The Sun.
London, England, 1867-12-16 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, I)ECENIBEtt 10, 1867.

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GUIL D ,CU U
By GEORGE MAC DONALD, M.A.
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CONTENTS.

ACT IL
Vendale makes Love.
Vendale makes Mischief.
ACT 111. •
In the Valley.
On the Mountain.
ACT IV.
The Clock-Lock.
Obenreizer's Victory.
The Curtain Falls.

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5! ORTING INTELLIGENCE.

THE LONDON .MARKET—SATunDAY.

To-day proved all bit a blank, th 3 attendance being
meagre, whilst very little inclination was manifested to
speculate. The following are the few quotations return-
able :

THE DERRY.
20 to 1 agst Blue Gown (offered)
1000 to 30 agst Harvester (taken)
1000 to 15 agst Restitution (offered, take 1000 to 10)
1000 to 10 agst Fraucbise(offerea) •

(From 'the Newmarket Correspondent of the Racing Times.)
" There is a history in all men's lives
Figuring the nature of the times deceased,
The which observed—a man may prophesy
With a near aim of the main chance of things
As yet not 'come to Iife."—SIIAKESPEAUE.
I have no doubt but there will be some acres of paper
written on by prophets and tipsters, with an aim of pro-
phesying the winner of next year's Derby, but 1 must ask
the queStion, what conclusion. can they come to at last,
when they have cudgeled their brains to put their
readers on the winner? I must answer that Lady
Elizabeth will be the selection of every man of
common sense who studies public form—her performances
of last year being too fresh in the memory of your
readers for me to recapitulate them here. In my opinion
her performance in the Middle Park Plate was one of her
very best, as she was giving the winner 101bs, the second
fibs, and she was only beaten about a neck from Rosicrucian.
Should she tome' fit and well to the post for the Derby,
she will be meetingeßir Josepiie horse on albs better
terms—but I shall be told May is a bad month for fillies,
end that the Derby has so very seldom been won
by one. In answer to this we seldom or ever
have seen such a one as Lady Elizabeth. Virago,
perhaps, may be compared to her, and she was good
enough to have won twenty Derbys, but we very seldom
see such fillies as Blink Bonny and Lady Elizabeth.
Achievement showed some brilliant form, both as a two
and three year old, but lost the Middle Park Plate, and
was out of all form on the Oaks Day. The enemies of
Lady Elizabeth will argue that she may be troubled with
the same complaint on next Derby-day, and in my opinion
that is the only hope Sir Joseph Hawley can have of pall-
ing off the blue ribbon for the fourth time. Some of the
tipsters have commenced finding fault with the marquis's
beautiful filly, and we are told by one of them she is a
doubtful stayer. If he saw the race when she beat Julius
ho must have eyes like the purblind Argus, for in my opi-
nion that was the most brilliant performance on record to
beat the winner of the Oa sarewitch at 111 be, and it was
evident she was the bast stayer of the two, as it looked
any odds on Julius at one time, but when they breasted
the hill the race became .terrific, and the filly won by
downright gameness. There ire several .horses "in the
betting, who will be written up by some .pro-
phets as having :a chance for the Derby, and
to whom Lady Elizabeth could give two stone.
I see they take 16 to 1 about Typhoeus. She was giving
him Glb., and was a long way before him in the Middle
Park Plate, and ho will have to give her 51b. in the Derby,
which makes 111 b. in favour of the filly. She was as
I ragged as a sheep when she first came out at Northamp-
! ton and won both her races in a canter; and every one
that saw Suffolk must acknowledge that he was the most
furnished and best-looking two-year-old that had been seen
for years in the month of March, and she beat him in
a canter. For me to write any more in favour of
the daughter of Trumpeter and Miss Bowser would
only be like gilding refined gold or adding colours to the
rainbow, as her performances as a two-year-old have never
been equalled. Sho was out. thirteen times, and was only
beaten once, and by fresh horses that she WAS giving a lot
of weight to. Rosicrucian, in my opinion, is the next best
public performer, as he breasted the Criterion hill like a
lion ; and Sir Joseph may back the other two as long as
he likes—he has no chance of winning the Derby with either
of them ; and should Lady Elizabeth by chance go wrong
Sir Joseph is sure to have a rattling favourite in Rosicru-
cian, and with Wells iu the saddle again will once more
land the cherry and black. Sporting writers were all wrong,
myself included, when we stated Wells west seen for the
last time in Sir Joseph Hawley's colours at Newmarket.,
as he told me at Liverpool that he had no notion of re-
tiring from riding in public, and that he would ride again
next year, and has great hopes of landing his favourite
colours once more, and winning the Derby for Sir Joseph
the third time. it would be a pity for such a fine horse-
, man to retire so early in life, for good Darby jockeys
are as scarce as good Derby liftees, and Sir Joseph is tee
good a judge to put up a muff on his Derby favourite, if
his favourite jockey can tide the weight, which he is
determined to do, from what he told me at Liverpool.
When I say a muff I don't mean such jockeys as Tom
French, who rode for Sir Joseph at Doncaster and New-
market, for in my opinion there is no jockey in England
can give Tom an ounce. His employers can depend on
him having a clear head, as ho never puts the enemy into
his mouth to steal away his brains. If Sir Joseph wished
to change Wells for Tom he could not have him, the
latter having two masters who have a claim on him
before Sir Joseph. Not that I suppose fur a moment Sir
Joseph ever dreamt of changing his jockey se long as he
can ride the weight, for Wells's two last performances at
Newmarket clearly proved that he has lost none of the
fine horsemanship that he has so often witched the world
with even from his boyish days. There is no jockey in
England knows how to steer a horse better than John
Wells. Rataplan was his first Derby mount, and he got
fourth in it largefield, his second mount was Hermit—not
the present one—when he got third, he was second on Yellow
Jack, and it was evident ho got more out of Jack than
Sam Rogers did, as ho was a long way before the horse that
beat him in the Two Thousand Guineas. Ho was third
on Adamas in Blink Bonny's year, when a sheet would
have covered the first five. He then won twice, for his
favourite master, Sir Joseph, on Beadsman and Musjid, and
should Rosicrucian and Wells both keep well until next
Derby day he will have a great chance of winning again,
and no would be more proud than your humble servant to
see Wells land Sir Joseph's colours once more, for when he
was on Musjid I knocked agreat city bookmaker out of time,
who laid me the nice little bet of a 1000 to 4 about a
treble event—Promised Land for the 2,000 Guineas, May-
onnaise the 1,000 Guineas, and Musjid the Derby. It will
be seen from the foregoing remarks that I have most
fancy for Lady Elizabeth and Rosicrucian, and should they
both come fit to the post, I should most certainly give the
preference to the filly, although Fordham has hitherto been
very unfortunate in his Derby mounts, and, on the con-
trary, Wells has had his share of Fortune's favours at
Epsom; but on public form the filly must beat Rosicrucian.
I shall not give an opinion about the steeplechases to be
run next week at Kingsbury and St. Albans, as I don't
know what is likely to run. Speculators would do well to
see the numbers up before they invest their money ;
but should Chimney Sweep run at St Albans he 'will
win.

