Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1865-12-22
foreign Nrms.


"a via Queenstown Dec. ID, arrived mere THIS
afternoon at $40 o'clock.
The London papers publisha dispatch from
Mr.. Seward, which was communicated to
them through the American legation. 1t is
general acknowledgement Of the many address
ses Of coincidence from Great Britain to Presi
dent johnson on the assassination OF Mr..
Lincoln. The document shows a cordial and
hearty appreciation Of the good feeling which
dictated the address.
The Fenian trials were progressing. Luby,
the proprietor OF the Irish People, has been
found guilty aud sentenced to 20 years penal
servitude.
The Morning Post states that Stephens has
arrived in Paris.
In the Court Of Queens Bench the trial OF
Captain Corbett on the charge Of selling the
Shenandoah to the rebels and enlisting men
for her. resulted in his acquittsl.
Mr. Bright has been making strong reform
speech at Blackburn. He denounced in un-
measured terms the massacre at Jamaica, and
held the Governor and his accom- pices respon-
sible for the murder, and predicted that they
would not appear at the bar Of justice.
A company has been organized in Spain to
lay telegraph line between Cuba and the
United States
The Times says it cannot affect to be dis
appointed at the soquittal Of Capt. Corbett in
the Shenandoah case, the neutrality laws hAv-
ing been so executed as almost to defy leg
retribution.
Correspondence from Madrid denies that
the Spanish Government has sent Admiral
Pareja orders to suspend hostilities against
Chill. The Government is not even disposed
to accept of the mediation of the Neutral
Powers. Orders have been given to the
Spanish Naval Arsenals to push forward the
preparation of war vessels for sea.
The jailor who connived at the escape Of
Stephens, the Fenian Head Centre, has been
committed for trial.
The jury in the case Of Mr.. Luby, publish
er of the Irish People newspaper, were two
hours celebrating before returning verdict
of guilty. The prisoner addressed the Court
before sentence was pronounced upon him
He emphatically denied and repudiated the
allegations of assassination which were urged
against the Fenians. He admitted his guilt
according to the Interpretation Of the British
law, but believed himself innocent according
to the higher standard of eternal right, and
majority of his countrymen would so decide
if the question we're put to a vote.
The next prisoner brought before the Spe-
cial Commissioner was John o Leary. A new
jury had been sworn in his case, and the trial
was progressing. There is no excitement.
ESCAPE OF STEPHENs, FssIAx HEAD CEN
TIRE IN IRELAND.--A letter fom Dublin to
London yaper says that an examination Of
the place in which Stephens was confined in
the Richmond prison showed that he could
not possibly have escrped without the aid Of
one or more accompliccs. After leaving his
cell, the paddock of which had been opened
by a skeleton key, he had to pass through
about eight locked doors all Of which he or
his aiders left open, except one which was re-
locked to prevent pursuit. Three of the
doors had two locks each. From the luna
tics dining room two tables were carried a.
cross the prison yard to the wall bounding
the governors garden, and placed one over
the other, which only reached to about six
feet Of the top of the wall, which is twenty
feat high, so that external as we'll as internal
aid must have been employed.
A letter from Dublin in New York con-
temporary says there is nothing mnre certain
than that Stephens we'll knew that he would
get out of prison from pre-arrangement IL he
should ever happen to be arrested. 1t is
limited that he is expected in this country
soon. Perhaps he is the great psofcator"
expected by The disrupted Fenians.
The Dublin Mail contains the following
relative to Stephens escape The Governor
of Richmond Bridewell, who had from the
first an additional force of fve-and twenty
police constables to watch the Fenian priso-
ners, recently, under directions from the
Board of Superintendence, sent in a requisi-
ton for the reduction Of that force to three,
with view to curtailing the expenses to be
charged against the rates of.the city. Three
constables only we're accordingly employed
to aid the prison officials at night, but how
valuless their services we're may be learned
from the fact that they separated by a
substantial wall and formidable iron door
from the department in which the men to be
watched were located. Mr.. Marquis, the
Governor, with anxiety to prevent any com
municstion between the several Fenian priso-
ners in each cell intermediate between two of
the alleged Fenisns. The prisoner so placed
between James Stephens and Charles J.
Kickham, whose cells are situated on the
second story, states that he heard in the
morning, at few minutes before one O'Clock,
a noise as Of feet mounting the stairs. Short
y afterward a sound struck his ear OF a lock
being opened, and then, to use his own ex-
preston, two sets OF steps going down
stairs. He did not raise any alarm at the
time, not suspecting that an escape was being
accomplished, and thinking il was the night
watchman who created the noise. At four
o'clock, however, Mr.. Marquis. the Governor,
was aroused by the watchman, Byrne, who
told him that Stephens was missing"
The London Daily News, in an editorial
on the Mexican question, says: "The Arch
duke Maximilian has been trying TO make the
world believe that he is at the head Of gov
ernment which has superseded that of the
Republic but Mr.. johnson conceives that
the United States have right to an opinion
on that subject, and the appointment Of Gen.
Logan is an intimanion that Maximiian is
merely the head OF a foreign invasion. The
American government could not have adopted
a cheaper or more harmless mode Of defining
its position. IL is one which preserves the
neutrality OF the United States, encourages
the Republicans in Mexico, and prolongs n
state Of things in that country which can on
ly end in the downfall OF the throne that has
been set up at the expense Of SO much blood
and treasure"