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About nine o'clock on Friday morning he ordered the
cleaning of the prison to be stopped, and the officers to
Proceed at once to the yard with their prisoners for
exercise.. When the warder in charge went to
Burke's cell, the prisoner asked, " Why am I
brought out before the usual time ? " The warier
lightly answered him, and ordered him to the yard. A
change came over his countenance, and, he appeared de-
jected. lie ground his teeth and clenched his fists, at the
same time casting glances to No. 7, Corporation-lane, where
Crowley, one of the officers, noticed several men and a
woman in the top room, which caused him to call the at-
tention of the governor and chief warder. When the pri-
soners returned to their cells from exerciee, Burke WAS
transferred from the cell which he had occupied to another,
and three times during that day he was removed in order
to baffle his friends as to his whereabouts. About a quarter-
past three in the afternoon of Friday last, the governor
(Captain Codd) paraded the officers of the prison, and gave
separate instructions to each man as to how he was to act
as to any attempt being made to obtain access to the
prison over the exterior or boundary wall. The officers
then took up their positions in the top octagon rooms,
giving them a perfect view all over the exterior of the
prison, each man being armed with a revolver and a
carbine, and twenty rounds of ball cartridge. The posi-
tions were not taken up for many minutes, when Crowley
noticed a man on the top of a house overlooking the
prison-yard where Burke usually took exercise, and
he answered the description subsequently forwarded.
Crowley reported the circumstance to the governor and
to Moore, the chief warder. About twenty minutes to
four Crowley saw a woman open a window of a top room
in the house where the man was seen, and three men were
there. They all seemed excited, and occasionally looked
at the place where the explosion took place about ten
minutes afterwards, hurling the officers about, blowing the
carbines out of their hands, and shattering the windows
into thousands of fragments. The prisoners were highly
excited. They beat the cell doors with their stools,
kicked, and shouted for assistance.. Order and discipline
were speedily restored among the officers, and Mr. Per-
ryman, the clerk -of the prison, arrivedevith a loaded car-
bine in his hand, as also Dr. Smiles, the surgeon to the
prison, who was very instrumental in allaying the fears of
the prisoners, as they thought they were being fired upon,
or the prison being blown up. Immediately after the ex-
plosion the governor called for six volunteers to guard the
breach in the wall which had been blown away, himself
taking the lead. No police had then arrived, and the
enterprising or inquisitive public were driven out of the
yard, and told that if they attempted to enter over the boun-
dary wall they would Le fired upon. They kept the mob
at bay until the arrival of the police and soldiers.

been found on the upper tributaries of the Ppyette
River, Idaho, quite a numerous population since
gathered there, being now engaged washing with
good result's. Discoveries of surface mines, though
of has magnitude, have been mule elsewhere during
the present season ; and, viewing this branch of
business as a whole, it would seem to have been
attended up to this time with at least an average
degree of success.

In our recently acquired territories on the north-
west there is good reason to believe extensive de-
posits of the precious metals will be found as well
also as valuable beds of coal, iron, and copper ; and
it is anticipated that the country will be thoroughly
explored with a view to asurtaining the extent of
its mineral resources the coming season. During
the past three months the more subordinate
branches of mining—coal, copper, and quicksilver,
have been conducted with an average degree of
success, the product of the New rdria quicksilver
mine, now worked with a large force, being con-
stantly on the increase. The Borax Company at
Clear Lake, continue to extract about thirty-five
tons monthly of this salt, for .which they find an
increasing demand, and, although but little is being
done just at present with onr petroleum deposits,
there is no doubt, considering their immense extent
and the prospect that this mated d will soon come
to be used as a fuel, but what they will in a short
time he made largely available for this and other
purposes.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE,

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THE METROPOLITAN (KINGSBUR/) STEEPLE-

CHASES.—WEDNESDAY. --
The Hyde Plate (Handicap) of 40 sovs; the winner of the
Kingsbury Cup or Metropolitan Handicap bib, or of

any other race 71b extra ; about two miles and a half.
Mr. J. Turner's Sir Bobby, by Hutcbins—Hereles, dam
by David, aged, 12st (Mr. F. G. Hobson) 1
Mr. E. E. Rickards's Kronberg, 5 yrs, lOst 41b (J. Knott) 2
The following also ran :—Wedding Peal, Camillus,
Faintheart, and Gorsehawk.

