LATEST INTELLIGENCE RESPECTING THE PRINCE.

Westport Times, Volume II, Issue 207, 30 March 1868, Page 2

LATEST INTELLIGENCE RESPECTING THE PRINCE.

Sydney, March 15. H.E.H. is progressing most favorably. He passed a good night, and slept without intermission. Poor Mr Thome continues to suffer great pain. His medical attendants have not yet attempted to extract the ball. The St. Patrick's D;iy ball and regatta have been postponed indefinitely. The committee is in bad odour, in consequence of treasonable expressions which have been used at some of their meetings. All the churches in Sydney were crowded to-day, and prayers were offered for the speedy recovery of his Royal Highness. No doubt is entertained here that the assassination was originally intended to have been perpetrated in Victoria, and that most of O'Farrell's accomplices will be found there. The Duke sat up for two hours this afternoon. He is in little pain and his spirits are good. He received several visitors. The following is a copy of a telegramfrom the Earlofßelmore to his Excellency Sir H. Manners Sutton : "Sydney,_ March 14, 1868—1 am happy to inform your Excellency that H.E.H. the Duke of Edinburgh is progressing favourably. The ball was extracted at eight a.m. to-day, and no unfavorable symptoms have as yet accrued.—(Signed) Beemore." Melbourne, March, 16. The following from the Argus of March 16' is a brief account of the public services for the recovery of His Royal Highness:

The Hebrew Sabbath gave pi'iority to those of our fellow citizens who worship "in the grand dialect the_ prophets spake," iu addressing their public intercession to Divine Providence for the safe and speedy recovery of H.E.H. Prince Alfred. But yesterday, as of one mind alike, Roman Catholics, Episcopalians (Church of England), Presbyterians, and Congregationalists, of all degrees, joined in prayer, all and each beyond doubt hearty and loyal, in beseeching the G-od of Mercy to spare the life and health of the Prince, as well as to rescue the name of our adopted country from a threatening source of blame and shame.

In the Roman Catholic churches, after each mass, the following prayer was offered up by the officiating priest. The congregations are described as joining, in rapt attention, in the responses :

0 Lord, who hast promised to help Thy servants who call upon Thee in the day of affliction, to heal the wounded, raise the dejected, and strengthen the week ; prostrate before Thee, we implore Thy merciful goodness in behalf of our gracious Prince Alfred, who is sick and wounded. Come, therefore, O Lord, to his assistance; stretch forth Thy hand, and help him; let Thy divine power protect him, and Thy goodness comfort him, and Thy mercy defend him; show Thyself a tender Father, and in Thy compassion restore him to perfect helth, and bless and prosper him for ever. We ask this, O Lord, through the merits of our dear Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ, who livest and reignest with Thee, G-od, world without end. Amen. LATEST TELEGRAMS' CONTINUED EXCITEMENT IN HORITIKA. ARREST OE FATHER LARRINS AND MR. MELODY. 1000 SPECIAL CONSTABLES SWORN IN. (FROM THE GREY RIVER ARGUS.) Hokitiica Friday, 8. 15 p.m Father Larkins and Mr Melody were arrested to-day. Great excitement continues in town, and over one thousand special constables have been sworn in. The town is regularly patrolled by the special constables, and the Government House is guarded by armed men. Mr Shaw, the Mayor, has a personal guard; and the office of the JVest Coast Times is guarded by the Volunteers. O'Farrel is a Fenian. When searched, a revolver was found upon him. It is supposed that twenty were in the conspiracy, and that ten of them drew lots who should assassinate the Duke. The lot fell to O'Farrell. The Government are in possession of secret information of a startling character, respecting the extent of the Fenian organisation. LATEST ENGLISH NEWS VIA PANAMA. DATES TO FEBRUARY 15. COLLISIONS AND BLOODSHED BETWEEN FENIANS AND POLICE IN CORK. CATHOLIC CLERGY REFUSING MASSES FOR LARKINS, &c. SAFETY OF DR. LIVINGSTONE. The Queen is at Osborne in grood health. The Bishop of Lichfield did homage to Her Majesty as Bishop of Lichfield, on the 15th January. The Abyssinian Expedition is moving slowly. No information has been received. It is said it will occupy two years. The American Congress has passed a resolution ordering the reinstatement of Stanton as Secretary of War, General Grant has resigned. The police have captured Barrett, the man who fired the powder at Clerkenwell. The " Times" admits that the arrest and imprisonment of George "Francis Train was a mistake. Dr. Livingstone is safe. The remains of the Emperor Maximilian were interred in the church of the Capuchins, at Vienna, January 18. The new French loan of seventeen million francs is considered as a pledge of peace. The French troops in the Papal States are reduced to one division. Prince Humbert, son of Victor Emmanuel, will shortly marry Princess Margherita, of Genoa. A man named Chatterton was shot in London on the sth February. The assassin was a half-witted Irishman named Tim Meddles : he mistook Chatterton for James Bird, a milkman, who is an important witness for the Government in the affair of the Clerkenwell explosion.

