The Sun.
London, England, 1867-09-25 00:00:00

MANCH :STF. ft, Tuesday.
" Arrests continue to be ma" is the standing
and stereotyped bulletin. Thine were three last
night ; but one of the ps i ours did not remain
long in custody, the " suspidon" on . which he
was charged being of the weakest. The two men
detained are not ideutified, or at least were not
identified an hour before I bgan this present
writing. To-day there have teen some trivial
cases heard in connection with Fenianism at the
City Police-court. A man nannd Foley and his
wife were charged with the uttsance of treason-
able language and of threats. loley is a brother
of the man of that name who was
among the first
batch of twenty-nine persons sent to gaol on re-
mand, after the attack on the prison van. The
couple brought up to-day were severally bound
over to keep the peace. An IrisSman in fantastic
and almost picturesque undress, like the portrait
of Teague in the old farce, besought the magistrate's
assistance and protection. M'Grael was the name
of this wild-looking
applicant. To him spake Mr.
Fowler, the stipendiary, " Well, what do you
want ?" " I want," quoth Teague, " a pass ;
I'm in danger of my life. It's one of these
Fenians I'm afraid I'll be taken for." " But
why do you ask for a pass ?" the magistrate in-
quired. " Shure, thin, I was arrested at Leeds,
and brought before the- magistrates at Oldham,
on Saturday. -Give me a pass, or I'll be stopped
wherever I go." Mr. Fowler advised the man to
ask at the police-station for a pass ; and on being
pertinaciously importuned to give one himself,
said, " But I have not the pleasure of knowing
you." M'Grael thereupon handed up a document
which he said was his character, written by the
parish priest of Athenry, county Galway. It ran
thus: " I hereby certify that lam acquainted with
the bearer, Master Thomas Mahon M'Grael,-from
his infancy, and that I lived is his father's house
while he was a child. lie was always a religious
and well-conducted young lad, and is now about 45
years of age." Poor M'Grael, whose head had
been recently shaved, told the magistrate that it had
been " uncomfortable," meaning too plainly the
inside. Ile had spent a long time in hospital at
Castlebar ; and, having a relation in Oxfordshire
who is practising medicine, he vas on his way to
visit his friend when, finding himself especially
1 liable in a time of excitement to be arrested as a
vagrant, he gave up the intention. Mr. Fowler
strongly counselled him to carry it out. I have
thought it worth while to give M'Grael's case as
something more than a whimsical grievance.. The
crazy applicant for a police pass is not the only
sufferer among the very poor of his countrymen by
the Fenian panic. I read this into-day's Manches-
ter Examiner—" The following communication has
been forwarded to us from a reliable source, with a
request for its publication :—' In -their zeal to cap-
ture all suspected persons, the Manchester police,
on Friday evening, summarily ap?rehended on sus-
picion a highly respectable young gentleman, a land
surveyor, residing in Stockport. Our officials con-
ceived that he bore a very strong resemblance to
the renowned ' Colonel Kelly,' and it was not until
late on Saturday afternoon that he was set at
liberty—undeniable evidence of his non-complicity
in the outrage having then been established.' " If
" highly respectable young gentlemen" are subject
to this kind of thing, we may easily imagine that
people of humble pretensions are occasionally liable
to something worse.
The arrests which I have already chronicled as
having been made last night were in :Manchester ;
but at the same time the county police were en-
gaged in searching districts such as Becks and
other villages that are out of the city jurisdiction.
Nothing came-of it, though t. 1,0 constables were as-
sisted by detectives from the central office at the
Town Hall. There is to be a rather important
meeting, to-morrow morning of the Town Council,
to receive a report of the Chairman of the City Gaol
