The Sun.
London, England, 1867-09-26 00:00:00

THE FENIAN 0 UTRAGE.

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MANCHESTER, Wednesday.
The examination of the prisoners concerned in
the late rescue will commence to-morrow. The
idea of holding it at the Assize Courts has been
abandoned, but the ordinary business of the police-
court will be transferred to Albert-street station, so
as to leave the police-court entirely free for the
more important business of the day. The exa-
mination will commence at 10 o'clock to-morrow
morning, and arrangements have been made
whereby the prisoners, nearly 50 in number, will
be placed, some of them in the dock, and the re-
mainder in front of and before the table used by
counsel. Provision has also been made for the
proper accommodation of witnesses for the prose-
cution and defence, the number being very great,
and they are to be placed under surveillance of the
police in the lower court. By way of precaution it
has also been thought proper to limit the admission
of witnesses for the defence to those only wb.) can
produce tickets from the prisoners' attorneys.
There have been two more arrests to-day, one of
a man employed in a highly respectable warehouse,
and the other of a man living in Salford, on whom
some Fenian papers were discovered. He had at-
tracted attention on Sunday by cutting off the entire
of his whiskers and beard.

A special meeting of the City Council took place
this morning, to receive a report from the Mayor
(already published) in reference to the Fenian out-
rage. The following is an outline of the discussion
which followed :

Mr. Alderman Clark, in moving the adoption of
the report, complimented the Mayor upon the ad-
mirable manner in which he had conducted himself,
and expressed a hope that a special commission
would be issued for the trial of the prisoners. Mr.
Councillor King seconded the motion, and agreed
with Mr. Clark as to the desirableness of the speedy
trial of the prisoners implicated. Mr. Alderman
Heywood eulogised the conduct of the working men,
and said that, as a class, they had no sympathy
with this outrage. Ho also separated from any
participancy in it the largest proportion of the
Irish population. Mr. William Booth hoped that
the delay in forwarding the telegrams from Dub-
lin and the Home-office would be thoroughly in-
vestigated. Mr. C. Thomson strongly objected to
the appointment of a special commission, believing
that bif these men remained for a few months
in gaol it would not only be a preliminary punish-
ment, but would give them an opportunity of re-
ceiving a fair trial. The Mayor made an explana-
tion as to the delay of the telegram from Dublin.
It was addressed to Mr. Superintendent Maybury,
at the detective office. Mr. Maybury was then ab-
sent on duty, and did not return to the Town-hall
till between 6 and 7 o'clock, when it was placed in
his hands. But in justice to the public, it should be
stated that he had ascertained that the telegram ar-
rived at a much earlier hour than that at which it
reached Mr. Maybury. Mr. Whitehouse expressed
his entire dissatisfaction with the arrangements at
the detective office, as exhibited in connection with
the telegram, but the Mayor said it was undesirable
to discuss the question. Mr. Alderman Grundy
asked Mr. Councillor Murray for an explanation
of some remarks of his at the Rotunda, in Dub-
lin, which appeared to convey a sympathy with the
Fenian movement. Mr. Murray said he had been
mis-reported, and that he had no sympathy what-
ever with Fenianism, or anything of the kind.
Ultimately the report was adopted, and the pro-
ceedings of the Mayor approved, the general feeling
of the Council being in favour of the appointment of
a special commission. It was explained by Alder-
man Grundy that the city gaol had been strength-
ened so as to insure the safe custody of all the
Fenian prisoners confined therein.