A.t a meeting held at Birmingham on the 4th of February, John Bright pleaded the wrongs of Ireland in part extenuation of late Fenian outrages. A tremendous gale passed over England on the night of the Ist February. In London and Liverpool houses were unroofed aud chimneys blown down. Many persons were seriously inj ured, and others killod outright.

Despatches from Athens give an account of a battle between the Cretans and the Turks; the former were successful. A new Cabinet has been formed in Greece, with Bulgarte as President and Minister of the Interior. The Roman Catholic clergy of Killarney having refused to say masses for the repose of the souls of Allen, Larkins, and Could, have ceased to receive any money from their parishioners, who refuse to contribute to their support until the required masses are said. The notorious Fenian, Captain Mackey, was captured at Cork on the 7th February. FRANCE. Paris, February 10. Diplomatic relations between Napoleon and the Pope have assumed a cool aspect. The cause of this change in the Imperial policy is the fact that Louis Nopoleon has become convinced of Bourbon intrigues against his throne hatched in Rome. Napoleon has renewed with Victor Emanuel a friendly tone, and given assurances favorable to United Italy. Young Sturbide, the adopted heir of the late Maximilian, has enlisted in the Papal Zouaves at Rome. Napoleon has accepted an invitation from the Sultan to visit Constantinople. SPAIN. Madrid, February 10. None of the troops raised in Spain by Queen Isabella for the Pope, will go to Rome, because the Emperor Napoleon objects. The force recruited will be disbanded. ITALY. Florence, February 10. Negotiations for a new Convention on the Romish Question is going on between the Italian and French Governments. Ceneral Meabrea prefers the September treaty. PORTUGAL. Lisbon, February 30. The King and Queen of Portugal and their suite, while returning from a hunt near Braza, on the 6th instant, were fired upon from the roadside. The Guards returned the fire, killing some of the assailants, and wounded others. The Royal party then rode rapidly into town. The King and Queen were happily not hurt.

PRUSSIA. Berlin, February 10. Count Bismarck has obtained leave of absence from his post as Prime Minister of the North German Confederation, on account of ill-health. Negotiations for a commercial treaty between the United States and the Confederation of the North German States, have commenced. The Bills granting large indemnities to the King of Hanover, and the Duke of Nassau, have been passed in the Diet. The new Italian Minister, Senor Berduth, has arrived here. Negotiations for a treaty between Denmark and Prussia, for the settlement of questions in dispute between them, have failed. AUSTRIA. Vienna, February 10. The Pope is willing to resume negotiation with the Imperial Government for a revision of the Concordat. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. London, February 14. On the 11th of February, an attack was made by a band of Fenians upon the police in the atreets of Cork. The police were armed with muskets, and fixing their bayonets made a charge ; a fight followed, in which several of the Fenians were bayonetted, and the rest quickly fled, leaving their wounded behind them. On the following day troubles were renewed, and several policemen were badly beate :. The Fenian prisoner Lennon has been acquitted of the charge of murdering policeman Kelly, but has been found guilty of felony and treason.

The British Parliament assembled at four o'clock on the 13th February. In the House of Lords there was a full attendance : but Lord Derby was not present boing ill of the gout. In the House of Commons Mr Lefebvre gave notice of his intention of calling attention to the question of the Alabama claims, on the 4th March.

Lord Stanley said that no despatch on that subject had been sent to Washington later than the one last published.

Mr Disraeli brought in a bill to prevent bribery and corruption in elections.

A deputation of the loyal Irishmen of London have waited upon the Right Hon. Gathorne Hardy, Home Secre-

tary, and presented him with an address, expressing their devotion to the British Crown. The Home Secretary replied to the address, thanking them for their manifestations of loyalty. It is reported that the Pope has declined to enter into negotiations for a revision of the Austrian Concordat, and that Prussia has made advances for closing diplomatic relations with Rome.

The Russian papers continue to advocate the necessity of peace.