CITY OF LONDON RIFLE BRIGADE.—On Satur-
day last the G company (Bassishaw ward) of the London
Rifle Brigade invited Mr. Alderman and Sheriff Stone (the
alderman of that ward) to meet them at their annual din-
ner at the Guildhall Hotel, Guildhall Hotel. Upwards of
60 sat down to dinner, including a few visitors from other
corps. Among those present wore Mr. Carritt, C.C., Mr.
Heath, C.C., Captain Hale, Adjutant Royal London
Militia, Captain Britten, of the same regiment, Captain
Engelbach, 21st Middlesex Artillery Volunteers, Captain
Rose, Queen's Westminstera, Captain Dighton, Lieutenant
Rogers, and Ensigns Howell and Porter, of the London
Rifle Brigade, Mr. Loveridge, Mr. Hughes, &c. Captain
Sowell presided, and performed the duties of host in the
most agreeable and entei taining manner. He spoke in
high terms of the spirit and enterprise of the members of
the company. They had lost 20 during the past year
by deaths and resignations, but they had enrolled 25
recruits, so that they had increased five. The actual
strength of their company was 95, of whom 75 were
effectives, out of which 44 were extra effectives, and five
had not been able to complete their class firing, They had
earned for the brigade £lOl in grants, and their average
drills bad been 25 per man. Alderman Stone had given
five guineas to be shot for next year, and the ladies another
five guineas, Captain Dighton two guineas, and Captain
Britten, Corporal Harker, L.R.8., Mr. Carritt, Mr. Heath,
and Mr. Beck would give a guinea each. Alderman Stone
proposed " The health of the Ladies," and called on Ensign
Howell to explain the nature of the prize to be offered for
competition, which he (Alderman Stole) understood had a
matrimonial tendency. Ensign Howell said their company
was essentially a bachelors' company, for there were only
six married men in it. Tho prize he proposed to give was
a five-guinea challenge cup, to be held by the winner for
12 months, and then competed for again unless the holder
got married during the time ho was in possession of it, and
in that event he became the absolute owner of the CUD.
There was also attached to the cupa wedding ring. (Much
laughter.)

