The Sun.
London, England, 1867-02-23 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, Feb. 22.
Mr. Smith Barry has won an easy victory in Cork.
He came, saw, and conquered. Mr. M'Carthy
Downing, after coming forth asthe champion of the
people, gave way at Mr. Smith Barry's approach,
without striking a blow. Mr. Vincent Scully, on
the day before the election, stated at a meeting
of the vintners, amid the enthusiastic applause of
that body, that he was not the man to retire.
Yesterday, when the Courthouse opened, be
entered the arena, apparently with the full determi-
nation to fight the battle to the last elector and the
last shilling. His seconds, Mr. N. Dunscombe and
Mr. D. S. Lalor, backed him up with spirit. After
making a long speech, detailing his services in Par-
liament, and defending himself from attacks, the
hon. gentleman said he thought it would be a grace-
ful act on the part of the younger candidate to re-
tire in favour of the old and well-tried servant. The
younger candidate, however, was not chivalrous
enough to take the hint. Candidates confident of
victory seldom do give way in politeness towards an
opponent.
Mr. Smith Barry having been proposed by Mr. S.
T. W. French, and seconded by Mr. 11. Barry, came
forward in histurn, and was received with rapturous
applause. On its subsiding be explained his political
sentiments, which were in unison with those put
forward in his address, being, he said, wholly inde-
pendent of Whig or Tory, only so far as they
brought in measures for the good of Ireland— a good
Tenant-right Bill, civil and religious liberty, and a
true regard to the interests of the country. He would
most decidedly go to the poll. Mr. Scully said, Mr:
S. Barry not having retired, he would do so. This
announcement caused great cheering, which lasted
several minutes. The High Sheriff then declared
Mr. A. S. Barry duly elected. A vote of thanks was
passed to the High Sheriff, and the proceedings ter-
minated.

The Cork Examiner, among other objections to
Mr. Scully, remarks that he did not sufficiently
maintain the dignity of that county by his be-
haviour in the House of Commons ; that instead of
being witty, like Mr. Bernal Osborne, his sallies
bordered on buffoonery ; and that as the Protes-
tants of England had discarded their Whalley, the
Catholics of Ireland would get rid of their
Scully. Mr. Smith Barry begins his career under the
fairest auspices, and with the highest prospects. He
belongs to one of the oldest stocks of the county
gentry ; he is wealthy, popular, and favourably re-
garded by all parties.
A stranger from America, named Mulloy, whose
movements were suspicious, has been arrested at
Athlone. Two persons, named Reynolds and Magill,
have been taken up by the police at Armagh under
similar circumstances. They had been travelling
about through various Owns in England and Ire-
land with no lawful object that the detectives could
imagine. Important letters and other documents
were found in their trunks, with some money in
gold, and a draught on Liverpool for more than
£2OO. The prisoners were remanded for a week to
allow the constabulary time to read the documents.
Another suspected Fenian agent was arrested at
Wexford, but set flee after a private investigation
before the magistrates.

The half-yearly meeting of the Dublin and
Drogheda Railway Company was held yesterday ;
Mr. J. W. Murland in the chair. Mr. Culverwell,
the s.eretary, read the report, from which it ap-
peared that while there was some falling off in the
passenger traffic there was an increase of about
£2,000 in the goods traffic last year. A dividend of
4i per cent. was declared. There was a discussion
about amalgamation with the Dublin and Belfast
Junction, and an amendment moved which ended
in nothing.

REPRESENTATION OF EAST SUFFOLK.—CoIoneI
Adair, the unsuccessful Liberal candidate for East Suffolk,
has issued an address, in which he announces his intention
to offer himself again at the first opportunity. "The re-
sult of a poll taken after a brief canvass," says the gallant
colonel, " shor-s that you have added largely to your
strength, while the numbers of the Conservative party
lutTo =awl otationaq."

The Fenian Raid in Ireland.
(From the Times' Special Correspondent.)
ROSSBEIGII, COUNTY KERRY, Wednesday.