Latest advices from Abyssinia say, that General Napier is pushing on the advance of his force. Reports had reached Ai ne ly Bay that skirmishes had already taken place between the British advance and the forces of King Theodore. Paris, Feb" 14. M Felix Bille, the well-known French railroad and canal contractor of Central America, has heen sentenced in the Court here to pay a heavy fine for publishing a M slanderous article " against the Government of Nicaragua. La France insists that Count Bismark has been invited to resign his post as head of the Prussian Cabinet. A great Pan-Slavic conspiracy against the Austrian Empire has been discovered in Hungary. Berlin. Feb. 15. Count Bismark is reported to be quite sick and unable to reach this city and avail himself of the leave of absence granted to him. Vienna, Feb. 15. A special commission will meet nextweek under the presidency of the Minister of "War to discuss reforms of the military organization. The Italian General Mezzocapo has received the Grand Cross of the order Leopold. The Cretan Diet has decided upon sending a deputation to Pesth for the purpose of coming to an agreement with Hungary. The Reichsrath has re-assembled, and both houses have organised for business. Constantinople, Feb .14. Official advices from the seat of war in Candia. dated on the 20th January, have been received by the Government of the Porte. The United States war steamer Ticonderoga, mounting nine guns, and forming part of an American squadron had arrived on the coast of Crete, under special ordres received from Admiral Farragut. The remainder of the vessels of the United States fleet, under Admiral will leave their present station and sail for the Grecian Archi x selago. Lisbon, Feb. 14.

The Portugese Government has authorised. Edward Medicott, banker of Lisbon, and Thos.Rumball, engineer of London, to lay a new telegraphic cable across the Atlantic. The line is to run from Falmouth to Oporto, thence to the Azores, and from those islands to the coast of the United States. The new cable is to be submerged on Allan's principle, and the total expense of the enterprise will not exce d £600,090. New Toek, Feb. 15.

The Presidental fever continues. Grant is the favorite of one wing of the Radicals ; Case of the other. The Conservative Republicans will nominate General Dix. The Democrats think of Andrew Jackson.

[ The following appeared in our Second Edition of Saturday.] FENIANISM NEARLY QUELLED THROUGH THE ENERGY OF THE GOVERNMENT. DEATH OF CHARLES KEAN EIGHTY-FOUR THOUSAND SPECIAL CONSTABLES SWORN IN. EXPRESS TRAIN WITH PRINCE AND PRINCES TECK PASSENGERS, FIRED AT. ADDRESS OF LOYALTY TO THE QUEEN FROM 20,000 IRISHMEN IN LONDON. WAR SIMPTOM& IN EUROPE.

FRANCE ARMING-. REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT IN RUSSIA. {From the West Coast Times) Bluff, Thursday evening. The s.s., Claude Hamilton, John Vine Hall, commander, arrived at the Bluff this afternoon at 4.40 p.m. Left Sandridge at 4 p.m. on the 20th instant. The P. and O. Co.'s s.s. Avoca anchored in Hobson's Bay at 20 a.m. on the 18th instant. English mails delayed. Steamer lay for four days at G-allo waiting their

arrival. The duke of Edinburgh has been pronounced canvalescent. It is intended to have a general holiday throughout the Colonies to express joy at his recovery. Reported that Commodore Lambert intends to order the Galatea home, but if the. Prince, requires change of air, he will go to Launceston for a short time.

Judge Cheeke has been appointed to try O'Farrell. Mr. Thorne is progressing favorably No demonstration of any kind was made in the colonies on St. Patrick's Bay.

GENERAL SUMMARY. London, Jan. 27. The Australian November mails via Marseilles were delivered in London on the 13th, and via Southampton on the 18th January. Her Majesty is well, and remains at Osborne in comparative retirement. The Princess of Wales is rapidly recovering strength, and has returned to her usual^avocations. The Queen has published another book entitled " Leaves from Journal of our Lives in Highlands from 1848. to 1861." Of first addition 150.000 copies are sold. Charles Kean died on January 23. Queen wrote letter of condolence to Mrs Kean. Fenianism is nearly quiet; effective measures taken by authorities have prevented further outrages. Burke and Casey have been committed. The man who fired the powder barrel at Clerkenwell prison has been captured. Other prisoners have been further remanded. It is now ascertained that seven persons were murdered, and mutilation and injury were suffered by forty persons ; this was the net result of the outrage. E'ditorsof the "Dublin Weekly News" and ** Irishman," have been arrested for publishing seditious articles. Eighty-four thousand special constables have been sworn in to keep the peace and protect property in England and Scotland. George Francis Train, on his arrival from America, was arrested as a Fenian but has since been liberated. Public dinner of Australian colonists m>w in England took place in London on January 25th, to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the first British settlement in Australia. Sir W. Denison was in the chair. The Duke of Buckingham was present, and, in responding to the toast of " The Ministry," said that since the reins of the Colonial Office had been entrusted to his care he had not seen any question that had arrison which ought not to be settled clamly and readily if only it was met at once, and disposed of before it had time to grow into a sore grievance. Mr Corry, First Lord of Admirality, who was also present, stated that £50,000 had been placed on the Estimates for completion of the iron-clads of Victoria.

