The Sun.
London, England, 1868-04-23 00:00:00

THE FENIAN TRIALS.

(Continue,olfrom our First Elition of yesterday)
To Mr. Baker Greene.—Had sail before Sir
Thomas Henry thtt -William Desmond was very
like the man who had fired the barrel. Also said
the man who lighted the match had a red beard.
At Millbank had said O'Neil was the man.

To Mr. Baron Bramwell—Was sure that Barrett
was the man.

To the Lard Chief Justice—Saw that a reward
was offered the Sunday after the explosion. Could
not identify any one on the Saturday. It was after
the reward was offered that he identiaed him, but
had not thought anything about the reward.
The evidenca of this witness was exciedingly
contradictory, and it was only by a series of ques-
tions from the Lard Chief Justice and Mr. Baron
Bramwell that his real meaning cauli be ascer-
tained.

Thomas Wheeler, a boy 12 years of age, idea-
ified B trrett as the man who h%d lighted the squib
in the barrel.

By Mr. Baker Greene—When taken t 3 Bow-street
was told to pick out the viva ha knew. He first
turned away without recognising any one.
To the Lord Chief Justice —The maq lightad the
squib with a match. He struck two or three
matches before he got a light. Had a thumb and
finger blown off in the explosion.

John S.nith, a lad nine years of age, gave evi-
dence to the same effect as the last two witnesses.
The man who put the squib in the barrel
came down the court, and the box from
which he procured the match to light
it was thrown to him across the road. The first
sluib would not light properly, so the man threw
it away, and witness picked it up. lie ran away,
and the explosion shortly afterwards occurred.
James Cape, warder in the House of Detention,
was with the prisoners, amongst whom was Burke,
at the time the men were exercised on the 12th of
December. At a few minutes after four
o'clock a white india-rubber ball was thrown
into the yard from Corporation-lane.
While Burke was in his charge, he was
visited daily by the woman Barry. She -used to
bring him food and underclothing, and take away
his dirty clothing. It was his duty to examine the
parcels carried in and oat.
The Attorney-General was examining the wit-
ness as to something which he had discovered o
one occasion in some stockings brought for Burke,
when an objection to the evidence was taken by
Mr. Baker Greene.

The nature of the evi iencu wis my 13 known to
th3LlnlChief Justice in writing, and having looked
over the document, his Lordship said he, should
wish to consult Mr. Baron Bramwell, who had left
the bench.

The Court then adjourned, the jury being locked
up for the third night.

THE FENIANS AT 13UCKINGH.131
PALACE.

The following appeared in our Latest Edition of yeeterisy
evening:—

The two men who were apprehended on Monday
undercertain suspicious circu instances were placed at
the bar before Mr. Vaughan this afternoon, at Bow-
street Police-court. They gave th 3 naln3s of
Edward Barry and Michael O'Keefe.

They were charged with having in their pos-
session an explosive substance with iutent to com-
mit a felony.

Police-sergeant Campbell said I am a sergeant
in the police, and in accordance with directions from
Inspector Williamson I went to Buckingham Palace
about 8 o'clock on Monday night. I saw the
two prisoners under very suspicious circumstances.
O'Keefe had a basket on his shoulders. I asked
him what he had got, and he said he did not
know. I told him I should take him into
custody when a scuffle took place, and he
(Campbell) had to draw his revolver. The pri-
prisoner, O'Keefe, struggled very much. Langley
took Barry into custody. The prisoner was
told he had Greek fire with him, but he said he did
not know what the hamper contained. The
basket, it was found, had in it a tin can
which would contain about two quarts of anything.
Langley took Barry into custody after resistance.
Inspector Williamson—l am an inspector of
the detective police force. I despatched the two
officers to watch the neighbourhood of Buckingham
Palace. I gave directions for the prisoners to be
taken into custody, and after that was done the
hamper was taken to St. George's Barracks. The
prisoners having been secured, the basket was
opened and a tin box bound round with straw was
found in it. I took the packet this morning along
the Birdcage-walk in a cab when so much smoke at
once came from it that water had to be procured
to extinguish it. It ha sine?, hem placed in safe
custody for examination.

Mr. Vaughan—Do you know either of the
prisoners ?

Inspector IVilliam3on—Yes, sir. I know Barry
to be a member of the Fenian Brotherhood, and I
have now to ask for a remand, in order that the
contents of the case may become known.
Mr. Vaughan—Certainly. The prisoners are
remanded.
O'Keefe and Barry seemed to treat the matter
with indifference, but on their being conveyed to
the van at the close of the examination a great
crowd which had collected in the froit of the court
received them with hisses and groans.

Chelmsford
Worcester Summer
Carlisle 7
Newmarket July 7 I
liungerford
Pontefract
Heading
Down Royal Corp. lo 1

Liverpool July M.
Odifitun
Stamford e
Radcliffe
Huntingdon ...
Nottingham July
Southampton
Goodwood

AUGUST.
Deauville
Leek 3 Oxford
Brighton
Brighton Club 6 1 Canterbury
Lewes Summer
Wolverhampton ll Derby Summer
Stockton
I
Plymouth
Windsor August l3 Lichfield
m I
Egha 17 Tunbridge
flutings
York August

SEPTEMBER.
Badon
Warwick September ... 1 I Monmouth ...
Abingdon 3 I Newmarket Ist October 22
Leicester
Doncaster September... 8 I Edinburgh
Brecon
Richmond
liarnpton Autumn l3 and Western M
Kelso l.
•
OCTOBER.
Bedford 1 I Eating
..... 15
Bromley Autumn
Newinarket 2d October .5 1 Bromley Autumn
Lanark ... • 8 I Worcester Autumn..., 29
Chelmsford Autumn ... 13 i Lincoln Autumn 2O
Cheltenham

SECRET HISTORY 01, 711 E STAGE.