The " long car," which forms the ordinary means
of communication between Killarney and the West,
brought me to this point yesterday, some 19 miles
on my way to Cahirciveen. I was the only passenger,
and started not without some speculation among
laughing bystanders whether the Fenians would not
probably sweep down from the mountains and carry
back with them a special correspondent of their own
to 111‘Gillicuddy's Reeks or the Black Valley. This
rather barren possession was likely to be valued by
the Fenians far less than a small cask of brandy
which we had among our impedimenta, and which
woul.d have proved an excellent peace offering to
weary fugitives. Last week the passengers to Kil-
larnej- by this car were hiding their money in their
boots and concealing valuables in the " well" which
holds the luggage, while every peasant who stood by
the roadside was looked upon as a possible Fenian
who had comrades at his call, and might stop and
rifle the car. No such alarms were needed now, and
it was possible to enjoy the journey without much
thought of Fenian marauders. Throughout the whole
distance the mountains form a noble screen to the
prospect on your left, and were lit up by sunshine or
obscured by mist with a sudden alternation which it
was delightful to watch so long as the mist kept to
the mountain and left Queen's highway pretty clear.
But this was not always so. At starting, as rain was
falling, the driver conceded that it was " a soft
day." When afterwards I ventured to suggest that
it was raining harder, he thought it " not much to
spako of." And when I put on a waterproof, he
seemed almost to think that a slight had been offered
to the Irish climate. Meanwhile, you wondered
what the wandering Fenians would do on the
mountain-side amid those driving showers, and
what draggled, miserable outcasts they must be.
" It is pleasant from the cliff to see the mariner
tost on the ocean ; and from the car one thought
almost with complacency of those would-be insur-
gents out yonder, who had meant so much mischief
to others, and now were sure to be so hungry and wet,
and suffering so much misery in their own•persons.
At Headley-cross, a point in the road near Lord
Headley's seat, just outside Killarney, 300 Fenians
from the Killarney district were to have joined the
Cahirciveen party. This, at least, was the statement
contained in an anonymous letter received by the
authorities ; and the truth of these anonymous com-
munications being established in many points, there
is fair presumption in favour of this, when coupled
with what has since come to light from other sources.
Beyond Headley-cross, on both sides of the road,
you see poor, wet land, sometimes nothing but a
hopeless morass, supporting a few live stock; and
hero and there a peasant cabin, close by which are
sure to be several lean, hungry-looking pigs. The
telegraph line to Valentia runs along the road nearly
the whole way, and the whole communication with
the New World is thus at the mercy of any Fenian
sympathiser. Both at Killorglin, 13 miles from
Killarney,and atCahirciveen, strong bodies of troops
are now stationed. This morning patrols of Lan-
cers passed the hotel, and parties of constabulary
pass frequently. Notwithstanding these precautions,
the wires were broken yesterday between Killorglin
and Killarney. The line was soon repaired, for in
all these cases workmen are sent on cars to the spot
with the least possible delay. Still the inconveni-
ence is considerable, while no earthly good results
to the Fenian or any other cause.

The wounded police-constable, Duggan, who is
under treatment in a roadside house about two
miles beyond Rossbeigh, is not yet out of danger ;
hut he is free from fever to-day, and should his
strength continue, Dr. Spotswood, of this place,
under whose charge he remains, has hopes of his
recovery. It was early morning on Wednesday
when he was shot ; and probably owing to the
information found upon him that there had been
no rising at Killarney the insurgents wavered
and proceeded no further along the main road.
Meanwhile, the Rev. IlPGinn, the parish priest at
Rossbeigh, received what is here called "a sick call"
—a summons to attend the wounded man—and was
also told that the Feniaus were coining to attack the
police barracks. lle immediately went there, and
warned the four constables who were then in the bar-
rack. Soon afterwards, in going along the road to-
wards the point indicated by the messenger, he met
the insurgents. Their scouts had seen him go to the
police barrack, and a curious scene followed. Some
threatened him for warning the police of their dan-
ger. The priest boldly avowed the part he had taken,
said the police were prepared for any attack, and
that the insurgents might kill him if they would, but
that this would not help them. Others repudiated
any wish to harm him. Some asked him for his bles-
sing. "My blessing," said the good priest, "my
blessing ?" And you going forth to shed innocent
blood and bringruin upon yourselves and your coun-
try? Come up with me to the chapel yonder ; let
me confess you, and then go to your homes." For
some time he thus exhorted them by the roadside to
relinquish their mad design, and showed them how
mad and how wicked a design it was. They replied
that they must go on with it; that they desired to
make Ireland a republic, and that in all the towns
in the south of Ireland there would soon be a Fenian
rising. However, they assured hire th at they would
not attack the barrack, and so this singular parley
ended, the priest hastening on to give spiritual con-
solation to the wounded policeman.

