The Express.
London, England, 1866-02-20 00:00:00

ARRESTS IN DUBLIN.

Numerous arrests continue to be made in varionsquarters
of Dublin. The following are the names of part es who
have been tonally taken into custody :—Heory Gibbons,
John Shell, James O'Neal, Owen Bartley, John Hammond,
Henry O'Connor, Henry Browne, John Mahon, Patrick
Gill, John Browne, John Toohy, Bartholomew Kane, Fran-
cis Balt, Austin Mealy, Thome Clonally, Thu. Lawless,
Matthew Began, Thomas Bryan, Michael Green, Patrick
Myles, Edward O'Sheugbnessy, Thos. Tracy, Edward
Drummond, Thos. Mldanus, Thos. Wheleton, John Gil-
more, Daniel Joseph Mykin, and Passed. O'Dolierty. The
latter two state that they belonged to the American army,
Mykin alleging that he sum a captain in the Federal ser-
vice, and O'Doherty that he mum aide-de-camp to Gemini
Owen, also of the Federal army.
We (Dub/in Mail) understand there is no foundation for
the statement which appoint in a morning contemporary,
to the effect that Mn. Luby, Mrs. O'Donovan (Roses), and
Mn. Stephens had been arrested.
John Parker, a young man of about 17 years of age, who,
along with his father, was arrested on Saturday, has been
liberated. _ _

There is no foundation foe the statement that ► guard of
the mail van bad been fired at damn the passing of the ran
from the Post-office to the Great Southern Railway on
Sunday morning. The authorities of the Post-office have
made the strictest inquiry, and are satlafied that there is no
foundation whatever for the statement.

Two additional regiments of infantry are every hour
expected to arrive from England. This precaution will
obviate the necessity of removing, as was intended, some
of the troops from the Curregh to the country porta, where
there are at present no troops stationed. The tegiments
coming from England will number over 1,000 men each,
which, distributed in the most isolated parts, will tend
very much to rectors that setae of security which it is so
desirable to promote. _

Large escorts of oavalry and mounted pollee were en•
gaged till nearly midnight on Saturday assisting in the
removal of the prisoners apprehended by the polio° from the
police-stations where they bad been temporarily lodged, to
the convict prison at Monntjoy and Salmeinham

The Ist hattalion of the bOldstreem Guards are to pro-
card to Ireland this day.
A eourt-martial was assembled yesterday to try a soldier
charged with Pealsraism.
In Limerick on Sunday four non-commissioned officers of
the 73rd ware placed under rarest.
General Napier has gone down to hold an inquiry.

ILLNESS OF nut BISHOP or LONDON.—The Bishop
of London continues indisposed, and in his absence on San-
day afternoon Dr. Francis Jenne, D. D., the Bishop of Peter-
borough, performed the ceremony of confirmation at fn.
Andrew's Church, Holborn.

We (Dublin Evening Mail) understand that the
Earl of Dinneen will be the new repreeentetive peer.

Yesterday, Sir Charles Wood issued his retiring
address to the electors of Ripon. Subsequently, Lord
John Hay issued an address offering himself as • candidate
for the vacant seat, and setting forth his political princi-
ples. He states himself to be a liberal, prepared to sup-
port the present government. and in favour of the ad-
mission of a fair proportion of the working classes to the
franchise.

A supplementary estimate places the sum re-
quired in t►e year ending March 31 next, to make good ad-
vances from the Treasury cheat in New Zealand, and from
army grants, on account of expenses caused by the wee in
that colony, such advanced being repayable by the colonial
government, at 764,8291. The colonial government hes
already remitted to the imperial government, on this ac-
count, Four per Cent. Debentures amounting to 500,0001.,
which are held by her Majesty's government ea collateral
security towards the repayment to her Majesty's Ex-
chequer of these advances.

This' morning was Maned with the parliamentary
papers, the Revised Code of Regulations, incorporating the
minute of the lit May, 1865, with a schedule of all article.
cancelled or modified, and of all new articles by the Right
Hon. the Lords of the Committee of the Privy Council of
Bducation.

The following are the 15 peers who voted
yesterday for the Earl of Midis'. amendment, to the effect
that where animals were certified by an inspector and
justices to be recovering it should be optional, and not
compulsory, upon the local authorities to direct the
slaughter of such cattle—viz., Earl Mille (teller), Earl ,1
Donauder, Earl Ellenborough, Earl Leven and Melville,
Earl Selkirk, Earl Verulam, Viscount Melville (teller),
Viscount Torrington, Lord Chawortb, Lord De Tabley,
Lord Hatheston, Lord Kenyon, Lord Lyveden, Lord
Panmure, Lord Sundridge, Lord Walsingham. The Lord
Chancellor, the Duke of Somerset, Eorl Clarendon, Earl
De Grey, and Earl Granville voted in the majority.
On Friday Viscount Lifford will call the attention
of the Howie of Lords to the causes of the present condition
of Ireland, and will ask her Majerty's government whtther
it is their intention to introduce any measure into parlia.
meat providing for the support of the Roman catholic
clergy of Ireland independent of the contributions of the
people.

To-morrow Sir Brooke Bridges will ask the
Secretary of State for the Home Department whether it is
the intention of the government to recommend the appoint.
ment of a day for maim's' fent and humiliation in owner
queues of the national calamity of the cattle plague.
On Friday General Dunne will 88k the Chan-
°eller of the Exchequer whether the commissioners ►p•
pointed to inquire into the condition of railways has con-
cluded the inquiry with respect to Irish railways ; sod, if
such be the case, whether it will make a report with regard
to that kingdom at once, and without waiting to pursue the
inquiry u to the railways in Great Britain.
THE LOAN OF WORKS OF ART.—A bill has been
printed and brought into the House of Lords by Lcrd Stan-
ley of Alderley, providing that the owner for the time
being of any work of art may, without incurring any re.
sponsibility for any consequent loss or injury, lend such
work to the Lord President for the time being of her Ma-
jesty's Privy Council, for any period not exceeding twelve
months, to be exhibited to the publio by him or by his
direction at the proposed exhibitions of national portraits,
and the Universal Exhibition of Paris next year. The Lord
President is to take due precautions far the pre-
servation of all works of art lent to him is
primaries of this act, but he is not to be personally
liable for any loss or injury any article may sustain.
The expression "owner for the time being" will include
; trustees of museums and other bodies of persons, whether
corporate or unisoorporate, having in their possession or
under their control works of art, on trust for any public
pumper, or for any artistic or scientific society, or poisoned
thereof on behalf of themselves sod their successors ; it
will also include any tenant for life or other person entitled
'otherwise than m mortgages or as trusties for creditors) tie
the posesesion or enjoyment of works of art and mums for
life or any other limited period.