The Sun.
London, England, 1868-05-09 00:00:00

THE CONVICT MICHAEL BARRETT.

The memorial presented to the Home Secretary on be-
half of the condemned Fenian Barrett is a most elaborate
document, and argues at great length that the evidence
given at his trial altogether failed to establish his identity
with that of the man who caused the explosion. Several
fresh affidavits are given. An inquiry seems to have been
instituted in Glasgow, beginning on Monday last,
and the memorial proceeds to state : " That James
Lindsay, in his affidavit, declares that he saw the said
Michael Barrett on the 20th and 21st of November
last in Glasgow, and was employed by him to pest bills
announcing the torchlight procession. That the said
Michael Barrett was seen by Sergeant Deakin, of the
Glasgow police, in company with the said James Lindsay,
when engaged in posting the said bills, and that the
said Sergeant Deakin took down the name and address
of the said Michael Barrett at the said time. The said
James Lindsay further declares that the whiskers of the
said Michael Barrett were then short, and not long Dun-
dreary whiskers, as alleged by all the witnesses for the
prosecution, who on the trial of the said Michael Barrett
professed to identify him. That if the evidence of the
before-mentioned Charles M`Manns, Arthur Burgoyne,
and Peter M'Corry, and the statement on oath of the said
James Lindsay be true (and they testify to a fact on
which they cannot be mistaken), the said Michael Barrett
must have bad short whiskers on the 21st November, and
been at that time in Glasgow, a fact uttf-rly irreconcilable
with the testimony of Henry Morris, the apprentice of the
approver, and Jane Kappel his workwoman, who con-
curred in stating that the man who passed by the name of
Jackson, and who they professed to identify as the said
Michael Barrett, visited their master's house constantly
for six weeks previi,us to the explosion, and that he had
long whiskers coming below the chin. It is also inconsis-
tent with the testimony of every witness called by the
Crown who professed to identify him, and who said that
when they saw him he had long whiskers below the chin.
It is inconsistent with the entire theory on which the
prosecution rested, and is utterly irreconcilable with the
only evidence on whish the jury could have based their
verdict." The memorial concludes by expressing a hope
that a respite may be granted in order to give time for
the truth of the facts set forth to be sifted.
The Glasgow Herald,
in a long editorial article, reviews
the evidence given at the trial on both sides, and adds
many facts ascertained since the convict's condemnation.
One singular incident is, that a letter was found at the
house where Barrett lodged which bore the name of Jack-
'son and the convict's address. This letter was not pro-
duced at the trial. "If the prosecution," says the Herald,

" does its duty, witnesses may be forthcoming who can
supply the missing link in Barrett's history or habits
for two or three months previous to the Clerkenwell
explosion. These witnesses are neither Fenians nor sympa•
tbisers with murderers, and they are able to name the very
house at which Barrett was a daily visitor and a frequent
nightly lodger up to a period within three weeks of the
explosion, when these visits suddenly ceased. They can
g.ve the names of his associates in Glasgow, the colour
of his clothes when he left, and they can speak most
distinctly to the uninjured state of his Dundreary
whiskers after the torchlight procession in November
last. Some of them heard O'Neill make mention of
his burnt whiskers, but none of them either heard or
saw anything wrong with the whiskers of Barrett. The
boot-bottoming story of Michael M'Nulty has been
shaken to its foundation already ; and one of the witnesses
above referred to is in a position to give some information
about a pair of O'Neill's boots which were mended and
given to Barrett about two months before the explosion.
We have heard all this within the last few days; and if it
he true, it will go a great way to confirm the evidence
against the convict, and just as far as to nullify the Glas-
gow alibi with its fifteen additional affidavits."

The Bishop of Mauritius is about to undertake
a number of episcopal engagements for the Bishop of Win-
chester, who is as yet unable to resume his duties.
As the shipment of wheat has been begun
from the West by way of the Mississippi, its old channel,
to the Atlantic ports, it is announced that the trade
is to be extended, and that arrangements are being
made to ship wheat direct by water from St. Louis
to Liveipool.
The accounts of the harvest in France are more
satisfactory. Under the influence of the alteration of rain
and sunshine the wheat looks well, and the fields which
seemed bare ten days ago now shew a beautiful green
covering. Round Paris and in the centre of France the
grounfl has now received sufficient moisture, and only
wants heat ; but drought is still complained of in the Var,
Bonches du Rhone, and Ardbche. Advices from the vine-
bearing districts are also more favourable.
SALARIES OF RAILWAY CHAIRMEN.—Mr. B.
Moon, the chairman of the London and North-Western
Railway Company, receives a salary of £2,000 per annum.
Sir Daniel Gooch, M.P., the chairman of the Great Wes-
tern, receives £1,000; -while Mr. S. Laing, M.P., the
chairman of the London, Brighton, and South Coast, has
£2,500, although the Brighton is a much smaller concern
than either the North-Western or the Great Western.
EMIGRATION FROM IRELAND.—Emigration from
a I Ireland is proceeding on a very extensive scale. Last week
over 400 persons from the counties of Cavan, Monaghan,
and Louth sailed from Dundalk fur America; and every
week, for months past, large numbers have left
Queenstown for the same place. Six hundred
emigrants embarked on the vessels belonging to the
Guion and the Cunard lines which sailed from Queens.
town for New York on Wednesday. Hundreds are
daily arriving in Cork to get berths in the vessels that will
sail next.
STRIKE AND CO-OPERATIVE MOVEMENT AT BRAD.
Vonp.—The operative painters of Bradford some week 4
ago struck work for an advance of wages—from sfd. to
6d. per hour. The masters resisted the application on the
ground that it was unreasonable; and the men, Who
alleged that an implied acquiescenoe had been previously
made, offered to submit the matter to arbitration, but
their employers refused, The different masters have now
obtained a supply of hands from London, The men who
-4tri,ek work have, consequently, started an industrial
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