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THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 22, 1868.

were constantly in sight of the gallows. In order
to estimate its real effect we should look rather at
those who were not so hardened in crime, and
seek to find the effect that it produced on them
" by the horror it threw around the first prompt-
ings to crime, by the check it interposed to
that gradual decline in the State, never
suddenly reached, when crime ceased to revolt,
and punishment to deter. It is the tendency of
this age to put a stop to all extreme punishments,
a far more creditable feeling than some of the sen-
timents which animated our predecessors ; but
still it will not do to go too far, even
in a humane and kindly direction. It is not
possible in this world to let mercy override jus-
tice, it may temper it stern decrees ; but so long as
sin abounds and vice flourishes, there must be stern
checks interposed, and stern penalties enforced.
Of late, indeed, it seems the more strange to have
all this excitement upon the matter, when there
have been so many crimes rife among us, and we had
better surely wait until such an exploit as the Clerk-
enwell outrage was settled, a case belonging to
the past, before we take up new doctrines, and
attempt experiments that are doubtful at the best.
The House of Commons has decided well and wisely
in coming to the decision it did yesterday, and the
more the subject is considered the more will it ap-
pear so.

The rapid progress of the Impeachment Trial at
Washington will surprise many. By a telegram
dated Monday we learn that the case for the de-
fence had been suddenly closed on that day, and
the resumption of the trial by the Managers of the
prosecution is fixed for to-day. The evidence for
the defence has been abruptly terminated by the
refusal of the Court to receive the testimony of
Secretary WELLES and others who were called to
prove that the Cabinet, including STANTON himself,
advised the PRESIDENT to veto the Tenure-of-Office
Bill, upon which so much of the case as regards
STANTON is now based. They agreed further to show
that the Cabinet had since agreed that the act was
inapplicable to the case of Mr. STANTON. It is not
very easy to see on what grounds these witnesses
were excluded from the case, as the prosecution had
previously summoned several witnesses of the same
class to depose to private conversations. It would
seem as though the court wished to put the PRE-
SIDENT at a disadvantage by thus suddenly termi-
nating his case. Possibly Mr. JOHNSON is indiffe-
rent as to the matter, knowing that, after all, the
issue depends rather on the strength of political
feeling and the balance of political parties. It
has been throughout the manifest desire
of the prosecution to hurry on the trial.
Every effort to obtain some delay has been
frustrated, and it seems as if the prosecution were
actually apprehensive of too much coming to
light. The Managers of the case have throughout
manifested their animus against the PRESIDENT in
the most unreserved fashion, though the Senate has
not always supported them. By the fuller intelli-
gence brought by the mail steamer City of Ant-
werp, we learn that when the defence offered the
evidence of General THOMAS relative to his conver-
sations with Mr. JOHNSON, the Managers objected
to its being received, but the Senate voted that it
should be admitted by 42 to 10. We have pro-
bably got to the truth of the Radical story
about seizing the % ar-office at last. General
THOMAS, on cross-examination, admitted that he had
threatened to use force on his own responsibility,
but that the PRESIDENT had never ordered him to
use force or threats to obtain possession of the War
Office. Mr. JOHNSON, however, irritated by STAN-
TON'S Contumacious refusal to yiold poszmoion, must
have known that he could not lightly use such ex-
pressions, nor advise any subordinate of his to
attempt forcible measures without producing serious
results. On the other hand, it is likely enough that
the soldier, annoyed and thwarted by STANTON'S
determination to hold his grouad, should have
fallen back on his profession and threatened to
obtain vi et arnzis what he could not get by parley.
A significant fact was mentioned a day or two since
which serves to show how strong is the Radical dis-
like to Mr. JOHNSON, and at the sane time how
apprehensive is the party of his re-election. A bill
has been introduced into Congress providing that
no President nor Vice-President shall be eligible
for re-election, being manifestly directed against
almost the only President of late years who has
throughout maintained his indifference to a further
lease of power.

