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THE REAL CHARACTER OF FRvIANISIII

SHOWN AT CLERKENTVELL.

The horrible crime at Clerkenwell prison de-
notes the true character of Fenianism. The reck-
lessness displayed in the destruction of life, the
outrage upon society, the violation of law, human
and Divine, prove beyond a doubt that this Irish-
American conspiracy has learnt its diabolical tactics
in the school of the Revolution. We have not
come to the end of the evil. The vigilance of our
police, unaccustomed to the presence in our midst
of an organized secret society, is baffled for awhile.
The criminal leaders and instigators of this war
upon established society issue orders which are car- '
ried out in broad day, concoct incendiary plots to
be attempted in the dark, strike consternation in
the inhabitants of apeaceful city, and watch in
security and concealment the effects of their mali-
cious and inhuman policy. Fenianism is not dis-
affection—it is not a protest against national
wrongs--it does not seek even by its lawless acts
redress for grievances real or imaginary ; its aims
are the destruction of society, the overthrow of a
just and legitimate Government, in the desperate
hope of substituting in Ireland a republic of its
own framing. The Catholic Church stands in the
way of its unholy designs ; it pushes the Church
aside, and for the first time in history we witness
Irishmen turn a deaf ear to the voice of their priest-
hood, and meet with defiance the denunciations
of their bishops. Irish disaffection, caused by the
past misrule of England, agitation in Ireland, to
obtain a tardy justice from England's oppressive
penal laws, the claims for equal rights, religious
and political, were national sentiments and acts
justified by reason and religion. During this painful

struggle, Ireland, on the whole, exhibited an ex-
emplary patience, a forbearance, and Christian
spirit deserving of the highest admiration. But in
this struggle Ireland was at one with her priest-
hood ; but now Fenianism is condemned by the
Church. Between Fenianism and the priesthood
there is war. Its principles are unholy—its acts
are deadly sins. Fenianism in Ireland awl in Eng-
land is what Mazzinianism or Garibaldianism is
in Italy and Rome. Catholics condemn both alike.
What is black in Italy is not white in Ireland.
Our judgment needs no transforming process.
What we, together with the whole United King.
dom, denounce as diabolical cruelty at Clerkenwell
prison, we cannot approve of or palliate .at the
Sistori barracks at Rome. We abhor equally the
red Fenians and the green. Assassination open or
secret—blowing up with gunpowder prisons, or
barracks, or hospitals—the destruction of innocent
life—mining drains, Orsini bombs, and explosive
liquids flung into houses, are to us—whether com-
mitted on this side' of the. Alps or the other—
cruelties abhorrent to human nature, and crimes
against the Divine law. Secret societies, whether
in Ireland or Italy—conspiracy, private war against
established order, insubordination, treason, the
sacking of towns, the sacrilegious profanation of
churches, the lawless and revolutionary spirit,
whether at home or abroad—are equally deserving
of condemnation. We naturally feel more shocked
at a crime committed before our eyes, like that at
Clerkenwell, than of the even more diabolical out-
rages perpetrated by the kevolution in Italy. In
the midst of our • long and happy security such an
outrage, so novel and sudden, 'as that committed
by the. Fenians, comes like a sudden awakening
from happiness to sorrow. We are humiliated that
such things, too common to the Revolution abroad
should be with us. Fenianism—that is war against
'society, against natural justice, against religion,
secret, sudden, and cruel—is a new phenomenon
in English society. If such things be done in the
green wood, what will be done in the dry ?
Our greatest consolation and hope is -the uni-
versal indignation and horror which this Fenian
outrage has aroused throughout the kingdom, in
Ireland as well as in England. Fenianism is as
Much the enemy of Catholicism as it is of England.
But we must remember that Fenianism is not Ire-
land, for. Ireland is Catholic, and the Irish are a
moral people, brave and generous and humane ;
but Fenianism is impious and cowardly ; its leaders
act in secret, and the blood shed by their orders is
not avenged on their heads. Like Garibaldianism
in Italy, Fenianism counts amongst its disciples
but a small minority of the people. It is a taint
which has not as yet gone deep into the nation.
Irish Americans, lawless and irreligious, cannot, as
soon as their evil acts betray their real character,
long have sway over such a people as the Irish.
Their last inhuman act—destroying and maiming
for life so many innocent people, women and chil-
dren—will go far to revolt even those who are dis-
affected and disloyal.
All alike condemn such inhumanity. Not one
voice has been raised in palliation of the dastardly
crime. We must beware of the injustice and folly
of indiscriminate censure. Let the guilty be
punished ; let Fenianism be denounced ; but let
Ireland be healed with a gentle halid of her old
wounds. Moreover, let the leaders of public
opinion, before all things, beware how they en-
courage revolution abroad while they condemn
Fenianism at home.— Westminster Gazette.

