The Express.
London, England, 1867-12-26 00:00:00

TAE FENIAN CONSPIRACY.

The authorities of Manchester are going to
swear in a large number of special constable•. There
Li no special reason for adopting this oourse,which istaken
as a precautionary measure only. The premise* of the
branch Lank of Howland in Castle-street and Cook-street,
Liverpool, were closely watched yesterday, some appre-
hensims heir; entortainctlot molestation by local Fenian*,
but the Liverpool police arc CO well-informed and vigilant
with respect to Fenian operations that, fortunately,
there is little scope for the perpetration of mischief.
The Mayor of Bradford (Mr. James Law) has issued
a placml in which he " Call. upon and requires all
loyal and well-disposed inhabitants of the borough" to
cotue to the Court House at Bradford, on Friday and
following days, to be sworn in and enrolled as special
constables. He states that this course is adopted in oon-
sequetioe of his having received from the Home-office a
circular to the effect that her Majesty's government have
received information which renders it, in their judgment,
desirable that all local authorities should be prepared to
most any disturbances that may arise during the winter.

CALCUTTA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN MAILS.—
G.u.LT, DEC. 17.—The Ennui, from China, arrived porter.
day, and the Bombay, from Australia, to-day. The Candi&
leaves fur Suez to-day. Outward mail of 20-26 Sept.
—The Geelong reached Melbourne on the 14th, and Sydney
on the 17th Nov. Outward mail of 4-11 Nov.—The Nubia
arrived at Calle on the Bth instant.
CALULTTA AND CHINA MAILS.—MARSEILLES
Dzr. 'N.—The Nyanza arrived at 8 a.m. to-day. The
mails leave for London at IL3O a.m.

The Lancashire Cotton Famine Committee have
decided to divide the surplus fend remaining in their
hands, amounting to nearly 10,0001., rateably among a
given number of the principal towns in lAneashire in which
the famine was most severely experienced, to go in aid of
public infirmaries and dispensaries, taking population as
the basis of the apportionment, and they intend to apply
forthwith to the Court of Chancery fur its sanction to the
scheme.

The Emperor will receive on New Year's Day, at
the Tuileries at 1 o'clock, the corps diplomatique, the
constituted bodies, and civil authorities ; at 2, the officers
of the national guard, army, and navy. Their Majesties
will not receive on the 2nd January.
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Marshal Niol, at the close of tho sitting of the
Legislative Body on Tuesday, received the intelligence, by
telegraphic despatch, of the death of his elder brother,
President of the Imperial Court of Toulouse.

" The greatest activity," says the Jonrgal du
Earn, " prevails in the French maritime arsenals. There
are at present thirty-nine ships in course of being built, of
which four are armour-plated frigates, four coast-guard
iron-plated vessels, an armoured floating battery, a screw
wooden frigate, air corvettes screw and not plated, and a
screw transport. The fleet really ready for sea comprises
343 steam vessels and 116 sailing ships ; with the thirty-
nine in course of construction the whole will amount to SGI
navels.

FENIANISNI IN WAPRINGTON.-0E Monday even-
ing last the Mayor of Warrineton, Mr. Alderman Blackly,
received a telegram from the Home-office, intimating that
some mischief was cootemplated by the Fenian in that
town, and earning the authorities to be on the alert. A
meeting of the resident magistrates was immediately
called, at which precautionary measures were adopted for
the preservation of the peace and to prevent any attempted
destruction of property. The members of the Fire-brigade,
who hays been on duty night and day since the attempt was
made to blow-up the gas works, were, together with
100 citizens, sworn in as special constables, 20 of the
latter being attached to the local pslioe force of the
borough,and placed on permanent special duty. The
arms and stores belonging to the 4th Royal Lancashire
Light Infantry Militia, the head-quarters of which are at
Warrington, have been removed to Chester Castle, and a
strong guard has been placed at the armoury of the 9th
Lancashire Ride Volunteers. All the Roman catholic
Irish who were employed at the gas works—many of them
for a considerable number of years—weredischarged
on Monday evening. A report at present prevails that a
number of large manufacturers in the town have received
notices from the offices in which they are insured that the
companies will nut be accountable for damage if they con-
tines to retain the services of Irishmen in their ,
employ. A reward of 50f. has been offered by the •
Warrington Gas Company for information which will lead i
to the apprehension and conviction of the person or per ,
eons who removed the ping from the purifier on Sunday
night. The services rendered by Mr. Robert Paterson,
jun., assistant engineer, are commendable, who, in • most
poisonous atmosphere, discovered the escape, and after
searching for seine tine, found the plug and replaced it.
The foreknowledge possessed by the authorities of •
Fenian meeting being held in Warrington, the presence
in town of llicAubiffe, " the lecturer," and other persona
who have no " visible means of subsistence," together with I
the attempt to blow up the gas works, have created an
alarm in the public mind to allay which the local autho-
rities have applied to the House Secretary for a small
military force to be stationed at \Farrington. The
Warringtvis Guardian of to-day announces the arrival of a
company of the Highlanders this morning. A re-
spectable man and woman have sworn to seeing 50 men
drilled in the outskirts of the town just before the attempt
at the gas explosion. A supply of revolvers has arrived.
THE FENIAN OUTEAGE AT CLERICENWELL.—
ANOTHER DlATlL—During the course of Tuesday night
the old man Humphrey Evans, who was with his wife and
daughter so severely injured by the late explosion in
Clerkouwell, expired in the B ward of the Royal Free
Hospital, Gray's-inn-road. For souse days past Mr.
Gant, one of the staff surgeons of the hoepitid (assisted
by Mr. J. H. Hill and Mr. C. H. Hopkins, house surgeons),
had entertained no hopes of the recovery of the deceased,
whose wife, it will be remembered, expired last week at
St. Bartholomew's Hospital, and hie daughter, who is an
inmate of the Royal Free Hospital, is still suffering from
the very severe injuries she received, but we are glad to
say that she and the other patients under Mr. Gant are
pren., ceasing satisfactorily.
FENIANISII AT WOLVERTON.—AYLEISBUEY, TUES-
DAY ECENING.—The two prisoners, James Connerty and
Gladwin Meehan, who were arrested at Wolverton to-day
on a charge of treason-felony, arrived here by the last
train this evening, in charge of a strong body of police,
under the command of Captain J. C. Tyrwhitt Drake, the
chief constable of Rucks. They were brought before Mr.
J. T. Senior, one of the county magistrates, in the waiting-
room of the railway station, and the information of
Superintendent Brear 7 was read over, which stated that
meetings had been held at the houses of each of the pri-
soners, at New Bradwell, which he believed to be of a
seditious and treasonable nature. Some other important
facts were stated in the information, which it was not con-
sidered expedient to make public. Connerty denied in
the moat emphatic way that any meetings of an illegal
nature had taken place at his house, or that he bad
had anything_to do with Fenianiam in any shape
or form. He bad been reared in this country,
and hoped he bad too much sense to do anything of the
sorts It was an extraordinary charge altogether; he had
always conducted himself to the satisfaction of his em-
plovers and those with whom he worked. Meehan also
positively denied that there had been any meetings at his
house, and asked whether bail would be accepted. He
said it was a serious matter to bring a man up without any
foundation for • charge. It would probably end in his
being discharged from his employment and the ruin of his
family. Connerby asked that bail might be taken, and on
being informed that this could not be granted, he asked
fora copy of the charge against him to send to his friends.
lie was informed that he could write whatever be pleased,
and that he might have a copy of the information. The
prisoners were then remanded until to-day (Thursday).