. Ireland in London. esence on the covers of the magazine of arepresentation of St. Johns Gate. In the largeroom over the gateway Ganick made his firsttssay as an actor in the part ol The MockDoctor, in the farce of that name. OffClerkenwell-green, and quite close to the me-morial of bygone days just mentioned, is theHouse ol Detenlion, better known as ClerkenwellPrison. Here on the 13th December, 1867, was made« desperate attempt to rescue two Fenian pri-soner, Colonel Richard Burke and JosephTheobald Casey, resulting immediately in fatal ordangerous injuries to a number of innocent per-sons,
. Ireland in London. esence on the covers of the magazine of arepresentation of St. Johns Gate. In the largeroom over the gateway Ganick made his firsttssay as an actor in the part ol The MockDoctor, in the farce of that name. OffClerkenwell-green, and quite close to the me-morial of bygone days just mentioned, is theHouse ol Detenlion, better known as ClerkenwellPrison. Here on the 13th December, 1867, was made« desperate attempt to rescue two Fenian pri-soner, Colonel Richard Burke and JosephTheobald Casey, resulting immediately in fatal ordangerous injuries to a number of innocent per-sons, and being more remotely one ol the causesof events of great historical importance to Ire-land. A barrel of gunpowder was placed and ignitedin an entry by the side of the prison wall oppositeCorporation lane, aud inside which Burke wassupposed to exercise every day. A terrible ex- haps, the prisoners had very good reason tothank them. Six persons—Timothy and William Desmond,brothers; John 0Kecfte, Michael 6T. JOHN S GATE. Nicholas English, and a woman named AnnJustice—were put upon their trial for the offence. 50 Ireland in London. All were acquitted except Barrett, a respectableand esteemed citizen, who, after an able and elo-quent speech, was sentenced to death, and exe-cuted on the 26th May, 1868. The explosion, occurring in the very heart ofthe metropolis, and so soon after the rescue ofKelly and Deasy at Manchester, created a soit ofpanic not alone in London but all over thousand men were added to the Londonpolice, special constables were sworn in in largenumbers throughout the country, and the pro-vincial papers were filled with reports of wholesalearrests for Fenianism and of magisterial meetingsto enrol defenders of law and order. England was awakened to the intensity ofFenianism^ and we have the highest testimonyas to the influence these events exercised in open-ing the eyes ot public men to the evils of Irishmisgovernment. What happened, sai
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