NEWS BY THE PANAMA MAIL.

Grey River Argus, Volume V, Issue 346, 2 April 1868, Page 3

NEWS BY THE PANAMA MAIL.

Our files from Panama are to hand by the s.s. Rangitoto. We take the following items of the latest English news from the Panama Star and Herald, of February 24:— London, Fob. 10. The Roman Catholic clergy of Killarney having refused to say masses for the repose of tho souls of Allan, Larkin and Gould, who were executed &t Manchester for killing a policeman, have ceased to receive any money from their parishioners, who refuse to contribute to their support or that of the church until the required masses are said. The notorious Fenian, Captain Mackoy, was captured in Cork on the 7th inst. While the officers were taking him to jail his friends rallied in great force and attempted to rescue him. The police made a gallant fight of it, and succeeded in lodging their prisoner in jail. London, Feb.. 14. On the 11th inst, an attack was made by a band of Fenians upon the police in the streets of Cork. The police were armed with muskets, and fixing their bayonets they made a charge upon the disturbers of the peace. A desperate fight followed, in which several of the Fenians were bayoneted, and the rest quickly fled, leaving their wounded behind, them. On the following day the troubles were renewed and soveral policemen were badly beaten in various parts of the city. La France insists that Count Bismarck has been invited to resign his post at the head of the Prussian Cabinet. It is reported that a great Panslavic conspiracy against the Austrian Empire has been discovered in Hungary. It is reported that Pope has declined to enter into negotiations for a revision of the Austrian Concordat, and that Prussia has made advance for closer diplomatic relations with Rome. The latest advices from Abyssinia say that Gen. Napier is pushing on the ad- j vance of his force, and that the hostile forces are drawing nearer and nearer to each other. Reports had reached Annesley Bay that skirmishes had already taken place between the British advance and the forces of King Theodore, but no particulars of the fighting are given. The American newspapers, containing the report of the Congressional proceedings on the matter of allegiance and citiro iship have been received. The com,, ments of the English press are generally favorable to the views recently expressed in the American Congress in regard to the rights of naturalized American citizens in foreign countries. In the House of Commons last evening Earl Mayo, the Chief Secretary for Ireland asked leave to bring in a bill to further suspend the operation of the writ of habeas corpus in Ireland for a short period from the Ist of March. He said the Fenian leaders had shown an utter disregard of their oaths of allegiance to the crown ; and stated that out of the two hundred and sixty-eight Fenians who had been arrested ninoty-five were

Americans. He concluded by saying that although the government had succeeded in repressing the rebels, still an extension j of its powers was necessary to enable it to complete tho -work. Leave to bring in the bill was granted. Lord Stanley laid before the House additional papers on the subject of the Alabama claims. These documents have already been published. It has been decided that the British West India mail steamers shall cease calling at the island of lit': Thomas ; but some other placo, probably Jamaica, will be chosen as a mail station for tho steamors. The Fenian Lennon, Avho was convicted of treason-felony, but not of murder, was yesterday brought before the Court in DuMin and sentenced to imprisonment at hard labor for the term of fifteen years. After receiving his sentence, Lennon made a bitter and defiant speech, in which he predicted that before he had served out the term of his imprisonment the British ' monarchy would be overthrown. He glories in the act for which he was condemned, and hoped an opportunity would be given him to repeat it. !