The Express.
London, England, 1867-02-18 00:00:00

[STAMM; Id. ADDIZICIAL.)

THE FENIAN RISING IN KERRY.

DUBLIN, SUNDAY NIGHT.

Letters from Killarney to-day speak of the
Fenian movement as at an end. The small band
of insurgents has been completely dispersed. At
Cahirciveen, where the movement originated,
16 men were arrested. Some of the fugitives
were seen in Mr. Gillicuddy's demesne on Satur-
day, and tried to cross a river flowing
through it, but were unable to do so. A telegram
from Killarney this evening says that the greatest
tranquillity prevails. No Fenians have been
arrested. Troops have been sent towards Kil-
lorglin and Cahirciveen. The Roman catholic
Bishop Dr. Moriarty, in his sermon to-day, de-
nounced Fenianism in the most emphatic manner.
He praised the people for having refused to join
the disturbers' party, and regretted that he himself
had not before spoken out more manfully against
the movement. Thirty-four persons, who arrived
by steamer this morning at North Wall, were
arrested.

(nom con OWN CONRINPONDLNT.)
KILLARNEY, SATURDAY.

The abortive attempt at insurrection which was
begun on Tuesday night by a handful of foolish
peasants, under the leadership of a few Yankee
desperadoes, has already come to a disastrous ter-
mination. The " army 'of the insurgents rapidly
melted away before the overwhelming display of
force made by the government, and yesterday the
soldiers summoned from Cork, Fernley, and New-
bridge on Wednesday to meet imminent attack,
were scouring the hills around Killarney for the
fugitives who are the sole remnants of the rebel
force. The rash act, which has caused intense
alarm in the country, and a temporary feeling of
insecurity amongst the gentry and the trading
classes in the smaller towns, will be attended by
at least one good effect : it w ill prove to the people
that the force at the disposal of the government is
such as to render it impossible that any effort disaf-
fected persons may make to stir up rebellion should
have even a momentary success. It will show,
moreover that there does not exist amongst the
peasantry in the south of Ireland that strong dis-
position to rebel that was imagined ; for it is a
well ascertained fact that the farmers on the route
taken by the insurgents held aloof from the move-
ment, though earnestly solicited to join in it.
The proportions of the entire affair have been
greatly exaggerated. The number of the insurgents
does not appear at any time to have been more
than 600 men. They were, however, better armed
than was at first reported ; the majority of them
carrying spare rifles with which to arm the disaf-
fected peasantry, who were expected to flock to
their standard in large numbers. The party seemed
pretty well trained to military exercise, and
marched along the road from Cahirciveen to Kil-
larney in five or six sections of about 100 men
each, in good order, with the proper officers at the
head and on the flanks of each company. The
officers wore green sashes and swords. Some of
them, as well as a portion of the force, are re-
ported to have been clad in green uniforms,
which may be true, but is more likely to be of the
character of Sir John FaLitag's narrative of those
fellows in " Lincoln green." The demeanour of
the insurgents to the peasantry and townspeople
whom they met was studiously moderate. In one
or two cases where supplies of food and drink were
taken, the leaden are reported to have paid the
price in the coin of the realm. The leader of
the movement is a young man named O'Connor,
known as the colonel. He was born in Cahirci-
veen, but left for America when a child. He re-
turned to Cahirciveen about eighteen months ago,
ostensibly for the benefit of pus health. On the
day before the suspension of the Habeas Corpus
Act his lodgings were searched by the police, but
nothing of a suspicious character was found. On
the next day the police again visited the lodgings
for the purpose of arresting the colonel under the
authority of the Suspension Act, but he had dis-
appeared. It le now ascertained that he remained
concealed in the locality for several months after-
wards—(he is said to be an adept in disguises)—
but returned a short time ago, and has been here
since, From his youthful, gentle appearance and
quiet unobtrusive manners when living without
concealment in the town, no person would suspect
him to be the leader and o of the desperate
movement which has just taken place. O'Connor is
said to be a trusty lieutenant of Stephens ; and do-
cuments in the handwriting of the latter, addressed
to the Kerry Centres, were found amongst the
papers seized with Captain Moriarty, O'Connor's
second in command, who was arrested in Killarney
on Tuesday, and whose capture is supposed to have
caused a premature outbreak.
Some authentic details of the attack on the con-
stabulary orderly on the Killorglin-road have
reached here. The man was met by the Fenian.
at Bett'a Bridge, nearly midway between Cahir-
civeen and Killorglin, and was ordered to stop and
deliver up his despatches and arms. The poor
fellow attempted to draw a pistol from his holster,
and was at once shot down by the Fenian leader
O'Connor. The ball entered the thigh and passed
through the abdomen, inflicting what is reported
to be a mortal wound. O'Connor had the wounded
man removed to a cabin on the road side, and on
ascertaining that lie was a Roman Catholic, ordered
some of his men to send for a priest. Amongst
the documents in the orderly's despatch was a war-
rant for the arrest of O'Connor, which was to have
been delivered to the sub-inspector of police at Ca-
hirciveen. A little further on the road a party of the
insurgents entered the house of Dr. Barry, J. 1., anal
demanded a horse for the colonel, who, having
received a wound in the leg during the American
war, in which he luis served as an officer, was
unable to travel far afoot. Dr. Barry's servant
prudently complied with the request, and the horse
has since been returned by one of the fugitive
Fenians, the colonel having no use for it in the
mountains, where he, with a few followers, are at
present.
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The accounts received of the attack on the con-
stabulary barracks and coastguard station in Kens
are rather vape and unsatisfactory. It seems
I pretty clear that arms were taken from both places
by the Fenians, but the reports current of resistance
having been made, and some of the Fenians and
police wounded, are not, apparently, reliable.
. .

