James McGrath and James McKevitt were tried on Tuesday at
Liverpool for their attempt to blow up the Liverpool Town- hall, were found guilty, and were sentenced to penal servitude for life and for fifteen years respectively,—a wholesomely strong sentence. The American Fenians boast that they have success- fully shipped to this country eighty of the infernal machines, of which ten only were discovered under the form of barrels of cement in the Liverpool Docks, so that if their boast be true, we have seventy still left to account for ; and the assertion of O'Donovan Rossa, that his machinations blew up the Doterel,' has received some kind of part-confirmation, from the 'discovery that at least no boiler explosion was the cause of the disaster, since the boilers have been found intact. The ruffians who do these things will probably be deterred by the detection and severe punishment of McGrath and MeSevitt. Nihilists of the Russian type are not produced in Ireland.
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