The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-03-18
THE NEWS IN ENGLAND
our LONDON CORRESPONDENCE.

War Reports from Ireland and Intense Ex-
citement-Order OF the Fenian Command
LONDON, March Q, 1867.
The plans Of the Fenans In Ireland, as stated in your
recent letters from Ahone and London, have appar.
emily been strictly carried OUT and to the very day.
A special telegram from Dublin, dated this morning
says that there is great Fenan rising that city
Thousands Of Irishmen are Three British regi-
ments, with artillery. marching upon them 1t is
reported that there is also rising in the South The
mail train is stopped.
BY SPECIAL messenger we have received the following
proclamation issued by the General commanding the
Fenian forces. The proclamation comes direct from
headquarters is signed by the General and Is unques
tionably authentic. In the proclamation he says
HEApouARIERs, IRISH REPUBLICAN, ARMY, /
LIMERICK JUNCTION, Tipperary, March g. 1867.
SoLDiEls-The hour 70 which you have onged has
come ut last You now about to confront the enc.
mics Of your country and your race You must not ex.
pect material aid from without until you have shown
the friends OF republican liberty by Deeds not words
that you are worthy their sympathy.
You are not well armed as you might be- owing to
the wiu Misrepresentation and studied falsehOod5 OF
the man whom you rescued from British prison; but
you will remember that history furnishes instance Of
revolution where the insurgents took the field as well
armed the government force opposed to them.
You Will carry the struggle for Irish independence
according to the usages OF civilized warfare but should
the enemy naugurate the stamping out' process or
should be insult injure violate OF the daughters
Of land, then let your battle cry be to the
knife
Comrades the eyes Of the world are upon you, and
thousands OF your brothers beyond the Atlantic and
elsewhere will rush when your deeds proclaim
that You really the "men In the gap"
lrishmen May the wrongs and woes Of centuries Of
oppression aud misrue nerve your arms when you
march forth to combat with the flag of your fathers
above you and the light OF battle in your faces
- General Commanding
omit the Of the general At present. but it IL
signed to the paper.
II is impossible to send any through by the
bic, the wires have been cut You advised thai
they would be- Tho telegraph company's agents state
that there must BE- a slight detention in all messages"
How slight depends upon circumstances.
London is fever of excitement; for this rising is
acknowledged be serious than that has before
occurred Troops being hurr led of fast posi-
BILE and in large numbers. Epglishmen say that "no
quarter is to be the cry this time.
Although you have been informed Of all the plans In
advance and the very day OF the rising named In
your letters the British government taken wholly
BY surprise In the second edition Of the Times issued
at one O'Clock to-day there was not an nkllng of the
affair Even at thar hour the Times had not received the
news communicated to the New York HERALD over
week ago.
The London papers OF this morning publish telegram
from Dublin announcing the arrest Of Gen. Massey, Of
the Fenian commander. in-chief, and the discovery
that jackson, recently arrested, ID really Cap
tain Mccaerty who planned the Chester raid The tel
egram concludes with the statements that the troops
have been concentrated at Limerick Junction and that
1.-THE government gets information Of every movo-
ment"
The Fenian plans embraced simultaneous outbreaks
at London and Liverpool, with CONGREGATIONS by
Of and remains to be seen whether
the plot as they have been in regard to the rising In
Ireland.
ashamed OF the previous failures OF Fenian-
ism, ana will not be satisfied without q fight They may
They have kept their word to the very hour, and will
sell their lives dearly as possible they get chance
OF q battle.
This despatch will give you the latest news received
here up to the closing Of the mall but later news will
be put board the steamer at Queenstown possible.
The Fcnans declare that they will send their
news through the cable to the HERALD II they can work
the instruments
An extra Star has lust been issued with the following
important news, which, came over tho wires, must
have been authorized by the government since objec
tionsbie dispatches are now stopped:
heda Court House attacked. Dublin. Wednesday
March GA collision with the Fenians has taken place
Five killed. and two hundred taken prisoners The
Court House at Drogheda has been attacked The mill
tary fred on the Fenans. and killed some"
The London T~ses has walked up, and In It's third
edition publishes elegraphc synopsis Of the events
lated in the Dublin journas
In Parliament to-day the exciting news from Ireland
referred to- The Speaker took the chair Mt
two O'Clock and after Sir w. Heashcote had presented
Mr. MossErL said he had received information during
the last few minutes that outbreak OF the Fenians
had taken place in Ireland He asked the Secretary for
subject and, IL So would he state u TO the House2
viscount MAS said he had received, at quarter be-
fore eleven O'Clock that morning, telegram from the
Under Secretary William LAGOON He had received
no further Information from him, and therefore he
thought better merely TO read the telegram 10 tho
House. which contained all the information he possessed
He should, however, mention that second telegram
had been received at the Admiralty from Coming nder
Williams, from YoughaE The telegram from the Un.
der Secretary stated that "the wires were cut
early In the night between Dublin and Cork and DO.
tween Limerick and Dublin, and later In the night
hat. n,,hl; nd fypc Time MA,
mails late and engines were despatched from
Thurles TO discover the causes found line blocked -
with sleepers and rails torn one mile south Of Thures
all communication with Cork Limerick and Tipperary,
therefore, denied 10 u.s. and we ignorant yet OF
what has taken place there The rising around Dublin
from Drogheda around TO Dundrum, general; but
not numerous as the Fenans expected. In the
dark, impossible to estimate numbers Estimates
vary from TO -four thousand No serious outrage
persons property. AT Drogheda, police barrack
attacked assaapts driven OF and foiowed some shot
and prisoners taken. Metropolitan police stations
at Crumn and KiimaiDham attacked without success
The CITY, emptied OF It's troublesome class remains per-
fcctly tranquil. Troops very skfully disposed. One
of the taken had Greek FIRE as well a. arms and
ammunition. Many returning In twos and threes
lams r. n, Coastguard officer at Yougbal, TO tho
Admiralty 1.-THE Fenians, number unknown, rose and
attacked the police station at Castemaryr twelve miles
from here, at half.past two this morning One man an
American, said 10 DO shot, and several wounded.
Troops gone from here TO assist civil force. Tee.
count Naas might say, further, that he perfectly
convinced that preparations Of the most ample descrfp
tion had been made and that tho military authorities
through the country fully prepared Hear, hoaT