The Sun.
London, England, 1868-02-18 00:00:00

weather.

MARSEILLES, Feb. 18.

The Poonah arrived at 6.45 a.m. to-day. The
mails leave for London by the 11.30 train. Letters

to-morrow evening.

JAP AN.

NEW YORK, Feb. 17. •

Intelligence received here from Japan, via San
Francisco, and dated the 27th ult., announces that
the Daimios have revolted and made the Mikado
prisoner. The Shogoon had fled to Osaca, where
he was organising a force to attack the Daimios.
The town of Hiogo and two palaces at Jeddo had
been burned. The foreign Ministers refused to
interfere.

FRA
BOURSE, Feb. 17.—T1
closed as follows :

Bank Shares 3230
Ital'an Loan
End of month 43 40
Mexican Loan 16 50
Do. Bonds
Spanish Threes
Home Debt 34
Deferred —
s. Account
Orleans
N orthern 11721
Lyons and Mediterranean
Southern.... 512
Western
Eastern
• •
Sardinian
Austrian 5461
Lombard 370
North of Spain 7ll
Saragossa
Roman 47

gCE.
Lree o'clock.—The market

ver Cent.
End of month —
3 per Cent
End of mouth 6B 65
Credit Mobilier
End of month l9O
Credit Foncier 1422 50
Ead of month 1383 75
RAILWA

THE CLERKENWELL uIITRAGE.

BOW-STREET-THIS DAY.

Timothy and William Desmond, Jeremiah Allen,
Nicholas English, Michael Barrett (alias Jackson),
James O'Neill, John O'Keefe, and Anne Justice,
were again placed at the bar.
Mr. Giffard said the evidence on the part of the
Crown upon which he should ask for a com-
mittal was now virtually concluded, but with regard
to the prisoner Allen, he thought it was his duty
to put the magistrate in possession of certain facts
upon which he should have to ask his (the magi-
strhte's) judgment. It would be in the memory of
most persons that Allen was seen in the neigh-
bourhood of the prison on the Thursday, and
also on the Friday, the day of the explosion. On
the latter occasion he appeared to be watching
the prison, and in communication with Anne Jus-
tice and Timothy Desmond. At the moment of the
explosion he was on the other side of the prison
from that on which it took place, and on hearing
the report it appeared that he ran away from the
scene in company with Anne Justice. On the 15th
of December he made a statement to Inspector
Thomson, which was a voluntary one, and he would
now proceed to notice that document. In his ac-
count Allen did not say, what nevertheless was the
fact, that he had previously been in communication
thing about a plot to rescue the prisoners Burke and
Casey by attacking the van on its way from the police
court to the prison—in fact an attack similar to that
perpetrated at Manchester. In that statement there
was a variety of circumstances fraught with sus-
picion. First of all, though a stranger he was in
such intimate connection with the prisoner Anne
Justice that she made a communication to him that
it became his:positive duty to mention it to the
police—namely, that Casey had told him to
inform her brother that the authorities were
probably aware of what was intended to be done,
as they had not let the prisoners leave the cell for
exercise. It seemed almost inconceivable that he
should not at once have communicated that fact to
the police. Further, when the explosion took place
he was found flying with Anne Justice, and not, as
he ought to have done, seizing her and giving her
into the custodyiof the police, saying, here is one of
the persons concerned in the outrage. However,
he could well understand that from the nature of
the catastrophe he might have been thrown off his
guard, and he (Mr. Giffard), under all the circum-
stances, could not ask for the committal of Allen.
He must, however, observe that it was stated to the
coroner's jury by a constable that Allen said be had
been sent to the prison by the police. He (Mr. Giffard)
thought it would have been but discreet if the jury
had waited until Inspector Brannan, who was then
confined to his bed by illness, should have been
sufficiently recovered to attend and give evidence,
and that they should not have been hurried by the
excitement which so terrible an event caused to
find a verdict against Allan of wilful murder.
He (Mr. Giffard) was sure the prisoner would
never have been sent from that Court for trial with-
out a full investigation into the truth or falsehood
of the charges brought against him. At the same
time it was only justice to the Coroner's Jury to
say that there was certainly a strong case of suspi-
cion against Allen, and it was no answer for him to
allege he was in communication with the police,
because that might have been with a view to dis-
tract their attention from the real point of danger,
which, as it now appeared, was not that to which
the communication tended to divert them. There
did not appear to have been any intention to make
an attempt on the van, or to put the authorities on
a false scent, which was the usual course
adopted by those who wished to deceive the police.
If there had been no further evidence he should
have considered the case one in which the jury
would have been justifiedin finding a verdict against
Allen. But the fact that Allen did actually suggest
to the police to watch the prison was a circumstance
greatly in his favour, and that which made a vital
difference in his favour was that Mullany,
who gave a full history of the plot, its
origin, rise, progress, and execution, from
first to last, made no mention of Allen.
It seemed to him (Mr. Giffard), therefore, to be
impossible to suppose that Allen could have been a
party to the plot and not )e known to Mullany.
Under these circumstances, if the magistrate's
judgment concurred with hit, he (Mr. Giffard) did
not feel that he ought to ask for the committal
of Allen for trial on the capital charge, as it
would be impossible for any jury
to convict
him. He would read tie statement he had
referred to, and having examined Mr. Inspector
Thomson and Mr. Inspector Brennan, he should
leave the matter in the hands of the magistrate.
The statement of Allen was then read by the
harried gentleman, and was as follows :
Voluntary statement made this day by Jeremiah
Allen in custody on the charge of being con-
cerned iu the murder of Martha Thompson and
others :

About a quarter past twelze on the afternoon of
Friday last I was at the Hotte of Detention, Clerk-
enwell, and next to the gate and asked of the war-
der on duty there if any onehad been to see Casey,
a person there. He replied ,4 No." I said, " Will
you tell me if any one does come ?" lie said,
" I do not know you." I said, " I have
been sent here." He said, Very well, I will tell
you when they come out," Lie did not do so, On