The Sun.
London, England, 1867-10-02 00:00:00

The Fenian Outrage.

MANCHESTER, Tuesday.
The prisoners charged with the murder of Ser-
geant Brett and. the riot in the Hyde-road on the
18th ult. were again brought up this morning before
Mr. Fowler and a full bench of magistrates.
Edwin Walton, a tobacconist, in Hyde-road, de-
scribed the affray of the 18th ult. He said he saw
Larkin shoot at the horses in the police van, and
baud up stones to Carroll, who was trying to break
through the roof. Nugent was throwing stones at
the police. Saw Allen rush to the arch and present
two pistols, threatening at the same time to shoot
any one who came near. Thinking Allen's ammuni-
tion was exhausted, witness and others made a rush
towards him, and he fired and hit Sprowson in the
foot. Allen then ran back to the van, and fired into
it through the ventilator twice. After the second
shot witness heard some one inside the van say,
" Charlie is shot." Witness saw Allen fire four
shots into the van. Heard him threaten some one
inside if the keys were not given up, and it was after
receiving some answer to this demand that he fired.
When the two men who were handcuffed were taken
out of the van Allen said, "Kelly, I told you I'd die
for you rather than give you up." Believed Kea-
. reedy was in the affray, but could not swear to him.
In cross-examination by Mr. Rebuts, witness said
he had never in court expressed a desire to see the
Fenians banged.
Mr. Roberts—Not in court ? Ah, when did you
express such a desire out of court?=When Larkin
was captured in the Midland Railway yard.
And what did Larkin say to your kind feeling?
—He said, "Is this a Christian country?" I told
him ho would have an English trial and a Christian
trial. I said to him, "I have never seen a man
hanged yet, but if you are hanged I will go and see
you." _ _ _

The prisoner Allen—lie would be a queer man
who would require you to hang him.
Mr. Roberts—Do you intend to carry out your

promise ?
Witness•—l am averse to such exhibitions, and
have never seen one.

Mr. Fowler—You are making an exhibition of
yourself now.
Mr. Roberts—You mean to go and see them
hanged ?
Witness (excitedly)—l will, sir, if I live.
Mr. Roberts —lf you live ! Good God ! what
wretches live ! Have you a wife and family 2-1
have a wife, whom I respect, and a mother and
sinter whom I support.
Have you taken reserved seats for them to see
this exhibition ?—No.
Mr. Fowler—Will you not allow this exhibition
to pass by, Mr. Roberts ?
Mr. Roberts—No ; I conceive, perhaps wrongly,
that the exhibition of this feeling is calculated to do
my clients good.
The examination was then adjourned.
Timothy Featherstone, Thomas Johnson, Daniel
Lynch, Robert Nugent, John Morris, and Lewis
Moore were then brought up, and formally re-
manded on a charge of complicity in the , Hyde-
road riot.