The importance of an extensive system of irriga-
tion in India is admitted on all hands, but, at the
same time, whenever the subject comes under dis-
cussion there are always objections raised to the
manner of carrying it out. Private members are
usually very ready to criticise particular methods
of raising money or of applying it to the given
purpose, but the fault of Governments is generally
that of doing too little. In the Indian department,
more perhaps than in any other, we reap the disad-
vantage of frequent changes of administration. First
we had for many years at the head of the Board of
Control Lord HALIFAX, then Sir CHARLES WOOD,
whose main object seemed to be to hinder all im-
provement and retard every possible reform. Then
came Lord STANLEY, whose brief tenure of office
was engrossed by the transfer of authority from the
East India Company to the Crown. After him
came Sir CHARLES WOOD again, then others in
quick succession, Lord CRANBORNE and Sir STAF-
FORD NORTIICOTE. Supposing that any one of these
statesmen were strongly in favour of irrigation, what
chance would there be that their successors would
carryttout their views ? Such drawbacks are of
course in a great measure unavoidable, but we
should like to see a little more energy and interest
in the internal affairs of India shown by our legis-
lators. The supineness which seems inseparable
from Anglo-Indian life pervades the atmo-
sphere of Downing-street and the House of
Commons when Indian affairs are concerned, and
though the recent transactions of the Indian Govern-
ment with the Irrigation Companies called loudly
for inquiry very little attention was paid to them.
We must have a change for the better in regard to
matters of such interest, and we hope the new Par:
liament will look after them a little more closely
than the old.

TIIE LEADER supplied us on Tuesday with inte-
resting morsels of information about Boucicault,
Patti, Gonnod, Dord, and George Eliot, about the Oak,
L'Abime, and the Broadway, the source.of which, through
pure inadvertence, remained, we regret to find, unacknow-
ledged. Already we have ourselves taken occasion more
than once to direct attention to the great improvement
evidenced of late in our young but vigorous weekly con-
temporary of London and Liverpool, and we have plea-
sure, therefore, while now making the amende fur an acci-
dental oversight, to endorse our previous words of com-
mendation.

Thirteen of the finest wooden ships in the navy
have been sold for £so,ooo—about a sixteenth cf their
original cost.:

Proceedings have been commenced in the Court
of Queen's Bench to compel the Bishop of London to pro-
secute for heresy the Rev. Mr. Bennett, vicar of Frome,
one of the principal of the ritualist clergy. Mr. Bennett
has published some essays avowing belief in the Real
Presence.

In consequence of the ritualistic practices of St.
Mark's Church, Kenningt)n, and public avowal by the
incumbent of his belief in certain doctrines of the Catholic
religion, the committee of the Licensed Victuallers' School
have withdrawn the children—nearly 200 in number—
froni that churah.

LATEST INTELL IGENCE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

THE WAR IN ABYSSINIA.
Sir Stafford Northcote has received the three fol
lowing telegrams from Sir Robert Napier :

1. Without date.—" Head-quarters and Ist Bri-
gade crossing Takazze, and ascend to the plain of
Wadela, 10,600 ft. Theodore on the Bashilo. Pri-
soners well. Troops well."
2. Dated Camp Dildee, March 25.—" Head-
quarters reach Enade (?) to-morrow, and Mochet
27th. All going on well. News from prisoners.
Rassam released from chains and treated civilly."
3. Dated April I.—" Head-quarters and Ist Bri-
gade at Abdicorn, 10 miles from the Jidda River ;
2d Brigade 12 miles in rear, with elephant batte-
ries. Will concentrate at Sindiay, on left bank of
the Jidda, while Theodore's road across is being re-
paired. Distance from the river Bastille., 20 miles ;
from Magdala, 30 miles. Latest news from pri-
soners 25th of March ; all well. Troops all well."

HUNGARY.

BUDA, April 22.

The Empress of Austria gave birth to a Princess
at five o'clock this morning. Her Majesty is doing
well.

AUSTRIA.

VIENNA, April 22.

Baron Meysenburg will not leave here for
Rome on an extraordinary mission relative to the
Concordat before the Emperor has sanctioned the
laws in reference to the religious question passed by
the Reichsrath.

It is believed in official quarters that the ques-
tion of the reorganisation of the army will he
settled in a manner favourable to the unity of the

army.

