The Sun.
London, England, 1866-03-01 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, FEB. 28.

The Lord Lieutenant held the second Levee for
the season at the Castle yesterday. Considering
that so many of the nobility and gentry are now in
London, and that the assizes are going on, the at-
tendance was numerous. Twelve peers and two
bishops were among those present.
The sudden death of the Right Hon. Henry Her-
bert, M.P. for the county of Kerry, is reported.
He expired on Monday night at Dunraven Castle,
Adare, where he and his family, with other distin-
guished guests, were on a visit for some days, and
where mirth and gaiety had prevailed till this sad
occurrence, which will be deeply lamented through-
oat the county. Mr. llerbert was for some time
Chief Secretary for Ireland, in 1857. He succeeded
Mr. Horsman, and continued in office till the
change of Government, in the following year, when
he was succeeded by Lord Naas, and after him came
Mr. Cardwell.
At the opening of the assizes of Louth county at
Dundalk yesterday Mr. Justice Fitzgerald, in the
course of his address to the grand jury, referred to
the Fenian conspiracy, some drilling cases having
come before them. He expressed his satisfaction
at the readiness with which the gentlemen sum-
moned on the grand jury and the long panel had
come forward to dispose of those cases. That was
a wholesome sign of the times, for, although Louth
was in comparative peace, and although it was to a
large extent free from the disastrous conspiracy
known as the Fenian Confederacy, yet there could
be no doubt that they lived in a time when it was
incumbent on the gentlemen of the country to show
a determination not alone to perform their duties,
but to lend ther aid to the Exesutive Government
in resisting the progress of the disorder. He hoped
he was not transgressing the proper limits of his I
duty in saying that it appeared to him to be impos-
sible to over-estimate the importance of the aid to
the Government given by the country gentlemen,
the grand jurors, and magistrates in the careful and
determined administration of the law, and by their
example and the influence of their residence on
their property. This bad done much to arrest the
progress of what he would call the flood of so-
cialistic red Republicanism which threatened the
welfare of the country.

A meeting of the members of the Athy Farmers'
Club was yesterday held in the Court-house at Athy
for the purpose of receiving the report of Mr. Pelin,
veterinary surgeon, on the cattle plague, who had
been specially sent to England and Scotland by the
club to report on the subject. The chair was occu-
pied by Sir Anthony Weldon. Mr. Pelin, in the
course of his observations, gave an account of his
visit to the sister kingdoms, briefly sketched the
character of the plague, and related the various
symptoms of the disease which had presented them-
selves to him duringhis journey. The reading of the
paper was followed by a general conversation on a
system of inoculation and proper care of cattle.
The reported arrests of Fenians are not so nume-
rous as they have been for some time. Four sus-
pected Fenians were lodged in the gaol of Water-
ford yesterday, and one young man in Cork named
O'Callaghan, who is supposed to have obtained the
rank of " B." It is said that some suspicious docu-
ments were subsequently found at his residence.
Greg,gy, one of the men arrested last week, has been
liberated on the representhtion of his father, who
produced letters to prove that the prisoner had no
treasonable object in coining to Ireland. The
young man Byrne, arrested inTullow, has been ad-
mitted to bail upon the recommendation of the ma-
gistrates of the district.
Several persons have been arrested at Ballina, in
the county Mayo, but the fact caused no display of
popular sympathy. A number of suspected persons
have left that part of the country. There are ten
men committed under the recent act in the gaol of
Roscommon. From Mallow, in the county Cork,
we learn that a policeman named O'Brien and a
sergeant of the North Cork Rifles, named Maurice
Nagle, have been arrested on a charge of Fenia,nism.
A correspondent of the Daily Express reports from
Limerick the arrest of a Maynooth student, the son
of a lady of considerable wealth :
" On this morning Mr. Stephen B. Welsh, aged
21 years, a very respectable young man, was brought
in from Kilmallock by the constabulary and lodged
in the county gaol. This person had only recently
returned from Maynooth College, and his mother,
who is worth some few thousands pounds, recently
bought an estate, and is this day in Limerick ar-
ranging to purchase another. The next arrest to
record is that of the master of the Rathkeale work-
house, Mr. Robert Casey, who before receiving that
appointment was taken up some time ago, but dis-
charged. lle is also a prisoner in the same gaol.
In addition to these there have been committed
within the last few hours Thomas M'Donnell, slater,
Ballingarry ; Mr. Richard Loane, weighmaster,
Newcastle West ; John Sheahan, publican, New-
castle West. This man had been previously ar-
rested, but was out on bail. All the above were
brought in by train, under police escort, and lodged
in the county prison, where the total number of
Fcnians in custody is 33. Thomas O'Connell, of
Abbeyfeale, recently arrested, was stated to have
been a captain in the Federal army, and an associate
of Geary, who shot Head-Constable O'Sullivan in
Newcastle. llis friends assert that he did not oc-
cupy the rank of captain, and deny that he had any
acquaintance whatever with Geary. For three weeks
previous to his arrest O'Connell was confined to his
own house under medical treatment. I have before
me the calendar of prisoners for trial at the coming
county assizes, and there appear the following
names :—Darby O'Grady, John Lysaght, Edward
Dillane, David Quade, John Shecahan, and Thos.
Browne, who are to be tried under the Treason
Felony Act. They stand charged with being mem-
bers of the Fenian Brotherhood, andsoliciting others
to join the confederacy; also for having treasonable
documents in their possession. The remainder of
the calendar is made up as follows :—Thomas Ma-
grath, writing threatening letters to the Rev. Ralph
Taggart and Mr. Barry ; James Roche, having the
form of an illegal oath in his possession ; John Ben-
nett and Patrick Flanagan, felonious assaults ;
;John Walsh, manslaughter of his wife ; Morgan
Finucane, and John and Johanna O'Brien, lar-
ceny ; Thomas Ryan, cattle stealing : Ellen Ma-
hony, larceny ; Owen Keeffe, burglary at Newcastle
West ; Patrick O'Brien, assault ; and Patrick
Keane, larceny."

