The Sun.
London, England, 1866-12-06 00:00:00

IRE

DUBLIN, Dec. 5.
The number of clever devices employed by the
Fenians to meet without attracting the attention of
the police is something wonderful. Sometimes it is
said they start on outside cars or in cabs from dif-
ferent parts of the town in threes and fours, and
arrive at a certain rendezvous in the country,
changing the place of meeting from time to time, in
order to take counsel together, and to pass through
military evolutions. But perhaps the most ingenious
of their contrivances, as well as the most audacious,
was discovered by the police yesterday. Perhaps I
should say exposed, for it is hard to suppose that it
could have escaped the notice of the detectives, or
even of the ordinary policeman on his beat. At the
house No. 3, Upper Temple-street, in a quiet neigh-
bourhood at the north side of the city near St.
George's church, there was what appeared to be
an apothecary's shop, kept by two gentlemen in
partnership, who called themselves Dr. Edward
Power and Dr. John Hanbury. There was a third,
Edward O'Regan, also connected with the concern,
probably as an ostensible assistant in the shop. The
shop was a mere cover, for the value of the drugs
which constituted the whole of the stock was not
more than ss. or 103. Perhaps they deceived the
police by a show of empty bottles. But their atten-
tion could scarcely fail to be attracted by the ex-
traordinary number of patients of the male sex who
resorted to those "doctors," and the length of time
they remained on the premises. These premises
contained a very large room, or saloon, in which
600 or 700 persons could assemble, and it appears
that this room was used by the Fenians for the pur-
poses of drilling. Possibly the detectives were wait-
ing to capture a large number thus occupied when,
the reported arrival of Stephens bringing matters
to a crisis, they received the Lord Lieute-
nant's warrant to make the arrests, which they
did yesterday, when the three sham doctors,
whose names are probably assumed, were con-
veyed to Mountjoy Prison. Several other im-
portant arrests were made about the same time.
Among others, Patrick O'Connor, brother of James
O'Connor, bookkeeper in the office of the Irish
People, who was sentenced at the late Special Com-
mission to 7 years' penal servitude. The prisoner
was an assistant auctioneer in Garland's sale-room,
Merchants quay. He was arrested at 17, Queen-
street, and with him a young man named Richard
Bracken, lately a clerk in Messrs. Mander's brewery,
from which he was dismissed in consequence of his
neglect of bushaess and suspected connexion with
the Fenian conspiracy. At this place the police
found a quantity of newly-cast bullets of the most
improved pattern. These two persons were also
lodged in Mountjoy prison. Another wasJ. Hicke3,
who had been imprisoned on the same charge, and
had but recently been let out on bail, and who seems
to have at once resumed his treasonable practices,
according to the information received by the police.
At all events, they considered him a dangerous per-
son to be at large. This person, who is a plasterer,
was arrested at Kingstown, where several other per-
sons were taken into custody. Among them J.
Clancy, a shipper's agent in the employment of Pal-
grave and Cu., and H. Byrne, a teacher, who had
also been liberated on bail. N. Walsh a labourer,
had been arrested there on Sunday night.
The press was excluded from the meeting of Cork
magistrates; but the substance of what was said
and done has transpired, and was to the following
effect :—Lord Fermoy strongly urged the adoption
of a memorial to Government praying them to order
the swearing in of special constables in every part
of the country, and impressed on the magistracy to
set the example by enrolling themselves as special
constables in their respective districts, and inducing
their neighbours to do the same. He thought such a
step would effectually prevent all danger. The Earl
of Bandon moved the adoption of the memorial, and
Mr. N. Duncan seconded the proposition, which
was opposed by Mr. L. J. Shea, of the Itennies,
who stated that their true course was to ask the
Government to grant jut and conciliatory mea-
sures to Ireland, particularly to the tenant-farmers,
who had so much to complain of in their present
depressed condition. Such a step as that now about
to be adopted by the meeting was calculated to ex-
cite great dissatisfaction among the people. Mr.
C. O'Brien supported Mr. Shea's opinions in simi-
lar remarks. The great majority were utterly averse
to entertaining the proposition, on the ground that
they were not there for any political object, the
subject introduced by Mr. Shea being of that cha-
racter ; that they were met solely to preserve the
peace of the country, and they would not entertain
any other topic. The chairman decided in favour
of the majority, and the proposition that the me-
morial be agreed to and forwarded to Government
was agreed to, Messrs. L. J. Shea, ,
D. O'Sullivan
and C. O'Brien dissentin..
A man named O'Callaghan, was brought up at
Crossheady Police-office, Cork, oa Monday, for
using seditious language, and telling the policeman
who took him into custody that the people would
have revenge for all the tyranny practised on them
when Stephens arrived. He came from Scotland,
had plenty of money, and no occupation. He was
remanded for eight days. It is stated that the
streets of the city of Cork were never so quiet as
they are at present. There is an utter absence of
the rowdyism that hitherto prevailed, especially on
isominous,
Sunday nights and Monday mornings, To some
nervous persons this extraordinary quiet
like a dead calm before a storm.

A similar remark might be made with respect to
Dublin, in which there is almost a complete absence
of crime, which, however, has been the case for
some time. The Commission of Oyer and Terminer
was opened yesterday by Judges O'Brien and Chris-
tian and the Lord Mayor. Mr. Justice Christian
addressed the city and county Grand Juries, and
said that in the city there were but eight cases to
come before them, all of an ordinary character, and
that in the county the judges had barely escaped
the compliment of white gloves, there being but one
case.

The IVaterford Chronicle says :
" The Lord Lieutenant of the county of Waterford has
called a meeting of magistrates to assemble at Dungarvan
on Saturday next, for the adoption of measures to insure
the preservation of the peace of the county."
The young man Charles Jones, printer, arrested
at Enniskillen for sedition, has been discharged. So
also has the young gentleman arrested at Drogheda,
who used seditious language in a railway carriage.

The magistrates at Dunicer, county Louth, dismissed
the charge against him, but cautioned him " not to
do it again."
A deputation from the Non-subscribing Presby-
terians waited on the Lord Lieutenant yesterday