The Express.
London, England, 1867-03-12 00:00:00

TILE FENIAN RISING.

i,,,,r,,politan police force at Dublin are
„ • 1., armed with Snider rifles.
; ;mil schoolmaster was brought up at
-terday for attempting to climb the walls
%I ,•,,: joy Prison, and a young gentleman named
, • • •, rta., :wrested last night at Portobello
•,. he had loaded pist.,l and ammunition,
.l.;•leton kcy that opened one of the gates.
t,;;s accepted ft •t. his appearance to-day.
h. Lord Motor of Dublin has decided to bring
for ditua4cs against the proprietors of
Mo,/ for the libellous letter signed
,i,curry.-

ciilumns have been organised to scour
.:•-!.til.ed parts of Tipperary, Cork, and Water-

rite t.!..mbers of the Fenian council arrested in
Saturday night have been committed
the ,h3r.;,• ..f high treason.

1...r.1 N. iii i‘situAl a circular to the magia

it, , i:, ;1.364i of the necessity of swearing
.N.ci.d constables, specifying their number,
:out I..wcrs.
i—rt. all parts of the country are gels-
, The Fenians are disappearing, but the
preparations continue vigorous.
Qu., Louth, and Meath have been

CORK, MoNDAY SiGHT.

insurrection is abating in Limerick, Tippe-
t r and Clare. At a Fenian council held in the
there was considerable recrimination be-
n th,• leaders and the men, many of the latter
The column sent to the Galtees yester-
.r. has not yet returned.

TOE III: tITH Or TIM ROYAL NAVY. —This morn-
a.,, published, fur the information of parliament,
,tiotical abstract of the health of the royal navy
• taco the lit July. 1841, and the :10th June,
The view given of the health of the navy for the
,i,ol r, Ferrol to is very favourable. In the ratio of CAMS
wed njom the sick hot there was a trilling increase as
~.parcel with tic previous twelve mouths; but the ratios
inv:,ll,ling and of mortality were the lowest which bad
~,,irre.l,luring a period of ten years. In the armour-clad
the ratio of cases was lower than in say
clan of seagoing vessels, with the exception
f the secondrates. The ratio of invaliding was also low,
I the only class of veosel in which the death rate was
1,, It.s the tint-rate, of which only one wax in coi-
n-1,-,on. The only iron clad vessel, indeed, in which ac-
ta. .li., :Ise prevailed to any extent was the Royal Oak.
hi the Litter, fever of a specific type and urgent character
appears to have been contracted at Malta, but at the date
of the caidusion of the report the vessel was in a satia-
factory condition.
The Nord contains accounts of a terrible rail-
way accident near the Nikitino station on the Moscow
line. In turning a short curve a part of the train ran off
thy :Ails, and eight carriages were precipitated down an
embankment till feet high. About persons were killed,
and more than lOU received serious injuries.

The Emperor of Austria has just re-established
the Polish language for the study of law at Lemberg. All
Me examination,' will be made in the same language. The
telegram announcing this new imperial concession was re-
ceived with great rejoicing.

