The Express.
London, England, 1867-03-09 00:00:00

LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 9, 1867.

TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

(azirria's Truaxma.)

THE NORTH GERMAN PARLIAMENT.
BERLIN, MARCH S.

During the verification of the elections in to-
day's sitting of the North German parliament, the
return of Herr Wiggers, an advocate of Rostock,
as Deputy for Berlin, was strongly opposed on
account of a former prosecution against him for
high treason, for which he suffered penal servitude.
This, according to the Mechlenburg laws would dis-
qualify Herr Wiggers for election. After a long
and animated debate, the election was almost
unanimously declared valid. Count Eulenburg
spoke against it. The house subsequently con-
firmed the election of Count Czartorisky.

THE GRANT TO M. DE LAMARTINE.
PARIS, MARCH 8, EVENING.

The Bill proposing the presentation to M. de
Lemartine of the sum of 400,000 francs was laid
before the Legislative Body to-day. The Imperial
Court has confirmed the verdict of the ordinary
tribunal in the case of the will of the late Duke de
Grammont-Caderousse.

ITALY.

FLORENCE, MARCH 8, EVICHING.

Prince Humbert will leave in April on a visit to
several European capitals. His royal highness will
proceed to Paris, Berlin, St. Petersburg, and
Vienna. The day of his departure is not yet fixed.
The King is expected to return to Florence at the
beginning of next week. Count Greppi, the new
Italian Minister to the government of Wurtem-
berg, has left for Stuttgardt. Count Latour, the
Italian representative in Japan, will leave here
shortly. He will proceed to Pekin with the rati-
fied treaty concluded between Italy and China.

THE CANDIAN INSURRECTION.
MALTA, MARCH 8.

Her Majesty's corvette Racer hasarrived here from
Crete, bringing dates from Suds Bay to the 2nd
inst. Skirmishes between the Turkish troops and
the insurgents continued in the interior of the
island. The Panhellion had again run the blockade,
notwithstanding the strong force of Ottoman
cruisers. The insurgents urged the national corn_
mittee not to entertain the proposals of the Porte
to the Cretans.

EGYPT.

ALEXANDRIA, MARCH 5.

Sul= Pacha, the Egyptian Minister for Foreign
Affairs, left to-day for Constantinople on a mission
from the Viceroy to the Sultan.

THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH AT LISBON.
LISBON, BIAacH 7.

The King of Portugal has dined on board the
Galatea with his Royal Highness the Duke of
Edinburgh. The Galatea was to have left for Gib-
raltar to-morrow, but may be unable to do so
owing to the present boisterous weather.

THE PARIS BOURSE.
PARIS, MAWR 8, 3.30 r.x.
The Bourse has been flat. Rentes closed at
69.97, or bc. lower than yesterday.

AMERICA.
QUEENSTOWN, bilacll 8.
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The steamship Chicago, from New York on the
24th ult., touched here this morning on her way to
Liverpool. She passed the steamships City of
Washington on the Gth inst., and the Virginia on
the following day, both homeward bound.
The Inman steamship City of Washington, from
New York on the 23rd ult., arrived here at 4 p.m.
to-day with 16 passengers and 3,0001. in specie.
She proceeded at 4.30 p.m. for Liverpool.

(Per Chicago.)
NEW YORK, FEB. 24.

The Senate have agreed to a resolution pro-
hibiting the payment of Confederate claims. The
House of Representatives have passed the Civil
Appropriation Bill, and approved the acts done by
the President in the suppression of the Southern
rebellion.

(IT ATLANTIC MECUM'. )
NEW YORK, MARCH 8.

The Virginia Legislature has called a convention
for May next to adopt a constitution under the
bill for the military government of the South
recently passed by Congress. The negro popula-
tion propose to call a separate convention.
The Maine Legislature has protested against the
establishment of a Canadian kingdom.
A Fenian attack upon Canada is expected.
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

Opening prices :--Gold, 134. Sterling exchange
on London, 1081. 5-20 United States Bonds,
109 i. Illinois, 1141 ; Erie, 54.
The Louisiana, Cuba, and Aleppo arrived out
yesterday.