A NEW METIIOD OF PRESERVING TIIE
There is on exhibition at the Morgue, in New York city,
the body of a man that is being subjected to the experi-
mental process of preservation. The body is that of a
drowned person, and supposed to have been in the water
three days prior to its recovery. It is enclosed in a metallic
case, porfoctly air-tight, and, as yet, although forty days
have elapsed since the commencement of the experiment,
shows no signs of decomposition. On the contrary, the
body hardens each day. The result is obtained by forcing
the air from the case and supplying its place with a certain
gas, which this discoverer claims contains the requisite
preserving qualities. He even expresses the belief that
the body in the course of time will become as hard as stone.

up St. James's-walk, where Desmond stopped in the midlle
for a minute or two, and then went on. The explosion
followed, and then he saw Allen and the woman Justice
running away very fast. As she approached he seized her,
and another officer secured Allen. While Constable
Sutton had the woman in custody he saw Desmond run-
ning round the prison wall, and caught him as he
was passing with his left hand, which was at that
time disengaged, and called on the people passing to
help him, which they did, he until then holding
Desmond and Justice each with one hand. It will be

recollected that the little boy Abbott spoke to seeing,
about a quarter to four o'clock, a large barrel close to the
wall of the prison, and a man who had left it there cross
the road. Shortly afterwards the man returned with a
long squib in each hand. One of these he gave to
some boys who were playing in the street, and the
other he thrust into the barrel. One of the boys was,
smoking, and he handed the man a light, which the
man applied to the squib. The man stayed a short
time until he saw the squib begin to burn, and then
ran away. It has been supposed hitherto that the
man who actually fired the train escaped ; but it is now
said that a woman who was an eye-witness believet.
Desmond to be the man. She speaks to the man who
applied the fuse wearing a light-coloured hat at the time,
and there is this peculiarity in the matter, that when
Desmond was arrested he wore a black hat, but on being
searched at the House of Detention, a light soft hat was
found thrust below his waistcoat.

There is a curious point:about the name of the woman.
A man of the same name was implicated in the affair at
Liverpool, when a seizure of arms was made by the police,
and many of- the rifles' were found to have belonged. to.
London volunteers. The man Justice—whether or not
the husband of Mrs. Justice now in custody we have
yet to be informed—was then discovered to have left the
46th Middlesex Volunteer Corps, taking his rifle with him.
It is said that Mrs. Justice is a sister of " Colonel" Burke.
Burke's history is the history of Fenianism. In 1862 he
was serving in the United States army as a sergeant of
Engineers, and he became a captain in the same regiment,
the sth New York. He was present at the meet.
ings held in New York, at which the Fenian
plans were concocted, and afterwards, with several other
officers holding commissions in the American army, he
came to England to assist in carrying out those plans.
For some little time he resided at Birmingham, where he
purchased large quantities of revolvers, rifles, and other
war stores. When the rising in Ireland was decided on,
Burke was appointed by his superior officer, General
Massey, to the district of Macroom, in the county of
Cork. The entire direction of the movement in that dis-
trict was entrusted to him. He was apprehended on the
night of the 20th November. The other prisoner, Casey,
who was with Burke when ho was arrested, has not yet
been proved to have taken any prominent part in the
Fenian movement.

