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THE SUN, LONDON, FEIDAY EVENING, MARCH 8, 1867.

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BARRACK CONTRACTS FOR THE
SUPPLY OF KINDLING WOOD mid CANDLES
IN GREAT BRITAIN; AND CANDLES IN IRE-
LAND.

War Office, Pall Mall, London, S.W.,
Ist March, 1867.

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and 4 o clock each day, Sundays excepted.
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be received.

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rejecting any or all of the Tenders.
THOMAS HOWELL, Director of Contracts.

CONTRACT FOR SEAMEN'S CLOTHING.
CONTRACT DEPARTMENT, ADMIRALTY.
Somerset House, March 5, 1867.
THE COMMISSIONERS for EXECUTING
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UNITED KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRE-
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25th instant, at Twelve o'clock at Noon, they will be
ready to treat with such persons as may be willing to Con-
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viz.:—

Quantities.
Flushing Jackets, No. 1 6,000 No.
Blue Cloth {NoNo: 1 2 74,000 Yds.
15,000 „
Duck
Blankets 37,000 No.
Flannel 421,000 Yds.
Blue Serge 373,000 „
White Cotton Drill 140,000 i .
Bed Covers . 45,000 No.
Black Silk H,.ndkerchiefs
Shirtings
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Flushing 5,000
Hair for Beds 7:4,000 Lb.
Comforters
When to be deliverei—One-half of each quantity with-
in four calendar months from the date of the acceptance
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calendar months afterwards, or earlier, if preferred by the
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THE P ,NIANS.

(From the Special Correspondent of the Times.)
LtmetnCis: JuNcTION, Thursday Evening.
Railway communication remains uninterrupted
with Cork, but the electric wires are broken in the
direction of Tipperary. Much alarm still prevails
in this neighbourhood.
At .Templemore and 'Etries there were consider-
able withdrawals of deposits, and demands fur gold
by the people yesterday and to-day.
The insurgents called at the houses of most of the•
resident gentry, and forced them to give up their
arms.

- The bank manager's son:nt Kilmallock was shot
at his own door for refusing to give up his re-
volver. The most spirt action of the present
outbreak was the attack on the police barrack at
Kilmallock. At 6 o'clock yesterday morning, the
barrack was attacked by about 200 armed Fenians,
who fired into the building from under • cover.
There were 14 constables, who maintained the de-
fence with great bravery for,three hours, firing from
the window on their assailants. About 9 o'clock a
reinforcement of 1p policemen came up and took the
assailants in flank ; the garrison • then sallied out,
united with the relieving party, and drove off the
Fenians, who left two deac‘men behind. A medical
student was also killed. There is some doubt whe-
ther he was a Fenian. Four women were in the
barrack during the whole siege, and were sheltered
behind the thickest wall. Fortunately they were
uninjured. One constable was slightly wounded.
Throughout the attack the townspeople sympathised
with the Fenians. It is supposed that several of the
latter must have been wounded. Thirteen prisoners
made by the constabulary were brought into Lime-
rick to-day.

MIDNIGHT.
Horse Artillery and Cavalry have been despatched
to the town of Tipperary, two miles from here, which
is supposed to be threatened by 1,500 rebels.
DUBLIN, March 7.

