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THE REAL CHARACTER OF FENIANISM
SHOWN AT CLERKENWELL.

The horrible crime at Clerkenwell prison de-
notes the true character of Fenianism. The reck-
lessness displayed in the destruction of life, the
outrage upon society, the violition of law, human
and Divine, prove beyond a doubt that this Irish-
American conspiracy has learnt its diabolical tactics
in the school of the Revolution. We have not
come to the end of the evil: The vigilance of our
police, unaccustomed to the presence in our midst
of an organized secret society, is baffled for awhile.
The criminal leaders and instigators of this war
upon established society issue orders which are car-
ried out in broad day, concoct incendiary plots to
be attempted in the dark, strike consternation in
the inhabitants of apeaceful city, and watch in
security and concealment the effects of their mali-
cious and inhuman policy. Fenianism is not dis-
affection—it is not a protest against national
wrongs- —it does not seek even by its lawless acts
redress for grievances real or imaginary ; its aims
are the destruction of society, the overthrow of a
just and legitimate Government, in the desperate
hope of substituting in Ireland a republic of its
own framing. The Catholic Church stands in the
way of its unholy designs ; it pushes the Church
aside, and for the first time in history we witness
Irishmen turn a deaf ear to the voice of their priest-
hood, and meet with defiance the denunciations
of their bishops. Irish disaffection, caused by the
past misrule of England, agitation in Ireland, to
obtain a tardy justice from England's oppressive
penal laws, the claims for equal rights, religious
and political, were national sentiments and acts
justified by reason and religion. During thiS painful

struggle, Ireland, on the whole, exhibited an ex-
emplary patience, a forbearance, and Christian
spirit deserving of the highest admiration. But in
this struggle Ireland was at one with her priest-
hood ; but now Fenianism is condemned by the
Church. Between Fenianism and the priesthood
there is war. Its principles are unholy—its acts
are deadly sins. Fenianism in Ireland and in Eng-
land is what Mazzinianism or Garibaldianism is
in Italy and Rome. Catholics condemn both alike.
What is black in Italy is not white in Ireland.
Our judgment needs no transforming process.
What we, together with the whole United King-
dom, denounce as diabolical cruelty at Clerkenwell
prison, we cannot approve of or palliate at the
Sistori barracks at Rome. We abhor equally the
red Fenians and the green. Assassination open or
secret—blowing up with gunpowder prisons, or
barracks, or hospitals—the destruction of innocent
life—mining drains, Orsini bombs, and explosive
liquids flung into houses, are to us—whether com-
mitted on this side of the Alps or the other—
cruelties abhorrent to human nature, and crimes
against the Divine law. Secret societies, whether
in Ireland or Italy—conspiracy, private war against
established order, insubordination, treason, the
sacking of towns, the sacrilegious profanation of
churches, the lawless and revolutionary spirit,
whether at home or abroad—are equally deserving
of condemVictia. We naturally feel more shocked
at a '6iirife-coinrnitted before our eyes, like that at
Clerkenwell;_than of-the even more diabolical out-
rages perpetrated by the Revolution in Italy. In
the midst of our long and happy security such an
outrage, so novel and sudden, as that committed
by the Fenians; comes like a sudden awakening
from happiness to sorrow. We are humiliated that
such things, too common to the Revolution abroad
should be with us. Fenianism—that is war against
society, against natural justice, against religion,
secret, sudden, and cruel—is a new phenomenon
in English society. If such things be done in the
green wood, what will be done in the dry ?
Our greatest consolation and hope is the uni-
versal indignation and horror which this Fenian
outrage has aroused throughout the kingdom, in
Ireland as well as in England. Fenianism is as
much the enemy of Catholicism as it is of England.
But we must remember that Fenianism is not Ire-
land, for Ireland is Catholic, and the Irish are a
moral people, brave and generous and humane ;
but Fenianism is impious and cowardly ; its leaders
act in secret, and the blood shed by their orders is
not avenged on their heads. Like Garibaldianism
in Italy, Fenianism counts amongst its disciples
but a small minority of the people. It is a taint
which has not as yet gone deep into the nation.
Irish Americans, lawless and irreligious, cannot, as
soon as their evil acts betray their real character,
long have sway over such a people as the Irish.
Their last inhuman act—destroying and maiming
for life so many innocent people, women and chil-
dren—will go far to revolt even those who arc dis-
affected and disloyal.
All alike condemn such inhumanity. Not one
voice has been raised in palliation of the dastardly
crime. We must beware of the injustice and folly
of indiscriminate censure. Let the guilty be
punished ; let Fenianism be denounced ; but let
Ireland be healed with a gentle hand of her old
wounds. Moreover, let the leaders of public
opinion, before all things, beware how they en-
courage revolution abroad while they condemn
Fenianism at home.— Westminster Gazette.

