The Sun.
London, England, 1866-02-05 00:00:00

PHILADELPHIA.

July
August
September
October....
November.
December ~

$471,810.92
456,275.66
534,686.70
496,141.96
435,612.59
379,058.85

Total for the six months $2,743,586.61
BALTistonE.

July v $401,850.32
August 356,663.86
September
October 190,700.33
November
December 190,694.81

Total for the six months $1,683,839.95

Grand total of the receipts at the four principal
ports since the 30th of June last, $77,850,811.19
in gold.

, SCREW STEAMER " ENGLAND."—The National
Steam Navigation Co., Limited, have had another
addition made to their already splendid fleet of
steamers engaged in the New York trade. The s.s.
" England," belonging to this company, arrived at
Liverpool last Wednesday, from the Tyne, where
she was built by Messrs. Palmer Bros. and Co.
She measures 3,308 tons gross tonnage, and 2,596
tons par register. Her length is 357 feet, breadth
42 feet, and depth of hold 28 feet. She has a full
poop containing a spacious dining saloon for seventy
first-class passengers. Her engines are horizontal
and direct acting, and of 450 horse power nominal.
The vessel is throughout fitted with every approved
appliance for the safety and comfort of the crew
and passengers.
THE FENIANS.—There are in Dublin, known to
the police as strangers—for the most part military
Americans—no less than 2,000 persons who have entered
the country within the last two months or so. These
suspects" have committed no offence, but their pre-
sence and appearance in the streets keep up apprehen-
sions and injure business. Under the ordinary opera-
tions of the law the authorities cannot deal with them,
and they may be engaged plotting an insurrectionary riot
for St. Patrick's Day, or for any other future date. It is
believed, therefore, that the Government will immediately
apply to Parliament for a measure authorising them to
suspend the Habeas Corpus Act. The Irish public would
not object to such a proceeding. The Government have
given to the principal officers holding military commands
commissions as justices of the peace, to enable them to
discharge their duties in an emergency without a warrant
from a civil magistrate. Hugh Francis Brophy, now on
trial in the Commission Court, was arrested with Stephens
in Fairfield House. A letter produced in evidence showed
that the prisoner was giving orders for the making of pikes
on the 18th of September, three days after the Irish People
had been seized, which, the Solicitor-General said,
" afforded a remarkable corroboration of the statement
made by Stephens on the night of the seizure, that
things would go on as " A man named Johnson
has been committed to prison in Belfast for having in his
possession 12 rifles, and also 12 bayonets, packed in hay,
and sewed up in hemp matting. The parcel was in a place
of concealment. There have been several other seizures of
arms in the same quarter of less importance, and persons
have been arrested for defacing the proclamations. At
Hillborough Petty Sessions, in the county of Down, a man
named 3/Donald has been arraigned on a charge of "writ-
ing and publishing a treasonable letter within the last six
mouths, and with being a member of the treasonable con-
spiracy." When arrested he was in the American uniform.
After a patient investigation, during which the prisoner,
who defended himself, disclaimed Fenianism, he was let
out on bail, to appear at the next day's sitting of the
court.

THE FORTIFICATIONS OF ANTWERP.—For the last
fortnight the south side of Antwerp has resembled an im-
mense ant-hill, nearly 3,000 labourers being employed in
levelling the ramparts, either with the spade or by mining.
The fort of Montebello has already nearly
disappeared, tf;
only a few vestiges of it remain. These Nvorksare carried
on with a rapidity really marvellous ; and the population,
favoured by the fine weather, collect in vast numbers to
witness the scene.
AN IMPORTANT AMERICAN RAILWAY CASE.—
The groat railroad case in the Supreme Court of Pennsyl-
vania, in which the Pennsylvania Central Railroad en-
deavours to annul various agreements between the Atlan-
tic and Great Western and other roads, has not yet
terminated. Counsel were still arguing the ease, and the
trial, one of the most important ever held in Philadel-
phia, attracts railroadmen from all parts of the country.
Arguments from counsel would probably bo heard for a
week, and the court would scarcely render a decision before
the beginning of February. Sir Morton Peto, and other
English shareholders of the Atlantic and Great Western
Company, were represented by Mr. J. Walker. Upon the
result depends a freight traffic between the East and West
; Talued at $20,000,000 a year—eonlething to fight for.