The Sun.
London, England, 1868-04-28 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 28, 1868.

that there was a great deal of other business
on hand as well ; but, surely, this had been
impressed upon Mr. GLADSTONE before he be-
gan the sizuggle then forced upon the atten-
tion of Ministers when they are called upon to do
something, and meet the attack in a firm manner.
We agrce with Sir G. BOWYER that hon. members
have a right to protest against being gagged or
silenced, and he found fault with the disposition
manifested in some quarters as to the freedom of
debate in that House. No good can accrue to
either side of the House from hushing up affairs,
and since it has been brought forward there can be
no use in summarily disposing of such a question
as that these Resolutions touch upon, but it seems
somehow to be the wish of the Opposition to
laave done with them as soon as possible.

Last evening, in the two Houses of Parliament,
loyal addresses were agreed to, to be presented to
her MAJESTY, expressing the indignation and sor-
row with which the members had received the news
of the attempted assassination of the Duke of
EDINBURGH, and offering to the QUEEN, at the
same time, their cordial congratulations on the
Prince's partial recovery. The addresses were
moved, in the Upper House by the Earl of MALI4ES-
BURY, and in the Lower House by Mr. DISRAELI,
being seconded by the leaders of the Opposition.
There could be on such an occasion but one senti-
ment, and we have no doubt that the
terms of the addresses will more aecn-
rately represent the feelings of the members'
than such courtly or complimentary documents
often do. It would be impossible for the more 'care-
less or indifferent to feel otherwise than sorrowful
at so painful and unexpected a termination to a visit
which appeared so auspicious and so fortunate. As
Mr. DISRAELI observed, if anything could aggravatp
the atrocity of the act, it would be the circumstances
under which it was committed. " His Royal High=
ness was visiting the most distant station of Her,
MAJESTY'S colonial empire ; he was in a certain de-
gree representing the majesty of England ; he eli-
cited a sentiment of earnest enthusiasm which
must have touched the heart of the country in
which he was ; he bad commanded throughout the
whole of his travels a reception which was due fo
his intelligence and his cordial manners. When
this act was perpetrated he was fulfilling one 'of
those offices which are the graceful appanages of
his :illustrious order ; he was establishing a new
charity, and that charity in favour of the noble
profession to which he is devoted, in which I may
say be was distinguished himself, and which, I
trust, he will live to be the ornament." All must
join heartily in this hope, and also in the wish that
we may soon see and hear the last of that miser-
able conspiracy which has already wrought "so
much misery and distress without attempting to
remove a single grievance to lighten tmaterialhaetelraoiadl
or
any oppression, or to effect a single
patriotic object.

The British triumph in Abyssinia was last night
mons, and elicited loud and
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nese, that this was certainly
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hon. members an opportunity of expressing their
opinions, but meanwhile Mr. DISRAELI congratu-
latedhe intelligence
the House upon the nature of t
to which he referred. As a " feat of arms" he truly
declared that "it would be difficult to parallel it
for completeness and precision." All are entitled
to the gratitude of the li3use and the country,
the troops and the leader, and of course that will
be freely accorded to them. Mr. DISRAELI read a
passage from a private letter, which declared that
the troops evinced " a most admirable spirit, emu-
lating each other in cheerful devotion to the inte-
rests of the expedition, officers and men alike
deserve every praide." As for the General himself
his eminent services will be touched on hereafter; the
character of the expedition itself was such that Ithe
Premier compared it with the entrance of CORTEZ
into Mexico. There is a difference in the meaning
of the two undertakings, however, for we
did not enter Abyssinia to despoil the
inocent, " but in a spirit of justice, huma-
nity, religion, and toleration, and we are
about now to vacate the country in a manner that
will prove to the world the purity of our motives."
This is strictly true, and the few but impressive
words uttered by Mr. DISRAELI were exactly those
most suited to the case. When the opportunity
presents itself we have no doubt that the House
will willingly respond to the invitation of the
Government, and put a second seal in recognition
of the services of those who condemned this expe-
dition, that it will induce others to follow in their
steps, and should a similar emergency arise hereafter
to go and do likewise. The greatest interest and
excitement prevailed yesterday when the joyful
intelligence was made known, and certainly not
without cause, for a better termination to the long
anxieties that have been felt on this subject could
not possibly have been made, and there remains
nothing to wish for, which is a consummation very
seldom come to in this world.