Committee, in reference to- the notorious insecurity
of the prison. A recommenclition is attached to this
report ; but meanwhile it is understood that com-
munications with Mr.. Fairbairn, the eminent en-
gineer, have already been pushed forward to a prac-
tical stage. Though a good deal of secrecy and
mystification is generally characteristic of our Man-
chester oracles, I do not think the most profoundly
taciturn official can find fault with the publication
of a piece of intelligence which mast be known here
quite as soon as the arrival of the
London papers.
if the gaol is-weak, the Fenians know its weakness
and i
already ;
t is the duty of the authorities to
strengthen the guard, and to
take all necessary
waived at the funeral of
pre-
cautions, rather than rely on the feeble old strata-
gem of the ostrich. By the hYe,
objections to pub-
licity seem to have been
poor Brett, when a strong " force of detectives openly
advertised their personal appearance, being conspi-
cuously marshalled in the
brass band that played the "Dead March in Saul."
was one of the procession next to the
A surgeon's errand boy, named Baxter, who
prisoners in the van attacked by
the Fenians, has made a statement which appears
this morning in the local paper I have already
quoted. The vehicle must have been crowded, for
this lad was accompanied
in his compartment by
another prisoner—.a most reprehensible practice,
by-the-bye—and it would seem that not only were
other captives
" doubled" in like manner, but
the central passage was occupied by women. The
boy says that the box in which he was placed
was last but one from the door, and that Kelly
and Deasey were severally
in the boxes opposite
each other quite at the end. The door of every
box has a wooden
and the lad whose
narrative lam grating;
now offering,
with salt to suit the
various palates of belief, would have been able to
observe, with tolerable ease, everything that took
place in any portion of the
passage except the end
nearest the door, where Sergeant Brett was stand-
ing. He would also hear a good deal of what was
said or done, whether in the van or by as-
sailants outside. Baxter's story is that he
felt the van brought up with a sudden
jerk. At that time there was not much light
in his box or in the paas„ge.
The first sound he
heard was a pistol shot ; then came another, and
then many more. The next thing was a great
, looking
was
noise on the roof and at the door of the van ; and
soon
thatfte r w
h aer passages
through the grating, he
sawd
lighter. The women
made a great screaming. There were five or six
at
of them. He had not seen Sergeant Brett at all,
and except for what soon followed lie would not
have known he was in the passage with the
women. While the hammering was going
on
against the panels, and the shots were firing out-
side, the women began to take hold of each other
and pray. The next thing the boy heard was a
voice outside the door say, " Open the door and
let your prisoners out." The boy heard no
answer to this. The same voice then said,
" Where are the keys—turn 'cm up." Then a
man's voice inside replied, "I dursn't." The voice
outside said, " If you'll give up the keys we won't
kill you." To this the answer was " No." The next
occurrence was the firing of a shot into the van.
The boy subsequently picked up the ball and gave
it to Constable Knox. Before the pistol was fired
the woman said, " Give up the keys, Charlie, or
you'll be killed." After the shot the same voice
cried " He's killed." What the lad next saw was
some of the women going to the wickets of the dif-
ferent boxes opposite to his, and looking through
them ; they said, " He's shot dead," and " Char-
lie's stiff as anything." At the same time, other
of the women said, " Ile's got the keys in his
pocket—get them out." At that time also he says
there was such a noise that he thought the door was
broken through, and he has even no idea that it
was unlocked by means of the keys taken from
13rett's pocket. It must be borne in mind that the
boy could not see OA took place at the end of the

