IRELAND.

North Otago Times, Volume IV, Issue 79, 24 August 1865, Page 1 (Supplement)

I R E L AN D .

The Fenian movement, it is said, excites very little apprehension among loyal men in Ireland, although it would appear that it has deluded the Munster peasantry to a consi-

derable extent. The " Cork Examiner," referring to the subject, acknowledges a feeling of deep humiliation and sorrow in being obliged to publish, a portion of the lengthened exposition of the Fenian organisation taken from the veracious "New York Herald." For example, the American journal states that the drill exercise is now vigorously enforced in' every township and parish throughout Ireland, by the officers* drill sergeants, and military envoys sent over by the order from America. The " Cork Journal" ridicules this statement, and asks who can be humbugged by it, yet it admits that there is indeed a habit among some of the young men in the towns of falling into rank, and halting or moving at the word of command. But it denies that there have been any] arms smuggled into the country, or that there are any military depots along the coast. At half-past two on a recent Sunday morning, three men were fired at as they were passing through Callan-street, Armagh. One of them, it is said, was shot in the back, and it is thought he cannot recover ; his whole back has been frightfully cut up from below his j shoulders to his head. Another of them has received several slugs in his back, and so did the third. Callan-street is one of the Orange quarters of the town. A person — a wellknown Orangeman — is charged with being principal in the outrage, and informations have been sworn against several others. At the Capel-street Police-office, Dublin, one day recently, a man named Patrick Kilkenny was charged, on his own confession, with the murder of Margarite Farquhar, at Palmerston, the previous day. He stated that he had been in the girl's company during the day, and murdered her in the evening, and that before leaving he covered the body up with grass in a ditch.