FENIANISaI.

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The Fenian outrage at Clerkenwell, although
fortunate in strengthening order and weakening the
power of the conspiracy, will have an injurious
effect on the relations between this country and the,
United States. No person who anixes in English
society can deny that there exists a prejudice against
Americans. Among a large portion of Irishmen,
this prejudice, strong with the English, almost
amounts to a passion. Facts are mis-stated at
Fenian meetings in New York, where a united
Ireland with a heart throbbing with patriotic pulses,
is represented as burning to throw off the hated
yoke of the Saxon. Yet the Emerald Isle is so
equally divided for and against the English con-
nection, that though difficult to predict what would
be the result of a ballot, there is no difficulty in pre-
dicting what would be the result of a fight, if all
men born in Ireland, and they only, were engaged
and left free to choose their sides. There are
some who ignorantly attribute the Fenian con-
spiracy to American hatred of England. They be-
lieve these outrages to be the acts of foreigners ;
and they are supported in this opinion by the wide
publication given to such resolutions as those intro-
duced in Congress by Mr. ROBINSON, Mr. CHANDLER,
and others. The action and re-action of this feeling
keeps alive what we believe to be the most baneful
of influences. It has gone on producing its evil fruits,
and may yet end in a hideous calamity. England
thought that American sympathy was with Russia
when the Western Powers were engaged in that
great conflict. America believed that English aid
and sympathy were given to the Southern States
during the frightful Civil War. England is
convinced that the revolt in Canada was
wholly the work of America ; and she equally
holds that the Fenian conspiracy was born and
fostered on the soil of the United States. The
people of this island regard that plot as one
against life and property—a mere band of Secret
Assassins—actuated by the vilest motives. The
conviction that even in some degree they owe to
America this organisation tends to intensify a
feeling which it is of the highest moment to
it
uproot, and is deplorable that members of
Congress should give a colouring of truth to
accusations which are, in reality, devoid of foun-
dation. The native American retains little, if
any, of that prejudice we attribute to the Eng-
lish. England is regarded with esteem and even
affection. Those who consider Ireland to be an
oppressed country hold that the Irish would be jus-
tified in a revolt—that is, an open, manly appeal
to arms, when failing in obtaining redress by
political agitation. In no other part of the world
outside these islands, would such a deed as that
done in Clerkenwell be more indignantly condemned
as in America. In Mr. JOHNSON'S words, the
American people are distinguished, above all others,
for their love of liberty and of law. It is not the
lovers of law who justify an organisation like
Fenianism, and there is an innate sense of right
implanted in American minds which leads them
to censure more quickly and strongly than other
people what they clearly see to be a wrong. Hitherto
their sympathies have been accorded to the Irish as
sufferers from English oppression ; but once con-
vinced that the English are the sufferers from a
reckless gang who falsely claim to represent Irish
wrongs, -and a change will be at once effected.
None can better appreciate such deeds than they,
for they have suffered from them themselves. The
secret combinations of the lawless men the United
Kingdom has sent to their shores have led to count-
less murders in New Yurk and Pennsylvania, to a
terrorism in California, to riots between Irishmen
and Negroes, between Irishmen and Germans
Irishmen and Chinese, and to that Fenian organisa-
tion destined hereafter, we fear, to prove even
more disastrous to the United States than to the
United Kingdom. It may be asked—Why should
America tolerate such an imperinm in iniperio? We
reply—lt iQ here working actively against society,
why do the English tolerate it ?—And the answer is
very simple—Because they cannot help themselves.
It is, in truth, one of the charges America brings
against them. You have misgoverned, they say,
a country so as to turn a large portion of its in-
habitants into conspirators. You ship them off in
tens of thousands to our shores, where we become
the victims of the secret machinations to which you
have constrained them to resort. Our institutions

