Litchfield enquirer., 1867-12-19
News of the wekEx

NeWs of the week.
 6oRElaN.-An attempt was made on the l5th inst, to release from Clsrlsnwell Pris- on, fenlan named Burke, whelis confined there A quantity of powder was explo- ded under the wal, and one side of the wall blown down. Three buillings near by were thrown down, and several nersons were injured The attempt at rescne was failure. The police authorities. Satur- day, reported three killed and about forty wounded by the explosion. Sunday night ! an organized attempt was made to set fire i to several warehouses in London. The plan of the incendiaries, who are supposed to have been Fenians, failed, however A man has been arrested at St. *Albans on suspicion of having engineered the explo- l sion at the Clerkenwell Jail. The excite ment in London is very great. In com- menting upon the affair, the entire Press seems to be of the opinion that the time for lenity towards the Fenians has passed. Legal proceedings on charge of seditious conduct have been commenced by the British Government against John Martin, President of the Irish National League, Alexander Sullivan, Editor of the Dublin Ndsson, and other participants in the de- monstrations of sympathy for the Man chester dead which occurred in London. Dec. 8. Public funerals expressive of sympathy for the Fenians executed at Manchester, having become quite common in Ireland, the Lord Lieutenant has issued 8 proclamation declaring such demonstra- tions seditious, and prohibiting them in future. The demonstrations of sympathy for the Manchester dead which were to have been made in the principal cities of Great Britain, were prevented by the au- thorities. Dispatches have been received Tn London announcing shat the Abyssinian captives are alive and well. Four thousand Egyptian warriors have joined the British expedition at Massowah. l The general conference on the Roman question has been abandoned, the leading European Powers having finally declined to take part in it. It is reported that Ma poleon contemplates disolving the present Corps Legislatif, and calling new elec- tlon in January.
 1 The Federal Council of the North Ger man Confederation closed it's session Dec. l2.
 In the Italian Parlia nent. the Liberal members have made violent attack upon 1 the Government.
 The Cabinets of Copenhagen and Berlin have resumed negotiations in regard to Schleswig.
 l The new Austrian Constitution has. after long debate, been adopted by the Reichs- rath
 The great Powers have addressed note to the Sublime Porte asking that the navi- gatlon of the Dardanelles be made free to the shipping of all nations The river Oder Is frozen over, and navigation is closed.
 The ParaguGyans have gained an i'm portant victory over the Allies taking 15OO prisoners, and intiicting loss of several thousand killed and wounded.
 The London Times strongly objects to Secretary McCulloch's plan of taxing U. s. bonds. A terrible explosion of nitro-gly. cerine, occurred at Newcastle-on-Tyne on Tuesday.
 DOMESTIC. Convention was carried by Q small majority in South Carolina. Late returns settle the matter.
 Gold has declined, selling at 134, on Tuesday.
 Terrible distress prevails drought Lou. isiana. Reports have been received at head. quarters of 5000 whites and 4,000 negroes at the point of starvation.
 By the official returns it appears that at the election for the mayoralty in New York Hoffman received 63, ,OS1 votes; Wood, 22,827; Darling, IS, 483.
 Dickens is reading in New York, where there is still greater rush for tickets than at Boston.
 The call for the National Union Conven- tion to nominate Candidate for the Pres idency, IS issued. It is to meet at Chica- go on the 2Oth of May next. The snow storm of last Thursday was one of the severest on record. The fall of snow at New York City, in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, seems to have been greater than here.
 A fight occurred last week between rival negro minstrels in New York, which re- suited in the killing of one and wounding of two others.
 The new American print works building at Fall River, was burned on Sunday. It was the finest building of the kind in the country, and the loss is estimated at over $1, 800, ,OOO
 The celebrated letter from Gen. Grant to the President objecting to the removal of Stanton and Sheridan has at last been sent in, an is as emphatic and patriotic as the Generals friends expected.