The Sun. — 1870-04-23 (London, England)

TIIE RUMOURED FENIAN PLOT.  The frustration of a supposed Fenian plot at Newcastle, as already announced by telegraph, is thus referred to in Thursday evening's edition of the Northern Daily Er press : —The movements of the Fenian sympathisers in this district have aroused the suspicions of the authorities, who have been on the alert of for some time ; and their suspicions are confirmed by the arrival in Newcastle of a quantity of firearms, addressed to the keeper of a public-house in the lower part of the town, who is supposed to have Fenian proclivities. The police, we understand, have seized the consignment, which came from Birmingham, and of the despatch of which, no doubt, there was some information. About 200 rifles were found among the articles seized, and orders have been issued for the police authorities to keep a strict watch upon • the proceedings of the discontented Irish in this district. There is every reason to fear that some movement either in Newcastle or elsewhere has been contemplated, but the activity of the police may frustrate the designs of the misguided men. The Liverpool papers state that on Thursday forenoon a quantity of powder vas discovered in a pit in the Borough-road, Birkenhead, under circumstances which have given rise in the neighbourhood to a considerable amount of gossip. It appears that some boys, while playing in the road, observed two men of foreign appearance throw a number of small bags into the pit, and then hurriedly take their departure, as if afraid to be seen. As the bags immediately sank, the curiosity of the lads was excited, and they began to "fish" the bags out of the water. About thirty bags were discovered, and to' their astonishment each contained about 11b. of gunpowder. Several of the bags were taken to the police office, but no clue to the persons who threw the powder into the pit has been obtained. Some persons have associated the affair with Fenianism. It is certainly extraordinary that such a quantity of powder should be thrown away in the manner stated.  The petition praying for the remission of the sentence of five years' penal servitude, passed upon John Crow, of Gateshead, for the murder of his wife, has been unavailing.  The rumour announced in some Gateshead papers, and in the London press, that Sir William Hutt, M.P., was likely to be raised to the peerage, is untrue. The Gateshead Observer, the liberal paper, which discredited it in the first place, now denies it upon authority. The hon. gentleman stated in public at the last election, that he had refused the honour of being elevated to the Upper House.  Dr. Unger, one of the first botanists in Gernianv, was found a few days ago dead in his bed at Gratz (Austria). An examination of the body showed that he had been strangled, but the motive of the crime remains a mystery. A drawer containing some papers of value was found open, but nothing had been abstracted. The Law limes Is surprised at the EconomisCit suggestion that Sir Roundell Palmer's support should be purchased by the Government. Seldom has a more insulting suggestion been adventured. Sir Roundell Palmer is deliberately recommended as a man whose opposition should be, and might be, bought off. Does the Economist. sume that Sir R. Palmer's opposition to portions of the Irish Land Bill is not honest?  Bondholders of the San Domingo Loan and others interested in that Republic will do well (the Financier says) not to attach implicit credence to the statements transmitted from New York and Philadelphia, to the effect that the question of the annexation of San Doming.° to the United States has been practically decided in the negative. According to some of the private telegrams, there is still a strong prospect of the measure being decided upon.