The Irish Dynamitards in Paris.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 183, 18 December 1886, Page 13

The Irish Dynamitards in Paris.

Mr; Malcolm Lainu Mi, \ho>', who scys he ha-, associated for sorno timo with fill the chief inon of tho dynamite party in Paris, gives some interesting detail] in the " Gentleman's Magazine.' 1 Ho eaya Paris is, and has been foi nearly three yeais tho headquarters of tho Irish dynamiters in Europe. Thoso who belong to the conspiracy and are resident in that city are about '20 or 24 in number. In England we ! have an idea that those who plot and uork this secret warfaie are more vulgar loaiora, moat of whom make a living by their political scheming. Such is not the case. Tho Irish dynamiters in Paris are with \ cry few exceptions, men of education, and they are all more or lees busy with their respective avocations or callings. Some of them are printer?, two or three are journalists who correspond for Ametican papow, othcra aro mechanics or different traders, and a few have independent meant, of their own. But there is not one of them who receives anything in the shape of salary or pay of any kind from the dynamite funds. "When any " work," as they call it, has to be done, the funda aro forthcoming ; but only to such an extent as will repay those concerned tho expenee to which they aro put. I have been credibly informed that on tho occasion when the exp'oeion at the Tower and at Westminister took place the outlay did not exceed £100. One of the mof-t curiaus of tho many extraordinary facts concerning tho Iriah dyna miter 3is the manner in which they managed to take oxnlogive material into England. But that they did co in spite of the moat rigid rules concerning tho examination of baggage * 3 C* r tain. Tho dynamite they use comes nearly always from America, It is landed at Havre — a fact which says but little for the vigilance of the French Government towards England. From H&vre it is takon to the neighbourhood of Paris, where it is packed in different portable forms which makes its transport to England easy enough. I hive been bhown a case of silk dro?sea— a plain largo deal box lined with tin. At fifc?t sight it would appear to anyone that this packing-case had nothing whatever peculiar about it. But a careful and vory minute investigation would show that the lining was double, and that betweon the two linings a very large amount of explosive matter might with safety bo stowed away, Hand-bags, hit-boxes trunks, portmanteau?, and other travelling gear, made with false bottoms, have been mado and used for tho earno purpose- ; and yet there had not been a single instance of dynamito being discovered in the baggage of any passenger from France to England. When the explosive material reaches London it ia stowed away until required for use; but where the place or places of stowage may be is one of those secrets which none save the initiated know. 1 have been told — and I don't think that my informant had any wish to exaggerate matters — that there wa3 in London not long ago enough dynamite to blow up more than half of the public buildings in tho City and West-end ; and yofc we nover hoar of dircovories of the Kind being made by the authorities. Those whohavenotmixed with the Irtahdynainitera aro under tho impression that all n ho belong to the party know tho whon and the where of any future explosion. Thia is a mistake. Tho three dynamite chiefs, who livo respectively in Now York, London, and Paris, decide the place and time when action is to be takon ; and all details are loffc to the discrotion oi those om ployed in tho work. Bat tho members of the conspiracy residing [ in PayU invariably knew, and mado no pee ret of their knowledge, that an explosion would happen eomowhore or other in a day orivo, and they were invariably ri^ht W;ih all details of any explosion they wore fully acquainted veiy few hours aftor the o\e:»c had taken placo, and before nr>y account of the eamo had appeared in tho nowspapeis. On such occae-'ion-5 their rejoicings at what had happened wore so far from being concealed that they made them aa prominent a? possible. 000 or two of tho men concerned in tho affair found their w^y to Paris almost as soon as the nows, and woro Jrtrd accordingly by their fellow conspirators ; the latter invariably boasting that tho English police had not laid hand? on any of them, and would nevor bo able to do co. Every failure on the part of the authorities in London to find out the authors of one of these murderous outrages, and evory attempt by the English detectives sent to Paris to get upon the right pcent of the dynamiters in that city, was regarded by the conspirators as a victory of which they had good reason to be proud. Tho intense gratification they invariably expressed after an explosion had taken place would hardly be bolieved save by those who heard them. Nothing have I heard, or read of, ever equalled the intense hatred which the dynamiters boar against England, and which they gave vent to on every possible occasion. To individual Englishmen they are courteous and civil ; but towards the nation collectively, and more especially towards anyone connected with the Government, they chow an implacable, revengeful, devilish abhorrence, such as has rarely been witnessed in the world. What makes this all the more extraordinary isthaton all othermattera and on all, other subjects, the dynamiters are mostJy sensible and well-informed, and can talk on general topics like ordinary men of the m orla. Bufc as regards their own affairs,

they seem to have but ono brief maxim, which ia, that all England has auue, is doing, or ever will do regarding Ireland is dedicator! by motives worße than fiendish, and that lrom the Quoen down to the humblest omployoe in the service of feho Crown, -whether in their own land or in Ifingland, nothing but the moat infamous conduct has ever boon experienced or can ovor be oxpoctod.