The Sun. — London, England, 1848-07-27 00:00:00

THE NEW tOYEL, THE DISCIPLINE of LIFE , IS PUBLISHED THIS DAY, By Mr. Colbum, 13, Great Marlborough-street, And may be had at all the HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Mdlle. JENNY LEND. The Nobility, Patrons to the O p era, and the Public arc respectfully reformed, that a Grand EX TRA NIGHT will take p l a ce THIS 'BVENINO, when Mae. JENNY L IND will appear as LUCIA , i n I),onizetti's Opera of LUCIA DI LAM MiERMOOR. Mdlle. Jenny Lind ; E g arde, Signor Gardoni ; Bidebent, Bouche ; and Enrico, Signor Coletti. To conclude with the Ballet of LE PAS DES DEESSES. The Erse List is suspended, the public Press excepted. Pit Tickets may be obtained as usual ations at the for Boxes, Box-office Pit Stalls, the theatre, price 10s. 6d. each, w here applic and Ticket.% are to be made. seven, a nd commence at Eight o'clock. Doors open at half-past Se TIMATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Under the Management of Mr. B. Webster, sole Lessee. THIS EVENING, Will be presented the celebrated Drama, entitled THE GREEN BUSHES ; or, A Hundred YearsMurtogh, Mr. 0. Smith ; Dennis, Mr. Cullenford ; Jack Gong, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Grinnidge, Mr. Wright ; Captain Dartois, Mr. Worrell ; ➢iadame St. Aubert, Madame Celeste; Geraldine, Mrs. Yates; ,Telly O'Neil, Miss Wool gar After which the Burlesque of NORMA. Norma, Mr. P. Bedford. To conclude with DID YOU EVER SEND YOUR WIFE TO CAMBERWELL. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Management of Madame Vestris. Sole Lessee, Mr. Charles Mathews. THIS EVENING. Wilt be performed the Comic Drama USED UP. After which, a now comic Drama, entitled ANYTHING FOR A CHANGrE. Characters by Messrs. Harley", C. Mathews, limner; Mrs. L. Murray, Miss K. Fitzwilliarn, and Miss Marshall. To be followed by a new Farce, entitled POOll PILLICODDY. To conclude with BLUE BEARD. Dress Duxes, bs.; Upper Boxes, 45.; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery , Is. No neu-erice to any part of the house. The New Box-office, No. 2, Wellington-street, Is open to the Public every day, from Ten till Six. FRENCH .—ST. JES'S THEATRE. Lessee. Mr PLAYS AM . John Mitchell, 33, Old Bond-street. Last Three Nights of the Season. TO-MORROW EVENING. The Performances will commence at a Quarter to Eight, when Will be performed HENRIETTE ET CHARLOT. To be followed by VESTRIS lER. During the Evening M. Levassor w ill sin g a popular Comic Chan. Evening sennette. Y conclude wit LE LAIT D'ANESSE. To tso.es, 6s. P it, 3s. 6d.; Amphitheatre, 3s. ; Gallery, 2s goase and Stalls may be obtained at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library Bond-street. ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. ItoßrißT HOUDIN continues to attract crowded and fashionable audiences at the St. James's Theatre, to witness extraordinary Ancl original SOIREES FANTASTIQUES, which he will repeat THIS EVENING, and every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday Evenings, commencing at Half-past Eight. In consequence of the great demand for places, he will repeat his MATINEES FANTASTIQUES on WEDNESDAY MORNING, August 2. Doors open a: Two o'clock. Boxes and Stalls may by secured at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street. ROYAL SITRUEY THEATRE. Under the direction of Mr. Kerschner. Re-engagement of Mt, T. P. COOKE. THIS EVENING Will be performed THE LITTLE DEVIL. After which, POOR JACK. To which will be added a scene from JACK SHEP Ei P Tableaux. ARD. To conclude with a ne w and original Drama, in ght pourtraying- by riving characters George Crulkshank's celebrated De signs, entitled THE DRUNKARD'S CHILDRE T. 'HiN ks and Ed Mrs, and Emma ROY (the Drun kard's Children) by Mr. N. R. lionner. supported by this talented company. Manager and Treasurer, Mr. B. S. Fairbrother. ASTLEY Proprieto ' r, S ROYAL AM TH PHIATRE. Mr. W. Batty. Fitzbalrs new and completely successful Spectacle. Unparalleled Equestrian Feats. THIS EVENING, Will be performed, the new brilliant Spectacle, founded on Sir Walter Scatt's celebrated poetical Romance, and entitled MAR /1110N ; or, Th Battle of Flodden Field. To be followed by l the inimitable EQ UESTRIAN and GYMNAS TIC EXERCISES in the ARENA. To conclude w TRAVELLER'S ROOM. lox-officeß open from Eleven till Five. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. Attraction unprecedented. .TULLTEN find his UNRIVALLED BAND. Now Quadrille, composed expressly for the Gardens. Engagement qf Miss HUDDART. Continuation of the Engagement of Mdlle. LOVARNY. The DAYLIGHT VIEW of ROME, by Danson. Superb and Unique 31ENAGIMIE. Grand Display of FIREWORKS, by the Messrs. Southby. No Extra Charge. MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY, and FRIDAY. View of Rome —Promenade Concerts, Vocal and Instrumental, conducted by Mons. JULLIEN, whose splendid Band of Solo Per formers includes Messrs. Baker, Barrett, Bauman, George and Viotti Collins, Ciotti, Collinet, Kcen i g , Lazarus, Richardson, Sonnenberg, &c.—Two Solos each Evening. —Mdlle. Lovarny will sing two fa vourite Songs, Miss Huddart will sing a favourite Sung, and with Madlle. Lovarny will execute an admired Duet.—Also to be seen, during the day. the beautiful Menagerie—Shakspere's House—The Magic Bridge—and other novelties will be exhibited, the whole concluding with a most magnificent and not to be rivalled display of Fireworks, by the Messrs. Southby, representing the Girandola daring the Holy Week at Rome. Gates open at Ten a.m., Feeding Time FlVQ—Jullien's Concert at a Quarter past Six—Fireworks at Half-past Nine. Admission, as usual, One Shilling. TO CORRESPONDENTS. Fo communication can be attended to unless autheet cated by the name and address of the writer. dejected communications cannot be returned. TIDE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, JULY 27. TBERfIomETBIt, Lowest, 56; Highest. 66 ; Noon, 69, BAitODIETBE, 29.94.—W1ND, S.W.; cloudy. HIOII WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TIIIS DAY. Morning .. 12 nun. after 11 I Evening .. 4i min. after 11 X - IN i , -- ,5" - -4. ... , ,_v 4 ,__ ~ . b TS.. I 1 km ~..5. .% . Ir 4-* - I . 404 .,.....\ 4 . _ .. # ' : 1,..)110,,, ~..%.,:- ' . l ;.. ~ , •oirdfit ',,e , , ! 11. '. 0r ) ,„, , ,V , ..., j i , 6' ~,:;.e,r,,...ii t . • AtO.,`;'," '.“ r.t.. , 12 - 041 ..., ~ - .. , 4 - ,...1 ... ; : k 4 . i .. 11.1,,, ning 251t11e LONDON, THURSDAY, JULY 27, 1848. The long-threatened outbreak in Ireland has at length commenced in good earnest. The inhabitants of Tipperary and Kilkenny are in open arms—colli sions have taken plate with the military in several districts, and, although there are as yet no accounts of the state of affairs in Cork and Waterford, the ♦ery absence of intelligence renders it but too pro bable that the appeal to arms has taken place in these counties also. It is more than probable that the leaders of the movement would gladly have postponed the insurrection, if any discretion was afforded to them. No choice remained, however, as we yesterday stated, but "an instant outbreak, or an immediate and uncondi tional submission." The peopla had been so fearfully wrought on by the exciting harangues of the emis saries of treason, that they could not be induced to adopt the latter alternative. A new proof has been afforded how much easier it is to awake the 'cessions of the multitude, and to lash them into madness, than to moderate and restrain the parties thus worked upon—to appease the evil spirit when once it has been evoked. The Ministerial measures have had the effect of precipitating the crisis that was inevit able, and bringing it on prematurely, when its sup pression can be more easily effected with the smallest loss of life, and the least degree of human suffering. The simultaneous departure of the principal leaders of the movement from their usual places of resort was indicative that something decisive would speedily take place. If the arms were surrendered peaceably the sting would have been withdrawn from the rebellion. These arms, then, were to be buried, or otherwise concealed in the proclaimed districts, or wherever practicable, to be removed into localities which had net as yet been subjected to the operation of the new Act. In like manner, those who had reason to suppose that their