The insurrectionary spirit of the Fenian appears
to have evaporated in a very few hours. On Wed-
nesday evening they learned the arrival of large
bodies of troops in Killarney, and seem to have at
once resolved on retreat. Behind them at Cahir-
civeen was a force of sailors and marines, landed
from her Majesty's ship Gladiator; on the first
alarm the constabulary were concentrating at
several points in the direction of Tra!ee, on the
eastern side, and Killarney, occupied by a strong
military force, was in front. The only course open
to them was in the direction of the mountains,
between Killarney and Kenmore, on the south-west,
land thither they took their way. Curiously enough,
op to Thursday morning the officer in command at
Killarney took no steps to secure the capture of the
band, being probably deceived as to their strength
by the exaggerated rumours current in the county.
Having passed through the Gap of Hunk), the in-
surgents entered the woods on the southern slopes
of the Toomies Mountains, and during the night
the greater part of them, in small parties, made
their way back to the localities from which they
had come. Of sixty from the immediate neigh-
bourhood of Cahirciveen, thirty had returned on
Thursday. When the pursuit was taken up by the
military on Thursday forenoon there could not
have been fifty of the insurgents left in the moun-
tains, these consisting of O'Connor and the officers

CrWOPENCE

who were too seriously compromised to be able to
return with any degree of safety to themselves.
The 60th Rifles entered the wood yesterday, and
came upon some of the men. A alight skirmish is
reported to have taken place, the insurgents flying
in small parties through the hills in the direction
of Kenmore and Lucen. Last night a large force,
consisting of portions of the tith and 48th Foot,were
despatched hastily from Killarney on the Kenmore
road to cut off the retreat of the Fenian' in that
direction. There are cavalry in Killarney, but
from the nature of the ground, which is broken by
innumerable hills and bogs, they are useless for
pursuit. The rest of the work of clearing out the
debris of this miserable revolt may be safely left to
the local police. The object of the Fenian is to reach
some remote part of the south-western coast whence
they may be able to get by sea to the Continent.
Public confidence has been nearly restored in the
south. There is a powerful military force in Cork,
Fermoy, Killarney, and Tralee, and at Mallow a
strungreserve tuaintained. Theiroops are underthe
command of Major-General Hereford, who, in this
business, has acted with true military precision and
caution, as if he were in the presence of an army
skilled in the infinite manceuvres of war and
supplied with abundant resources. The result is,
that the troops have really never oome in contaci
with the Fenian—the alight skirmish in which no
one was hurt excepted, which is perhaps all the
better, as bloodshed might have produced a bad
effect in the country.
Eight persons, alleged to have been portion of the
Fenian band, have been arrested in Cahirciveen.
One of them, a nailer, named Foley, was taken
at 2 o'clock on Friday morning, just after his
return home. Another of the prisoners, James
Thompson, is the nephew of a most respectable
shopkeeper in the town. The remainder are
labourers and boatmen. They were to have been
examined by the magistrates to-day.
Three important arrests were made yesterday
in the city of Limerick. One of the persons
captured is a man named Murphy, a head centre,
who was arrested at Kilnish about twelve months
since, and escaped from the custody of the police
in a very clever and during manner. The police in
Limerick obtained by the merest accident a clue to
the fact that there was a Fenian agent staying in
the house of a Miss Reid, in Henry-street, and on
entering the house they found Murphy and two
Yankees, named Lawlor and Healy—who have held
the rank of colonel and major in the American ser-
vice—in oneof the top rooms. The three censpirators
had been engaged before the police entered in burning
papers, and the remains of a drill book ands map
of the city of Limerick were found in the fireplace.
While the prisoners were being conveyed to the
county gaol they were loudly cheered by the
crowd ; and for this seditious manifestation three
persons were arrested, but were subsequently libe-
rated. On the arrival of the mid-day train from
Cork a fourth arrest was made, that of a man
named Peter Johnstone, an Irish American, who
would not say what his business in Limerick was.
A correspondent describing his capture says the
chief ground of suspicion against him was that he
wore "a military shirt." These arrests have caused
greatexcitement in Limerick, where the troops are
kept constantly under arms, and parties of consta-
bulary patrol the streets during the night. Similar
precautions are observed in l'ralee. Cork remains
perfectly undisturbed, and no special measures have
been considered necessary for the maintenance of
_ _

There is not yet sufficient informati. m available
for an opinion to be formed as to whether this rising
was part of any general plan of action, or was occa-
sioned solely by Moriarty's arrest. It is improbable
that if a general plan had been concocted there
should not have been similar attempts made in
other places, but in two or three well known
centres of disaffection there has been no indica-
tion even of a disposition to revolt.

