Yesterday week the office of the Irish People, Dublin organ
of Fenian folly, was entered by the police, a considerable number of persons with treasonable trash on them arrested, and the paper seized. At Cork also many humble conspirators were taken into custody. The arrests have continued during the week, but hitherto the prisoners have been remanded after very slight and, in one case at least, no evidence of their connection with the movement,—so that we know as yet exceedingly little of the supposed revolutionary plot. The most formidable feature has been the discovery that Irish non-commissioned officers in the army are implicated in it. Drum-Major Farrell, of the 1st Bat- talion of the 2nd Regiment, and Serjeant Butler, of the 99th, have been arrested, and in Cork very wild rumours prevail as to the disaffection among the troops. French and German Fenian circulars, produced in New York, and imploring aid for the wresting of Ireland from the British yoke and its establishment as a republic, Ilave been discovered on some of the prisoners, as well as a great many circulars in English to the same effect. The only person of any notoriety con-
nected with this outbreak is James Stevens, who acted as Mr. Smith O'Brien's aide-de-camp in the celebrated potato- garden siege, and who escaped from Ireland disguised as a lady's maid, but he has not yet been caught. The extravagant sum of 2001. is offered for his apprehension.
