On the 26th of August last an informer assured the
police at Cork that one of the Fenian projects was to slay all Catholic priests, and particularly tar, burn, and kill the Roman Catholic Bishop of Cork, and was of course disbelieved. His statement was, however, privately recorded, and on the 17th October Francis Pettit, who had never seen this record, deposed that one William Kenny had on the 26th August told him that there was to be an indiscriminate slaughter of all priests, landlords, and Government employis, and all land was to be equally divided. That idea of the division of the land crops up everywhere in the evidence. The Head Centre of the movement, one Mahoney, residing in New York, told a gentleman, who sent the fact to the Times, that the grievance of Ireland was entail, which prevented the peasants from obtain- ing possession of the soil. Clearly the bribe to be offered to the manes was the soil—of which, as they fancy, they were dispossmsed by the Cromwellian settlers.
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