THE WHITE TERRACES, ROTOMAHANA, NEW ZEALAND.
The only other serious act of the Fenians was an attempt to release two prisoners confined in Clerkenwell Gaol, who, considering the means adopted, might very well pray to be delivered from their friends. A barrel of gunpowder, placed against the outer wall, was exploded at four in the afternoon, throwing down about sixty yards of masonry and wrecking several houses in the street. But for a warning received by the Governor of the gaol that an attempt was to be made to blow it up, the prisoners would have been at exercise in the yard at the time of the explosion, and almost certainly must have been killed. As it was, twelve persons were killed and 120 were wounded.
SIR ROBERT NAPIER, AFTERWARDS LORD NAPIER OF MAGDALA, 1810–1890.
Born in Ceylon. Commander-in-Chief of Bombay, 1865, and of India, 1870. Raised to the Peerage, 1869, for his services in Abyssinia.
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From a Photograph] [by G. W. Wilson & Co., Aberdeen.
PARLIAMENT HOUSE AND TABLE MOUNTAIN, CAPE TOWN.
See historical notes on Cape Colony, [page 71]. Area, including dependencies (estimated), 292,000 square miles; population, 1,800,000, of whom 39,000 are British born; imports (1895), £19,094,880; exports, £16,904,756, including diamonds, £4,775,016; gold, £7,975,637; wool, £2,000,000.