Another alteration of postal arrangements has been made at the instance of Post-office authorities. Peninsula and Oriental Company have altered departure of English April Mail from 17th to 24th.

Mr Childers has decided to accept the post of Finance Minister in India. At a Conservative dinner at Bristol Lord Stanley stated that the Cabinet have a comprehensive educational scheme under consideration, which they wish to be allowed to introduce. The question is attracting much attention. Mr Lowe has spoken on the subject in provincial towns. Mr Charles Adams, the American Ambassador, has resigned. Arrangements have been made for a line of telegraph to India, via Russia and Persia. The Bishop of Litchfield is about returning to New Zealand, to wind up matters in his diocese there. He has gratified everybody by many addesses on the occasion of his inauguration. Lord Bloomfield, our Ambassador at Vienna, has gone to Itally on apolitical mission. The Rev. Mr Mackvie has been induced to take the responsibility of the See of Natal, in room of Bishop Colenso, who has been deposed. There are legal diffiulties, however, in the way of his ordination. Lord Justice Eole has resigned. Professor Wheatstone has been knighted. Radical Reform League has got into sad disrepute, some of its leaders showing sympathy for Fenianism. Mr Beales has apologised and made the matter worse. Prince Lucien Bonaparte has been made Cardinal in reward for Emperors services on behalf of Rome.

Eemaius of Maximilian were interred with great splendour in the Church of Capuchius at Vienna. Sir Culling Eardly has been sentenced to eighteen months imprisonment for bigamy. Prance is about to raise upwards of £20,000,000 to meet the deficiency in the revenue" Some uneasiness is felt as to the Emperor's ultimate intentions. Express night train from Edinburgh Avas fired at near Grantham. Among the passengers were Prince and Princess Teck. No injury was done. A French expedition is being prepared for some unknown purpose. Congress has passed a resolution ordering Committee on Foreign Affairs to take immediate action on the subject of the maltreatment of American citizens by the British authorities in Ireland.

The Serapis has embarked the 85 th Regiment at Alexandria, for Queens iown. CONTINENTAL NEWS. London, Jan. 27. Notwithstanding the friendly feeling said to have recently grown up between the Governments of France and Prussia there are indications that old jealousies are not wholly removed. "Friedenblatt." of Vienna, asserts that a Belgravian insurrection, organised by Russia, will break out in a short time. The " Eussia-Belgravian Committee," it says, <: are openly work ing, and its sub-committees are very actively engaged in stimulating the people to revolt. Arms are provided ready for distribution, leaders are prepared and are only waiting to take their places. The German theatres and other public buildings were attacked with stones, and the windows broken.

Four infantry battallions and a'regiment of cavalry were called out to preserve peace. Several citizens were wounded.

The French newspapers have been condemned to pay five thousand francs each for illegally publishing recent debates in Parliament.

Active preparations for war going on throughout France. Much perplexity and uneasiness prevails regarding Abyssinian expedition.

New conspiracy has been discovered in Pontifictal Army.

LATEST TELEGEAMS FRCXM JAN. 28th to FEB. 21st. Tranquility has been restored in Cork, after various Fenian riots. 20,000 Irishmen residing in London have presented an address of loyalty and devotion to the Queen. The French Senate has passed an Army Bill. The Moniteur states that the attitude of the Great Powers shows concurrence of conciliatory symptoms. France has arranged with Eussia for dissolution of commercial treaty of Mecklenburg. Side of Mount Vesuvius has given way during eruptions; numerous houses have been buried. Mullane has turned Queen's evidence, and has disclosed a Fenian plot to seize the Bank of England. Government has introduced a Bill suspending the Habeas Corpus Act in Ireland until March next year. Eeform bill for Scotland which has been introduced and provides for seven new members. Large representation is claimed. Eeform Bill for Ireland is promised on March 9. Lord Derby is seriously indisposed, and his condition excites great uneasiness. Should Lord Derby die or resign, Lord Stanley is regarded as his successor in Premiership. It is rumoured that President Johnston intends to demand the settlement of the Alabama claims. Earl Eussell has written a letter concerning his resignation of the leadership of the Liberals, and recommending Mr. Gladstone as his successor. Eennan has been acquitted of charge of murder, found guilty of high treason, and sentenced to fifteen years penal servitude. Earl of Mayo is mentioned as successor of Sir John Lawrence as Viceroy of India.