The Express.
London, England, 1867-03-07 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 7, 1867.

are the most over-crowded and unhealthy, aud
every extra penny raised for the sick tends to turn
the struggling classes into paupers, is in* not
to be gainsaid, and Mr. II ARM' seemed to re-
cognise its justice when introducing his Bill.
It is not, therefore, for bodies like the Workhouse
Infirmary Association, or for other Poor-law re-
formers, to bolster up what is faulty in the new
measure by admitting its expediency. Their func-
tion is to press for the amendment of the Bill in
eommittue, until the proper treatment of the sick
poor is assured by an extension of the common-
fund principle, and by a system of management
which shall be directly responsible to the Poor-law
Board and to Parliament. Self-governing bodies,
leavened by amateur nominees, will leave us
exposed to a repetition of the old evils, the old
squabbling, the old and terrible gap between
theory and practice.
To illustrate the effect of classification as it will
continue under Mr. HARDY'S Bill, we may quote
the case of an old female pauper who is at this
moment bed-ridden in a London workhouse. She
has been a communicant fur years, and iS devout,
respectable, and orderly. Suftering from a bad
leg, she has been placed, according to regulations,
in the " foul case ward," and is in constant proxi-
mity to and daily and nightly association with the
lowest prostitutes, and exposed to their oaths and
bad language in consequence. It is understood
that Lord Gitosveson has undertaken, on behalf
of the Workhouse Infirmary Association, to press
for an increased controlling staff, and fir the
placing the new buildings and syphilitic and cancer
cases upon the common fund ; but the public
may rest satisfied that until all paupers who are
really sick, decrepid, or infirm, are placed under
properly responsible management, it will be
periodically startled by a recurrence of the shock-
ing scandals which Mr. HANDY'S Poor Law Bill is
brought in to prevent.

the "oppressed nationalities" in the Levant. An halo.
Greek legion, ovesieging of font companies, and (tom.
manded by Garibalain officers, is already mustering
on the Thessilian frontier. Something like fate
teams to impel Garibaldi to this desperate course,
and. his Eastern scheme so visibly engrosses his atten-
tion that he professes himself willing to leave erect the
Roman question to the solution of "peaceful means."
Should the Turk escape his enemies, who is to save him
from his friends ? Their advice is to give in to all demands,
to fall back at all poinsti, to acknowledge defeat before
battle. That the Turk will die hard no man in Europe can
doubt, and it is precisely the stubbornness and tenacity of
the Ottoman race which precludes every possibility of a
" little sou" in the East, and gives so ominous an impor-
tance to the Oriental question.
The Deily Nettrs judges from a number of indications
that France is at present undergoing a revulsion from the
confident self-complacency which possessed it a few years
hence. An immense undeceiving is going on which
has been waited and watched for by the few who
obstinately prefer the modest virtues of free insti-
tutions to the magnificent achievements of personal
government. The Emperor has entered upon an uncom-
fortable phase of his varied experience, and France
has discovered, at the cost of thousands of lives and mil-
lions of treasure, what it is to be at the discretion of one
man's, perhaps of one woman's, caprices. Frenchmen find
that the Second Empire is not the greatest military power
in Europe, while in all that constitutes the moral life of a
free people, they are immeasurably below even the smallest
of their neighbours.

the !Court.

WINDSOR CASTLE, MARCH G.

The Queen, accompanied by Princess Christian,
drove out yesterday afternoon in a carriage and four, at-
tended by the Duchess of Rozburghe.
l'rince Leopold also drove out.
BUCKINGHAM PALACE, MARCH

Her Majesty left Windsor Castle at half-past 3 o'clock
this afternoon for London, accompanied by Princess Chris-
tian, Princess Louise, Prince Leopold, Princess Beatrice,
and Prince lfenry of Prussia, and attended by the Duchess
of Roxburghe, Lady Susan Melville, Lady Caroline Bar-
rington, the Hon. Flora Macdonald, the Hon. Florence
Seymour, Lieutenant-General Hon. C. Grey, Major-General
Hon. A. N. Hood, Colonel lion. A. Hanlinge, Mr. Legg,
Captain Von Schroetter, and Mr. Sahl.
The royal party left Windsor by a special train of the
Great Western Railway.
Her Majesty, accompanied by Princess Louise, and
escorted by a detachment of the 14th Hussars, drove
from Paddington to Marlborough House, and visited the
Prince and Princess of Wales.