names were included in the lists of the suspected withdrew themselves from their usual places of resort, and retired into different partt of the country, where they might ob tain temporary shelter and protection, and it was an nounced ex 'cathedra that the people were resolved to resist to the utmost the capture of any of their chief officers. In this state of affairs, the most prompt and vigorous action was necessary on the part of the Executive. They could not allow the "passive re sistance" to be continued for any period without enormously enh anc i ng t h e re b e l power an d great l y increasing the intensity of the ultimate struggle. The ringleaders were therefore followed with energy and decision, and it would have been abso lutely impossible for them long to have escaped the search of the keen -scented detectives. The southern counties were gae districts in which the gre atest amount oT sympathy might be hoped for where the insurrectionary fever h a d reached' and its h e i g ht. Thither, then, the parties repaired. SMITH o'l3arrsN proceeded through W exford, which . in the former rebellion of 1798 obtained a bad pre eminence for the resistance it offered to the consti tuted authorities, and for the cruelties practised u p on the unoffending loyalists who la into the hands o f the sanguinary miscreants, who, on the bridg e o f Wexford and at the barn of Scullabogue, in flicted an indelible stain on the Irish character. Thence he went Chrough the county Waterford, where he was joined by Mr. MEkciliEß, in the neigh- bourhood of Carrick-on-Suir, where they addressed • the people in the most inflammatory language, de claring their determination not to be taken alive, but to sell their lives dearly, and appealing; to them for I that protection which Irishmen seldom refuse to the unfortunate. Having thoroughly excited the people in those already disturbed districts, they departed for the borders of Kilkenny and Tipperary, in the neighbourhood of the Sleivenamon Mountain, which had always been celebrated as a place of refuge to outlaws, and for the lawlessness of the surrounding country. Mr. Domnit had previously departed for Cashel, and Clonmel, while other ringleaders moved to quarters known to be ripe for revolt. The result of these proceedings will be found in the intelligence contained in another column, and which has just been received by electric telegraph. Not merely a passive resistance has been offered in Tipperary and Kilkenny, but acts of aggression have taken place. The station of the Great Southern and Western of Ireland Railway, at Thurles, has been set on fire, and the rails have been torn up for miles, pursuant to the instructions of Mr. MITCHEL, long since contained in the Nation, before his se cession therefrom or the establishment of the United Irishman, and for which a prosecution was instituted against Mr. Dm.; as proprietor of that journal. At Clonmel, Kilkenny, Carrick, &c., fighting is going on, and it is said (but with out sufficient confirmation, and we trust with out foundation), that the military have been defeated at several points ; and, also, that they have exhibited marks of disaffection. We cannot credit this latter statement. We are convinced that the British soldier will on this, as upon every former occasion, be found faithful to his Sommer( and his country, and that any attempt to induce him to waver in his allegiance will be found abso lutely futile and unavailing. Neither do we enter tain the slightest doubt as to the speedy triumph of order. Whatever temporary success may attend the insurgents at the first moment of the outbreak, they will be wholly unable to withstand the concentrated force that can be brought against them at a very early period. The matter now is brought fairly to the issue, and painful as must be the results of a civil war, in the destruction of property and the loss of valuable lives, any thing is better than the state in which Ireland has been kept by the anarchists for the last five months, and which prevented the possibility of any permanent amelioration in her social condition, which we may now reasonably hope for, so soon as peace and tranquillity can be restored, and the elements of disturbance wholly eradicated. Parliament seems determined to arrogate to itself some of the most solemn prerogatives of OMNI SCIENCE. Instead of restricting its exertions to the regulation of the relations of man with man, of the individual with the community, it has the self-suffi ciency (the impious self. sufficiency, we should say) to interfere with the relations subsisting between the creature and his GOD. The conscience of an irreli- gious publican is henceforth to be probed like any other ulcerous cicatrice. Such appears to be the determi nation of the House of Commons, as far at least as we can surmise from the discussion which occurred last evening, on the consideration of the different clauses of the Sale of Beer Bill in Committee. Those who delight in exploring the yellow parch ments and dust-begrimed folios which THOMAS CARLYLE has execrated, and CHARLES LAMB has kissed, will remember having every now and then come suddenly upon the evidences of an ignorant fanaticism and superstitious bigotry which are now happily little better than matters of tradition. Even supposing these adventurers among the dead letters to be actuated by a sedate enthusiasm like that of good AUGUSTIN CARTON himself, they must on such occa sions have experienced a sensation of horror some thing akin to that which the inimitable Elia has called "a cold squelch of astonishment." They must have felt that they were walking among the buried weaknesses of their departed ancestors—profaning the sanctity of those literary sepulchres in which were enshrined in congenial mould the records of many forgotten sins and cruelties. Strange, however, as such emotions are, they sink into absolute nullity when contrasted with the feelings excited by the revival of that blundering syste'm of legislation which for three-quarters of a century, at the very least, have been rotting into a deserved oblivion. The effect is indescribably un pleasant. It is as though we were witnessing the incantation of the dead, and that the dead rose up at the unholy summons, not in the glory of a celestial vision, but clad in all the putrifying abominations of the grave and its corruption. Parliament may de lude itself into the notion that in this renewal of the enactments which have fallen into contempt and desuetude, they are adding to the dignity of senators the awe which enveloped the ancient haruspices. They are mistaken. The populace are not to be deluded by any such shallow pretence. What constituted the principal bones of contention yesterday in the House of Commons were the clauses in reference to the closing of public-houses and coffee-shops during the times of Divine service on Sunday mornings. To explain the point at issue as clearly and as briefly as possible, we may observe that, according to the -wording of the Beer Bill, all pub licans will be required to keep their establishments open until half-past twelve o'clock in the afternoon of Sundays. This provision appeared to be inimical to the objects of the measure, in the estimation of Mr. SPOONER—the objects of the measure being to enable the tavern keepers to attend church once a week, and to prevent the sale and consumption of in toxicating liquors during the hours of morning ser vice. Seeing that, and knowing perfectly well that the duration of Divine service fluctuated con tinually from a thousand circumstances—from the length of the sermon, from accidental delays, or from the slow articulation of the officiating clergyman—the Honourable Member for North Warwickshire moved, as an amendment, that the Bill, without specifying any particular hours, should ordain that " public-houses shall be kept closed from Saturday night till after public worship on Sun day mornings." Now it cannot require a single in stant to. demonstrate the absurdity of such a proposi tion, a proposition which would be productive of perpetual inconvenience and intolerable con fusion. Supposing such an amendment to have been carried, we should have had the thirsty , sinners of the metropolis hovering about the church of same last respon se , and the potboyfor the t a r ry s i o n u g n di in t spot to telegraph the signal to the barmaid. Mr. WILLIAMS saw the folly of all this botch-work of morality, and, looking more to the creature comforts than to the spiritual drilling of the labouring classes, proposed that the hour of ope n i ng s h ou l d be changed from half-past twelve to noon on Sundays—thereby affording the poorer members of the community a chance of eating their dinners in comfort at their habitual time. Ultimately, however, the House re solved that the clause regulating the hour at half-past twelve should stand good, notwithstand ing the conscientious objections of the Honourable Gentleman the Representative of North Warwick shire. And so, drop by drop, the measure dribbled through the Parliamentary filter called " Com mittee," engrossing that time which has become so peculiarly precious both to the Legislature and to the country, now that the session is drawing rapidly to its termination. All we can now say in addition to what has been already remarked by ourselves in re ference to this spurious effort to propagate morality, is to express our moat cordial coincidence with the derision expressed by Mr. HuME and the Hon. CRAVEN BERKELEY. COLONIZATION AND EMIGRAIKON.