A good deal of praise is deservedly awarded to the
policeman Sutton for his arrest of Desmond. While
holding the woman with one hand he contrived to seize
the roan with the other as he was running round the
corner of the prison. The examination of the prisoners
at Bow-street late on Saturday was necessarily incom-
plete. There was no room for doubt that the prisoners
were the guilty persons. The only unexplained cir-
cumstance is, that with so much suspicion they were not
prevented completing their crime. How the prisoners
came to have time to place the barrel, to light the fuse,
fix it in the barrel, and allow it to burn for some minutes
before the police came up, we must wait to have ex-
plained. A woman who sat at a window nearly opposite
the barrel states that the fuse was burning full five
minutes. She has probably exaggerated the time. She
states that she had just began to suspect something wrong
when the explosion occurred. When she recovered con-
sciousness she found herself weltering in blood.
Was it gunpowder or nitro-glycerine—a compound o,
the highest explosive strength—that was in the barrel!
This question, suggested by the smell of the shattered
staves, and by other circumstances, was discussed with
animation on the spot. Opinion is divided. The barrel
was such as liquids are stored in ; but that goes little
towards any evidence of value ; for, in the first
place, it would have been thought necessary by the
conspirators to disguise the outward character of the
cask containing powder or other combustible substance';
and, in the next place, it may be presumed that, if powder
was used, it had not been purchased in such bulk as a
whole caskful, but had been made up of less suspicious
quantities, and placed together in the handiest receptacle
which could be found ; and such a vessel as a beer-barrel'
would be as likely as anything to present itself to the
minds and the hands of the men engaged in the
enterprise. A ground for suspecting the employ--
went of an explosive liquid is in the fact that the
hair of one of the children, whose neck and face were
much lacerated by cuts from the broken glass of the
window near which she was sitting, and almost imme-
diately opposite the barrel, was damp and smelt strongly
of nitro-glycerine. Although the hair has been cut from
the head of the little sufferer, there is still a faint smell
in which Mr. Christopher Jefferson, the resident surgeon
of the Free Hospital, and Dr. O'Connor can trace tho
presence of this powerful acid. Some of the medical
reports say distinctly that the faces of a few patients,
whose names are given, were blackened from the explosion
of gunpowder. An officer from Chatham, who was
present, stated that 100 lb. of gunpowder—which is but a
small part of what it is supposed was used—would have
wrought all the mischef that has been done in Corpo-
ration-lane and the adjoining thoroughfares. During
Saturday morning fragments of wood and brick
were picked up in various out-of-the-way places
within a 200 yards' radius, and amongst them was -a por-
tion of the infernal machine itself, found on the top of a
house in Rosoman-street. It was part of an oaken cask,
three-quarters of an inch thick. As stated before, showers
of bricks were hurled against the House of Detention,
where many windows were broken, but, as we are informed
by a statement placed outside of the prison entrance on
Saturday, none of the prisoners were injured. This
unusual announcement was explained by the next sen-
tence—" No visitors to prisoners this day."

No information is as yet forthcoming-as to where the
gunpowder was procured. It is said the police, amongst
other precautionary measures, have informed all oilmen,
gunmakers, and dealers in explosive materials to pay par-
ticular attention to persons who may apply for gun-
powder, gun-cotton, or anything of an explosive character.
Dry salters and turpentine distillers, dealers in petroleum,
naphtha, and other volatile oils, have also been requested
to ascertain, if possible, the name and address of all such
persons who may purchase any of those combustible
rticles. It is stated that the informer Devanney has
tdentified Desmond and Allen as Fenians.

On Saturday morning Mr. Smith, the secretary of the
Royal Free Hospital, Gray's-inn-road, received the following
telegraphic message regarding the health of the 'suf-
ferers

" WINDSOR CASTLE, Saturday.
"From Sir T. Diddulph to the Secretary of the Royal

Free Hospital, Gray's-inn-road.

" The Queen desires to express her sympathy with the
sufferers from the explosion. and taus to inquire after
them."

OUTRAGE TVITII GREEK FIRE.

On Saturday night, at a quarter-past eleven, a despe-
rate attempt was made, by means of Greek fire, to burn
down a very extensive range of premises in Bishopsgate-
street. Those who are in the habit of passing along this
street will remember the shop of Messrs. John and Henry
Parnall, wholesale clothiers, No. 187. At one side of the
shop is Two Swan-yard, through which the pedes-
trian may pass into Liverpool-street. Almost the entire
length of this yard on the one side is occupied by the
warehouse of Messrs, Parnall; and from the character of
their trade there is almost always on hand a valuable and
extensive stock of goods. There are several unused doors
in the wall of the warehouse in Two Swan-yard, and above
each is a glass fantail light. The destructive fluid was
flung at one of these doors, and the miscreant must have
intended it to have gone through the glass. Fortu-
nately, the bottle struck the upper portion of the
door, the fanlight was not broken, and the burning fluid
ran down the door, setting it on firs. Had the stuff gone
through the glass it would have fallen upon large piles
of shirts which wars stored in a nom into which the door
formsrly opened. A; soon as the filmes were 'discovered
the fire brigade, which has a station usarly opposite in
Bishopsgate-street, turned out, but water was utterly
useless in subduing the .fire, the dreadful liquid floating,
still in a blaze, upon the face of t!le water. Ulti-
mately the fire was extinguished with wet sand. The
fire brigade was most prompt, or the consequences would
have been very serious. Oae-lialf the door bears visible
.proof of the destructive character of the fluid, and at
midnight on Sunday patches of blue flame played about
the stone steps above the wet sand which had been used
to extinguish the fire. On the bricks also, on one side of
the door, the same blue flame was plainly visible. There
are usually six people sleeping in the house, including one
of the firm (Mr. Henry Parnall), and at the time of the
occurrence four of them were in the house. No reason for
the outrage can be assigned,