Her 3lajesty Princes Louise :Aerates& drove to
Buckingham Palace, attended by the Ducheu of Rox-
burghe, Major-General the Hon. A. N. Hood, and Colonel
the Hon. A. Hardinge.

The lion. Carolina Cavendish Las aucceeded the lion.
Flora Macdonald as blaid of Honour in Waiting.

The Queen, accompanied by the Princess Louise, visited
the Prince and Princess of Wales yesterday afternoon.
Mr. Dickinson, of New Bond-street, had the honour to
submit yesterday to the Prince of Wales the enamel of
the Queen, which has been just completed by Mr. Tilt.
A Cabinet Council was held esterday, at the
official residence of the First Lord of the Trea-
sury, in Downing-street. The ministers pre-
sent were the Earl of Derby, the Lord Chan-
cellor, the Duke of Buckingham, the Right Hon.
Spencer H. Walpole, Lord Stanley, the Chancellor
of the Exchequer, Sir John Pakington, Sir S.
Northcote, Lord J. Manners, the Right Hon.
Gathorne Hardy, and Lord Naas.

At the Privy Council•office yesterday the kir! of Coins-
borough took the oath as Lord Lieutenant of the county
of Rutland. in the presence of a committee of the lonls of
the council, consisting of the Lord l'resident, the Lord
Steward!, and the Right Hon. H. Corry.

A deputation from the County Court Registrars' Associa-
tion, consisting of Mr. Anson (Birkenhead), Mr. Barnes
(Colchester), and Mr. Howard (Portsmouth), had an in-
terview with the Right Hon. Sir Stafford Northcutt., at
the office of the Board of Trade, yesterday, on the subject
of the Admiralty Jurisdiction mu.

THE SERIOUS FENIAN RISING IN
IRELAND.

(FROM OUR ow 001111160NDINT.)

WEDNESDAY NIGHT.

Last night a regular attempt at insurrection was
made by the Fenian, which called for the imme-
diate action of the military under Lord
Stnithnairn.

It appears that a gathering of men of the lower
orders began to take place about seven o'clock last
evening about the Crumlin Round Tower and Itath-
mines roads, leading to Tallaght. Information
was sent by the police to Portobello Barracks, and
a troop of the Scots Greys and a detachment of
the 92nd Highlanders were immediately sent out
against them. Inspector Skelly, in command at
Kilmainham, sent to the Royal Barracks, from
which the 9th Lancers and the 52nd Regiment
were despatched. The police arrested a number
of stragglers, while a larger force under Inspector
Skelly and Captain Chadwick arrested 25 others.
At half-past 9 o'clock about 500 men were seen at
Temple-road, near the Palmerstown-fields. The cap-
ture of some of them was made, and several hundred
others furtively retraced their steps towards the
city. Some of those taken unawares had loaded re-
volvers, daggers, and rough dirks made of common
sheet steel, stamped withthe name of a firm in Dub-
lin. On some were found American officers' swords,
while others were armed with shoemakers' knives.