—The committee of the Colonization Society fearing that the Council Chamber of the Guildhall would not be sufficiently ca pacious for the meeting to bo held to-morrow (Friday), requested the Hon. Francis Scott, M.P., Mr. Mark Boyd, and their secretary, to see the Lord Mayor upon the subject, and his Lordship, in the kindest manner. at once expressed his willingness to give the Guildhall, stating that he was most desirous to afford his entire support to this great national question now demanding sui . h prompt development. SPAIN. Madrid papers of the 21st have been received. The Gageta publishes the following bulletins re lating to the health of the QUEEN :- " PRESIDENCY OF THE COUNCIL OF MINISTERS. " Her Majesty the Queen experienced last night a slight indisposition, which, according to the physicians of the royal household, presented itself with all the symptoms of abortion, the which confirmed the pre sumption that existed fo r some days of her Majesty being enceinte. Relieved by bleeding, and having kept her bed during the whole day, her Majesty continues without the slightest danger, although with the same symptoms of an approaching miscarriage. On this account the presentation of the credentials of the Nuncio of the Holy See, which was to take place at three o'clock this after noon, and which will doubtless take place very shortly, has been suspended. "The other members of the Royal Family continue without change in their important health. " Royal Seat of San Ildefonso, July 19, 1848." " MINISTRY OF THE HOME DEPARTMENT. "The following telegraphic dispatch has been re ceived at this office:— " Royal Seat of San Ildefonso, July 20, 1848, eight minutes past seven P.M. " Her Majesty the Queen continues perfectly well, after having suffered incommodities proper to her com plaint.' " Don FRANcisco DE PAULA has chosen Portugal as his place of banishment. His daughter, the Infanta JOSEYA, who has become reconciled to her husband, has determined to reside in France. The Duke DE Go it has accepted the office of guardian of the three younger children of Don FRANCISCO DE PAULA, but has refused the salary. Carlist guerillas have again shown themselves in Alava, Biscay, and Navarre. MADRID BOLSI., JULY 21.—The Three per Cents. were done to-day at 191 cash, and there were buyers at that price after the close, and sellers at 19i. Fire per Cents. 10i sellers. Passive Debt 4 sellers, and the Foreign 31 sellers. Bank Shares 70 sellers, and discount on Bank-notes 4 per cent. THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. We have received the Paris papers of yesterday. The Moniteur contains the decree authorising the new loan to which the Bank of France has decided to subscribe 25,000,000 of francs. General OUDINOT left Paris on Tuesday to resume the command of the army of the Alps. There is a division of opinion on the subject of intervention in the affairs of Italy, not only in the Committee of the Assembly but also in the Cabinet. The majority of the Committee, headed by M. DE LAMARTINE, are for non-intervention, while General CA.vmurac and M. BASTIDE, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, advocate immediate intervention. On this subject we find the following in the Mes aager of Tuesday evening :—" It was reported to• day at the Assembly, that England is not disinclined to interfere, together with France, for the purpose of obtaining the evacuation of Italy by the Austrians- It remains to be known upon what terms this co operation will take place." On Monday 134 insurgents were arrested in the Banlieu. The bodies of several of the in surgents who have died of their wounds have been found in the corn-fields in the environs of Paris, by the reapers. General BEDEAU was better yesterday, and hopes are now entertained of his recovery. The law relating to clubs and public meetings is still under discussion in the Assembly. The following article has given rise to some ani , mated debates : " Art. 13. Independently of the public meetings above regulated, citizens may, with the authorisation of the municipal authorities, and on conditions which may be laid down by them, found clubs or public meetings for political or other objects. The public authorities may always revoke the authorisations granted, and cause the clubs or meetings to be closed who are not duly provided with them. Every citizen who shall take part in a club or meeting not duly authorised shall be liable to a fine of from 25f. to 500 f. The president, members of the bureaux, or other founders of clubs or meetings not duly authorised shall be, in addition, liable to an imprison. ment of from five days to six months. These penalties shall lie inflicted without prejudice to the prosecutions to be instituted in consequence of the crimes or misde meanors committed in the said clubs or meetings." It was vehemently opposed by MM. DUFAURE and DE FALLOIM, and at length it was determined to send it back to the Committee for re-consideration. The reactionaries who meet at the club of the Rue de Poictiers are becoming more bold and open in their endeavours to embarrass the Republican Govern ment, in order to bring about a restoration. At a meeting of the club on Monday, M. LEON FAUCHER declaimed against General CAVAIGNAC as too Repub lican, and against any attempt at showing any mercy to the imprisoned insurgents, and from the tenor of his speech it would appear that this gentleman objects to giving them even the semblance of a trial; he would have a repetition of the massacres of September for the benefit of the restoration. He also declaimed loudly against the imposition of the legacy duty, and against the principle of progressive imposts, and called for the suppression of the Reforme and the Democratie Pacifigue, as a set-off against the sus pension of the Presse. This speech was received with loud applause by the club ; but the further dis cussion of the subject was adjourned until M. THIERS should be able to attend. COURS AUTHENTIQUE.-PARIS, JULY 26.-Five per Cents., 74f. 50c. 74t. 731. 75c. 50c. 75c. 50c. 73f. 25c. 731. 731. 25c. 73f. 72f. 50c. 72f. 75c. 50c. 73f.; Three per Cents., 46f. 25c. 46f. 45f. 75c. 46f. 45f. 75c. 45f. 50c. 75c. 50c. 45f. 45f. 25c.; Bank Actions, 1,6601. 1,6551. 1,650 f. 1.6451. 1,6401. 1,630 f. 1,625 f. 1,620 t. 1,6151. 1,620 f.; Rente do Naples (Rothschild's), 76f. 75f. 50c. 75c.; Romans, 64; Belgian Five per Cents., 1840, 77; ditto, New Loan, 1842, 761 77. Exchange on London, one month, paper, 25f. 42fc.; money, 25f. 40c.; three months, money, 25f, 35c. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, JULY 26. Boulogne and Amiens, 6%—ltalian and Austrian, 3 / 4 - Northern of France, s—Orleans and Bordeaux, 171 1 • Rouen and Havre, 8%. SWITZERLAND. Letters from Switzerland, of the 22d inst., state that the draft of the Federal Constitution was adopted by the Grand Council of Berne, by a majo rity of 122 to 35. M. OCHSENBEIN, the former chief of the free corps, warmly defended, on this occa sion, the Conservative cause, and mainly con tributed to the defeat of the ultra-Radical party. In the Grand Council of Zurich the new constitution had been voted by the 169 Members present. If, 23 there is every probability, this constitution be gene rally approved, the Switzerland of 1814 will soon have disappeared and make way for a republic similar to that of the United States. AS, ~,, .