Betting-6 to 4 agst Sir Bobby, 2 to 1 agst Kronberg,
and 6 to 1 agst any other. Won by ten lengths.
A Selling Plate of 23 sovs, added to a Handicap of 3 sovs
each, for throe year olds and upwards ; the wiuuer to be
sold for 30 sovs ; winners after publication of the weights
61b extra; about two miles.
Mr. Frank's Bandoline, aged, lOst 21b . . .... (Isaacs) 1
Mr. Martin's Beverley, aged, lOst 121 b (J. Forster) 2
Mr. Cox's Penelope (tt b), 6 yrs, lOst 41b .(Potter) 3

Yesterday information was conveyed to Mr. Pownall,
chairman of the Middlesex magistrates, that a scheme for
attacking the House of Detention had been secretly ma-
tured by the Fenians, who designed to make the venture
without delay ; that since Saturday last 151 men had
been designated by their leaders, and prepared for this
action ; that it was proposed these men should meet in
small parties at a given hour in the neighbourhood of the'
prison, and then, at a signal agreed upon, concentrate and
carry out the attack, which they were to effectuate with
two ph cps of artillery, said to be in their possession con-
cealed in Clerkenwell. Mr. Pownall, to whom it will be
remembered was made known beforehand the plot for
delivering Burke and Casey on Friday last, considered
the warning information he had received sulliciently re-
liable to take instant action upon it. He communicated
with the Home Secretary, and forthwith a strong detach-
ment of the G-uarcls, as well as a numerous body of police,.
wesie sent down to accupy the House of Detention. Last
night a tall man, of gentlemanly appearance, was ar-
rested at a public-house near the bottoth of Whitefriars-
street, Fleet-street, in the immediate vicinity of the great
gasometers of the City Gas-works, which are said to be
threatened by the Fenians, and are accordingly closely
watched by th© police. The gentleman in question was
exhibiting a revolver in front of the bar, and foolishly
declaiming about the Fenians, so loudly as to attract
much etention. The police took him into custody, and
he was removed to the station in Fleet-street, where
he was able to explain and prove to the satisfaction of the
inspector that he had purchased the pistol (which was
unloaded) for his own protection, and had spoken as he
did only for a freak. He is very respectably connected,
and resides at Tulse Hi 11... He was suffered to depart.
The Morning Herald says :—" Last night, between ten
and eleven o'clock,"another man, answering very closely to
the description of the Fenian who fired the barrel on
Friday, was arrested by the police and lodged he Bow.
street police station. The C- division having been tele-
graphed to, Sutton, the plain clothes man, and a number
of other witnesses, were taken to the chief office, and there
four of these witnesses were introduced, after one o'clock
this morning, one by one into a circle of men taken off the
street, and having the prisoner placed among them. The
utmost care was taken by Mr. Superintendent Durkin
and Mr. Superintendent Gernon that there • should be no
clue to identification, save that inevitable one which the
prisoner supplied by his obvious nervousness. None of
the witnesses could identify the prisoner, but ono of them
afterwardi spoke of his general appearance being the
same. This, however, is obviously nothing, but the
prisoner will be detained until all the witnesses have
seen him."

The following also ran:—Love in a Mist and Holkar.
Betting-2 to 1 agst Bandaline, 3to 1 (at first 6to 4)
agst Love in tir Mist, and 4to 1 agst Beverley. Won as ho
liked by twelvs lengths.
The Metropolitan Handicap of 10 soya each, 3 ft (to the
fund), with 100 added; winners after December 2 (at
6 p.m.) of the value of 50 soya 51b, or two of 100 soya
10Ib extra; weights not accumulative; three miles.
Mr. Hughes ns Northern Light, by Turna., aged, lOst
111 b (inc. 51b-ex) " (Capt. Hartford) 1
Mr. Riddell ns Sir Bobby, aged, 11st Gib (J. Knott) 2
The following also ran :—Vindicator, Clansman, Wings
of the Wind, Harcourt, and Sylph.
Betting -5 to 4 agst Northern Light, 4 to 1 agst Wings
of the Wind, 5 to 1 each agst Vindicator and Sylph, and
10 to 1 agst Sir Bobby. Won by ten lengths. An objec-
tion was lodged against the winner on the ground that he
had not carried a 101 b penalty for winning.