The necessarily brief accounts whielt i have trans

mitted to you in telegram may seem to indicate that
something very formidable has occurred in the way
of insurrection, but if any of your English readers
had stood in the lower Castle-yard yesterday, and
seen the insurgents marched off to prison between
lines of police and cavalry, he would feel assured
that the Throne was in no danger from such a foe.
Anything more miserable and contemptible than the
appearance of those dwarfish, ill clad, and starved
looking wretches I never saw. They seemed to be the
very dregs of the lowestoperative class, such as jour-
neymen tailors, shoemakers, tinkers, and person,
with no employment, like roughs who haunt fairs and
races. Most of them were young, and among them
all there were not half a dozen worthy from their
stature and bearing tobe called men. Compared with
the police and the military, they were like pigmies
beside giants; and the idea that any Government
with such defenders could be overthrown by such
assailants appeared absurd. They did not seem to
be worth any sort of serious punishment— even sup-
porting them in gaol would be a waste of the public
resources. But these persors who were so easily cap-
tured were no doubt the shabbiest part of the Fenian
army. More than 100 young men from the drapery
establishments called Monster Houses, at the north
side of the city, had disappeared yesterday morning,
and it is probable there are many superior young
men among the insurgents whom the military have
not yet been able to catch. Bat, whatever be their
character, it will be seen from the following details
there has been a preconcerted rising iu different and
widely separated districts of the country, and that
the most general and fortalqills. insurrection since
1798 is now in progress. The early precautions of
the authorities, the vigilance of the Dublin police,
and, above all, the loyalty an I courage of the con-
stabulary, have prevented very serious consequences.
It appears the Dublin contingents of the Fenian
army were to assemble at Tallaght, a hamlet stand-
ing on very elevated ground, under the Dublin
mountains, about five miles from the city, and com-
manding an extensive view of the counties of Dub-
lin and Meath. Various bodies were collected early
on Tuesday night at different points, from which,
when all had mustered, they were to march to Tal-
laght-hill. The Fenians were noticed proceeding to
those points in cabs and on foot, and this attracted
the attention of the police, who had private infer
mation of the intended movement, One of those
bodies, said to be about 500 strong, was observed on
Temple-road, which runs through Lord Palmerstou's
grounds, near Alilto,vn. The Scots Greys were sent
to the place, but the insurgents had marched off to-
wards their destination. Similar assemblies were
seen at Crumlin and elsewhere.
The police of the Crumlin station continued
patrolling during the entire night, and discovered
large numbers of pikes, military belts, pouches, and
quantities of ammunition on the road where the
Fenians had thrown them away. The number of
persons who passed during the night has been esti-
mated at over 1,500. At about 2 o'clock a.m. Lord
Stratlmairn, Commander of the Forces in Ireland,
accompanied by a strong detachment of the 52d
Regiment, some squadrons of the Scots Greys and
Lancers, and a demi-battery of the Royal Horse
Artillery, from Portobello Barracks, passed through
Crumlin in pursuit of the Fenians, who, it was
known, intended mustering on the Green Hills.
The artillery veers drawn up in front of the Crumlin
church, where they remained till 5 o'clock, Lord
Strathnairu in the meantime following up the
Fenians to Tallaght. It being understood that they
intended to entrench themselves at Tallaght and
make a stand, a special messenger was despatched
to Crumlin for the artillery, and the charge of the
district was left to the police. At a later hour of the
morning large numbers of those who passed through
the village some hours previously returned, and were
stopped on the road and closely searched. Those in
whose possession arms were found, or had been seen
throwing them away, were arrested and brought to
Kilmainham.

The constabulary station at Tallaght was occupied
by 14 men, under Sub-Inspector Burke. They were
prepared for au attack, and they took up a position
in advance at a place called Old-bridge. Hearing
footsteps of a body of men approaching in the dark
they challenged them, and were answered by a volley
from the Fenians, which they wholly escaped by
kneeling and stooping low, at the same time return-
ing the volley, wounding five men, one of whom has
large since died. The Fenians then fled, throwing away
their arms. The 14 constables succeededinc
a num-
ber
capturing
G 5
and a musketsarge quantity andan tity of ammunition. bayonets, with
12
Previous to this the constabulary stopped a
cooper's cart, which had been stolen, containing a
barrel and box of ball cartridges. The alarm was
at once given to the military. At an early hour the
troops already mentioned arrived under the personal
command of Lord Strathnairn. The cavalry picked
up and brought in 83 stragglers. Lord
withStrathnairn,
2d
ap of the
a Lancers
bodyof the Fenians who
and
a company of the
5
bad succeeded iu making their way to the Regiment,troo pursued
moun-
tains.

