The Express.
London, England, 1848-08-03 00:00:00

FURTHER ARRESTS.

RUMOURED ESCAPE OF WILLIAM

SMITH O'BRIEN.

DUBLIN, \WEDNESDAY, 5.30 P.m.—The trains have
all arrived, and r, port the South tranquil. C. Tulle,
Esq., barrister, and Mr. T. W. Mayler, have been
arrested in Lublin; and Mr. C. Rochford, Ir. J. Blake
and Geoghan, a gunsmith, in Galway. It is reportel
that 0.11, ien, Meagher, an.l Reilly have escaped to
Galway, and embarked in a vessel for America.
The editor of the Drogheda Argus, lately bailed on
I a charge of sedition, has been arrested for high

treason.
The following, from our Dublin correspondent, is
dated yesterday morning:
It is confidently affirmed, by parties who feel the
deepest interest in the fortunes of Mr. Smith O'Brien,
that he has already succeeded in effecting his escape
I front the toils which had been all but drawn around
him. How he accomplished this rumoured
escape, or whether he has withdrawn, I could
not ascert.sio. But hie friends in Dublin aro satisfied
of his safety, and pronounco him beyond the reach of
danger. This I give you on goof authority. Akw
days, however, w.ll solve the mystery. if he has got
off, it is probable he may have gone over the Shan-
non—through Woodford into Galway, and thence to
the remote West, as reported in my communication of

