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Grey River Argus, Volume V, Issue 345, 31 March 1868, Page 3

At a great meeting that was held at Birmingham on the 4th inst, John Bright made a speech in which he pleaded the wrongs of Ireland in part extenuation of the late Fenian outrages, and begged for Church Legislature Reform. He said that there was nothing the United States ( government could do if Ireland were part and parcel of the United States that England might not do also if she would. Early on the morning of the 4th inst a body of Fenians were discerned near Mac room Castle, twenty miles West of Cork. They were preparing to make an attack, but were dispersed by the police. Late advices received here from the British forces now operating in Abyssinia for the purpose of effecting the release of the English captives is very discouraging, i and forbids the hope of a successful move this season. A telegraphic despatch the other day came from London to Washington in nine ] and a half minutes. Suppose it to have kept on around the world, the circuit would have been made within an hour. What said Shakspeare — " ['11 put a girdle round the earth in forty minutes." If the despatch referred to above had started from London at one minute past eleven on 20th December, it would have gone around the globe and arrived at its starting point by fifty- five minutes past eleven, 19th December — apparently making the girdle of the earth nearly twenty-four hours before it started. Despatches from Athens give an account of another battle between the Cretans and the Turks, in which the former were successful. The Spakrotean mountaineers were the attacking party. The Turks stood their ground and the battle lasted an entire day. The Turks acknowledge a loss of 250 killed. The Cretan loss is not stated. A tremendous gale passed over England on the night of the Ist inst. In London and in Liverpool houses were unreofed and chimnies blown down. Many people were struck by falling objects, several of whom were seriously injured and others killed outright. Dunedin weather has been fine for the season all week, and the farmers are busy harvesting — the crops being secured in first-rate condition.