'There were no more than about 60 people at this
point. O'Connor was mounted, and a great part of
his followers seem to have been " gossoons"----
mere boys, the rabble of Cahirciv een, with a sprink-
ling of farmers' sons, and a few Irish Americans.
In this parish I am assured that not one man
joined them. • On the contrary, so little sympathetic
were the country people of Glenbeigh and Ross-
beigh—at all events, so fearful of being com-
promised, or "pressed," as they said, into
joining the insurgents—that many took to the
'mountains, and some got away in their boats, for
several narrow creeks opening into Dingle Bay ran
up towards the few scattered houses hereabouts and
offer easy means of concealment and escape. Find-
ing that they were not joined by the people, and
hearing also from the driver and passengers in the
mail-car (whom they did not molest) that there had
been no rising in Killarney, the insurgents lost heart.
They lingered about the place for a few hours, and
then, leaving the main road, made for a mountain
pass leading to Glencar. As for arms, some had rifles,
some revolvers, and some pikes and pitchforld. Two
pikes were found next day near the police barrack,
and two more planted close by the priest's house.
Several men who had set out with the Fenians now
seem to have thought better of it, and were return-
ing home towards Cahirciveen. On what pretexts
they separated themselves from the main body I
don't of course know, but there is a story here, for
which Ido not vouch, though it seems probable
enough—that one of the Fenians being discovered
edging away towards home, during the march to
the mountains, " Colonel" O'Connor ordered a pur-
suit by two other men, who no sooner got fairly out
of range than they also set off in company with the
deserter.

KILLARNEY, Friday Night.

A search was made this afternoon for arms of
Fenian fugitives in the Robbers' Cave in Gleallesk,
but without success. As the troops and constabu-
lary were returning signal fires were lit on the
mountains.

Sin WILLIAM HUTT ON REFORM.—On Thursday
night Sir Win. Hutt addressed his constituents at Gates-
head, and announced his opinion ou the question of Re-
form. Ho said ho believed, with the majority of the Liberal
members of the House of Commons, that the settlement of
Reform is a matter far above party, and that there should
be an attempt'to make the Government resolutions avail-
able to this end. Should that effort fail, the question
should be taken up by Mr. Gladstone.

A MS. COLLECTION OF ALL PEPYS'S BALLADS in
his library at Magdalene College, Cambridge, is in course
of preparation.
THE AUTHOR OF " AUNT MARGARET'S TROUBLE"
will contribute the next serial story to All the Year Round,
on the conclusion of "Black Sheep."

Mr. MUDIE'S LIBRARY has been amalgamated
with (or rather, it ought to be said, has absorbed into it)
the united libraries lately under the management of Mr.
Lionel Booth. The directors announce that the company
is in a flourishing state, and able again to declare a divi-
dend at the rate of 71 per cent. per annum.—London Review.

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HER MAJESTY, &c•

-WINDSOR CASTLE, Feb. 22.
The Queen, with Prince and Princess Christian,
Princess Louis, Prince Leopold, Princess Beatrice,
and Prince Henry of Prussia, left Osborne to-day
at a quarter before three o'clock, and arrived at
Windsor Castle at ten minutes past six p.m.
The suite consisted of the Duchess of Rox-
burghe, the Hon. Emily Cathcart, Lieutenant-
General Hon. C. Grey, Lord Charles Fitzroy,
Lieutenant-Colonel lion. D. de Itos, Mr. Legg,
Captain Von Schroetter, and Mr. Sahl.
The lion. Flora Macdonald and the lion.
Florence Seymour have arrived at the Castle as
maids of honour in waiting.
Viscount Hawarden and the Hon. Mortimer
Sackville Wrest have arrived as lord and groom in
waiting.

Lord and Lidy Bloomfield left Osborne yesterday.
The Rev. G. and Mrs. Prothero had the honour
of dining with the Queen and the Royal Family
yesterday.
Sir James Clark has arrived at the Castle.

The Prince and Princess of Wales.
MARLBOROUGH HOUSE, Feb. 22.
The Princess of Wales slept well during the
night. Her Royal Highness's condition this morn-
ing is satisfactory.
The infant princess continues in health.
(Signed) ARTHUR FARRE, M.D.
WILLIAM JENNER, M.D.
E. H. STEVEKIN, M.D.
The Prince of Wales rode out on horseback
yesterday, attended by Major Teesdale.
His Royal Highness went to the House of Lords
in the afternoon.