NEWS OF THE WEEK.
THESE Fenians will not let us off without hanging some of them. They tarn up in the most improbable places, and insult society at large in little groups of desperate men bent on perfectly insane and useless murders. This time it is in Manchester, where on Tuesday two Fenians, Colonel Kelly and Captain Deasy, were ap- prehended, and after a sharp resistance, during which it appeared that they had revolvers and were trying to use them, secured. But in the course of the drive on Wednesday in the prisoners' van to the gaol, the van was stopped outside the town in a quiet road (Hyde Road) by forty armed Fenians, the horses were shot, and as there were only eleven police officers,—of whom only one, it is said, Serjeant Brett, was armed, and he only with a cutlass,—the officers after a hard fight were overpowered, the van broken open, and all the prisoners released, including the two Fenians, who had been previously ironed, but who, it seems, after their escape, found means to get rid of their irons, as they were seen later in the day to enter a cottage with the manacles still on, and to leave it without them. Serjeant Brett was shot in the head,—and has since died, the ball having gone in near the eye and out through the head,—by a Fenian, Allen, afterwards apprehended, and who, if found guilty, will be hanged. Several others of the Fenian assailants have since been captured, but not as yet, we believe, the two Fenian leaders, Kelly and Deasy, on whose behalf this expedition was planned. 3001. have been offered by the Government for any information leading to their arrest.