have formed them into-a political_ rower so stron
that we are compelled to respect it; and they In e
this power to embarrass you. It is the bad shilln g
you have put into circulation coming back to yo'
selves, and now you do us the injitstic,t of cal' trig
us counterfeiters and circulators of spuri, us ..,oin.
We believe it to be a in fitter of gr..mt itn:lort ,a 1 .3 that
corrcct notions on this snbject should be oircnlate'l in
England, and that the influential portion thf.! Aineri-
, can Press, whose opinions are repu'.liiheff. in Eng-
lish papers, should give ex, ression to thl true
American sentiment, bearing in mini that it is
for the enlightenment of a people wit,. are more
ignorant of them, than they would roadily be-
lieve. Fenianism is an organisation against
society., 'which may be as easily used for Anti-
American objects as Anti-English. It is a
twoz.edged sword that cuts both ways in the
hands of a maniac, and it is the duty of all
peaceable, law-abiding citizens, to deprive the in-
fatuated being of his w:apon for working mis-
chief. The very essence of American politics is to
separate the—A.merican Continent from political con-
nection with Europe, and to create in every immi-
grant a national American sentiment. The essence
of Fenianism is the very reverse, for it consists in
maintaining in the immigrant an Irish feeling,
and Dee of separation from the national sentiment,
while the great object is to embroil the United.
States in a war with Great Britain for a European
object, with which America has nothing to do. If
Englishmen suppose that such intentions are gra-
tifying to Americans they make an Absurtrmistake.
They are simply tolerated, because it cannot be
helped; and it may be more agreeable to them that
the mischief ever brewing in the class England has
forwarded in such numbers to America should have
a foieign object, instead of a domestie one. The
only remedy is for the American people, conjointly
with the English, to recognise Fenianism in its
true character, as an organisation
_against society,
against good government, life, and property. If
the more enlightenel Irishmen in America were
freed from the despotism.. invariably exercised by
such secret conspiracies, the supporters of Fenianisin
would be, reduced to a contemptible gang, whose
object was simply riot and plunder. But it derives
its strength from the same source that,BaoaDHEAD
derived his—that is, from .-coercion, and a pressure
which the leaders know so.. well•how to apply.—
Aug/n-American

NAVAL AND MILITARY _INTELLIGENCE.