4d.
STANI ED sd.

i 11L' P'Ell`l.l.lV 0177'1?A.G.E CLERK-EN-

HELL.

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The scene of th7s outrage was visited yesteoay, despite
the miserable weather, by scores of thousand of persons.
One effect appeared to impress the minds of all spectators
—that it was impossible to have fired the large quantity
of gunpowder employed by the Fenians without knowing
that it must endanger the lives of a large number of
peop!e. Looking at the narrow street, one rather
wonders that the loss of life was not greater. The
place where the breach in the prison wall was made
is cut off by barriers raised across the lane. Enough,
however, is to be seen to shew how disastrous the
explosion was to the property within a large radius.
Apparently several of the houses will have to be taken
down before they can be re-inhabited. What most strikes
the visitor, perhaps, is the caprice with which the explo-
sion, it seems, did its work. Here a house is unscathed,
there one further off has had most of its windows blown
out. A cupboard of crockery in one of the ruined houses,
opposite the gap in the prison-wall, is as whole
as it was when the explosion shook the ground; but,
at a distance of some minutes' walk, the china-shop at the
corner of a street by the church of St. James's, Clerken.
well, might be supposed to have had a bull behind the
counter. The old tavern adjoining the gate of St. John
of Jerusalem, where Johnson and Boswell used to sit
over their port or their punch, and where the Doctor's
venerated chair is still shewn to true believers, has felt
the shock immensely, the doors being loosed from their
hinges, and the thick plate-glass broken in splinters.

A visit to the hospitals discloses the frightful nature of.
`the injuries inflicted by this explosion. 1115" to last evei-
, Lug the dead were four in number, three at St. Bartho-
lomew's Hospital—Sarah Hodgkinson, aged 35 ; William
Clutton, 55 ; and Minnie Julia Abbott, 8 ; and at the
Royal Free Hospital in i ray's-inn-road, Martha Thomp-
son, aged 10 years. The family of the Abbotts, who
lived in a house in Corporation-lane immediately
opposite the scene of the explosion, appear to have
suffered most severely of any. Maria Abbott, aged
31, the mother of the little child Minnie, now dead,
is a patient at St. Bartholomew's, suffering from cuts
about the face and eyelids, as are also three of her
children- John Abbot, 13 ; William, 11 ; and Anne, 2;
while a fourth, Arthur, aged 5 years, lies in a dangerous
condition at the Royal Free Hospital with a rupture of
the right eyeball, and his face terribly burnt and lace-
rated. The boy William, at §t. Bartholomew's, is suffer-
ing from concussion, with part of his nose cut off, and his
face, neck, and hands lacerated. Again, Hannah Maria
Thompson, 8 years old, sister of the child of that surname
who has died at the Free Hospital, is a patient there,
from lacerated wounds on the neck and scalp ; Elizabeth,
17, a sister of the two, remains at St. Bartholomew's with
a severe cut on the forehead, as do Harriet, another
sister, with both arms badly lacerated, end with a severe
wound in the head and bruises of the face and limbs, and
Elizabeth Thompson, 40, the mother, suffering from con-
cussion. A Mrs. Trartley has had her left ear nearly
severed, and has sustained severe wounds on the side of
the neck and forehead. Sarah Hartley, 41, a member
of the same family, with her infant son Alfred, and
another child of three years, is also among the patients
at St. Bartholomew's. Those are only a few of
the worst cases taken from a long catalogue of the
innocent sufferers who were removed to the two
hospitals after the explosion. A child of eight
years, one of the Thompsons, with not less than seventeen
wounds, is described as lying at the Free Hospital with
the patience of a little martyr, asking only as her eyes
v-andcr over the strange walls or rest upon the unfamiliar
faces of the attendants, for her mother, who is one of the
victims at St. Bartholomew's. Her sister, 10 years old
(now dead), had suffered most frightful injuries, there
being not a feature of her face distinguishable, except
some of the lower part of the mouth, and what was once
the face is little better than a charred and blackened
mass.

