The Sun.
London, England, 1867-12-28 00:00:00

They are to appear on Monday. -
Yesterday morning, James Canavan, aged 25, described
as a ship engineer, was brought before the Mayor and
other magistrates, at the Guildhall, Southampton, and
charged with attempting to administer a Fenian oath
to Timothy Ahern, a private in the 2nd 'battalion of
the 60th Milo, stationed at Marcbwood. The evidence
produced went to shew that Ahern and a comrade
were drinking the previous • evening in a -public-
house in Bridge - street, where they saw Canavan
and another man. On leaving the house the two sol-
diers were followed by the prisoner, who asked Ahern,
who had had some drink, but was not drunk, if he was an
Irishmen. He raid he was, and Canavan then asked if ho
would take the Fenian oath, and on his replying no, he
deliberately knocked Ahern down. Ile got up, and after
a short time he met his corporal, and they together went
in search of the suspected Fenian, and meeting him in
the High-street, gave him into custody of Police-sergeant
Attrill, who had his work cut out. to keep Canavan
from the attack of several of the Rifle Brigade, who had.
by that time joined Ahern. • The prisoner, it further
appeared, is a . fourth engineer in the Peninsular and
Oriental Company's service, and was invalided home from
India about five months since. He was remanded till
Wednesday.
A ma n named Morley, suspected cf being actively engageu
in the Fenian conspiracy, has been apprehended at Lea-
mington by Mr. Superintendent John Lund. A letter
respecting the Fenian movement was found in his posses..
sign. He - adMitted Fenian. At present the
police do not feel disposed to reveal all they know of his
antecedents.

Three men were arrested in Killarney yesterday undez

the Lord Lieutenant's warrant, on a charge of being con-
cerned in treasonable practices. Their names are John
J. Healy, secretary to the Funeral. Procession Committee
of Killarney ; John D. O'Connor, Clerk in a drapery esta,
blishment ; and Patrick O'Sullivan; also assistant in a
drapery establishment. The last mentioned was a Crown
witness at the last Kerry Assizes. The men were arrested
at a little before eleven o'clock, and were immediately sent
on to the county gaol, arriving at Tralee by the 12.5 p.m.
train, in charge of a number of the Killarney constabu-
lary. The whole matter was conducted with the utmost
secrecy and dispatch, and was not at all expected by those
who were arrested. The arrests created the greatest con-
sternation among those connected with the intended fune-
ral procession in Tralee.

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THE PALESTINE EXPLORATION FUND.---Henry Good-
enough, a messenger at the Crystal Palace, was brought
up at the Lambeth Police-court on remand, charged with
stealing El is., a post-office order for £2 25., and a batch of
cheques, representing a sum of nearly £7O, the moneys of
the Palestine Exploration Fund, of which Mr. Groves, the
secretary of the Crystal Palace Company, is the honorary
secretary. The prisoner was entrusted with the money
and cheques mentioned to pay into the Union Bank of
London, and in consequence of a communication in respect
of some sums previously entrusted to the prisoner with the
same object, and which had not been accounted for, the
prisoner was taken to the bank, but did not succeed in
identifying the clerk to whom he alleged he had paid in
the money, and consequently he was given into custody.
Since the remand, the prisoner having made a statement
explaining the destruction of the cheques but admitting
taking the cash, an arrangement was made, and the
prosecution was withdrawn. The prisoner was therefore
liberated.

CHILD MURDER.—At the Glasgow United Circuit
Court, Eliza Gilchrist Brown was charged with having on
Sunday, 26th, May, administered to Jessie Andrew Brown,
her daughter, a child under 7 months old, a quantity of
laudanum, in consequence whereof the said child died. It
appeared that the prisoner's brother-in-law had brought
into the house a quantity of laudanum, for the toothache,
and that he left it on the mantelshelf. When he required
it again ho could not find it, and on making inquiries,
prisoner confessed that she had given it to the child, and
it would be better if it went to heaven. Medical evidence
sheaved that the prisoner was insane, and had been an
inmate of an asylum, and the jury having intimated that
they thought her of unsound mind, she was ordered to be
confined until her Majesty's pleasure concerning her
should be known.

