Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1866-10-19 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

EXPAT RIATION OF FENIANS.—The Cork Examiner Worms us that since the renewal of the Habeas Corpus Suspension Act scarcely one of the steamers which sail from Queenstown regularly every week for America had left that did not take one person, at least, who had been confined in Mouirtjtry Prison on suspicion of complicity with Fenianisnt This shows that those who had been confined in Mountjoy previous to the extensiou of the Act were waiting for the expired the first term to get their liberty witheut any restrictions being placed upon them, but, finding that they would be subjected to a further imprisonment on the extension of the Act, a large number of them have accepted the terms of the Government for their release —that of leaving the country. By Guion and Co.'s steamer Manhattan, which sailed on Thursday week, three young men emigrated who had been confined in Mountjoy. They all belonged to Dublin, and hail been in prison for nearly eight months. Their names are rhos. Slattery, Wm. Dobbyn, and Joseph Marsden. and they arrived in Queeostown on the Tuesday previous from Dublin, in charge of three policemen. ATTEMPTED MURDER IN BIRMINGHAM —A shocking case of stabbing arid one which there is every reason to believe will terminate fatally, occurred lit Birmingham, late ou Friday night, or rather early on Saturday morning Some time since a man named Joseph Taylor, aged about thirty-two, returned to Biriningliain after undergoing the punishment of four years' penal servitude for receiving stolen goods, and, being himself a whip maker by trade formed the acquaintance of an old man named Dennis Desmond, also a whip maker, with whose daughter he began to cohabit about five months ago. She was also employed in one branch of whip making, the old man taking out for sale the whips made by her paramour, all three living in a room in a filthy court in Thorp street. Ou Thursday night the old man, having hail some drink, quarrelled with Taylor, upon which the latter left the house. Late on Friday night he returned, and, Desmond being asleep, was admitted by the woman. who prepared a shake-down, on which they both lay. Desmond, on learning who had been adulated, arose, seiz-d a fender, and with it aimed a blow at Taylor, who, however, was sheltered by the woman; but, on being tainted with his condition as a returned convict, he got up and struck Desmond a blow with his fist, 'The end of the quarrel was that both Taylor and the daughter were put to the door, which was locked from the inside by the old man, hut a policeman was induced to break open the door, and the man anti woman re-entered. This the father resented; a scuffle took place between him and Taylor, in the course of which he was seen to take from a drawer a sharp knife used in his trade, and with it stab Taylor. lie ran down the court, and then came back, telling Eliza Desmond that he had been stabbed ; and she, having made such slight examination as was possible at the time, found that he had received a severe wound in the abdomen, from which his trowels were protruding. He was at once removed to the General Hospital, and Desmond was taken into custody. No hopes were entertained of the injured man's recovery. Desmond is about sixty years of age, and very passionate when under the influence of drink, by which he seems to have been affected for two or three days previous to the unhappy occurrence.