The Sun.
London, England, 1869-12-02 00:00:00

FEZVIANISM IN THE SOUTH OF IRELAND.

The Cork correspondent of a contemporary writes :
Some hopeful signs are beginning to shew themselves
through the gloom of Irish politics. There are indi-
cations of a reaction amongst the middle classes against
the overhearing dominion of Fenian agitators and sympa-
thisers which wo have had to endure for some time past.
In the town council on Monday, Alderman Daniel O'Sul-
livan, our famous ex-mayor, had a motion to vote
£lOO out of the public funds for the families of
the Fenian prisoners, and from the tenour of things
lately, it was believed a few days ago that no one would
venture to oppose the proposal, though it was admitted
that the intended appropriation of the money was per-
fectly illegal. However, the result of the Tipperary
election seems to have brought people to a sense
of the danger of allowing these things to go by de-
fault any longer, and when Alderman O'Sullivan
rose to move his resolution, he found the whole
council against him. The motion did not find a
seconder, but, on the contrary, met with strong and out-
spoken opposition from 11r. D. A. Nagle and other mem-
bers, who refused to appropriate public money to an illegal
purpose. The alderman expressed great disgust at the
unpatriotic spirit of the council. At the same meeting
an amusing scene took place. A deputation waited on
the council to request the removal of an unsightly
hoarding in one of the principal thoroughfares in the City.
It was generally admitted that the request was a reason-
able one ; but Mr. O'Sullivan, having ascertained that
two or three of the deputation were Conservatives, rose
and solemnly declared that the council should grant no
"concession" to the Conservative party. He moved that
the hoarding be not removed. The farce convulsed the
assembly.
An outrage significant of the murderous spirit with which
Fenianism is inspiring the people is reported from the
neighbourhood of Mallow. On Friday night the water-
bailiffs on the Blackwater noticed a party of fifteen
men fishing for salmon at the opposite side of the
river, it being now the close season. The bailiffs
did not care to encounter so numerous a body,
but one of them, for the purpose of alarming and
driving off the poachers, discharged a pistol loaded with
blank cartridge. The flash revealed the position of the
man, and instantly a rifle shot was fired at him from the
opposite side, with such true and deadly aim that the ball
grazed his face, carrying away his upper lip and a portion
of the gum. The unfortunate man fell into the river and
was carried down the stream for semo distance before he
was rescued by his companion. The poachers remained at
their work until they completed it, when they took their
departure in a leisurely manner.
In the neighbourhood of Kanturk, not far from the
scene of this occurrence, there were no fewer than three
incendiary fires on Sunday morning. Three large ricks of
hay, belonging to three different persons, and each at a
considerable distance from the other, were set on fire about
the same time and entirely destroyed

THE COMIC PAPERS.

(Front rUnch )

"ROLLING STOCK."-

'—eat tic Cu Railways.

GOOD RouND GAME.—A Plump Partridge.
WILL. ANY LADY Sl‘.`f ?—Yirc read of a "Musical Gym-
nasium for Ladies," and we wonder how they manage about
the dumb-bells.

...-
APROPOS OF THE SUEZ C. AL.—(By the Ghost of Pal-
merston.)—lf the shareholders never see the distribution
of a dividend, the canal may still lead to a considerable

division of sovereigns.

1793 ova ACIAI;T.—No wonder Ilochefort's election is
cited by alarmists as a revolutionary symptom. It is
clearly a case of hoisting a representative " ala Lanterne !"