The Portland daily press., 1882-03-04
FOREIGN.
Further Details of the Attempt to
Shoot the Queen.
IRISHMEN UNITE IN DENoUNCING
TIE OUTRAGE.
Mclean Recently Discharged from a
Lunatic Asylum.


merous suite, witnessed the performance OF
"Tbe Manager at the Court Theatre in the
evening. On Mr.. Clayton's reading.to the au-
dience the news of the attack upon the Queen
and Her Majesty safety, the whole audience
rose en- masse and remained standing until the
Prince had bowed his Acknowledgements. and
the national anthem was played amid the loud
est demonstrations of approval.
An adjourned meeting of representative
Irishmen from all parts of the metropolis, held
in london to arrange for great national DEM
onstration on st. Patrick's Day, passed reso-
luton repudiating and deploring the attempt
ed assassination as cowarGly aud contemna-
BILE attempt There is much excitement in
Irish circles in London. The outrage is uni
versally condemned in the most emphatic man
ner.
LONDON, March 3-The Times this morn
ing says: "If no more can be said for Mclean,
the would-be assassin of the Queen, than
could be said of Guiteau, the assassin OF Pres
ident Garfield, or LEROY, the murderer of Mr..
Gold, he can as little expect to escape punish
ment."
United States Minister Lowell has rendered
to the Queen The congratulations of the Amer
can nation. kilograms expressing similar SEN
timents were arriving at Windsor throughout
the night. 1t is officially announced that the
Queen passed good night and that she is in no
way affected by the attempt on her life. Nc
Lean passed a restless night.
From later accounts it appears that Mclean
fred the shot after the carriage was in motion
Princess Beatrice and John Brown saw him
point the pistol at the carriage. He was exact
ly 80 PAGES distant when he fred. Two of the
four loaded chambers of the revolver con-
tanned only blank cartridges. Mclean had
walked from Portsmouth TO London week
ago. Upon his person was found purse con-
tanning penny and three tarthings and
pocket book containing the following entries:
"Fourth Path, novel by Mclean, and "Rey-
nolds newspaper gives as correct an idea OF the
wide difference that divides the people of
England as any newspaper in the world. |
venerate the free and outspoken principles of
an unbiased thinker"
with shooting at the Queen with intent to do
grievous bodily harm. He asked whether any
one was hurt, but the police refused to give
him any information. After searching the
yard at the railway station for an hour this
morning the police found small bullet imbed-
ded in the ground. 1t bore marks of having
first struck some other object. 1t was right in
the direction OF the spot over which the
Queens carriage was passing, having probably
passed over the horses heads. The Queen and
Princess Beatrice walked on the Castle terrace
as usual early this morning.
An eyewitness of the shooting states that
Mclean was observed fumbling in his pocket
while the Queen was being helped into her
carriage, but the pressure of the crowd pre-
vented him from raising his arm until the car
him aim very high.
The bullet found in the station yard weighs
about one-half of an ounce It has been COM
pared with others found on Mclean and found
to correspond with them exactly. Before the
revolver was seized the prisoner had brought
another loaded chamber opposite the hammer
Minister Lowell's telegram to Gen. Sir Fred
erick's Ponsonby says:
81 beg you to convey to Her Majesty my
heartfelt congratulations on her escape"
Mol .5c 1a1,tC Ccfn hat ha 10
trio and addicted to drink. 1t appears that
Mclean roughly endeayored to force his way
through the Eton College scholars who were
at the station. to a good position to await the
passage lof the Queen, and TIE consequent
hustliDg prevented his having opportunity to
fire when he might have done so with worse
result. There are various accounts as to
whether his arm was struck while firing or at
ter he had fred.
A special thanksgiving service was held at
Windsor to-day for the escape of the Queen.
Mclean was hooted at by the crowd while
on the way to the town hall.
At the examination of Mclean two letters
written by the prisoner were read. In the
first, which was written before the shooting,
he said he was compelled to commit crime
against 'blooded saristocracy'' because of the
insuficiency of relief offered. In the second
letter written after his arrest ne said his only
object was to cause public alarm and get his
pecuniary grievances redressed, that he did not
mean to hurt the Queen, but only fired at the
3 seels Of the carriage.
