The Sun.
London, England, 1866-02-23 00:00:00

MIDDLE-CLASS EDUCATION.

Deputy WHITE moved, pursuant to notice, "That
the Corporation of London do subscribe the sum of
£l,OOO in aid of the fund for the establishment of a
system of middle-class education." The hon. deputy,
in proposing the motion, remarked upon the great
importance of the object sought to be attained; and
he observed that, after the princely munificence of
the 42 merchants of the city of London who had put
down their names as donors of £l,OOO each in sup-
port of this proposition, the Corporation of London
would not hesitate to do the same for an object that
was calculated to be of so much benefit to the citi-
zens and to the public at large. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. LAWLEY seconded the motion, which was
supported by Alderman Hale and Mr. H. L. Taylor,
both of whom expressed their warm approbation of
the proposed scheme, and several other hon. mem-
bers, and in the result the motion was unanimously
agreed to by the court.
THE OPENING OF SOUTHWARK-BRIDGE.

Mr. H. E. MURRELL moved that it be referred to
the Bridge House Estates Committee to consider the
propriety and expediency of purchasing Southwark-
bridge, with power to negotiate with the Southwark-
bridge Company for the purchase thereof, and if the
committee should deem it advisable that the bridge
should be purchased by the Corporation, that they
do consider the best mode of raising the requisite
funds for the purpose, conferring, if necessary, with
the Coal and Corn and Finance Committee thereon,
and report fully upon the whole subject to this
court.

To this motion there was an amendment by Mr.
C. ROBINSON, that it be referred to the Bridge House
Estates Committee to negotiate with the Scuthwark
Bridge Company for the purchase of Southwark-
bridge, to consider the best mode for providing the
requisite funds for that purpose, and report fully
upon the whole subject to this court.
This motion and amendment led to a rather
lengthened discussion, in which all the old arguments
so frequently used upon the subject were repeated.
The motion was supported by Alderman Law-
rence, Alderman Salomons, Deputy Fry, and several
other honourable members, on the ground that the
opening of the bridge was absolutely necessary for
the accommodation of the public, and to facilitate
the traffic, and that it was the duty of the Corpora-
tionportant improvement.
to effect such an important
On the other hand, both the motion and the
amendment were opposedn A. by
IsMara.csH,
Frisker,
Deputy de Jersey, Mr. •
and Mr. Hartridge, on various grounds, among
which were that the bridge was not worth £200,000;
that in consequence of the steepness of the ap-
proaches to it it could not be used by the heavy
traffic, which would be compelled, as at present, to
pass over London-bridge, and that even supposing
the Corporation were to agree to purchase the bridge
for £200,000, they would be compelled to spend a
very much larger sum afterwards is making ap-
proaches to it.

Eventually the amendment was put and nega-
tived by a large majority.
Mr. DE JERSEY, upon the original motion being
put, proposed another amendment, to the effect that
it be referred to the Bridge House Estates Com-
mittee to take into consideration the subject of the
toll bridges in the metropolis, and report whether
they considered it expedient to purchase any of
them or to build a new bridge, and report thereon
to the Court.

This amendment was carried, and the Court then
adjourned.

