The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1883-05-25 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

THE DYNAMITE PLOTS.7EXAMINATION  OF PRISONERS.  At the Liverpool Police Court, on Monday, the five men, Featherstone, O'Herlihy, Deasy, Flanniwin, and Dalton, dim; O'Connor, wore brought up on remand on charges of treason-felony, conspiracy to destroy public buildings and to murder subjects of the Queen, and being in possession of illegal explosives. Inspector Littlechild stated that he arrested the rhioner Dalton on the sth April, at Bowles's American Reading Rooms, 14, Strand. He took the prisoner to Scotland Yard, and there asked for his name and address, which the prisoner, gave as being Henry Dalton, residing at 2, Eaton Place, Pond Street, Fulham Road. Witness, together with other officers, went there, and searched the room occupied by him. A photograph of the prisoner was found there, and also a pocket-book, which contained a card bearing the words, "10, Great George Street West," and above it a name which had been rubbed out. In the pocket were various entries relative to the making of fulminate of mercury, fulminate of silver, and other things. On the prisoner's person was found another pocket-book, and a third was found at 2, Eaton Place, containing the name "John H. O'Connor." In the third pocket-book was he entry, "That where there is a circle interfered with in its working, by any body of men hostile in policy, that each centre should be in communication with the centre living nearest his districts, whereby they may assist the visiting committee in their duties, who may not be able to be at hand when needed." A glass tube, a packet of powder, and a rll of paper were found whilst he was in the room, and handed over to him. --Dr. August Dupre, F.R.S., Professor of Chemistry, repeated the evidence given by him at the committal of Deasy and Flannigan for trial a few weeks ago relative to the infernal machines, chemicals, and lignine dynamite found upon the former, and similar articles discovered after the Fossil Bridge explosion, Glasgow, and the explosion at the Local Government Board Offices, London. In one of the pocketbooks found upon Dalton and handed to him, he found a number of formula, apparently for snaking nitro-glycerine and for making chlorate of potassium, sulphide of arsenic, fulminate of silver, and fulminate of mercury. He also examined a document, which purported to be "a cure for gout," which was for making an incendiary preparation, popularly known as "Fenian fire."— Colonel Majendie, R.A., her Majesty's chief inspector of explosives, also recapitulated the evidence given on the previous occasion against Deasy and ' Flannigan, and said he considered that the "cure I for gout" was not an explosive, but an igneous • matter and most combustible. The prisoners were r then remanded.  Governor Sheldon, of New Mexico, lives in a house which is 300 years old. It is a mansion of one storey. Nearly two thousand bicyclists took part in the tenth annual gathering held in Bushey Park on Saturday afternoon. The lambing season in Yorkshire is just over, and flock-masters report on the whole a favourable season, but on some farms in East Yorkshire the losses have been heavy.  Saturday - of  -The Duke of Connaught presided on .... at the thirty-second annual general meeting the Royal Cambridge Asylum for Soldiers' Widows. In acknowledging a vote of thanks, his Royal Highness expressed a wish that provision might ultimately be made for 100 widows, and he hoped the committee would keep this object before their minds. He congratulated those connected with the institution on this admirable manner in which they had carried out their onerous duties, and on the very satisfactory state of the funds. Earl Spencer received on Saturday a deputation representing the Irish National School teachers, who laid before him a statement of their grievances, with a view to having these redressed. MI Excellency, while promising full consideration, pointed out that the Government and Parliament I had not overlooked the demands of the Irish teachers, that many improvements had already been made in their position, and that the State aid for education in Ireland was much gre,ater than in England.