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

THE SUN, ,I,ONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 5, 1868.

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41 1861,. 1862, 1363 £117,000
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CREDIT SYSTEM—Oa any Policy for the whole of
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SALE OF OLD STORES AT THE ROYAL ARMY
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THE RESCUE SOCIETY'S HOMES
(ire as follows :
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7 He, FENIANS.

The newseuesuppliedlnmGToire ona et bheyer Fenian
sensational.
aaotni
ielsinpaianrl a.
named
ayiihreasdst
dinarily
eilnaft:i7,nlypiprboNrtance is the attempt on the life of the Duke
O'FARREL, wslhlootprhoisnoßunocyeadla
himselfhee tos be
s ithea Fenian,hsek ;
(Llheelibberaallte
nt,
tturned
days alongaft e
rt h. e ninthT h e
Frib o
Fenian
ol itto passedo
took
t
elyntered half an inch f'rom the spine, and
of the presence of the Prince at a puhbel
itocopptpil
oicer_ ocn
half-way round the body, where it was extracted
ity
in
aid of a Sydney Charity to give effect to his design,
which it is said fell to him by lot in execution of an
order received from the Fenian circle in England.
On the 18th March OTARREL was arraigned before
the Supreme Court, found guilty on the 31st March
of wounding with intent to kill, and sentenced to
be hanged. The assassination of JOHN D'ARcY
M'GrEE, plotted, it is said, by the Fenian circle
in New York, and carried into execution as is now
is
srethtte F
pretty weeelilaensteavbeliestheedf btyhea man
Western nani
world V
which
eNh,
excites most attention. Here in England there has
been the trial of the Fenian prisoners accused of
causing the Clerkenwell explosion • b ut. MICHAEL
BARRETT only, of .the nine persons has been
con-
victed and sentenced to death. A • vigorous effort
was made to prove an alibi in his favour. Three
shoemakers from Glasgow testified that on the
13th
December, the day of the explosion, BARRETT was
in that town, and therefore could not have been in
London. Mr. M`Nuvry had not only brought to
him a pair of boots for repairs on the 13th, but had
called the next day, annoyed at not receiving his
boots; when the fortunate entrance of two shoe-
makers, each of whom set to work on a boot,
enabled BARRETT to get the Lib completed.
The circumstance was all the more impressed
on his mind as BARRETr took a paper and
read aloud the narrative of the explosion. Here was
a substantial alibi, but it failed in bringing home to the
judge, jury, or any one else, the impression of truth.
Before sentence of death was passed on BARRETT
he addressed to the court a very effective speech, in
which he reviewed the evidence, and touched with
withering scorn on the approver MIJLLANY :—" Ilic
indeed.is. a life that no one will, envy,: and. Avery
one, even the most abandoned, will despise him.
Thekir.ety parties 'to- natv upon .him and,have
;r7.,coiciise.. to him will'spUru him:: A thmisand, times:!
,
wore` welcome is death 'to a, criminal- ,cJIIV)Ctei of
,:the 'highest crime than life and so-called libertiat
the-Sacrifice of everYthing,that .that: to elevate the
human' being and renders him worthy the name of
man." He spoke of the lova he bore his native
country, asserting that he would willingly and
gladly give his life if by that means he could
redreSs the wrongs of that persecuted land. Turn-
ing again, however, to the evidence of his com-
panion MULLANY, he d..:clared—" If there was
one thing, more than another required to com-
plete the degradation of Irishmen it is what
has happened in this Court. Au Irishman's oath
will no longer be admitted in a court of justice
where the life of a fellow-creature is at stake. This
is, indeed, a crowning indignity and a crushing
humiliation." After expressing a fervent wish that
Irishmen will never cease to attempt to shake off
that yoke which has so long depraved and degraded
them, until the freedom of their country or the ex-
tinction of their race shall be complete, he thanked
his Lordship for his patient hearing, his counsel for
their able defence, and announced that he would
ascend the scaffold with firmness, preferring that to
life with the brand of Cain. He was consoled with
the reflection that the stain of murder does not rest
Upon him. It is singular to remark the bearing as-
sumed by the Fenian prisoners in these trials. It
shows how invincible is habit and training ; and how
completely a man may be wedded not only to error,
but to the approval of plain and unvarnished crime.
Seliom has a more reckless aid shocking outrage
been committed than that of Clerkenwell. Seldom
has a more senseless, causeless, and vicious assassina-