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the night before. Eagerly every eye was on the
look-out, and at last I had the satisfaction of being
the :,irst on board to discover her. On reporting her,
th:, excitement was intense, and other sharp eyes
soon confirmed my announcement. On she came,
to oir great joy, towing two large boats. She
dropped anchor about, a mile off on our weather side,
and we immediately sent off a boat to her to gain

bunch of keys in his hands walking along the pts-
sage. He was a middling-sized man, with a pale
face, and he wore knickerbocker leggings. A. voice
from the opposite box at the end of the van said.
'lnn here." The man with the keys--the ladsaw
there were three keys on the ring—then tried to

information.
" Until she arrived, I can i.ssurc you we felt much
alarm, and often my heart miag•tvJ me, as I looked
at the rolling surf and siw how small chance there
was of being saved, if our vessel sullenly broke in
two, or her great heavy masts rolled over and

unlock the door. He tried the two wrong keys
first; and with the third he opened the door. What-
ever took plaoi in opening the box next to his own
(in which Deasey was placed) Baxter could only
judge from what he heard. Ile heard the lock
turned, and, without an3ther word, three men
hurried along the passage, and went out. By this
time all the women had left, and the dead man had
been removed, so that the passage was clear for the
three men who were in it. The last thing the boy
heard was a single shot fired on the footboard by,
he thinks, the man he bad seen with the bunch of
keys. He is sure the man opened not more than
two doors, because, when the van was afterwards
driven to the gaol, and ho was let out, all the other
doors were found to be locked, and the prisoners
inside the boxes were " all right." It was while he
was looking about him, after he was let out, that he
found the bullet which he handed to Constable
Knox. The boy also says that his fellow'-prisoner
in the same box said to the man with the keys,
" Here, open this door ;" but the man wouldn't.
Another boy, who was in the box immediately oppo-
site Baxter's, and adjoining that in which Kelly was
placed, is understood to give evidence remarkably
concurrent with that which I have repeated above.
Ile describes the noise on the roof, the battering
at the door, the reports of pistol shots, and the
alarm of the women. Ho also speaks to the
dialogue between the man on the footboard and
Sergeant Brett. While some of the women cried
" God help us," others said, " Get the keys out of
poor Charlie's pocket." He also heard, in reply to
the man who came in and shouted, " Where's Kelly ?'
a prisoner say, " He's here." That voice came
either from the box where the boy Baxter and a
fellowsprisoner were placed, or from the box next
to it at the end of the van, viz., the box where,
Kelly himself was. The man with the keys was
about to unlock Baxter's door, when a voice said,
" No, I'm here." He then unlocked the end door,
and the boy saw a man come out. Neither of the
boys noticed that the men who were released had
handcuffs on, for they instantly walked along the
passage and went out without saying or doing any-
thing. Both the boys afterwards saw blood inside
the van near the door, and outside on the footboard.
They say it took ten minutes to a quarter of an
hour from the time the van was stopped with a jerk
until it went on again. They do not know if the
horses were changed. It is scarcely necessary to
say that they were.
There is an impression that Kelly and Deasey may
have doubled back ou Manchester, as was first sup-
posed, and are still in hiding here. Rumours of
their having got on shipboard are discredited, on the
ground that all outgoings are narrowly scrutinised ;
but less likely things, for all that, have happened in
the history of Fenianism, up to the present period,
and he must be a prophet indeed who can say what
is in store for future astonishment.

crushed us.
" Our noble vessel has so far been our salva-
tion, for though in the opinion of many nautical
men on board the pounding she has had would
have broken up any wooden vessel that ever floated,
and three-fourths of the iron ones, yet she has stood
the ordeal most splendidly, and still goes on roll-
ing against the reef whenever a heavy wave breaks.
We arc getting used to it now, and I actually lay
on the cabin floor with the keel lifting and bump-
ing under my ear, and slept soundly from 2 to
o'clock this Morning.
" We have now been more than 80 hours. in this
perilous position. By this time otigti, cer-
tainly to be on board the other steamer (the Nubia),
but I am sorry to sly much- supineness has been
shown in the management of this trying affair, and
,now it is too ronglrto reach .her, although she is
within a few cables' length of us.
" There were some pretty little pictures yesterday
during the time of greateA peril. At the foot of
the cabin stairs when I came down lay a baby asleep
on a pillow on the floor, and a black Ayah asleep
by her with her head on the pillow. Close by sat
a Hindoo man nurse, with another baby in his arms.
They looked the very type of fidelity, and no doubt
would both have died with their charges rather than
have abandoned them. 'lt was curious to see all
through the gale yesterday, when every one was so
alarmed, the poor little punkah wallahs quietly con-
tinuing to pull their punkahs hour after hour, in
their slow, sleepy style. It seemed a matter of per-
fect indifference to them whether they went to the
bottom or not. Perhaps it would have been rather
a relief to the fellows to have no more punkahs to
pull.

"Nubia Steamer, Sept. 9.