The Hunters' Steepiazhase Stakes of 3 soya each, with
30 added ; fuur year olds list 71b, five 12st 41b, six and
aged 12st 71b; mares allowed 31b, and maidens haying
ru❑ twice 71b; winners of a flat race, hurdle race, or
steeplechase, in the present year once 61b, twice 101 b

extra ; professioual jockeys 51b extra. About three

miles. 20 subs.
Mr. E. Clifford's Waterporry, by Middlesex, aged, 12st 41b
(Mr. F. G. Hobson) 1
Mr. Hill's ll.ginald, aged, 12st (G. Shofford) 2
Mr. Jordison's Tom Bowline, aged, 13st (Cave) 3
The following also ran :—Kennett, Goosestep,
Fleet-
wing, '3adminton, Morris Dancer, and Waverley's dan4g.
Betting-2 to 1 each agst Waterperry and Morris Dancer,
6 to 1 each agst Toni Bowline and Badminton, 8 to 1 agst
Waverley's dam g, and 10 to 1 agst any other. Won by
tore lengths.
A Selling Steeplechase Stakes of 3 soya each, with 25
added ; four year olds lOst 71b, live list 31b, six and
aged list 71b; the winner to be sold for 50 sovs ; if

entered for 30 sovs allowed 71b. About two wiles, not
over the brook.
Mr. W. Gregory's Rapture, by Stockwell —Ecstasy,
aged, 11 st
Mr. Cox's Leotard, aged, list ilb (£50)...(Mr. Hobson) 2
Capt. Thomas's Carubroe, 5 yrs, 10. t (£5O) (Potter) 3
Teddy and Serious Case also ran.
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Betting-5 to 4on Seriaus Case, 7to 2 agst Rapture, 5
to 1 agst Carnbroe, and 6to 1 agst Leotard. Won easily
by two lengths.

WESTBURY STEEPLECHASES.-WEDNESDAY.

The Penleigh Stakes, a Free Handicap of 5 sovs each, 2
ft, with 40 added ; the winner of the Wiltshire County
Handicap 101 b, any other winner after Nov. 28 (at 11

a.m.) 71b extra, not accumulativq; the second to save
his stake ; about three miles ; 15 subs.
Mr. George's Sprite, by Martext—dam by Rocket, aged,
12st 61b (inc. 101 b ex.) (J. Page) 1
Mr. Den's Corkscrew, .5 yrs, 10st 101b......(0apt. Smith) 2
Mr. Ellison's Spatchcock, aged, lOst 111 b (Owner) 3
Cabin Boy and Mackintosh also ran.

The condition of the wounded lying at the hospitals is
about the same as that last reported, and no other death
has happened.
The recommendation of the Home Secretary that, as a
precautionary measure, special constables should be sworn
in throughout the several districts of the metropolis, was
largely acted on yesterday. The Vice-Chancellor Wood,
in court during the afternoon, stated that, as treasurer
of Lincoln's Inn, he had received the Home Secretary's
communication on the subject in special reference to the
barristers of his inn. The court, he said, would rise at
half-past three o'clock, in order that gentlemen might
be directly sworn in the hall of Lincoln's Inn, where two
magistrates would be in attendance to administer the
oath. Vice-Chancellor Malins made a similar an.
nouncement. After the rising of the courts a great num.
ber of barristers were sworn in as apecial eonstables.
Vice-Chancellor Wood and Vice-Chancellor Malin.%
were the first two who took the oath. At all the
police-courts the subject came under the magistrates'
notice. At Bow-street, Marlborough-street, Clerkenwell,
Westminster, Marylebone, and Southwark, all the necessary
formalities having been complied with, a great many gen-
tlemen were duly enrolled, and arrangements were made
to carry on the swearing-in with proper activity. At all
the other police-courts the requisite information, in com-
pliance with the statute, is to be directly laid, and arrange.
raents for the enrolment of special constables have beeß
made. Everywhere the magistrates expressed their deter.
mination to give prompt effect to the recommendation of
the Government.