TIRE COMING RZVOLUTION IN SPAIN.—A letter
from Madrid in the latlipendaare Bei fK sap' :—" Although
the alarm is very great at this moment, and although
many people believe in a speedy revolutionary attempt,
I do not think one will take place before the end of May
or the commencement of June, because at that time the
occasion will be more opportune than it is now. Shortly
after the meeting of the Cortes the government is topre-
sent a bill by which it will be authorised to raise a forced
contribution of four hundred millions. If no opposition is
displayed in the Congress it will not be tho same in the
Senate. Eminent orators will energetically attack the
project, and their speeches will be read with avidity in the
provinces. Should the Queen sanction the measure it
might be the signal for a general insurrection."
A letter from Madrid dated the 2nd instant,
published by the Independartre Beige, says :—" The even.
ing before last several individuals were arrested at the
Theatre Royal for imitating the barking of dogs as the
Queen entered her box."

We road in the indepeadanee Beige :—" Accord-
ing toe telegram dated March 6, which reached us yester-
day evening from London, the rumour ran in that citythat
M. Van do Weyer has sent in his resignation as minister
plenipotentiary of Belgium at the court of St. James's.
We have reason to believe th►t M. Van de Weyer, on
account of his health, has merely asked for leave of
absence, which he proposes to employ in taking the
waters."

WHITEHALL MARCH 8. —The Queen has been
pleased by letters patent under the great seal of the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland to consti-
tute and appoint the Right Hon. Henry Thomas Lowry
Corry ; Vice-Admiral Sir Alexander Milne, K.C.B. ;
Vice-Admiral Sir Sydney Colpoys Decree, K.C.B. ; Rear-
Admiral George Henry Seymour, C.B. ; Rear-Admiral Sir
John Charles Dalrymple Hay, Bart. ; and Charles Du
Cane, Esq. • to be her Majesty's commissioners for exe-
cuting the Office of Lord High Admiral of the mid United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and the do-
minions, islands, and territories thereunto belonging.—
Gazette.

BOARD of Gnaw( CLOTH, Fes. 27.—The Queen
has been plowed to appoint Colonel the Honourable Percy
Egerton Herbert, C". 8., M.P., to be treasurer of her
Majesty's Wambold, in the room of the Right Honourable
William Alleyne Cecil (commonly celled Lord Burghley),
now Margin' of Exeter, resigned.—Gasetre.

THE FENIAN INSURRECTION.

(no* °us OWN OORRISPONDIIIT.)
DUBLIN, FRIDAY NIGHT.
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To-day the insurgents, 3,000 strong, were re-
ported to be moving on Ballincollig powder mills,
five miles west of Cork. The military were sent to
meet them, and the Fenian/ are reported to have
fled, cheering and laughing None were captured.

LIMERICK JUNCTION, 11.30 P.Y.

The military met the Fenian, at Kate° ly to-day,
but found they had attacked the house of • Mr.
Gueron on Wednesday night; he fired at them, and
they retired, but remained in the town until
Thursday evening, when, having seized arms,
horses, and carts, they moved towards Tipperary,
thirteen miles distant. To-night reinforcement, of
military, under Colonel M'Neill, arrived from the
Curragh, and proceeded to Tipperary, where •
Fenian attack is apprehended.

DI7BLIN, FRIDAY NIGHT.
The following telegrams have been received
here :

Oyez, FRIDAY, 3 P.M.—Everything was quiet
hero last night and this morning. An inquest was
held yesterday on the body of the Fenian who was
shot at Castle Martyr, and a verdict of justifiable
homicide was returned.

LIMERICK, FRIDAY, NOON.—lnformation was re-
ceived here this morning that the insurgents,
several hundreds strong, had assembled at Kilteely
and taken the unoccupied police barrack, the con-
stabulary of the district having been concentrated
at Newpallas. The rebels were said to be preparing
to attack Newpallas, and numerous bands were
reported to be moving through the country to join
this company. The 4th company of the 74th Re-
giment was despatched from Limerick by special
train this morning, but returned without encoun-
tering the rebels. Several Fenians were shot last
night in collision with the troops.
KILMALLOCK, FRIDAY.—Mr. Bourne spent a
good night ;he is progressing favourably. All is
quiet. Two of the men who were with Dunne
when he shot Mr. Bourne have been arrested.

