THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH.

Westport Times, Volume II, Issue 210, 2 April 1868, Page 3

THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH.

Tho following additional iioms are contained in a telegram published by the Wellington Independant, which that journal acknowledges from thellon J. C Richmond :

H.ft.H. bled profusely, and was very weak.

The ball was extracted on the 14th, and the Duke was then going on famously, and said to be out of all danger.

The sailors laid violent hands on O'Farrell, and would have lynched him hut for a strong body of police. The ball was extracted safely, but it had flattened by striking against the bone. It had entered two inches from the spine, passed through the muscles of the back, then glanced round bv the ribs, and lodged in the front of the abdomen. FURTHER PARTICULARS. (From the Sydney Morning Herald.) Many particulars, of greater or less importance, of the murderous attempt upon the life of His Boyal Highness the Duke of Ediuburgh at Clontarf, on Thursday, and incidents arising out of it, which escaped *our notice at the time, have come to hand. Further inquiry, however, confirms the correctness of the main features of our report published yesterday. There is no doubt but that the bullet struck one of his ribs at an angle, and travel-, led round in the course of the bone to the spot where it lodged.

An examination of the pistols has set all at rest all doubt of the number of shots fired. After the first discharge, which inflicted the injury on his Royal Highness, there was a second attempt, but the pistol missed fire, the bullet remaining in the chamber. At the third attempt the cartridge exploded, the brllet entering the foot of Mr Thorne. The pistol used was not a Colt, but it is supposed to be of French manufacture. The barrel works on a hinge.

The police have succeeded in tracing the colonial history of the man in custody, both as respects his residence in Victoria, and his brief sojourn in this city. Matters of serious import in connection with the crime have been elicited, the particulars of which it would not be prudent to publish at present.

With reference to the injury to Mr Grcorge Thome, this gentleman .immediately after the occurrence, was conveyed on board one of the yachts, which took him to his residence, Claremont, Rose Bay, where he was attended by Dr Bennett and Dr Milford. It appears that Mr Thome had taken up a position which would enable him to obtain a good view of the Prince, and he was observing His Boyal Highness and Sir "William Manning, when the assassin stole up behind them, and fired the shot. The Duke immediately fell to the earth, and Mr. Thome ran to his assistance. It was when standing at the side of the Prince' that he was struck by the ball, aimed (as Mr Thorne thinks) at His Royal Highness, who then lay on the ground. The ball passed through Mr Thome's trowsers and the elastic of his boot into the inner side of the right foot, and taking an oblique coarse, lodged in the muscles of the heel, near the os calcis. The wound has been probed for three inches, but the ball is so placed that it cannot at present be extracted. During i Thursday night Mr Thorne suffered the most acute pain, but we are happy to be enabled to state that he was yesterday much better. Dr Bennett saw Mr Thorne again yesterday. The patient is progressing exceedingly well, the foot is not much swollen, and a confident hope is entertained of a speedy and a favorable cure. Much sympathy is generally felt throughout the community with Mr Thorne in the unfortunate i occurrence which has befallen him.

Among those who assisted to carry His Royal Highness to the tent were Mr E. Zuccani and Mr Adam Ofr, steward of the steamer Kiama. A number of gentlemen rendered valuable assistance to the small body of police on the ground, and* one of the most meritorious in this respect was Lieut. T. Gowlland, R.N., of the Admiralty Survey. Dr Young, of H.M.S. Galatea, Dr Watson, of H.M.S. Challenger, and a trained nurse of Miss Osborne's staff have been in constant attendance upon His' Royal Highness since Thursday evening- The medical gentlemen considered that he is progressing most favorably, though suffering from sympathetic pains in the leg, occasioned by by injuries sustained by the muscles of the back. The wound is healing nicely, and the bullet, which

litis not altered its position, will probably be extracted in the course of today. His Royal Highness slept during a portion of the night, and no symptoms of a dangerous character have presented themselves, or anything that would tend to apprehension of an unfavorable nature.