The daily gazette., 1883-04-09
ALL LONDON EXCITED.
TERROR CAUSED BY THE AcI-
TATORS.
ANTI-IR1sH FEELING AROUSED.
The City Practically Under Martial Law
-Excitement Over the Dynamite Plots
Further Developments Expected,

LONDON, April S.-The metropolis is wild
with excitement and Is now practicable
under martial law. The dynamite scare il
sustained with all the theatrical accessories
calculated to give effect TO the Performance
OF the Scotland Yard artists. The bull etin
boards OF the newspapers are filled with
exciting headlines In fact there Is
more OF sensational spiciness in the adver
tising lines than can be found in the details
OF detectivetngenuityo or magisterial INQUIRY.
Inc unprecedented course has been taken of
conveying untried and uneOnvIcted suspects
to the convict prison of Millbank, making
parade of the progress of the police
van from Bow street to the Strand.
aud thence to Charing Cross, Whitehall,
Parliament street to that grim bastile on the
banks OF the Thames, with the accompani-
ment, OF course, of cavalcade of police
and military. Newgate would certaInly
prove strong enough for the safe-keepjpg OF
offenders more terrible than these men are
described to be, and the House of Detention
at ClerkeRwell has kept in security scores
OF the most determined desperadoes of the
age; but then the effect of driving by White
hall and the houses of Parliament would be
wanting and the appeal to popular pre-
1udiee would not have the aid Of scenic dis
play.
An anti-Irish feeling has been aroused in
the metropolis, and, as the newsboys cry
out "Another IRISH assassin arrested . ordi-
nar1ly sober-minded Englshmen look doubt
lngly on every one presenting in form.
feature or accent suspected Irish charac-
teristic. In public employments Irish help
is dispensed with so far as it can be done
with any appearance of decency, and In
private circles the ill-feeling manifests itself
most insultingly.
John Kirton, the Irish. American who was
arrested yesterday, is supposed to have been
selected to carry out some dynamite plots,
under sealed orders from the chiefs of n
secret organization. All the "dynamitists'
have been removed to the Millbank Prison
and placed in close and separate conflne-
ment under special guard. The convict
van In which they were taken to Millbank
was escorted by a large force of police armed
with revolvers. From papers found in White
head's dynamite factory at Birmingham it
is believed that clue has been obtained as
to the perpetrators of the Whitehall explo-
sion. The police say that several important
arrests Will shortly be m de. The cansters
seized at Liverpool have been found to con-
tain nitro glycerine, sawlust aud chalk, the
ignition ofthese explosives being worked nv
means OF trap operated by sulphuric acid
and exploding in Is minutes, Similar dvna-
mite has been seen only at the explosions at
Glasgow and at the Tunes Office here
II the bill TO amend the law in regard to
explosives, which Sir William narcourt wl
introduce in the House Ot Commons on
Monday, should not prove retrospective.
many members will support an amendment
to the bill making it retrospective iu its pro
visions.
The Observer to-day says that the police
possess knowledge which may lead to
further developments in what is likely to
become the most hideous and stupendous
plot OF modern times.