Morning journal and courier., 1883-04-23

l lmmed1afe changes 1n the law. The prlnclpa operators who suffer directly from tn.
 law, and who feel it's effects at once are mine owners, quarrymen, builders and
 others who depend almost entirely on the
 use of dynamite to carry on their legiti
 mate business They have already been har
 assed by the ineonvenient restrictions placed
 on commercial transactions in explosives and
 the new law makes it dangerous to carry on their business at all as it places them practi- cally at the mercy of blackmailers and pre- tended informers. The law is felt with especial force by some of the larger mine owners who have heretofore found it more economical to manufacture their own explosives than to buy them in the open market. They and every man in their employ would now con- tinue to manufacture at the risk of the inor- dinately heavy penalties of life imprisonment Another and much larger class of men suffer indirectly. They are the detectives, policemen, chemists, druggists, steam ship owners, apothecaries, householders, carriers and others who in any way may be thrown in connection with suspi clous characters or who transport common matter. From the hour when the character of the law became known the police have been in constant receipt of all sorts of in
 
 trouble with little result. Every person who had any dealings with an Irish or Amer 1can stranger seems to have felt it his duty to report that fact to the authorities and every case has to be patiently investigated generally of course with very little result. If man with an Irish name or an Irish accent purchases acids or other ingre1i- ents of explosives from chemist, no time is lost in giving the fact to the police, and if householders give or refuse shelter to suspicious strangers, or hand-car man gets hold of an odd looking parcel, there is more work for the detectives and vexatious annoy ances for all sorts of innocent people who never gave a thought to Irish matters and never dreamed of dyna- mite. In one case where much alarm was caused half the police of the central di- vision were engaged all night in the capture of what in the end proved to be only an in nocent package of candles. Until it was opened 1t was an internal machine of scienti- ic and destructive character. The pressure for immediate and essential change in the law is very strong.
 Dynamite COnspfrators On TriaI-Anoth-
 CT Prisoner Who Will Turn Informer.
 DUBLIN, April 22.-In the hearing of the cases against CarmodY, Morgan. O'Herlihy and Featherstone, the men arrested at Cork some days ago on charge of being engaged in the dynamite conspiracy, it WAS proved that two documents found on Deasy, one of the men arrested at Liverpool for bringing explo- sives and internal machines into England, ordering acids ia the name of O'Herlihy at Glasgow, were in the writing of Featherstone. It was also disclosed at the examination that the name 'tFeatherstone" is an alias
 Twenty persons have been arrested in the town of Milltown-Malay, county Clare, eight miles west of Ennis, on charge of conspira- cy to murder landlords, agents and officials Two of the prisoners have turned informers.
 Joseph Hanlan, another of the prisoners charged with being implicated in the Phoe- nix Park murders, is expected to turn in- former. The government apparently mis- trusts its ability to make out a case against him and intends to use him at the second trial of Timothy Kelly, who failed of B conviction on the comparatively unsupport- ed testimony of Carey, the first informer Kelly's trial will be begun tomorrow, and should Hanlan support Carey, Kelly can hardly escape conviction.