----- GERMANY AND THE NORTHERN STATES. FRANKFORT-ON-THE-MAINE. The German Parliament, during the sitting of the 22d, was engaged in a most interesting discussion on the subject of the future foreign policy of the empire. The following is a report of this very im portant debate : Huge went into a comparison between England and France as to the characteristic motives of warfare in either case. England fought practically ; France engaged in war for glory's sake. They must beware of England, or she would giro the Germans as much to do as she had the Chinese. But to be on their guard it was not necessary to maintain a standing army. The people should be armed. Switzerland, with its 2,000,000 of inhabitants, at all times commanded au army that could bid defiance to foreign powers, and carry out its will. He strongly urged the assembly of a People's Congress to settle the affairs of Europe. It was England's interest, it was France's interest, to combine with them for this end ; and surely the great German people, with its philosophical bias, and habits of cool reflection, was capable of working out and fully developing this idea. He made the proposition from a wish that Germany might have the honour of having adopted the initiatory measures in securing the general peace of Europe.—(Cries of " Enough !") Schmerling (Minister of Foreign Affairs) laid loss stress than many did upon the obnoxious position of the Russian troops on the frontier. He, however, assured the Assembly, on the part of the Ministry, that their policy h elmperial p and er i a I independence Guy ernin e would solely b o di rected by the view of securing the honour st , r t had authorised ofGernaany—( h m Germany—(Loud cheers.) to state unequivocally that the acknowledgment of the French Republic should speedily ensue.—(Cheers.) A full statement of their principles, and the relation of Ger many to foreign powers, would soon be laid before the House, till which time he begged to make some claim on their patience. Yogt said it was only reasonable that they should wait a little; but when this programme of principles made its appearance it might be capable of very various interpretations.—(Laughter.) He would allude to the events which had lately convulsed Europe. Rage had proposed the estab lishment of a general European Con• greys, with the idea that it would be sufficient to s e ttl e the peace of Europe, and to arm and disarm where the weal of Europe made it necessary. He fully agreed with him. The greatest duty of the :present age was the restoration of peace. He would proudly go baud in hand with that man who should succeed in uni versally distributing the olive-branch among the nations. The union of the people of different states was much more important, in his opinion, than the the union of the heads of those states. France had made proposals of friendship. They had no right to distrust her. Distrust should only be admitted of when facts contradicted professions. He did, however, fear the expedient motives which might have hitherto re strained her from war. Let them remember the recent declaration of the French Government:—" The treaties of 1815 have no existence for a Republic, yet the fron tiers of France distinctly mark the territorial relations between France and foreign nations." And if these treaties be made the source of complaint against France, he would ask who had broken them? They bad been broken by the same despotic and craven policy that swallowed up Cracow in 1846. They themselves ac knowledged them no more. They had broken them by the incorporation of Schleswig into the German Confederation ; for it was no part of Germany in 1806. They had broken them by incorporating East and West Prussia into the German Confederation ; for in 1815 these were Prussian States only, and no part of the Confederation. He flattered himself thiq, from personal observation, he was wail acquainted with the state and feeling of parties in France. It had been said that every Frenchman, sleeping or waking, Bourbon or new Republican, set his heart on recouquer ing the left bank of the Rhine. He felt convinced that this was as far from the ideas of the French as it was from those of the Germans to conquer Alsatia. Still, caution was never to be contemned. From no nation had they received such congratulations and salutations as from France—England had kept at a distance. To be sure she had condescended to make her existence felt in Denmark; but he . questioned the fruits of her inter ference. England, it had been said, was their natural ally, and no continental power could be their ally. But England's had been an artful policy. She had set the continental powers by the ears, given them money to fight her battles for her, and after having paid her monetary subsidies into the hands of the privileged, had sucked it out of the German people again, like a leech, by dint of the miserable policy that regulated her commerce. Such an ally they need not wish for. The very contrary of what he had said of France would hold good with regard to Russia. Rus sian troops were on their borders, Russian proclama tions savoured little of peaceable intentions towards Germany. From Russia they had had no assurances of peace; she had spoken to them as an angry despot who reproves a:rebellious slave. He did not vote for an im mediate alliance with France. They must be first sure how such an offer on their part would now be received. But it should be the first care of the Central Govern ment to send an ambassador to France, and to see how an alliance could best be formed consistently with the ho nour of G er many, (Loud cheers). Biedermann spoke against Ruge's idea of a general People's Congress. It would be a European Parliament in fact, and the suffrages of the majority might triumph over the voice of freedom. He considered the organiza tion of the three hundred battalions in France as proof enough that there was a party there strongly inclined to war. They had no more right to take a Frenchman's word than a German's. As to what Lamartine had said, it must be remembered that he had not always spoken in such peaceful terms. It would be unfair, however, if the Assembly proceeded more definitely in the matter for the present; it had chosen a Ministry but a few days ago, and it was only right to give it time to delibe rate. He strongly deprecated Vogt's abuse of England, and especially his strictures on England's commercial policy. Wurm and Jahn followed; the former declaimed warmly against Russia. Beckerath espoused the cause of England. He thought an alliance with France would induce hostilities on the part of Russia, and an alliance with Russia would induce the same on the part of France. Mohring did not think France a fit subject for alliance. He looked upon all republics as dangerous allies. They were ever bent on extending their territory. In spite of all its promises, let them look at what North America had done. The only people . they could trust to were themselves. They must not wander abroad for alliances, but endeavour to concentrate and consolidate the power of Germany itself, that great nation, which occupied the territory embraced by the Baltic, the North, the Black, and the Adriatic Seas. With this view he warmly urged the immediate conclusion of an alliance with Hungary and its dependent lands; he could not favour the idea of one with France, though he wished the French Re public to be acknowledged. He ca lied upon the As sembly to rise and testify their sympathy for the Hun garians. The Assembly rose in a body. Wydenbruck replied. The chief feature of his reply was, that he wished to abide by the motions of the Com mittee. The matter of offensive and defensive alliance with France should certainly be referred to the Central Government. . . . The Assembly had voted an in crease of the army, in order that the German forces might really be of imposing strength. This was es sential. Germany must stand on its own footing; and never ought it to be said that the German imperial eagle had taken refuge under the wing of tho Gallic cock. He did