The Express.
London, England, 1848-07-28 00:00:00

lItELANII

The substance of part of the following appeared in
a se:ond edition of last evening's Erprom :

Donis, Jett. 2G.
This evening (the 26th) a Gazette Extraordinary
was published, containing the proclamation I pre-
viously informed you was about to be issued. It
orders all clubs to be suppressed throughout the
country.
The first blcod has been shed' A policeman was
mortally wounded last night in George's-street.
Three confederates, two of them distinguished as
" wand•bearers," were diaulaying arms in the public
streets, when they were accosted by the police-
man, and ordered to surrender their arms or pro-
duce their license. The reply was the presentation
of a loaded pistol, but the deed was accomplished
by a dagger. The policeman behaved moat gallantly.
I send you a full account of the affair Irom an early
copy of a Dublin paper. The house of the chief
aggressor, on being searched, brought some serious
things to light. Prod :nations, rebellious songs, pike-
heads and handles, and a sword-proof casque covered
with green velvet.
Government, I hear, has received positive informa-
tion of an immediate outbreak, as well as the time and
place when and where the "insurgent flag" will be
raised. They are also informed of the forces which will
be brought together, the districts of country from which
the insurgent battalions will be drafted, and all the
THE FALSE RUMOURS OF AN IRTSTI INSURRECTION. means now at work to continue the struggle should
—The announcements made by • false telegraphic communi-
the first blow prove unsuccessful. Troops are quietly
tation yesterday, that the south of Ireland was in open rebel- gathering from all sides on the suspected point.
lion, created at the clubs a sensation such as has not been ob. At twelve o'clock on Monday, an express arrived
aervable for years put. When the despatch reached'the Home- from Cashel at Clonmel, with accounts of an outbreak.
office, Sir George Grey was about to start to Richmond to The police immediately took possession of the west
act as one of the spoils rs at the baptism of Lord and Laxly
gate, and the military occupied the main guard. One
John Russell's infant son. lie immediately forwarded a com-
munication to the noble premier, who received it just as he of the insurgent leaders was said to have spent
was entering Petersham Church. After witnessing the b .p- Sunday night on the ridges of Slievenamon, and to
tismel ceremony his lordship left for town in great haste, and hese marshalled the Carrick corps for an assault on
had an interview with the Duke of Wellington. Sum- Monday.
monses were issued shortly afterwards for a Cabinet Council. At Nenagh the police have been strengthened and
The Earl of Glengall, Lord-Lieutenant of Tipperary, and
several of the leading Irish members, were in constant Coin- furnished with muskets and ammunition. A squadron
inunic ition during the day. of dragoons and the 59th, from Templemore, were
We learn from Livzrpool that the town was thrown yesterday ordered to occupy the town. The O'Meara and
morning into a state of great excitement by a r port that all Fulton Clubs, which, in the pride of their strength,
the south of Ireland .:111 in a state of open revolt, that the paraded Nenagh on Sunday to the number of l'eaa, dis-
military had been driven out of Clonmel, that the soldiers
refused to act again 4 the insurgents in Carrick, and that the solved on Monday. The Habeas Corpus Suspension
railway station at Thurles had been burnt down and the had a most dispersing effect on their spirits.
rails taken up. This report was traced to two parcels directed Information reached the local authorities that
to two Liverpool newsagents, each parcel containing two general attack was meditated on the small police
documents purporting to emanate from the office of Ore
detachments scattered about Borrisoleigh, Tipperary.
Dublin Erentng Post, and had arrived net by the
The whole force was ordered to concentrate in the
regular mail, but by the Rwommon, city of Dublin steamer.
The passengers by the mail and R3SCOMMOII had heard village on Monday, and a similar circler hr.& been
nothing of the news; and people soon began to suspect a issued to the other districts where the police are
stack-jobbing trick, and their suspicions we re confirmed by a divided into small sections.
communication from a newsagent in Dublin, sent by the Messrs. O'Brien, Dillon, and Meagher:, reached
Roscorumon, and which, on being opened, contained no ~
lailkenny on Monday, on their tour of inspection.
alarming intelligence—quite the contrary. The alarm soon
began to subside ; especially when it w.as known that in Dublin They addressed the people, who were ir, a most ex-
yeatel day it was announced that I averpool was in flames and icited state, and colt:awned firmness awl organisation.
that 500 policemen had been kil:ad. The town is perfectly i After the address, Mr. O'Brien ascer.ded the steeple
tranquil, but this idle rununAr had a very bad effect on
of the lofty cathedral, and took, ver',laps, a " military "
business. view
.of the city. Such was the popular inference.
WAR STEAMERS P.ND ROCKETS FOR IRELAND. I
the In Kilkenny the people are re'- orted to be ve.y busy
—Yesterday afternoon., as the workmen were quitting
Royal Amu], Woolwich, a messenger arrived item the in casting bullets, and pry t:raring for an outbreak,