The long-pending trial of the Fenian prisoners for
the Clerkenwell outrage has at length been brought
to a close, and the interest still felt in its progress
was manifested yesterday in the crowds that thronged
the Old Bailey. The result has not been exactly
what was predicted. Six persons were accused of
participating in the cruel and dastardly attack, and
of these six but one has been convicted. At a
comparatively early stage of the trial ANNE ,
JUSTICE was discharged, and there was a feeling
of relief that a woman was not proved to have
been guilty of so remorseless and desperate a
crime. Later on JOHN O'KEEFE was set
free, and the two DESMONDS, ENGLISH, and
BARRETT alone remained at the bar. The evidence
against the three former was not conclusive. They
were no doubt mixed up in doubtful company ; but
although this might damage them in a case of less
vital importance, it could not weigh in a matter of
life and death. The case against BARRETT, how-
ever, grew stronger and stronger as time went on,
and the attempt to prove an alibi in his favour
signally failed. The jury accordingly found
him guilty of wilful murder, and returned a
verdict of acquittal against the other three.
BARRETT showed that he was in some degree pre-
pared for the result, and delivered a long address
when the usual question was put to him ; but,
though be proved his ability, he failed to influence
his sentence. No time, no pains have been spared
to arrive at the truth. The weight of ponderous
evidence has been carefully sifted, and the most
conflicting and contradictory testimony patiently
listened to. The trial has been presided over by a
Judge of great experience, and the counsel has in-
cluded some of the most eminent names at the Bar.
Still the public mind will not be altogether
satisfied. The Clerkenwell outrage was neither
planned nor carried out by one man. However
guilty MICHAEL BARRETT may have been there were
others as guilty as himself, perhaps more so. These
ruffians are still abroad amongst us, while some of
their victims are sleeping in the grave, and many

more are doomed to a lifetime of suffering and dis-
figurement. Them is more to be done yet respect-
ing the Clerkenwell outrage, and we can only hope
that his approaching doom may influence BARRETT
to make some revelations respecting his accomplices.

The progress of the Impeachment Trial has been
somewhat delayed by the unfortunate illness of
Mr. STANBERY, but the struggle between the con-
tending parties still goes on, and the unwillingness
of the Managers to receive any evidence which is
favourable to the accused becomes more and more
apparent. As a general rule, the more important
the testimony which the PRESIDENT'S witnesses
have to give, and the more direct its bearings on
the case, the more strenuous is the opposition
made by the Managers of the trial. Thus we
find by the news brought by the City of Paris
from New York, on the 18th iust., that Mr FREDE-
RICK SEWARD testified that the PRESIDENT an-
nounced Gen. TnomAs's appointment at a Cabinet
meeting, and that he believed Mr. STANTON acqui-
esced, only asking for time to remove his papers.
This evidence was most important in its character,
since FREDERICK SEWARD must from his position
have been intimately acquainted with the whole
affair, and, although it is certainly singular that he
should not be able to say with certainty that Mr.
STANTON acquiesced in the appointment of THOMAS,
yet the fact of its having been openly announced
at a Cabinet meeting by the PRESIDENT puts quite
.a new appearance on the story. Yet the Managers,
we find, objected to this evidence, but the Chief
Justice decided that it might be retained, and the
Senate supported him by 26 votes against 23. Tho
evidence of Mr. Cox, a lawyer, was also objected
to, but the objection was overridden by a majority
of eight. Mr. Cox stated that Mr. JOHNSON had
'emploYed him to defend Gen. THOMAS in the suit
brought against him and Mr. STANTON, and had
instructed him to obtain a writ of quo warrauto to
test STANTON'S right to hold office. Ho also said
that the General's bail had been purposely with-
drawn in order to obtain a writ of habeas corpus
to bring the case before the Supreme Court ; but
the object had been defeated (no doubt designedly)
by General THOMAS'S release. It will at once be
seen that if all this evidence were withheld the
PRESIDENT'S case would be materially damaged
without any legal or constitutional end being
gained. The Chief Justice generally lends
his support to the counsel for the defence
in overriding these objections, but he does not do so
invariably. He ruled out as inadmissible Mr. JOHN-
SON'S reply to the resolution of the Senate which
declared STANTON'S removal illegal. The Senate
have also ruled out some important testimony
offered by Secretary WELLES respecting a Cabinet
meeting held to consider the Tenure-of-office Bill
when it was before the PRESIDENT. The defence
claimed that they could thereby prove that the
whole Cabinet has declared the Tenure-of-Office
Bill unconstitutional and advised its veto, SEWARD
and STANTON himself being selected to draft the veto
message. Yet one of the principal points upon
which the PRESIDENT is arraigned is his
alleged infraction of the Tenure-of-Office Bill and
the removal of STANTON from the War Office If
Mr. STANTON himself agreed to veto the measure as
unconstitutional, it is, to say the least of it, incon-
sistent for him to take shelter under it against the
PRESIDENT. The evidence of Secretary WELLES
was, however, ruled out as inadmissible by 29 to
20 votes, the sentiments of the majority of the
members being possibly influenced by the dan-
gerous nature of the evidence. It is not in this
captious and critical spirit that a grave public
trial should be conducted. If the character of
a national ruler be at stake and his conduct
and policy impugned, the great object should be to
elicit the broad truth, not to carry this or that
point by all the quibbles of the law. The Managers
of the Impeachment Trial cannot pretend to impar-
tiality of public feeling ; they have not indeed taken
the trouble to make the pretence. It remains to be
seen whether the Senate Court is too much under
their influence to be independent, or whether we
may look for the yoke of Radical domination being
at last broken.

CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS.,

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, MONDAY, April ne

Your Abyssinian victory causes different emotions here.
Democratic journals, like the Temps and the AvenirNational,
make use of it to point a moral at the expense of their
own Government. See, say they, a nation which under-
took a most costly and arduous expedition solely from
philanthropic motives, and without the least idea of con-
quest, and which, having accomplished its task, leaves the
country immediately. They contrast this expedition with that
of the French to Mexico —so different in its object, so different
In its result : the one undertaken in the cause of humanity,
and ended ,when that cause had been sustained, by a brilliant
victory ; the other undertaken from a love of territory and
utterly and ignominiously defeated. The SPele even now can
scarcely believe that England means to leave Abyssinia
altogether. " The traditions of tht Eastern policy of the
British kingdom have not," says that journal, " yet accus-
tomed us to the spectacle of an enterprise so costly, con-
ducted to a satisfactory termination for an object of pure
humanity, and without a stain of ambitious calculation."
The Opinion .11rationale, which has been predicting the
failure of your army ever since the expedition was re-
solved upon, is not at all pleased to find itself a
false prophet, and finds consolation only in the fact that
Theodore died fighting for the standard of Abyssinian
independence. The Liberte ascribes the defeat of the
Negus to his primitive weapons, and concludes a short
article with the words " Poor Theodore I"

The inspired journals are making light of the Prussian
disarmament. The Constitutionnel, for instance, says :
" Many Paris journals, in treating of the furloughs given
by the Prussian Minister of War to a certain number
of soldiers, would raise this measure to the importance
of a political transaction. The Prussian papers
speak of this fact with more sobriety, and give
it its true character. As we have already said, the mili-
tary administration is accustomed to give leave every year
to soldiers who after two years' service have distinguished
themselves by their aptitude and the excellence of their
oonduct. The furloughs at the same time lighten the
charges of the Government, and are revocable directly
the needs of the service require it." In other words, the
much-talked-of disarmament amounts to nothing, or at
least only to this, that the Prussian Government does pot
think that war is imminent. Nevertheless, King William's
speech, at•the opening of the German Customs Parlia-
ment has produced a good effect, and the Bourse has bean
very firm to-day.
I hear that the antagonism betvteen M;Rouher and
Marshal Niel becomes more serious every day. The
second Minister is all for war, as the first is all for peace.
It is rumoured that they will not be able to remain
in the Cabinet. But I suspect that the Emperor will en-
deavour to retain both Ministers, since the retirement of
either would reveal too clearly his policy with regard to
the great question of peace or war.
M. Henri Baudrillart, the successor of M. Paulin
Limayrac as editor of the Constitutionnel, publishes his
manifesto to-day. It is well written. The writer declares
that the history of the Empire is divided into two
epochs : the first, when the Emperor suppressed
with a strong hand the disorders to which the revo-
lution of 1848 gave rise ; the second, denoted by
the letters of November 24, 1860, and January 19, 1867.
If asked when the Empire will be liberal, M. Baudril-
lart will reply that it has always been liberal, and that
there is no instance of a sovereign endowed with such
boundless power voluntarily depriving himself of a portion
of it. The Emperor has shewn himself liberal by the
enfranchisement of all—classes, who now enjoy equal
political rights ; liberal by education offered and deve-
loped ; liberal by the blows struck at the routine of old
systems, and by striking off the fetters which bound
commerce. No doubt the Emperor is liable to mistakes ;
it is impossible, adds M. Baudrillart, that he should not
Commit some ; but " let us be just. He pays too dearly
for his faults to commit them with levity." So M. Bau-
drillart will give the Emperor an honest support, happy
when he has to praise, sorry when he has to blame. It
is rumoured that the Epoque will be absorbed into the
Covtitationne,/, and that the combined journals will appear
under the title of the Union Dynastique.
We have had welcome showers in the neighbourhood of
Paris. But in aomo parbe of the country the drought
cnntinues, and is becoming very Serious, In the south a
little rain fell, and then the wind ohanged to the north-
east and it has become dry again, and water is running
short. In several places the bishops are ordering prayers
to be offered for rain, whereat the sceptical journals amuse
themselves.