-„ -
ADMIAmIoN INTO CLUBS.—CIub-land is just now
much troubled and full of desultory turmoil, by reason of
the number of candidates for admission who are unable to
take their way within its charmed osmium The pree-
mie from without and the resistance from within are
much more vehement than those of the unenfranchised
who wish for the suffrage, and the now privileged
minority who besitatr as to the degree in which
they would extend it. The Carlton was chock
full long ego, and a Junior Carlton is already be-
ginning to rise opposite the old one. To gain admis-
sion to the Athenaeum you must spend half a lifetime in
the state of probation. The Travellers is practically inan-
e... Ode, partly owing to the fastidiousness of those who
have the power to admit, but partly, also, to the
lhysimil impossibility of affording room to more than a
imited number within circnniscribed precincts. Brooks 'e
maintains with Whig dignity its inflexible limitation to
5010, which excludes of necessity scores of peers and com-
moners of undeniable eligibility, but which precludes the
annoyance and vexation caused in less exclusive quarters
by the putting up of numerous names for ballot practise,
with the inevitable results in wounded and missing.
There was last week a batfue at the Reform. Six gentle-
men out of eight were what is called "peppered," an equal
number having been blackballed the week before, and
this for no other reason that can be intelli-
gibly assigned than that the house is already too full,
and that the beleaguered garrison do not choose to share
the necessaries and comforts of life with strangers, how-
ever iodividually likeable. Not very long ago the present
Duke of was refused admission to the Garrick : and
the other day the lion. was blackballed at White's
though proposed by the Prince of Wales. Instances
might be multiplied of well-known members of the world
of politics and fashion who have been similarly treated.—
correspondent of Mane/,ester Guardian.
A FATRIARcItaL LORD CHANCELLOR.—The
Chancellor has sufficiently recovered to be able to put his
signature to the necessary documents. From a gentleman
by the admission of his friends in his 86th, and by the
estimate of the public in his 87th year, it would hardly
be fair, even in an emergency like the present, to expect
mach more. Every one will rejoice at Mr. Black-
baree's restoration to the full measure of that health
which, in his patriarchal age, his warmest friend can
wish him. But no true friend of the Chancellor,
much less of the government, can desire his longer con-
tinuance in a position which would task the faculties and
endurance of a much younger man. In extreme old age,
the unnatural struggle to maintain himself in such a posi-
tion is on every account to be deplored. A few patriar-
chal tuen have been found, from time to time capable, at
nearly Mr. Elockburne's years, of making an occasional
epeteli with a certain vigour and effect. These men were
prodigies. But no one pretends that Mr. lllackburne is
elipernatund, and no one will question the dignity, red
sense, and propriety of the resolution which everybody
anticipate& The critical exigencies of the public service
invite the immediate retirement which Mr. Blackburn
Probably conteuipletes.—lhiblin detain!, Vail.
As: iNCIDENT OF THE FENIAN INISURBECTION.—
The special correspondent of the Times in Ireland writes :
One of the incidents of the insurrection was the cap-
ture of the police barrack at
inliallyknockae, about six
miles south of Mallow. This feat of arms supposed to
love been achieved by a party of insurgents from Cork.
There were Ave policemen in the barrack, and when sum-
moned to surrender they refused. A volley was at once
fired at the window'', and they replied by shooting one
man through the &boulder. Upon this the insurgents dis-
appeared from the front of the house ; for, though called
barracks, these police-stations are nothing more
than small houses, often with scant accommodation.
Unfortunately there were no windows at the rear, and the
policemen could not, therefore, defend the back door.
This the insurgents battered in, and then, piling up wood
at the foot of the stairs, set fire to the heap and with-
drew. 'We were prepared to have held the staircase
against the whole of them,' said one of the constables in
demnbing the scene to me, ' and we bad no idea that they
were going to burn us out.' There was a woman in the
barrack at this time, and the police asked the Fenians to
let her come out. At first they refused unless the police
oeuld give up their arms, but ultimately she
was allowed to come out. The Ave constables re-
mained in the barrack seine time longer, until the
staircase was burnt away and the smoke became stifling.
They would undoubtedly have perished in the flames had
sot the parish priest, the Rev. Mr. Novell, prevailed upon
the people outside to bring a ladder and place it at one of
the windows. Down this ladder the policemen came
carrying their rifles, which were snatched from them be:.
fere they reached the ground. Two or three shots were
fired at them as they descended, and one shot grazed the
cheek of oneof the party. carryingaway the strap of his cap.
When they had been 'beamed and robbed of belts and equip-
ments, sane of their captors proposed to shoot them, and
there was much dispute over this proposal. Two men,
who looked like Irish-Americans, addressed the crowd,
and said the police had only done their duty in resisting
the attack, that if they were shot the people would be
hung, and that the better plan would be to let them go.
Th.-se counsels prevailed. but before the constables were
allowed to go every effort was made to induce them to
Join the army of the Irish Republic. The promise of
commiseione, good pay, and other advantages had, how-
ever, no effect, and ultimately the policemen were allowed
to g,J, away unscathed. The insurgents afterwards en-
camped on a place called Bottle-hill, near hero, but exe-
cuted a strategic nioveineut on the other side of the hill
with such rapidity when a few troops came in sight that
only three of the number were taken. Seeing that one
.4 the attacking party had been wounded at the barrack,
there was a certain generosity in their release of live
policemen. And when severe measures are urged against
mere insurgents it must be remembered to their credit
that, from whatever motive, they have been merciful
when mercy was hardly to be expected from them, and
have forborne plunder and outrage in the country dis-
tricts they have traversed."

LAW INTELLIGNIpB,

(THIS DAY.)

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Winslow.)
IN HE COWF.N.

........
The debtor in this case was a master mariner, of
Cliff .psrade, Southend. He had executed a deed pro-
silini~• for payment of a composition of 2e. tid. in the
pound, by two instalments, within two months of regis-
tration. The deed was registered on the 18th of Septem-
ber last, under the 192nd section of the ►ct of 1861, and
application was recently made on behalf of Mr. Foster, a
Ittownting creditor, for ;leave to issue execution notwith-
standing the registration of the deed.

