Some of the evidence against the persons accused of conspi-
racy in Ireland has been surreptitiously published. Notes taken at the 4' private" examinations in Cork have found their way into the papers. The approver, Daniel Sullivan Gould, revealed the plot. He entered the secret society in August and took the oaths. The object of the society was to take up arms when the Ameri- cans, who where to be joined by the French, landed in Ireland, an event expected to happen before Christmas ! He described the meetings of the conspirators for drilling. They had pikes, and mustered in one ease fifteen, in another a hundred strong. He Oso told how he had said he would beg his bread before he turnfsd informer—he " would not stain the blood of his awes- rltrs." But "Father John refused him absolution," and then he ered his mind, and forgot his stainless ancestry. After that e went about expressly to worm himself into the secrets of the society, and performed all the treacherous offices of the spy, even caressing the child of the man he had prepared to betray ! Be- yond showing that disaffection exists, and that absurd notions prevail on the subject of an American invasion the evidence so far reveals little that is dangerous to the peace Of Ireland.
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