The charge brought against Mclean was
shooting at the Queen with intent to murder.
The prisoner was remanded for a week. For
NAL evidence was taken concerning the pris-
oneT'S arrest and the finding OF the bullet. Nc
Lean closely cross-examined several witnesses.
He did not seemed to be impressed with the
seriousness of his position.
: The police have ascertained that Mclean
was formerly in the Wells Lunatic Asylum
Ir1 arafar hor1 Lost
A solicitor has written to the mayor of Wind
sor stating that he defended a man named Rod
erck Mclean at Maidstone, in 1874, charged
with attempting to pset train.
The News says that it may be now pretty
safely concluded that Mclean is insane. Since
his discharge from the Wells Asylum he has
been confined in Weston Asylum. The Lon
don police have received information that he
was incarcerated in Dublin asylum for many
months.
Monument to Lord Beaconsheld
LONDON, March g. The Queens monument
to Beaconsield has just been erected at Hugh
enden church. 1t bears the following inscrip-
ton:
HIhis monument is placed here by grateful and
aectionate sovereign and friend, Victoria r. Kings
love him that speaketh right
Hanlan Matched with Trickett.
A sculling match has been arranged be-
tween Edward Hanlan of Toronto and Ed
ward Trlckett, of Sydney, N. S. w, for $500
a side, to take place on the Thames the 1st of
May.
Ulox Captured by the Austrians.
VIENNA, March LIT is officially announced
that the Austrians have captured Ulox after a
desperate resistance.
Gen. Skobeloff to be Disciplined.
ST. PETERSBURG, March 3.-The Emperor
has abandoned the idea of receiving Gen. Sko-
beloff, lest by SO doing he should give him un-
due Importance. His hierarchical chief, the
pscfN, - xrrt11 i'm and rdQr
him not to leave Russia, notifying him at the
same time that for the present at least he will
have no command intrusted to him. Gen.
Ignatieff repudiates Gen. Skobeloff entirely.
After his st. Petersburg speech Gen: Skobe-
loft was summoned to the ministry Sof the in
terror and reprimanded. Chow can L help
myself" said he in reply; II am neither poll
tician or diplomat; l am young, and must
have some outlet for my energy" On this L
hear that Ignatieff exclaimed, "Surely you do
not expect me to invent an expedition for you
every yearl" 1t was decided to-day at Cats
china that the too impetuous young general
shall be kept as much as possible in the back
ground Gen. Skobeloff arrived at Warsaw
last evening.
Foreign Notes.
An immense secret printing establishment
has Just been discovered at Odessa. Important
arrests have been made.
Charges are made against Admiral Grieg and
Makoff, the ex-ministerS OF finance and In
terror, and SchamShlne, prlyy counsellor.
They are extremely grave in character, and
are similar to those brought against ValujieH
and Gen. Krizanowski.
Pinkeye has broken out among the horses at
Toronto. In the stables of the street railway
company 40 horses are laid up with it,
A ST. Petersburg dispatch says that on Gen.
Ignatieff hearing that Lieut. Harbor and Mas
ter Scheutze had been obliged to change their
travelling route in consequence of the direct
roads being blocked by snow, he telegraphed
at once to the governor of Ekaterinburg to
rive them cordial welcome.
Charged with 'Abetting Cashier Baldwin
NEWARK, N. j., March 3.-Stephen II. Cou-
drick. one of the directors of the Mechanics
National Bank, was arrested this afternoon on
a charge of aiding and abetting Cashier Bald
win in misapplying the funds of the bank and
making false entries on the books. He will
give hail before United States Commsio ner
Patterson in the sam of $50,000 to-mor row
morning.
MINOR TELEGRANIS.
Major George L. Wentworth who shot at E.
s. NOVEL; at Dover, N. H., was yesterday sem
fenced to pay fine of 5000.
The ice bridge at Quebec still holds firm.
Streets in the city are covered with water. In
st. Sauveur many people were obliged to leave
their houses owing to the inundation.
The Brooklyn police made 355 arrests last
wear. The Chief of Police recommends an ad-
ditional police force, which will probably be
secured, as the Board Of Selectmen, in its an