The Express.
London, England, 1867-02-15 00:00:00

THE FENIAN MOVEMENT IN IRELAND.

A despatch in Saunders' News Letter states that
between eight and nine hundred insurgents,
partially armed, were moving on Killarney, but on
hearing that troops wore marching against them
they turned back eight miles from the town, and
proceeded through the Gap of Dunlo in the direc-
tion of Kenmare.

Troops were despatched to take possession of a
bridge, where they were expected to pass, and
otherwise to intercept them. Portions of the 48th
and 14th Regiments went from the Curragh to the
south last night, and the remainder to-day.
On Tuesday, three men, one called Captain
Moriarty, were arrested in Killarney.
Captain Herbert, M.P., went down to Killarney
to-day by special train.
Twelve arrests were made this morning of per-
sons coming from Liverpool.

Otheraccountssay that the telegraph wires between
Killarney and Cahirciveen were cut on Tuesday
night, also those between Killarney and Mallow.
By two o'clock yesterday a force of 1,000
men, including cavalry and artillery, sup-
plied from the Curragh and other places,
under Sir A. Horsford, were concentrated
on the Mallow Junction Station. The children
of Lord Castlerusse have been removed
to England. Respectable families in Kerry
are flying from their homes to places of safety. The
Railway Hotel at Killarney is occupied by military.
Two hundred men are to occupy passes in the
Toomies Mountain.

A despatch from Killarney says :—" A well-
armed force of Fenian', supposed to be commanded
by a Colonel O'Connor, are located in the moun-
tains near Killorglin. They stopped the mail car,
but allowed it to proceed after some delay. There
are not sufficient police to pursue them. A body
of marines guard the bank at Cahirciveen. The
wounded policeman still lingers, with no hopes of
recovery. All the Fenians are concentrating
about the Killarney mountains."
The following communication from Ireland, of
later date than that upon which Lord Derby "poke
last night, has been received at the office of the
Electric and International Telegraph Company :
" 5 P.M.—lreland quiet, except in Kerry, where
troops pursue the armed body. Telegraphic com-
munication with Valentia and America restored."

HOLYHEAD, THUREID!T Evromo.

Great excitement prevail; here. Numbers are
reported as walking from Bangor and Chester.
Lord Strathnairn, Commander-in-Chief of Ire-
land, crosses to night.
Superintendent Owen has advised the Volunteers
to be in readiness. The mail boat is defended.

Some suspected leaders have arrived.
PLYMOUTH, THFINDAY Evemmo.
The Lords of the Admiralty have sent instruc-
tions to Port-Admiral Sir William F. Martin to
have the following vessels prepared for sea imme-
diately, viz., the screw steam corvette Racoon,
22, Captain Richard Purvis ; the corvette Charyb-
dis, 17 ; the sloop Vestal, 4 ; the gunboat Pigeon,
tender to the Caledonia ; and the gunboat 'Red-
wing, tender to the Cambridge. Some of these
ships may leave to-morrow. It is supposed they
will go to the coast of Ireland. Several detach-
ments of Royal Marines are under orders for em-
barcation.

The Empress Eugenie, two days back, acoom-
panied by a holy of the Palace, left the Tuileries on foot
and ascended the Grand Avenue of the Champs Elyakes,
returning afterward to the Place de la Concorde. At that
moment the Emperor, also on foot, came out of the Palace
by the door of the terrace near the river to join the Em-
press. Their Majesties then walked together towards
the 7th arrondissement, crossing the Pont de la Concorde.

On the 21st of January a commemorative service
was performed in the Creek church at St. Petersburg. in
honour of " the Christians fallen in Crete." In the ser-
mon preached on this occasion by the Greek Archimandrite
the insurrection was termed a religous war, and those
fallen in it martyrs. Several high dignitaries, among them
General Ignatief, the father of the Russian minister at
Constantinople, attended the ceremony.

The 3foacew committee for the Ethnographic
Exhibition to be held in the ancient capital of Russia this
autumn is actively engaged in collecting specimens of
n►tional dresses, implements, and curiosities, not only
from all parts of Russia, but also from neighbouring
countries. The exhibition is to comprise all the various
tribes of Sclavonic descent, and, from a political point of
view, will be no less Austrian and Turkish than Russian.
Even the Prussian Sclavonians will not be forgotten, nor
the few forlorn \lndians, the last remnant of the once
numerous aboriginals of Brandenburg and Saxony.

The Debuts exposes the systematic confiscation
of English, Belgian, and German papers, which has been
carried on uninterruptedly in Frame for the last 15 years.
The Aug.bury liaxtte and the Saturday Active have
been the chief sufferers. The hulipeadoner Beige has been
excluded fur whole months at a time. The Journal de
(;cadre, which is daily distributed at Lyons, is not suffered
to reach its Paris subscribers on an average more than once
a week. Puna is repestedly deemed too str ng for
Franco, and nine of every ten numbers are oonfiscated,
and even the harmless Must rated London Were was kept
back for 24 hours a fortnight ago, on account of a
engraving of the night fete of the Skating Club. A Spanish
paper, written in French, La Bidaseoa, having been
seised for several months running, on account of its
political summary, lately replaced the offending article by
a woodcut, represeuting the good ship Rideau*, "in
quarantine before Bayonne." The American papers, when
they are not seised, are generally detained for 24 hours.
A rather droll incident occurred on Tuesday at
the Tribunal Civil, Paris. When the judges took their
places the Procuniteur Imperial was, in the usual form,
called upon to move. The proeurateur rose and announced,
before the regular business commenced, that there was •
certain number of functionaries, just named by the go-
vernment, who were in attendance to take the customary
oaths before entering upon their duties, and he prayed the
court to allow them to be sworn. The presiding judge
gave his assent, when some eight or ten /tickers (letter-
carriers) stepped forward. They were bid to raise their
right hands, and the oath was read by the prefer, or
clerk of the court. When the first words were recited,
" You solemnly swear to respect the secret of letters
that pass through your hand'," Lc., the prefer, who bad
present to hie memory the Postmaster-General's circular
ordering his subordinates to open letters, could not repress
a smile, and in a few seconds the procurator, judges,
counsel, audience, the /setters themselves, and even the
servants of the court, caught the infection, and buret into
laughter. The oath wu then got through with as much
gravity as possible.