The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-03-16
FOREIGN News.

York, brings dates from Queenstown to
the Isl instant. The news, especially as
| to the state of affairs in Ireland, is impor-
tant:
| The advance in our national bonds
| abroad continued. United States five
twenties were quoted in the London mar
| ket, on the list, at II to 714.
Two vessels, supposed to be intended
for Chilean privateers, had been seized in
the London docks. The Peruvian IRON
clads were still detained by the French
Government ut Brest, though the right to
detain them was vigorously contested by
| the Paris Opinion Rationale, which con-
ruvians with the measures taken against
| the American rebel rams.
Advices from Paris with respect 20 the
| termination of the Mexican intervention
grow less satisfactory with each mail.
Count Flandres, Maximilian's brother
in-law, has declined with thanks the posi-
ton offered him as Hospodar OF Roumania.
The microscopic revolution in that princi-
pality was causing considerable uneasi-
ness. Russia was moving her troops in a
threatening manner, and the Porte had
hastily called the representatives. Of the
great European powers.
There were rumors, apparently prema-
ture, of a ministerial crisis in England, and
the resignation of Earl Russell.
Wholesale arrests and anxious anticipa-
tion of the inevitable "17th,' form the sta
pie of the news from Ireland by the Euro
pean steamer which arrived yesterday. A
reputed Head centre, for whose arrest f1O0
tish solditr RS, were among the latest cap
lures. In fact, the loyalty of the army,
which was a first so triumphantly quoted,
seems to have gone down in the market
pretty considerably; and the London Post
now starts conScnient theory, that these
LnyNI Ill <Nf4I
hood, who enlisted solely for the purpose
of sowing treason in the military. Fenian-
ism has also turned up among The ire
proachable police force. At q meeting
held in Liv ,rpool, o considerable sum had
been subsc 'ibed for the relief OF Fenian
prisoners. With all these indications Of
the widely oread ramifcations ofthe order,
official alan n was increasing, and several
more Coup les had been proclaimed. The
London I nes strongly urges Mr.. Glad
stone to m, Ie representations to the Wash
ington Gov :rnment on the subject.
The Lone n Times has the following ar
ticle in relc ION to the two rebelions, and
as to what l,ngland did to America, and
what America is expected to do to Eng
land
the facts brought forward by Mr.. Watkin;
and the course adopted by the Chancellor
Of the Exchequer, if not the worst, was
certainly not the best of them. He said
too much or too little. Mr.. Gladstone did
not say with Mr.. Oliphant, that nothing
would be more gratifying to the American
Fenians than tho importance they would
acquire by being made the subject of rep
resentation to the American Government,
and that the Ministry did. not think they
deserved any such attention. His objec-
tion was, not that the Fenian attempts in
the States were to insignificant for notice,
but they did not sufficiently contravene
public order and the laws of the Union to
Justify remark. The point at issue be-
tween the Chancellor of the Exchequer
and Mr.. Watkin turned, therefore, entirely
upon the opinion entertained by the execu-
tive government of the American Fenians;
both agreed in cxculpating President
johnson, and this was obviously g. matter
which Parliament might fairly discuss.
What, in truth, were the statements made
by Mr.. Watkin? Some of them were vague
and indefinite, and such as no responsible
Ministers could act upon; some were pre-
c!se, ana called, at the least, 1or inquiry.
Mr.. Watkin quoted early in his speech the
remarks utteredby one of the Irish Judges
engaged in the late Fenian trials. Words
spoken OH such an occasion cannot be sup
posed to have been used lightly, without
serious reflection, or without substantial
authority, in fact. Mr.. Justice Keogh said
therhood existed not only in this country,
but in the States of America; that supplies
Of money and of arms for the purpose Of
general insurrection were being collected,
not only here, but on the other side Of the
Atlantic, and, finally, that the object of
this confederationswas the overthrow of
the Queens authority, the separation Of
this country Qrela.id) from Great Britain,
the destruction of our present Constitu-
ton, the establishment Of some democratic
or military despotism, and the general
as the result Of successful civil war;.
These were the words of Judge presiding
at the Fenian trials, and those who remem-
Der the evidence given in the course Of
these trials, must acknowledge that MIR.
Justice Keogh's statements were amply
warranted by the dispositions OF the wit
nesses. 1t is only necessary TO compare
the language Of the judge with the words
of the Neutrality Act of the United States,
to see that the evidence nsed by the Go
vernment at the Fenian trials was of
character to convict the chiefs of the Bro
therhood in America of an offence against
the neutrality Of the Union. The act pro-
vides for the punishment Of any person
who should, within the Federal jurisdic-
ton, provide or prepare the means for any
military expedition or enterprise to be car
ried on from there against the territory or
dominion of any foreign prince with whom
the United States were at peace-words
which exactly correspond to those of Mr.
Justice keogh. 1t was almost unnecessary
to carry the case further, for unless Mr..
Gladstone discards the judges conclu-
sions, he could not justify his own statement
that no proof had been laid before the Co
yernment Of offences committed against
the American laws Mr. Watkin however