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

[STAMPED, Id. ADDITIORAL.]

of Tebradden, and along the military road towards
Glencree, or rather the shores of Lough Bray, at
which point several roads join, and where the
entrance to the wildest parts of the county Wick-
low is situated. To this spot the military also
turned their attention, and by a simultaneous
movement of troops along the various routes they
seek to hem in the unfortunate dupes who have
been fooled into joining this miserable enterprise.
Availing myself of permission obtained with diffi-
culty from the authorities, I started early yesterday
morning on a jauntiug car by way of Tallaght, the
scene of the first exploit, and passing through by-
roads reached the great military road which passes
along the summit of the Featherbed mountain. The
weather was miserable beyond expectation ; a heavy
fall of moist snow, with occasional showers of rain,
and piercing easterly winds, rendered the journey,
which in favourable weather is very picturesque,
anything but pleasant ; and if so to one travelling
under pretty fair conditions, what must it have
been to the number of Fenian!' who were obliged
to pass the night upon the bleak hill side, or
crouching fearful as hunted deer in the boggy
glens. The very idea of having to pass a night in
such a place and under such circumstances would

cool the ardour of nine-tenths of such men as
the body was composed of. After a few
miles of such work, passing bodies of in-
fantry marching in the same direction,
it became evident that I should see very little
of the Fenians if I continued my intended route.
I therefore arranged with the carman to meet me
at a point some miles distant ; and trusting myself
Ito the care of a peasant I had brought with me as
a guide, I ventured on making a detour into the
valley at the foot of the great Kippure mountain,
and through which flow the streamlets which
afterwards form the Dodder river. 1 certainly had
no desire to fall in with the main body of
the insurgents, nor with any detached party ;
but I met with two hiding Fenians, they were
concealed in the ruins of a wretched boothie,
or hut, and were discovered by a mere accident ;
they were very uncommunicative, as might have
been expected, said they had met the insurgents
and been forced to join them, and had run away
the first opportunity. They said that from what
they heard the commander was an American
colonel, that arrangements had been made for sup-
pliea of arms and ammunition to meet them at
Taflaght, and then make a raid upon the city, but
the scheme was frustrated by the capture of a
couple of waggon loads of ammunition, and the
panic which seized upon the young men at the
sight of blood and death.
I advised the fellows to give themselves up, and
left them. In a miserable cabin, which is used by
the country people as a ahebeen house, or dram
shop, we found three or four very suspicious-
looking fellows, and I think it lucky they were
not armed, but as it was they offered us no moles-
tation, but refused conversation, and answered
questions only in monosyllables. On the whole, I
was rather pleased when I got to my vehicle again,
and drove oft towards Enniskerry.
At Glenerce the great Kippure frowns over the
black waters of Lough Bray ' • the Eagle's Cliff,
which is the highest point of the mountain, over-
looks the country seat of the Cramptons, now de-
serted but by a couple of terrified servants. Here
the road turns up into the mountains ; but as the
soldiers had not yet reached this point, I judged
it prudent to take the turn to Enniskerry and Bray,
instead of extending the excursion.
There did not appear to be any concentrated
body, but on various points of the mountains
groups of men might be seen loitering about, and
seeming as if undecided what to do. Along the
road I passed a number of men in twos and threes,
wretched, heartbroken-looking fellows, hunger
speaking from their famished faces, and shivering
from wet and cold ; they appeared skulking home-
wards, but they were only walking into the arms
of the soldiery.
My guide, well known to the country people,
entered with me into many farmers houses ; in
some we found strangers sheltered, but they were
few in number, and the general feeling of
the country people appeared decidedly against the
men and the movement, but at the same time,
with the hatred of informers which prevails amongst
all classes of Irishmen, they refused to give any in-
formation as to the probable numbers of men in the
vicinity.
As I reached the pretty little town of Ennis-
kerry I met a party of 50 or 60 Marines, sent from
the Royal George, at Kingstown, to garrison the
residence of Lord Powerscourt, and protect the
town. The townspeople and neighbouring gentry
are in a state of the utmost consternation. The
Lady Powerscourt, and many of the gentry—in
fact all of them—have left for Dublin, and many
have quitted Ireland altogether.
Returning home by the Scalp, Golden Ball, and
Stepaside, 1 was in the track of the Fenians'
march from the suburbs of Dublin, and conversed
with the police who had been made prisoners.
They say that the commander of the party was a
person who had been in custody about six or
seven months agos and had been discharged, and
that as he had received kindness from the officials,
he repaid it by interceding for their lives, when,
on two occasions, it was proposed to slaughter
them. The police told wonderful tales of the
number of men they kept at bay, and the prodigies
of valour they enacted, but all such stories must be
taken with a heavy discount.
My impression after the journey is that a large
number of men are scattered through the country
in a very disorganised condition, that notwith-
standing the splendid roads which intersect the
district it will be a work of some time to catch the
fugitives, and that most of them have cast away
their arms, and are anxious to sneak home. The
quantity of arms which has been found is large.
They consist of all varieties, many of the rifles
bearing the government brand.
In the city, although the excitement has abated
it is still intense. Several badly wounded men
have turned up at the hospitals, variously account-
ing for their hurts, and a couple of dead bodies
have been brought in, of men who had crawled to
cabins, and died there of their wounds.
Several young men belonging to the drapers'
shops or monster houses were missed at roll call
yesterday morning. A few turned up late in the
(lay, battered and sleepy-looking, but they were
immediately turned adrift. Many brewers porters
are also missing, and the loafers and such like
characters have become remarkably scarce.
The precautions of the authorities continue—
troops under arms in the barracks, Armstrong guns
ready for action, the prisons garrisoned with troops,
and numerous patrols. There is far less fear among
the loyal inhabitants than might be expected. A
strong confidence exists in the power and wisdom
of the authorities and fidelity of the troops and
police, besides which the wretched cowardice of the
patriots, who run away in hundreds from a dozen
policemen, and cast away their arms in their panic
flight, gives rise to an opinion that one loyal man ,
would be able to fight a dozen Fenian'.
The advices from Drogheda, Limerick, Thurles,
and Cork: all points to a general rising in pur-
seance of an organised plan, but happily all the I
attempts have proved equally abortive.