tion been attempted than that of the Captain of th 3
Galatea. A street composed of frail tenements of
the poor was, through BARIZETT'S agency, when filled
with inmates, shattered into ruin on the chance of
releasing two prisoners—in Australia the Fenian
assassin shoots at a post-captain in the Navy, a
young man universally liked and respected, and who
has spent the most active part of his career at sea,
simply because this sailor happened to be the son
of the QUEEN. We can understand the murder of
Mr. APGEE ; not only was he a leading statesman
of the dominion, but he was a very awkward
instance for the conspirators of change of senti-
ment coming from riper and more general
knowledge. As a boy he had drunk deeply of the
froth and effervescence of the cup which for the
most part makes up Irish patriotism, and he had
found, when he began to analyse the ingredients,
that it was producing a momentary exhilaration
and—madness. lie was too honest not to work on
such conviction ; he was too able and energetic not
to make his work tell ; and he was too true an
Irishman even for the Fenians to be able to sneer
away what he said as the words of a traitor, or of
the English oppressor. The demagogues in New
York, who earn a handsome living by the conge-
nial mode of conspiracy, could find in the removal
of Mr. M'GEE an object worth plotting for ; and it
appears that the only Fenian bullet that ever
reached the right mark was in the case of the Cana-
dian statesman. It must have been an extraordinary
circumstance, and to the servant following his
master home, a lucky accident, that he was not
shot instead. Wherever Fenians have been brought
to the bar, Fenian informers have always appeared
in the witness-box. The tone assumed by the
condemned is uniformly the same, and we freely
confess, little as we like their acts, that there is
in their bearing a certain degree of nobility. Three
points have invariably been made—the degradation
and oppression of their country, the purity of
their patriotism, and their willingness sto die, if
the gift of their lives can in any way save
Ireland. They have assumed the tone of martyrs

sacrificed by bloodthirsty oppressors, and while
they have consigned the traitorous brethren who have

given evidence against them to a life of ignominy,
to be the outcasts of society, the object of the raised
finger of hatred and scorn, they have declared that

they would firmly meet their fate on the gallows,
forgiving all who had been instrumental in bringing
them to an untimely end. To listen, is to suppose
that you are in the presence of a WALLACE or a
TELL, and it shows to what extent false teaching
and error may delude. The first question is what
are the injuries of which these men complain ?
There is an inveterate belief abroad that the laws
framed for Ireland differ from the laws framed for

England, which is often naively shown ; as, for

instance, when some English and Scotch were
brought before a French Prefect for fighting
in Paris. " I could understand," said the magis-

trate, " Englishmen and Irishmen fighting, but not
English and Scotch, who live under the same laws,

and have therefore nothing to fight about." What
the Irish conspire for is to live under different laws,
not the same, that being the object for which the
English strive. England has no other aim than to

obliterate every trace of difference between the

most Irish of the Irish and themselves. The oppre.3-

sion, of the Irish is the attempt to elevate them into
a perfect equality with the other portions of the

empire. It may be that what suits the Anglo-
Saxon does not buit the Celt; but to call the mild

and equitable rule under which they live oppres

sion is a gross perversion of terms. Now what are the
crimes of_which these patriots have been convicted ?
Generally murder in its worst form, and with it most

dangerous objects; to up-set society, to disorganize

a leading kingdom of the world, and that affording
every opportunity for cbtainiug by legal means

redress for any real grievance.

These men use the

liberty which the laws of their country gives against
that country to stab it in the most vital place, and