The Express.
London, England, 1848-08-04 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, THURSDAY, 5.40 P.M.—The accounts from
the South report all quiet. Proclamations have been
issued, calling upon unprivi!eged persons in the
districts lately proclaimed to deliver up their arms by
the 7th instant. The metropolitan police have been
armed with cutlasses. It is now said, and proba-
bly with truth, that Mr. Smith O'Brien's where-
abouts is accurately known to the authorities, as
also the retreat of his associates. But it is manifestly
not the easier on this account to i ffect his capture,
for, where so many of the people are disaffected, it
is not difficult to see how he may receive warning
of the approach of any danger.
Mr. O'Gorman is alive—it was a gentleman named
Graham. who shot himself accidentally, at Tralce,
whose death gave rise to the rumour.
Lord llardinge is still in Dublin. Her majesty's
steamer Birkenhead has sailed from Kingstown with
250 marine) for Waterford.

The Bonner of Ulster states that six or seven war-
rants have been issued for the arrest of individuals
whole movements he ve been for some time past nar-
rowly watched by the authorities. Ten or twelve of
the leaders of the Belfast clubbists have flu d, and
the six clubs ie iv established in that town have
been dissolved. There is nothing but panic and con-
fusion in the rebel ranks.

There is no arriving at an accurate return of She 'I
killed and wounded in the Ballingary affair. The
metropolitan police commissioners say seven kilted ;
other accounts but three; the Freeman reports ten ;
the Mail eleven, and a It al newspiper twenty.
The Mail of last night says that there were at least
eleven men killed, instead of even. The events
which prtcvded the outbreak have been re-
' ported in so confused a manner, that an accurate state-
ment may even now be acceptable. Smith O'Brien
arrived at Mullinahone on the Tuesday night, raising
the wtole country as he went along. At Fethard
on that day there was scarcely a soul to be seen or
a shop open. MC people were collected in groups
along the roads. Bonfires were lighted on the bill
of Killough, and midway between Thurles and Cashel,
and immediately after, the whole face of the country I
was illuminated by about fifty or sixty of them. I
Having held a :eves at Mullinahone, the t' King
of Munster" proceeded next morning to the police
barrack, and demanded that the seven men therein '
should surrender their arms. On the Wednesday Mr. 4
O'Brien marched to Ballingarry, and on his arrival
there he gave the people some arms and ammunition, I
and next morning he held a levee on the Fair-green, ,
at which 600 or 700 people attended • after which I
he sent an express to Urlingford, calling on the
rebel forces there to come up. When these did
not arrive he turned back to Mullinahone, and dig-
missed there a brlly of fifty armed men, which had I
accompanied him. lie then went towards the Nine-
mile House, where he was seen in the evening in a
meadow weeping. At about 1 o'clock on the Friday I
morning he arrived in the town of Killenaule, where ,
he rested ; he afterwards proceeded to Carey'e-
hill, near Ballyphilip, and held a great meet- '
ing of his forces there. Thence he went to Arles-
hill, where he inquired whether the people would
protect him if he remained there that night. On
being told by them that they had no means of doing
so, he proceeded by Colebrook, through the collieries,
to the common of Boulagh, where, next day, he and
his forces were so signally defeated. From this point
nothing certain appears to be known of his move-
ments or of those of his principal confederates. One
of them, probably O'Brien, is, however, said to have
slept, on the Saturday night, near Kilkooly Abbey, in
the cottage of a wood-ranger in the service of Mr. ,
Poneonby Barker.
From a letter dated Littleton, which is a few miles
west of Ballingarry, Tuesday night, we extract the
following :
The presence of the large militarye force now encamped in
coatiguous posts throughout tine disturbed district has
atrirded peace to many a home hitherto barricaded and
sentinelled. The number ascertained to have been killed
'in the late conflict i. but three. The number wounded I
is unknown, but probably ov^r estimated at a dozen
or fifteen, for there was never more than one volley with
1 any eff, et, how many shots smear the besieged party
may have fired. Many were certainly fired throng
the barricade., inside, when they screened the view. Of
course, they must have kept firing while fixing the screens ;
and the besiegers too, but at a respectful distance. Few
were within the inclosure round the house, and those outside
were somewhat protected by the low wall. This afforded
good protection to the windows of the ground-floor. Dillon
was seen to be so tadly shot in both legs that it was thought
he must die, which has perhaps already occurred, as otaer-
wise his retreat, which cannot he far from the field of con-
flict, would have been already discovered. Meagher and
Daheny's escape is not yet understood, but the military and
police authorities are taking active, though, to the un-
initiated, unobservable measures for their and others' capture
Smith O'Brien's flight was traced to within a mile of
Urlingford, in the county of Kilkenny. His track was there
lost. But it is clear that he cannot escape. He has slept in the
open fields, or in the meanest huts. To a respectable farmer
he said, sighing deeply, that he felt he was a doomed man;
that the support he got was not such as he expected. From
Urlingtord it is thought he doubled back towards the col-
lieries, thence intending to fly across the Shannon to Clare,
when opportunity served; but with a reward for his captor-,
and the penalties of treason for aiding his escape ! —with de-
tectives on every track, and the district surrounded by sol-
diers and police—his features known to thousands of rich and
poor—it is scarce possible that he can evade his pursuers.
beneral Macdonald's headquarters are still in Bailin-
acy. Here and at New Birmingham, there is
ecanic.iment. Here, on a green swell, which looks
like an oasis in the great bog of Allen, are seen twelve teats.
containing • company of the 60th Rifles, a company of
Sappers, and two field guns. About three miles in the
rear, as • reserve, near Thurles, stands the encampment of
an entire regiment, the 85th. about sixty tents. Their
molar lines of white canvass on • sloping field look beau-
tiful. In Thurles itself are quartered other troops. The
police are bunting up intelligence of parties engaged openly
or secretly in the late attack. Detectives,; it is said, ars
around in every shape.
CLoznin, Auouss;.2.—Laut sight Mr. Jame

IRELAND.

ARRESTS IN CORK.
DUBLIN, Auousr 3.
Mr. Denny Lane, president of the Cork clubs, and
the moat prominent member of the confederation in
that city, was arrested yesterday. Mr. Lane was ar-
rested by a single policeman, " and walked quietly to
prison." Mr. Lane is a barrister, and his father is a
merchant of Cork. Mr. Mullen, a butter merchant,
and a member of the town council, was also arrested,
and walked off with the policeman, " without telling
any person in his tstablishment." Mr. Michael
Joseph Barry, a barrister, and editor of the Southern
Reporter, was also placed under arrest yesterday.
The whole proceeding appears to have caused not the
slightest possible excitement. According to the most
recent reports, and those which may apparently be
relied upon are, that Mr. Smith O'Brien is endeavour-
ing to make his way towards the Shannon, doubtless
with the intent of crossing into Connaught. The
police are on the alert in the direction of Nenagb, and
military parties from Thurles and Roscrea are re-
pa•ted as proceeding in that direction. It is not im-
prol 'e that his friend, the Rev. John Kenyon, may
receive a call from the " leader," as the rev. gentle.
man's district is in the dirtct line from Slievenamon
t 3 the Shannon, keeping the mountain way.