Mr. freed appeared in support of the application, which
was resisted by Mr. R. Griffiths, on behalf of the debtor.
Mr. l'ommissioner Winslow having taken time to con-
shier, now gave judgment. He said that Cowen, by the
list of creditors filed by him with the deed, stated that be
owed 1,121 W., the composition on which would amount to
1401., but in reality his debts were 1,054/. only, as the
cl • of some of the creditors were increased by sums
amounting to ;W. fia. 4.1, for interest, and an old debt of
4/. 10/., from which the debtor had been released under a
former bankruptcy, and which could not form part of the
majority in value necessary to make the deed binding upon
Mr. Foster. Amongst the assenting creditors was a Mr.
Trounce, who lent Cowen 1701. to enable him to purchase
some furniture, and Mr. Wright, who sold him furniture to
the value of 120/. Mr. Andrew Rees was also inserted as an
assenting creditor for 35/. in respect of a gold chronometer
supplied to the debtor' and a Mr. Green for Si. in respect
of a revolver. The furniture, which thus cost 290/.,
the chronometer, and the revolver were at the date
of the deed and still remained the property of and
in the possession of Cowcn he had in addition
a boat which was worth about 10/., and a ship called the
Helena, which he had purchased from Mr. Foster, but not
' paid for. On the 28th September, being ten days after
the registration of the deed, Cowcn sold the Helena for
300/., of which he received 120/. in cash and 1801. in bills
of exchange. By the terms of the deed Cowen obtained a
release from all his debts, and retained the bills of ex.
change, and the furniture and other property, which had
cost him 330/. There was nothing in the evidence to show
that the property was not still worth the whole amount
which Cowen paid for it, and if so he could have paid an
additional Its. or more in the pound; it was quite clear that
he could have paid a much larger composition, or if there
hail been an assignment of his estate the creditors would
have received much wore than 2s.'lid. in the pound, for it
was evident he, the debtor, would never have sold the
Helena for bills of /exchange which he considered bad, and
they alone would have paid Is. in the pound. Under
those circumstances Mr. Foster asked leave to issue execu-
tion on three grounds, the last being the important one
that the deed was not reasonable, the un-
reasonableness being disclosed by the facts
stateft. The question was whether a dissenting
creditor ought to be bound by a deed which dealt with the
debtor's estate in the way described. If there was sub-

atantial inequality upon the face of the deed, it would be
unreasonable, but there was none, and he would rather
base his decision upon the ground that as regarded the
debtor it was a fraud, and as regarded the assenting credi-
tors, if their conduct did not amount to fraud, it consti-
tuted such gross negligence as was equivalent to fraud,
and that Mr. Foster ought not to be bound.
It was quite clear the deed was prepared expressly to
defeat Mr. Foster, and if the debtor had fairly surrendered
all his property the law allowed a deed for such a pur-
poee to be sustained, but it could never be intended that
one creditor could deprive another of his fair share of a
debtor's property. He should therefore hold upon the
authority of " Re Clunie, 10 L T., 1863," that Mr. Foster
was entitled to issue execution, and the application would
be granted with costa against the debtor.
Upon the application of Mr. Griffiths the issue of the
order was stayed fur ten days with the view to an appeal.

THE POLICE COURTS.
(THII3 DAY.)

BOW-STREET.
AN EXHIBITION 0? STRENGTH.

