EUROPE.

West Coast Times, Issue 731, 27 January 1868, Page 3

EUROPE.

December 12. Fenian excitement in England and Ireland at fever heat. Greatest alarm prevails. On the 12th Clerkenwell Gaol in London was blown up with gunpowdor, and three persons killed and thirty seriously injured, and it was expected that Colonel Kelly, the rescued Fenian in Manchester had some hand in the matter. It was thought and hoped that Fenians would cease all active attempts against all law and ordor in consequence of universal horror and indignation caused by disastrous attempt on Clorkcnwell Gaol. Largo rewards havo been offered by Government for discovery and arroat of guilty parties. Garibaldi is still held as a prisoner at Caprera. In city of Liverpool precautions have been taken by Government to check any demonstrations on part of Orangemen or Fenians. COMMEECIAL, JSew York, December 16. Business in all its departments is very much depressed. Eailway shares and Government securities are quiet. Gold is 134-*-. London, December 15. Consols for money 92^. United States five-twenty bonds 71&. The English newspapers have joined in a regular hue and cry against all members of the Fenian Brotherhood, which has only served 10 increase the general excitement and alarm. The public funerals which were to have been held yesterday in many of the principal cities in England and Ireland were prevented by authorities in every place where an attempt was made to carry them out. Much indignation was shown by crowds in some instances, but no violence was committed. In London battalions of regular troops to the number of six thousand men are constantly under arms to assist the police in maintaining order and suppressing any Fenian demonstration. It has been definitely ascertained that the European Conference proposed by the Emperor Napoleon on the lloman question had failed. Assemblage was to have taken place in Memel, on the 9th instant, but some difficulty was experienced in diplomatic correspondence. Before the day arrived Paris was then spoken of as the place of meeting. Form of representation was changed, but the same day adhered to Subsequently, after delivery of a speech by the French Minister Rouber to Legislature on the subject of relations between Rome and Italy, in which he declared that Italy could never go to Borne by force, and hesitancy of the powers assumed an open objection on the ground of inutility. It has since been ascertained that the Conference or Congress will not assemble at all. Great Powers have positively refused to attend. A deputation from the English Bible Society recently presented Emperor Napoleon with a copy of an English Bible. Tho Emperor niado a brief address to tho gentlemen of the deputation i«x which he declared it was his first rule to protect all religions. Great Powers have addressed a note to tho sublime Porte, asking that the navigation of the Dardanelles be made free to shipping of all nation. Dispatches have been received in London from Massowah, which reports that British Abyssinian Expedition has advanced a considerable distance into the interior of the country, and last accounts state that the troops were suffering from the scarcity of water.