The _AtMin Gazette of Friday night contains an
order in council proclaiming the whole of the county Kerry.
A Liverpool correspondent writes :—" There can
be no doubt that among the Fenians who have been re-
cently operating about Killarney there are a few experte,
as far as tapping the wires go. In the late war in America
Furred, Stuart, and the notorious Morgan g..ined much
popularity in conseluence of the manner in which they
tapped the wires, and thereby conveyed important Federal
news to the Southern authorities. One or two tricks of
this kind have just been enacted in Ireland, and the
Fenian', had there really been any seriou' mseniblage,
could have tapped every wire from Fairhead to Valentia.
It is understood that the authentic. in Liverpool, apart
from any help from the War-office, have detrrminad to
place the several volunteer store-houses during the present
Fenian crisis under guard." _ .

THE Sc,.TS Fcau.o i GUARDai.—The let batta-
lion Scots Fusilier Guards arrived at St. GOOlge'S barracks,
under the command of Colonel H. P. Hepburn, on Satur-
day evening. from Chester.
SUSPECTED FENIANISM AT WOOLWICH.—WOOI,
WICK, SUNI,AT. —ln consequence of information received
last night, the precise nature of which is not known to the
general public, the most active and complete measures were
taken by the commandant of the garrison and other authori-
ties, and have been continued during this day, to meet any
attempted Fenian outbreak, which it was strongly rumoured
was to take place, and the programme of which was stated
to include the seizure of anus and ammunition at the drill
establishment of the Blackheath and other local volun-
teer corps. It is to be presumed that considerable im-
portance was attached to the Cnmours, as a detachment of
Royal Artillery and the Military Train Corps were
despatched to Blackheath last night, and have been en-
gaged even this day in the removal of arms, c.c., belonging
to the volunteers, to the repository at the Royal At tillery
barracks ; and the available troops in garrison, both Royal
Artillery and Royal Marine Light Infanty, hove been
kept in reserve at barracks, to be available if required.
The same is also the case with regard to the Royal Arsenal
and Dockyard police force. As inigkt b• expected, the
strangest rumours were afloat during the day, none of
which were realised.

FOREIGN-OFFICE, FEB. 19.—The Queen has been
pleased to approve of Mr. William Gla..;ow Covell as
consul at Gibraltar for his Majesty the King of the
IleUenes.—Owette. _ _ _

THE TuRN A DO. —MOISES. S. Isaac Campbell and
Co. have addressed to Lord Stanley a letter, in which they
combat seriatim the lessons which led him, in his de-
spatch of the litth ult., to conclude that the Tornado
belonged to the Ch Tian government.
Dr. Henry Pearson, of Ely, was on Saturday
committed for trial by the Isle of Ely magistretes at the
Shire-ball, Ely. oa the charge of having maliciously
poisoned two hore-, the property of Mr. (deo. S. Hal 4
solicitor, on the '2lst of January last.
DEATH OF THE SEA-BEAR IN THE ZOOLOGICAL
GAIIIIEOI. —We regret to state that the interesting animal,
the sea-bear, so long a favourite with all visitors to the
Zoological Gardens. died on the morning of the 14th inst.
Some pieces of canvas ands hook having been found, it is
feared that lie may linve suffered from the effects of these
substances, which he had swallowed, passim; through the
internal organs. Dr. /aerie, the prosector to the Zoolo-
gical Society. is about to report on its death to E.e council
of the society. The grief of M. Le Comte, the sea-bear's
faithful guardian. is heartrending; the poor men was
much attached to the animal, and tended it as if it were
his own child. This remarkable specimen of the ewe-bear
("kirk julWa) was captured by Le Comte and some of his
fellow sailors in 15h2, on the coast of Patagonia. —Land
and Water.
ANOTHER CASE OF SCUTTLING. —The inquiry at
Lowestoft instituted by the Board of Medi: into the cir-
cumstances connected with the suspected scuttling of the
brig Lord Llid 10. of Aberdeen, was brought to a close on
Friday. T!:-.e judgment given by the court was th..: the
vessel hail "ern scuttled by the boatswain and is part of
the crew ; and the captain's certificate was suspended for
three yearn, on the ground of reprehensible negligence.
DEEDS OF A lIKANGEIIENT WITH CREDITORS.
Th: result of the cases with regard to the covenants in
deeds under ..action 192 appears to be that if a deed is so
framed the; some creditors can sue individually on the
covenants, whilst others cannot, the deed is had ; but
possibly a joint covenant with some of the creditrre on
behalf of themselves and the remainder of the creditors
would not vitiate the deed. The statute doss not operate
to make the non-assenting creditors parties to the deed,
so as to enable them to sue on a covenant containol in it.
But a several covenant contained in a deed made between
the debtor and all his creditors may be sued on by any
person who. in point of fact, falls within this description.
—Solicitors` Journal.

HOSPITAL FOR DISEASES OF VIE CFI En, VIKTORIA-
PAILE.—The number of patients relieved at this ia.stitution
during last week was 1,445, of which 339 were new cases.