In all 208 prisoners were marched into Dublin
to-day from Tallaght. They were brought first to
the Upper Castle-yard, where they were detained
until the police could make the necessary prepara-
tions for their reception. When these were com-
pleted the prisoners were taken to the Metropolitan
Police Department, Lower Castle-yard. llere their
names were taken by officers of the detective force,
and they *ere paraded for the inspection of the
Lord-Lieutenant. When this had been completed,
the prisoners were divided into three parties for con-
veyance respectively to the Mountjoy, Richmond
Bridewell, and Kilmainham Prisons. They were
marched two and two, police- constablesbeing placed
at either side of eachpair, in front a party of cavalry
police, then a troop of the Scots Greys, and the line
was closed by a party of the same regiment, The

escort to the police consisted in each division of two
companies of the 2.1 battalion Coldstream Guards.
The conduct of the constabulary at other stations
was not so satisfactory. A body of about 300
Fenians, who had assembled at Dundrum, about
four miles from Dublin, attacked the police station
at a place in the neighbourhood called Steposide. It
was occupied by four constables, Sheridan, Doran,
Galvin, and Rally, who surrendered, and bound with
their own handcuffs were marched off " prisoners of
war." The Fenians took from them their cutlasse,
and revolvers, which were handed to those who were
unarmed. The prisoners were guarded by pikemen,
disposed six before and six behind, a man with a rifle
walking on either side. In this order they moved
forward towards Glencullen. When at Golden Ball
they attacked a bakery, from which they stole 150
loaves. On the road the party. halted three times
to consult as to whether they would not shoot their
prisoners, but on each occasion the persuasions of an
American, who appeared to be in command, and
who wore a feather in his hat, prevailed, and they
desisted. They proceeded next to Glencullen, and
called on the constabulary to surrender, placing their
prisoners in front, and declaring that if resistance
were made they should be shot. This party also
surrendered and were disarmed, and brought on as '
prisoners to the Green-hills, which was the muster-
ing ground. A few of the men were armed with
pikes; several wore uniforms, and others carried
banners of a disloyal character. From the farmers'
houses mentioned nothing but bread and other eat-
ables were taken, and no violence or insult was
offered to the inhabitants. From Mr. Keegan, a
farmer, near Enniskerry, they carried away a horse
This body of men appeared to break up after this,
and dispersed in the direction of Glencree. At Bray
at 11 a.m., seven men—one a resident of the town,
the others strangers to the place—were arrested by
the police in a local grocery and public-house. It is
understood that Lord Powerscourt and some of the
gentry communicated at once with the authorities in
Dublin, with a view to obtaining a military guard
for the district of Bray and Enniskerry. The consta-
bulary at the town of Wicklow were ordered down
to Bray, while other detachments were directed to
concentrate at Dundrum.

The news from the South is alarming. The con-
stabulary at Kilmallock behaved most gallantly. An
attack was made on their barracks at 6 o'clock yester-
day morning by 200 Fenians. The barrack was
defended at first by 14 constables, under Head-
constable Adams. They were subsequently reinforced
by eight more men, under Sub-Inspector Milling.
Ultimately the rebels retreated. Fourteen prisoners
were taken, and three men shot dead. No policeman
has been killed, and only one has been wounded.
From Cork wa learn by telegram, dated at 4 p.m.
yesterday, that—

"Groups of young men left the city in small numbers,
and it appears rendezvoused in a suburb of the city called
Fair-hill, and marched northwards, tearing up the rails of
the Great Southern and Western Railway at Rathduff on
their way. This party is supposed to be marching on the
Mallow Junction. Shortly after 2 a.m. a large body of in-
surgents attacked the police barracks at Midleton, and
were repulsed. They then proceeded to Castlemartyr, and
on their way, a short distance from the town of Midle-
ton, fell in with a patrol of four policemen. The constable
in charge was shot dead ; another wounded severely in the
knee, and the other two were compelled to accompany the
insurgents in their march. They ultimately escaped from
their captors and returned to their barracks. On reaching
Castlemartyr the Fenians attacked the police barrack, but
were repulsed, leaving their leader dead on the field. This
party appears to have marched towards Mallow, burning
several farm homesteads on their way. The police station
at Burnfoot, between Blarney and Mallow, was sacked and
burnt. The Coastguard station on the Shannon has been
attacked and sacked, as also one on the coast, between
Qu.enstown and Youghal. Large bodies of insurgents are
reported to be marching on some point of rendezvous in
the north of the county."