(From Wilkes' Spirit of the Tines.)

EDWIN BOOTH is thirty-eight years old by a Frodhaul
stop-watch held over him from his start by his affectionate
brother Junius Brutus Booth, the'lovely and accomplished
husband of the dignified and athletic Agnes Perry. The
watch is from Tiffany, who advertises in our columns.
Edwin booth is till, lean, and has long black hair, sweep.
ing down behind long white ears. His eyes are large,
liquid, tender, expressive, and strongly reminds one of
moons beaming o'er a lake. Wears good clothes when he
isn't travelling, and has a secret grief not totally uncon-
nected with a young woman. Drinks tea, studies hard to
make up for the time he lost in cutting up shines with
umbrellas at fancy balls in San Francisco. Is worth say
one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, and is one of the
most cultivated, unaffected gentlemen in "the profession.'
Has been married, but wife is dead. Mr. Booth is not
to blame for that, however—as usual. We regret to leant
that Mr. Booth prefers Boston to New York.

GEORGE BONIFACE is about thirty-five years of age,
and looks as though ho was conscious that the eyes of
Delaware were on him.' Ile is chiefly entitled to notice
in these columns for having played Hamlet recently to an
audience composed principally of the orchestra and the
machinists of the theatre. Is not rich, but gets a good
salary—when he can. Plays Sir William Wallace, the
Hero of Scotland, with immense effect. His broadsword
combats are gems of art, and he is much envied for his
skill by "the profession." Is married to a sister of Miss
Kate Newton, and we believo his domestic relations are as
unruffled as the fair bosom of a silver lake on a still sum-
mer's day. Husband to be commended for that, as it is un-
usual.

CH -morn CusmrAN is the original of Walter Scott's
Meg Merrilies, and is a resident of Rome, Italy. She played
throughout the United States until she had acquired about
a hundred thousand in metallic currency, and then settled
down in the Eternal City, built a house on the Rock of
Ages, and inaugurated those charming conversaziones
whose fragrant memories have been embalmed with the
literiry remains of Horace Walpole and Charley Sumner.
Miss Cushman is a woman of remarkable talent—bakes,
brews, stews, sings, paints, sculps, embroiders, keeps her
own bank-book, and, like Mrs. Fanny Komble-Pierce-
Butler, keeps doing it bettor and better every year of her
useful and well-regulated existence. She discovered the
circulation of the blood by squeezing a young man's hand
a good many years ago. His name was Harvey—hence
the erroneous idea that Harvey made the discovery. Chemi-
cally considered, Miss Cushman is a success. She possesses
ferruginous properties, which make her an exceedingly
difficult woman to borrow money from. For that reason
she has never been thoroughly popular in " the profession,"
and it is said that Garibaldi looks coldly upon her. Taking
twenty as a representative number, Charlotte wears two
parts of her own hair and eighteen of another woman's.
When playing Meg Merrilies, the proportion of the other
woman's is increased. Eats maccaroni with Parmesan
cheese, .from a recipe given her by Aloe Stetson ; reads
Emerson, and has inscribed on the panels of her coupe,
"If the red slayer think, ho slays." Miss Cushman is
not married—and for all this the men are to blame.
Her post-office address is Rome, Italy, care of Cardinal
Antonolll.

BILLY BIRCH. is bald and fifty-six years of age. Lives
on Washington Heights, next door to the New York.
Herald, in which paper the S. P. Minstrels are daily ad-
vertised free gratis on account of the neighbourly feeling
existing between tho Groat Hinnourist and the Great
Misanthrope. Birch is of Turkish parentage, whence he
dories many of those peculiarities which have made his
photograph so common in young ladies' albums—smoking,
sitting cross-legged, Oriental aversion to alc3holic stimu-
lants, and superhuman calmness while his personal pro-
perty is being destroyed by fire. Is four ft. high and three
thick, but not iu the head. Ile earns about 61,000 week,
which he is saving up to establish a Home for Old
.Ladies.
Mr. Birch's costume in the street is singularly quiet and
modest. A broad-brinun P 41131113 hat, tastefuly set off
with a pendent Bismarck ribbon; a blue coat,swallow-tailed,
with double-breasted violet vest, -worked
withthreads of gold ; green plush trousers ; Cho-
delicate braes plates;
rokeo Mocca.sine, worked iu four colours ; a diamond
cluster as big as a skillet ; white cotton gloves long in the
fingers and short in the wrist, complete the unassuming
attire of the famous minstrel. Mr. Birch is married, but
doesn't mind it much. Drives a pair of bays and light
trotting wagon, and drives theta tolerably well. Is ad-
dressed through the Personals' of the Herald as 'Montagu
Mentressor.' Birch weighs abut three hundred pounds
Troy weight, but is under training to reduce his weight
h o
picked re s Storm
p
so that Backus can throw him around handily. lie
once wrecked on the Central America, and floated about
Atlantic Ocean for several months, whistling the le
saanl
‘v playingate
r y g with. a
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eventually
bird
that
fromM 1 al
by a passing \Vest India schooner and invoi • ued as fruit to
Rayner, where ho may be found hanging every day like a
rich, ripe, fat kuucb.Qt