have formed them into a poll ical. power so strong
that we arc compelled to re. pet it, and they use
this power to embarrass you. : is the bad shilling
you have put into circulation a muing back to your-
selves, and now you do us the injustice of calling
ns counterfeiters and circulate rs of spurious coin.
We believe it to be a matter a. ;gr-2at importance that
correct notions on this subject: .hould be circulated in
England, and that the in flue-Ail 1.1. portion of the Ameri-
can Press, whose opinions Are republished in Eng-
lish papers, should give cr..r, ression to the true
American sentiment, beat •in mind that it is
for the enlightenment of a. :?eople who are more
ignorant of them, than they would readily be-
lieve. Fenianism is an organisation against
society, which may be as easily used for Anti-
America❑ objects as Anti-English. It is a
two-edged sword that cuts both ways in the
hands of a maniac, and it is the duty of all
peaceable, law-abiding citizens, to deprive the, in-
fatuated being of his weapon for working mis-
chief. The very essence of American politics is to
separate the American Continent from political con-
nection with Europe, and to create in every immi-
grant a national American sentiment.. The essence
of Fenianism is the very reverse, for it consists in
maintaining in the immigrant an Irish feeling,
and one of separation from the national sentiment,
while the great object is ,to embroil the United
States in a war with Great Britain for a European
object, with which America has nothing to do. If
Englishmen suppose that such intentions are gra-
tifying to Americans they make an absurd mistake.
They are simply tolerated, because it cannot be
helped ; and it may be more agreeable to them that
the mischief ever brewing in the class England has
forwarded in such numbers to America should have
a foreign object, instead of a domestic one. The
only remedy is for the American people, conjointly
with the English, to recognise Fenianism in its
true character, as an organisation against society,
against good government, life, and property. If
the more enlightened Irishmen in America were
freed from the despotism invariably exercised by
such secret conspiracies, the supporters of Fenianism
would be reduced to a contemptible gang, whose
object was simply riot and plunder. But it derives
its strength from the same source that BrteADIIEND
derived his—that is, from coercion, and a pressure
which the leaders know so well how to apply.—
Auglo-A nierican 7imes.

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.

