The Sun.
London, England, 1868-05-18 00:00:00

Jackson.

" 3. This fe' e was given in aid of the fund of an excel-
lent institution called the Sailors' Home, andaAlmission to it
was by tickets costing £land 10s. respectively for gentlemen
and ladies. About 1,500 persona were present, having
been conveyed there from Sydney and the neighbourhood
by water. _

"4. It had been once postponed on ccount of the in-
clemency of the weather, and the day fixed for holding it
twice altered so as not to interfere with the religions ob-
servances, first of the Jews and afterwards of the Roman
Catholics, members of4oth communities being expected to
attend in large numbers.

5. His Royal highness, attended by Lieutenant Haig,
RE., and the Hon. Eliot Yorke, and accompanied by my-
self, and also by Lord Newry, Commander and Mrs.
Rowley Lambert, Commander Campbell, RN., and by
the members of my family and staff, arrived at Clontarf at
about from ten minutes to a quarter past two p.m., in the
steamer Fairy, which has been placed by its owner at the
disposal of his Royal Highness during his stay here.
" 6. On landing we were met by the President, Sir
William Manning, Q.C., by the Chief Justice, Sir Alfred
Stephen, C. 8., and by other members of the committee,
and immediately proceeded to the luncheon tent.

" 7. After luncheon, which lasted rather mere than half
an hour, Sir W. Manning proposed the health of her.
Majesty, which was enthusiastically received. Imme-
diately afterwards his Royal Highness quitted the
luncheon tent, and, giving his arm to Lady Belmore,
proceeded to another, placed at a short distance, followed
by our partY and by a few other ladies and gentlemen.
" 8. These tents were placed on a sort of flat plain of
limited extent, having steep rocks as a background and the.
sea on its other sides. Behind the tents and to one side
of them the ground was rough and wild, but before them
there was an open level space -of a few acres in extent,
rather sandy in most places, but covered with short grass.
Between this and the shore there is a thin fringe of gum
trees. A considerable number of persdns were walking
about in this open space, and a corroboree' by some 300
aborigines had been arranged to come off on the ground
during the afternoon. After leaving the ground, which
his Royal Highness proposed to do at an early hour,
he would probably have proceeded to explore the inlets
further up Middle Harbour, and then have returned to
Sydney.

` 9. As soon as the ladies had arrived at the tent I have
before alluded to his Royal -Highness called Sir William
Manning and walked away in conversation with him across
the open space. As he had previously told me that it was
his intention to hand Sir W. Manning, as president of the
committee, a cheque in aid of the funds of.the institution,
I naturally concluded that he was about to do so then—
which indeed was the case. I did not, therefore, pay
particular attention to the movements of his Royal High-
ness, but walked slowly in the same direction engaged in
conversation with the Chief Justice for about sixty
or eighty yards, when I believed I stopped and
turned round towards the tent. Almost immediately I
heard a cry from the other side of the clear space near the
belt of gum trees, and on turning round saw a rush of
people. I had heard no shots, and it at once occurred to
me either that some game or the corroboree was about to
begin. Some one near me said, The Duke is shot,' and
another person, He is shot, and has fallen down dead.' Just
then some one I knew—l think Sir W. Manning himself
—came up to me and repeated that the Duke was shot.
I had not gone many yards when I met a number of
persons carrying his Royal Highness between them
towards the tent. 1 immediately saw that he was not
killed, and the expression of his face struck me at once as
not being that of a person mortally wounded. I turned
to precede him to the tent, and meeting Captain Lyons,
R.N., of her Majesty's ship Charybdis, asked him to go
and get the ladies out of it. He hurried off at once, and
by the time I reached it only two or three were remaining
in it, strangers to me, whom I immediately ordered out,
and I endeavoured to arrange some cushions to place the
Duke on, which was scarcely done before his Royal High-
ness was brought in.

