The Express. — 1867-09-20 (London, England)

TSB PVUAN 01.7111.A0L  The Times considers that it would be unwise to treat the above occurrence as a mere isolated outburst of Irish mob violence. It proves that the • ill and ability to conspire still exist, and that thou Irish Americans who prowl about the streets of Irish cities, or English cities which aro partially Irish, are in treasonable communication with some of the Irish population, and can count upon them to do • desperate deed. Being driven from Ireland the Fenian leaders have probably, for the most pert, retained to America, or are biding their time in English or Scotch cities, and should evidently be well watched and sternly dealt with. The event of Wednesday will unsettle the minds of thousands of impulsive people, and inspire them with • 1 hope of doing something they regard as chivalrous. In places where Irishmen are to be found in large numbers, the force at the disposal of the local magistracy should be increased, and a few hundred cavalry distributed in towns where the Fenian spirit is known to exist would put an end to raids and rescues.  The existence of a public enemy in the heart of one of our greatest cities, striking a sudden, swift, and successful blow, constitutes intenigence, says the Daily Arrica, the importance of which is increased by reflection. One element of security disappears in the secrecy which was maintained. It is a terrible thing that society should be exposed to attacks like these, as sudden as the spring of the tiger, and as cruel. The peculiar difficulty which Fenianism offers is its intangibility; and the fact is that we have not to do with a mere enterprise, but with a spirit of inexorable and undying hostility which is contest to forego success if it may only find an opportunity for peasionate gratification. Gaining an inordinate idea of their strength from this recent outrage, the leaders of the Penises will turn it to profit, and possibly the Canadians may be the first to suffer. If punishment has any deterrent effect, now is the time to make use of it ; but when the penalty of this law has been inflicted, our great work will still remain to be done. Fenianism can be conquered nowhere but in Ireland, and perhaps the grievous social and economical condition of that country will be considered in a more earnest and practical spirit when it is found that a policy which breeds injustice and discontent in Ireland is avenged in the thoroughfares of our prin. cipal towns. The PIN{ thinks it is not creditable to the police that an armed band &build have met in the outskirts of Manchester, and have lain in wait for a consider►ble time to stop a police van, and yet that no inkling of such a plot should have reached their ears It seems that information of the threatened rescue was communicated to the Irish Secretary iu Dublin, but the warning which he thereupon transmitted to the magistrates at Manchester arrived an hour or so too late. Every man who took a part in the attack on the police and in the rescue of the prisoners is as much guilty of murder as the man who shot Sergeant Brett dead. This is the law, and if that law is enforced, those who have violated it will have little title to sympathy. More insuperable than any other exigency arising from this deplorable Manchester event is the necessity, says the Herald, of tracing down to its source, of con. netting leader with followers, of mapping out the rani. fications of the sanguinary conspiracy which has developed itself into a crime so terrible. And then, if the whole of the mystery be explored, and the hands engaged, indirectly as well ae directly, in the assassination be exposed, the action of the law cannot be too swift, cannot be too exemplar,. The nlegraph emphatically declares that any attempt to confer the dignity of a political offence on this criminal