The Sun.
London, England, 1867-02-27 00:00:00

llefmn Demonstration at Sunderland.

SUNDERLAND, Monday Night.
The working men of Sunderland and the districts
surrounding this town have held a Reform Demon-
stration to-day. Between 2 and 3 o'clock in the
afternoon the members of numerous trade and
benefit societies assembled near the railway station
at Monkwearmouth, and formed in order of proces-
sion. Starting from the point of assembly, the
procession, which consisted of at least 12,000,
took its way through the principal streets of Sun-
derland to the Town Moor. Immense crowds of
people lined the whole route. The afternoon was
given up wholly to the demonstration ; all shops
were closed, and all business suspended.

KILLARNEY.

Killarney has had a lively and unexpected season.
The little Irish town lay surrounded by its lovely
scenes—steeped in intense quiet and stupidity. Its
grand hotels were empty—its stables contained
horses, on whom the experiment has for generations
been tried, to ascertain the minimum amount of food
to aeep the animal alive till required. Irish boys of
alt ages lounged about Innuyed for the want of em-
plof htent, and without even the excitement of com-
mencing to count the days when the Sassenach
would appear, and Ireland's plundsr of England
beginwhen Killarney would spring into life and
gaiety, and a still greater change come o'er society
than o'er the face of nature. Those only can tell
the intense stupidity of a gay and fashionable
tourist locality, who have remained after the summer
and into the winter season. The contrast must be seen
in both phases to be understood, between bustle and
joyous hilarity and the emptiness ,of desolation—
between mountain slopes ringing with laughter and
echoing with the shouts of pie-nic parties—and the
dreary, snow-capped, mist-covered hills—between
lakes dancing in the sunshine, studded with their
boating voyagers, resounding with notes of
music and fringed with their verdant and
overhanging woods, and the same lakes
lying sullen beneath the weight of Atlantic mists, or
rising in white foam as the scud flies, and whirls,
and eddies in savage gusts down the bleak and cold
mountains. Killarney, but a few days since, was
anything but the fascinating and agreeable Killar-
ney known to tourists, when a change was wrought
almost as sudden—and much more startling anti
unexpected, than what we are in the habit of seeing
in the theatres, during the -pantomime season. A
solitary traveller approached the town in one of the
public conveyances. He was a military man, who
had fought in the American war, and bore on his
face disagreeable evidence of his close contact with
the enemies against whom he had served. The
vehicle was stopped and the traveller arrested, and
forthwith Killarney sprang into life. The hills
seemed to grow armed men—families in the out-
lying districts flaw for security to the town—loco-
motives snorted into the station conveyinglong
trains of soldiers—the starving horses were asto-
nished at the supply cf oats—the Irish boys of all
aged sprang into life and activity, and Sassenach
gold began to circulate freely through the wilds of
Kerry. Killarney was invaded ; first, by a band of
Fenians; next, by a general rush of the Kerry
landed gentry ; immediately after by regiments of
British soldiers ; and finally, by a body of reporters
on behalf of the irrepressible Press. Killarney, in
return, is invading England, penetrating into the
most distant recesses—into every house—through
the clubs, reading-rooms, benches of parliament—
the Cabinet of the Ministers and the counsels of
the Horse Guards. We are saturated with Killar-
ney, and Killarney too, out of season. If the
Fenians had planned the' little excitement as an
agreeable surprise in our dullest time when there
was little news stirring, we must have confessed
that the Fenian enterprise was not wholly without
some good result. All the morning papers contain
long stories from " Special Correspondents," giving
full details of the abortive Fenian outbreak, which,
according to these accounts, has been completely
crushed. In default of facts there is no lack of rumours,
and if there be no contests to describe, still the doings
of tie military can furnish the reporter's pens with
subjects of interest. Brigadier-General Sir ALFRED
lloasFonn is in command, and has established his
head-quarters at the Railway 'Mel. The 2nd
battalion of the 60th Rifles are established in the
town, with detachments of the 6th, 14th, and 48th
Regiments, which, together with the artillery and
caval-y, make up some 1,500 men. The whole
district is being patrolled by this forcs. The penin-
sula in which the rising occurred is among the
wildest and most mountainous parts of Ireland.

At the extremity of this peninsubi, is Valentia, the
Irish terminus of the Atlantic cable. The Bay of
Kenmare forms a long indentation to the south,

anti Dingla Bay a similar indentation to the north.

About the centre of the base of this peninsula lies

the town of Killarney, containing about 6,000 in-

habitants, and by far the most wealthy place in
that part of the country. The railway from
Mallow junction runs through Killarney and on to

Tralee, situated to the north of Dingle Bay.
Mallow is the most central post commanding the

lines between Cork and Limerick, with Ferinoy
and Waterford on one side and Killarney and

Tralee on the other.

The rising being confined to

the 'district south-west; of Killarney, that town

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became the base of any military operations. With
gun-boats in the bays of Kenmare and Dingle, and
a strong force at Killarney, it would be no easy
matter for the insurgents to penetrate through the
chain. Kenmare has been occupied, and parties of
soldiers despatched to beat up the wildest parts of
the mountains. The cars which carry tourists have
been put into requisition to convey troops along
the road, and if any bands still hold together they
will soon be compelled to disperse or break through

the line of military posts. The district is too

sterile and unproductive to sustain for any
lengthened period a body of men, and unless a

rising occurred outside in other parts of the country
it would be madness, and, inded, an impossibility,
for the rebels to remain under arms. It is pro-
bable, therefore, that as 50)0 as the present excite-
ment subsides we will hear little more of the last
Fenian outbreak till the trial of Captain Mot:lra:TY
and 'other prisoners, revives the stP,ject.—Anglo-
American. Times.

The freedmen of Florida are seemingly prosperous,
and are very generally renewing their contracts.
Their number is constantly increased by arrivals
from the. adjoining States. The blacks among the
Indian tribes of the Everglades arc still held
in servitude, and have appealed to the military for
assistance.

TILE OVERLAND RoUTE.—We understand that it
is in contemplation, when the new line of steamers com-
mence running for the conveyance of troop to and from
India by way of Suez, to permit officers who arc returning
to England on heave to take passages in these vessels on the
payment of £lO. There will be au additional expense of
3s. 6d. per day for messing daring the voyar. If this is
carried out, officers will be able to cover the exp.use of the
journey by about £so.—United Servi.:e Gazzae.