This morning the following evidence was taken :
Robert Hunter, a labourer, said he witnessed the
affray, and saw Allen fire into the police van. Also
saw John Martin, Larkin, and Michael Maguire
there. Maguire and Martin called out to Allen to
fire. Larkin witness saw captured.
Cross-examined by Mr. Roberts—Had never
expressed a wish to see the Fenians hanged, but had
said he could hang Allen for what he had seen him
do. He said he would blow out my brains if
I went another step nearer to him, and he pointed
his pistol at me.
Do you expect to hang him ?—No.
Then you are disappointed, are you not ?—No.
Mr. Roberts—But it makes you grin. You're a
bad 'un.
Mr. Fowler—The witness has given his evidence
very fairly, Mr. Roberts.
Mr. Roberts—l don't think so. I know he has
told a lie about the hanging.
Mr. Fowler—l have endeavoured to keep myself
from expressing an opinion or showing the slightest
bias, but really, Mr. Roberts, it is very difficult.
At this stage of the proceedings James and Mary
Foley, who were charged a week ago with using
threatening language towards John Dutton Ellison,
of Dowing-street, Ardwick, on the ground of his
having given information against the prisoners
charged with the Hyde-road murder, were again
brought up.
Mr. Fowler asked Ellison whether he had any
further threats made against him by the defendants.
Ellison—Nothing but this letter which I received
on Friday morning,
The letter was handed in and read by Mr. Fowler,
but its contents did not transpire.
The defendants were remanded for another week,
and admitted to bail as before.
The case against the prisoners then proceeded.
Kate Reilly, a factory girl, stated that on the
afternoon of the 18th ult. she was near the railway
arch, and she saw the prison van go up to the
arch. She also saw a number of men rush out of
the " Half-way House" beer-shop, under one of the
arches. One of the men went before the horses,
and two behind the van. They said if the driver
did not stop they would blow his brains out. Wit-
ness was in front of the van, and, being frightened,
walked forward as quickly as she could. One of
the men followed witness, and asked her where she
was going, and she said she was going to the gaol
to see the chaplain. He said witness should not
stir from the place where she was, and he pulled
out from the breast of his coat a sharp thing with
a brass handle, something like a knife. The man
who stopped and threatened her was the prisoner
William Martin. Witness heard some pistol shots
about this time. Saw Allen and Brannan there,
but did not see Brannan do anything. The prisoner
Thomas Maguire was with the others, but he was
doing nothing that witness took notice of.
Charles Thomas, a plumber, said he saw 12 or
15 men run out of the " Half-Way" beer-house,
under one of the railway arches, near the Hyde-
road, on the 18th ult. They went to the footpath
near the railway arch, and witness saw a man whom
he could not identify among the prisoners fire a
pistol at the nostril of one of the horses of the
police van. Another man stepped forward and fired
at the men who were on the box of the van, and
thou all the men rushed in a body from beneath the
railway arch, and counnevced firing at any one who
came near. Some of them got on the top of the
van, and one of them began to break in the roof
with a large stone. All the men who came iu the
rush were engaged in the attack on the van.
Larkin threw stones, and once went on the top of
the van. Larkin ran at the policeman several times
with large stones. Coffey, Shore, and Allen were
engaged in the attack. Allen seemed to be the ring-
leader. He had a pistol in one hand and a hammer
in the other. Ile fired at everybody who came near,
and tried to smash in the van door. Shore also fired
pistols and threw stones. Scalley threw stones.
Witnesses having been called who produced re-
volvers found near the scene of rescue, Mr. Higgin
said that this was the case for the prosecution.
At the suggestion of Mr. Fowler, the prisoners
Foley and Corcoran were discharged, on the ground
that the evidence against them was insufficient.
It was then agreed, before proceeding with the
defence, that the more recently arrested prisoners
sh()uld be examined to-morrow, after which the
defence of the whole of the prisoners could be
proceeded with.
The Court rose at six o'clock.

SPAPER
77Z3107 EST PAPAL ALL OC U
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Subjoined is the text of the allocution pr;u-i,
by the Pope at yesterday's Consistory ‘.
" Venerable Brethren,-- ,
" The Catholic world knows how often we Wive 11
been compelled to deplore and rebuke the great in-
juries and the serious wrongs inflicted for several
years by the Sub-Alpine Government, in despite of
all Divine and human laws as well as ecclesizzatical
censures and punishments, upon the Catholic Church,
upon us and this apostolic seat, upon the bishops .
and ministers, upcn the religious orders of both
sexes, and upon other pious institutions.

" This saute Government, oppressing and daily
exerting itself more and more to abase the Church,
after the other laws it has put forth, and which wo
have cond?tnned as opposed to the authority of this
Church, has at last come to that degree of injustice
that it has had the sacrilegious audacity to propose,
approve, sanction, and promulgate a law which—ie
its own territories as well as in those it has usurped
—has despoiled the Church of all her property, to
the great injury of civil society, has appropriated
that property, and has ordered its sale. All people
assuredly must see how unjust, how cruel is a
law which attacks the inviolable right of property
the Church holds from her Divine origin, which
tramples under foot all rights natural, Divine, and
human, and by which, lastly, the members of the
clergy who have deserved so well of Catholicism
and civil society, and also virgins consecrated to
God, are reduced to the extremest misery and beg-
gary.