The following is from a special edition of the
Clutimel Chronicle, issued late last evening :—" A
large party of Fenians attacked the barracks at
Emly, and demanded the arms of the men, five in
number, who remained inside. The leader •of the
insurgents came forward, stamped his rifle on the
step in front of the barrack door and said if arms
were not surrendered they would take the lives of
the policemen, and burn the barrack. Constable
Dervine replied that every man in the barrack
would die before they would give up. A party of
the main body of the Fenians, which latter were
about 200 in number, after hearing the reply
of the constable, fired in through the windows of
the barrack. The fire was returned by the police
inside, and continued for some time, when the
assailants retired. The police barracks at Gurta-
voher, in the glen of Herlow, and about a mile and
a half from Bansha, was also attacked early on
Wednesday morning; there were inside a constable
and four men. The Fenians demanded surrender
in the name of General O'Connor, which the police
refused. The insurgents then fired on the barrack,
the constabulary returning the fire. After some time
the Fenians left, one of them being heard to say,
' Is he badly hurt 1' referring it is supposed to some
one of them who had been wounded. Four prisoners
were taken later in the day. After the return of
the military from Croughill on Wednesday, Mr.
Degernon, It. N. , received information that the rebels
were assembling in force at the old Danish fort, at
Ballyhurst, not far from the town of Tipperary.
Mr. Degernon brought with him a detachment
of the 31st and a troop of the carbineers, Major
Lind being in command of the military, and pro-
ceeded to the place pointed out by the person who
gave the intelligence. When they came to the
school-house at Ballyhurst they got a dia.
tinct view of a large body of the insurgents in
military array., close to the old fort, which,
as well as could be discerned through the trees,
was blocked up with armed men. The major gave
his orders and brought the infantry at a double
quick pace. They charged up the hill with bayonets
fixed, firing as they went, dashed over the fence,
and drove the entire Fenian body out of the fort.
The insurgents fled in dismay, leaving an immense
quantity of arms and the commissariat after them.
About sixty pikes were found, and also a tin can '
filled with rifle and revolver bullets. There was
also a churn full of cold boiled po-
tatoes, a bag of white bread in penny
loaves, and a basket of home-made oaten
cakes, taken by force from the neighbouring farm-
houses. As the insurgents retreated, several of them
were seen to fall, as if struck by the bullets. One
was shot dead, and carried off by Mr. Degernon's
directions. The pursuit was followed up for four
miles, and on the way 60 additional pikes and four
guns were picked up, after being thrown away by
the Fenians in their precipitate flight. The mili-
tary took 17 prisoners, armed, while in pursuit.
One of them, the leader, a man named Burke, is

believed to hold a most important position. He is
a returned Irish-American, was in the Federal
army, and is lame."
The insurgents in the direction of Grantatown
carried with them all their wounded. Some
wounded men were in such a dangerous way that
messages were conveyed to some medical gentle-
men in Tipperary, who were appealed to for assist-
ance. There are about 75 Fenian prisoners in the
Tiperary Bridewell, under the charge of Mr. Gordon
and a military detachment.
The city and county of Dublin are perfectly
quiet.

In consequence of alarming rumours that pre-
vailed in the county Wicklow, a couple of troops
of Soots Greys and a large detachment of an in-
fantry regiment marched out in the direction of
the Wicklow mountains. No insurgents were
seen.

(ROM OCEI OWN CORRISPONDZST.)
DUBLIN, THUNADAT NIGHT.

Having just returned from an excursion round
that part of the county Dublin in which the
Fenian have taken refuge, I hasten to give you
the result of my observations. The insurgents,
on finding themselves so promptly and energetically
met by the military and police, withdrew from the
low country in detached bodies towards the moun-
tains in their rear, many of them falling off on the
way, hiding themselves in the fields until the ap-
proach of night, when they hoped to skulk into
town in safety. Some were successful, others fall-
ing into the hands of the police ; the main
body, if such a term can be applied to a
disorganised and undisciplined mob, pushed
through the pass of the Scalp, through the defiles