yea rday.
The trials of Messrs, Daffy. Martin, and the other
persons in custody under the Treason Felony Act, will
certainly take place at the commission, which is to
open on Tuesday nest. The Evening Post says :
it We believe that the state trials will disclose an
amount of meditated and contrived enormities which
could not easily be paralleled in the history of human
iniquity."
Regarding the postponement of the Queen's visit to
Ireland, the Evenly'', Post ea} s :
But for the tat it sanction and encouragement given to the
conceited coscombe whom vanity led from one step to
another, until it immers, d them in desperation and crime,
Dublin, during the coming autumn, would have been the
most brilliant capital in Europe. Ministers were prepared
I to propose, and parliament was disposed to give, a large and
liberal grant, to support the splendour of a royal visa; not
only the noble and wealthy of Englat,d, but many of the
continental princes, would have visited our shores—cus-
tomers would have stood at our counters—motion would
have been give n to our deserted looms, and activity to our
silent workshoas. And all this has been given up for the
mere sake oi allowing mendacity to perpetuate merelicity ;
for 'hewing in the wake of a suggan king of Munster, m.ll
for listening to the ira-h of a few Relay boys, and the vapid
ranting, of men who mistook exaggeration for eloquence,
and iteration of assertion ter argument.
In reference to the statemer.t published in the
papers respecting the opposition offered to the passage
of the Rth Hussars, at Killenaule, and the conduct of
the officer in command, the Evening Post gives the
following version, which is confirmed by private
letters from the same quarter:
We have the hest reasons to know that the statement
regarding the officer in command of the Sth Gussets; is by no
moms correct. We and, Mend that the officer required the
immediate removal of the impediments placed on the road,
intimating that he would order the troops to fire upon those
hindering their' progress. The ohdructiona were at once
taken away, and the Hutton passed on.
In reference to ti:e Killenaule fight, the Metropo-
litan Police Commissioners have issued the following:
GENERAL Ouume.--Sunday, 30th July.—The Commis-
sioners of Police are happy to be able tointorm the force that
a small part of coestobulary, yesterday evening, unassisted by
military, near Killenaule, in the county Tipperary, attark• d
one thousand men, mostly armed with lire-arms and p•kre,
under the immediate c untnandol Smith O'Brien. Not a man
of the police has been injured, but Fenn of the rebels were
killed, and a gr, at number wounded. O'Brien's party ran
wee), in the gregteat confusion, and wt re completely sic.
prrsrd. About an hour after, a large military force were on
the ground, but too late to t.o of service The compresaionere
coneratulste the men in the Dublin police on the gallant
co di.ct of their comrade- of the constabulary, knowing that
the metropolitan force are always ready to do their duty, and
set the disaffected at defiance.
KILKENNY, Tuesday Evening.—ln my despatch to
boa yesterday, I stated that an official confirmation
of a collision between the people and the police had
been received at Waterford, and that twelve of the
insurgents had been put hors de combat. Since my
arrival here, I have ascertained that that statement is
substantially correct. The number of shots fired by
the police has been found to be 130, and as they
were strictly enjoined by
.their officer not to throw
away a shot without having a certain mark, it is
matter of surprise that the easualities were so few.
Smith O'Brien is said to have ridden off in the
direct:on of this town, upon the retreat of his fol-
lowers; and I have heard that he was seen yesterday
in the immediate neighbourhood of Clomanto, which
is only nine miles distant from here.
Dr. Cane, the " Coryphretni" of the clubs here, was
arrested this mot ning, on a warrant ut:der the Habeas
Corpus Suspension Act, the charge being connection
with treasonable practices. He was lodged in the
county. gaol, and it is generally supposed will be
transmitted to Dublin to-morrow.
There is a report that the insurgents attacked the
police barracks at Thurlea !ast night, but were re-
pulsed. Six of them were shot. A large constabulary
Inrce, a detachment of infantry, and one troop of hue-
airs litre moved in that direction.
The Kilkenny .To of this day convents the fol-
lowing :
Yesterday morning, forty five policemen, who had come in
here Irom Pilitown, were ordered to return to that station,
but at a late hour in the day there was a sudden counter-
order, and a wry large force marched from this city towards
the Callan-road. It was confidently stated that their 'testi-
nati n was Cashel, where it was reported some people at-
taeked a constabulary barrack, and killed several of the
police.
CLONMEL, AUGL'eT I.—The 47th Regiment, with a
large body of troops, and part of the 35th Regi-
na int, occupy barracks here. To-day three arrests
were made : a young roan, named Smith, an
attor cy, the oily son of a hotel-keeper, in
the Irishtown ; I'ercell, a put liean and grocer, in
good circumstances; and Russell, the son of a
heel vstahle-ki eper and car-proprietor. The police are
on the look-out for several others, and It is re-
ported thut a priest, the &v. Mr. Meany, of this
town, has been arrested to-day at Youghal, where he
was for the benefit of his health. Two kegs of gun-
powder having been found under a temporary bar-
racks, the troops vacated it, and it is expected that a
Crinfv,dcrate, suspected to have had a hand in this
affair, will be arrested as soon as a proper chain of
evidence can be had against him. The Old Irelanders
everywhere dcnouece the movement; the club hooks
here have been burnt by the proprietors, many of
whom are now spatial constables.
A letter from Boulagh, the scene of the late conflict
between tho insurgents and police, dated Monday
night, save:
Tice day has again woad without any accurate tidi gs
heel' g been rtheivi d of the wberiabout, of Mr. S. O'Brien
and the other rebel leaders. The report with regard to
him now app, ar to have ts en industriously cite ulatcd
to blind the pursuit, and I, for my pleat, cannot help
!Making that he lies concealed much nearer the scene of
the late outbreak than is at all supposed. He has
been positively stated to have fled north, sautb, met,
and west from 13oulagh.rommon, all at the same tint.,
The rumour which sent him one hull-hour to Dublin by
Johnstown was superseded the next by another, equally
authentic, which said he had gone to Kilkenny, Sli,venamou,
or Vinegar-hill, in Wexford.
There hos been intelligence to-day from all directions in
this neighbourhood likely to be in the least disturbed—from
Slievenamen, Fethard, Killenaule, Littleton, Holycross,
Clanoulty, and other points; and everything continues per-
fectly peaceable. How long this will last remains to be seen.
General Macdonald's head-quarters are still at Ballingarry.
and he continues actively engaged in organizing the men. I
surer of repression which he intends adoptir g for the district.
The rebels may therefore soon expect to flail the full severity
of the power which they have so wantonly provoked.sTdday,
the general, with his staff, inspected Mrs. Cormack's house,
and expressed his great satisfaction at the manner in which
it had been defended by Mr. Trent and his party of: 0 men.
He also announced his intention of representing to the govern-
ment the lose which Mrs. Cormack has sustained by the
complete destruction of her pr• party in barricading the
house. Coroner's thquesta were held to-day upon the bodies
of two of the men killed on Saturday. The bodies of the I
other four bel,eved to be dead, have been concealed. Some
of the wounded still lie in a very precarious state; but one
man, shot throt gh the lower lobe of the right lung, it is
thought will recover.
BRISTOL, WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEVEN O'CLOCK.
The Sabrina, Captain Parker, from Cork, has just
arrived in our river, and brings intelligence from that
city up to four o'clock yesterday. Up to that hour