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CORK, WEDNESDAY.

The insurrection is already dying ont. Hun-
dreds of men who left their homes on Tuesday
night with the mad belief that in a few hours they
would overturn the authority of the sovereign in

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Ireland have returned during the last twenty-four
hours undeceived, and disgusted with their folly.
Those bands which still hold together, and it is be-
lieved they are not now of formidable numbers or
strength, are wandering through the more remote
parts of the country, keeping to the hills—no
longer with the idea of successful aggression, but
in the hope that they may evade the pursuit of
justice. The Midleton band, which went off in
the direction of Tallow, to penetrate into the
mountainous parts of Dungarvan, has been greatly
thinned by desertions, and consists of not more
than a few of those most compromised in
the business, who dare not return to their
homes. The Cork detachments no longer
exist as an insurrectionary force. This
latter force was the principal insurgent body in the
county Cork, and was that which, with the assist-
ance of squads from Blarney, Battu=llig,
Whitechurch, Mallow, and Fermoy, destroyed the
track of the Great Southern and Western Railway,
and captured the police-station at Ballyknockin.
The Killmallock to`ntingent, one of the most for-
midable bands in the county Limerick, is rapidly
melting away, and fleeing from the pursuit of the
=Davey. ,rllb'Bseslm,• ear -et the largeskinvails
the county Tipperary was overtaken by a detach-
ment of infantry on Wednesday evening, and
fired upon. One of the rebels was wounded, and
34 prisoners were made. The rest scattered and
fled for their lives. In Tipperary and Limerick
the insurrection presented a really dangerous ap-
pearance on Wednesday morning. Every part
of the two counties was being traversed
by bands numbering from GO to 300 men,
and the residences of the country gentry with few
exceptions were plundered of the arms they con-
tained. Meantime the line of railway from Limerick
to the junction was injured at several points ;
the Waterford and Limerick line, which traverses
parts of Tipperary, Waterford, and Limerick, was
torn up at two points, and the telegraph wires
were cut on all sides, completely isolating each
military post. The insurgents so far secured
the possibility of succeeding by surprise ; but
when they endeavoured to turn the advantage to
account they failed miserably.

7 .
No arrests were made in this county to-day.
There are about thirty-five prisoners, captured on
Wednesday, in the county gaol, and it is believed
will be brought to trial at the present assizes, and
made an example of. The grand and petty juries
of the county will not be discharged before Satur-
day, in order that the Crown may have time, if it
should be so determined, to send up bills of in-
dictment.

The Fenian made no secret of their design on
Tuesday night. In this city large numbers of
young men bid farewell to their friends, and
many went to invoke the blessing of the clergy.
They assembled in small parties in the streets,
and marched off to the places of rendezvous, no
obstruction being offered to them by the constabu-
lary force, which, us well as the military, was con-
fined to barracks during the night, except at thud*
hours when small armed parties issued to patrol
the streets.

The inquest on the body of the Fenian leader
Daly, shot dead in Castle martyr, on Tuesday
night, was held to-day, and a-verdict of justifiable
homicide was returned. Daly had a wife and
eight children. The policeman Sheedy, shot in
Midleton had seven children. Daly was second
in command to an American officer named M'Clare,
who was to lead the united contingents of Cloyel„
Midletons, and Killeagh. The Cloyal detachment
was under a stalwart fellow named Joyce, a
farm labourer, who was tried for a very
atrocious murder at the last Cork assizes, and
acquitted, to the surprise of the entire county.
The peace of this city has not been for a moment
interrupted. To-night the streets are patrolled by
a detachment of the 12th Lancers, and by horse
police, Arms were to-day removed from the gun-
smiths shops by a party of the 74th Regiment ;
and the public-houses have been kept closed since
Wednesday. There is yet some alarm prevailing,
and much excitement ; but the danger is generally
believed to have past away.
The county Kerry has remained singularly tran-
quil. On Wednesday morning a party of Penians
appeared at Mellstreet, and destroyed the tele-
graph wires at the railway stations ; but they soon
after decamped, in what direction is not exactly
known. This was the only demonstration made in
the entire county of which we have yet had intelli-
gence. The abortive insurrection at Killarney is
supposed to have entirely disconcerted the plans of
the Fenian leaders in that locality.
In Waterford the movement has been insignifi-
cant. The operations of the Fenians were confined
to the damage done to the railway.

THE FREEHOLDERS OF BUCKING-
HAMSHIRE.