The Duke of Cambridge visited St. Bartholomew's
yesterday, accompanied by Lord Colvile, Lord
Barrington, Lord Bingham, Lord Henry Lennox,
Lord George Lennox, and Lord Broughton. Major
Teesdale was also present. The Duke, led through
the wards by Mr. Luther Holden, Professor of
Anatomy at the hospital, saw all the sufferers, and then
proceeded to the House of Detention, whdre Capt. Codd
took them round. Mr. Foster White, the treasurer of
St. Bartholomew's Hospital, received a telegram on Satur-
day from the Prince of Wales, sympathising with the un-
fortunate sufferers. The following notification, printed in
very bold and striking type, has been issued by the
police :

4' £4OO REWARD.

" MURDER AND OUTRAGE BY EXPLOSION OF GUNPOWDER.

" Whereas about 3.45 p.m. on Friday, the 13th inst.,
the prison wall of the Middlesex House of Detention,
Clerkenwell, was blown down by an explosion of gun-
powder, maliciously placed there, and several houses in
Corporation-lane were destroyed b 3. the explosion, and divers
persons killed and dangerously mutilated thereby, £3OO
reward will be paid by her Majesty's Government to any
one who shall give such information as'shall lead to the
apprehension and conviction of the persons who conveyed
the empowder and caused the above explosion. And the
Secretary of State for the Home Department will ad-
vise the grant of her Majesty's gracious pardon to
any accomplice, not being the person who actually set
fire to the gunpowder, who shall give such information as
shall lead to the same result. A further reward of £lOO
will also be paid to anyone who shall give such informa-
tion as shall lead to the apprehension and conviction of
any accomplices in the offence, not being the persons for
whose apprehension and conviction a reward of £3OO is
offered. The gunpowder, it is believed, was brought in a
large cask on a dark-coloured truck with low sides.
" Information to be given to the Commissioner of
Police of the Metropolis, 4, Whitehall-place, London ; at
the 'Detective-office, Scotland-yard ; or at any of the
metropolitan police-stations.
" RICHARD MAYNE,
'The Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis.
" Metropolitan Police-office, 4, Whitehall-place,
Dec. 14, 1867."

The most welcome of all the visitors to the scene were
the representatives of the Government. Mr. Hardy and
Mr. Montague Corry, private secretary of the Chancellor
of the Exchequer, took with them £5OO to meet the imme-
diate wants of the distressed. No praise is necessary for
such a thoughtful and humane act. Mr. Corry again
visited Clerkenwell yesterday and distributed about
£lOO in sums of from one to five sovereigns. Yesterday
collections were made in several of the parish
churches and other places of worship, and further
efforts are announced. Mr. M'Cullagh Torrens, M.P. for
Finsbury, has spent his time since the calamity occurred
in promoting arrangements for the welfare of the
injured. Many of their friends presented themselves st
St. Bartholomew's Hospital yesterday afternoon, but it
was deemed unadvisable to admit them in the present
state of the patients. Mr. Torrens, having been supplied
with the necessary information, addressed some tranquil-
lising remarks to the crowd, which then withdrew.
An intelligible account has been obtained of the manner
in which the crime was committed, and connecting be-
yond all doubt the two men Desmond and Allen, and the
woman Justice, now in custody, with the conspiracy. On
Friday afternoon, between two and three o'clock, John
Moore, the chief warder of the House of Detention, had
his attention called by a police
.constable to the fact of
a man, the prisoner Allen, loitering outside the prison,
and refusing to go away. He was joined by the woman
Justice, who had been in the habit of visiting the Fenian
prisoner Casey while under remand, and who had
taken his dinner into the prison that very day. They
appeared to be reconnoitring the prison. The chief
warder had seen the prisoner Allen on the top of one of
the adjoining houses, and had observed that he came
down and talked to five or six other men. He went
to apprise the governor of the suspicious circum-
stance, and while ho was so engaged the ex-
plosion occurred. Ambrose Sutton, a constable in
plain clothes of the A reserve division, had been
employed to watch the House of Detention out-
side since Burke and Casey had been confined
there. At twenty minutes to four o'clock on Friday
he saw the woman Justice and the man Allen near
St. James's-walk, which is in the immediate neighbour.
hood. The woman had been in the House of Detention
at one o'clock and Allen had waited outside. When she
came out she joined Allen and conversed with him for
seine time. Desmond then appeared, and took part in the
conversation, which lasted over twenty minutes. Towards
its conclusion a third man joined them, and as they
parted the man who had arrived last pushed against Con-
stable Sutton by accident, and, having begged his pardon,
asked him a trifling question, to which the constable,
who had thus an opportunity of observing him, replied
that he was a stranger to the neighbourhood. With
that the third man walked on, and at the close of the
conversation the constable saw Desmond go towards St.
James's-walk. He then watched Desmond, and, having
seen him go along Corporation-lane, observed him shortly
afterwards drawing a truck with a barrel, which he put
on the pavement. The constable had followed him