" In such distress of the Church, in presence of
such a subversion of all her rights, we, who are
bound by the obligations of our apostolic ministry
to defend and avenge with the utmost zeal the cause
of justice, assuredly cannot preserve silence. For
this reason we uplift our voice in your imposing
assembly, and rebuke with our apostolic authoricy
the law in question. We condemn it ; we declare it
null and without any value. Let its authors and
abettors know that they have placed themt,elves be-
neath the ban of the ecclesiastical penalties and
censures which the sacred canons, the apostolic con-
stitutions, the decrees of the general councils, de-
clare inflicted ipso facto upon violators of the rights
of the Church and usurpers of her property. Let
these determined enemies of the Church tremble and
be filled with salutary fear. Let them certainly be
convinced that God, the originator and the avenger
of his Church, reserves for them the heaviest, the
most severe chastisements, unless, truly repenting
and retracing their steps, they hasten to put an end
to and to repair the injuries inflicted by them upon
this very Church, as we ardently desire,and ask hum-
bly with all our strength, from the God of mercy.
" Under these circumstances, venerable brethren,
we wish to acquaint you that a mendacious pam-
phlet has been recently put forth in Paris, in which
it is attempted, shamelessly and with extreme
perfidy, to insinuate to the reader the idea that
the deplorable events of Mexico are in a certain
measure to be attributed to this apostolic see. All
the world certainly knows how false and how absurd
is this accusation—a fact clearly shown by a letter
written to us in his prison by the unfortunate Maxi-
milian on the 18th of June last, before undergoing
an unworthy and cruel death.
" Having the opportunity granted us, we cannot
refrain from decreeing the highest praises to the
exalted memory of Louis 'Altieri, Cardinal of the
Holy Roman Church and Bishop of Albano. Be-
longing, as you know, to an illustrious race, adorned
with striking virtues, entrusted with the highest
functions, and enjoying our particular affection, as
soon as he learned that the horrible scourge of
cholera had invaded Albano, completely forgetful of
himself, and inflamed with the fire of charity for
the flock placed in his charge, he instantly hastened
to that city. Shunning neither labour, nor exertion,
nor trouble, nor peril, taking no rest either day or
night, he did not cease for an instant to aid, to assist,
to console the unhappy victims of the epidemic, to
succour them with his own hands, and to afford
spiritual help to the dying until the moment when,
stricken himself by the terrible disease, like the
Shepherd, he gave his life for the sheep. Therefore
will his memory be ever blessed in the records of
the Church ; for his noble death is that of a victim
to Christian charity, and he has gained imperishable
glory for himself, the Church, your illustrious order,
and the entire Catholic episopate. Therefore, also,
although we experienced profound grief in learning
the death of this cardinal, we are nevertheless sup-
ported by great comfort, having the firm hope that
his soul has arrived in the kingdom of heaven, that
it has entered into the joy of the Lord, and is offer-
ing up ardent prayers for us, for you, and for the
whole Church. We decree also a tribute of praise
to the secular and regular clergy of Albano, who,
following the noble example of their bishop, have
not ceased, at the risk of their own lives, and with
the utmost zeal, to carry aid, and in especial the aid
i of religion, to the sick and to the dying. Our troops
garrisoning that city, the gendarmes charged to
uphold public security, as well as the Zouaves, nre
equally deserving of our commendation. In fact,
they have been seen braving peril, occupied chiefly
in burying the dead, and giving a striking example
1 of Christian charity.
" Lastly, venerable brethren, let us not cease to
uplift our hearts to the Lord our God, whose mercy
is infinite towards those who call upon Him. Let us
pray, let us supplicate Him continually, that, re-
maining firm with you in combat, and surrounding
with a rampart the house of Israel, we may be
enabled valiantly to sustain the cause of His holy
Church, and to bring back all his enemies into the
paths of justice and salvation."