Near the police barracks at Kilmainham the
police seized a butcher's cart freighted with daggers
and knives, and in the bottom of which five or six
persons were secreted, and were arrested. On one
was found a green flag, with a harp in the centre.
Lord Strathnairn and the military under his
command have been out all night in pursuit of
the insurgents, and have captured many prisoners.
The insurgent rabble have gone off towards the
Wicklow mountains, pursued by the military.
Between ono and two o'clock this morning a
body of armed Fenians made their appearance
before the police barrack at Stepside. They chal-
lenged the police to surrender, which they refused
to do. They thereupon fired into the barrack and
broke the windows, and also applied fired straw
to one of the lower windows. The police, finding
that they could not defend themselves against the
superior numbers of their assailants, surrendered.
The Fenians took possession of their firearms and
marched the police prisoners towards the Scalp.
The insurgents were about to turn towards Bray,
when they heard that preparations had been made
to receive them there ; whereupon they proceeded
to Glencullen and attacked the police barrack
there, firing at the police. The police returned
their fire, and defended themselves for some time.
Finding that they could not defend themselves,
the Fenians took possession of their anus and ac-
coutrements and marched them away. On the road
it was proposed to shoot the prisoners. A ser-
geant of police said it was not cus-
tomary to shoot prisoners who had surrendered.
Sonic of the fellows said " Yes " to this, and
eventually they let the police go ; and those
belonging to Stepside returned to their barracks
this morning about ten o'clock. In the course of
their march the insurrectionary rabble came to
Golden Ball, where they took a large quantity of
bread from a bakery.
At Tallaght, about seven miles from Dublin,
one thousand Fenians were encountered last night
by a small body of police, under Sub-Inspector
Burke. The Fenians answered the challenge to sur-
render with a volley of about eighty shots, but the
police had gone down on their knees ready to re-
turn the fire, and did so. The tire of the Fenians
passed over theirheads, but the constabulary bullets
took effect on several, and the remainder ran away
as hard as they ctfuld, throwing away their anus.
The police were not numerous enough to pursue,
but in the course of the night and morning they
captured over seventy prisoners. One elderly
man, named Donoghue, a solicitor's clerk, was
struck under the left shoulder, and died this morn-
ing ; another, a young man, named Byrne, was shot
in the log, but not dangerously. A man who
attempted to cut down a policeman with his sword
was stabbed in the abdomen, dangerously, with a
sword bayonet.
To-day a man named Nowlan, a bootmaker, of
Ross-lane, was found lying in a ditch, where he
had crawled, having two bullet wounds in the leg.
It is believed that all the bullets of the con-
stabulary took effect, as they fired low into a thick
crowd.

The military did not arrive till early this ril-
ing, when very few were visible. More than 200
persons who were taken in arms were arrested in
Tallaght, and are now in Mountjoy, Richmond,
and Kilmainham prisons.
There was a riot in Drogheda to-day. The
Fenian fired on the police, who returned the tire,
and arrested 40 persons.
All is now quiet at Drogheda.
LIMERICK, WZDNICSDAY, 1.30 p.m.

The city is tranquil up to the present, but much
excitement prevails. Fighting is going on at Kul-
mallock, where the police barrack has been
attacked, and the manager of the Union Bank shot.
While public attention was attracted elsewhere,
• gunsmith's shop was entered, and 14 stand of
anus were carried off.

The police station at Ardagh, in the west of this
county, was attacked last night, and a surrender
was demanded, which being refused, an entrance
was attempted. The police opened tire upon the
assailants, and repulsed them with some loss.
Reports from Clam announce that the coastguard
station at Kilbaha, near Kilrush, was attacked
last night, and the arms taken. One man was
wounded. The insurgent party marched to Kilrush.
A report from Tipperary states that a skirmish
occurred at a place called Crokehill last night, and
Ir.o armed Fenian passed Orman police station.
Eleven pikes were captured, and one man was
taken prisoner.

Mr. Massey, J.P., of Kingswell-house, was
taken out of his residenceby therebels, but allowed
to return again unmolested.
The rails were lifted last night near Knocklong,
and again near Thurles, on the Great Southern and
Western Railway. The up night mail train was
thrown off the line at both places. The mails and
passengers, however, reached Dublin at ten a.m.
No one was hurt.

DROGHEDA, TrEAt, %v.

Early this morning about 1,000 Fenians &swim_
bled and took possession of the market-house, and
fired on the police, who returned the fire, wound-
ing several, and causing them to retreat in confu-
sion. The insurgents aro said to have been headed
by an American colonel. Upwards of 40 prisoners
are taken and a large quantity of ammunition and
Greek fire. Immense excitement prevailed.
Troops have since arrived, and all is now quiet.
The telegraph wires were cut northwards, but have
been repaired.

DUBLIN, WISLISESDAY

No further disturbance has taken place in the
county of Dublin, and all is quiet in the city. It
appears that the attack on the police barrack at
Kilmallock lasted several hours, terminating in

the retreat of the insurgents, who left three of
their body shot dead, several wounded, and
a number of prisoners. One policeman only was
wounded ; amongst the Fenian killed was a Dr.
Cleary.

The manager of the Union Bank is said to be
dead.

It is reported that houses have been sacked in
Tipperary. A magistrate of Tipperary was attacked
on Tuesday night on the road ; but he tired at and
wounded his assailant.