THE FENIANS.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 12, Issue 913, 1 February 1868, Page 3

THE FENIANS.

The Fenian excitement in England and Ireland is at fever heat, and the greatest alarm prevails. On the 12th inst., the Clerkenwell Jail in London was blown tip with gunpowder, and three persons killed and forty seriously injured, and it was expected that Colonel Kelly, the Fenian rescued in Manchester, had some hand in the matter.

The English newspapers have joined in a regular hue and cry against all the members of the Fenian Brotherhood, which has only served to increase the general excitement and alarm.

Public funerals which, were to have been held yesterday in many of the principal cities in England and Ireland, were prevented by the authorities in every place where the attempt was made to carry them out. Much indignation was shown by the crowd in some instances, but no violence was committed.

Iv London, battalions of regular troops, to the number of six thousand men are kept constantly under arms, to assist the police in maintaining order and suppressing any Fenian demonstration. It was thought and hoped that the Fenians would cease all active attempts against law and order, in consequence of the universal horror and indignation caused by the disastrous attempt on. Clerkenwcll Jail. Large rewards have been offered by the government for the discovery and arrest of the guilty parties. William Hogan was arrested in Birmingham on the afternoon of the 3rd, for complicity in the recent Fenian operations. The police had been on his track for a considerable time, though he succeeded in eluding them. It is alleged that Hogan was the person who furnished the arms to the mob which rescued the Fenian prisoners, Kclley and fteasey, from the police authorities at Manchester. Manchester Dec. 1.

To-day the obsequies of Allen, Gould, and Lai-kin were observed here with lnuch solomnitj'- by the Irish inhabitants. A funeral procession passed through the streets, and a meeting was. held. JSTo attempt was 'made by the authorities to interfere with the proceedings, and no disturbance whatever occurred. The demonstration, though considerable in numbers, did not equal the one made in Cork to-day. Cock, Dec. 1. A great demonstration of sympathy for the three Fenians executed at Manchester was made here to-day. The ceremonies Avere similar to those which took place on Monday last in London. The funeral procession was very long and imposing. It was headed by a lofty catafalque trimmed with green and black, and drawn by six horses. This was followed by nearly 20,000 persons, most _of whom wore green emblems shrouded with crape. Over fifteen hundred women took part in the procession, and several priests were observed marching in the ranks. Good order prevailed throughout the day. Dublin, Dec. 8. The obsequies of Allen, Gould, and Larkin were performed to-day, and were the occasion of an immense mUnifestation of sympathy. The proceedings were similar to those reported at London, Manchester, and Cork ; but in numbers

this demonstration far exceeded any : pre-: vious one. It is estimated thai; 50,000; men marched in the funeral procession. Good order was maintained all along the line, and the whole affair passed off quietly. " : Late on Saturday night, as Inspector Burke and a constable were standing at the door of Saekville-lane station, a man, accompanied by another, fired at them ; they gave chase, but lost sight of the men in a crowd in an adjoining street.. On Saturday night mobs attacked the bakers' shops in Belfast, and the police had to charge and disperse them. A respectable Protestant farmer, hamfed Waters, was murdered on Friday" night near Ballymahon, county Longford. The body was discovered next morning on the public road about a mile from his house, with two wounds — one in the back, the other in the chest, from a knife or dagger. Some attribute it to Fenianism, as deceased was heard on. that evening to express strong opinions on the conviction of the Manchester Fenians. Liverpool, Dec. 10. The Fenian sympathisers are making extensive preparations for a public funeral • in Liverpool on Sunday next, in honor of Allen, Gould, and Larkin. But the Orangemen of this city threatened to break up "the procession, and it is feared that a serious riot will take place should the proposed Fenian demonstration be attempted.