A special telegram to the Daily Express states
hat—

"At Tipperary the resident magistrate was fired at last
night. He returned the fire, and wounded his assailant,
who, however, escaped. News has been authenticated of
the sacking of several houses by the 'insurgents,' who, it.
is reported, number 300, and are under the .command of
four leaders, whose names have not transpired. The mail
car, which should have arrived.at Cashel at a quarter to 2
a.m.., did not arrive until half-past 6 a.m., in consequence
of the rails at Knocklong being torn up. Telegraph com-
munication between Cork is stopped."

At Drogheda, 23 miles north of Dublin, about
1,000 Fenians took possession of the Market-square.
The allegation is that the Fenians were the first to
fire on the apgroach of the police, but without a
single shot taking effect on the latter. The con-
stabulary fired in return, when several were wounded.
The Fenians retreated after the second volley, and,

in running away, numbers of them fell over one
another. Twenty-five of them were taken into cus-

tody, many of them with arms in their hands. A
number of rifles with bayonets fixed, pistols, and
swords were taken by the police ; also 4,000 rounds
of ball cartridge, canisters of powder, a large quan-
tity of percussion caps, and parcels of bandages
neatly made up for leg or arm wounds, with lint, &c.
There were also found numerous bottles of Greek
fire. Some of the police remark that the Fenians
came prepared like any military body going to the
field, and that no idlers were observable in the
throng. A quantity of blood was observed in some
of the lanes through which the Fenians had re-
treated, and numerous conical bullets (quite new)
were picked ap at and near the scene of action. The
arms used by the Fenians in firing were Minie rifles.

Special trains left the King's bridge Terminus at
4 o'clock a.m. yesterday morning, for New-bridge
and the Curragh Camp, to remove cavalry and in-
fantry. The former (a portion of the 4th Dragoon
Guards) were taken to Hazethatch, where they were
left for the purpose of proceeding in the direction
of Tallaght, to act in concert with the force already
in that locality, and the remainder were taken on to
Limerick junction, for further disposal. A special
train left the King's-bridge terminus at 4 o'clock
yesterday afternoon, for the Curragh Camp, to re-
move more troops thence to Limerick junction, for
disposal to Kilmallock and Thurles. Detachments
of the 13th Brigade Royal Artillery have been dis-
tributed throughout the different barracks in Dub-
lin for the purpose of woraing the garrisons guns
placed in them, and the Royal Horse Artillery at
Portobello have instructions to keep their Arm-
strong field guns ready for use at each entrance.
The Royal Magazine Fort, Phsenix-park, kas been
reinforced by artillerymen from Beggars' Bush Bar-
racks, to a number amply sufficient to man all the
cannon in that port. A troop of the Scots Greys,
under the command of Lieutenant Hunt, was yes-
terday sent to the Castle, to replace the troops of
Lancers sent there on Tuesday night. These two
corps will take this duty on alternate days until fur-
ther orders. The whole of the troops in garrison
were last night confined to quarters from sunset,
and are ordered to be in readiness to turn out on
the shortest notice. The guards and pickets on
duty in the different barracks in Dublin and neigh-
bourhood are directed to carry, ready for immediate
use, 20 rounds of ball cartridge, in addition to the
usual quantity. All the guards and pickets in gar-
rison were yesterday increased to double the usual
number of men, with additional officers and non-
commissioned officers on each guard. The new
Snider rifles, intended for the 75th Foot, number-
ing about 800, were sent from the Pigeon-house
Fort yesterday to the King's-bridge terminus, for
conveyance to Waterford, but on their arrival at
the terminus, it having been discovered that the
line was stopped by the rails being taken up, the
rifles were returned to the Pigeon-house, under the
escort of the 9th Lancers, which accompanied them
from the Fort. The city police have been with-
drawn from the stations at Kilmainham and Harold's
Cross, and a company of the 52d Foot stationed in
each. The companies of the 83d Foot, which went
out to Tallaght yesterday morning had not returned
at a late hour-last night.
The mail train due from Cork yesterday evening
at 4.30 did 40 arrive till 2 a.rn, this morning.