_10 June._ Attempt to blow up the Town Hall, Liverpool, by an infernal machine probably filled with dynamite. A great number of windows broken, and some iron railings destroyed, but no one injured. The two perpetrators captured. _14 June._ A piece of iron piping filled with gunpowder exploded against the police station at Loanhead, near Edinburgh. Some windows broken, but no other damage effected. _30 June._ An importation of six infernal machines at Liverpool from America in the “Malta,” concealed in barrels of cement. They contained lignin dynamite, with a clock-work arrangement for firing it. _2 July._ An importation of four similar machines at Liverpool in the “Bavaria.” _September._ An attempt to produce an explosion at the barracks, Castlebar. A canister containing gunpowder was thrown over the wall, close to the magazine. The lighted fuse which was attached fell out, and no harm was done. _1882: 26 March._ An attempt to blow up Weston House, Galway, with dynamite in an iron pot enclosed in a sack. Five persons were afterwards convicted of the outrage. _27 March_. A 6-inch shell charged with explosive thrown into a house in Letterkenny. The explosion caused considerable damage. _2 April._ An attempt to destroy a police barrack in Limerick by firing some dynamite on the window sill. _12 May._ A discovery of a parcel containing 12 lbs. to 20 lbs. of gunpowder, with lighted touch-paper or fuse attached, at the Mansion House, London. _1883: 21 January._ An explosion of lignin dynamite at Possil Bridge, Glasgow. Two or three persons passing sustained slight injury. _21 January._ An explosion of lignin dynamite at Buchanan Street Station, Glasgow, in a disused goods shed. _15 March._ An explosion at the Local Government Board Office, Whitehall, causing considerable local damage. _15 March._ An abortive explosion of lignin dynamite outside a window at the _Times_ office. _April._ Two infernal machines, containing 28 lbs. of lignin dynamite (probably home-made), discovered at Liverpool. Four persons were convicted and sentenced to penal servitude for life. _April._ The discovery of a factory of nitro-glycerine at Birmingham, and of a large amount of nitro-glycerine brought thence to London. The occupier of the house and others were subsequently convicted and sentenced to penal servitude for life. _30 October._ An explosion in the Metropolitan Railway, between Charing Cross and Westminster, unattended with personal or serious structural injury. _30 October._ An explosion on the Metropolitan Railway, near Praed Street. Three carriages sustained serious injury, and about sixty-two persons were cut by the broken glass and debris, and otherwise injured. _November._ Two infernal machines discovered in a house in Westminster, occupied by a German named Woolf. Two men were tried, and in the result the jury disagreed and a _nolle prosequi_ was entered on behalf of the Crown.