The paddlewheel despatch vessel Helicon, Com-
mander Edward Field, and the paddlewheel steam.
vessel Vivid, Staff. Commander Sullivan, left
.Ply-
mouth Sound yesterday afternoon on special duty
in the Channel. It is supposed that these ships,
like the Gladiator, Medusa-, and Cromer, are gone
to look for a strange armed vessel not possessed of
any legal papers.
The screw steam corvette Pallas, 6, Capt. Mat-
thew Conolly, from Lisbon, arrived at Plymouth
yesterday morning having in tow the disabled store-
ship Supply, 2, Commander Charles Bawden.
The Trafalgar, 60, from Sheerness, arrived in
Plymouth Sound on Saturday en route for Ireland,
where she will do duty as an extra coastguard ship.
The captains and commanders of all ships in com-
mission at Devonport were summoned to attend at
the Admiralty-office at Mount Wise, Devonport,
on Thursday, when they were instructed by Port
Admiral Sir William F. Martin to adopt every ne-
cessary precaution (especially by night) to protect
their ships from insidious attack. On Friday these
instructions were communicated to the officers in
writing. They are to the effect that from dusk nail
daylight a guard boat is to row round each ship in
Ilamoaze. The Royal Adelaide's boat will row
also round the training ship Impregnable, and the
boat belonging to the Indus will also guard the
training ship Implacable. The Indus will, in addi-
(ion, supplr two steam launches to cruise in the
upper part of Hamoaze and guard all the ships
there, especially the floating depot in St. German' s
river, which contains live shell. Each guard
has twelve loaded rifles, and is under the
command of a commissioned officer. During the
night every boat approaching one of the guarded
ships will be stopped, and her occupants will be re-
quired to give a satisfactory explanation of their
object before being allowed to proceed. It appears
that what the Government most apprehend is the
dropping of torpedoes down the stream. If any of
these are found they are to be towed ashore stern
foremost. All ships in commission are also to keep
watch in harbour the same as if at sea. On board
the Bellerophon, Prince Consort, Achilles, &c., this
will involve the necessity of two officers being on
duty all night. Weapons are kept on deck con-
stantly loaded. The liberty of the seamen has been
necessarily shortened. On Saturday one corporal,
Royal Marines, and five privates were sent on board
the Vivid, and one corporal and 12 privates on
the Impregnable. To-day the same number of
matines will be sent on board the Implacable.

The Bolivar, screw steamship, No. 17 of the
Abyssinian flotilla of hired transports, disembarked
alongside Portsmouth Dockyard, on Saturday, the
invalided and time-expired soldiers with whom sho
arrived there from Malta on the previous day. The
Bolivar is now discharing into store at Portsmouth
the fittings and stores with which she was supplied
as one of the.mule transports for service between
the coasts of Spain and Egypt.
The Warrior, armoured iron frigate, Capt. Boys,
was coaled at Spithead on Saturday, and yesterday
morning early dropped down under stream to
another anchorage berth off Ostorne.
It is believed that the attention of the Home
Secretary has been or is about to be called to the
present practice of storing large quantities of gun-
powder, chiefly in an old form of cartridge, in
the main magazines of the lines of fortification,
with a view to the storage of the greater part
of it in the adjacent depot magazines, whence it
could be drawn in moderate quantities as it
might be required. The accidental or intentional
explosion of a powder magazine may occur
through unforeseen circumstances at a great depot
magazine or at the main magazine of a garrison.
But there would be this important difference in the
two catastrophes--the depot magazine is always
situated in some spot that is distant from all other
buildings, whereas the main magazine of a garrison
and seaport would by its explosion include with it
the destruction of a town, and the loss, probably,
of thousands of lives, The system of storing these
magazines is preposterous. The " department" in-
sists that we must always consider ourselves to be
in a state of war. It appears to people outside the
department that just sufficient cartridges kept in
garrison magazines for practice and ceremonial
salutes would be quite sufficient. All the guns at
present mounted on the batteries of our seaparts
and garrisous are smoothbores, or the new old 110-
pounder breechloaders, all of which would be useless
in the event of any attack upon our coasts, and
would have to be replaced by others of larger calibre.
The cartridges in all the magazines are, of course,
made only for these guns, and are suitable for no
other. The case as it now stands is, therefore, that
our batteries are crowned with guns and their
•magazines stuffed with gunpowder cartridges that
we know we cannot fight with. In the main ma-
gazine of Portsmouth town fortifications alone, for
example, there are upwards of 700 barrels of powder
cartridges for 6-in. and 8-in. smoothbore guns,
besides those in store in the expense magazine, and
all other seaport and garrison towns are iu a similar
condition. The attention of the Home Secretary
has not been called to this state of things one hour
too soon.

At Aldershott Camp during the past week the
trnops have been exercised in route-marching on
various days, but the state of the weather has af-
forded no opportunity for field evolutions. Lieut.-
Gen. the Hon. Sir James Yorke Searlett,