The Express.
London, England, 1868-02-10 00:00:00

FEBRUARY 10, 1868.

LATEST INTELLIGENCtE.
EMMERT

THe _ QUESTION.
" In spite," says the Debate, " of the prof's/A-I
hone of the Russian journals, it is very diffin
not to attribute, at least in • great degree, the
agitation which exists in some of the provinces of
European-Turkey, and which seenfa likely to end
soon in an uprising, to prompting' from St.
Petersburg. We know that the Western Powers
have addressed remonstrances to Belgrade on the

subject of the Bervian armaments. The very im-
probable report that theßtusian government joined
in this remonstrance is denied by the St. Petersburg
Journal ; and on the same authority it is
stated that Prussia also abstained from taking part
in this proceeding. The Western Powers, moreover,
recommended Prince Charles of Roumania to stop
the formation of Bulgarianbands of insurgents in his
territory. According to the St. Petersburg Journal
these bands are the pure creation of the imagina-
tion ; but for ourselves we think that this organ
pays too high a tribute to the imagination of the
Western Powers who certainly are in a position to
be quite as well informed as the Russian journal
with regard to what is taking place in the Prin-
cipalities."
The Nord, on the other hand, wishes to know
what can be the meaning of the French press in at-
tributing, so unceasingly, these underhand ma-
nceuvres to Russia. " The government of St.
Petersburg," it says, " has but a single aim—the
preservation of peace in Europe. It pursues that aim
in the East as well as in the West. It has given
such striking proofs of this on several occasions,
that it is not necessary to insist upon it. Is it the
unflinchingly pacific attitude of Russia that stirs
up the French press against her ? Is it to the French
press that the article of the Journal of St. Petersburg
refers when it says the cordial understanding of two
great nations like Russia and Prussia is one of
the best securities for the maintenance of the peace
of Europe?' Perhaps it is thiscircumatance that de-
feats the calculations of certain organs of the foreign
press.' By these sytematie attacks upon Russia
and these groundless accusations against her the offi-
cious journals of Paris expose themselves and the
government of which they are supposed to be the
organs to grave suspicions—suspicions which may
have no foundation, but which these same organs
are doing their utmost to make plausible."

(armies TvionAms.)
ACCOUCHEMENT
_OF TEE PRINCESS

ROYAL OF PRUSSIA.
BERLIN, FEB. 10.

Her Royal Highness the Crown Princess of
Prussia gave birth to a Prince at 3 o'clock this
morning.

GREECE.

ATHENS, Fes. 9.

A royal decree has been issued dissolving the
Greek Chambers. The elections are fixed for the
3rd March. The new chambers are to meet on the
3rd May.

THE LATE ARRESTS IN CORK.

(OROS OUR OWN CORRISTONDINIT.)
CORK, SATURDAY Thom
The four prisoners captured in Market-street last
night, with three others arrested subsequently by
a police patrol, were brought up for examination
before the magistrates at the police-office this morn-
ing. Public interest, of course, centred in W.
Mackay, the alleged leader of the party, who was
the first put forward, and against whom a charge
of high treason had been entered. His appear-
ance greatly disappointed the legitimate expec-
tations of a public anxious for sensational
incidents. It was with much surprise the
public saw a alight and delicate-looking strip-
ling, wearing a languid and half-contemptuous ex-
pression in his countenance, put forward and
charged as the redoubtable Fenian leader. Mackay
has little in his aspect to denote the astonishing
energy and daring with which he is credited. His
lithe figure suggests the idea of suppleness
rather than strength or endurance. His com-
plexion is pallid and unhealthy, and the
air of languor which seems habitual with him, ap-
pears to correspond with physical weakness.
The attitude he assumed in the dock and his general
manner were slightly theatrical, and he was evi-
dently desirous of acting the part of the political
prisoner with becoming contemptuousness for the
law, and indifference to its dangers. But for the
rapid, piercing glances of his eyes, Mackay would
not strike the observer as a person of acute intel-
ligence ; but they reveal some of the energy and
vigour veiled under the Nose, indifferent air which
he assumes. His face and dress bore some traces of
the struggle of the previous evening. The prisoners
put forward with Mackay were, with, two exceptions,
of the labouring class, and were middle-aged men
whose mature and muscular figures contrasted
strangely with the slight boyish form of their
leader ; while their coarse determined features
offered a not less striking opposition to his pale
and refined countenance. When his name was
called Mackay did not answer, as if he did not re-
cognise it as his, and when asked to state what his
name was if it were not Mackay, he at first declined
to give any information on the subject, but afterwards
said that he had given the name Patrick Marply
the previous evening, and that if the prosecution
were not satisfied with that, it was their business
to show who he was. Head-constable Geale was

then examined, and stated that the prisoner was the
William Mackay who had previously been in cus-
tody in this country under a warrant from tho Lord
Lieutenant. Gesle then detailed the circumstances I
attending the prisoner's capture, stating that there
were at the time a large number of persons in
the house who tried to rescue the prisoner from
his custody. Upon Geale's evidence Mackay was
remanded for eight days. Subsequently he was
identified as the leader in the raid on the Martell°
tower, in the robbery at Allport's, and as the
person who was in command of the insurgents at
Mlykmickane in last March.

(DT TELEGRAPH.)
CORK, SUNDAY NIGHT.

Detective Courtney was fired at on the South
Mall at 11 o'clock to-night by two men. Courtney
was missed, and the men escaped.