The Sun.
London, England, 1867-03-06 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, March 4.
Sir It. Blennerhasset, foreman of the Kerry grand
jury, addressed his brethren on Thursday on the sub-
ject of the Fenian conspiracy, and the prompt action
of the Government in putting down the recent at-
tempt at insurrection. He appealed to every Irish-
man, be he a Fenian or a Fenian sympathiser,
whether he considered he was really doing any ser-
vice to his country by helping this movement—a
movement which could do nothing else but bring
strife and confusion into Ireland. The whole effect of
it must b.) to hinder the development of our com-
merce, paralyse our trade, and even affect seriously
the national credit; and therefore, putting it upon
the mere point of patriotism, it was a most criminal
and a most un-Irish thing for these persons to con-
tinue in the line they have taken up. As regards the
Government itself, it is the first Irish Government
they have had for a long time. Numbers of its
members are Irishmen, and certainly in the com-
mencement of their career they have acted in the
most generous manner, and decidedly with mercy.
There would be no opposition to this resolution,
thanking the Government for the prompt and ener-
getic manner in which they acted at so critical a
moment. The Knight of Kerry, in seconding the
resolution, asked what they would think if the Go-
vernment put one million of fresh taxation upon
them, and whether they thought £1,000,000 would
represent the loss which the country had sustained by
the Fenian movement. He mentioned the case of an
English commercial traveller who came expecting
his usual orders, amounting to £2,000, but he could
not getorders amounting to £lO. They could not
too heartily thank the Government for its exertions.

He wished he could believe the movement was less
serious than it is. But they had reason to think it
was sympathised with to an extent that was very
unpleasant. He expressed his great admiration for
the address of Bishop Moriarty, who had put the
saddle ou the right horse, condemning not only the
Fenians, bat those who had encouraged that most

injurious conspiracy. Mr. Coltsman next addressed
the grand jury. He said the objects of the Fenians
were communistic—to level all ranks of society,
and destroy property. He was sorry to say
that the conspiracy was far more extended than
people imagined, but he trusted that Irishmen would
see the fruitlessness of attempts at rebellion, and
when they did, the inevitable result would be the
prosperity, welfare, and happiness of their country.
The resolution passed unanimously.

A letter from Cork states that Michael J. O'Sulli-
van, a national teacher, who had been traced by the
police since January, 1860, was arrested on Satur-
day at Donoughniore station on a charge of treason
felony.

Arrests continue to be made from time to time of
suspicious-looking persons who arrive here from
Liverpool, a detachment of the constabulary being
constantly posted at the wharf.
A young man named Carey was arrested iu
Fa:lard on Wednesday last by Mr. Monahan, 5.1.,
under a warrant transmitted by the Lord Lieutenant,
and conveyed on the same day to Clonmel Gaol.
lie is charged with being implicated in the Fenian
movement.

In reference to the Crown Solicitorship, vacant
by the death of Mr. Maxwell Hamilton, and said to
be worth £2,000 a year, the Daily Express observes
that the North East Circuit will be divided into
three districts, and adds its earnest hope that the
Government will, in making their appointments, act
on the principle of rewarding those who have
laboured for them in adversity, and not of purchas-
ing the adherence of that class of doubtful followers
who are willing enough to share the fruits of pro-
sperity. It is not often that an opportunity has
been affcrded to a Conservative Government of re-
warding, to some extent, the services they have te-
ceived from the attorneys and solicitors of Ireland
at many a hard-fought fight, and that now pre-

rented must not be allowed to pass unimproved:
The troops in garrison assembled at 11 o'clock
on the 4th on th 3 Fifteen Acres, Phoenix Park, for
review under General Cunynghame. It is under-

stood that orders have been given to complete the
92d _Highlanders to a strength of 950 non-commis-
sioned officers and men by the Ist of April next,
the regiment being intended for foreign service
during the summer. General M'Alurdo made an
inspection of the 83d Foot in Richmond Barracks
on Saturday. This regiment is expected to leave
Dublin for Gibraltar about the end of this month.
The 83d Regiment made the highest score for the
silver cup last week, and won the prize by several
points. Orders have been sent to the several regi-
ments on home service to hold in readiness the
armourers of each corps for proceeding to the Royal
Small Arms Factory at Enfield for instruction in the
mechanism of the converted Enfield Snider rifles.

DUBLIN, March 5.

The commission for the county of Waterford was
opened yesterday by the Right Hon. Mr. Justice
O'Hagan. There were only seven cases in the calen-
dar. Of these, two arose out of the recent election
for the county—one being a case in which a mob
rescued from a body of soldiers a number of con-
victed prisoners under the impression that they were
voters, and the other au organised attack upon
troops who were escorting voters. Such attempts,
said his lordship, to hinder the free exercise of the I
franchise must be repressed. lie regretted to find
that, out of the largo number of 38 offences com-
mitted since last assizes, in 23 cases the offenders
had not been made amenable. He regretted that
the Crown had determined not to send up bills in
regard to the loss of the two lives at Dungarvan
during the late election, as by so doing they would
have set in motion an inquiry which might have
elucidated the circumstances connected with that
unfortunate occurrence.

Chief Justice Monahan, who opened the assizes
at Mullingar yesterday, found Westmeath in a very
unsatisfactory state, a great many crimes having
been committed with impunity. Recently an agra-
rian outrage bad been committed, but such was the
state of terrorism existing that the victim, who had
been almost murdered, declined to furnish any in-
formation. Cases of malicious burning and sending
threatening letters had also occurred without any
person being made amenable. Ile did not attribute
this to any want of vigilance on the part of the con-
stabulary; but he must add that the state of the
county required the serious attention of the grand
jurors. There was no civil business of any kind for
trial.

The grand jury of Kerry, on the motion of Mr.
Coltsman, seconded by the Knight of Kerry, have
resolved unanimously to raise a subscription for a
testimonial to Constable Duggan, whose heroic con-
duct they praised very warmly. They passed a
vote of thanks to the Rev. Mr. Magin, who re-
monstrated with the insurgents, and gave warning to
the police. The magistrates of Killarney were like-
wise thanked for their energetic conduct in connexion
with the late outbreak. William Walsh, alias Dono-
van, and Patrick Ludd, the two men arrested recently
in Passage by Head-constable Hoare, suspected of
complicity in Penianism, were brought up on a
second remand, at the Tuckey-street Police-station,
Cork, on Saturday last, where a private investi-
gation was held into the charges against them.
They were again remanded.
The following letter has been published :
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