The Sun.
London, England, 1865-09-26 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, Sept. 25.
Matten3-0 on here very much as usual, notwith-
standing the Fenians at this and the other side of
the Irish Sea and the Atlantic. There is a good
deal of interest manifested in the proceedings of the
police against the would-be liberators of Ireland ;
but the first excitement has completely passed away,
and there is nothing more than a little extra-ordi-
nary curiosity as to who and what the conspirators
are, and what they will do or be done with, evinced
on the part of the people generally. The feeling of
the greater number would be, perhaps, best described
as a looking out for or expectancy of something
sensational either with regard to the movements of
the• Government or the Fenians, or for any revela-
tions that may be made affecting the guilt of the
prisoners. There is a good deal of reticence ob-
served by the authorities in reference to the whole
affair. The name of the informer, if any, has not
leaked out; but it is thought the documentary evi-
dence in several cases will be overwhelming. The
city detectives had, it is stated, wormed themselves
into any secrets worth possessing, and it is expected
they will be able to make out strong cases, showing
how completely the Fenians here were exposed, or
were at their mercy for some time past. - The police
continue to bring in an occasional prisoner charged
with high treason or Fenianism, and it appears that
this course is having a good effect on a number of
the Associates, who are beginning to wish them-
selves well out of the affair. The excitement among
them will, I think, hardly subside until news of how
the intelligence of the arrests was received by the
" brethren" in America reached those here. An ex-
cemively warlike merchant tailor was arrested, as I
informed you, on Saturday. Inlis possession were
found a bowie-knife and two revolvers, one of which
was loaded. There were also found some documents,
a drill-book, and a number of cartes de visite, in one
of which the prisoner was represented standing in
his shirt sleeves, with a belt round his waist, and in
the most approved bellicose pose, with his left hand
upon the stock of a revolver, and the right hand
grasping a formidable bowie-knife, evidently on
" murderous deeds intent." An wrest has also been
made at Parsonstown by the Constabulary, who re-
ceived on Saturday a warrant for the apprehension
of Mr. Edward E. Morrissy, a medical student, for-
mtrly an assistant in the establishment of Mr.
Baxter, Baggot-street. Mr. Morrissy was arrested
same day and brought to town yesterday morning,
when he was handed over to the custody of Acting-
Inspectors M'Dermott and Giles of the G division,
who charged him with being concerned with the
Fenian movement.

A rather important arrest, it is stated, has been
made in Liverpool by Detectives Smollen and Daw-
son, who yesterday arrived at the North Wall from
Liverpool, having in custody George Archdeacon,
of 11, Bidder-street, Liverpool, where the pri-
soner was arrested on Saturday, charged with having
been a prominent member of the Fenian Brother-
hood. When captured he-had in his possession a
number of documents relating to the "movement,"
and several copies of the Irish People newspaper.
A Liverpool correspondent of Saunders's News
Letter gives the following particulars with reference
to George Archdeacon :
" The information which has accumulated during
the last few days inculpating certain persons in
Liverpool in the Fenian conspiracy has at length
attracted the attention of the authorities in Dublin,
and to-day two officers of the Dublin police (detec-
tive department) arrived here for the purpose of
executing a warrant for the arrest of a man who
has long been known as the leader-in-chief of the
party in this neighbourhood, and latterly a news-
agent and agent for the Irish People newspaper.
The officers commissioned with the arrest were
Acting-Sergeants Smollen and Dawson ; and they,
having obtained the assistance of Detectives Smith
and Laycock, and the co-operation of the acting
chief of the detective force here, Mr. Superintendent
Kehoe, proceeded to Archdeacon's-house, No. 11,
Bidder-street, Islington. They found him in the
shop, and called him into the street, where they
charged him with high treason, explained their
errand, and apprehended him. Without allowing
him to communicate with his family, and with the
object of preventing any excitement in the neigh-
bourhood, they conveyed him at once to the police-
station in Dale-street, and placed him in a cell.
When he was first confronted with the officers outside 1
his own house he said, You have no right to touch
me; I am an American subject, and I have a paper in
my pocket to show it.' At the detective-office he
was again formally charged, and he asked to see the
authority for his arrest. The warrant, in which he
was charged with divers other persons for treason-
able purposes, was shown to him, and he repeated
that he was an American subject, and produced a
certificate, or what purported to be a certificate, of
his naturalisation as an American subject. After
he had been locked up the officers returned to his
house, and made a search, which was, we believe,
so far successful that they obtained possession of
most important papers. Some of these letters were
from headquarters in America, recognising him as
the delegate representing Lancashire in the Fenian
Brotherhood ;' others were communications from
New York, London, Sheffield, and various towns
in Lancashire, showing that Archdeacon had visited
a large number of places in promotion of the ob-
jects of the movement ; others were documents re-
ferring to sums of money transmitted from America
to enable him to agitate as a Fenian agent in various
districts ; and one was a receipt for money ap-
parently received by him in support of the move:
meat, as the result of a collection made at the close
of a lecture in the Free-trade Hall, Manchester. In
the shop they found a large number of copies of the
Irish People. While they were making the search
two volunteers, in the uniform of the Liverpool
Irish Brigade, entered the shop and asked for copies
of the Irish People. A good deal is known of Arch-
deacon, and all that is known confirms the belief
that he is a confirmed conspirator. He springs from
a family once well known in Castlebar, county of
Mayo, where, at various times, his father, his brother
Matthew Archdeacon, author of some records of
" Irish Risings," and other books), and himself have
been engaged in public tuition. They kept an aca-
demy for some years. Previous to 1848 George (the
man now in custody) removed to Manchester, where
he became known as the leader of the Young Ireland
party. At the great meeting in the Free-trade Hall,
held to celebrate the union of the Young Irelanders
and the Chartists, when Meagher of the Sword and
John Mitchell were present, Archdeacon made a
speech, pledging his party to united action with the
Chartists in that city. When the rebellion broke
out in 1848, Archdeacon found it necessary to get
out of the way, and he disguised himself as a priest
and,got out of the country by some south-west port
in Ireland to America. For seven years after his
escape he remained in America, and it is not un-
likely that during that time be became naturalised
as an American citizen. At all events, he became
connected with the Fenian movement ; and since
his return from America in 1855, or thereabouts,