The Prussian Government is pushing on its fortifica-
Mons. The most urgent are the defences of the North Sea
and the fortifying of Troves. M. Forcade, in one of
hie
latest articles in the Reese des Deux lifondes, spoke in high
terms of the work now constructing at Ulm. He remarked
that they were evidently not intended fur Count Bismarck,
but will be very valuable in a future campaign, as a strong
support for the operations of French and Austrian armies.
As a criticism on this pleasant view of the case, the Simnel
asks whether M. Forcade is aware that the works are
being constructed under the direction of a Prussian en-
gineer. Prussia certainly feels no great anxiety respect-
ing the policy of the South German States in case of war.
On every occasion on which the relations between Prussia
and France have appeared to indicate a coming war, the
Southern States have answered by drawing nearer to the
North.

The Duke of Nassau, who was deprived of his duke-
dom by Prussia two years ago, but was allowed to retain
his Palace of Biberich, has, it is said, determined to sell
that property, being disgusted at the conduct of the
Prussian soldiers towards him. The Rothschilds are be-
lieved to have bought the greenhouses for £15,000. Tho
castle will probably be sold to a Russian prince.

The King of Prussia seems to be always opening Par-
liaments. That opened this week was the first Customs
Parliament of all Germany— South as well as North. King
William's speech was decidedly pacific, and he declared
that Germany was en friendly terms with all foreign
Powers, and that the benefits of peace were likely to be
prolonged. If his Majesty includes huge standing armies
among those benefits, there are some of them that we could
afford to dispense with.

There has been a terrible fire at Rotterdam, in which
six persons lost their lives. One woman, in an upper
storey of the burning house, threw her child down to the
people below, and then jumped down herself ; both mother
and child were caught, and sustained no injury.

The Czar has sent the Grank Turk a present of horses.
Probably Abdul Aziz would rathe'r be without Alexander's
gifts and his intervention. " Rich gifts wax poor when
givers prove unkind."

The Constitutionnel asserts that the Italian Government
has received grave news from Calabria, threatening the
public safety, and that General Sacchi has received orders
to commence vigorous operations against the brigandage
which raises its head in that part of the kingdom.

The French papers are beginning to insist upon organic
changes in the Government of Roumania. The recent
persecution of the Jews skews that these changes are
sorely needed.

