News and Miscellany

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 12, 1867

News and Miscellany.

Can ye not discern the Signs of the Times? Matt. xvi, 3.

Fenian Rising in Ireland.

The news from Europe this morning is exceedingly important. The Fenians in Ireland have attacked British soldiers and British armed military police in Drogheda barracks, and a conflict of considerable severity has undoubtedly occurred. The dispatches state that the assailants were repulsed with loss, but they also announce that both soldiers and police have suffered. One of the dispatches, from Liverpool, speaks of an attack upon Castle Martyr, on Wednesday, the same day on which the barracks are said to have been assailed, and the engagement was probably one and the same. This last dispatch also states that the Fenians were repulsed in the evening, which indicates a struggle of considerable duration.

Dispatches from London admit that the railways and roads between Dublin and Cork are completely blockaded and travel suspended, but assert that the British government feels no alarm. The telegraph wires are, too, undoubtedly cut in many localities.

The information concerning the rising is very meagre as yet, but it indicates the most formidable movement that has yet occurred in Ireland since the present agitation commenced.—Detroit Trib. Mar. 8.