The Anglo-Austrian treaty of commerce was
signed to-day. . _

It is stated that Count Stackelberg, the Rus-
sian Minister at Vienna, will replace Baron
Budberg at Paris, and himself be succeeded by
Count Orloff or Baron Knoring•

The Wanderer asserts that apprehensions are en-
tertained of an invasion of the Turkish Archipelago
by the Greek party of action, and alleges that to
be the reason why the French and S wedish squad-
rons are cruising in those waters.

A meeting of the members of the Left was held
yesterday to discuss the financial question.
The Ministers, Dr. Brestel and Dr. Berger, were
present. The majority of the members spoke in
favour of covering the deficit by the imposition of
special taxes on the wealthier classes.

Dr. Brestel, the Minister of Finance, declared
himself ready to accept any modification of
his scheme which might be agreed upon
by the House, excepting only a decla-
ration of national bankruptcy. Dr. Berger
hinted that the Cabinet would resign should a pro-
posal to declare a national bankruptcy be adopted
by the m ajority.

TURIN", April 22, Morning.

The marriage contract between Prince Humbert
and the Princess Margherita of Genoa was signed
yesterday. The contract was witnessed by the
French, Prussian, and Saxon Ministers.
Prince Napoleon will not be present at the
Florence fetes.

PLYMOUTH, April 22.

The Spanish storeship San Francisco de Borga,
Captain Jandine, from Cadiz and Ferrol with
quicksilver for London, put in here this morning
leaky. The leak will be stopped by her own arti-
sans, and she will then proceed on her voyage.

FRANCE.
ROCRSE, April 21.—T1
closed as follows :
4j per Gent.
End of month —
3 per Cent
End of month 69 25
Credit Mobilier
End of month 221 25
Credit Fonder 1468 75
End of month,.

.ree o'clock.—The market

Bank Shares
Ital'an Loan —
End of month —
Mexican Loan „ l9 50
Do. Bonds
Spanish Threes „ 37 25
Homo Debt —
Deferred —

RAILWAYS.

Account
Orleans ................................ B62k
Northern .............................
Lyons and. Mediterranean
Southern.....
Western
Eastern • .........................
Sardinian .................................... 42}
Austrian ....................................... 55-2 i
Lombard ....................................... 363
North of Spain 7O
Saragossa
Roman

WHA7 RI7UALISTS THINK OF THE IRISH

CiIURCH.

In an article entitled " The Premier's Canard,"
which severely rates Mr. Disraeli for his attempt to
get up an electioneering "No Popery" cry, the
Church 7 ivies thus speaks of the Irish Chlirch :
" As to the Irish Church, we haft) expressed our
opinion of its spiritual demerits often enough in our
columns. And we cannot see why, if the Scriptural
mode of dealing with communions which have
failed to do their work were enforced, its candle-
stick should not at once be removed. But its merely
legal position is strong enough, and we more than
doubt whether its disestablishment would remedy,
or even abate a single Irish grievance. Moreover,
the Irish Church is of great use to us Catholics. It
is the drunken Helot whom we hold up as a warn-
ing. See, we say, what mere Protestantism, fettered
with the chains of Episcopal succession and ancient
liturgical forms, comes to. Protestantism free and
unattached, and not tied to any Catholic usage,
may do some good in its way, but the Irish Church
is an abject and disgraceful failure. Its clergy do
not work, do not think, do not write, do not keep
their flocks from rushing off into the wildest Dissent,
and that is what the Church of England would be-
come if the Puritans were to get the supremacy
which they desire. Whereas, if the Irish Church
were disestablished, and the clergy had to fall back
on the voluntry principle, it is just barely possible
that they might begin to earn their bread honestly
by doing a fair day's work for their wages, athing
certainly not attempted now by
out of the two thousand who occupy the Irish
Clergy List." fifty ecclesiastics