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famine, in which official redtapists so long refused
to believe, may be gathered from the fact that
during all the debates, the discussions, the reproaches,
and the explanations which have been going on in
this country respecting it, the famine has still held
its ground. Want and misery, though slackening
their hold by slow degrees, are still masters of
Orissa, and that district,which competent authorities
have declared to be capable of most extensive and
profitable cultivation under an efficient system of
irrigation, is still suffering from the effects of a
complete failure of the crops. Of course, no human
prescience or science can altogether guard against
such calamities as famine ; but there can be no
question that, when they do occur, they can be
greatly mitigated, if all the resources of wealth and
the means of communication possessed by a Govern-
ment like that of India be brought into active ser-
vice. No one can pretend that such was the case
at Orissa, and we can only hope that the terrible
sufferings endured by the people may at least teach
a lesson that shall not easily be forgotten. We
have one piece of encouraging intelligence in regard
to this question of famine—all apprehensions of a
famine iu Upper Burmah have ceased, and the
exportation of rice from British Burmah still con-
tinues. The prospects of the indigo crop are un-
favourable, owing to the heavy rains, but nothing
is said of the aspect of the cotton cultivation. The
evils so long complained of in the fraudulent
packing, &c., have at last aroused the attention
of Government, and a Cotton Frauds' Act is to
be introduced into the Viceroy's Council next
session. Another step in advance is the appoint-
ment of a committee by the Bengal Government to
consider Colonel FRASER'S plans for the erection of
lighthouses on the mouth of the Hooghly and on
the jetties of Calcutta. There have been accidents
and misadventures enough in the Hooghly to demand
that some measures be taken for the relief of the
shipping, and it is only wonderful that so simple
an expedient as an efficient system of lighting has
not earlier been adopted. Improvements which
are carried out slowly enough among ourselves
move still more slowly in India. Perhaps
no country stands more in need of a vigorous
prosecution of public works, a liberal expenditure
of public money in works of lasting benefit, a hearty
encouragement to enterprise and ingenuity. Our
colonies in other parts of the globe possess indeed
vast undeveloped capacities, and contain profitable
work for many a generation to come ; but as yet
they are thinly peopled, and suffer none of the ills
attendant on a densely-peopled country left half
way in the race of civilisation. The natives of India
are naturally quick-witted and subtle, and readily
appreciate the advantages of modern science.
They have been quick to avail themselves of
railways, steamboats, and other facilities which it
was thought might interfere with their traditional
prejudices of caste and custom. There is no doubt
that the influence of such innovations must surely,
if slowly, break down the artificial barriers which
have so long hindered the mental and moral pro-
gress of the people, while a sufficiency of peaceable
and profitable occupation will remove half the
existing inducements to wars and mutinies.
If ten years before the outbreak of '57 our public
works, our cotton cultivation, our tea planta-
tions, our railways, had been in the same position
as they are now we might have been spared some
sad and terrible memories. The deadly influence
of a monopoly, however wisely or kindly managed,
added to the enervating effects of climate, and the
loss of the stimulus of social and intellectual criti-
cism, lulled over Anglo-Indians when the great
wars were over into a fatal security, and still more
fatal indifference. One great drawback to Indian
reforms is to be found in the little interest taken in
them in this country. Matters are better in this
respect than they were, but we are still more familiar
with the state of feeling in Melbourne or New York
than we are with public opinion in Calcutta or
Bombay. The difference of race and of language
are not the only obstacles ; it is the difficulty of re-
conciling the people of an ancient world with
modern thoughts and feelings that hinder a thorough
understanding. But the less Indian affairs are
spoken of, written of, thought of, the less likely we
are to get over these drawbacks ; and if, instead of
trying to remove them and familiarise ourselves
with India as it really is, we turn aside with indif-
ference and impatience, we shall have one of these
days to reproach ourselves for the neglect, as we
have often done, when regret was too late to be
profitable.

Yesterday the Medical Schools opened for the
winter campaign, and, according to the usual
custom that prevails, inaugural addresses were
delivered by some of the leading professors. These
are interesting to peruse, and in many parts will
be found suggestive. At St. Bartholomew's Hos-
posital Dr. ODLING was the lecturer, and in his
lengthened discourse he took an elevated view of
the duties of the medical profession. He cited, as
an instance of the excellence to which a physician
might attain, the life of the late Dr. JEAFFERSON,
whose career of usefulness was cut short
by yphus fever last year, causing very
general regret among the profession, and
indeed society at large. A good illustration of
what the experienced and aspiring might hope to
effect was given in this passage :—" The power of
the physician is not indeed omnipotent, but it was
nevertheless real in its character, considerable in
its extent, and well founded in its operations."
At the present day we find too much faith put in
certain systems, and too much stress laid upon
particular modes of cure, which, after all, often fail
upon trial, and disappoint the expectations of all
concerned. In these lectures Dr. ODLING speaks
very sensibly on this subject, and declares that the
treatment of disease does not depend upon any
specific system of cure, but that the right course to
pursue was to be familiar with the disease itself, and
to comprehend the measure in which it is influenced
by various remedial measures. Many other reme-
dies may be met without merely relying upon
medicine, and fortunately this idea is now becom-
ing more prevalent than in former times. In order
to arrive at success, it is necessary, as is here
impressed upon the students, not to dissociate the
science and the art of medicine. Towards the con.
elusion the lecturer commented upon the defective
state of physical education at most of the schools
and colleges, whereby valuable time was lost in the
hospitals.

At St. Thomas's Hospital an eloquent address
was delivered by Mr. S. SOLBY. He said that
forty years ago he had himself commenced the study
of the profession in the time-honoured school of
St. Thomas's. As an old guide he therefore offered
advice to those then entering upon a new career.
To compare those before him to travellers was, he
said, too tame a simile, for were they not rather
" warriors buckling on their armour to fight
a noble fight for professional existence ? In
all truth, then, may I say, a sacred burden
is the life you bear ; dwell on it, lift it, bear it
solemnly, stand up, walk beneath it steadfastly."
Some interesting particulars were given in this
address concerning St. Thomas. it is more than
seven hundred years ago since the institution which
gave rise to St. Thomas's Hospital was founded.
Guy's Hospital received its introductory address