The paddlewheel despatch vessel Helicon, Com-
mander Edward Field, and the paddlewheel steam
vessel Vivid, Staff Commander Sullivan, left Ply-
mouth Sound yesterday afternoon on special duty
in the Channel. It is supposed that these ships,
like the Gladiator, Medusa, and Cromer, are gone
to look for a strange armed vessel not possessed of
any legal papers.
The screw steam corvette Pallas, 6, Capt. Mat-
thew Conolly, from Lisbon, arrived at Plymouth
yesterday morning having in tow the disabled store-
ship Supply, 2, Commander Charles Bawden.
The Trafalgar, 60, from Sheerness, arrived in
Plymouth Sound on' Saturday en route for Ireland,
where she will do duty as an extra coastguard ship.
The captains and commanders of all ships in com-
mission at Devonport were summoned to attend at
the Admiralty-office at Mount Wise, Devonport,
on Thursday, when they were instructed by Port
Admiral Sir William F. Martin to adopt every ne-
cessary precaution (especially by night) to protect
their ships from insidious attack. On Friday these
instructions were communicated to the officer, in
writing. They are to the effect that from dusk until
daylight a guard boat is to row round each ship in
Hamoaze. The Royal Adelaide's boat will row
also round the training ship Impregnable, and the
boat belonging to the Indus will also guard the
training ship Implacable. The Indus will, in addi-
tion, supply two steam launches to cruise in the
upper part of liamoaze and guard all the ships
there, especially the floating depot in St. German' s
river, which contains live shell. Each guard
has twelve loaded rifles, and is under the
command of a commissioned officer. During the
night every boat approaching one of the guarded
ships will be stopped, and her occupants will be re-
quired to give a satisfactory explanation of their
object before being allowed to proceed. It appears
that what the Government most apprehend is the
dropping of torpedoes down the stream. If any of
these are found they are to be towed ashore stern
foremost. All ships in commission are also to keep
watch in harbour the same as if at sea. On board
the Bellerophon, Prince Consort, Achilles, &c., this
will involve the necessity of two officers being on
duty all night. Weapons are kept on deck con-
stantly loaded. The liberty of the seamen has been
necessarily shortened. On Saturday one corporal,
Royal Marines, and five privates were sent on board
the Vivid, and one corporal and 12 privates on
the Impregnable. To-day the same number of
matines will be sent on board the Implacable.
The Bolivar, screw steamship, No. 17 of the
Abyssinian flotilla of hired transports, disembarked
alongside Portsmouth Dockyard, on Saturday, the
invalided and time-expired soldiers with whom she
arrived there from Malta on the previous day. The
Bolivar is now discharing into store at Portsmouth
the fittings and stores with which she was supplied
as one of the mule transports for service between
the coasts of Spain and Egypt.
The Warrior, armoured iron frigate, Capt. Boys,
was coaled at Spithead on Saturday, and yesterday'
morning early dropped down under stream to
another anchorage berth off Osborne.

It is believed that the attention of the Home
Secretary has been or is about to be called to the
present practice of storing large quantities of gun-
powder, chiefly in an old form of cartridge, in
the main magazines of the lines of
_fortification,
with a view to the storage of the greater part
of it in the adjacent depot magazines, whence it
could be drawn in moderate quantities as it
might be required. The accidental or intentional
explosion of a powder magazine may occur
through unforeseen circumstances at a great depot
magazine or at the main magazine of a garrison.
But there would be this important difference in the
two catastrophes—the depot magazine is always
situated in some spot that is distant from all other
buildings, whereas the main magazine of a garrison
and seaport would by its explosion include with it
the destruction of a town, and the loss,• probably,
of thousands of lives, The system of storing these
magazines is preposterous. The " department" in-
sists that we must always consider ourselves to be
in a state of war. It appears to people outside the
department that just sufficient cartridges kept in
garrison magazines for practice and ceremonial
salutes would be quite sufficient. All the guns at
present mounted on the batteries of our seaports
and g%rrisons are smoothbores, or the new old 110-
pounder breechloaders, all of which would be useless
in the even; of any attack upon our coasts, and
would have to be replaced by others of larger calibre.
The cartridges in all the magazines are, of course,
made only for these guns, and are suitable for no
other. The case as it now stands is, therefore, that
our batteries are crowned with guns and their
magazines stuffed with gunpowder cartridges that
we know we cannot fight with. In the main ma-
gazine of Portsmouth town fortifications alone, for
example, there are upwards of 700 barrels of powder
cartridges for 6-in. and 8-in. smooth-bore guns,
besides those in store in the expense magazine, and
all other seaport and garrison towns are in a similar
condition. The attention of the Home Secretary
has not been called to this state of things one hour
too soon.

At Aldershott Camp during the past week the
troops have been exercised in route-marching on
various days, but the state of the weather has af-
forded uo opportunity for field evolutions. Lieut.;
Gen. the Hon. Sir James Yorke Scarlett, K.C.8.,

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has returned from leave of absence, and has reas
stuned command of the division.