"We came on board this vessel last night, and
are now tugging as hard asp ossible at the Surat,
with the hope of getting her off. An enormous
chain cable connects the two ships, and the full
pressure of the engines put upon e cable ;at pre-
sent, however, to no effect—wthe do not budge a
single inch. The stewards and other officials have
just been sent off from the ill-fated ship, so it looks
as though they had given up the idea of saving her
now. As sfie lies on the reef she is a most splendid
object, and looks as though nothing were the matter.
We are all struck with her tremendous size. The
Nubia is much smaller, and will doubtless be much
lass comfortable.
" During the gale on Saturday we made arrange-
ments to take possession of a stand of arms, con-
sisting of rifles, pistols, and sabres, to prevent any
danger of the Las.lars going off with the boats, as
they do sometimes when there is a wreck. We
should have placed the ladies in first, and then
done what we could for the rest. Fortunately this
was not required, but it seemed quite likely at one
I time.

IHE WRECK OF THE SURAT STEAMER,

The following interesting extracts from a letter
written by one of the Passengers o n board the Surat
gives a graphic sketch of the wreck of this fine
steamer :

" Arabia Petrea, on a coral reef, 80 miles'
from Suez, Sept. 5.
"My dear --,-1 little thought that my
second letter would be dated from such a spot as
this; but so it is! At 2 o'clock tlis morning Iwas
lying awake in my berth, when I was startled by the
unmistakable sound of our noble ship (the Surat)
grinding through coral or shingle. There was no
bumping or sudden shock, but she ran deliberately
on to the shore with the exact noise made by a small
boat at the seaside when you run her on to a shingly

" September 10.

beach.
" In about five seconds I was on deck in my night
things to see what was the matter. There was no
doubt as to what had happened, for in the bright
starlight I could see breakers ahead, and the shores
of Arabia very near. Our ship was aground, but
finding she did not heel over, but seemed to stand
firm, I went below and dressed very hastily. The
order was given Hard astern,' but with no effect.
Then sails were set to try and ride over the reef,
the utter futility of which plan the daylight has
since discovered to us ; for there, close ahead of us,
lies an expanse of dry sand and coral rock.
" Many of my fellow-passengers knew nothing of
all this, but slept quietly till the morning ; had the
vessel, however, heeled over, all the ports on one
side would have instantly filled, and numbers would
have been drowned in their beds, for of 'course all
windows were wide open on account of the heat.

" By God's mercy, we are, I believe, in no pre-
sent danger, but it is quite possible we may be on
this reef for three days, as it will take a boil two
days to reach Suez, and a steamer one day to fetch
us off.

" We are now on our way to Suez —much sooner,
happily, than we thought to be. As the sun rose
this morning over Arabia we were weighing anchor,
and soon after we steamed away towards Suez, and
lefkour splendii steamer a wreck on the coral reef,
looking most beautiful as she lay there in the morn-
ing sun."

Letter of General Garilnldi on the Geneva
Peace ( ongres..

FLORENCE/ Sept.
The following Address of the National Roman
Junta to Garibaldi has been published here :
" Rome, Sept. 7, 1867.
"The establishment of concord between the
various fractions of the Roman Liberal party was
generally desireci in order that they might unitedly
carry out the enterprise of freeing Rome from the
yoke of the priests, and accomplishing the unity of
Italy. This wish was, after great effort, fulfilled,
and we, succeeding the National Roman Com-
mittee, and the Centre of Insurrection, were accre-
dited by those bodies to our fellow-citizens by a
manifesto addressed to the Romans on the 13th July
last. We undertook our difficult charge, trusting
that the Romans and Italians, without violating the
September Convention, and without depriving Rome
of the initiative of the insurrectio, would ss
have
ist us
by every means in their power. In fact, what
our enemies been doing for several years past?
Legitimists and Sanfedists in Europe and through-
out the world emulously strive to send here, their
last rock of refuge, all sorts of help—money, mind,
and men. Their public and secret associations, the
meeting improvised here and there, the parish
churches transformed into recruiting offices, and the
efforts of private persons, have joined all countries
in a vast conspiracy against civilisation, and against
Italy, and against Italy chosing Rome as their
battle-field. Can Rome alone, in the miserable
political and economical condition to which she has
been reduced, struggle against all the forces thus
brought to bear upon her by the religious and poli-
tical fanaticism of the world? Must she alone, after
having from 1848 to this day prodigally contributed
intellect, money, and men in all the liberal move-
ments and great wars of the nation—must she alone
struggle against the united strength of the cosmo-
politan reaction here assembled in conspiracy ?
The Italian Government is bound, it is true,
by the
September Convention. In order to secure the re-
moval of the French flag from Pontifical territory
it has had to renounce all forcible means of planting
the Italian flag on that territory. But will the Ita-
lians be less clear-sighted respecting their true in-
terests than their enemies from every country who
now make head at Rome? Has not Italy national
associations, constituted with the sagacious object
of assisting the great efforts of the nation outside
the sphere of diplomatic responsibility? Has she
not institutions and generous citizens who can and
will extend the necessary support to those who
labour for the fulfilment of the national aspirations?
To those associations, to those institutions, to those
citizens we now address ourselves. Intending
re
tenindsiunrgtoc-
carry out, as soon as possible, a Roman
tion, without embarrassing the Italian Government
without rashness, and without previous fracas, we
have in readiness a varit organisation. But, as every
one knows, this organisation cannot bc maintained
without great expenditure, and the preparations for
the day of action are very costly. Our treasury,
that furnishes all, has received for several months
past no other contributions than the offerings of this
patriotic population, impoverished by long tyranny
and a series of noble sacrifices. We are in the
breach awaiting your help. If this unexpectedly
fail us, the Liberal party, now strongly organised,
cannot but remain in the power of intriguers.
" May such misfortune, such shame, never fall
upon ltome and Italy.
"THE NATIONAL ROMAN JUNTA."
Garibaldi's reply to the above address is as
follows :

