Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-04-19
BY TELEG R A P Il
NOON DISPATCHES
NEW YORK DISPATCHES.

England and the Impending War;
Another Fenian Rising Anticipated
--Supreme Court DecisiOn--JOhn H.
Surratt, etc.
New YoBK, April 18-The London Owl
thinks that it is not unlikely that England
may be drawn into the impeding contest
between France and Prussia. According to
the Owls statement Lord Stanley has been
applied to by the Prussian Cabinet to try
to induce the Dutch government to with
draw from the negotiations with France
for the cession Of the Duchy, and it is be-
lieved that on this occasion the Foreign
Secretary may depart from the policy of
non-intervention in continental affairs.
From recent declarations of French jour-
mails, it appears the Imperial Cabinet has
not abandoned its design on Luxembourg,
and Prussia seems determined not to per-
NIT the Duchy to be separated from Ger
many.
The Owl intimates that Lord Lyons will
succeed Earl Cowley as Minister to Paris.
In debate in the North German Par
Lament on the Sd, Gen. Maltke resisted
motion to reduce the term of service of
soldiers in the regiments, on the ground
that in the present state of Europe it was
not expedient to impair the efficiency of
the army by such reduction.
The Herald's correspondence from Dub
lin and Thurles indicate very plainly that
another and more extensive Fenian rising
is expected in Ireland, and that the British
commander-in-chiefi is forced to keep fully
prepared for action at any moment
A. tubiab fonLr ,nIooa batmaaY,
three armed Fenians, Mcclure and two
others, and the men of a British flying
column, in wood near Mitchelstown, was
a most exciting affair. The determined
bravery of the Fenians as well as the
rapidity of their fire, ELECTED the admira-
ton of the soldiers. The three Fenians
fought one hundred and twenty soldiers
until one of their number was killed and
the remaining two captured.
An action of much interest and impor-
lance was tried yesterday in the Supreme
Court. 1t involves the validity of judg
ment rendered in the Sixth District Court
of New Orleans, by Judge who had taken
a judicial oath to support the constitution
of the Confederate States, who rendered
the judgment in question in February,
1862, after military law had been pro-
claimed there, and after Judge Peabody
had, by authority of the President, entered
upon the duties Of his Office. Judge Mason
directed verdict for the plaintiff, subject
TO the opinion of the General, thus sustain
ing the opinion OF the New Orleans court
The Herald's special says: The rumor
still prevails in Washington that negotia-
tons are pending for the purchase of Brit
ish America by the United States, Mr..
Seward proposing to give the Alabama
claims in part pay.
An expedition is being organized by the
State Department to explore Russian
America and acquaint our people with the
value of their next acquisition. 1t will
start about the first week in May.
The Herald's Queenstown Ireland cor
respondent, says: There is almost a
general exodus to the United States. The
class of people emigrating are generally of
the comfortable farming class.
The Worlds Washington special gives
extracts from the testimony given before
the Judiciary Committee of the House of
Representatives, relative to the arrest of
John II. Surratt, whose trial is expected to
take place next June. 1t would appear
from the evidence given by DR.. Mcmillan,
that Surratt was ignorant of the conspiracy
to assassinate President Lincoln, though
party to the plot to abduct him.
The Times says: The Senate Judiciary
Committee have demanded from Secretary
Browning his authority for investing Mr..
Bogy with the prer0gatives of Indian
Commissioner, as noted yesterday.
The Senate has rejected the sale of
al T.,
railroad for one million dollars on credit.
This was the land which Secretary Harlan
sold to the Connecticut Emigration Conn
pany, and which sale was set aside by his
successor, who then sold it as above.
1t was developed to-day, through the re-
marks of one of the Judges of the Supreme
Court, that had the Attorney General inter-
posed any objection to the filing of the in
junction case, the court would have sus-
tanned that objection, as it did in the Misis-
sippi case.
The Tribune's special says: Attorney
General Stansberry, is said to have recently
remarked to the District Attorney of Vir-
gieia, that JEFF. Davis must be disposed of
during the coming term of the Circuit
Court of the United States, which meets at
Richmond on the first Monday in May.
The Governor of Arkansas says that he
is ready to organize under the reconstruc-
ton act.
Further investigation concerning the
coin and bullion captured on the downfall
of the Confederacy, shows conclusively that
it belonged to the Rebel government, not
withstanding it was claimed by the Rich
mond and New Orleans banks.