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HUNTING MEMORANDA.

(From Land and Water.)

THE CAIIBBIDGE3HiRE HOUNDS.—The dinner which
was to have taken place at the Lion Hotel, Cam-
bridge, on Thursday list, in compliment to Mr. C.
S. Newton, the new master, and to present a testi-
monial to Mr. Burnett, the late master, had to be
postponed in consequence of the illness of Mr. New-
ton.—J. Dior.
THEAVEST NORFOLK.—The prcserce of severe frost
has very s.:rion;sly interfere l with the pleasures of
the chme.for the last fortnight, and it was very
much feared that the royal .meet with the West
Norfolk, at. Suettishatn, would have to be post-
poned, and this was the more regrette'l thAt Suet-
tisham is always a fashionable and popular meet.
It was here that the Prince of Wales first went out
with this pack, and being on the Lynn and Hun-
stauton railway, and pos;essing a good station,
there is never a thin company when Snettishaui is
the fixture. It was understood that the meet on
Friday last would be honoured with the presence
of a large party from Sandringham, which is about
five miles distant. Fortunately the weather gave,
and the sun got out fine and bright, and a large
number of equestrians and carriage company was

present, the scene being very brilliant. Squires with
his whips and his excellent pack, looking the pink
of condition, were on the grassy slope of the hill at
the back of the Hall. The royal party arrived
shortly after half-past 11 ; three waggonettes, the
first of which was driven by the Princess of Wales,
who wore a scarlet cloak, and whose beautiful pair
of greys were decked with 'scarlet rosettes. In the
waggonette were also the Princes Christian, the
Duchess d'Aumale, Lady Susan Melville, and the
Hon. Mrs. E. Coke. The next waggonette was
driven by the Prince of Wales, and contained
Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein Augusten-
burg, the Duke of Cambridge, tlw Due d'Autuale,
and other of the guests. The third waggonette was
driven by Major Grey. The royal sportsmen having
driven to the Hall, the residence of the R !v. J.
Fleming, mounted their hunters, and a move was
shortly afterwards made to the cover side ; Cave
Hill being the locale selected to be drawn. This
cover, as its name implies, is a large hill, well
wooded, and which always contains foxes, the only
difficulty experienced being to get Reynard to break.
The great number of people present invariably head
the foxes. On Friday the hounds were not long in
before a fox was viewed at the Heacham end of the
wood, bat they could not get it away. Soon after
a fox was got away at the Southgate end, and
afforded a run, Reynard shortly after being killed.
It was then determined to go to Sedgeford Osier
Car, but the weather had come on so stormy that
the royal party soon left. The weather being so
frosty has prevented any hunting since.—EAST
ANGLIA.

SOUTII PE3IBROKESIIIRE.—These hounds bad a
capital run of an hour and a half on the 29,h of
November. The hounds started off to Kilrlicw,
where, the 117elshman says, " the enemy was soon
discovered in a newly-laid plantation, and :after
dodging to and fro iu the wood for half an hour,
seemed resolved not to quit. The dogs, however,
convinced him otherwise, and making good his
escape, he took refuge in a drain before Kilrhew
House, the residence of Captain Wood. Reynard
was now allowed breathing time, while the goodly
company partook of the kind hospitality of Captain
Wood, after which the spade and (mattock quickly
brought the fox to light, when he was captured,
and consigned to the bag. At Templeton moun-
tain he was given his liberty, with ten minutes'
grace, of which he made the best use, proceeding at
a rapid rate in the direction of Kilgetty station, and
by a circuitous route attempted to elude his pur-
suers by returning to the mountain, but to no pur-
pose, as horsemen and footmen were never more
active or in better spirits, and all seemed resolved
not to give the animal a chance of escape. Find-
ing himself hard pressed, he commenced a series of
circular runs, each of which was smaller than the
one preceding, until at last he was fairly run into
and killed, after a chase of an hour and a half.
There can be no doubt that this was as fine a run
as ever was witnessed, everyone appearing bent on
a good day's fun. Miss Lewis was the first in at
at the death, but the first to dismount was the
well-known sportsman, Mr. Hughes, of the Coburg
Hotel, Tenby. As this was the first death the
above young lady had been present at the cere-
mony of christening her was performed amid much
mirth. On account of the curious manner in which
the fox ran, the footmen enjoyed an unusual treat,
Reynard bein in sight the whole of the time.
THE SIIROPSHIRE, at Ercall Mill, on Monday, the
9th, had a good hunting run of one hour, and
killed in the first twenty minutes very fast.