General Sir James Simpson, who for a time held
the chief command in the Crimea, died on Satur-
day.
The reported release of Colonel Nagle, one of the
Jacknell prisoners, is devoid of foundation. He is
to be put upon his trial for the third time, after
twelve months' incarceration.
Mr. Thomas Hughes, M.P. for Lambeth, whose
election on the last occasion cost him the moderate
sum of £l,lOO, probably the smallest sum that ever
won a metropolitan borough, has announced his in-
tention to do without committee-rooms, public-
houses, and the rest of the stock election machinery.
He declares that he cannot afford to pay even
£l,lOO for his seat again.
In the House of Commons, on Monday night,
Mr. Fawcett moved that a vote of £5,600, asked
for the purpose of maintaining St. James's Palace,
be refused, as the queen did not now reside there.
The motion was negatived.
The Rev. T. Nash, curate of Sible Hedingbam,
Essex, has been found dead in a ditch near the
village.
A nugget of gold, weighing eighty pounds, and
estimated to contain 1,000 ounces of pure gold, has just
been discovered near Maryborough, Queensland. It is
thought that there are large deposits in the neighbourhood.
The Duke of Edinburgh returned to Sydney on
the 2d ult., from a very short visit to Queensland. His
Royal Highness next proceeded to New Zealand, where
extensiye arrangements hays been made for his reception,

CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

PARIS, TUESDAY, April 21.

The "black spots" go on increasing. The Prussian
papers which reach us are beginning to adopt a very
unsatisfactory tone with regard to the relations between
the two countries. The Ereuz Zeitung explains the secret
of the Danish Minister of War's visit here, by declaring
that it was connected with a large order for Remington
rifles, and that the officers who attended bim stopped on
their way through Hanover and told them that better
times were:in store for them. The Correspondance Bullier
publishes a letter from Berlin which states that " the con-
fidence in the durable maintenance of peace has not been
strengthened by recent events. It is no great consolation for
us to read in the French journals that the war against us is
only adjourned, and that if it is postponed till next winter
it is because Marshal Niel has always been a partisan of a
winter campaign." There have been rumours to the effect
that the Prussian Government has made representations to
ours respecting the Hanoverian officers who have taken re-
fuge in France, but the semi-official Etendarcl denies this.
A story, for which there is better foundation, is told
to the effect that there has been something like a quarrel
between M. Rouher and Marshal Niel, respecting the
enormous war budget. The Minister of War justified it,
saying, with some warmth : " There is at Berlin a man,
enjoying the esteem of the country and the confidence of
the King, who occupies himself only in studying upon the
map the road to Paris." The Minister of State replied :
" There is also at Paris a man who, by his talents and the
glorious reminiscences of his career, particularly at Sol-
ferino, has acquired general respect and the confidence of
the Emperor, and who, excited by patriotism, is for ever
studying the shortest route to Berlin."
Letters from Vienna, though pacific, speak of dis-
quietude which is likely to produce unfavourable results.
It is believed that Napoleon, in spite of the representations
of the Austrian Government that Austria must attend
solely to her own affairs, relies upon the support of
Francis Joseph. This belief makes the Viennese angry,
since, say they, it shews that Napoleon has no considera-
tion for Austria and the difficulties by which she is
surrounded in her present work of reorganisation.
It is, therefore, with great dissatisfaction that the subjects
of Francis Joseph hear that he and the Empress will, as
soon as possible after the recovery of the latter, go to
Paris and return the Salzburg visit.

Another matter which the Prussians lay stress upon is
the recent proposal for a disarmament made by some of
our semi-official journals. It is remarked at Berlin that
France has armed far beyond any other nation, and is
still arming ; and it is, therefore, absurd for her to speak
of disarmament as though it rested with other nations to
take the first step.
The Constitutionnel contains a long account of the
arrangements which have been made for giving our troops
experience in camp. The semi-official journal says: "The
new armament ( the Chassepot ) necessitating new
manoeuvres, it has been necessary to establish upon
several points of territory camps where the army can
rapidly adapt itself to the changes of tactics which we have
been compelled to adopt." The largest camp will be
at Chalons. The battalions of two corps d'armee
will succeed each other there. There are to
be sham fights. Every general will have in turn to attack
some other general. Spectators will have an opportunity.,
of seeing that France has made a good purchase in her new'
rifles, for they will be tried against dummy soldiers. ThiS
year there will be a camp close to Paris, at St. Maur, and
one of the chief attractions to visitors will be the Turcosi
who will perform their national dance every evening.
The Prince Imperial has returned to PariS "in perfec
health," the Government organs tell us. Prince Napoleon
has arrived at Turin; so has the Prince of Prussia; and thq
Paris journals point out that Sadowa, is more thought of
than Solferino, for the Italian cities through which the
German prince passed were illuminated, while no sucli,
honour was paid to the French Prince. This is scarcely
fair. Prince Napoleon is a frequent visitor to Italy, being
the King's son-in-law, whereas this is, I believe, the first
time that Prince William has been in the country.
We learn that Count Stackelberg„ now Russian
Minister at Vienna, is to succeed Baron Budberg
as
Russian Minister at Paris. The conduct of the latter, in
challenging Baron Meyendorff, is said to have given the
Czar much satisfaction. If so, how comes it to pass that
Baron Budberg's formal resignation has been actually
accepted? •
The Exhibition is disappearing very slowly, for grea;
care is being taken to remove the various parts so that
they may not be injured. With equal slowness the new
opera-house is approaching completion. This magnificent
building will not be completed for eighteen months or two