General regret is felt at the premature decease of
Colonel John Clark Kennedy, C. 8., Colonel Com-
mandant of the Military Train, the intelligence of
whose death at Cairo, from dysentery. has been re •
ceived at the 'War-office. Colonel Kennedy was
one of the most energetic officers in the army, and
had gone out to take part in the co:Jtemplated war
in Aieyssinia. Ile had been in the service 34 years.
He srved with the 18th in the China expedition in
1812, and was present at the investment of Nankin '
and the operations in the Canton River in April.
1847. lie served throughout the whole of '
the Punjaub campaign of 1848-49. He was then
! attached to the staff of Sir Walter Gilbert, and
was present at the surrender of the Sikh army
and guns, and the forced march upon Attock, which
drove the Affghans across the Indus. Ile was ap-
pointed Aide-de-camp to Brigadier-Gen. Sir Colin
Campbell, and was present at the advance upon,
and occupation of, Peshawur, March 21, 1849. He
served in the Crimea and was wounded in the neck
at Sebastopol. He was after,vards appointed Assis.-
Adjt.-Gen. at head-quarters. He was in the re-
ceipt of the China medal, the medal and two clasps
for the Punjab campaign, and for his services in
the Crimea was made a Companion of the Bath,
with -medal and clasp. He had held the post of
Col.-Commandant of the Military Train since Feb-
ruary, 1860.

The undermentioned naval cadets have been
nominated :—Robert F. Banks, John Casement,
John W. Elliott, Ernest Edye, Lewis F. C. Jack-
son, Edward H. Godsall, Arthur J. Goldney,
Charles N. Rodick, Walter Pigot, and Henry M.
IVhite.

The Most Rev, Dr. Manning, Roman Catholic
archbishop of Westminster, and the Bei. Dr. Grint,
roman Catholic Bishop of Southwark, have issued
trders that the . usual custom of celebrating mid.
tight mass on Christmas Eve is not to be observed
Ihis year, The Rev. Patrick O'Callaghan, at the
..en o'clock mass at St.. Anselm's, Lincoln's-inn-fields,
addressed his congregation, severely condemniu4
!ecret societies in general, and Fenianism in par-
icular. The rev. . gentleman .in the course of
its sermon pointed out the nature and character
! )f the censures promulgated by the decrees of the
1
Catholic Church against secret societies, and warned
31S hearers that by the fact of belonging to a secret society
or she was excommunicated ipso facto, and could re-
:•.:ive neither the sacred rites of the Church nor absolution.
!rom any priest, even though on the bed of death. l-re
‘ziaracterised these societies as compositions of evil, and
the men who'directed them as cruel, treacherous, disloyal,
and cowardly, unworthy the conic coca, respect, or ZLISO.-
Liation of any good member of society. The rev.t preacher
vehemently denounced the diabolical Outrage of Friday
week, and warned his hearers that if the threats
against law and property, the threats of burning down
end blowing up public and private establishments, were
persevered in and carried out in a few instances, the great
bulk of the Irishmen in England, who he was proud to
say were as honest, as trustworthy, and as loyal as 4any
Englishman or Scotchman, would be distrusted, subjected
to unjust suspicions, and so far would be deprived of
means to earn their bread. " Indeed," continued the rew
gentleman, " I am sure that I am safe in stating that
already hundreds of our poor labouring countrymen have
been deprived of or prevented getting employment through
this very thing. The employers of labour will begin to
look upon it as unsafe—and justly so, lam bound to sr,y
—to have an Irishman in their employment or about their
premises or property if these threats are continued
and these outrages persevered in." The society to which he
referred, he was very glad to say, had not as yet gone very
far ; it was but in its infancy here, and it had not up '4,lj,
this entrapped many of the young men about, but it was
Increasing, and unless crushed out at once would prove
calamitous for soul and body. Under O'Connell And the
faithful and well-tried bishops and priests of Irel.and, who
were as ready now as ever they were to lay ;town their
lives for their flocks, the Irish Catholics were raised from
a condition of political serfdom to one of constitutional
freedom, grievances and disabilities were swept away, and
never was the British people and legislative body more
anxious and disposed than at present to redress the great
grievances of Ireland, unless the dastardly outrage o.
Friday week, and such like ones, might alter or retard tl4e
legislative intentions.

