The Atherstone, Nuneaton, and Warwickshire Times. — 1883-04-14 (Atherstone, Warwickshire, England)

STARTLING DISCOVERY OF EXPLOSIVES, AT BIRMINGHAM.  IMPORTANT ARRESTS.  - ..... On Friday Col Majendie,CH., Dr. Dupre,Analyst to the Home Office, and Dr. 11111,the Birmingham Borough Analyst, made an official exannuatien of the premises at Ladywood, Birmingham, where the man Whitehead had been carrying on the manufacture of nitro-glycerine, and concerted measures for getting rid of the dangerous material found in the boiler there. About 301 b. of nitroglycerine were skimmed off and chemically neutralised so as to remove the risk of spontaneous combustion. Before leaving each of the eleven acid carboys were examined, when one of them was found to contain about 1701b.0f nitro-glycerine, increasing the difficulty of disposal. The assistance was sought of Nobel's Explosive Company in converting the material into dynamite, in which form it can be burnt without explosion. Further details have transpired respecting the discovery, and a good deal of excitement prevails. The police are actively prosecuting their investigations, and the precautions for the secu ity of the public buildings anti the gaol at Wiliam Green, , where Whitehead is confined, are of the most ample character. On Friday,at the Bow-street Police-court,before Sir James Ingham, the four men who were arrested on Thursday in connection with the supposed dynamite conspiracy, were charged under tite 24th and '2sth Victoria, chap. 97, sec. 54, with being in possession of an explosive substance,. namely, nitro-glycerine, with the intent of committing a felony. Their names are Thomas Gallagher, 33, physician, lately residing at the Charing-cross Hotel ; Wm. Joseph Norman, 27, a coachbuilder ; Henry Hayward IVilson, clerk , and Henry Dalton, alias John O'Connor (the latter being only charged with complicity with the others). After hearing sufficient formal evidence, the learned magistrate remanded them all till Thursday next, refusing bail. It is stated that on one of the prisoners was found a plan of the Houses of Parliament, and the iuferenee is that the destruction of the Parliament buildings formed a part of the scheme of the dynamite party. From evidence obtained at Liverpool it io believed the persons in custody there are connected with the recent outrages at Glasgow, when a gasometer was fired and a railway shed blown up, and several police officers have left Glasgow for Liverpool to prosecute inquiries. The police in London, Birmingham, Liverpool and other principal towns are keenly searching for a man named Fletcher, whose behaviour during some time peat has been suspicious, who 18 wanted on a charge of being accessory with the prisoners now in custody at Bow-street, and who avoided arrest on Theraday morning. On Sunday the excitement showed no signs ef abatement. In the early part of the day the explosives we:e removed from Whitehaid'a premioes to the Sewage Farm, at Saltley, and destroyed by being burnt. The Observer says it is strongly believed that the police authorities in Loudon are in absolute possession of some most important information w hich will spsedily lead to the further development of what is likely to turn out the most hideous and stupendous plot of modern times. On Saturday John Kerton was arrested at Euston Station and charged with being concerned in the plot. He is suspected of having written a let, er to Dr. Gallagher, addressed to the Charing Cross Hotel, and was remanded until Thursday, when he will be brought up with the other prisoners. Dennis Deasey, apprehended on lauding from a Cork steamer at Liverpool, and Patrick Flannigan, a railway employe, of St. Helens, were on Saturday committed by the Stipendiary magistrate at Liverpool to the Assizes charged with having in their possession dangerous explosives with a view to comm it felony. At Glasgow on Saturday the police arrested Bernard Gallagher, the brother of Dr. Gallagher, and charged him with complicity in the explosion of the gasometer in January. He was remanded. Two jars of nitro-glycerine have reached Cork addressed to one of the prisoners ci arged with complicity in the murder conspiracy, and guncottou has been found buried near the city:  The / oily News New York Correspondent tele. graphs that the dynamite revelations in London and Birmingham are the leading feature in all the papers, awl the principal topic of conversation everywhere. The general belief is that the IrishAmericans are connected with the conspiracy, awl that they furu shed the funds.