Betting-7 to 4 agst Mackintosh, 3to 1 agst Sprite, 4to
1 agst Spatchcock, and 5 to 1 each agst Corkscrew and
Cabin Boy. Won cleverly by half a length.
The Draycot Plate (Handicap) of 30 sovs ; any winner
after the publication of the weights 71b extra; about one
mile and a half.
Mr. H. Ellison's The Robber, by Tadmor— dam by The
Saddler, aged, lOst 91b (inc. 71b ox.) (Mr. Wilson) 1
Brayley's La Pique, 5 yrs, 10st 41b (Keates) 2
Mr. A. Weston's Warwick Lass, aged, lOst 71b (inc 71b ex)
(Capt. Smith) 3

The following also ran :—Joker, Confusion, and Useless.

Betting-2 to 1 each agst The Robber and Warwick
Lass, 3to 1 agst Useless, and stol. " bar three." Won by
over a distance.

The Beaufort Hunt Stakes of 3 sovs each, with 50 added
four year olds list, five list 91b, six and aged 12st ; the
winner of any steeplechase 71b, of 50 sovs or upwards
101 b extra; half brads allowed 71b, and those that have
not been in a training stable for six months before the
day of running allowed 71b ; gentlemen riders and those
who have never ridden a winner of 20 sovs allowed 51b,

At the ordinary meeting of the Edinburgh Towa
Council on Tuesday, the Lord Provost, before the ordi-
nary business was begun, took occasion to refer to the
Fenian outrage in London on Friday last, and expressed,
in the name of the corporation and community of Edin-
burgh, the deep abhorrence they entertained of the con-
duct of a band of traitorous and merciless conspirators.
Anything more atrocious, he said, had not occurred
in our time ; and as the crime was great, he could
only trust that the punishment would be strict and
unhesitating. He hoped the Government would
not flinch from their duties in the matter and went on to
say that all rebellious demonstrations and outward tokens
of sympathy with murderers must be put down with,
vigour. His lordship concluded by referring to the grati-
fying fact that there was no appearance of Fenian con-
spiracy, or even of sympathy with Fenians, in Edinburgh,
And at the same time stated that by the provisional
order obtained last year no procession whatever was
legal in the city without the sanction of the magistrates.
The remarks of the Lord Provost elicited warm marks of
approbatiort from all the members of the council.
Similar expressions of opinion are received on all sides.
The workmen of Mr. Freake, 400 in number, have held
an indignation meeting to denounce the attempt to destroy
his house in Grosvenor-street by Greek fire. The follow-
ing resolution was proposed and carried unanimously
"That this meeting of men in the employ of Mr. Freake,
having been convened by themselves to enable them to
express their opinion on the late diabolical outrage at
Clerkenwell which has caused such destruction of life
and loss of property, and also at the dastardly attempt
to destroy No. 4, Grosvenor - square, the property
of our employer, do hereby declare that they can
have no sympathy with such inhuman wretches, who
disgrace the name of man by such devilish actions, and
who have now by their attacks on private property brought
the matter home to our own firesides, and we can no
longer remain passive spectators of the action of such
diabolical agencies, by means of which our wives and little
ones arc threatened with destruction." Several of the
working men followed, expressing the utmost detestation
of the crime. Subsequently the meeting agreed that the
workmen should form themselves into a volunteer watch
corps to protect the property of their employer, and in
doing so protect their own tools. A vote of sympathy
with their employer was passed, and the chairman was
requested to convey the same to Mr. Freake. •
An authoritative denial has been given to the statement
that a barrel of gunpowder has been found near to Mill-
bank Prison. A few cartridge papers, which arc supposed
to have laid there for a very considerable time, were
found by the constable patrolling round the outer wall of
the prison.
The authorities of Wolverhampton are said to be satis-
fied that the document which was found in Darlington-
street was no hoax. Its authenticity has been established.
Indisputable information has been obtained confirmatory
of a planned simultaneous Fenian attack on the militia,
armouries throughout England. Further personal commu-
nications have taken place between the mayor and chief
constable and the county authorities, and all necessary
steps have been taken to render the plot abortive.
Captain Gibbs, the governor of Kirkdale Gaol, Liver-
pool, has just received a communication to the effect that
the Fenians contemplate an attack upon the gaol, the
means to be employed in the attack being Greek, or
" Fenian " fire. As soon as Captain Gibbs was informed
of the intended attack he at once made preparations for
the defence. Officers are appointed to watch the gaol,
the guards are doubled at various points, and every step
that prudence suggests has been taken to ensure the safety
of the prison and the initiates. If the information received
be genuine the attack cell only be.suggested with one
object—a reckless destruction of life and property, as there
no Fenians in the gaol to liberate:

