Hawke's Bay Times. MONDAY, MARCH 2, 1868.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume XIII, Issue 556, 2 March 1868, Page 2

Hawke's Bay Times.

MONDAY, MARCH 2, 1868.

A T uUius addict its Jurare in verba mayisfri.

THE FENIAN ORGANISATION. Whatever degree of sympathy may have been felt hitherto by the most liberal-minded amongst the politicians of Great Britain with that party whose constant cry for a long series of years has been justice to Ireland, must have been completely scattered to the winds through the late atrocious attempt to i rescue two prisoners by the blowing of Clerkenwell jail. This act shows

a state of mind utterly regardless of any consequences that might be attendant on the execution of any plot for the furtherance of the ends of the organisation ; as here, without much of probability that any good could devolve to the prisoners for whose escape the design was apparently undertaken, inevitable destruction was the certain result to the residents of an extended area around the doomed pile. Indeed the chances were more in favor of killing the prisoners in the wreck of the jail, than of their escape from it, and there does seem evidence sufficient to show that their destruction was a contingency calculated upon by the conspirators. At all events no attempt from without was made to aid them in their escape, even if the explosion had by destroying the walls of the prison without killing or maiming them, given them a chance of freedom. We have heard of desperate deeds accomplished or attempted both in ancient and modern times, attended with the destruction, more or less unavoidable, of innocent lives; but we believe that such a deed as this that now thrills our hearts," when certain destruction was spread over a peaceful district for an object so uncertain in its accom. plishment, or which could even, if entirely successful, have done little or nothing for the furtherance of the ultimate end proposed by the organisation, stands out altogether unparalleled in the annals of the world. No wonder ttiiit me uc6u is repudiated hy the leaders of the brotherhood, as one that they condemn; but so also were the outrages recently committed in the manufacturing districts by paid agents of the trades unions repudiated and condemned by that body—Eroadhead. the acting spirit of the union, with one band stigmatizing the perpetrators of the dastardly deeds, and with the other

directing and rewarding them. So likewise in this case there is evidence riirttf; TiOt-WifliStrtTJiilTiQ fTtia n f - HVI V¥ JVijniYlilUl Mil WJI3 lUUD'llllllOu O o expressed, this deed was but a small portion of a gigantic plot which has happily, for a time at least, failed of its anticipated results, leaving albeit a fearful mass of suffering as the mark of what has bean done.

We repeat, that whatever of sympathy may have existed with the cry of justice to Ireland—and we know that such feeling did extensively exist, notwithstanding all that has been done by the British Government for that country during the past generation in removing political -disabilities, and in aiding the elevation of the people by educational means; still many believed that Ireland was suffering wrong, and were willing to lend their aid to obtain constitutional redress —-all such feelings must uow he swallowed up in the conviction that the very means adopted by this organisation to attain their end proves them to be unworthy of the privileges and concessions that they strive by such means to obtain.