TIIE COTTESMORE have not been able to hunt on
account of the frost and snow.

SOUTII UNION.—Goad sport last week, part icu-
larly on Friday, although the day was remarkably
cold, and frost was on the ground.
WARD UNION.—In consequence of a change yes-
terday morning, a few ventured out to Kilcree-
gate, but the bounds did not arrive. A messenger
had been sent to say the hounds would not bunt,
but the few there determined to have a run, and
went down to the kennel. A fallow deer was un-
carted, and gave them a run of five miles in twenty-
two minutes (!) No one could live with the hounds
but Mr. C. Barrington, who had it all to himself,
and saved the deer at Wightstown.
DUMFRIESSHIRE HOUNDS.—The 10th, the first
day after the frost, was almost the only day this
season when there was anything like good scent.
The bounds killed their second fox after a sharp run
of 25 minutes.

CARLISLE OTTER HOUNDS.—It is gratifying to
notice that after a successful hunting season, there
is a balance in hand of £22 2s. 11d. The subscrip-
tions altogether amounted to £ll7 ls. 3d.

NOVEL HUNT.—There was a novel fox hunt on
Saturday week in Sutton Fen. As some gentlemen
were coursing, a fox was started, and four grey-
hounds gave chase. They soon came up with him,
and kept him atbay until a shepherd's dog arrived
on the scene, who seized the fox by the brush, and
dragged him into a dry ditch. He was captured at
last by the courses, and will probably afford a run
for the hounds during the season.

SALE OF THE NETHERAVON HARRIERS.—These
hounds, the property of Mr. E. Raikes, were brought
to the hammer at the Park-lane Repository, on
Tuesday last, the 10th inst. There were in all
twelve couples, and averaged upwards of eight
guineas per couple, being purchased by Mr. Cochran
from Westbury. There was a large attendance of
Masters of Hounds at the sale, amongst whom we
noticed—Hon. F. Peti e (Essex Staghounds), Lieut.-
Col. Montresor (Kent), Mr. George Race (of the
Biggleswadc), Mr. E. 11. S. lludson (of the Brigh-
ton), Mr. C. D. Everett (B. F. II.), and Mr. Walter
Flower (Melton Harriers) and, in fact, so numerous
a body of gentlemen huntsmen, who hunt their own
bounds, have rarely been seen together. The pack
looked in perfect condition, reflecting the highest
credit on their huntsman, Moss.
BRIGHTON HUNT DINNER.—We understand that
Mr. E. H. Hudson, the unster, together with the
members of the Brighton Hunt who are in the
habit of enjoying the capital sport these hounds
afford, are about to pay the landowners and occu-
piers over whose land they hunt, a compliment by
inviting them to a banquet at the Old Ship hotel,
Brighton, on Thursday next, the 19th inst.
TILE BRIGHTON HARRIERS.—These hounds are
stopped by the frost, their last time out being on
Saturday, November 30, when they met at the
Race Ilill, and had a capital day's sport, especially
with their second hare, which they ran from near
the railway at Palmer, for an hour and five
minutes, killing a short distance from the village of
Rottingdcan, the last twenty minutes being very
fast without a single check.

ANOTHER ATTEMPT TO MURDER A POLICEMAN.—
At a late hour last evening information was received at
Scotland-yard that an attempt had boon made upon the life
of a policeman who was on duty in Kennington-lino. The
rumour was current through the metropolis that this
diabolical attempt bad been made in the Wyndham-road,
Camberwell, but upon inquiries at the station at Camber-
well-green it was found that tie attempted outrage had
been committed iu Konuington-land. The acting inspector
on duty at tho Kennington-lane polico-station persistently
refused all information; from other sources it was ascer-
tained that a policethan had been shot at, but without re-
ceiving any injury.
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