The Express.
London, England, 1867-03-08 00:00:00

LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, MARCII 1867.

AMERICA.

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NEW YORK, NIARof 6, Now:.

Opening prices 135 i. Sterling exchange
on L•mdon, 108. 5.210 United States Bonds,
1091 ; WY ; Erie, 52.:1.

NEW YORK, MARru f;

Closing prices :—Gold, 1351. Sterling est:ham:it
on Loilthin, 1084. 5-211 United States Builds,
1091. 115.1 ; Erie, 521. Cotton, mid-
dling Upland, 31 The Inman steamship City of
Antwerp arrived out to-day.

THE FENIAN INSURRECTION.

(Elioll 01 R OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
DUBLIN. THURSDAY NIGHT.

A despatch from Limerick junction to-day says
that last night a large number of Fenian
were seen at Kilfcaele, in county Limerick,
supposed to be on their way to attack
Bansha in county Tipperary. They met the
military and tired at them. The soldiers re-
turned the tire, killing one and wounding
several. " General " Line, commanding the
rebels, and 31 prisoners were taken. Fifty-one
prisoners are now in gaol is Tipperary.

Several gentlemen's houssa have been attacked.
Mr. Bourne, manager of the Union Bank at Kil-
mallock, passed a favourable night.
The following account of the attack on the
police barrack at Killmallock is given by the cor-
respondent of Sommteri News Letter:
"'lle insurgents, estimated at from 200 to 700,
hail been previously scouring the country, and
took all the arms they could get from farmers
and gentlemen. The constabulary barrack is an
old fashioned stone house, two stories high, close
to the Munster Bank, just at the entrance to the
town. It has two wooden doors and upwards of I
21) windows, some of which an) barred with iron.
Nearly every window has been smashed by the
firing without, and bullet marks are visible in many
places. At the time of the attack upon it the
barrack was occupied by Head-constable Adams and
a body of only 14 constables and sub-constables.
Their assailants thought to take them unawares,
but they were mistaken ; they had had notice of
the threatened rising, and hail their Minii) rifles
loaded. Almost the first sign to them of the
attack was what they afterwards discovered to
have been an attempt to set tire to the front door
of the barrack by daubing it all over with paraffin
oil outside. Their response to this was two shots
through the door, which made the rebels move
away quickly and ensconce themselves behind a
low wall, and sundry gate piers, and other stone
opportunities which they had in front. To the
back door they brought a tar barrel, but instant
shots made them take themselves away from that
point also. Then commenced a regular attempt to
storm the barrack, which the armed mob kept up for
upwards of two hours without intermission. Not
more than a fourth or a third of the insurgents had
guns, but the rest had pikes, revolvers, and dag-
gers. Several of their guns, which were afterwards
picked up, were elegant double-barrel fowling-
pieces, which had been evidently taken from pri-
vate owners. The leader, dressed in a full uniform
of green, with brass buttons, hat and feathers, was
called Colonel Dunne. He belonged to Charleville,
and had served in the American army. At the first
suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act he was
arrested in Cork, but was subse.luently liberated.
During the attack the townspeople fraternised
with the insurgents almost to a man. Besides
the fire of guns, stones were thrown in abun-
dance at the barrack and upon the roof.
About seven o'clock the insurgents tried a savage
device for the purpose of trying to get the back
doors of the barrack opened. They made a prisoner
of a respectable man, named Carroll, the owner of
a house of refreshment close by the barrack, who
had made himself obnoxious by having on former
occasions supplied the police with cars. Colonel
Dunne brought him inside the front wall, and
putting a pistol to his ear, ordered him on pain of
death to ask the police to open the doors for the
purpose of affording him a refuge. Head-con-
stable Adams and his men resolutely warned the
man that they would be obliged to shoot him if he
did not get away front the barracks, and the
attempt failing, Carroll was 'led away by his cap-
tors. They tried by means of heavy crowbars and
sledges to break down the end wall of the barrack, but
failed. In this way the siege went on until
about 9 o'clock, when a reinforcement of ten men
arrived suddenly, took the rebels in the rear, and
gave them a volley which brought down one of the
three men who have been killed. The rebels at
this gave up their attempt, and the police under
Head-constable Adams turned out and joined the
other constabulary. Then commenced an engage-
ment on the roads or streets. The police fired at
and received the fire of the rebels, the latter firing
from behind corners of the streets, and from be-
hind walls, as they retreated, the police now pur-
suing them. Finally the insurgents fled and dis-
persed, including a man called Walsh, the second
in command of the rebels, who was respectably
dressed in black, American fashion, and another
named Bradley, who was found hiding between
two bodticka, and, being struck by Constable
Shea with his rifle, surrendered himself. He is
slightly wounded. Amongst the arrests is a man
named Henessy, a blacksmith, suspected of having
made some of the pikes. The police picked up
37 pikes with handles 10 feet long, 18 or 19 guns,
and a horse pistol and a revolver, besides a lot of
cord, fusees, canisters of bullets and powder, and
also a sword, probably belonging to Dunne, as he
was seen going through the town without it before
he disappeared. He was shaking hands with several
of the townspeople, including, it is said, O'Sul-
livan, the hotel-keeper. A mounted policeman,
bringing a despatch from Bruff, was intercepted,
and his horse taken. Dunne wrote a despatch
publicly in the street, and sent it away by a fellow
who rode the policeman's horse. This man has
since been arrested. Two insurgents were shot by
the police ; their bodies await an inquest. A third
person, a young man known as Dr. Cleary, who is
said to have been siding with the insurgents, and
who at all events attended to their wounds, was
also shot dead, I believe. Several Fenians wore
wounded ; the police saw two of them being carried
away. The policeman only received a slight bullet
wound in the thigh. Mr. Bourne, the manager of
the Union Bank, whose private residence is a short
distance from Killmallock, was visited by two of
the Fenian leaders—Walsh and a Captain Dunne.
Walsh demanded Mr. Bourne's arms, which were
refused ; when Captain Dunne repeated this de-
mand, and, on being refused, he shot Mr. Bourne
on the spot It is very doubtful whether he