To-day's obituary acquaints us for the first time of a sad
calamity which has happened in New South Wales.: On
March 15", by the upsetting of a boat on the River Clarence,
th° Bishop of Grafton and Armidale, his second son,
and his female servant, were drowned. The deceased
prelate, who wee for some years curate of Eridge
Green, Tunbridge Wens, -:.was -educated at Oriel
College, Oxford, where he was B.A. as hon.
4th class in law and . modern history, in 1854.
He obtained his degree shortly afterwards. About two
years ago the see of Grafton and Armidale was taken out
of the diocese of Newcastle, and Dr. Sawyer was conse•
crated its first bishop. His death will place a piece of
patronage in the hands of the Colonial Secretary.—The
death of Mr. Henry Fenwick, formerly M.P. for Sunder.
land, at the early age of 48, recalls the memory
of the contest which took place in that town a
little more than two years ago, when he lost his seat
and his Admiralty appointment at the same time. He
unsuccessfully contested Sunderland in 1852 against Mr.
Digby Seymour, Q.C., and on that learned gentleman's
appointment to the Recordership of Newcastle, in 1854,
his seat was vacated, and he offered himself for re-election.
Mr. Fenwick again came forward, defeated his antagonist
of 1852, and remained one of the members fur Sunderland
more than eleven years. He had been returned at the
head of the poll at three successive general elections ;
when, in the winter of 1865, he accepted from Earl
Russell the appointment of civil lord of the Admiralty,
and went down to Sunderland to send him again to Par-
liament. Mr. Alderman Candlish, whom he had defeated
by a large majority a few months previously, opposed him,
and was returned by a considerable majority. Mr.
Fenwick was thus beaten on the same ground which he
hail taken in opposing Mr. Digby Seymour—a fact which,
coupled with his previous success, gained for Sunderland
the distinction of being a weathercock constituency.
With the loss of his seat in Parliament, of course it
was impossible for the hon. gentleman to continue
civil lord of the Admiralty ; and he had no alternative
but to retire from public life with ruined hopes and in
broken health, which even at that time prevented his
making a canvass of the electors.—The third death on the
list is that of the widow of the late John Leech, who ex-
pired at Kensington on the 24th instant, having survived
her gifted husband a little more than three veers.

THE FENIAN TRIALS AT THE CENTRAL
CRIMINAL COURT.-THIS DAY.

Adjourned at seven o'clock last night, when the Lord
Chief Justice bad passed sentence upon Barrett, the Cen-
tral Criminal Court resumed its special sitting this morn-
ing for the purpose of proceeding with the Fenian trials.
The presiding judges were Mr. Baron Bramwell and Mr.
Justice Keating.

Before the prisoners charged with treason-felony, wore
placed in the dock, Mr. Montague Williams, addressing
Mr. Baron Bramwell, asked if it was intended to proceed
with the other indictments preferred against the prisoners
acquitted on the first charge of wilfulmurder in connection
with the Clerkenwell explosion. To this it was replied by
the learned judge that he must bear what the Attorney-
General had t-) say.

Nothing further at that time transpired upon the subject,
and Richard Burke, alias George Berry, alias Edward
C. Winslow, alias 'Wallace ; Joseph Theobald Casey, and
Harry Shaw, aliasMullady, were at once placed in the dock,
standing indicted for, with divers other evil-disposed
persons unknown, feloniously, wickedly, and unlawfully
compassing, imagining, inventing, devising-, and intending
to deprive and depose our Lady the Queen from the style,
honour, and royal name of the imps r:al crown of the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. The
appearance of the prisoners was that of men occ►►pying
a respectable position in life, and the general aspect and
demeanour of Burke, who wasdresed in black, and wore
tight-fighting black kid gloves, did not at all belie the
assertion that he had served as an officer in the Federal
army in America. lie is 35 years of age.
The Attorney-General, the Solicitor-General, Mr.
Giffard, Q.C., Mr. Archibald, and Mr. Poland conducted
the prosecution. Burke was defended by Mr. Ernest
Jones and Mr. Macdonald ; Shaw by Mr. Pater ; and
Casey by Mr. F. H. Lewis.

When called upon to plead, Burke, in a clear, loud voice,
declared he was not guilty, as also did Shaw and Casey,
the latter adding, " I am a loyal subject."
A jury being placed in the box, Mr. Ernest Jones ten-
dered a suggestion to be placed on the record
that Burke was an alien. 'ills involved a long
discussion, the upshot of which was that the court
received the suggestion on the distinct understanding thr.t
it meant that Burke was not a natural-born subject. The
suggestion being traversed by the:Attorney-General, the
jury were sworn to try that issue, the other prisoners
being removed from the dock in • the meantime. Mr.
Ernest Jones then put in a passport given to Burke,
signed by the American Minister, stating that such a
docunient was never given to anyone but a natural-born
subject of America.
Mr. R. De Tracy Booth, a member of the American bar,
examined the passport, and identified the signature of the
American Minister, " Chas. Francis Adams." Proceeding
to give evidence upon the American law relating to pass-
ports, exception was taken by the Attorney-General to the
nature of the evidence tendered, and Mr. Baron Bramwell
admitted the validity of the objection taken, Mr. Justice
Keating concurring. ITud.yr the direction of the court,
there being no further evidence, the jury returned a
verdict to the effect that the prisoner was not an alien.
At this point Burke asked to be allowed to address the
court on the decision arrived at, an application to which
Mr. Baron Bramwell returned a decided negative, remark-
ing that the prisoner appeared by counsel. To this Burke
replied that after the course pursued towards him
by the Attorney-General during the past week, and the
injustice of the decision which compelled him to be tried
by a domestic jury, he should request his counsel to with-
draw. This course WaB about to be pursued, but, after a
consultation with his attorney, Burke said, as he was' in-
formed that the case of two others to be tried after him
would be in some sort affected by his own, he would agree
to the usual course being pursued, but under protest.
Mr. Baron Bramwell : No notice is taken of your pro-
test.

