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Dunstan Times, Issue 266, 31 May 1867, Page 3

A lake Ims keen discovered in the >t:ite of lowa occupying a surface of 2800 acres, which is between, two and three feet higher than the surroun.'iiug country, and surrounded by a carefully built wall tea or fifteen feet wide. When or by whom the Will', which is very old, was built none can discover, The stones of the wall vary in weight from one hundred pounds to three tons. There are no stones on the land within tea miles around the lake. There has been a practical joke of a very absurd kind at Newport, Isle o Wight. Two lads, clerks in the telegraph offices, one at Southampton and the other <it Newport, were practising their tele, graphing on the wires. The Newport boy asked the Southampton boy if ho had any news from Ireland. Southampton, full of mischief, replied, Yes; the Fenians had attacked the fortifications of Dublin, and ! ecu beaten oil with a loss of 2000 ' wounded. lie added that there was a Fenian Fleet off Liverpool, and that an attack on the port was expected. This i message was taken as morions bv a byslander, wbo'carried it to the clergyman 1 of the, parish. He thought it most irn-! portant and readmit out to Ids congregation, asking their prayers for these in i peril. There was quite a scene. Later J the truth was discovered. The other night a largo and poweiful black bear, an inhabitant of a menagrie, i exhibiting at Guildford, forced his way j through a partition, and into the tiger’s ' den, widen was occupied by three young j Bengal tiger-. A fearful combat soon : raged between the infuriated beasts, in j which the boar appeared to bo gaining ; the auvai.tagc. After vainly using every means to part the combatants and to induce the bear to retire into his own quarters, the keepers determined that the oidv way to prevent a fearful catastrophe was to destroy the bear. Accordingly two of them loaded their fire-arms with slugs, and both discharged their pieces together and shot the bear dead, whilst they at the same time wounded two of the tigers so severely that it is feared they will have to be destroyed. The va.uc of the bear is estimated at about £9O and of the tigers at from 80 to 100 guineas each. A ruEXCit view of fenianism. —From the “Journal dcs Dehats”—The English Ministers declare in Parliament every day that the Irish insurrection is extinguished and that the troop, which the Government have at their disposal are more than sufficient to suppress any serious movement, and pet the revolt is not put down, and will not be put down for a long time to come It is always ready to recommence. No doubt the regular troops who garrison Ireland will win the day, as in all conquered countries, when the enemy presents himself, but he will not present himself. The tactics of the insurgents arc quite clear, and they have long since indicated them—to avoid any g noral action in which they would be infallibly crushed, but to weary the troops out by a mountainous and partisan warfare, dispersing in one place only to reappear in another, and keeping the authorities in a state of constant watchfulness and panic. The English Government is ranch more embarrassed than it chooses to acknowledge by this impalpable and irrepressible movement. It has all the strength necessary to pul down disorder, but not enough to re establish order. Do what it will say what it will, order does not reign ir

that eternal Warsaw of Ireland. Tho Fenian revolt is not an agitation for Reform, which may he satisfied by a Reform Eill; nor a Working ma> -'s strike, which maybe ended by a, compromise or by weariness. It is not a political movement which may be terminated by the admission-of a now class to the privileges of old classes. It is au undisguised revolutionary and socia' movement which has lor its movement a change in tho form of government, and for its object the transmission of property. It is as hostile to the Catholic Church as to the English Government. It is an agrarian revolution in the full meaning of the term. The Fenians are not an offspring without parents. They cannot be called '■' prolcm sine matro creatam" Their ancestors were Un'ted Irishmen, Whitoboys, Hearts of Oak, 4c. Their mother is Misery, with her ' cortege' famine, fever, and pestilence and a still more prolific mother is Ir'sh History.