ITEMS OF NEWS BY THE MAIL.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XVI, Issue 820, 11 April 1868, Page 4

ITEMS OF NEWS BY THE MAIL.

Fkoh oar European and American exchanges we have clipped the following items :— One of the gates of the city of Cork was undermined and blown np by a band of Fenians on the 4th January. At the same time all the telegraph wires leading into tho city were cut. Tho prompt action of the police prevented any further demonstrations. Mike Murratt, who it is now claimed, is positively known to be the party who fired the fuse at the Clerkenwcll explosion, has been arrested at Glasgow, and brought to this city in irons. Tho Government officials are very active and vigilant. Yesterday, two Americans, named Barrett and O'Neil, were arrested at Glasgow and imprisoned. Papers found on their persons indicate beyond doubt that they belong to the American wing of tke Fenian organization. A Fcuiau manifest was found yestesday morning posted on the walls of the Mansion House, where it had been affixed despite the vigilance of tho police, who have no clae to the perpetrators of the daring act. A phial of explosive fluid known as " Greek fire " was thrown on the 16th January at one of the witnesses for the government in the Fenian trials at Cork. The material failed to ignite and do injury was done. No clue has been obtained to the perpetrator. Dr. Walters, another editor of the Dublin Irishman, has been arrested, but upou what particular charge is not stated. It is suppose'! however, to be complicity in the Fenian movement. The police of Limerick have made a seizure of guns and ammunition found in the shops of that city, to put them out of the reach of the Fenians. 16 is reported that Lord Bloomfield, tho British Minister to Austria, and Lord Clarendon have gone on a mission to Rome, to request the Pope to use his influence with the inhabitants of Ireland for tho suppression of the Fenian agitation. The Arokntixe Republic. — The tidings from the Argentine Republic increase in gloom by every fresh mail. That wretched country is suffering all manner of calamities. Foreign war, revolutions, cholera morbus, locusts ; all the plagues of Egypt. Regarding the cholera the Constitutionel of Mendoza says :—: — "The cholera continues to make dreadful havoc in Buenos Ayres, Montevideo, and all the country in that vicinity, and among its victims is the Vice-President of the Republic, Dr. Marcos Paz. In Cordova tho deaths average 105 daily. In the healthy and charming little town of Mercedes Banda Oriental, the ravages of the epidemic are " even still more severe, and Sr. Gras, who has arrived from the Uruguay banks, gives a most harrowing version of the state of things over there. It is officially stated that the Portugese government has authorized Edward Medicott, banker of Lisbon, and Thomas Rumball engineer, of London, to lay a new telegraphic cable across the 'Atlantic. Tho line is to be run from Falmouth, England, to Oporto, thence to the Azores, and from those islands to sorno point on tho coast of the United States. . Tho new cable is to be submerged on the Allan principle, and ib is estimated that the total expense of the enterprise will not exceed £600,000 sterling. The great tragedian — Charles Kean — is dead. Mrs. Charles Kean has received from the Queen a letter which expresses in the most gracious terms the sympathy. awakened in her Majesty's mind by the loss Mrs, Kean has sustained. The world is decidely getting crazy oh the I subject of engineering feats. Most wonderful things have already been done in the way of bridges and tunnels, and it was thought that the proposition to tunnel under the British Channel was 'tho ne phis vJtra of extravagance. But a French engineer has beaten that. He publishes a plan, which is well commended by the French press, of connecting England and France by abridge, bearing a doable line of railway, a carriage and a foot way, with shops and a restaurant ! The bridge would rest on thirty-two iron piles, would be 335 feet broad and 670 feet high — 535 feet above sea-level. All this for the moderate Bum of 80,000,000 dollars. A Dublin paper announces that the Prince of Wales is to visit Ireland in April next, to be present at thp Punches-town races. An interesting gathering of Australian colonists, now in England has taken place iv London, to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the first British settlement in Anstralasia, Sir W. Denison, X.C.8., in the chair. The principal speakers wore the Chairman, the Duke of Buckingham, Mr. Corry, M.P., Sir C. Nicholson, &c, the increase of the wealth and population of this important part of the British empire,, its loyalty, as just displayed by its enthusiastic reception of Prince Alfred, and the noble way in which it always rallied round the old country when any appeal was made to it, like the patriotic fund to which Australia and New Zealand contributed £170,000, were the principal topics of the eloquence of the speakers.