The Sun.
London, England, 1867-12-13 00:00:00

FENIAN MA TTERS.

The funeral demonstrations proposed to be held at
Glasgow will, no doubt, be prohibited by the authorities.
The officials of the Orange brotherhood have issued a
notice desiring the brethren to abstain from anything
calculated to compromise the peace.

Black-bordered placards were posted throughout Leeds
on Thursday, announcing that a funeral procession, in
honour of the three men lately executed at Manchester,
will take place in Leeds next Sunday afternoon. The
lovers of Ireland, both male and female, are called upon
to assemble in Kirkgate-market, and to walk thence in
procession to St. Patrick's Roman Catholic burial-ground,
York-road, in the outskirts of Leeds. No public
announcement on the subject has yet been made by
either the civic authorities or the Roman Catholic priest.
hood.

Some excitement has been created in South Wales by
the capture of one of the Fenian fraternity, who is be-
lieved to have taken a prominent part in one or more of
the raids by Fenian in Ireland. A man giving the name
of John Ryan, but whose real name turned out to be John
Castrell, was apprehended by Inspector Fowler, of the
Monmouthshire constabulary, at Tredegar, on the 2nd
inst., on a charge of stealing a passage warrant to America
from a woman with whom he was cohabiting, and whose
husband (in America) had sent the warrant, which
was worth £27. It appeared that the man belonged to
Kilmallock, and was actively engaged in the attack on the
police barracks of that town on the 6th of March. The
prisoner was taken from Tredegar to Usk, and was there
charged with theft. An officer of the Killarney constabu-
lary, who had come over from Ireland, then swore an infor-
mation that prisoner was concerned in the attack on the police
barracks, and upon that information he was handed over to
the constable, who immediately started with him for Lime-
rick. The man appears to be about 30 years of age, about
bft. 6in. in height, dressed very poorly, and is an ignorant
sort of fellow. While living with a married woman in
Tredegar, he has a wife and two children in Limerick.
He, of course, intended to have got off to America by
altering the woman's passage warrant ; and for revenge
she gave him in custody, and disclosed such particulars as
led to his apprehension on this further charge. She
appears to have afterwards repented of this step, but
the man makes no secret of his complicity with
Feuianisea.

TENIAN FUNERAL PROCESSION IN NEW
FORK.

The following account of this event appears in the .IVezo
ror,l, Herald of the 29th of November :—" One of the
7slost imposing gatherings that the IreLians of this city
ever had occurred yesterday, to mark the sympathy fe!t
by the brotherhood of New York in the fate of the three
Fenians recently executed in Manchester. The demon-
stration was fully prepared for beforehand. There had
been meetings of the various circles, indignation assem-
blies to express the popular voice on the subject, and a
general muster of the friends of Ireland throughout the
town. Thanksgiving Day is celebrated in a variety of ways
by our citizens, and the Irish portion of them thought that
the most appropriate celebration they could have would be
a grand funeral to commemorate the fate of the Manchester
victims. At an early hour the by-streets leading to East
Broadway, where the funeral procession was to muster,
were thronged with men in the uniform of the Fenian
brigade. The ferries that ply from Brooklyn were con-
tinually bearing over fresh cohorts to add to the ranks of
these, and by the hour of noon the whole plaza of East
Broadway, from Grand-street down to Chatham-square,
was crammed with a dense crowd of those who sympathised
with the cause of Young Ireland. At twelve o'clock the pro-
ceesion started down Chatham-street towards the City
Hall, and when it had been marshalled in order and had
actually got under way it was grand in its imposing
effect. Led by two marshals and headed by a band, a
mass of some 5,000 men was formed four deep, marching
with solemn tread along the street. Like a serpent of
chameleon hue, the procession defiled across Chatham-
square down towards the hall of the city ; and like an army
it marched across the park in review order by the mayor
and corporation, who stood on the steps of the City Hall
to receive them. The green and gold uniform had a won-
derful effect even on the sombre day we had yesterday;
the day itself seemed in keeping with the ceremonial,
which was altogether one of a funeral type. The men
men marched by, troop after troop, corps after corps, some
boys, some men, until half the procession had passed, when
three hearses, each drawn by four horses, came in view.
In every hearse a coffin was deposited, on which were in-
scribed the names of the Manchester Fenians, O'Brien,
Allen, and Larkin,with the touching and sententious com-
ment on each, 'We mourn his loss.' The words were suffi-
cient. After marching by the City Hall the Fenian funeral
wound its slow length along up Broadway. First came
the marshals, then a band, and then a battalion of boys,
after which the rank and file of the Fenian brigade men,
placed in companies. On the banners which were carried
at the head of the column the following lines were
printed

" `Whether on the scaffold high,
Or in the battle van,
The fittest place for man to die
Ts when he dies for man.'

On the reverse of each of the two banners the words ' The
Martyrs of Manchester' were inscribed. The Second and
Third Temperance Societies of New York took part in the
Fenian gathering, and mustered pretty strongly on the oc-
casion. The G rand Marshal of the procession was Jeremiah
M. Creed ; the aids were John Kerr, Cornelius Mahony,
Timothy Lynch, John Murphy, and John Leney. The
rescuers of Col. Kelly and Capt. Deasy were the chief
mourners, who followed the hearse in the mourning car-
riages engaged for the purpose. On reaching Fourteenth
street the Fenians marched down to Seventh-avenue, up
that thoroughfare until they reached Twenty-third-street,
when they crossed the town to First-avenue, and finally
gatheredin Union-square. Here addresses were delivered
by John Savage and others, the former making a funeral
oration to the memory of the Manchester men. He spoke
of how they had been martyred in the cause of liberty,
and how England was accountable for their fate. There
was a dense crowd assembled in Union-square to partici-
p'•,t.n in the meeting, and the balconies of the houses along
ti:e line of the procession were crowded with fair and
gaily-dressed ladies, who looked with great interest as
the Fenians marched by. The speeches did not termi-
nate until a late hour in the afternoon, and it was dark
before the men had dispersed and the last green uniform
eli.sappre,l. The ff,ll,,wing order was telegraphed on
Wednesday to the various captains of the Metropolitan
of this city and Brooklyn. It may be added that a
committee of the Irish processionist.s, on the same day
the order was issued, called on the superintendent to obtain
a police escort for the parade, but were unsuccessful in
obtaining what they sought, Mr. Kennedy contending
that as a policeman he could not order policemen to escort
a procession of sympathisers with the fate of men who
had murdered a policeman. A large number of citizens
also called at headquarters to urge upon the Police Com-
missioners the propriety of not granting an escort. There
was no need of any urging A parade intended to do
honour to the murderers of the Manchester policeman
having been projected for to-morrow, you will on that
day hold your whole command on duty, your off platoozi
in reserve, subject to future orders, jpip 4t.