years.
Lamartine is in very bad health, and he is no longer
able to write. . H'e has one of his young relatives living
with him, and she acts as his amanuensis.
The usual terrible sequence of famine has appeared in
Algeria. Between January 1 and April 9, 1,089 beggar
were found dead of typhus in one town. The deaths are
very numerous in other places.

THE ROYAL VISIT TO IRELAND.

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(FRO3I OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.)

DUBLIN, TUESDAY.

The morning, after another night of rain, the sky again,
cleared up, and towards mid-day, when his Royal High,
ness the Prince of Wales was to receive his degree of
LL.D. at the hands of the university, and to uncover tI4
statue of Burke in front of old Trinity, the sun shone out
bright and warm, though still with a tendency to showei
?Jost of the flags, saturated with rain, and not a few of the
decorations destroyed by a stiff wind, had been removed,
so that the leading streets did not present the gay aspect
they bad during the previous week. The crowds, too,
were not quite so great along the line of the
royal route, though at the College itself, and within
view of the statue, side paths, streets, platforms, windows,
and every point from which the unveiling could be seen
were one dense, living mass of people, enthusiastic in their
loyalty, and glorying in the royal recognition of a name
and a men of whom Irishmen universally have every
reason to feel proud.
In the university itself every preparation had been
made for the suitable reception of the royal and viceregal
party, and at every window and niche appeared the
students in their caps and gowns, the platform of
the previous week having been removed. The
Examination Hall was crowded With a select and fashion=-.
able assemblage, and outside every inch of space was
crowded by the students and the subscribers to the Burke
Statue Fund. At two o'clock the royal cortege arrived
amid the warmest greeting, at the chief entrance to the
college, the Princess of Wales again receiving the lion's
share of the ovation.
I do not think it necessary to repeat myself as to the
rejoicings;
which were characterised by all the exube-
ranee of those of the previous week. Nor do I
enter into details of the conferring of the degree, or of
the words employed in the inauguration. I shill only
state that degrees of LL.D. were conferred on his Royal
Highness the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Cam.
bridge ; that the Comitia having been closed, the sight`
Hon; Sir J. Napier, Bart., vice-chancellor of the uni-
versity, addressed the Prince, explaining to him the object
for which his Royal Highness had been requested to honour
the meeting with his presence; that the Lord Chief Justice,
on the part of the subscribers to the statue, presented.the
statue to the Provost, Fellows, and scholars of Trinity Col-
lege ; that the Provost returned thanks on behalf of the
university ; that a procession was formed to conduct their
Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, and
the royal and viceregal party to the platform adjoining
the statue ; that the statue was then formally handed over
to the college authorities by the Lord Chief Justice on the
part of the subscribers ; and that, thereupon, his Royal
Highness the Pi ince of Wales, at the request of the Provost,
and during a blink of sunshine, amid smart showers which
were so ashamed of themselves as to disappear almost as
soon as they came, proceeded to unveil the statue—an act
performed with princely grace and dignity—and amid the
most rapturous plaudits, with waving of hats and hand-
kerchiefs of the assembled thousands.
The ceremony of the unveiling over, the royal and
viceregal party proceeded to visit the Royal Irish
Ica,demy in Dawson-street. Thence they passed over to
the Royal Dublin Society's Spring Cdttle Show in Kil-
dare-street, where an immense crowd had assembled, and
where a display of cattle and implements, greatly in excess
in number and quality of any previous year, were sub-
mitted to royal inspection and review. The show, as I
intimated to you in a previous letter, is in the exten-
sive park and courtyard attached to Leinster House.
It will be open for three days, of which this is the
first. The front entrance is to-day most elaborately deco.
rated, and presents a very fine effect, while inside and
throughout the various departments the greatest anima-
tion prevails. The royal party, who were two hours later
in leaving the Castle, and hence two hours later in leaving
the College and Academy, than was originally designed,
were received with the utmost enthusiasm, and, in com-
pany with the officers of the society, they passed through
the principal halls and galleries, surveying the finest cattle
and the most perfect agricultural implements that the
elreen Isle or its stock-breeders and artisans can produce.
lam not "at home "in a cattle show. I plead igno•
ranee as to the special features of " blood and culture " in
bulls, cows, horses, sheep, pigs, or poultry. I have not
:ven learned the accredited nomenclature of the farm-
eard, and I am satisfied I should be certain to blunder if I
vied to single out as worthy of first prizes or of particular
eerriniendation some of the finer-looking animals among
the shorthorns the Ayrshires, the Devons, the Alderneys,
,r the various other kinds of fat cattle. Other pens
than mine will do these justice, and the awards
of the judges, which you will have in good
tone, will be infinitely more likely to be
correct than any judgment I could express or
form. I shall only say that the show is on all hands
regarded as of the very highest crass in every department,
and that the appearance of the royal and viceregal party
lends to it an attraction and an enthusiasm greatly in
excess of all previous displays.
I have only time to add that to-night his Royal High-
ness and other distinguished visitors will be entertained
at a conversazione in the Council Chamber of the society,
and that the invitations issued to meet his Royal High.
ness are most numerous. To-morrow night the great
citizens' ball comes off. It will be a brilliant affair.