" The heat, which would be intense if we were
moving, is entirely neutralised by the fresh north
wind now blowing, which comes in at our saloon
windows and sweeps over the deck.
" Of course, all available means are being tried
to get the ship off,—such as working the screw
backwards, taking all the cargo forward and putting
it aft. Anchors have been thrown out astern, and
as soon as the tide rises powerful capstains, worked
by scores of Lascars, will draw upon the huge
cables with great force. Still, as it was high water
when we ran aground, there seems small chance of
these efforts succeeding. Meanwhile, I must say,
the passengers are very philoophical, and one and
all have behaved, so far, nobly.
" Sunday Morning, Sept. 8.
" Since writing the above, we have been through
a season of fearful peril, and it is with feelings of
intense thankfulness that I find myself alive and
able to continue my letter. Yesterday morning at
8 o'clock the prow of the steamer slipped suddenly
off the reef. The screw was turned astern, and for
a few moments all were in hopes we were once snore
afloat. Vain delusion ! A most fatal mistake was
made in thus easing her head from the reef, for she
now hung amidships, and in a few minutes swungd
broadside on to the rocks, where she lay tossing an
bumping amid the breakers. Unhappily, toothe,
the
wind e
wind had now risen to a strong gale, and
was rolling in with great surging waves that beat
full on the side of the vessel with enormous force,
as she lay kelplessly on the remorseless rocks. It
is impossible to convey to you any idea of the
sensation which is experienced on board when a
vessel is thus taken up by the sea and thrown
broadside on to the reef by every wave that breaks.
She groans and creaks and quivers from stem to
stern. filer tall iron masts and ponderous yards
tremble under every stroke, and you feel that every
blow might be her last. This continued till evening,
when the sea moderated, but more or less it lasted
all night, and is still going on. From the sound, I
fear the sea is rising again. There is no disguising
the fact that all yesterday we were in imminent
danger, and for a while most faces wore a solemn,
resigned expression. Still Englishmen mostly behave
well under such circumstances, and certainly our
company has been no exception to the rule. The c' Genestrelle, Sept. 16.
men passengers worked with a will at what they "To THE NATIONAL ROMAN JUNTA.
could do to render assistance, the first thing being " Your appeal to the Italians will not be in vain.
so to arrange the piles of heavy luggage on the deck Iu Italy there are many followers of Vincent de
that it should not fall about with the lurches of the Paul, many Jesuits, many who have sacrificed on
vessel, and endanger the limbs and lives of the crew the altar of the belly, but it is also consolatory to
and passengers. Then the heavy awnings were say that there are many brave men of San Martino,
taken in, and we were exposed all day to tha fierce many heroic bersaglieri of the Re ("Italia, many
sun. Our great hopes were now centred upon the soldiers of the first artillery in the world—many
steamer from Suez, which ought tc) have beef down descendants of the three hundred Fabians—and a