Two Meetings were announced to be held on Cle-tken.
well-green yesterday—one at eleven :,'clock, ur,.on the
invitation of Mr. Finlen, to "expose the treaclrzy of the
Fenians," and the other at three, to be co-erposecl of,
according to a handbill circulated, " the men of Ireland
resident in London." They were invited to express their
abhorrence of the Clerkenwell outrage. When these
announcements became known to the police, Mr. Superin-
tendent Gernon, of the G division, laid an information
before a magistrate, in which he stated his belief that if
those meetings, or either of them, were allowed to be held,
a breach of the peace would take place. He grounded his
belief upon the fact that in the neighbourlwod of Clerken-
well-green and in the entire district there existed a strong
feeling of indignation against the persons who origi-
nated the funeral procession in honour of ths:Man-
chester murderers, which, as many of the inhabitants felt,
had in some way contributed to bring about the crime of
Friday week. Upon the information being sworn, orders
were given by the Middlesex magistrate% acting under
the advice of the Home Office, that the 'meetings should
not be permitted to he held, and that any person per-
sisting in addressing the crowd should be taken into cus-
tody. The promoters of the meetings having been duly
warned, a force of about forty men took up their positions
two and two on the flagways of Clerkenwell-green about
ten o'clock. Upwards of 100 special constables, resident
in the neighbourhood, remained at borne in case their set.'
vices should be required; But few responded to Mr.
Finlen's invitation. Some dozen Irishmen were on the
Green at eleven o'clock, and left it in half an hour, when
Mr. Finlen had not made his appearance, nor did he until
twenty minutes past twelve. Mr. Finlen said that under
the circumstances, and as he did not wish there should be
any breach of the peace, he would abandon the idea of
holding the meeting. He then went away, followed by a few
persons. At three o'clock Mr. Thomas Campbell, the
pror osed chairman of the second meeting, Messrs,,s‘/lel-
drum, Sweeney, and a few others, made their arpearance
at the corner of Clerkenwell-close, but, lirle;-g been
apprised by Mr. Finlen of the intentions the police,
they, like him, gave up the idea of perr,evi.:ring in their
design. The projectors of the meetinsi walked about the
green for some time, and were sul;:sected to very uncom-
plimentary, if not threatening, renvirks by English
working men. The police or:deers state that the presence
of the force was quite as -itecessary to protect Finlen and
the rest from violence, should they persist in holding the
meeting, as to carry out the instructions they had received.
Happily, no bretv-th of the peace occurred. Finlen was
followed a considerable distance from Clerkenwell by a
crowd of boys and girls shouting " Fenian ! Fenian !"
Inspector Potter sent some constables after Finlen to pro.
tect him.

The Nation and Irishman both publish the following
letter, purporting to have been written by Colonel Kelly,
with reference to the Clerkenwell outrage :---
" London, Dec. 17, 1867.
`` Sir,—l ask permission to make a short appeal to our
much-outraged countrymen through your columns, inas-
much as a former appeal of mine to Irishmen in general
seems to be disregarded within the past week.
" While I must admit the difficulty of remaining pas-
sive at this time, and of refraining from some deter-
mined expression of resentment against the horrible out-
rage perpetrated against the whole Irish race by the
Manchester exQeutions, yet once again I must urge that
that outarge was levelled by the oligarchy against their
victims as inuch for being democrats as for being
Irishm(m.

"In my letter, copied into your paper recently,
expressed my heartfelt satisfaction that that sad event
had not resulted in setting Irish against English as such,
nor Catholic.against Protestant, which I solemnly believe
to be the result aimed at in the Manchester executions. I
had hoped to make the sad affikir a means of cementing
the alliance between the democracy of both countries, for
the oppressors well know that such a consummation would
be their death-knell ; but if, regardless of our alliance with-
the English organised democracy, over-zealous but late
accessions to the national ranks persist in acting regard-
less of national policy and what we owe our English
brethren, and injudiciously awl injuriously vent their
wrath in isolated destruction of private property, it re-
mains but for me once more to reprobate such a course as_
doing the work of the common enemy.
"1 can well understand such a course -being adopted by
our organised enemies, governmental and otherwise, or by
thieves for the purpose of -plunder, but not to be adopted
at the hands of friends, who should not fail to see, as our
enemies do, that it throws a doubt on our pledges to our
English brethren.