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

When this morning, for the third time, the Fenian
prisoners William Desmond, Timothy Desmond, Nicholas
English, John O'Keefe, Michael Barrett, and Ann Justice
were placed at the dock of the Central Criminal Court, it
was observable that the excitement and anxiety incidental
to the first two days of the trial had severely told upon
them. The appearance of the woman Justice was less
changed than that of her companions, owing, perhaps, to
the fact that the evidence adduced had not told so directly
against her. The few moments that intervened between
their coming into the dock and the arrival of the judges
was occupied by the prisoners in communication with their
attorneys and counsel.
The first witness called was Thomas Rees Clifford, s
warder in the House of Detention, who resided at the
time of the explosion in Corporation-lane. On the after-
noon of that day, looking from the window of his house.
he observed three men with a truck leaving the prison.
As the men passed they looked back towards the prison.
Two were drawing the truck in the road, and one man was
walking on the pavement. (The prisoners being called npor
to stand up, the witness gave it as his belief that the mei
with the truck were Timothy Desmond and English. Th,
third man was Allen, who had been arrested and die
charged).
Hannah Gillis, going through Woodgate-street, on the
night before the explosion, at about ten o'clock, saw the
prisoner O'Keefe.
Mr. Montague Williams was about to cross-examine
the witness, when the Lord Chief Justice intimated that
it would be only a waste of time, as the evidence was not
of the slightest value.
Objection was taken by Mr. Baker Greene to the
examination of a warder named Richard Maskell, who
was in charge of the prisoners, amongst whom was Burke,
in the House of Detention during the time they were
exercising on the 12th of December, as what was done in
the absence of the accused could not be used as evidence
against them.
The objection being overruled, the witness proceeded to
State that on the day in question the prisoner Burke was
in one of the exercising grounds of the prison, and the
prisoner Casey was in the adjoining ground. There were

two rings of prisoners, and Burke was in'the outer, one,
and falling out of the rings he leaned against the
wall, at as great a distance as he could get from the
spot where the explosion took place 'the following day.
Burke took off his boot and wiped his foot with his hand,
looking at the houses in Corporation-lane. He then put
on his boot, rejoined the ring, and proceeded with the
other prisoners. This was two or three minutes past four.
Having seen the effects of the explosion next day, the wit-
ness said none of the debris reached within five yards of
the spot where Burke leaned against the wall.

