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
hand 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 Allep fire four

shots into the van. Heard him threaten some one

inside if the keys were not given up, arid 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 Ken-
nedy was in the affray, but could not swear to him.
In cross-examination by Mr. Roberts, witness said
he had never in court expressed a desire to see the

Fenians hanged.
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 he would have an English trial and a Christian

trial. I said to him, " I have never seen a man

Langed yet, but if you are banged I will go and see

you."

- The prisoner Allen—Ho 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

ave never seen one.
Mr. Fowler—You are making au 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 ?—I
have a wife, whom I respect, and a mother and
sister 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 be 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 exqressing 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
then all the men rushed in a body from beneath the
railway arch, and commenced firing at auy 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 in 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. lie fired at everybody who came near,
and tried to smash in the van door. Shore also fired
pistols and throw stones. Scalley threw stones.
Witnesses having been called who produced re-
volvers found near the scene of rescue, Mr. lliggin
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
should 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.

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• TII-E_LA7EST PAPAL ALLOCUTION.

ROME, Sept. 21.
Subjoined is the text of the allocution pronounced
by the Pope at yesterday's Consistory :
" Venerable Brethren,—
" The Catholic world knows how often we have
been compelled to deplore and rebuke the great in-

uries and the serious wrongs inflicted for several

years by tho Sub-Alpine Government, in despite of

all Divine and hun►an laws as well as ecclesiastical

censures and punishments, upon the Catholic Church,
upon us and this apostolic seat, upon the bishops
and ministers, upon the religious orders of both

sexes, and upon other pious institutions.
" This same Government, oppressing and daily
exerting itself more and more to abase the Church,
after the other laws it has put forth, and which we
have condemned 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—in
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-
pry.
" 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 authority
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 themselves 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 arc 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 iu 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, alio,
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
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, are
equally deserving of our commendation. In fact,
they have been seen braving peril, occupied chiefly
in burying the dead, and giving a striking example
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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