not, however, think a general rupture in Europe was to be feared. Rage denied having proposed an European parliament. His motion was for a general people's congress, to be composed of diplomatist:, chosen by the people. I subjoin the motions on which the Assembly divided. The National Assembly fully acquiesces in the prin ciple propounded in the preamble of the international Committee, viz.:—" That in matters of foreign policy the honour and rights of Germany shall be placed above every other consideration." Carried almost unanimously. Huge moved—" The standing military forces are an intolerable burden, and an establishment dangerous to burgher freedom; a general European people's congress shall, therefore, be invited to assemble, to take the rela tions of the European Powers into consideration, that the disarming of the standing forces may be accomplished." Rejected by a large majority on the Right and Centre benches. Schuselka moved—" The National Assembly shall commission the Minister for Foreign Affairs to demand of Russia an unequivocal declaration as to its intention in posting such an extraordinary military force on the German eastern frontier." Rejected by a large majority. Biedermann's amendment was—" That the motion of the Committee be referred to the consideration of the central power, accompanied with a recommendation to carry out the measure therein proposed, viz., that such strength be given to the German military forces on the eastern frontier of Germany, that they may be quite upon a par with the army that confronts them."— Carried. International Committee moves also—" That the Na tional Assembly, in respect to the motions concerning offensive and defensive alliance, with different states, shall pass to the order of the day."—Carried. Committee moves—" That the National Assembly de clares that it regards the acknowledgment of France as a republic, and the dispatch of an Ambassador for Germany to Paris, as a matter of course in the approaching regu lation of the German embassies." Carried almost unanimously.—(Repeated cries of " Unanimously !") PRUSSIA. General Vox PITTEL returned on the 20th to Ber lin from his mission to Petersburgh, which he has brought ,to a successful termination. The Emperor of RUSSIA has declared that he has not the slightest desire to interfere in the affairs of Germany. AUSTRIA. VIENNA, JULY 21.—The Minister of the Interior received the following telegraphic dispatch from Prague yesterday :-- " Prince Charles Albert, son of her Imperial High ness the Archduchess Wildegsrde, died last night at seven o'clock, of the small-pox." The Minister has also received intelligence from Innspruck, dated July 15, giving a very satisfactory report of the health of their MAJESTIES, and of the Imperial family. The President of the Cabinet and Minister of Fo reign Affairs, Baron Vox WESSENBERO, who was obliged to remain at Frankfort on account of indis position, has, by the advice of his physicians, de manded leave of absence for a fortnight, as they apprehended internal inflammation. The Ministry has, therefore, taken steps for the execution of all important business in the department of Foreign Affairs. BOHEMIA. The state of siege of Prague has been raised. WALLACHIA AND MOLDAVIA The Wiener Zeitung contains the following intelli gence respecting the events which have taken place in these provinces : " After having received the intelligence of the en trance of the Russian troops into Moldavia, the Pro visional Government of Bucharest issued, in the first instance, a protest against the intervention of Russia, and they decidedly opposed it. But the Russian Consul, M- Von Kotzebac, sent the pro test back from Joesang to Bucharest, and proposed to the Provisional Government an ultimatum, inwhich the re-establishment of Prince Bibesco was made a condition sine qua non, and, in case of a refusal, announced the im- mediate entry of the Russian army. The Provisional Government resolved to resist to the utmost, and dis patched emissaries into the provinces to effect a rise among the peasants. The latter, however, instead of entering into their views, fell upon these emissaries, and killed several of them. On receiving this intelligence terror seized the members of the Provisional Govern ment, and the greater number of the Boyards fled. Tranquillity prevailed on the 10th, and the majority of the population, like those of the country, received the Russians with open arms. The peasantry of Wallachia regard the Russians as their deliverers ; for Russian policy has always protected them against the no4lesse. A courier has been dispatched from Jassy to Cronstadt, to announce the entry of the Russians to Prince Bibesco. General Duhamel has been nominated Consul and Intenslant General. The Russians have pitched their camp before Jassy, for the cholera now prevails in that city. They will probably reach Bucharest on the 15th or 16th. It is very improbable that they will meet with any resistance." The Breslau Zeitung says:—" The Provisional Go vernment is in some difficulty, for all the great Boyard families have quitted Wallachia, and very few indivi duals of any milli have remained, The Government intends to refuse giving them passports, and compel them to sign an address to the Emperor of Russia, to which they are now endeavouring to obtain signatures. In this address reference is made to an ancient existing privi lege, that the internal affairs of the country shall be regulated by itself. It describes the late revolution as havin g been called forth by the oppression of the people, which they could no longer bear, and entreats the clemency of the Czar to recognise what has just passed; but in case of his refusal to do so, it calls for the assist ance and protection of Europe. A formal protest was, as we before stated, sent to the Russian Consul, but this was without effect." 'HOLLAND. - The Minister of Finance has addressed circulars to the Custom-house agents to inform them that gun caps are to be classed under the head of ammunition, and subjected to an ad valorem duty of six per cent. ; hosiery from France is to be subject to a duty of five per cent., the same as in the treaty with Belgium. The affairs of Limburg are attracting much atten- tion. They have been the cause of the frequent Ca binet Councils which have been held. The Limburg deputies at the Frankfort Parliament returned to the province on the 21st, and addressed the following cir cular to their constituent!:— _ _ " Gentlemen,—The fate of Limburg has been decided. The German National Assembly has unanimously de clared in an irrevocable manner, that the Duchy of Lim burg is a German state, and can no longer be regarded as a province of Holland. " The question of the liquidation of the debt is aban doned to the appreciation of the National Assembly, in which we shall find a sure guarantee against all atempts to load us with a foreign debt. " Gentlemen, your deputies consider it their duty powerfully to recommend their constituents to remain quiet, and to respect the established laws until they are replaced by others. Such is the duty of every citizen. " Baron VON SCHERPENZEIL. " A. SCHOENMOERKERS." The Journal de la Haye, after publishing this docu , ment, says:—" Is it as incontestable as the deputies pre tend, that the resolution of the Frankfort Assembly has definitively settled the Limburg question? It seems, and we are surprised so essential a point should have escaped the attention of these gentlemen, that something is wanted besides the decision of the German National Assembly to settle the political fate of the Duchy of Limburg." As soon as the decision of the Frankfort Parliament was known the town of Maestricht was placed in a state of siege, and the cannon mounted on the citadel. The deficiency in the revenue for 1848 will amount to nearly 12,000,000 florins, viz., increase on the army and navy estimates voted in March last, 3,074,100 florins; increase in the war budget lately asked for 1,829,021 florins; deficiency in the India revenue. 4,650,000 florins; reduction in the tax on grinding corn and slaughtering cattle, lately proposed. 