BRUTAL ASSAULT ON A CHILD BY ITS FATHER.—At
the Police-court, Burslem; on Tuesday, William Vena-
bles, labourer, was charged with assaulting his child,
Sarah Venables, 10 years of age. The child's arms were
discoloured and much swollen, and there was a severe cut
on the back of her head. Eliza Brown stated that on the
previous day, hearing dreadful screams in the prisoner's
house, she got over a wall and saw the prisoner beating the
girl about the head with a boot. The witness believed the
prisoner was beating the child in that way because she
had not cleaned his best boots properly. The stepmother
of the children also abused the children. A police-con-
stable, who was attracted by a crowd near to prisoner's
house, went in, and finding the child's head bleeding and
its right arm bruised and swollen from the elbow to the
wrist, and the left hand much swollen, took the prisoner
into custody. The magistrate, after remarking on the
brutality of the assault, sentenced him to three months'
imprisonment with hard labour.
HEAVY DAMAGES FROM THE MIDLAND RAILWAY COM-
rANT.—AIr. George Dean, an elastic web manufacturer, at
Derby, has received £2,800 as compensation for serious
injury received by him on the Midland Railway, in April
last, when the train in which he was a passenger from
Derby to Blanchester ran into a goods train at Guide

Bridge.
MURDER BY A REJECTED SUITOR.-At Asliton-under-

Lyne, on Thursday, a young man named Timothy Fa,herty
was brought up on the charge of having, on the Christmas
Day, wilfully murdered Mary Hanmer. The evidence went
to shew that the prisoner wanted to pay his addresses to the
murdered woman, but was discouraged. On Christmas Day,
between three and four o'clock, he went to her house. A
woman, named Bridget Brodrick, left deceased and pri-
soner alone, but not long after she heard a scream. On
running downstairs she saw the prisoner with a poker in
his hand, and saw him strike the deceased on the head.
The unfortunate woman died soon afterwards. The witness
said she saw the prisoner strike the deceased five times on
the head. The evidence having proved that the deceased's
death was caused by wounds on the head, the prisoner was
remanded.

Some statistics were liven at a meeting of the
York Chamber of Agriculture, sliming the destructive
effects of the cattle plague. It was estimated that 4,286,427
head of cattle had been lost by the rinderpest, or 1,874,672
more than were imported from the Ist January, 1842, to
the end of last year. Resolutions were adopted, expressing
the belief that the importation of foreign stock was the
principal cause of the unhealthy state of English stock
during the last twenty-four years, and recommending that
all foreign animals should be slaughtered at the ports of
debarkation.
CANTEEN ECONOMY.—The distribution of the
surplus funds realised by the military canteens at Chat-
ham, since they have been taken from the hands of private
contractors and conducted by the military authorities,
has been made to the noncommissioned officers and
troops by the Canteen Committee. The committee distri-
buted ss. each to the general and garrison staff-sergeants,
2s. to each married sergeant, -and ls. each to the single
men of the battalions. The officers of each of the corps
in garrison at the same time subscribed very liberally to
enable the troops to keep the Christmas holidays in the
customary festive manner.
FLOGGINGS IN NEWGATE. —Three men have just
been flogged in Newgate, for highway robberies with-vio-
lence, in the presence of Mr. Alderman and Sheriff Stone;
Mr. Jonas, the governor ; and Mr. J. Rowland Gibson,
the:surgeon. William Turner, a man of 33, who had been
convicted at the last sessions of the Central Criminal
Court, was sentenced by Mr. Commissioner Ker to ten
years' penal servitude, with thirty-nine lashes, for a rob-
bery with violence upon Josiah Sherwood. William
Osborn and Michael Donovan, each of the age of 19, and
described as labourers, received each a sentence of five
years' penal servitude and twenty lashes, after a trial for
highway robbery before the Common Serjeant. The pro-
secutor in their case was Mr. Halford, a jeweller, of Paul's.
alley, Aldersgate-street, who, on passing through White-
cross-street on the morning of Sunday, December 15,
observed that he was being followed by four men. He
stopped, but was immediately knocked down by one of
them, while the rest rifled his pockets, and after stealing
£4 9s. they all raa away. The two prisoners, however,
ran into the arms of a policeman in a court in the neigh•
bourhood, and with assistance they were taken to a police
station. The prosecutor's arm was broken in the fall. On
the trial they both denied their guilt, but were neverthe-
less convicted. They received very bad characters from
the police,