Burke : Nevertheless, I make it, sir.
Mr. Baron Bramwell : No notice is taken of it.

Before the case proceeded further the Attorney-
General announced that he did not intend to proceed
against the three prisoners acquitted of the charge of
murder in the case of Sarah Anne Hodgkinson.

The foreman of the jury was then instructed to discharge
William Desmond, Timothy Desmond, John O'Keefe,
Nicholas English, and Ann Justice.
The Attorney-General, in stating the case for the
Crown, pointed out the provisons of the Act under which
the prisoners were indicted for treason-felony. This, the
minor offence, was punishable by imprisonment with hard
labour for a term not exceeding seven years. For reasons
upon which he need not enter, the trial had-been removed
from the county of Warwick, in which many of the overt
acts in connection with the conspiracy charged against the
prisoners were committed. Burke was arrested in the
neighbourhood of Woburn-square, in November 1867. It
would be proved that he was born in Ireland,
and for some time past, at all events, had been connected
with the Fenian Brotherhood. He held a position in the
Federal army, and was in IS6 the head of the Fenian
movement in America. One great object of the Fenian
confederacy in America was to procure arms to carry out
the rebellion in Ireland. For this purpose, in December
1865, Burke was in Birmingham, and it would be shewn
that while there in January 1866 he gave an order for two
mil/ion percussion caps. He also bought a number of re-
volvers, expending, in the whole, some £2.00. He
also at that time took a house in George-street, Birming-
ham, under the name of Winslow, paying the rent in
advance because he could give no reference. It would be
proved that for some time he was occupied in receiving at
that place large packages of arms and ammunition, and
that from several manufacturers he obtained goods to the
extent of £2,000, in almost every instance paying
ready money. It would be found that . early in '
1866 Burke was engaged in sending large packages
to Liverpool and beyond, and it would probably
be thought by the jury that these packages
contained arms. In the middle of 1866 Burke
was in London, having probably between February and
June visited Glasgow, Liverpool, and other places, busily
engaged in negotiating the purchase of arms and their
dispatch. (A letter from the prisoner to a gun-manufac-
turer in Birmingham, from wh ml he had made many j ur-
chases, asking for a quotation of prices, and signed in the
name of Winslow, was read by the Attorney-General, who
stated there were many others of a similar kind.) The
knowledge of the conspiracy was derived from the evidence
of Barney, Massey, and Corrigan, who would be called
as witnesses, and who were men who had been themselves
engaged in the plot. Their evidence would be rightly
commented upon by the counsel for the defence, but their
statement would be corroborated by the testimony of
unimpeachable witnesses. The learned Attorney-General
then proceeded to state that arrangements were made
for an assault upon Chester Castle and other
places. The castle was to be attacked on the 11th
February, 1867, the arms were to be seized, the trains
running to Holyhead stopped, and used to convey the
spoil thither, when it was to be conveyed by the conspira-
tors by boat to Ireland. The failure of the Chester attack
having been referred to, it was stated that Burke at the
time had been ordered from London to superintend opera-
tions in Ireland. Arrangements were then made for a gene-
ral rising in Ireland on the sth of March, 1867.
and it would be shewn that a number of arms were
despatched from Liverpool to Cork under fictitious names.
The learned Attorney-General, remarking that there was
some doubt as to Burke 'is movements up to the end of the
year, detailed the circumstances under which he was
arrested. With regard to the other prisoners, though
there was not evidence to shew that they had been so long
associated with the Fenian conspiracy, it would be proved
that they had been more or less deeply implicated in the
plot.
• The first witness called *as Inspector Thompson, who,
examined by Mr. Poland, deposed to the circumstances of
Burke's arrest in Woburn-equare. The prisoner denied
his identity, and Casey, who was with him, endeavoured
to rescue him. Eventually Burke broke away from wit.
ness, but was recaptured and taken to the police-station,
followed by Casey, who was himself subsequently takes
into custody.
,By Mr. Ernest Jones : In point of fact, he had not a
warrant in his pocket for the arrest of Burke at the time
he came up to him in Woburn-square.
By Mr. Lewis : It was Casey's own act that he followed
Burke to the station.
The police-constable who was called in to assist him
corroborated the evidence of Inspector Thompson.
When the Court reassembled after lunch, the foreman of
the jury, addressing Mr. Baron Bramwell, said it was the
wish of those who were associated with him that their
names should not be made public. The names of the jury
in the former trial bad been published in some of the daily
papers. The learned Judge replied that no doubt those who
had the control of such matters would respect the 'wish of
the jury.
The Solicitor-General, in the examination of the informer
Vaughan, elicited that ho had been associated with Burke
and others in the Fenian movement in America. The last
topic discussed before witness left America was the arr.:nge-
ment for sending military men to Ireland to head the Irish
at the time of the rising. Knew Stephens, who, when im-
prisoned, was succeeded by
Colonel Kelly. Was
in Ireland when the Habeas Corpus Act was sus-
pended, and was ordered to proceed to Liverpool with the
other American officers. Saw Burke there. Circles were
formed and money was collected for tho benefit of the
organisation. Witness belonged to the military circle.
Burke was told off for the purchase of arms. Saw Shaw
under the name of Mullady, at Liverpool. lie attended the
Fenian meetings there. Ileard from Shaw himself thlt he
was with But ke buying arms. Saw Burke and Shaw in Liver-
pool together in 1867. Burke said ho had been sent by James
Stephens. In that year, during the early part,Fenian
tom b
eetionghs,eaidt.whiAchußtuhrke e aAnidneSrlircaawn woeffirecperrseseina Liverpoolt, continued
attended the meetings. Burke represented that he came
from Stephens, to know if the American officers wore
satisfied with tho action taken by the directoaato in
London. At some of these meetings the plan
of attacking Chester " Castle was discussed.
continued iu our LatQ Edition.

