 13th of April, a
meeting would be held for that purpose in a house
in Leeson-lane. The police were communicated
with, and Detective-officers Entwistle and Rotheray
proceeded to the place. Colonel Fielding and a
party of the Coldstream Guards also proceeded to
Leeson-lane. On entering the house a number of
arrests were made, and Entwistle apprehended
Byrne. The prisoner made violent efforts to escape,
and also endeavoured to reach one of two revolvers
which were placed in a belt worn round his body.
The officer, however, by main force succeeded in
effecting the capture. As Byrne was put into a
cab, he observed to some person in the crowd,
which had by this time assembled, " I am glad Pat
was not here," and when he was entering the police
station he said—" If I were to wait for twenty
years I'll have revenge for this. I know who the
loyal man was who informed on us." On the fol-
lowing Saturday, Feb. 20, Private Maher was
shot at in a public-house in Bonham-street. The
person alluded to by the prisoner as " Pat" is
believed to have been Patrick Kearney, who was
arrested on the Ist of May following, in a
house in Tighe - street, by Detective - offi-
cer Clarke, after a struggle in which Kearney
attempted to shoot the officer with a revolver. The
prisoner is under treatment in Mercer's Hospital.
He is seriously wounded in the back of the head,
and in the face—his nose being broken by the blow
of the haft of the revolver dealt him by the police-
constable. It is probable he will be removed to
gaol in the course of the afternoon. The revolver
he carried was seven chambered. It was fully
leaded, and he had 31 rounds of ammunition. One
might suppose that his conduct in Grafton-street
was a feint, and that he wished to be arrested in
order that the list of names found on his person
might serve as a threat to prevent the punishment
of Burke and Doran. But this idea seems to be
precluded by the struggles of the prisoner to escape.
The affair shows that there are some desperate men
among the Feniaus, although it must be admitted
very few deeds of violence were committed by them
in tha South, when they had large districts of the
country in their power, and even the persons of some
of the gentry in their custody—a fact which will be
pleaded in favour of the convicts now lying under
sentence of death.

At the Cork Police-office, on Saturday, Mr.
Michael Riordan was brought up, on remand,
charged with complicity in the late Fenian move-
ment. Sub-Inspector Hamilton applied for a further
remand. Mr. Blake urged, for the prisoner, that
there were no grounds for granting the application.
Aftersome deliberation, the magistrates—Mr. Scott,
Mr. O'Sullivan, and Sir W. Hackett—decided on
accepting bail, the prisoner in £lOO and two sureties
iu £5O each.

The Plenipotentiaries accredited, by the European
Powers to the London Conference on the affairs of LuX-
emburg met yesterday for the first time at the official resi-
dence of the First Lord of the Treasury in Downing-
street. The Conference will sit again to-morrow (Thurs-
day).
RETURN OF THE 2D LIFE GUARDS TO WINDSOR•
WINDSOR, TuEsnior.--This morning, at an early hour, the
2dßegiment of Life Guards, under the command of Colonel
Marshal, left the Knightsbridge and Regent's-park bar-
racks en route for-Windsor. The regiment, on leaving
the metropolis, marched by road, arriving at the Royal
borough, by way of Datchet, at nine precisely. The
troopers, who presented a somewhat travel-stained appear-
ance, their uniforms and accoutrements being covered
with dust, marched through the town to the cavalry
barracks at Spital, where the regiment again took up its
quarters.
THE NORTH-EASTERN RAILWAY.--The effect of
the strike on this lino has been so far overcome that the
company yesterday had spare hands enough to run the
usual excursion trains to the York races. In addition, on
Monday, most of the trains which had been discontinued
during the strike were resumed, and are now running
punctually. Every train absolutely required is now in full
working, and there are hands in plenty to meet the require-.
meets of the summer traffic. Many of the old hands are
in a miserable plight.

NATIONAL REFORM UNlON.—Arrangements are
now being made by the executive committee to assemble
large and influential deputation of the vice-presidents and
chief officers of the numerous branches of the union to
wait upon Mr. Gladstone at his residence in London. 0°
object of the deputation will be to protest against the
Government Reform-Bill as being utterly inadequate to
settle- the demands and requirements of the people ; to
urge upon Mr. Gladstone the desirableness of returning
to the old constitutional principle of household suffrage,
which was once the law of the land; and to express nu"
diminished confidence in him as the leader of the Liberal
party. A large number of gentlemen in various parts of
the country have already signified their intention of join-
ing the deputation, and it is expected- Mr. Gladstone
will be requested to-day (Tuesday) to fix the date on
which he will receive them. Those intending to Pia
the deputation should communicate at once with Mr.
Morton, the agent of the National Reform Union.— .31°4-
chester Examiner.

THE LATE BARON POERIO.—A humorous eon"
course last Tuesday followed the cofliu of Baron Poori°
from where he died at Florence, in the Via Sauta eateries,'
to the •Misericordia (Jhapel. The pall• bearers were Signor
Rattazzi, the Presidents of the Senate and Chamber of
Deputies, the Syndic of Florence, and Deputies, public
functionaries, officers of the National Guard, and private
friends of the deceased, both Italians and foreigners, Pine':
in the procession, which was preceded by a battalion of
the National Guard, with craped banner and band playing.
The streets through which the coffin passedwere crowded:
The body has since left for Naples, escorted by Selu"l,
Scialoja, as representative of the Municipal Council
Florence, and by six delegates from the Chamber of Pt!:
puties. Letters from Naples say that the death of
amiable man and sincere patriot had there caused a gread
sensation. He is to be buried at the public expense, and
it is probable that the ceremony will be made the °col"
of remarkable demonstrations of respect and regret