The Express.
London, England, 1848-09-29 00:00:00

IRELAND.

Down, Barr. M.
The spirit of arrest appears to revive in the south,
in one district, air promptly as it subsides in another
and the frequent arrests which the authorities deem it
necessary to make, prove at the same time the
vigilance which the authorities exercise, and
them full belief that the spirit which M
abroad demands constant and vigorous repression.
Besides Mr. O'Ryan, and his relative, Miss O'Ryan
who have already been taken into custody, the latter
for harbouring O'Mahoney, her nephew, a Mies
Power has been arrested for a like offence. Mr.
spoprietor of the Warerferd Chro-
nicle, has alio- Una plead_ Attesi, it is
mid, on a charge of high treason, and
on evidence that he was present and an actor in the
recent affair at Carrick-on-Stur._ . . .

The imposition to payment of rent does not abate.
In the King's county we find the peasantry have
again rescued crops ander distraint, and in filayo, the
executor of the late Lord Clanmorris, proceeding to
collect rents due on the estates of that noble-
man, was set on by a number of people,
beaten, and his papers taken and tinned.
In Limerick a large or monster assemblage of the
people wu to have taken place at Knockfierns, a high
ground near Ballingarry. The police and military,
however, having been put in motion, the meeting was
not held. The intended assemblage had reference to
rent.
Lord Dudley Stuart has arrived at Clonmel. Ge-
neral *Donald and his aide-de-camp, Capt. Mien-
de have also arrived there, and will remain until the
commission terminates. Several persons have been
arrested at Newcastle, county Limerick, within the
last few days; two are charged with harbouring
Mr. O'Gorman, and eight others with appear* in
arms when the mails were robbed at Abbeyhale.
A man appeared some days ethos at Patrides
a few mike from Limerick, and solicited the people to
be prepared for a rising. Strange enough this Omen
was identified as a superannuated policeman, sad a
warrant ham been issued for his arrest.
Lord Lansdowne is said to have delivered hie
opinion that Limerick, should Liverpool Miser
tinned as a packet station, would be the Ewe
gib!, port in Ireland for that puse.
The mail between Cork and Limerick wu nearly
opet_at Oalbally • few nights since by large stones
I Speed tomes the road.
Nome two or three months since, an individual,
mud Bryan Hanrehan, who filled the poet of pay-
muter in the 13th Light Dragoons, absconded from
the quarters of the regiment in Ireland, being a de-
fisher of some 3001. or 4001. in his accounts. In vain
have the authorities slue looked for Mr. Hanrahan ;
he was not made assemble. However, among the
ten. persons seined on Mondey at Carrick-on-1
Slur, charged with burning a pollee barrack, Bryan
Hearth= has been it is add, discovered ; and far- I
thee, it is added, that on his person, among other
documents, has been found what peeper," to be
a commission signed by Mr. Smith O'B riesi, as gene-
ralissimo of the Irish army of liberation. One has
heard so many ridiculous incidents comeeted with the
recent movement in the south, which have neverthe-
less proved to be facts, that one an hardly reject
this story of the commission merely became it is ri-
diculous. As for Mr. Hawaiian, in his circumstances
he was not unlikely to be mixed up with the disturb.
nacre, and, besides that, be la a native of the county
or city of Limerick, and posdbly not unknown per-
sonally, or through his commons, to Mr. S. O'Brien.
Ctoexet., WEDNESDAY, Sam 27.—0 n Monday
night Mr. %Mika, proprietor and editor of the
Waterford Chronicle, was taken up by the Ca rick
patrol, uhs was leaving O'Mahony's place; he had
pistols and ammunition in the car on which be was
travelling, but made no attempt at resistance. He
was brought into Carrick and placed in the Bridewell,
where he remained till the morning, when he
was removed, under a police escort, to the county
prison in this town. Miss Power, who was ar-
rested for harbouring O'Msbony (her nephew),
was brought in along ,with him, and Mrs. Kit-
like accompanied them ; on alighting from one
of Bunning oars, Mr. /Mika gave his sina
to each of the ladies, and in that way they walked to
the gaol, guarded by the pease.
hPhanu had dssided upon defending himself, and
attempting to justify the part he had taken in the late
moveatent ; bat, yielding to the advice of his fi
at a late hour last night he: sent for Mr. Dwyerlia,t
=y, a solicitor of great experience in criminal
sad of large inaction in this scab, and
beard of him to take his case. Mr. Dwyer he now
!is sdkitor, but I have not heard whether be Ys pi
listed counsel.
Smith O'Brien has undertaken to pay for templet
legal assistance for all the poor men who ate le be
tried, leaving the choice of individuals to themedue.
It is said that his own counsel have great 17s of
gaining a favourable verdict, on the strength seme
technicalities, if not on the merits of the ease.
It is now ascertained that six of the rebels who
attached the Rev. Mr. Hill's house were shot by the
gallant little band that defended it; they have slam
died.
The reporter of the Freeman has a few additional

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