" 10. The first thing I recollect the Duke saying was,
Give me air.' The side of the tent was pulled up, and I
took off his neckcloth and opened his shirt and under waist-
coat. Mr. Eliot Yorke took from him at the same time
several articles of value, such as his watch, &c., which he
was wearing, his Royal Highness dib,play:ng meanwhile
great self-possession.
" 11. Dr. Watson, surgeon of her Majesty's ship
Chat-
lenger, was among the persons who carried his Royal
Highness to the tent, and Dr. Powell, assistant-surgeon of
her Alajesty's ship Ga'a ea, and several medical gentlemen
who were among the company on the ground were almost
immediately in atteneance, one of whom, Dr. Wright, for-
tunately had his instrument case with him.
" 12. On his Royal Highness's dress being removed, the
bullet was found to have entered half an inch from the
spine, between the ninth and tenth ribs, taking an oblique
direction, and was found to lodge about five inches from the
umbilicus, and four inches and a quarter beneath the
right nipple, having in its course traversed a distance of
12. f inches. The shock ltas very considerable, and it was
thought advisable not to remove the ball at the time.
" 13. My aide-de-camp, Captain Beresford, started off in
the Fairy to secure the attendance of Dr. 'Young (surgeon
of her Majesty's ship Galatea) at Government House, by
the time the Duke might arrive. Lady Belmore and the
ladies of the parties, accompanied by Lieutenant Fitz-
George, RN., followed after a little time, a message
being sent by Mr. Fitz-George to the commanding officer
of the Galatea, to have the boats in readiness on our arrival.
Lady 13elmore was just able to get the needful prepara-
tions made in a room on the ground floor at Government
House before w. arr ved.

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had only arrived in the ship Dunbar Castle the week
before, under the superintendence of Miss Young.
" 15. So far I have informed your Grace with some
minuteness of what occurred on this occasion within my
own knowlege and observation. A very full and, on
the whole, correct account of the outrage itself, and of the
subKquent arrest of the prisoner was published the next
(Friday) morning in the Sydney Morning :Herald news-
paper, which I have abstracted, with some trifling correc-
tions and amplifications with red ink in the margin.
" 16. From this your Grace will learn that O'Farrell
came behind his Royal Highness (who, in common with
several other naval officers, wore a uniform frock coat
and white trousers) while walking with Sir William
Manning, and deliberately shot him in the back with
a revolver, being at a distance from him at the time of
from four to six feet. He then covered with his pistol
Sir William Manning, who.. had turned round towards him,
but providentially this barrel missed fire. O'Farrell has
since stated that this second shot was also Intended for the
Duke. He raised the pistol a third time, intending, he
says, to shoot hiinself. At this moment Mr. Vial, coach-
builder in this city, jumped upon his back and forced his
hand down. The result was that the ball struck a gentle-
man (Mr. Thorne) who was running towards his -Royal
Highness, passing through his trousers, the elastic of his
boot, and his sock, and entering the foot a little in front of
and below the inner ankle, passing in a direction downwards
and outwards deep into the arch of the foot, and lodging
in the heel bone, near its articulation with the cubord
bone. The ball was firmly embedded in the bone. It was
extracted on Saturday, the 14th, and Mr. Thorne is going
on well.

" 17. O'Farrell was then seized by several persons and
taken into custody by Mr. Superintendent Orridge. A
determined effort was made by the bystanders to lynch'
him, and I am afraid that but for the exertions of the
Chief Justice, Lord Newry, and the men composing the
band of her Majesty's 50th Regiment, he would probably
not have left the ground alive, as the police would have
been overpowered.
" 18. He was got on board a steamer (which was close
at hand) in about ten minutes, and a disposition being
shown by the people on shore to again try and get posses-
sion of him, orders were given for the steamer to proceed
at once to Sydney.
" 19. I enclose an extract from the Empire newspaper.
which describes what took place in some detail.
"20. On arriving at Sydney the prisoner was conveyed
to the Government gaol at Darlinghurst, and was brought
up on Friday morning, the 13th of March, for examination
in the Debtors' Prison before the acting Water Police
Magistrate. The examination was continued on Monday,
the 16th, and at.its close he was committed for trial at
Darliughurst on the 26th inst., that day having been fixed
by a rule of court on the application, I believe, of the
Attorney. General.
" 21. 1 enclose a copy- of the evidence taken at the
inn uiry before the magistrate.
"2'2. On Saturday morning, the 14th inst., the shock
having disappeared, the bullet was extracted -with facility
from his Royal Highness by Dr. Young, surgeon of her
Majesty's ship Galatoa, and Dr. Watson, surgeon of her
Alajesty's ship Challenger. Since that tone no unfavourable
symptoms have occurred, and his Royal 11 ig:mess con-
tinues to progress as favourably as could be wished.
There are no symptoms of any injury to the lungs.
" 23. I have only to aid that the prisoner was arraigned
yesterday before the Supreme Court. Ho pleaded Not
Guilty. On the application of counsel •for the defence,
the trial was postponed until Monday next, to enable them
to endeavour to procure further evidence with regard to
the prisoner's antecedents. Although the prisoner has
avowed himself to be a Fenian, his family have under-
taken his defence on the ground of insanity.
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