AREIVAL OF THE PANAMA MAIL

Grey River Argus, Volume V, Issue 318, 28 January 1868, Page 2

AREIVAL OF THE PANAMA MAIL

NEWS TO .-16ft;,I)£C^3£E^B,'; THE FENIAN ' MOVEMENT.- < ) GREAT DEMONSTRATIONS IN*" MEMORY OF ' EXECUTED FENIANS PREVENTED. A PRISON IN LONDON BLOWN UP WITH GUNPOWDER. < ALARM IN ENGLANI>— TROpI»S UNDERARMS, HEX MAJESTY'S THEATRE IDEV STROYED BY FIRE; ; THE ABYSSINIAN EXPEDITION;!' THE ROMAN QUESTION. 5 { LATEST AMERICAN NEWS;. [Bt Ejjsctiuc Telegraph,] . | j • . (FROM QUB OWN CaRBESPONDEirT. ) [The following was published iv out« Extra of yesterday.] . , . „ „- Wellington, Jiftn. g§, fl p.ni -- The s.s. Ruahine arrived in Wellington Harbor on Saturday, at 530 p.m. Hep outward trip was dojie in. twenty-six days. She started on her return voyage two daya later awing to . the arrival of thq mails at Panama. Had a good passage. Passengers :— For Wellington — H, : £, Hewitt, Combe, Corbitt, Fox, Miss Brad- j ley, Captain Kerr, Campbell, . Lu|Jier, J Mrs Lusher, Mis* Lusher, Gbntia>ire, Auckland— T. Adams, Mrs Adams. Can-. terhury-Lord Lyttelton, Hon. S. Lyttel-. ton, Wood, Self, M'Bpnald, Otagp— Mrs Strong, Rogers, Carey, Brown/ Qib* son, ThornhiU, Mrs Hpdgersj' Missea Hadg^ra (3), Mr Eodgere, Master Hod^ gers, Saddiagton, Dr Kingsley, Levick, Gibson, Travers, Mrs Travers, . Kilgour, Stewart, Miss Stewajrt, B,pnnuigher. Latest dates from New York, December 16th /from London, December 16th. V The following is a General Summary o f the news to the latest date :-r= ENGLAND. Another batch of Alabama claims cor-, respondence has been submitted touP,ar-. liament. L«rd Stanley stated officiillythat England will never submit to foreigi* arbitration in claims involving a, right to recognise belligerents. . Parliament ad jovrped on 7th December to 13th. February, London, December 10. The Times praises the House for it* re, fnsal to impeach the President It exr. presses the fear, however, that the Presi-r. dent will accept the action of the House, as a new endorsement of his poEcy, and from this concludes that all hopes of a, sound reconstruction must be deferred. The London cabmen struck on the 3rd December, on account of the new law compelling them to carry lamps. The. law was suspended. Her Majesty^ Theatre was totally de-. atroyed by fire on the Xi\ after- tha audience had retired. The cause is unknown. Dispatchea hare been received in Lon-. don from Massowah, which report that tha British Abyssinian Expedition had advanced a considerable distance into tha interior of the country^ and hist account^ state that the troops were, suffering 4fom the scarcity of water. I j THE FENIAN MOVEMENT. j The execution of the Fenian prisoners; at Manchester caused tremendous excite-, ment in England and Dublin. The fol-. lowing telegrams show how intense wast the feeling : — / Tremendous funoral demonstrations of sympathy for the executed Fenians are projected in Manchester, Cork and Dublin. In Manchester, 10,000 ; T • Cork v 10,000 ; Dublin 5000 Irishmen are ex-. pected to turn out.- .".. Liverpool, Decembe^lO. The Fenian sympathisers are -making j Textensivft preparajipna fop a public |une-. j ral in this city, on Sunday next, in honor of Allen^Gouldj and Larkuv and it ist feared a serious riot will ensue, A ] December 12. ! The Fenian excitement in England and Ireland is at fever- heat, The greatest I alarm prevail*. Qn theligfoi '^er|enwell Jail in Ljondon- vas blown up with gan-v powder, arid t&ee persons were kfifctl ana thirty' seriously injured. *lt-is. supposed I

that Colonel Kelly, the rescued Fenian in Manchester, had some hand in the matter. It was thought and hoped that Fenians would cease all active attempts against law and order in consequence of thfe universal horror and indignation caused by the disastrous attempt on Cler kcnwell Jail. Large rewards have been oftbred by Government for the discovery and arrest of the guilty parties. In the city. of Liverpool precautions have been taken by Government to check any demonstrations on the part of Orangomon or Fenians, December 15, The English newspapers have joined in a regular hue and cry against all members of the Fenian Brotherhood, which has only served to increase the general excitement and alarm. The public funerals which were to have been held yesterday in many of the principal cities in England and Ireland were prevented by the authorities in every* place where an attempt was made to cany them out. Much indignation was shown by crowds in some instances, but no violence was committed, In London, battalions of regular troops, to the number of six thousand men, are constantly under arms to assist the police in maintaining order and to suppress any Fenian demonstration. William Hogau, supposed to have supplied arms to tho Fenians for the rescue At Manchester, has been arrested in Birmingham. Fenian General Nagle has been arrested pi Sligo.