"-Our quarrel is not with the English people, but with
their oppressors and ours. The oligarchy now know this,
and will not be over-scrupulous about burning a few
houses in populous neighbourhoods and sowing disunion in
the minds of English democrats. Policemen anxious for
promotion and such like must be looked upon suspiciously,
who 'may hereafter ' discover' houses ignited by Greek
fire. Such tricks might answer in Lord Geortie Gordon's
time, but the oligarchy can no longer throw dust into the
eyes of the democracy. Once again, then, we renew our
pledge to English democracy, that no authcrised move-
movement shall takeplace in England, unless in self-defence,
without the full concurrence of the English people, when,
with a long pull, a strong pull, and a pull altogether, it
is certain wo can effect our common disenthralment.—
Yours faithfully, " T. J. KELLY, C. E. MI."

The London correspondent of the Scotsman says :
"There is little doubt that the police, in arresting tho
four men who were brought up at Bow-street on Saturday,
have broken into the very hot-bed of Fenianism in Lon-
don. It was in this neighbourhood that Burke lived, and
in which the American-Irish took uli their abode. No
one seems, however, to have thought' of putting a closer
watch upon the place until the man Vaughan made his
statement to the police. Other captures are expected
before long. Meantime, indignation is expressed at what
is called the utter inefficiency of our police system ; and it
is averred that one of the subjects discussed at the Cabinet
Council on Thursday was bow the system could be
amended."

The following telegram has been received :—" Glasgow,
Sunday night.—Four hundred yards of blasting rope have
been found to-night in the ash-pit near the Cowcaddens
gasometer—one of the largest in the city. ' Blasting rope'
is powder hid or surrounded with gutta-percha, and is an
explosive agent much used by miners for blasting pur-
poses."

Considerable consternation and excitement prevailed at
Bristol on Saturday, in consequence of its becoming known
that the authorities bad received information leading to
the belief that some Fenian outrages were intended, and
that a special meeting of the entire magistracy of the city
and county had been, in consequence, hastily summoned.
It would seem that the chietof the police received informa-
tion to the effect that a plan had been organised for at-
tacking siinultaneously the different works of the Bristol
United Gas Light Company on the sea banks, in Avon-
street, St. Philip's and Jacob, and Maudlin street, St.
Michael, and that advantage would be taken of the super-
vening darkness to attack and— by means of the notorious
Fenian or Greek fire —destroy some of the public buildings
and churches. The communications were for the most part
anonymous, but other circumstances within the know-
ledge of the superintendent convinced him that he ought
not to disregard them, and he acconl;ngly communicated
with the mayor, Mr. Francis Adams, the magistrates'
clerk, &c. , and a special meeting of the justices was forthw.th
held. It was resolved to at once summon a meeting 4 f
the special constables sworn in under the Municipal Act,
and the meting was held, and addressed by the Mayor,
who reque,ted the constables to consider themselves at
once on duty, and to be ready to present themselves at the
several district station-houses at the shortest notice, where
the necessary arms would be given out. At nine o'clock
in the evening the Mayor had another conference with the
chief of police,.and precautionary measures for the night
were carried out. All the gasworks were closely watched.
and guarded, the police-constables on the beats were mul-
tiplied, and arrangements made for speedy intercommuni-
cation. The arms from some of the gunsmiths' shops
were removed to places of greater security, and guards
were .kept at the Custom House, Excise Office, banks,
and some of the public offices and large factories. The
next day there was another special meeting of the magis-
Tates but it was understood that everything was re-
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