professionals 51b extra ; the second to save his stake ;
about two miles and three quarters; 30 subs.
Mr. IL Ellison's The Robber, by Tadmor—Sadler mars,
aged, 12st blb (Mr. Wilson) 1
Mr. H. Wither's Merry Horn (h b), 4 yrs, lOst 121 b
(Captain Smith) 2
Mr. Appleford's Gannymade (h b), aged, list 121 b (inc.
slb extra)
The following also ran :—Spreacombe, Leopold mare,
Mother of Pearl, Magnus, Yarborough, Lawrence, Good-
bury Hill.
Betting-2 to 1 agst The Robber, 3to 1 agst Merry
Horn, sto 1 agst Lawrence, and 6to 1 "bar three." Won
by a head.
The Beaufort Cup, added to a Sweepstakes of 3 sovs each
1 ft ; four year olds, 12st, five 12st 91b, six and aged

13st ; half breds allowed 71b ; to be ridden by gentle-
men, farmers, or tradesmen, who have never ridden for
hire, and those who have never ridden a winner of 20
sovs slb extra ; the second to receive 10 sovs out of the
stakes; about three miles of the Steeplechase Course.
24 subs.
Mr. John's Swindler, by Hotspur (h b), aged, 12st 51b
(0 wner) 1
Mr. Friend's Frailty, 4 yrs, list 121b...(Mr. C. Roberts) 2
Mr. Burrell's Hotspur (h b), aged, 12st 51b...(Mr. Yates) 3
The following also ran:—Rove, The Dictator, Mail
Train, Queensland, Beeswing, Apple Pulp, Deerhound,
Cranmore Lass, Beigrave.
Betting -2 to 1 agst Hotspur, 4 to 1 agst Mail Train,
6to 1 agst Swindler, and 10 to 1 agst any other. Won in
a canter.

RACING FIXTURES FOR 1868.
MARCH.
Liverpool Spring M.... 3 Epsom Spring Meeting 24
Chelmsford Spring M. 10 Northampton
West Drayton l2

Durham
Hendon 33
Newmarket Crayon

Lewes Spring
Newnisrkot Ist Spring 27

Chester 5
Winchester
York Spring
Salisbury l4

lath
Croydon Ist Summer
llarpendeti •
Epsom Summer
NE.

West Drayton 1
Croydou 21 Summer 2
Ascot Summer 9
Windsor Summer

I Bibury Club
Stockbridge
Chelmsford Summer
I Alexandra Park
'LY.
Huntingdon
Nottingham July
Goodwood

Worcester Summer 2
Newmarket July 7
Reading
Liverpool l6
AUG
Brighton
Brighton Club 6
Lewes Summer
Wolverhampton ll
Stockton
Windsor
Eghant lB
Hastings

UST.
York
Oxford
Canterbury
Derby Summer
Weymouth
Lichfield
Tunbridge