LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume III, Issue 73, 27 March 1868, Page 2

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

London, February 14. On the Ilth instant, 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. A fight

followed, in which several of the Fenians were bayonetted, aud the rest quickly fled, leaving their wounded behind them. On tbe following day these troubles were renewed, and several policemen were badly beaten. The Fenian prisoner Lennon has been acquitted of murdering Policeman Kelly, but has been fouud guilty of felony aud treason. The British Parliament assembled on the 13th instant. In the House of Lords there was a full attendance, but Lord Derby was not present, being ill of the gout. In the House of Commons Mr Lefevre gave notice of his intention to call ou the question of the Alabama claims on the 4lh of March . Lord Stanley said that no despatch on that subject had been sent to Washington later thau the last published. Mr Disraeli brought in a bill to prevent bribery, and corruption at elections. A deputation of the loyal Irishmen of London have waited upon the Home Secretary, Mr Gathorne Hardy, and presented him with an address, expressing their devotion to the British Crown. Mr Hardy replied, thaukiug them for their manifestations of loyalty. It is reported that the Pope has declined to enter iuto negotiations for a revision of the Austrian Concordat, and that Prussia has made advances with a view to closer diplomatic relations with Rome. The latest advices from Abyssinia state that General Sir R. Napier is pushing on the advance of his force. Reports had reached Aanesley Bay that skirmishes had already taken place between the British advanced force, and the troops of King Theodore. Paris, Februrary 14. ' Mons. Felix Bille, the well-known French railroad and canal contractor of Central America, has been sentenced in the Court here to pay a heavy fine for publishing a slanderous article against the Government of Nicaragua. The Journal La France insists that Count Bismarck has been invited to resign his post as head of the Prussian Cabinet. A great Pansclavonic conspiracy against the Austrian Empire has been discovered in Hungary. Berlin, Februay 14. Count Bismarck is reported to be quite sick, and unable to leave this city, so as to avail himself of the leave of absence granted him. Vienna, February 14 A special commission will meet under the presidency of the Minister of War to discuss reforms in the military organisation. The Italian General Mezzocapo has re- , ceived the Grand Cross of the order of Leopold. The Cretan Diet has decided on sending a deputation to Pesth, for the purpose of ocming to an agreement with Hungary. The Reichsrath has re-assembled, and both Houses have organised for business. St. Petersburg, Feb. 14. The Russian newspapers continue to advocate the necessity of peace. Copenhagen, Feb. 14. Negociations for a treaty betweeu Denmark and Prussia, for the settlement of questions in dispute between them, have failed. Constantinople, February 14. Official advices from the seat of war in Candia, dated on the 26th January, have been received by the Government of the Sublime Porte. The United States war steamer Ticonderoga, mounting 9 guns, and forming part of an American squadron, had arrived off the coast of Crete, under special orders received from Admiral Farragut. The remainder of the vessels of the American fleet under the Admiral will leave their present station, and sail for the Grecian Archipelago. Lisbon, Feb. 14. ! Portuguese Government has authorised J Edward Medlycott, banker at Lisbon, and j Thomas Rumball, Engineer of London, to lay a new telegraphic cable across the Atlantic. The line is to run from Fal« I mouth in England to Oporto; thence to the Azores, and then to the United States. The new cable is to be submerged on Allan's principle, and the total expense of the enterprize will not exceed £600,000 sterling. New York, Feb. 15. The Presidential fever continues. Grant is the favorite of one wing of the Radicals ; Chase of the other. The Conservative Republicans will nominate General Dix. The Democrats think of Andrew Jackson..