THE FENIAN MOVEMENT.

Evening Post, Issue 275, 26 December 1865, Page 2

THE FENIAN MOVEMENT.

The Government cannot be accused of ' neglecting any precaution, in Cork, whether to suppress an outbreak or to reassure the loyal inhabitants. The barracks in that city contain at present a miniature army, perfectly equipped in every department, and arnountng in numerical strength to 2000 men of all

ranks. It is made up by a squadron of dragoons, a battery of artillery, a brigade of infantry, and a detachment of the Royal Engineers. In less than an hour this compact and well-disciplined force would be ready for transfer to any part of the country should its services be required. A batch of Dublin Fenians underwent examination at the Police office, and were committed on a charge of high treason. Their names are Luby, O'Leary, O'Connor, O'Donovan, and O'Keefe. In the course of the Crown Prosecutor's address, Mr. Barry said the scheme of revolution embraced the whole assassination of the aristocracy. It was to be Red Republicanism and Communism of the most atrocious kind. Such men as the Duke of Leinater, the Marquis of Sligo, and the Marquis of Ormonde, were mentioned |as those who must be hunted down and slain, simply because they belonged to an order that must be extirpated. Money came regularly from America in draughts of various large amounts. He stated that within the last fortnight a sum of £3500 had arrived from America, to be expended in revo_ lutionidng the country. On the 14th of September, £1000 was lodged by the prisoner O'Leary upon an American bill. A bill for I £500 was found on one of the prisoners ; and since then two bills, each for £1000, had been intercepted. The making of pikes had also been carried on. One man, who had been in custody, would be proved to have made about 2000. A number of revolvers had been found. 1000 breast plates for belts had been ordered, and some of them found ia the possession of the parties arrested. Mr. Barry then proceeded to speak of the establishment of the Irish People newspaper, shewing the connection of the prisoners with it. In the number which was to have been published the day after the seizure was an ' article headed ''Priests and Politics," ia which, amongst other expressions, were these: " Our only hope is in revolution, and liberty must be won by force or not at all," &c. In the course of the speech Mr. Barry read a manus«ript letter by Mr. O'Keeffe to Mr # Luby. It denounced in violent language the landed aristocracy as the cause of all the evils^ of the country, and laid down as a fundamental proposition of revolution that this class should be destroyed. Mr. liarry announced that the authorities had just received by the American post another communication, signed Michael Cavanagh, enclosing auother bill of exchange for £1408. The letter was addressed to O'Leary» under cover to George Hopper, Dame-street. That bill made in all £5000 received within the last fortnight. At subsequent examinations in Dublin and Cork, numerous prisoners were committed for trial. A troop of the 12th Lancers, the gun-boat Trinculo, and the iron-clad Research have arrived at Waterford.