The Duke of Edinburgh was on the 12th March, while
pre- siding at a charitable dinner in Port Jackson, shot in the back by a Fenian named O'Farrell, said to have acted under orders from a committee at home. Fortunately for the Prince, the ball did not strike the spine, but glided round along the course of the ninth rib, and was easily extracted. The Prince has been ordered home, but he is believed to be out of danger. The malignant baseness of this attack on a young man wholly unconnected with politics, and doubly protected by his character of guest, has greatly excited the colonists, and the assassin has been tried, convicted, and sen- tenced to death with a promptitude not displayed when the vic- tims were only the poor people of Clerkenwell. The object of the Fenian policy is of course to excite terror, and the result of their efforts is to deepen the national disgust for a party which does not hesitate to murder men who have given offence neither to Ireland nor to them.