sill recover. The Kill If high it his
neck, and has nut ls:e.t extracted. He
was immediately attended by Dr. Clear, who
on his way from Mr. Bourne's was shot dead. A
policeman front Kiltinmate comity.; up. the Fenian,'
dispersed, and subsetinentlyeolleeted on the moun-
tains."

A man named Farrell, who was wounded at Tal •
laght, died last night .th inquest was held to-day
on the body of Stephen Donoghue, who was killed
at Tallaght. The jury found a verdict in aixor-
dance with facts, and highly praised the conduct of
the inspector of police and his men.

(PROW oCit OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
CORK, WEDNESDAY.

An insurrectionary movement of a far more fur
'addable and extensive character than the late raid
in Kerry broke out last night in this county, and
has already been attended by lamentable loss of
life. It is itnpossible as yet to ascertain the exact
extent of the rising, as all main lines of telegraph
have been cut in the neighbourhood of Cork, and
the line of the Great Southern and Western Rail-
way has been torn up in two places between Cork
and the Limerick...function, thus stepping for the
time communication with Dublin, and with even
the adjacent counties.

According to the limited information we possess
here, the rising appears to have begun simulta-
neously in several diffenait parts of the county.
The earliest appearance of the Fenians was in the
town of Midleton, which lies in the centre of
a district that has been regarded as the hot-
bed of Fenianisni in the county. Here, at
11 o'clock, a party about thirty men, armed
with rifles and bayonets and wearing belts, and
it is said some kind of 'form, assembled on the
green at the upper end of the town, and after
salting there until joined by a few others from
the locality, marched through the town towards
the police barrack, which is at the other end. On
their way they met au armed police patrol of four
men (the entire constabulary fort.* in the barrack
consisting of five men and a head constable). The
patrol retired to the barrack at first, but issued out
again by direction of the head constable (Connell),
and followed the insurgents to Coppinger's-bridge,
at the extreme end of;the town. Here the Fenians
turned, and called on their pursuers to surrender,
following up the demand by a volley. One of the
policemen, sub-constable Sheehy, fell dead, shot
through the heart, and a second man, Sub-consta-
ble M`Donnell, was slightly wounded in the back
of the head. The two uninjured policemen
returned the Fenimurifire, with, it is believed, some
effect. They then fled for shelter to a neighbouring
house. The, Fenians marched on to Castlemartyr,
a village four miles distant from Midleton, and on
their way their numbers became largely augmented,
parties of men joining them here and there at pre-
viously appointed places of rendezvous. Arrived
at Caatlemartyr (in which is the seat of the Earl
of Shannon) the insurgents marched direct to the
police-station, and their leader—a carpenter, named
Daly—called on the police to surrender. The latter
had had notice of the approach of their assailants,
and having barricaded the barrack felt tolerably
secure. Their answer to the demand for surrender
was to fire a volley from the windows. Daly, the
Fenian leader, received a ball in the breast, and fell
dead. This warm reception seemed to disconcert
the band, who had not expected that a party
of six men would venture to offer resist-
ance to upwards of a hundred or a hun-
dred and fifty, which was the number
of the attacking party, and they hastily retreated,
leaving their dead leader in the street. When last
seen the Land was making for Killeagh, which is
