The Sun.
London, England, 1867-10-16 00:00:00

FENIAN ALARNIS.

A VOLUNTEER ARMOURY SACKED.
REEPHAm, NOLFOLK, Tuesday Night.
At midnight on Monday Fenia►► -mob attacked
the ar:ntury of the 12th Norfolk Rifle Volunteers,
situated at Reepha►n. Sixty rifles and 10,000 ball
cartridges were carried away. Pistol shots were
exchanged, se►ne police►uen wounded, and the
armourer in charge is mortally wounded. There is
great excit-ment in the district. The Fenians have
retired to Foxley Wood, pursued by the police and
volunteers, under tl►e co►nmand of Gen. Sutton. A
troop of cavalry has been sent for from Norwich.

A paragraph relating to rumours of Fenian
movements in Scotland appears in the Scotsman of
yesterday. It reads as follows : " A rumour was
spread in Aberdeen yesterday that the Queen had
been shot at by some Irishmen while out in the
neighbourhoxl of Balmoral, and to this alarming
intelligence was ascribed the departure of Major
Ross, the chief constable of the county of Aberdeen,
and of Sheriff Comrie Thomson, by the afternoon
train for Ballater, ace mnpanied by a body of sol-
diers belonging to the depots in the barracks. So
far, however, as we have been able to learn by tele-
graphic ing&ry at a late' hour, there existed no
foundation whatever for the startling rumour. No
alnrin of the presence of Fenians prevails or has
prevailed anywhere on Deeside—although in Aber-
deen itself, as we are informed, rumours of intended
Fenian enterprises have been current. The soldiers
left Aberdeen by orders from headquarters, for tho
purpose of furnishing a guard of honour on the
occasion of her Majesty uncovering the statue of the
Prince Consort which has recently been erected near
Balmoral ; and the Sheriff and Chief Constable
presumably went t 3 Balmoral in connection with
the rtme ceremon;cl. Some busy imaginations,
exeit2d by the vague talk about p7sible Fenian
raids in Aberdeen, had apparently coupled their
fancies with the fact of the departure of the soldiers,
and thus generated the painful and foolish report
which it is most gratifying to be able to deprive of
a moment's currency beyond the spot where it

arose."

The police at Crewo have for some time been
watching certain individuals in that town. They
h tve positive evidence of a body of men having
been drilled on the Bth, and the organisers or local
" head centres" were apprehended on Monday
afternoon. The names of those apprehended are
Bernard Lynagh, clerk at Crewo Works ; Daniel
Gunning, fitter at Crewo Works ; A. Murdoch,
schoolmaster ; and John Hassett, shoemaker. They
were arrested one by one, and without any disturb-
ance, and immediately sent away to Chester.
The following appears in yesterday's Northern
Express :—Some little excitement was created in
York at a late hour on Saturday evening by one of
the 6th Inniskilling Dragoons (which now lie in
York Barracks) galloping through the streets in
such hot haste as to indicate a ini-sion of import-
ance. Inquiry led to its being ascertained that a
telegram had been received from Colonel Crawley
from the Horse Guards, instructing that the regi-
ment should be held in readiness to move at a
moment's notice, and that similar preparations
should be made by the North-Eastern Railway
authorities to make as speedy a removal of the re-
giment when called upon. In the barrackyard and
at the rrilway station all was bustle for some time
after, at the latter place a number of trains being
prepared, and at the former the hdrsea being
saddled and in readiness for emergency. It was
understood that the services of the military might
be required at two poiatti—Middlesborough or the
neighbourhood of Hull ; but, of the two, more
likely the latter. The village of Preston, near Hull,
was mentioned as the exact point for the transfer of
all the troops. Though engine-, were kept with
steam up and attached to trains, no further order
was received until lats on Sunday, when, through
Col. Crawley, the Hor,,e Guards instructed that
trains were to be kept in readiness for the immea
diate transfer to any point which might be indi-
cated of 200 men and horses. This order still
stands, and trains as a consequence are now con-
stantly in readiness for the necessary transfer."
The Western Morning News says :--" Alarming
rumours blew about Plymouth oa Monday. A
body of Fenians were to have attacked the armoury
of the volunteer corps, and the contents of two
gunsmiths' shops were to have been carried off.
At least this was the information contained in
an anonymous letter which was received by
the Mayor of Plymouth on Saturday night.
As a rule, in dealing with the ordinary
affairs of life, very little attention is paid to the con-
tents of an anonymous communication. It is held
that if the writer is unwilling or unable to authenti-
cate his statements, they can be worth but little.
But when a class of men had to be dealt with who
carry out their operations with that extraordinary
audacity which the Fenians have manifested else-
where, it was felt that every precaution should be
taken to prevent the execution of those designs at
which the writer darkly hinted. Accordingly, both
on Saturday and on Sunday nights, a guard of the
Plymouth Volunteers was en duty at the head-
quarters iu Catherine-street, and the most complete
measures were taken b insure the safety of the
stands of arms in the Militia Bar,:acks, as well as at
the head-quarters. The police also were fully alive
to the necessity for the exercise of the utmost vigi-
lance in the face of the threatened attack upon the
armoury. In Stonehouso, and in Devonport as well,
official activity was thoroughly on the alert, and
several alarmist stories floated about. The Fenians,
however, if there were any in the neighbourhood,
made no sign, and as there was no necessity for con-
tinuing the guard it was last night abandoned."
Our Dublin correspondent writes :—" The course
taken by the naval authorities of Queenstown on
Thursday night of ordering all the officers and men

who had been on shore to return on board their

ships, the Mersey and gunboats, and placing them
under arms during the night, has naturally been the
cause of much gossip at Queenstown. The
findep borecaauts-
tions have been repeated every night since,
manned by armed seamen have been kept patrolling
in the harbour." The Cork Examiner says one of
the prevalent rumours is that the precautions were
adopted in consequence of information received from
Cork that a number of Fenians had entered into a
plot to blow up the guardship by means of a torpedo,
which was to be carried out on Thursday night.
This is a mere rumour, and not to be depended on.
A Waterford despatch, dated Monday, states:—
"A search was made here last night by a strong
party of police, under Head-constable Barry, for
Kelly and Deasey, the Manchester Fenians. The
police visited almost every hotel and publichouse in
the city, each of which was subjected to a strict
search. no head-constable had received private in-
formation which led him to believe that Kelly at
least had landed here from one of the steamers on
Saturday last, disguised as a fireman employed on
board those vessels. No trace, however, was found
of either Kelly or his companion.

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