The Sun.
London, England, 1867-05-08 00:00:00

IRE L AN P.

DUBLIN, May 7.
Some rather alarming particulars have been pub-
lished about Cody, or Byrne, who on Saturday
night attempted to stab one policeman and shoot
another. When arrested the prisoner was searched,
and on his person was found a printed document,
containing the names and addresses of the judges
now presiding at the Special Commission, together
with lists of the names and addresses of the Crown
counsel, of the jurors who tried Burke and Doran,
and of the witnesses produced for the prosecution.
The document is in pencil. The hand writing cor-
responds with that upon an envelope found with
the prisoner and addressed " Mr. Michael Cody."
A terrible significance is given to this discovery by
facts connected with the prisoner's career. He is
reputed to be the Fenian Centre for Callan, county
of Kilkenny. Up to a late period of the autumn of
last year he was confined in Mountjoy Convict
Prison under the Lord-Lieutenant's warrant. 110
was liberated on condition of going to England, and
was escorted by the police from the prison to the
North Wall, and seen off by the Liverpool steamer-
Ho again returned to this country for the purpose
of joining in the insurrectionary movement. rhe
circumstances of his first arrest, on the 18th of
April, 1866, are as follows :—Private Maher, of the
Bth Foot, gave information that Byrne and a man
named Thomas Baines, who was sentenced to penal
servitude at the last Commission, were in the habit
of seducing soldiers from their allegiance, and that
on the night of Saturday, the 13th of April, a
meeting would be held for that purpose in a house
in Leeson-lane. The police were communicated
with, and Detective-officers Entwistle and Rotheray
proceeded to the place. Colonel Fielding and a
party of the Coldstream Guards also proceeded to
Leeson-lane. On entering the house a number of
arrests were made, and Entwistle apprehended
Byrne. The prisoner made violent efforts to escape/
and also endeavoured to reach one of two revolvers
which were placed in a belt worn round his body:
The officer, however, by main force succeeded in
effecting the capture. As Byrne was put into a
cab, he observed to some person in the crowd,
which bad by this time assembled, " I am glad Pat
was not here," and when be was entering the pollee
station he said—" If I were to wait for twentY
years I'll have revenge for this. I know who the
loyal man was who informed on us." On the fol-
lowing Saturday, Feb. 20, Private Maher Was
shot at in a public-house in Bonham-strect. Th°
person alluded to by the prisoner as " eat " rs
believed to have been Patrick Kearney, who was
arrested on the Ist of May following, in a
house in Tighe - street, by Detective - offi-
cer Clarke, after a struggle in which KeareeY
attempted to shoot the officer with a revolver.
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prisoner. is under treatment in Mercer's Hospital.
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of the haft of the revolver dealt him by the police-
constable. It is probable he will be removed to
gaol in the course of the afternoon. The revolver
he carried was seven chambered. It was
fully
loaded, and he had 31 rounds of ammunition. One
might suppose that his conduct in Grafton-street
was a feint, and that he wished to be arrested in
order that the list of names found on his person
might serve as a threat to prevent the punishment
of Burke and Doran. But this idea seems to be
precluded by the struggles of the prisoner to escape'
The affair shows that there are some desperate men
among the Fenians, although it must be admitted
very few deeds of violence were committed by there
in the South, when they had large districts of the
country in their power, and even the persons of some
of the gentry in their custody—a fact which will be
pleaded in favour of the convicts now lying under

sentence of death.
At the Cork Police-office, on Saturday, Mr.
Michael Riordan was brought up, on remand,
charged with complicity in the late Fenian move-
ment. Sub-Inspector Hamilton applied for a fuither
remand. Mr. Blake urged, for the prisoner, that
there were no grounds for granting the application•
After some deliberation, the magistrates—Mr. Scott,
Mr. O'Sullivan, and Sir W. Hackett—decided on
accepting bail, the prisoner in £lOO and two suretieo
iu £5O each.

The Plenipotentiaries accredited by the Europa:l
Powers to the London Conference on the affairs of
=burg met yesterday for the first time at the official rest_
dente of the First Lord of the Treasury in Downing'
street. The Conference will sit again to-morrow (rhurS-
day).
RETURN OF THE 2D LIFE GUARDS TO WINDSO3'
WINDSOR, TUESDAY.--This morning, at an early hour, the
2dßegiment of Life Guards, under the command of Colonel
Marshal, left the Knightsbridge and Regent's-park bar-
racks en route for Windsor. The regiment, on leaving,
the metropolis, marched by road, arriving at the Iler"
borough, by way of Datchet, at nine precisely rrhe
troopers, who presented a somewhat travel-stained appear:
aura, their uniforms and accoutrements being revereu
with dust, marched through the town to the cavalry
barracks at Spital, where the regiment again took up it,
quarters.
THE NORTH-EASTERN RAILWAY.—The effect of
.the strike on this line has beau so- far overcome that the
company yesterday had spare hands enough to run the
usual excursion trains to the York races. In addition, 011,1
Monday, most of the trains which had been discontinue;
during the striae were resumed, and are now running,
punctually. Every train absolutely required is now in fu.-
working, and there are hands in plenty to meet the require'
ments of the summer traffic. Many of the old hands nre
in a miserable plight.
NATIONAL REFORM UNlON.—Arrangements are
now being made by the executive committee to assemble '‘ct
large and influential deputation of the vice-presidents ell,.
chief officers of the numerous branches of *the union, t';
wait upon Mr. Gladstone at his residence in London. lilt',
object of the deputation will bo to protest against tto
Government Reform Bill as being utterly inadequate to
settle the demands and requirements of the people ;.
urge upon Mr. Gladstone the desirableness of rettlsol7
to the old constitutional principle of household saffr3sol
which was once the law of the land; and to express
diminished confidence in him as the leader of the Liber'of
party. A large number of gentlemen in various part.itr.
the country have already signified their intention of
ing the deputation, and it is expected Mr. aladstoo
will be requested to-day (Tuesday) to fix the datofn
which he will receive them. Those intending t° r r.)p•
the deputation should communicate at once with M;
lia
Morton, the agent of the National Reform Union.--

chester Examiner.
THE LATE BARON POERIO. —A numerous CO3,°
course last Tuesday followed the coffin of _Baron r°eri
from where lie-died at Florence, in the Via Santa Cate
rinl';
to the Misericordia Chapel. The pall bearers %yore ,74igf
1-fattazzi, the Presidents of the Senate and Gbatobe, °.
Deputies, the Syndic of Florence, and Deputies', Pil'itotj
functionaries, officers of the National Guard, aud
friends of the de,:eased, both Italians and foreigners, j°jue) f
iu the procession, which was preceded by a battalion °.
the National Guard, with craped banner and band pin)"il.
The streets through which the coffin passed were ecovi''
The body has since left for Naples, escorted by
tioci'
eo.to,l)f
Seialoja, as representative of the Municipal Cio
of ~
Florence, and by six delegates Irons the Chamber
this
piffles. Letters from Naples say that the death ofgreat
amiable man and sincere patriot had there caused
aua
sensation. lie is to be buried at the public espeus°,
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it is probable that the ceremony will be made the occabw
of renaarliable denioustraticus of respect and regret,