1,300,000 florins. Decrease in the ordinary receipts for the present year, 1,000,000 florins. The income and property-tax will, it is expected, cover the deficiency. This tax is not to be permanent, but for the present year only. RUSSIA. In St Petersburgh the fearful character assumed by the cholera has occasioned great consternation. The EMPEROR has frequently personally visited the public hospitals, where there are numerous cholera patients. The disease is said to be on the decline in the capital, but has broken out in several places in the suburbs. ITALY. NAPLES. Advices from Naples of the 17th mention that pre parations were making to invade Sicily with a large force. No less than 30,000 to 35,000 troops are to be engaged in this enterprise. The embarkation was fixed for the 20th or 21st, and their landing-place was to be Syracuse. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. (THIS DAY.) HOUSE OF COMMONS. The SPEAKER took the chair at Twelve o'clock. LORDS AMENDMENTS. The Lords Amendments to the following Bills were considered and agreed to : Great Northern Railway (Isle of Axholme Extension). Great Western Railway (Branch from Slough to Windsor). London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway (London bridge and New Cross Stations, &c.) Midland Railway (Gloucester and Stonehouse Junction). Whitehaven and Furness Junction. Railway (Extension or Deviation from Silecroft to Foxfield, icc.) Mr. GREENE contended that the consideration of the Lords' amendments to Bills should be referred to a Committee of the House, as it could not be expected that the House in its collective capacity could give that consideration to these amendments that should be given to them. Mr. M. MILNES was of the same opinion. Mr. BERNAL thought great good would result from tho adoption of the course pointed out. REPORTS. The following reports were considered and agreed to:-- Clerkenwell Improvement Bill. East Anglian Railways (Ely and Huntingdon Railway Extension of Time, &c.) Bill. Huddersfield Improvement (No. 2) Bill. THE CHARTER OF THE COLLEGE OF SUR GEONS. Mr. WAKLEY presented petitions from places in Lancashire, Shropshire, Gloucestershire, and places in Wales, complaining of the undue powers granted to the College of Surgeons by thy' Crown, and praying that a measure might be passed to modify it. FRIENDLY SOCIETIES. Mr. WAKLEY presented a petition from the Pimlico Friendly Society, stating that they had formed a society for the purpose of raising funds, the surplus of which, after relieving distress, &c., was to be applied to the employment of their members ; that they were enrolled by Mr. Tidd Pratt under the Friendly Societies' Act for three years, but that recently they having had occasion to make an alteration in their rules, Mr. Tidd Pratt had refused to certify the rules so altered; and that the whole of the property of the society was thus placed at the mercy of the creditors of the trustees, one of whom had recently died. The petitioners therefore prayed the House to take steps to enable them to be enrolled under the provisions of the Friendly Societies Act. THE CHARTIST PRISONERS. Mr. WAKLEY presented a petition from the Chartist Association of Finsbury, complaining that Jones, Fus sell, Vernon, and the other prisoners convicted at the last session of the Central Criminal Court, were treated as felons; that they were not allowed to speak to their friends, that their hair was cropped, and that they were kept in solitary confinement. The petition furl her stated, that it was to be feared that the prisoners were treated thus in consequence of having been convicted of political offences, and they prayed the House to institute an in quiry, as it was no use applying to the Home Office, as the instructions under which they were thus treated had most likely been issued by that department. THE ALARM. AT LIVERPOOL. Mr. CARDWELL said he had received additional signatures to the petition he presented on Monday. He wished to know what course he should adopt. The SPEAKER said the Hon. Gentleman could not present the names alone. They might be appended to a new petition. Mr. CARDWELL said he would send back the list of names to his constituents. POOR-LAW UNION CHARGES BILL. Mr. FORSTER presented a petition from the board of guardians at Berwick, against the Poor-law Union Charges Bill. MISCELLANEOUS ESTIMATES. Mr. V. SMITH brought up the report of the Com. mittee on Miscellaneous Estimates. POOR-LAW UNION CHARGES. Tho adjourned debate on this Bill was resumed. Mr. RICH supported the Bill, and denied that its effect would be to throw the support of the agricultural poor upon the towns. The Hon. Gentleman cited a number of facts to show that the assessment of the rates upon the whole of an union would be the fairest mode of supporting the poor. He considered it was absolutely necessary to continue the principles of the Bill of Mr. Bodkin. Nothing could be more impracticable than the collection of a national rate. Mr. R. PALMER opposed the Bill on the same grounds as those urged against it by the Hon. Member for Oxfordshire. At the same time he felt bound to give the Right lion. Gentleman who had brought in the measure every credit for having introduced it, and the attention ho had paid to the subject. If the Hon. Gentle man expected to pass the Bill during the present session he must bring its provisions within a much smaller com pass. Although he was opposed to the Bill he would not object to its going into Committee. Mr. C. BULLER trusted that the House would allow him to say a few words in explanation. He had had the Bill so drawn that that part of it which re. ferred to the establishment charges might be excluded in Committee, and feeling that the House was against him upon that point, and in his favour with respect to the irremoveables and vagrants, he would not press the ob jectionable part of the Bill. Captain PECHELL thought that inasmuch as the Right lion. Gentleman had acknowledged the Bill to be defective in many particulars, it would be much better that it should be at once withdrawn and intro duced in an amended form in another session. He thought the Bill ought to be delayed until another ses sion of Parliament, believing that the present time was most inappropriate to bring it before the House. Mr. DRUMMOND rose, and was (LEFT SPEAKING.) --- Baroness de Clifford and the Hon. Misses Russell have left town for the family seat in Leicestershire. The Earl and Countess of Ripon have arrived at Mowbray House, the Earl's seat, near Ripon, where it is their intention to reside several months. Viscount Goderich had previously arrived there. The Marquis and Marchioness of Blandford and their youthful family have left town for Ryde, Isle of the smuttier, Wight, where they propose res idin g during HIGHLY IMPORTANT FROM IRELAND. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY MORNING. The following intelligence was received (per spe cial engine) last evening, by Mr. Conway, editor of the Dublin Evening Post : HIGHLY IMPORTANT FROM IRELAND. DUBLIN, WEDNESDAY. Commencement of the Rebellion. Thurles, Clontnel, and Kilkenny in arms. Defeat and disaffection of the troops. Burning of the railway station at Thurles. The whole of the south of Ireland is in rebellion. A special engine has just arrived in Dublin, from four miles this side of Thurles (eighty-two miles in two hours). The station at Thurles is on fire; the rails for several miles are torn up; and as the engines arrive the mob intend detaining them. At Clonmel the fighting is dreadful—the people arrived in masses. The Dublin club leaders are there. The troops were speedily overpowered. Many refused to act. The military at Carrick have shown disaffection, and have been driven back, and their quarters fired. At Kilkenny the contest is proceeding, and here the mob are also said to be successful. No news from Waterford or Cork. (From the Chronicle.) WATERFORD, JULY 25. ARRIVAL OF MESSRS. ME A. GHER AND O'BRIEN AT CARRICK-ON-SUIR-GREAT EXCITEMENT THERE, AND AT WATER FORD-REINFORCEMENT OF THE CARRICK GARRISON-DEPARTURE OF THE REVO LUTIONARY LEADERS FOR CASHEL-=, FLIGHT OF LOYALISTS FROM WATER FORD-OPEN REBELLION. Intense anxiety prevailed in this city last night and throughout to-day, as numerous reports were afloat ; at one time it was stated Mr. Meagher was ad vancing against Waterford at the head of the Car rick-on-Suir clubs, a determined band of 2,000 men of a hardy daring character, suited to any desperate enterprise; at another time it was stated that the disaffected