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HER MAJESTY.

OSBORNE, April 27.
Her Majesty, accompanied by Princess Chris-
tian, walked in the grounds this morning.
The other members of the Royal Family also
went out.

RETURN OF TILE PRINCE AND PRINCESS

OF WALES.

Yesterday afternoon their Royal Highnesses the
Prince land Princess of \Vales, attended by their
suite, left Trentham, at the conclusion of their visit
to the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland, en route
for the metropolis. Their Royal Highnesses, who
were accompanied by the Duke and Duchess,
travelled in the beamtiful saloon carriage constructed
expressly for the use of the Duke when travelling
over the London and North-Western line. At

Stafford this carriage was attached to the Irish mail
train, and the Royal party left the latter station
shortly after 3 o'clock. Rugby was reached at 4.3 a
p.m., and here the train was joined by Captain
Bruyeres, the superintendent of the line. Their
Royal Highnesses passed Mug at 5.46 p.m., and
arrived at the Euston-square terminus at 6.25 p.m.
As their Royal Highnesses drove from the platform
they were greeted with hearty cheering. The front
of the terminus in Drummond-street was thronged

with people. Their Royal Highnesses arrived it
Marlborough-house shortly before 7 o'clock.

LATEST INTELLMENC2.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAM.)

AMERICA.

SOUTHAMPTON, April 28.

The North German Lloyd's steamer Branco,
from New York, has arrived here with 43 passen-
gers for this port, Havre, and Bremen, 42 sacks of
mails, $20,000 in specie for England ; and $4,300
in specie, and 2,465 packages of cargo for Bremen•

On the 23d she spoke the English barque NO
Zealand, and the ship Marlborough ; 24th tha
barque Stella ; 25th, the ship Sea Adventure,
bound west ; 26th, the barque Edgar, bound to
Swansea ; and on the 27th, off the Lizard, the Ger'
man schooner Maria, bound to Hamburg.

QUEENSTOWN, April 28.

The Cunard extra steamer Cuba, from N6/I
York, arrived here at 2.45 a.m. to-day, with 14
passengers. She landed two passengers and de-
spatches, and proceeded for Liverpool at 3040'
All well.
The Cuba brings $lOO,OOO in specie.