There has been a lull this week in the proceedings
against the Fenians, but arrests have continued, and so has the panic among the landlords. It is said that the whole British army would not suffice to meet the demands for protection forwarded to the Castle, that houses are barricaded as if for a siege, and that one peer has mounted cannon upon his battlements, and keeps a body of marines in the house in readiness to work them. The most absurd reports are circulated as to the movements of men-of-war, which are by the way odd, and altogether Munster seems to be enduring the conjoined social disadvantages of an insurrection and a state of siege. Much of this is attributable to panic, but there is a residuum which can only be explained by believing that the men who know the country best are most alarmed by Fenianism.
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