The next evidence was that of a little boy, named 'Walter
Holgate, who, the day before the explosion, was running
round the buildings near the prison; and saw a truck in
the road and a barrel on the pavement, and pointed it out
to Charles Moseley; a companion.
George Rayner, a constable on duty inside the House of
Detention on the 13th December, saw Ann Justice at
twenty minutes past twelve. She applied to see Casey.
She stated she was his aunt, to Worth, one of the warders.
Having been admitted, she remained in the prison till
twenty-five minutes to one. Leaving the prison she went
to a beershop opposite and spoke to a person named Allen.
At one o'clock a woman named Parry, representing herself
to be Burke's sister, was admitted. Witness followed her
when she left, but eventually missed her, as she was in a cab.
Coming-back by Short's -buildin gs,witness saw Ann Justice.
He also observed her at a later period with Timothy Des-
mond, at the public-house referred to above. This was
about twenty minutes past three. They were joined by
Allen and a man not in custody. Allen, leaving the other,
entered into conversation with Ann Justice, and subse-
quently Timothy Desmond and the unknown man walked
towards Corporation-lane. This was shortly before four.
When the explosion took place witness was blown down.
Getting out of the prison, he and an officer named Sutton
went to St. James's-walk, and there saw Justice and Allen.
Knocking down the latter, he took him into custody. Justice
was also arrested. Saw Timothy Desmond running
from Short's-buildings. He was taken into custody by
Sutton. The prisoners were taken into the prison. In
the scuff% which ensued the hats of Timothy Desmond
and of Allen were knocked off and picked up by a warder.
When the prisoners were removed the next morning
Timothy Desmond had on a white billycock hat.
By Mr. Straight (who appeared for Timothy Desmond):
When he first saw Timothy Desmond he thought he was
the worse for liquor.
William Mired Worth, warder at the House of Deten-
tion, passed Ann Justice into the prison as deposed to by
the former witness. She was seen by him outside the
prison when he went off duty at half-past two, and when
he returned at ten minutes past three. She was speaking
to Allen. Also saw Timothy Desmond between half-past
three and a quarter to four. He joined Justice and Allen,
who were standing at the Prince of Wales beershop. They
then separated, and the explosion took place a quarter of
an hour afterwards. Justice and Allen then ran up St.
Ja7mes's-walk. They and Timothy Desmond were
captured.

Thomas Knowles, a constable on duty at the House a
Detention, gave evidence of the woman Parry's visit to
Burke on the 13th December. She came and left in a
cab.

John Goldsmith, another constable, saw Justice,
Timothy Desmond, Allen, and a man not in custody in
company in the immediate vicinity of the prison on the
day of the explosion.

Ambrose Sutton, the police-constable who captured
Timothy Desmond, was the next witness examined. When
the explosion. took place he was thrown down, but, imme-
diately getting up, he saw Justice and Allen running.
They were arrested. Saw Timothy Desmond also running
away from the prison, in the direction of Clerkenwell-
green. Seized him, and conveyed- him into the prison.
To the best of his belief had seen O'Keefe in the neigh-
bourhood the same afternoon.

