The Sun. — 1866-05-03 (London, England)

IRELAND.  DUBLIN, May 2. The remains of O'Neill, the murdered constable, was honoured with a public funeral yesterday. High mass was solemnised at Ann-street Chapel, at which many priests and an immense concourse of people assisted. The hearse was followed thence to Glasnevin Cemetery by 200 members of the metropolitan force walking three deep. Nearly 100 vehicles followed, bearing the friends of the deceased and others, who wished thus to mark their abhorrence of the crime by which poor O'Neill lost his life. Another reason for the peculiar distinction for a man in such a humble rank is probably thelact that he belonged to one of the numerous "confraternities" which exist among the Roman Catholics of Dublin, and the members of which make it one of their special duties to procure funeral honours for their departed brethren. In addition to the general bond of union in the Roman Catholic Church, there is a very extensive organisation of brotherhood for mutual benefit and for purposes of charity, in which the visitation of the sick and the burial of the dead are regarded as the most important. A large number of the metropolitan force are active members of these religious societies—a fact which some Protestants think renders them liable to be too much under the control of their clergy. The detectives have not yet succeeded in finding Kearney. The impression is that he is screened by the Fenian Brotherhood. The police have arrested his brother, Patrick Kearney, and a boy named Campbell, who worked in the same forge with the accused. The brother was found with a quantity of ammunition in his room, evidently prepared for resistance, for be had in his pocket a six-chambered revolver loaded and capped, and £lO in money, for which he was unable to account. A subscription list has been opened for the benefit of Mrs. O'Neill and her orphan children. Yesterday the sergeant-major of the Coldstream Guards set the example, by waiting on the Commissioners of Police with a letter of condo:ence for the widow from the non-commissioned officers and men, and a sum of six guineas which they had contributed.  The military authorities have ordered a court of inquiry to assemble at the Royal Barracks this day, before which all the soldiers reported out of quarters on Saturday night must appear, in order to test the truth of the report that two soldiers were in the assassin's company when the murder was committed. Yesterday 12 Fenian prisoners were brought from the county gaol, Limerick, to the Mountjoy prison, Dublin. They were conveyed in the prison van to the railway station, each prisoner, while passing from the van to the carriage, being firmly held by the collar between two constables. As there were 40 young men in custody, and it was not known which of them were to be removed, their relatives assembled in large numbers, and there was great lamentation at their departure. Mr. John Brennan, a native of Bray, who had made a large fortune in America, and came home to spend a large portion of it on buildings in his native town, died rather suddenly yesterday morning at his residence, Sea-point. It was he who built the International Hotel at Bray. He also caused the erection of a terrace called by his name, and several other fine buildings. It is said that there will be an inquiry into the cause of his death.  May was ushered in with a bitter east wind and a considerable fall of snow, which greatly marred the enjoyment of the Curragh races, which commenced yesterday, and were attended by the LordLieutenant, Lady Wodehouse, and a large number of officers and people of distinction from Dublin and the neighbouring counties. Col. Buchanan, Royal Artillery, having relinquished the command of the Royal Artillery in Ireland for the purpose of proceeding to India with a portion of the Bth Brigade during the present season, his place will be taken by Col. T. B. F. Marriott, who arrived in Dublin yesterday.