Queen Victoria, to use the eloquent language of Mr. Lafayette
Kettle, will probably " shake in her royal shoes, and be taken with a cold chill," when she hears the 3rd of next November named. For on that day the Fenian Brotherhood will assemble in the Fenian Hall, Chicago, Illinois, to concert measures for the invasion of Ireland with 100,000 emigrated Irish, and its transformation into a Republic on the American type. A Mr. John 0111ahony, of New York, is president of this formidable organization. We are told that Archbishop Hughes, and even Mr. Secretary Seward, are parties to this awful conspiracy, and the last gentleman is sup- posed to have revealed, through Mr. Adams, tothe British Govern- ment the terrible resources at his command in case the rams were permitted to leave Birkenhead. General Corcoran and other dis- tinguished Irish officers would have been tendered important posts. The miserable " mass meeting " at Slievenamon was, we are told, tim mouth-piece of the conspiracy on this side of the Atlantic. In short, the Fenian Brotherhood appear to have " circles" innumerable, and even a certain amount of cash in hand, not less, it is asserted, than 20,0001. With such resources it is almost as formidable as the water-toast sympathizers under General Cyrus Choke, who spoke to the noble sentiment, " May the British Lion have his talons eradicated by the noble bill of the American Eagle, and be taught to play on the Irish harp and Scotch fiddle that music which is breathed in every empty shell that lies upon the shores of Green Co-lumbia! "
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