believed to be the place of rendezvous appointed
for the detachments from Midleton, Youghal,
Cloyne, Castlemartyr, and adjacent villages.
During the night small parties of men were seen on
the roads in various directions, tending towards
this point, armed, and carrying havresacks of pro_
visions. They made no secret of their design, and
appeared confident of success.

While this bloody drama was being enacted in
one part of the country, a similar movement was on
foot in other directions. Shortly before eleven
o'clock the Magnetic Telegraph Company's wires,
which run along the line of the Great Southern
and Western Railway, were cut, and in 'tit short
time afterwards it was ascertained that the wires of
the Electric Company, which follow adifferent route,
had also been destroyed. About the same hour
the Fenians began to assemble in the localities
through which the Great Southern and Western
Railway runs. At Knocklong, the station next to
the Limerick Junction, and 48 miles distant from
Cork, a party of men removed a rail on the up
line of the railway, and two or three rails on the
down line, for the purpose of stopping the mail
trains from Cork and Dublin, which arrive at that
point a little after midnight. The report is that
they obliged the railway company's servants to
assist them in this work. The mail train front
Cork was the first to arrive on the scene. The en-
gine, tender, and van went safely over the damaged
part of the track, but the following carriages were
overturned. The guard of the train was, it is re-
ported, seriously hurt, and some of the passengers
more or less injured. The Fenians had re-
tired, and the engine was sent on to the junction
for assistance. Some time after the down train
arrived, proceeding with more caution than the
fast train. The driver perceived the damage to
the line in time to stop the engine before it
reached the torn up part of the track, and thus
avoided what might have proved a calamitous
accident, as on this part of the line several rails
had been removed. The line was cleared and
restored to working order in a few hours, and the
train, which was due in Cork at two o'clock,
riveciat aix in the morning, being four hours late.
Passing the Rathduff station, between Cork and
Mallow, the guard of this train perceived a large
body of men approaching the railway, their pur-
-1 pose being, as appeared subsequently, to destroy
the track. When the eight o'clock train from Cork
reached Rathduff this morning, it was found that
the track had there been destroyed for a con-
' aiderable distance, the rails being piled on
the line. The train was brought to a stand
still, and about a quarter of a mile ahead
were seen a party of five hundred men near
the line, while between this body and the train
were upwards of a hundred men distributed over
the country. The train was at once brought back
to Cork. A communication of the facts was made
to General Bates, and a party of 100 men of the 67th
Regiment, accompanied by Mr. Barry, a county
magistrate, was despatched for the purpose of pro-
tecting the men engaged in repairing the track
of the railway, and of dispersing any armed
bands that might be encountered on the way. The
track was found to have been destroyed at two
pointa--Rathdufl and Ballyalongh—bet at neither
place were any Fenian, to be seen. After the track
had been repaired the special proceeded on to Bally-
aknockin, where there is a small police station. This
station had been attacked and burned early in
the day by a band of 400 Fenian. The assailants
first called on the police to surrender, and on re-
ceiving a refusal, piled up straw around the house
and set it on fire. The occupants of the barrack