perary, shows how this Fenian rebellion differs
from the rebellion conducted by Smith O'Brien in
1848. The Fenians do not shrink from the shedding
of blood. Cullen is the name of a village situated on
an eminence near the boundary between Tipperary.
and Limerick, not far from the Glenbane Constabu-
lary Station, on the road to Tipperary town. There is
a Roman Catholic chapel at the place and a church.
James Ryan is a small farmer there, holding under
Miss Bradshaw, who is a nun in one of the Dublin
convents, and owner of a large property in the dis-
trict. The police were aware that Ryan's house had
been frequented by young men at night, and sus-
pected it was for the purpose of drilling. On Satur-
day night Constables Thompson, Moore, and Dunne
left the station and went out on patrol. Seeing a
light in Ryan's house, they approached to see what
was going on. When they reached the yard a dog
barked. The door was opened cautiously, then
quickly shut and locked. The police knocked and
demanded admission. Receiving no answer, one of
them went to the back of the house, and saw through
a window a number of men running about in con-
fusion, and hastily taking up their firearms. The
three constables then began to load their rifles,
sheltered by the porch. While thus employed the
light was extinguished, the door was thrown open,
and a voice cried, " Come on now." At the same
time shots were fired through the doorway. The
police, not having had time to load, retired, and as
they were passing through the yard gate another
volley was fired at them from the house. A moment
after came another round, when sub-constable
Dunne was struck by a ball in the thigh, and fell.
His two comrades had carried him down the lane
about 40 yards, when another shot struck Dunne
about the same place, shattering the thigh bone— 1
The Fenians, about 15 in number, then rushed out
and retired towards the mountains. There is an
impression that this meeting consisted of delegates
met for deliberation, and that either Stephens or
some one high in office was present. The Limerick
Chronicle states that one of them was the correspon-
dent of a local newspaper, one a National School
teacher, one the son of a solicitor, and another a
private of the 17th Regiment. The wounded man
was conveyed to the Cashel Infirmary, where he
has died of his wounds. It is said that the other
parties engaged in the outrage are well known. A
report having been sent in to Sub-Inspector Saville,
of Tipperary, he left that town early on Sunday
morning with about 40 men and proceeded to the
scene of the outrage. In the house was found a
six-barrelled revolver loaded and capped, a number
of military percussion caps, and a coat belonging
to a young man resident in Cullen, and who has
decamped. The police arrested one of the Ryans,
a boy about 15 years of age, and a little girl, his
sister, about 10 years of age, who have given im-
portant information, which is likely to lead to the
arrest of all the parties implicated. The
two elder Ryans have made off, along with
several suspected persons in the village of Cullen ;
but on the children's information the police have
arrested five persons on suspicion. The police say
that if they had been armed with revolvers they
might have been able to arrest some of the party.
About 4 o'clock p.m. yesterday the police entered
a house in St. Andrew's-lane, and found in an upper
room 142 pikes and 36 pike-handles concealed under
the flooring ; an adjoining apartment seems to have
been used as a drill- room. The lower part of the
house was in the possession of a cabdriver.
Yesterday morning an officer and a fatigue party,
amounting in number to 27, of the Coldstream
Guards, arrived by the mail steamer at the Carlisle-
pier, Kingstown, and proceeded at once to Dublin
in the special passenger train, by the Dublin and
Kingstown Railway. A battalion of this famous
regiment is expected to arrive to-morrow.
The suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act has
been the means of ridding Belfast of a great num-
ber of suspected people. On Monday and Tuesday
many who were known to have no business what-
ever in England or Scotland were seen to leave the
quays by the cross-channel steamers. Several of the
magistrates, and three or four of the sergeants of the
constabulary, attended at the quays for the purpose
of seeing who left the town, but they did not con-
sider it their duty to prevent the-dsclipe of those who
thus departed. Three or four men were arrested in
Belfast on Tuesday, and taken before Mr. Orme,
R.M., who signed the warrants for their committal
to prison under the Habeas Corpus Act. Their
names are Frank O'Neill, publican, Lodge-road and
Peter's-hill ; Wm. Harrison, sergeant of the Antrim
Militia, arrested in O'Neill's public-house ; John
O'Rorke, pensioner, Millfield ; and Patrick Hassan,
North Queen-street, lately an officer in the Federal
army. It is alleged that O'Neill is the Head Centre
for Belfast. A number of the constabulary have
been doing duty in plain clothes in Belfast. Three
persons travelling as pedlars, formerly arrested and
discharged, have been re-arrested at Hillsborough.
Suspected parties in Monaghan have been lodged in
gaol, and there is considerable excitement there.
In the county of Wexford large quantities of arms
have been surrendered to the authorities, 300 stand
in the town of Enniscorthy alone. The applications
for licences have been very numerous. Fenianism
does not seem to prevail in that great county, which
was the stronghold of the rebellion in 1798. Only
one arrest has been reported at Enniscorthy, the
prisoner being a returned emigrant and an American
soldier. Drogheda was searched yesterday without
effect. A number of young men, who were strangers
there, have disappeared. In the midland counties
the Fenian sympathisers are quite crestfallen. The
magistrates are cautious in granting licences to bear
arms, invariably refusing them to publicans, and to
farmers whose sons are of irregular habits.
A soldier of the 3d Buffs has been arrested as an
avowed Fenian at Ballinacurra, in the county of
Limerick. A men named Devany, said to have been
a Captain in the American army, has been arrested
at Bruff in the same county.
Another Federal captain, Con. O'Leary, has been
arrested at Tralee ; this is the fifth now in gaol as
Fenians in that town. It is said that a number of
" Nationalists" are in great terror there. The priests
are denouncing Fenianism on every side, and warn-
ing their flocks against it. The Roman Catholic
Bishop of Kerry, in his Lenten pastoral, says ;---" A
few silly or romantic youths, who have little or no
serious occupation, and whose prospects are not
equal to their aspirings, may have lent a willing ear
to the suggestions of some modern Catiline, or men
of mature age, having already transferred their alle-
giance to another Power, and then returned among
us, may have been earning the wages of treason by
deluding their neighbours with promises of what
they call liberty and independence. A shameful and
unprincipled traffic of this kind has been carried on,
and a few of the unwary have been trapped."
Meetings continue to be held on the cattle
plague. The members of the County Wexford
Stock Improvement Society met at Enniscorthy
yesterday, and resolved that it should be made
penal for any captain or master of a ship to
take cattle on board without a permit. They also
urgently recommended the instant destruction of
all cattle attacked, and requested their representa-
tives to urge their views on the Government in
London.

Mr. Joseph Fla' hbourne, railway carrier, has
brought an action for oral slander in the Court of
Exchequer against Lord Lucan, chairman of the
Great Northern and Western Railway Company,
who, in connexion with an alleged overcharge, used
the word " swindling," but did not mean to injure
the character of the plaintiff. The case was con-
eluded yesterday, when the jury brought in a ver-
dict for the defendant.
The Evening Freeman says the capture of Ste-
phens is now spoken of, as if some clue had been
received and the rewards offered were doing their
Loftus-lane,
was work.
suspension of Four Irishmen, from England, discharged to-day
for want of evidence, were immediately re-arrested
the
arm souusrp:, the
and
. under dtehre
Habeas Corpus
was committed for trial to-day.
Seven men were arrested at Skibbereen last night,
and seven at Carriek-on-Suir on Tuesday.

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