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yet for all that, we are on a Volcano which may burst out at any moment, & I fear the next winter may not pass quietly.  Some of the Irish Militia have been called for six weeks training - among them the South Cork stationed here; the first week some of them attacked the Police & three were sent to Gaol with hard labour for a month. 
Scarcely a night but they fight among themselves.  What is the result of this training but providing drill instructors for Fenians Whiteboys or any other name assumed by the disaffected - names differ - the object is the same however often it is denied - the Colonel of the S. Cork, who had been in the H M line Regt. expressed surprise at their efficiency, most of them never having been called out for drill, and enlisted within the year, till it was observed that they had other instructors, there again the various Bands desicrating the Sabath by popular Irish Airs are only a means for drilling - they march and obey signals as perfectly as the Band of any Regt. of the Line - their nominal

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