The Express.
London, England, 1866-03-22 00:00:00

AMERICA.

The following is Mr. Reuter's summary of the
news brought by the Hermann, which arrived at
Southampton yesterday :

NEW YORK, Name 10, ?Amu&
The oonstitutional amendment, basing the repre-
sentation on the number of the population, exclu-
sive of Degrees not permitted to vote, has been de-
feated in the Senate. Several amendments granting
the suffrage to the negroes have also been de-
feated. Kr. Doolittle offered a fresh amendment
basing the representation on the number of voters.
Criminal indictments have been found against
M'Kenna and Rogers, the Chili= agents, for a
breach of neutrality.

A meeting has been held at Chicago to en-
courage recruiting for the Fenian Naval Brigade
lately formed there. The speakers announced that
Sweeny's agents were organising men all over the
country, and that Chicago mutt supply two
regiments by St. Patrick's-day. The New York
World says Sweeny will have 16,000,000 dollars
in the Treasury by the end of Marsh. The Marl
York rimeev,referring to Fenianiam, states that
when'-dllt'necessity arises the government will
loyally assert the supremacy of the municipal
laws.
An open air Fenian mass meeting has been held
in front of the City Hall, Brooklyn. The speakers
appealed for immediate aid for the equipment of
privateers. Mabony, in addressing the Fireman's
Association, said it rested with the Fenians to
form a regular Irish Confederation in America.
No power in England could then resist
the revolutionary leverage that would thus be
brought against England. Mahony boasted that '
there were 300,000 sworn Fenians in Ireland, and
that in the very centre of wealth and power in
England there were Fenians ready to bring revolu-
tion toEngland's door. In addressing a meeting at
Williamsburg, Roberta stated that 30,000 men would
shortly be marched across the Canadian border. All
that was wanted to make the movement successful
was money. The New York World publishes
details of an elaborate military plan for the capture,
of Canada, including the seizure of the Grand
Trunk Railroad by Sweeny with 30,000 men.
It also muerte that the Fenians have numerous
vessels fitting out at Chicago, Buffalo, Bay City,
and Cleveland, which will simultaneously go to the
assistance of the land forces.
Amongst the earliest aggressive operations would
be, it is added, the overhauling of the British mail
steamers. At a Fenian meeting held in Washing-
ton, Senator M'Dougal subscribed his hone and
sword to the Fenian cause. Senator Wright also
spoke in favour of the movement.
A delegation from Kentucky has visited Presi-
dent Johnson, and thanked him for his veto on the
Freedmen's Bureau Bill. The President, in reply,
said that the present was a most critical juncture
in the affairs of the nation, scarcely lees so than
when an armed and organised force sought to over-
throw the government. "To attack or attempt to
disrupt the government by an armed combination
is," be said, " no more dangerous to the life of a
nation than to attempt to revolutionise or mo-
dersiesit by the disregard or destruction of the
safeguards thrown around the people's liberties in
the constitution. Our stand has been taken our
enures marked out, and we shall take no backward
step in this matter. By administering government in
conformity with the constitution. it is to be hoped
that the irregularities and annoyances to watch the
people have been subjected will ere long be re-
medied."

THE THREATENFECANADA. D FENIAN INVASION
O

Advice. from Canada to the 9th state that consi-
derable excitement prevails throughout the colony
on the subject of the threatened Fenian invasion.
The militia was being enrolled, and it bad been
determined by the government to call out 10,000
volunteers. Despatches from Ottawa, Montreal,
Toronto, and Hamilton state that the call was
everywhere being enthusiastically responded to, and
that three or four times the number required could
be had at a day's notice. The New York papers
give great prominence to these despatches, the
Herald heading them, " The Scare," and the Times
"The Canadian Flurry." The latter paper seems,
however, to make light of the matter, for among
its secondary headings occur the following : " Pro-
gress of the excitement about the Fenian invasion ;"
" A nine days' wonder already growing stale ;"
"General belief that the whole excitement is
bogus." In the course of an article in its impres-
sion of the 10th, it says :
If this Fenian bluster, then, should have the effect et
teaching the Canadians that they oueht to denied moss
on themselves and loss upon England, it will not be, so
far as they are concerned, an unmixed evil. It is simply
considered a vile nuisance among us here—first, because e
who 0011 se
sane American believes in the sincerity of thos.
duct the movement ; and second, because as idle, specula. !
tire, filibusteting community is s curse to soy country.
We are working, practical pearls, and whatever disturbs
our indastry or has a tendency thereto invites the heartiest
condemnation of every thrifty citizen of the United States.
The political speculators and dreamers that hurried the
South into iesurreotion would have folly deserved
all the punishment et has fallen upon them, If their
insane *chemise had effected nothing else than to paralyse
for the time the iedustrial end commercial interests of
the country. Our people do not wish to see this country
made the theatre for experiments in political propagamilant
in behalf of any other community, however mach oppressed.
We do our full share in findieg homes, protection. shelter,
sad, if necessary, mild oorractioe, for the hundreds of
thousands of poor foreigner that are attracted hither,
without our beim called on either to bargain for theat
ir
good behaviour towards powers with which we are
peso., or to bave.tbe business of the country disturbed
by their machination sad follies. The govarnment have
not, thus far, actively interfered with these Fettles people,
because their proeeediegs hitherto have been so essentially
of the character of burlesque. And eves this border '
sloe" is as likely as not to subside before the close of
St. Patrick's Day. But if the necessity should arise for the
United States goverment to assert the
supreme, of the
municipal law of the country, that duty will be loyally per-
formed, even if our lately " neutral " fries& are the first
st
to profit thereby. Meanwhile, if there is any patrio
spirit or pluck left to the provincial', they ought to make
short work of all• Fenian demonstration, whether organ/no
among themselves or elsewhere.

FATAL ACCIDENT AT • RAILWAY CSOISEINCL
W. Payne, the City coroner, held en inquiry last eer-
ie; at Guy's Hospital oe the death of Mary Gleesce, eged
45 years. The deceased we. a market-Fades worse. It
8 o'clock QII Tuesday rasing she was walking savor the
" accommodation foot path" which pure over the metals
of the Thames Juoctio• Railway, a lice wbieh runs late
the Leedom, Brightest, aed Routh Coast Railway at Hew. I
erre, when she was etreck by the buffer of • goods tzar
engra, and burled with greet fore. against the walls of •
North Kent Railway arch. When picked up she was in-
eatable, and oe her way to the hospital she expired frau
the effects of erne inters' injuries. Hor Au wore
brakes, and her lure sad liver were tern I. press. the
✓ector Cargester, of the Leedom, Brightes, sad Rork
Coast Railway, said the craning divided two learket `ar• I
dens. The engine-driver, when he maw the dtesewd ls
danger, blew his ertgiee-whistle, bat she bockes meths* dhim. He pulled up es quietly rhe era Times wee
eotioe board up at the °roar, " there of the ellithele A
=
dercrieg tribes could see se eosins a mills elf
did sot leek up or down the lie* before she erased
ik flhe wee carrying a basket of lettuces IA the tire. The
Ivry retread • vadat of " Losideetal dare withil iser
lag lea path errs a minter."