The Express.
London, England, 1848-08-07 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DCBLIN, Aro. 4.
Dr. West, of Summer-hill, Messrs. Gilbert White,
Francis Harvey, and James E. O1)onoghoe,
lair clerks, and Andrew James Doyle, printer, were
arrested last nLht. A journeyman baker, recently re-
turned from America, and a tailor, have been arrested at
Dungannon for sedition.
On Friday an effort was made to arrest the
editor of the Cork Southern Reporter. A police
l ore@ entered the office of the paper, and in-
quired for Mr. Barry, but he was not to be found. It
was understood, however, that ho was subsequently
taken at Blackwell by a sub-inspector of po-
lice, who, ou finding him absent from the

office, had proceeded towards his residence.
An evidence of the vigilant supervision exercised
by the authorities, and of the accurate information
possessed by them, is presented in the fact that two
young gentlemen of a respectable class, named rlopper,
who had only arrived from England on Saturday tae',
and who are in the confederacy, were arrested in
Bannaglier on Wednesday.
The ill-considered exclusion—to use no lumber
term—of all repeiehrs, or of persons who ever had
been repeaters, from the special constable roll in
Newry, Las been condemned, as I anticipated it would
be, by the government. An application on the sub-
ject having been made to Mr. ltedington, the sub•
joined reply has been elicited :
The Lord Lieutenant does not consider that tbn.e who entertain the
opinion that the act of uuion should be repealed are thereby neceara-
rily disqualified from acting in the capacity of apeci..l constables for
the maintenance of the public peace and the defence of property and
orber. Ills exttlienry dos. boson... consider that those who have
joined in illeed dub wool:non. for that or any other object, should
not be appealed special constables.

ACOUST 5.
The train from the south this afternoen brought ap
ten additional prisoners. One of these is a Dr. Ryan,
of Carrick, and another Mr. ()'Ryan, of Cashel, who
was arrested in Carrick-on-Suir. The latest accounts
received at Nenagti stated that a number of the people
of Carrick had risen to etf,et tho rescue of Dr. Ryan,
and were engaged with the military and police when
the above prisoners left. Reinthreements, it is said,
had left Nenagh for Carrick. 'lbis pottiou at least
of the tale is inconsi:tent, for aid might have been
had much sooner. Dr. Ryan has been lodged in
Clonmel gaol.
The police, in the course of yesterday, acting on
private information, discovered in the rear of Bes-
borough-terraee, on the approach to tho park by Lord
Palmerston 's property in Dublin, a box containing a
gun, two carbines, a sword, together with some pike-
heads, 15 lbs. weight of bullets, and a proportionate
quantity of powder. '1 he arms on the premises of a
gunsmith named Walsh, who kept a shooting gallery
on Lower Ormond quay, were carried off yesterday.
The commissioners of police had refused him a license
to pursue his trade.
We could hardly, however, ba prepared for an an-
nouncement in the Carlow paper to-day that a refugee
Pole, one of a race which has had sa much to thank
England for, bad been in the south, teaching the mal-
contents
the pike exe-ciee. This person, whose name
is Sinowsky, is in custody, and avows he came nom
Tipperary to pursue his profession in Carlow. The
same paper gives the following account of a formida-
ble conspiracy, which, if true, displays the fearful
dangers from which the country has escaped :
Atter the mee'ing of the Irish League in Dublin, the
" coal. deretes " met is secret conclave as an executive di
rectory. Dublin being found too well garrisoned,
they resolved to strike • blow is the provinces,
and, accordingly, it appears, not only by inter-
cepted core( spondenee, but by actual iuforrnation in
the possession of government, that Kilkenny, "the
rity of the confederates" of old, was selected as the grand
focus of rendezvous. Here it was resolved to proclaim " a
provisional government," calculated on so success:ul ou out-
break as would overpower all resist time from that quarter,
and from that point it was expected the flame would
spread with such rapiditu through Waterford, Cork, Tippe-
rary, and Wexford, as to encourage other counties to rse
simultaneously, end unfurl the banner of "Liberty, Equality
and Fraternity." Attrr proclaiming • " provieional
government" in Kilkenny, the rebel projects are
asoertained to be of a moat wrocious character. These pro-
jects we shall not one dwell upon, as they will he clearly
developed on the forthcoming trials; but we learn that, had
th• y succeeded, a reign of terror was to be established—the
property of th country confi-cated—a wholesale plan of
rohlpry carried into effect—in short, every man in Ireland,
whether Celt ortihixon, opposed to ire insurgents, was to to
summarily disposed of, without the " benefit of clergy," and
a " republic," one and indivisible, was to be erected on the
ruins of the monarchy, by the deluded and short-sighted
Lunation who composed this sanguinary confederacy.
The governors of prisons where political offenders
are confined have received positive instructions not to
admit any persons to visit them except the officers of
the prison and the chaplains.
Mr. Jerome Lalor, brother of Mr. Lalor of the
Felon, is an inmate of Ncnagh gaol. He is an en-
gineer, and had just returned from America.
The peasantry of the south, the tanners in good cir-
cumstances more especially, are in a fair way to
understand the difference between a protecting and a
" patriot.' army. All the southern journals com-
plain that not a single night passes in which the
Slievenamon rangers do not plunder their bullock-
fields, sheep-walks, piggeries,or roosts. The soldiers,
on the other hand, if they want anything, pay well
for it. The greater portion of the commissary stores
are of course sent from Dublin.

A fact is stated respectirg the peasantry which it
is just to record of them, and is consolatory to the
well-ordered. When the Thurles contingent of police
uere proceeding towards the Commons of Boulagh,
the peasantry on the borders acted as guides to them
over the hills, point ..g wit the insurgent body in the
valley. Peasantry, police, and soldier. are on excel-
lent terms.

The last accounts from Bermuda left Mr. Mitchel
much improved in health. lie was treated with great

Mr. Meagher, M.P., father of the unhappy young
outlaw, is, it is said, third on the list of special con-
stables fur Waterford. TiliB afflicted gentleman is
said to have used every tffort, but unavailingly, to
induce his son to abandon his inconsiderate, reckless
course, and proceed to the continent, or America.