The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1866-12-01 00:00:00

DEPARTVRE OF STEPHENS.
(RE AT/ANTI( TELEGRAPH )
NEW YORK, Nov. 26.
Joturs titvpheue is reported to have left the Veiled
State..

ALLEGED ARRIVAL OE_ STEPHENS IN IRELAND.

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A gr••at amount of jubilation was mantled on Monday by
the leading I, Man sympathisers in Liverpool, founded on •
report which they are Paid to have received intimating that
Stephen., the chief orgsniser of the Fenian Brotherhood,
ha time successful in eluding the vigilance of the antin.rit lee,
and is noW In Ireland wl.h a view to caning out his project
of establishing the Irish Repuhlic r.e assertion in that
Stephens was one of the band of suspected parties who lint
Week landed at Cork from one of the Alfieri no mall steamer.,
and further that he was one of the putes who were, by the
police, permitted to disperse themselVes over different parts
of the oonntry.

Th. enrreeixoldent 01 the Moly Aster, under date New
York, Nov. 14, writes

There are rumours that the Feniann are snaking
large contracts for clothing and arms, an well as other
necesearien, for a new campaign in the spring. An
order for thirty thousand uniforms w talked of ; blue
trousers with green stripe, and green Spencer, and grey
overcoat. The whole suit is to be supplied to volum
tee," at twelve dollars, to be paid on delivery, a
condition which, I think, will do much to chill
enthusiasm. 'twelve dollars for the rank and file
of the Fenians is a considerable sum, and if it
ban to be paid in addition to abandoning their
business or employment, it will make the sacrifice
greater than most of them Call bear. But then
the probability is that " the wearing of the green"
will not be rigidly exacted, and that so large a pro.
portion of the invading torn will appear in "multi."
that there will be no shame Or discredit attaching to it.
Roberta is said to be working away as hard as ever,
and to have a perfectly good miderntanding with the
majority in Congrens, although he and his followers
have done little or nothing for them at the elections.
Ido not think Congress will do much for him. A re-
newed attempt may, be made to mortify the neutrality
law, but this would not meet the requireutente of the
Fenians, who expect it to be repealed together. It
would be hardly possible to make any change in it
,which wduld permit the raising on American soil of a
large army for the invasion of the territory of a
friendly power, and it in not at all likely that the
Senate would allow any bill to pass without too
much preparation to make it of any use for Fouler
operations next spring. Sweeney had been restored to
his rank in the United States army, but has dissolved
his connection with the Fenian organisation, owing no
doubt to his quarrelling with Roberts, awl the with.
drawal from him of the confidence of the brotherhood
•nince the failure of the operations last simmer. Mr.
Johnson was wit sorry, I fancy, to reinstate him, but
lam titi nil to say that I think he and Seward are
far more honest in the matter than their iimionents,
whose conduct in this Fenian business has been
vely discreditable. There in through the country as
little sympathy with the Fenian movement an ever
there wan. I have never yet met any American who
ventured to defend it, or who would acknowledge
that he hail in any way encouraged it. The best men
of the republican party, ilsid of every party, speak of
it in trims of the strongeet repmbatinii ; hut then
nobody will give himself much trouble to prevent it,
and nobody will call for a rigid enforcement of the lawn
or publicly denounce the coquetting of the republican
leaders with Roberta and Co., an long as the United
States have unsettled claims against England. England
has now no friends in this country ; she has fewer bitter
enemies, much fewer than she had two yeare ago;
hut nobody in disii."wd to give himself the least trouble
to save her either suffering or annoyance, and the
ilanadiann are tel in rather more (Al I VIM than English.
men. The inhabitants along the northern frontier are
very glad to have the tlaniuti ins paid off for their con-
duct I brine the war ; arid it nsiist lin added that the
Canadianis who viet the United State" d little to allay
the irritation, for more (hareem is denunciatorn of the
people, and of then institutione, and more irritating en-
logintn of the encensioni"ta tine never ineets with. P,01.4e
hoar thin kind of thing with a very bad grace now from
tile southerner", but still worse from the Cauieli.ns. I
think I oannot better describe the prevailing opinion