The Express.
London, England, 1866-01-11 00:00:00

THE FENIAN TRIALS.

DUBLIN, WIDSISDAT NIGHT.
The trial of Daniel Byrne, warder of Richmond
Bridewell, who is charged with having aided in the
escape of James Stephens, also with being a
member of the Fenian Brotherhood, commenced
yesterday, and has not concluded. The judge will
charge to-morrow.
This morning a discovery was made in a house in
Blackball-row, of 66 pikes complete, 246 pikes in a
rough state, and 29 handles in course of prepara-
tion, also a patent machine for manufacturing per-
cussion caps.
A barber named Brown, who came into the place
while the police were in possession, was arrested,
as was also Mrs. Tracy, the wife of the person who
had rented the house in Blackball-row. Tracy has not
been taken ; in his house were found three cwt. of
copper, supposed to be intended for manufacture
of caps.
Twenty-one persons, who had just arrived from
Glasgow, were arrested yesterday in Sligo on the
charge of Fenianiam.

THE MEETING OF PARLIAMENT.—The members
of the opposition have received the usual circular from Mr.
Disraeli, preparatory to the meeting of parliament. It is
as follows:—" Hughenden Manor, Jan. 4, 1866.—The
meeting of parliament is fixed for the Ist of next month,
when the members of the House of Commons will proceed
to elect their Speaker, and then to take the oaths. Her
Majesty's speech will be delivered on Tuesday, the 6th of
February, and I beg leave to request your attendance in
your place on that day, as business of great importance may
be wider considerstion.—l have the honour to remain,
your faithful servant, B. Droaaem."
The Earl and Countess of Derby are not ex-
pected in town till the last week in the present mouth.
The noble earl has quite recovered from his attack of gout.
Lady Molesworth entertained at dinner last
evening his Excellency the Count Apponyi, his Excellency
the Baron and the Baroness Brnonow, the Duke of St.
Albans, his Excellency Lord Augustus Loftus, the Duchess
of St. Albans and Lady Diana Beauclerk, the Marehionene
of Ely, the Right Hon. W. Gladstone, M.P., the Right
Hon. Sir Robert Peel, ALP., the Right Hon. Milner Gib-
son, M.P., the Baron and Baroness Ferdinand de Roths-
child, the Right Hon. Robert Lowe, M.P., and Mr. Delano.
The marriage of the youngest son of the Duke
and Duchess of Roxburghe and Miss Blanche Williams,
daughter of Colonel Williams, M.P. for Great Marlow, will
be celebrated in Loudon on Monday next. _ _ _

The secretary to our recent International Ex-
hibition at Dublin has received, through the Lord Lieu-
tenant, a communication from Colonel Phipps, oonveying
the reply of her Majesty to a resolution adopted by the
executive committee of the Exhibition, in which Colonel
Phipps says :—" Her Majeats directs me to assure you, in
reply, that she has been very much gratified to hear that
the contributions which she willingly sent to the Exhibi-
tion have been considered to have conduced to the attrac-
tions and to the success of that undertaking. Upon this, as
upon ►ll other occasions, it is a pleasure to the Queen to be
associated with any works which tend to the moral eleva-
tion, to the cultivation of industry and the arts, or to the
happiness of her Irish people."

The census published at the end of every year
by the vicariate of Rome shows the population of the city
last year to have been 207,338, comprising soldiers, Jews,
non-catholica, and prisoners. In the distinction of classes,
ecclesiastics and students are put down at 4,661; nuns and
novices, with their pupils, 4,847 ; soldiers (Pontifical, of
course), 4,881 ; non-catholirs, 437 ; Jews, 4,552 ; condemned
prisoners, 321. In 1864 the population was 203,896, so
that during the past year it was augmented by 3,442

The Times correspondent, writing from Madrid
on the 7th, says :—" There is no doubt that, independent
of any justice or injustice of his cause, Prim will have to
answer for she rashness with which he committed himself
to au enterprise which, am it would now appear, held out
so little hope of success, and the result of which will be to
force back his country for a year or two in that career of
financial and social improvement on which she was so
slowly and painfully struggling to put herself. The con-
sternation and confusion of all men here is beyond all
belief, and hardly seems commensurate with the actual
importance of the escapade which has given rise to it. Ths
effect of the mutiny of those few squadrons on 'Change, on
railway and canal enterprise, on public confidenos in any
kind of undertaking, is incalculable. Never have I seen
' the commercial men, who are numerous at my hotel, so
downcast as they have been for the last three days."
"At the distribution of the Twelfth-night cake
at the Tuileries," says the Sport, "the bean fell to the
Princess de Hohenzollern, who gave it to the Prince Impe-
rial. His highness, in return, handed to the MUMS •
diamond bracelet, which he requested her to accept."
A scandal has just occurred at the Jockey Club
of Marseilles. A young man who had arrived from Paris
with very good introductions, was discovered cheating at
baccarat, and he was at once turned out, and loft the same
day for the capital.
THE LATE JOSEPH LOCKE. —A statue to the
memory of Joseph Locke, the eminent engineer, has for
some time past been on its pedestal in the Locke-park,
Barnsley, awaiting the ceremony of unveiling. The day
for that purpose is now officially fired for the 18th inst,
and Lord A. Paget has undertaken the teak. At a meeting
of the Barnsley Local Board of Health, on Tuesday, it
was recommended that the entire battalion of the rifle
corps should be present, and teat all public bodies and
societies in the town should be invited to take part in the
proceedings, which was agreed to. It was further sug-
gested that a public dinner should take place after the
ceremony, at which Mr. W. S. Stanhope should be asked
to preside, and Mr. E. Taylor to take the vice-chair. This
suggestion was also agreed to. A local holiday will'mark
the interestiug event—Sherburne Journal,
A GALLERY OF ART FOR Livanroor..—Liver-
pool, thoagh possessing a population of upwards of 403,000,
has hitherto powered no permanent gallery of art. There are
small collections attached to some of the local institutions,
but no institution analogous to those of Loados, Paris, and
ether large cities, has yet been attempted. Yesterday,
however, the Town Council, after a good deal of discussion,
passed a resolution that a building suitable for a gallery of
art, combining galleries for painting, sculpture, and •
school of design, be erected on the recant land on the east
side of the Free Library and Museum, and that such sum
as may be necessary for the erection of the building be bor-
rowed on the security of the Library and Museum rate. It
is intended, if the funds will admit, to make proviaiou also
for an annual exhibition of works of art. Mr. J. A.
Pictoo (a Liverpool architect), who was the mover of the
resolution, stated that in Melbourne • noble gallery of art
had been established, at a cost for the building of 50,0001.,
and of an additional 50,000/. for the land, while the mgs-
tion of the whole colony of Victoria was not equal to that
of the town of Liverpool.
AN AGED DaI:MET= or THE Rtortarrr.—A letter
from Loapoigne, in Belgian, sap:—"The veparable
Gaillard Wanton., who. notwithstanding his 95 years, want
to meet his new sovereign Leopold 11. whoa making his
eotraacs into Brussels, would be perhaps surprised if be
knew that there still lives the village of Viarrille, near
Ganslies, • former eantisikra of La Tout's Dragoons, sow
102 roars of age. She is in the enjoyment of all her i•4l-
- faculties, takes long walks, and me danced the first
quadrille at the fate of Telesis», a village um Visnille, fa
September last She is feed of reistisg her life of ideas-
tom passed is the midst of amps and beetles. She was at
Meanie in 1794, and during the bottle gave birth to a son.
She only quitted the arm
aftere the death of her husband,
to return to her native