The Sun.
London, England, 1867-12-26 00:00:00

MILLIVALL SHIELD.

Besides the plated casemate and the Plymouth
experimental front, a shield made by the Millwall
Company for the War-office is to be tested. Its
cost is about £2OO more than the Gibraltar shields,
or £1,200, instead of £l,OOO. The amount is, we
believe, within the mark.
The shield, originally designed to try Hughes's
patent backing, has a front of 12ft. by Bft., and is
composed of armour-plates 6in. thick on the upper
half, and 9in. on the lower half of its surface. The
backing consists of horizontal stringers of wrought
iron, the nature of their section being similar to
that of railway bars on longitudinal sleepers .
Their sectional area is equivalent to a solid plate
about two, inches thick. Behind them, and riveted
to their bases, come two thicknesses of tin. plates,
which in their turn rest against vertical stringers
similar to those described above, and having a
depth of seven inches.
To test the increased resistance to be obtained by
adding plating to the outside of existing structures,
three lin. plates have been bolted to the outside of
half that portion of the shield protected by the 6in.
plate. The whole mass is further strengthened
and supported by boiler-plate struts at either
end, of like construction to those provided in
former experiments. The hollow tubes for bolts
employed in the casemate are provided for the
Millwall shield.

It is understood that the 12-ton, 18-ton, and,
perhaps, the 23-ton rifled guns, with 191.t0n Ame-
rican smooth-bore, will be brought face to face with
the various targets. The trials will form the greatest
and most instructive series of experiments yet car-
rieti out in any country, and their results will be
anxiously studied by scieutific engineers and artil-
lerists throughout the world.

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Another victim has been added to the hitt of fatal: %,\.
resulting from the Clerkenwell explosion. Frlsil theftst s
moment that Humphrey Evans was admitted to the-I3
Ward of the Royal Free Hospital, Gray's-inn-road, until
the time of his death, the surgeons had no hope of
his recovery. The Evanses were a comfortable old
couple, and had by industry and thrift put by
so much as would keep them in decent food and
clothing for the rest of their days. They lived in that
wrecked thoroughfare called Corporation-lane, and per-
haps no one family suffered so greatly as that of the
Evanses. Mrs. Evans died in St. Bartholomew's Hospital
last week from the effect of her injuries, and the death of
her husband, Humphrey Ei ans, took place early yestcr,
day morning. The daughter of the deceased parents is
still an inmate of the Royal Free Hospital, suffering much
from contusions, burns, and bruises, but she is progressing
favourably.

There can be no doubt that the Soho and Millwn
Fenian circles have been broken up ; and those two
circles, it seems, played no unimportant part in
the game of London Fenianism. In Soho, the
greater number of Fenians were tailors. In no
Fenian circle existing in England was so much ac-
tivity exhibited as in that of Soho. Now that it is
dissolved and out of existence, the police authorities
have become acquainted with the extent of the influence
it wielded amongst the Irish in London, and of the promi-
nent part it played in the crusade against law and order
in this country. The low public-houses and bcershops in
which the circle held their meetings are now compara-
tively deserted. The police have their eyes upon them,
but fail to see a Fenian enter them. The arrests in
Pollen-street appear to have had the most satisfac-
tory results. Lying outside of the Soho district,
Pollen-street was a convenient place in which the mem-
bers of the " Brotherhood " could assemble ; but the
pounce upq:p the Lion and French Horn made by the
police has scared its conspiring frequenters ; and the men
with the " goatee " beards, who the police well know
have been for the last eighteen months frequenting the
solitary public-house of Pollen-street, are not now to be
seen. Like the Soho circle, the Millwall Brotherhood
are disorganised beyond all hope of being placed upon
their legs again. In not one of the many Fenian cir,,
des in London has there been so abundant a crop AA
anonymous informers as in Millwall. They have been
useful in preserving life and property, and, without
implicating their fellows, have put the authorities so
upontheir guard as to prevent the accomplishment of many
very fearful designs.

In almost all the Roman Catholic churches yes-
terday the clergymen who preached alluded to the Cler-
kenwell outrage, and warned their flocks against having
any connection with a secret treasonable society. At,
Clerkenwell Church the Rev. Robert Maguire, the rectar,
made touching allusion to the calamity, referring espe-
cially to the funeral of the four victims, which took place
on Monday, and at which he officiated. A good deal of
uneasiness prevails among the people of Clerkenwell with
respect to the meeting announced to be held by Mr. Finlen
next Sunday morning o Clerkenwell-green, and it is
hoped that the police, acting with the admirable judgment
and temper displayed by Mr. Superintendent Gernon on
last Sunday may put a stop to the contemplated 'pro-
ceedings.

The rumour of an intention to blow up the Brixton
Convict Prison has produced considerable sensation in the
neighbourhood. The authorities have taken precautions
to prevent anything of the kind being attempted.
The two prisoners, James Connerby and Gladwin Mee-
han, who were arrested at Wolverton on Tuesday on a
charge of treason-felony, were taken to Aylesbury by the
last train, in charge if a strong body of police, under th(
command of Captain J. C. Tyrwhitt Drake, the Chiel
Constable of Bucks. They were brought before Mr. J. T.
Senior, one of the county magistrates, in the waiting-room
of the railway station, and the information of Superinten-
dent Breary was read over, which stated that sedition and
treasonable meetings had been held at the houses of each
of the prisoners at New Bradwell. Some other important
facts were stated in the information, which was not con-
sidered expedient to make public. Connerby denied in.
the most emphatic way that any illegal meetings had
been held at his house, or that he had had anything to
do with Fenianism. He had been reared in this country;
and hoped he had too much sense to do anything
of the sort. It was an extraordinary charge; he had
always conducted himself to the satisfaction of his em-
ployers and those with whom he worked. Meehan also
positively denied that there had been any meetings at his
house, and asked whether bail would be accepted. He said
it was a serious matter to bring up a man without any
foundation for a charge. It would probably end in his
being discharged from his employment, and the ruin of his
family. Connerby asked that bail might be taken, and
on being informed that this could not be granted, he asked
for a copy of the charge against him to send to his friends.
He was informed that he could write whatever he pleased,
and that he might have a copy of the information. The
prisoners were then remanded.

The excitement consequent on the late attempt to de.
stroy the Warrington Gasworks continues. The persons
employed at the gasworks have been all sworn in as
special constables, and a guard still watches the works.
A reward of £5O has been offered by the authorities for
the discovery of the person who removed the plug from
the purifier. In addition to the fourteen men who
were discharged on Monday, the foreman of the stokers•
Gillooley, has been dismissed, although it i 3 said not
the slightest suspicion exists as to any complicity in
the foul deed on his part. A report was current in the
town on Tuesday night that a Fenian of some note had
been arrested by the police ; it is. however, without foun•
dation.

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