The Sun.
London, England, 1867-03-08 00:00:00

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Reports from Clarii announce that the Coastguard
station near Kilrusli was attacked last night and
the arms taken, one ihan wounded. The insurgent
party marched towards Kilrush.
A report from Tipperary states that a skirmish
occurred at a place called.Crokchill last night, and
150 alined Fenians passed Grenane police-station.
Eleven pikes were captured, and one man taken
prisoner. Mr. Massey, J.P., of Kingswell-house,
was taken out of his residence by the rebels, but
was allowed to return again unmolested.
The police have been concentrated in Limerick
city, arid the military are under arms ready to act
upon the slightest appearance of an outbreak. It
is apprehended that sonic attempt will be made to-
night.

It is stated to he the intention of the Govern-
ment to bring General Massey to trial for high
treason, with as little delay as possible. It is also
stated that he formerly held a commission as lieu-
tenant in her Majesty's service.

A letter in the Dublin Evening Post thus describes
the breaking up of the Great Southern and Western
Railway, which caused the Cork night mail to be
six hours late yesterday morning :
" The Limerick, Waterford, and Dublin trains
all met at the Junction a few minutes after 12 last
night. Itnmtcliately after their arrival it was found
that the telegraph communication with Dublin bad
been cut off. The Limerick, Cork, and WTatcrford
mails were despatched from the Junction, and in
about half an hour afterwards the engine and ten-
der of the Cork up-train arrived at the Junction,
and made known to the stationmaster that about
four miles and a half down the Cork line, while the
train was going at the rate of 40 miles an hour, the
progress of the train was impeded by four or five of
the telegraph posts, which were pulled down and
laid across both the up and down lines. The engine
land tender, by a series of jumps, most remarkable
to state, cleared the impediments, still remaining on
the rails, the effect of which, was that the coupling
irons broke, and detached the engine and tender
from the carriages, railway and luggage van, all of
which doubled up on a ditch and were upset. None
of the first or second-class passengers, nor yet the
persons in the mail van, wonderful to say, were in
any way injured, saving a few bruises and bumps,
from the movement of the carriages. The engineman
was hurried off his tender, but, beyond a shaking,
escaped unhurt. In the first and second-class car-
riages there were about a dozen gentlemen, princi-
pally military. In one of the second-class carriages
were 14 young children and six women, the families
of the domestics of the Protestant Bishop of Tuam,
to which town they were on their way, via Portar-
lington. Immediately on the arrival of the engine
and tender (the carriages which were attached
thereto having been thrown off the line), the station-
master and the officer in command of the troops
at the Junction despatched 50 soldiers and all the
servants of the railway that could be spared,
and a few of the police, who, on the alarm being
given, had come in from a neighbouring station, to
the scene where the upset took place, and brought
up the passengers, the • Post-office officials, and
the mail bags. About an hour and a half after
their arrival at the Junction a train was despatched
with the above persons and the mail to Dublin,
much against the wish of the. passengers and Post-
office and railway officials, who were desirous to
remain until daylight. The train proceeded cau-
tiously, at the rate of 12 miles an hour, without
meeting any obstacle until it arrived within two
miles and a half from Thurles station, in a deep cut-
ting, and when day was about dawning. Shortly
before reaching this the guard, driver, and stoker,
kee.ping a sharp look-out, perceived in the straight
vista before them the posts of the telegraph were
down, and, anticipating further accident, very pro-
perly put on the break, and scarcely had they got
the train under command when the engine and
tender ran off the line, and blocked up both rails.
On examining the place it was found that five or
six of the posts of the telegraph were sawn and
strewed about the place, and about 12 feet of the
rails moved from their place. Both these collisions
occurred at places where there are stationary boxes
containing tools for the repairs of both railway and
telegraph, and it was those tools—pickaxes, crow-
bars, &c.—that were used to do the mischief and
were left strewed about."