Jolde Doris, alias Gans Gandy, was placed at the bar
charged with creating a disturbance at the Coach and
Horses Tavern, in the Strand, smashing a sheet of piste
glass value tof., and assaulting the landlord and eight po-
licemen.
The prisoner, who is a moat eccentric peraon, has fee.
quently been charged at this court with violent and dis-
orderly conduct, and had only just been liberated from
prison after seven days' imprisonment. On the last occa-
sion he had thrown himself under the wheels of a Han-
son. cab, and the driver had with great difficulty stopped
the vehicle in time to avoid passing over him. On the
present occasion he was nearly naked, having nothing on
but a pair of trousers, and, more off than on, an indis-
eribable heap of tatters which he said was his shirt,
and the tearing of which be bitterly couiplained of.
Its ragged condition exhibited most conspicuously
the remarkable development of his brawny muscles.
During the whole time be was in the dock he amused him-
self by bowing alternately to the magistrate, the clerk, and
other persons in court, occasionally muttering complaints
about his torn shirt, and vows of future sobriety.
Mr. Nicholls, the landlord of the Coach and Horses,
stated that about 7 o'clock last evening, the prisoner came
to the bar of the house, and throwing down • penny de-
manded half a pint of beer. Witness refused to serve him,
when he swore a terrible oath that he would have
it and made such • disturbance that Mr. Nicholls had to get
over the counter to put him out. He resisted violently,
and smashed a pane of glass in the window. When put
out be made a rush at witness and struck him is the face.
He then made • diversion by rushing into the road,
seising a horse by the legs, lifting the animal to a rearing
posture, and resting its chest upon his shoulders. He
used a good deal of foul language, and when given in
custody resisted so violently that it took eight constables
an hour to get him to the station.
This was corroborated by Bell, the beadle of St. Mary-
le-Strand, and by Policeman Hine, 169 F, whose hand he
had severely bitten.
The prisoner said (as he had said on former occasions)
that he would take the pledge and never enter a public.
house again.
Mr. Flower said the prisoner had made that promise so
often that little faith could be attached to it. He feared
the prisoner used his strength very badly.
The prisoner hoped his worship would deal leniently
with him.
Mr. Flower said this was not a case that he could deal
with at all. The prisoner must be committed for trial.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
.BWALLOWDIO COUNTIMT.IT COIN.

&mud ari.i4l.l-cf.V.;:ii&T.l7t:.;;;;nharged before
Mr. Tyrvrhitt with uttering • counterfeit form at the
Ship Tavern, Upper Marylebone-strcet, with intent to
defraud Mr. Vickery, the landlord.
G. White, • barman in Mr. Vickery's employ, said that
the prisoners came into his employer's house and called
for some drink, and tendered • counterfeit dorm in pay-
ment. He then sent for • constable, and gave the prisoners
into custody.
Hugh Tabrer,l43 D, said that while taking the prisoners
across Bedford-square on the way to the station he saw
the male prisoner attempt to swallow something. He
seized his throat and called for assistance, but the pri-
soner succeeded in swallowing what he had put in his
mouth.

James °gland, 746 A, said that on going to the last writ-
ness's assistance he saw the male prisoner trying to swallow
something, and whilst searching him at the station he
said, " You can have all the soft stuff (bad money) I
have outside of me ; all I bad I have now got inside of
me " (meaning that he had swallowed it). The prisoner
also said, " I can swallow the biggest souper (watch) that
you or any other man ever saw." He found a bad shilling
upon him.
In answer to Mr. Tyrwhitt the police stated that they
did not think the female prisoner was connected with the
male prisoner.
M`Shay said that he met the woman and merely asked
her to have something to drink.
Mr. Tyrwhitt remanded the prisoner, bat consented to
take bail for the woman.

THE BROUGHAM DINING HALLS COMPANY.—To-
day this winding-trp matter (before reported in the Express)
came on before Mr. Church, the chief clerk of the Muter
the Rolls. Mr. Mayhew (Edwards and Mayhew) the mond-
tor to the liquidators, reported the call ordered of 4s. per
share. There was about 1,700 i. in hand, and a further
sum of 2,000/. was required, and was expected to be forth- '
coming. On the part of a creditor named Evans it was
submitted whetherthe assets should not at oncebe divided.
There was the property in Market-street, Paddington, to
be realised. Mr. Mayhew said there were negotiations
pending. The call had realised en amount, but the largest
shareholder had been killed on the Matterhorn,
and they expected to be paid by his estate, but
as yet the money had not been paid. On the part
of the creditor Evans • dividend was pressed.
Mr. Mayhew said he believed there would be 20s. in the
pound, and if the chief clerk thought pro r a dividend of
10s. in the pound could at once bed The chief clerk
said any creditor could bring the matter before him, but at
present he had no materials before him on which he could
form en opinion. He accepted the report made by the
liquidators. In this winding-up matter on a former occa-
sion a shareholder applied to be removed from the list as
he was an " infant" when he took the shares. The question
remained over. The Dining-hall in Fleet-street had been
disposed of and the money realised for the creditors.
THE EASTER VOLUNTEER REVIEW.—There now
seems to be every probability that the Easter Monday
Volunteer Review will be held this year at Dover. A.
committee of volunteer officers have visited the site
offered by the town, and it is understool that they will
make a favourable report. The railway companies have
acted in the most liberal spirit, ►nd there is no doubt the
town will furnish the necessary guarantee. As the com-
mander-in-chief his given hie sanction to the garrison
taking part in the review, in the event of Dover being se-
lected, the proceedings this year will possess an unusual
amount of interest.—Maidstone Journal.