of Clonmel, Cashel, Fethard, Killenaule, Callan, and Nine-mile-house, were to storm our poor city. These reports arose from the fact that William Smith O'Brien and Thomas Francis Meagher reached Carrick-on-Suir at half-past five in the evening from Kilkenny; on their route, at Callan, they addressed thousands, and told them for the present not to inter fere with the police or soldiery, as they should per form their duties, but when the word should be given not to spare any who opposed them. Yesterday being fair•day at Carrick, the town was filled with country people, and Messrs. Meagher and O'Brien addressed the people, it is said by some who were present, in a more violent and de termined strain than heretofore, stating their de termination not to be arrested under the provisions of the new Act. Both gentlemen, it is stated, were armed with pistols, which they are determined to use in the event of an attempt being made to cap ture them; they stated that they had spent their fortunes in the people's cause, and would hazard their lives for their service, and would now throw themselves on the protection of the people. A num ber of Waterford, men, who were at Carrick doing business at the fair, begged of Mr. Meagher to come to Waterford, and that his fellow-citizens would pro tect him from arrest, but Mr. Smith O'Brien would not listen to that proposal, and brought off Mr. Meagher to Cashel, or, as others say, to Tipperary. Whilst this scene was enacting, two hundred of the 3d Buffs marched in from the camp at Besboro and took up their position in the barracks. Few of either party slept during the night ; the Young Irelanders, however, did not do anything to disturb the peace of the town, but business is totally at a stand-still, and all in and about the town are resting on their arms, waiting for the battle hour, which, God grant, may be far distant. In this city the clubs are well organized, and armed, and ready to act when called upon. The people ' seem reckless from poverty ; groups of work men may be seen in the streets by day and night, discussing politics and retailing the news of the hour. The Queen's forces here now are about 1,000 strong. The Rhadamanthus steam-vessel lies in the river, and it is proposed to form two camps on the hills which command the town. In the country the peasants are arming ; at Coolnamuck so much timber has been cut down for pike handles, that the clubs wont allow any more to be taken thence in compas sion to the proprietor. At Mount Bolton the owner has it cut and left outside the wood for the people, to prevent further waste ; at Lord Waterford's demesne more ash trees have been cut down, and the useless P arts left behind. All the anvils in the country ring with pike-forging, and every weapon is put in order for the fray. Last week fourteen loyalist families left Water ford for England, Wales, and Scotland; to-day the Rose (Bristol steamer) is overcrowded with more, who are frightened at the aspect of affairs ; the consequence is, that numbers of workmen are dis charged from employment, and thus sent to swell the torrent of disaffection, which threatens now to plunge this country into the horrors of civil war. Since I wrote the above, I have learned on the best authority that Messrs. O'Brien and Meagher are beyond Carrick-on•Suir, surrounied by the armed peasantry, determined to sell their liberty dearly if arrested. It is also stated that Messrs. Dillon, O'Gorman, and D. Lane are with them. Two dragoons arrived here express at three o'clock, and further reinforcements were sent from this city to Carrack and Pilltown. The greatest alarm prevails here amongst the peace able portion of the people. Should the Confederates remain in their present position, I will write from Carrick to-morrow. The soldiers are confined to barracks here. DUBLIN, WEDNESDAY. - It was rumoured through town yesterday, that a portion of Trinity College is being fitted up as a gaol, in anticipation of arrests under the recent Act. It was also stated that the Birmingham Tower, and other portions of the Castle, are set apart for a like purpose. Yesterday morning twelve men, under the com mand of a head constable, were sent from the constabulary barracks in the Park, to Newgate, where they have mounted guard in military fashion, one man inside and another outside, with fixed bayonets. k'Ve understand that an order from Government was received at Newgate yesterday, directing the officers of that prison not to allow any person to vi s it the political prisoners at present confined there. THE FELON JOURNALS. In consequence of the highly inflammatory articles, bearing the signatures of the editors, which have ap peared in the recent numbers of the Nation and Felon newspapers, the board of superintendence of Newgate prison has given orders that those gentle men shall not be permitted henceforth to publish any articles dated from this prison, with their names or signatures attached. It is generally understood that the Nation and Felon are not to appear until their proprietors ure relieved from the fangs of the law—a period considered rather remote—to induce many new subscribers to come forth to their aid. The following letter appears in the Evening Post : " Sligo Crown Court, July 24, 1848. " The Crown business here is very light, and the grand jury have postponed the traverses for damages to the next assizes, when and where they will be put off sine die. Two respectable persqns—one the deputy postmaster—were arrested here yesterday morning, for being agents and disposing of the Nation newspaper. They were admitted to bail late last evening. " We have not the least particle of excitement in either the town or country. " The crops, including the potato, are looking most uxuriant." WATERFORD, JULY 24.—The arrival of additional troops, and other precautionary measures adopted by the Government in this locality, have had a good effect, giving confidence to the well-affected, and de ciding many waverers. CONFEDERATE MEETINGS IN CORK. The Cork Constitution of this morning has the fol lowing " Meetings cf the rebels were called by placards to be held in Cove and Passage-west on Sunday, to receive deputations from the Southern Council. The Cove meeting was to be held in the Berkeley Club, Mr. Fran cis Maguire, Vice-President of the Mitchel C:ub, and M'Auliffe, fruiterer, Patrick-street, attended, and it was announced that Mr. Ralph Varian was unavoidably ab sent. The deputation remained but a few minutes, and no business was transacted. The President of the Berkeley Club, Dr. Copinger, Cove, who was expected to take the chair, did not show. " The meeting'in Passage was to have been held at half-past three o'clock, in the chapel yard, hut the parish priest declared that they should not outrage the edifice, and the felons then determined on taking possession of a yard near the police-station. At the appointed hour a number of young men congregated in the yard, and, after a delay of an hour and a half, the deputation not having appeared, Mr. Francis Power, of Tuckey-street, president of the Lord Edward Fitzgerald Club, told them that he saw no use in their losing their time any longer. The gathering then dispersed." THE FLEET OFF CORE..—Capt. Hirste, of the Minerva steam-ship, begs to inform► the Editor of the Cork Con. stitution that he passed the Channel fleet, under Sir Charles Napier, about ten miles east by south, off the Start Point, at three P.M. on the 21st inst., beating down the Channel. Wind S.W., strong gale and heavy thick rain. CLONMEL, JULY 24.—Great excitement prevails here. It is impossible to over estimate the quiet de termination of the people of all the surrounding dis tricts ; organization is everywhere progressing. You hear no talk now at all ; silence and steady action characterizes each act in the scene of popular enthu siasm. The Tipperary and Waterford boys have not been idle for the last week ; they have cut and taken away a large amount of timber from the woods near and about Carrick-on. &lir. The Castle proclamations do not trouble them in the least. The second bar racks here are being fortified. A piquet of horse and foot soldiers paraded the streets- all night, ENNISCORTHY, JULY 24.