To the Court the witness stated that he would not posi-
tively swear that. he saw O'Keefe. Desmond and Justice
must have seen witness watching them.
Isaac Allen, who had come up to the cattle show from
Reading on the 13th December, was in. Corporation-lane,
when he saw a barrel removed from a truck and placed
against the wall of the prison. It was then
covered with a cloth, the truck being wheeled away.
Barrett was one of the men who assisted in getting the
barrel out of the truck. William Desmond was like one
of those men he saw standing in the passage of a court
close by, but could not swear to him. The explosion took
place two minutes after witness passed the spot.
The late Lord Chief Baron, Sir Frederick Pollock, occu-
pied a seat on the bench during a portion of the morning.
Henry Bird, a dairyman, was serving milk in Corpora-
tion-lane on the 13th December, at about a quarter to
four, when he observed a truck and three men with it.
When I first saw it, it was being wheeled along from the
direction of Bowling Green-lane. Two of the men were
drawing the truck, and one was walking by the
side. In Corporation-lane the men turned the truck round
and ran it back into the gutter. The barrel then fell out.
One of the men spoke in Irish, as witness supposed,
and the truck was taken away. Only one
man went back with the truck, another man
wisted the barrel round and threw a covering over it.
Two men were present at the time. They then moved
away. The next thing witness saw was a gentleman, in
appearance, standing on the same side as the prison wall.
When he passed witness he crossed the road. He was not
one of the three men. When the man went up by the
barrel he proceeded :to examine the head of it, as if he
were looking for a direction. He took a fusee or a match
from his pocket and applied it to the head of the barrel.
Having got it lighted he pulled the tarpaulin over it and
went into the passage. After serving two customers
witness came again into Corporation-lane, and spoke
to a police constable, named Moriarty. When he
got into Coburgh-street the explosion took place,
scarcely a minute having elapsed since he had spoken
to Moriarty. Was sure that Barrett was the man
that walked to the barrel and applied the fuse. At that
time he was dressed in a long brown coat, and wore a
high hat. When he went to identify him at Millbank
his whiskers were off. On the 13th December his whiskers
were very long, and he bad a very high colour. When
shown several prisoners at Millbank, witness at first
thought another man was the one who had fired the
barrel, but when he saw his side face he was convinced
that Barrett was the man. Was only able to see his side
face on the afternoon of the explosion. Believed that
Timothy Desmond was one of the men seen with the
truck.
By Mr. Straight—When at the House of Detention the
day after the explosion he had said he could not identify
Timothy Desmond, as he did not feel confidence in him-
self. When before the coroner he did not swear to any
of the men.

RUSSIAN REWARDS TO CIRCUS RIDERS.—The
extravagance of the Russian public in loading their fa-
vourites, such as the Lucca, the danseuse Granzoff, Madame
Volum and other actresses and actors, with magnificent
presents, is well known, and that at a time when so many
thousands around are suffering the extremities of famine,
and when all classes are complaining of straitened cir-
cumstances and the Res angusta domi. Now, in the ab-
sence of greater stars (the theatres being closed in Lent),
the riders at Hinne's Circus receive large silver tankards
as rewards for leaping through a hoop ; and, when re-
called by the plaudits of the multitude, which here, on
the banks of the frozen Neva, as erst by the sunny shore
of the yellow Tiber, asks only forpanon et Circenses, bound
back into the sawdust of the arena, and there stand
bowing and smirking in their flesh-coloured tights, and
gracefully waving their costly trophies to the enraptured
adieu.

Ton cir, . Tar
.

HER MAJESTY.

OSBORNE, April 21.
The Queen, accompanied by her Royal High-
ness Princess Louise, drove in the grounds this
morning.

Prince and Princess Christian, and Princess
Beatrice, walked in the grounds, and Prince Leo-
pold drove out.

NAVAL AND MILITARY IN7ELLIGENCE•

The Lyra screw sloop, Captain Parr, was paid
off at Portsmouth yesterday, and placed in the 3d
Division of the Steam Reserve at that port.
The troopship Orontes was placed in No. 8 dock
at Portsmouth yesterday for repairs before being
put in commission for further troop service.
The Liffey screw frigate, 31, Captain John 0.
Johnson, arrived and anchored at Spithead yesterday
from Plymouth, exchanging salutes with the Vic-
tory, flagship of the Commander-in-Chief, Admiral
Sir T. S. Pasley.

In consequence of the severe gale of wind still
continuing to blow, the Bellerophon and Urgent
have remained at their anchorages at Portsmouth,
and the authorities have not attempted to remove
the military invalids from the Hotspur.
The following appointments were made yesterday
at the Admiralty:—Hugh B. Rooper, midshipman,
to the Prince Consort ; E. D. A. Ommaney,
shipman, to the Royal Oak; Ernest Duncombe,
midshipman, to the Octavia ; Frederick Elton,
assistant clerk, to the Pallas ; John Hill and James
A. Shawyer, engineers to the Avon ; Edward Ingle-
dew and Thomas Spence, engineers, to the Philo-
mei ; W. P. Guyer, engineer, to the Dwarf ; James
Grant, Ist class assistant engineer, to the Avon ;
Michael J. Shannon, lst class assistant engineer, to
the Philomel ; and Benjamin Taylor and Anthony
M. Brumage, Ist class assistant engineer, to the
Dwarf.