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ATTEMPTED FENIAN MUaDER.

TIIIS DAY.

A diabolical outrage was perpetrated this morning
near Bloomsbury-square, which gives rise to the
most serious apprehensions.
As far as can be collected at the present moment
the following are the facts of the case :—Shortly
before one o'clock"this morning Edward M'Donald,
a bandsman in the 2d Life Guards, with a companion,
had been drinking at the bar of a public house
in the neighbourhood, and there being a number of
other persons there at the time, a discussion arose
with regard to the Fenian outrage at Manchester.
M'Donald and his companion expressed some
strong opinions as to the punishment those in
custody should undergo, when two tall men,
each wearing long beards and felt hats,
with large slouch brims, entered into the conver-
sation and defended the proceedings of the
Fenians. This led to an altercation between the
parties, and the soldier, who was not in uniform,
and his friend left the house; but, unfortunately,
instead of proceeding home they returned again to
the public-house and wished to be served with more
refreshments. This was refused, and M'Donald
and his friend left the house, followed by the two
men whom they had been talking to. When they
had proceeded to the corner of Vernon-place, one
of the men wearing the felt-hat said to his friend,
"Did you hear what they called us?" and after-
wards he made an attack on M'Donald's friend,
and knocked his hat off ; as he was stooping
to pick it up, he heard the report of a pistol, and
the next moment M'Donald fell to the ground, when
both of the men made off in different directions.
An alarm was raised, and, on raising M'Donald
from the ground, it was discovered he had been
shot in the right breast, and immediately he was
conveyed to the hospital, where on examination it
was found that the wound was one of a dangerous
character, the bullet having passed completely
through his body, injuring, it is at present
feared, the right lung. The bullet, which
has been recovered, is somewhat of a peculiar
character. It is of a conical shape, and,
with the exception of being slightly jagged,
by the rifling of the pistol on its discharge, it is as
perfect as when it left the mould. Up to two
o'clock M'Donald was still alive, but the hope of
his recovery is very slight indeed.
The public-house where the conversation took
place has long been suspected by the police as a
rendezvous of Fenians, and the presumption at
present is that M'Donald and his friend were taken
for detective policemen.
The most act ive steps are being taken by the
police, but beyond the faint description of them
given above nothing is at present known.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENO.T:;.—Th!s Day.

LONDON, Sept. 28.--Wiud this day at noon—North-
Westerly; moderato breeze and lino weather, but rather
cloudy.
CLYDE, Sept. 27. - Wind N.—Arrived—Columbia, from
New York. _ _

OFF QUEENSTOWN, Sept. 27. —Wind N.W.—Arrived—
Nebraska, screw steamer, from Liverpool; City of Boston,
screw steamer, from Liverpool—both proceeded for New
York.

(By Telegraph.)
• GRAVESEND, Saturday Morning.
Arrived, Sept. 27—Ursa Minor, from Erageroe ; Pride
of the Orwell and Pride of Ipswich, from Dunkirk; Ger-
mania, steamer, from Hamburg ; Eider, steamer, from
Tonning.
Arrived, Sept. 28—Moselle, steamer, from Antwerp ;
Cologne, steamer, from Boulogne.
DEAL, Saturday Morning.
Passed—Solmesdale, from London, for Port Philip;
Robin Hood, from London, for Cardiff.
Anchored—Esmeralda, from London, for Savannah ;
Profeta, from London, for Swansea; Westmoreland, from
Lcndon, for Jamaica; Mountstuart Elphinstone, from
London, for Point de Galle ; Espana, from London, for
Swansea.

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THE TURF AND ITS IDOLS.—It is hardly neces-
sary for us to answer that the men of rank and fortune who
stooped to malpractices of yore were as much an exception
to the mass of their order as are the honest owners of horses
the exception upon a race-course of to-day—that the de-
layed settlement in 182—, to which we have alluded, was
the solitary default in a prolonged turf career. But
there are other evidences of the diminished self-respect
of many noble and gentle patrons of the turf, which
cannot be noticed without regret and humiliation by
thoughtful and reflective moralists. The racehorse, it
would seem, is a more democratic leveller than Mr. Bealos
or Mr. Odgers; a greater disintegrator of aristocratic
society than the railroad or the penny press, or the Reform
Bill itself, big with mysterious and inscrutable possibilities.
That a young, raw, uneducated Yorkshire or Newmarket
lad, who can ride 7st, but who cannot pen a letter of which
a milkmaid would not be a hamed, should be welcomed to
the homes of dukes and marquises—that he should be en-
couraged to smoke cigars, play billiards, and volunteer
opinions without restraint in the presence of his betters of
either sex—is one of the saddest anomalies of our modern
civilisation. The days are at hand when the people of
Englan4 will pay little respect to men and women with
handles to their names who do not respect themselves.
Fashion, said Henry Fielding more than a century ago, can
also make gambling sweet and wholesome. When itshall
cease to be fashionable for men born in the purple to chat
and smoke with jockeys and trainers, and to bet thousands
and tens of thousands upon the speed and bottom of a race-
horse, without any other means of paying, if the race goes
against them, than the indulgence a money-lender shall
afford,—then, and not till then, shall we expect to see the
rehabilitation of the turf.—St. Paul's, Edited by Anthony
Trollope.
STEAM SHIPBUILDING ON THE CLYDE.—MeSSTS.
Seath and Connell, of Rutherglen, have launched a screw
of 441 tons register, intended for foreign service. She has
two decks, and is to be provided with engines with all the
latest improvements. She was named the Silver River.
Messrs. Seath and Connell have now on hand a screw
steam yacht of 50 tons, another of 60 tons, and two twin
screw tons of over 200 tons each. The Danmark, screw,
recently built by Messrs. Henderson, Coulborn, and Co.,
of Renfrew, for the Baltic trade, has made a favourable
trip, having attained an average rate of 10 knots, with a
consumption of 9.75 cwt. of coal per hour. The Denmark
is built for the grain trade, and is constructed to carry from
4,000 to 5,000 qrs. of grain. She is fitted with compound
high and low pressure engines of 100-horse power, nominal.
HEAVY STORM IN THE NORTH SEA.-011 Thurs-
day the steamer Cossack, Capt. Martin, arrived at Hull from
St. Petersburg, having encountered very heavy weather on
hor passage across the North Sea. The Cossack presented
a very shattered appearance, a portion of her port bulwarks
having been washed away, and the aperture thus caused
was filled up with deal battens. In addition to this
damage, the forward bridge and a small deck-house on the
starboard bow were washed away, and a house amidships
was so much battered that it had been deemed necessary to
patch it up with pieces of deal plank. The deck cargo had
also been entirely washed overboard, or thrown away for
the safety of the vessel. All this damage was occasioned
on Monday and Tuesday last, while the Cossack was
crossing the North Sea. The wind blew a perfect hurricane
from the south-west raising a very heavy sea, and the
Cossack's decks were swept by a mountain wave which
broke over her. The escape of her crew from personal
injury is almost marvellous. Tho Queen of Scotland,
another Hull steamer, had boon compelled to put back to
Ctiziwicn owing to the viol© 409 of the etornt.