—Mr. Smith O'Brien ar rived here by the Dublin coach on Saturday evening, en rode to visit John Maher, Esq., D.L., with whom he immediately afterwards proceeded to Ballinkeele. During the few minutes be remained in town he was waited upon by many, members of the clubs, to whom he expressed his desire to see a cordial union amongst all classes of repealers, and an active organization of the national party into clubs. In the evening a large bonfire was kindled on Vinegar Hill to celebrate Mr. O'Brien's first visit to the county of Wexford. On Sunday morning Messrs. T. P. Meagher and J. B. Dillon arrived from Dublin by the night mail, and proceeded to join Mr. O'Brien at Ballinkeele. At eleven, A.M., the three gentlemen came to Enniscorthy, when, after Meagher and Dillon had heard mass, an immense concourse of persons surrounded them. They addressed the assemblage in spirit-stirring speeches. Messrs. O'Brien, Meagher, and Dillon then left Ennis corthy for Kilkenny. At Clonmel, Sligo, and Enniscorthy several per sons have been held to bail to take their trials for selling seditious newspapers. THE POTATO CROP. The accounts received from the country today go to fortify the opinion expressed yesterday—viz., that the blight is not extending. At the corn market to•day the factors and farmers seemed quite satisfied that no new instances of failure have occurred during the past tew days; and that some of the plants which exhibited signs of disease are recovered. The Tralee Chronicle says that the disease has stopped in that neighbourhood, and that it has been but very partial. The Cork Examiner says—" We have received intel ligence of the potato crop from many quarters. It is very favourable. All our informants admit that fog or other atmospheric influences have spotted the stalks of the potato, more or less; but state that the tuber is un touched, that the produce is plentiful, and the general healthy appearance of the crop gives good assurance of a favourable harvest. Full grown new potatoes were sold in this city on Saturday for 6d. and 7d. per 211b5." From Belfast we learn that the potato crop is sound and abundant. The reports from Derry and Sligo are of a similar purport. THE SOUTH OF IRELAND. BRISTOL, WEDNESDAY EVENING.—The fast• sailing steamers Sabrina, Captain Parker, R.N., from Cork, and the Rose, Captain Burgess, from Waterford, which left those ports yesterday, have this moment arrived here. They bring the following intelligence .: The fleet, under the command of Rear-Admiral Sir Charles Napier, C. 8., consisting of five first-rates and a number of smaller vessels, &c., arrived at Cork on Tues day morning, at twajve o'clock. THE ARMY AND THE POLICE. The last and remaining troop of the Bth Royal Irish arrived in Cork from Ballincollig on Saturday, and on Monday they left for their destination, New Bridge, and 130 policemen were on Monday drawn from the barony of Cork, and distributed among the stations in the bo rough. A troop of the 12th Lancers also arrived is Cork late on the Saturday night with lanterns attached to their saddles for night duty ; they are on " particular service." THE CONFEDERATE MEETINGS. " Meetings of the rebels," says the Cork Constihdios, " were called by placards to be held in Cove-passage West, on Sunday, to receive deputations from the Sou thern Council. Mr. Francis Maguire, Vice-President of the Mitchel Club, attended; but after waiting an hour and a half, no deputation attended, and, some excuses having been made for their non-attendance by the Vico- President, the gathering dispersed. The meetings were attended by Sub-Inspector Morgan and a number of the police in each locality ; and their object is stated to be not so much to enlist members for the clubs as to raise a spirit of disaffection, in the minds of the people, so as to induce them to aid the clubs when the day arrives." ARMS LICENSES. Mr. Knaresborough, and Mr. boa, county in- spector, resumed the hearing of applications for license to have and carry arms on Saturday. Mr. Knaresborough announced that persons selling arms and ammunition had no necessity at present to come before him, as th e proclamation now issued did not affect them, but in a very short time they would be dealt with, and put under restrictions by another procla mation. Licenses were then refused to several persons who at tended confederate meetings, and it was stated that 11 0 publican would be allowed a license for arms. The commission for the county of Cork was opened on Monday before the Hon. Mr. Justice Ball, who in his charge to the grand jury said the calendar contained the names of eighty-seven prisoners, but of whom over sixty were persons committed for common larcenies, leaving only twenty-five which wore properly assize offence?. He regretted to find that out of the total of 1,142 pr l ' Boners in the gaol, an establishment not built for half the number, there were no less than 109 persons under sen tence of transportation, and who should have been re moved long since. His Lordship then called attention to the state of the jury lists made out for the county Last spring assizes he had occasion to see some of the, jury lists return e d by t h e b arony collector here, " and the palpable and wholesale omissions of the persons beat qualified were so striking, that I considered it my dutY to refer to the matter with a view to its correction, and so far as I can understand from the state of the lists, I think those collectors are greatly in fault, and that it is to them the present state of the county panel is to b e at tributed." His Lordship concluded his charge by al' luding to these matters principally and the duties of the magistrates, but without any direct . allusion to the dis• turbed state of the country. When the Rose left Waterford at three o'clock yes terday, all was then quiet; but intelligence had reecho' the town of the passing of the Suspension of the Habeas Corpus Bill in the House of Commons in one night. Th e Confederates were greatly exasperated et it; but the loyal portion of the community were gratified by the vigorous measures of the Goveranient. There was s meeting of the clubs at Carrick-on-Suir, on Monday night, at which it was understood that both Mr. Smith O'Brien and Mr. Meagher were pr esent . M eagher had issued an address calling upon the clubs of Waterfor d to meet at five o'clock on Tuesday night, when he an d Mr. Smith O'Brien would be present. It was stated tbat warrants had arrived from Dublin for the arrest of both these personages, and the prevailing impression was tha t an attempt to capture Mr. Meagher would lead to a 0 1. lision. The authorities were in the meantime using ener getic measures to resist any outbreak which might arise' The Artillery, Dragoons, Fusiliers, and Buffs, were i n readiness for immediate action. The Rhadamanth tig frigate was lying at Wateford Quay, and another stearg frigate was coming up the river, supposed to be wi t d troops on board. The armed police were mounted, ah, were stationed at points on the public roads, so as 'f f convey to the authorities the earliest intelligence the approach of large bodies of persons. The re had been no precise proclamation forbidding the ~ club meeting last night, but it was thought that,,,Pbe magistrates would not permit their assemblage. 4. entire town was, however, in a state of great exciterneP MANCHESTER, WEDNESDAY EVEN! 0 • There has been no meeting of Irish sy m pathise r ,' today. The clubs here boast that they can asseuib:e 7,000 men in an hour, without the issue of a sio K J° placard, or without the authorities being able to ‘ lls ' cover the time or place of meeting. Such measur e s have, however, been adopted that they would t 1 . 1) 1 this utterly impossible. Every possible prece utio , has been taken by the magistracy and police a utho, rities, one of whose first measures will, it is sta t Fat be the temporary addition of 150 men to the force. The Pensioners here are all under arms, gout so long as any danger exists the troops will be lieP in constant readiness. city, assisted by the Chartists, intend to get LIP MANCHESTER.—It is reported that the Iris h in t h i able demonstration on Friday next, in favour of the, Irish movement. The third and fourth companies 01 89th Infantr, about 200 in number, pa ssed throlizlll Manchester y esterday ou their way to Dublin to pin u. tho regiment, a formid THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 27, 1848.