The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1883-04-12
THE OLD WORLD.
Something About What is Going on in Other Lands
Than Oars.

There is great excitement in London over
the discovery of secret dynamite factory in
Birmingham and the arrest of the proprietor.
who is said to be an Irish American named
Whitehead, ITO pounds of nitro glycerine were
found in the factory. Other arrests have also
been made in London of men supposed to be in
league in the manufacture of explosives for the
work of destruction in England. Arrests have
been made also in Glasgow and in Paris, where
much uneasiness is felt. Developments of a
most startling character are promised in Lon
don.-The British governments bill intro
duced in the House of Commons on Monday
by Sir William Harcourt, home secretary, rela-
tive to explosives, provides that the maximum
penalty for causing an explosion by which life
or property is imperiled shall be lifelong serv-
itude. An attempt to cause an explosion or
the making or keeping of explosives with in
tent to cause an explosion, is made punishable
by imprisonment for term of twenty years
and the unlawful making or keeping of explo-
sives under suspicious circumstances is to be
punishable by fourteen years imprisonment
The penalties are to be inflicted IRRESPECTIVE of
the damage done by the explosives The bill
also empowers the master of any vessel to
break open any packages to search for explo-
sives. The act applies both to explosives proper
and to materials for making them or to any
machine or part thereof connected with them
1T passed the House of Commons without oppo-
sition as also the House of Lords, and went into
effect on Tuesday dispatch from Dublin
says Joe Brady, Timothy Kelly, Patrick De-
laney, Thomas Caffrey, Daniel Curley, and
Fitzharris, known as Skin, the Goat" the
men charged with the PhGnix Park murders
and other crimes, were conveyed from Kill
mailman prison to the Green-street court house
Monday morning under q strong escort of po-
licemen Judge O'Brien informed the grand
jury that the Crown would allege that the
murder of Lord Frederick Cavendsh was not
a part of the original design of the Ph9nix
Park assassins; that he was a victim on account
of being at the time in company with Mr.
Burke. The Crown would claim however, that
all the persons present at the time of the muir
der were responsible for the killing of Lord
Frederick, and were, therefore accessories be-
fore the fact. The grand jury found q true bill
against Joe Brady, and his trial began on Tues
day.-A mine has been discovered in Moscow
connecting with the Kremlin, where the corona
ton of the Car is to take pace-The project
of police in Copenhagen has ordered the social
ist congress in session there to disband, and
the foreign members to leave the city.-An
explosion of a powder depot occurred on the
9Th inst. at Mericane, small village just ont
of Passo Carese, Italy. Two hundred weight
of powder was stored in a cellar of tenement
house, in which sixty workmen had quarters.
One of these men having occasion TO go into
the cellar, lighted a match to aid him in find
ing his way in the dark, and when it had
burned out, threw down the stub with its little
spark. In an instant there was terrific ex-
plosion, and the whole house was blown into
the air. Forty persons We're killed, and all the
others badly mangled.