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A W e e k ly N ew s p a p e r a n d R e v i ew .

DÜM VOBIS GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS.

From th e B r i e f o f H i s H o lin ess P iu s I X . to T he Tablet, J u n e 4, 1870.

V o l . 80. No. 2747. L ondon, D ecember 31, 1892.

P riCe 5d „ b y p o s t

[R e g i s t e r e d a t t h e G e n e r a l P o s t O f f i c e a s a N ew s p a p e r .

'Ch r o n ic le of t h e W e e k :

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The Dynamite Outrage in Dublin — The Inquest— Funeral of the Victim— The German Government and the Army Bills— The Bishop o f Chester’s Licensing Scheme— The Distribution of the Army— The Defence o f London— Shocking Accident near Lincoln— Honours for M. Pasteur— France and Switzerland— North Meath Petition— Dynamite Explosion in New York — Mr. Gladstone’s Birthday — Narrow Escape at Virginia Water — English Doctors in Egypt . . 1041 L e a d e r s :

The Dublin Explosion . . . . 1045 Sir Thomas Farrer’s Memorandumio.}.6

Assyria, Rome, and Canterbury The Lepers of Robben Island ,.1047 ,.1050

CONTENTS.

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The English Pilgrimage . . . . 1050 N o t e s .................................................... 1051

C o r r espondence (Continued): Page

Dublin :— (From Our Own Corre­

spondent) .................................... 1058

England in Egypt . . . . . . 1052 Cervantes . . . . . . ..TO53 A Geraldine .. . . . . . . 1054 The Manna of the Soul . . . . 1054 A Theological Handbook.. ^ . . 1054

Select Revelations of St. Bridget.

Princess of Sweden . . . . 1055 The Real Adventures o f Robinson

Crusoe . . . . . . ..1055 Story of Allan Gordon . . . . 1055 Buckfast A b b e y ........................ 1055 Advent R e a d i n g s ........................ 1055 An Affair of Honour . . . . 1055 C o r r e s p o n d en c e :

Rome :— (From Our Own Corre­

spondent) . . . . •• -.1057

L e t t e r s t o t h e E d it o r :

Happiness in Hell and the Floren­

tine Decree . . . . . . 1060 Happiness in Hell . . . . ..1061 Altiora Peto.. . . . . . . 1062 Catholicity in Wales . . . 1062 Provision for English Catholic

Sailors at Genoa.. . . . . 1062 Rescue the Drowning ! . . . . 1063 The New Irish Cardinal . . ..1063 The Policy o f Leo X I I I . and “ The

Contemporary Review ” . . . . 1063 Father Clarke Replies to Dr. Mivartio66 Dublin and London . . . . . . 1067

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The Reform of Church Music . . 1068 S o c ia l a n d P o l i t i c a l . . . 1068

SUPPLEMENT. N ew s from t h e S chools :

St. Joseph’s Commercial College,

Dumfries . . . . . . . . 1073 N ew s from t h e D io ceses : Westminster . . . . ..1073

Southwark . . . . . . . . 1074 Newport and Menevia . . --1075 St. Andrews and Edinburgh . . 1075 “ Happiness in Hell ” . . . . 1075 The American Catholic Congress . . 1075 Missionary Work in Rajputana . . 1077 Catholicity in Canada . . . . 1078

Rejected M S . cannot be returned unless accompanied with address and postage.

C H R O N I C L E O F T H E W E E K .

N Sunday night London was t h e d y n a m i t e S & startled by the news of an attempt i \ Ud u b u n .

t0 blow t0 Pieces>with dynamite or some other compound, some Dublin public buildings. The aim of the attempt is up to this wrapped in mystery. What is known at present is that on Christmas Eve one of the detective force of the Dublin police lost his life through the agency of some explosive. The facts known are very simple. Detective Synnott had just parted from a man called Clancy, the caretaker of the City Hall, close on 11 p.m„ outside the Detective Office, Exchange-court, of Damestreet. Clancy had just shut the door, at the side of the City Hall in Exchange-court, when he was startled by a loud explosion and received a concussion. He rushed out to find several detectives bending over the remains o f what a moment before had been Synnott, the detective, horribly mutilated and disfigured in features. He was conveyed to an Apothecary hard by in Parliament-street, and there temporarily treated, and conveyed to Jervis-street. Hospital; but he was in a dying state. An examination of the place disclosed that the window by the side of the door was blown in, and shattered into fragments, as were also the shutters, safeguarding the window, the retaining pin, weighing over ilb ., of iron, an inch thick and 12 long, being shot across the office and imbedded some inches in the wall opposite, as if discharged from a rifle. The windows were shattered of ail the buildings in the neighbourhood. A thorough search was made of the place to find out the agency employed by the fiend, who compassed the death of poor Synnott. Great reticence was maintained by the police naturally about the affair.

A t the inquiry into the circumstances of

— t h e i n q u e s t , the death of the unfortunate constable,

Patrick Synnott, Sergeant Dawson stated that shortly before 11 o’clock on Saturday night he entered the mess-room at the end of Exchange Court without seeing anything unusual. About five minutes later he heard the explosion, followed by a crashing of glass. He ran out into the Court and there found the body of the dying constable. In answer to a question, the witness explained that there is an electric light at the entrance of the Court, which was well lighted, but added that a small object might have been on the footpath without his seeing it. The only evidence of any importance was that of Constable Greene, who said that he entered the mess-room from the Detective Office three or four minutes before n . Passing through the Court he saw nearly opposite the window of the office what he thought was a piece of loose brown paper. He thought he saw a spark quite close to it. A few moments afterwards he heard the explosion. In reply to the Coroner, he said that the parcel looked like a paper bag or small book rolled up. The light inside it looked like the burning end of a cigar. Dr. Smith testified, that seeing a crowd and a body being carried by constables, he helped them to place it on a car and had it brought to his surgery. The right leg was broken, the boot was blown off the foot, which was hanging to the body only by the | muscles of the calf. Having amputated the leg, he examined j the right arm, upon which there was a ragged wound. The man was unconscious and died before midnight. The last person to see the deceased alive was one James Clancy, as the two men had been together in a public-house just before n . “ I said good night to the deceased and crossed the Court diagonally to open my door on the eastern side. I had just opened it and gone into the house when I was stunned by an explosion. My wife became hysterical and I could not go out, but through the window I saw the crowd gathering.” Ultimately the jury found that Patrick Synnott died from shock and haemorrhage caused by injuries to the right arm and leg and head; that the said injuries were caused by an explosion of some substance of a powerful class placed there by some person or persons unknown.

-FUNERAL OF

THE VICTIM.

The funeral of Synnott took place on Wednesday. Before nine a.m. a considerable crowd collected in the neighbourhood of the City Hall, at the left hand side of which is

Exchange-court, the scene of the late terrible tragedy. It was evident (according to the D a ily Telegraph correspondent) from the demeanour of the people, who belonged to all ranks, that no mere idle sentiment of curiosity had brought them together. The coffin containing the remains of Synnott had been conveyed from Jervis-street Hospital to Exchange-court in the early hours of a frosty and foggy morning. Many of those who composed the crowd wore tokens of mourning, and expressions of deep and sincere feeling were heard on every hand. The coffin lay upon the 1 table in the Exchange-court Detective Office, the head

N e w S e r i e s , Y o u XLVIII., No. 2,056.