The Sun.
London, England, 1867-12-24 00:00:00

THE FENIAN OU7'RAGES,

The large nrm of Shoolbred ad Co., Tottennani-coma•
road, have organised among their assistants a corps for
defence and inspection of their premises. When the busi-
ness of the day is over ten of the assistants, under a super-
intendent, patrol every portion of the establishment up to
eleven o'clock, when they are relieved by fifteen of their
colleagues, also under a superintendent, who remain on
duty until the morning breaks. In this way a frequent
and thorough examination of the premises is made, and
every precaution taken against the consequences of any
act of incendiarism. Several large firms are about to fol-
low the example so well set by Messrs. Shoolbred.

Tho Cork Examiner notices with satisfaction the increase
in remittances from Irish-Americans to their relations in '
this country. During the civil war the amount received
from emigrants had fallen to zero, but with the return of
more prosperous times in the United States, it has again
risen to nearly its former height. Numerous money orders
now pass through the Irish banks.
Yesterday a general cour'. martial assembled at
Chatham, by order of his Royal Highness the Duke of
Cambridge, K.G., for the trial of Privates James Molloy
and Patrick Daly, two soldiers belonging to the 2nd bat-
talion of the Ist King's Royals, on the charge of having made
use of seditious language. The court was presided over by
Col. Robert Boyle, C. 8., Royal Marines Light Infantry,
and Cob J. H. Laye, the deputy-judge-advocate for the dis-
trict, conducted the trial; Capt. D. Reid, of the Ist Depot
Battalion, was the official prosecutor. The charge on which
the prisoners were arraigned was for having, on the even-
ing of the 13th inst., in the public streets at Brompton,
Chatham, made use of the following seditious language
against her Majesty's person ;—" The Queen may —,
and the Colonel may —. lam an Irishman to the
backbone, and I'll swing the same as Allen and Larkin
swung before. If there is any Irishman here, let himiall
to the rear," or words to that effect. The prisoner Daly
was further charged with striking the non-commissioned
officer in charge of the troops who conveyed him to the
guard-room. The witnesses in support of the charge were
Sergeant M`Queen, Royal Engineers ; Sergeant Latham,
Bth Regiment ; Corporal Snelling, Ist Royals ; Privates
O'Donnell, Bth Regiment, Hardwick, 14th Regiment,
and Johnston, 82nd Regiment. The prisoners since they
have been in the regiment have each borne a very bad
character, and they have been previously tried by court-
martial. The finding and sentence of the court will not
be known until confirmed by the authorities at the Horse
Guards.

The attempt to blow up the Warrington gasworks,
which is alleged to be the work of Fenians, is thus
recorded in the Warrington Guardian :—" During the last
few days a rumour has prevailed in this town that an
attempt would be made by the Fenians to blow up the
gasworks, although little attention was paid to the rumour.
On Wednesday last a lad, about thirteen years of age,
went to a house in Mersey-street, occupied by an Irishman,
and told him to leave the house as the Fenians were going
to destroy that part of the town by an explosion of gas
on Saturday night. The thing was put down by the police
as a pure invention. However, extra precautions were
taken by the officials of the gasworks to guard against any
attack. Nothing occurred on Saturday night to
excite suspicion. About ten minutes past eleven
o'clock on Sunday night, as a police-constable was
passing Gas-street, he noticed a large cloud of smoke
rising from the premises, and was almost overpowered by
the smell of gas. Feeling certain there was something
wrong, and seeing two men in the yard, he called their at-
tention to it, and on investigation being made, it was dis-
covered that a plug had been taken out of the purifier and
the gas was escaping rapidly. The furnaces had just been
drawn, and a large quantity of coke was lying in the yard.
If the escaping gas had come in contact with this coke the
consequence is frightful to contemplate. An explosion
which would have destroyed the works and other pro-
perty in the neighbourhood must have taken place.
Four men, one of whom is a noted Fenian, and
the brother of the keeper of a beerhouse which is a
Fenian haunt, have been taken into custody for being
concerned in the affair. Their names are respectively
John Burns, stoker, 27, Pocket-street ; Thomas Cloran,
stoker, 8, Pocket-street ; Michael Mulkearn, stoker,
; and Edward Griffin, Tanner's-lane. These
men were employed at the gasworks, and were in the yard
at the time. They were brought to the police-office, and
charged with attempting to blow up the works. Three of
them replied that they knew nothing about it, and one of
them said the plug was blown out. They were on Mon-
day brought before the magistrates, but were discharged,
as there was no evidence to connect them with the act.
No application was made for a remand, and the magis-
trates bad therefore no alternative but to dismiss the
charge.