The number of Fenians now in the county prison
at Mullingar amounts to 24, and for their safe
keeping an officer's guard, consisting of 24 rank and
file, marches from the barrack to the prison each
evening, and remains there until the following morn-
ing. The arrest of the man named James Magrath
at the North Wall, Dublin, on Saturday last, was
the result of information contained in letters written
by him and found by the constabulary in the house
of one of the partici arrested by them who now lies
in Mullingar gaol. The information thus obtained
is likely to lead to further arrests, and probably of
much greater importance. Allusions are made to
other parties, and also to chests of tea sent by
Magrath to parties in the country, which he states
he saw well packed. Themeaning of this can hardly
admit of a doubt, and the tea contained in these
chests might in all probability be of the true gun-
powder d
fromer lehafra, character. Having got the above particu-
ath,letters to his Fenian friends,
members of the force
proceeded instanter to the
forwarded
Telegraph-office- and to the Castle the
evidence, or so much
of it as was necessary to
justify the - arrest of Magrath, and very properly
remained in the office until an answer was nswer was returned
that the message had been duly received. This cir-
cumspection is
much to the credit of the constabu-
lary here ; they have been, and still are, m
unceasinglyueh h
arder
on the alert, and no men could be

worked.
The truculent spirit of the Fenian conspirators is
displayed in their proclamations. One of these
documents, written in a large bold hand on tea
paper, and well spelt, was found posted up at the
Court-house and Bridge of Athy, in the county Kil-
dare, on Monday :

" NOTICE.
" God save Stephens; God save the Green!
Woodlouse, hurrah! Whereas a certain act, called
the Habeas Corpus, has been suspended in the
down-trodden isle, I, by virtue of the same, can
arrest any person or persons suspected of being an
Irishman, or sympathising with Irishmen, and I can
cast them into prison without judge or jury, or any
trial whatever (God bless the mark), and I can send
them to Spike Island, or imprison them as long as I
think fit, without even making known to them the
chargea preferred against them, or without their
h
g broken the peace or committed any overt