Six of the leading Fenians were on Saturday brought up
before the Police Commissioner in Dublin. Mr. Barry, Q.C., opened the case for the Crown, and charged the prisoners not only with treason, but with intending to massacre the aristocracy and redistribute property. In support of the latter charge he produced a variety of documents, and among them two extraordinary letters. One, signed J. O'Doherty (Major), was addressed to Mr. O'Leary, one of the accused, and recommended " the burning of all crops growing, and the houghing of all the cattle on the lands" from which tenants may have been evicted. This letter was dated October, 1863, but was found in O'Leary's possession. The other was addressed by C. M. O'Keeffe, a man of some literary pretensions, and one of the accused, to Mr. Luby, another of the prisoners, and recommended in very well-written words that the aristocracy of Ireland should be first written down and then killed by the people, after the French example. The Duke of Leinster, the Marquis of Ormonde, and the Marquis of Sligo are specially named, and Mr. Luby is warned not to attack only the new plebeian landlords who are but privates, and suffer the aristocracy, who are officers, to escape. Other evidence, showing the social object of the revolt, will, it is said, be forthcoming, and the prisoners were fully committed for
