The Express.
London, England, 1848-09-11 00:00:00

THE SPECIAL CO. MISSION.

The preparsuons fur the special comv.iasiou at Cleatnel
are rapidly hastening to maturity. The grand .jury panel
will on this occasion furnish the Janes by whom ihe accused
will be tried, and the nnly prisoners yet named for arraign-
ment me Meson. S. O'Brien and Meagher, together with
Mr. Wilier us. I have no doubt, however, that the name
of Mr. Daly ought at least to be added. That be will be
arraigued for treason titers seems no room to doubt ; sad as
no commission will Wile for Dublin, and as hi• le:ter, said to
have been found in Mr. O'Brien's portmanteau, will make
him legally a par icipator in the proceedings in Tipperaty,
there seem; good reason to conclude that he alio win be
tried at Clonmel.
The croon solicitor's aides have visired the seen, of the
intentied iusurrectioa, fixing on witneeme, wearpino and
a:gimping testimony. They have completed the history of
the events at Miulagh and Baltimore), end have now gun.
to Mullinahone.
Superintendents and workers at the mines, who have been
called on by the crown, have visited the parths now in
Yilmninharn, and who were amorist the linurgents, for the
purpose of identification, and have failed, it is said, to
recognise Mr. Meagher. It thin be so, it will nitro.
borate, to a curtain extent, a wine, the details of which
have appeared In all the papers, London and Irish,
but which 1 first recorded in the Express, namely, that
wherein counsel was takes among the chiefs as to the
" make a prey " of caul* to teed the eM4yo army of
Sl.sivenataim, and as to the necessity of keep no them toge-
ther. Mr.,O'Brien was said to have bean opposed to
both, and to have been aloes In oppositzus. Mr
Meagher is said to have separated from ham u en im.
pr,micable from that boor. 'lke government, too, is drawing
. video. e from another quarter. A Mr Halpin, secretary to
the cunfedzration, to the council or the clubs, an a to the
league, haw, it appetite, been withdrawn from Bel& t and re
mined to Naas crime. I have already intimated that the
authorities were said to brio communication with this per.on,
and certainly his removal from Belfast, on the highway to
CI rncl, gives some countenance to the rumour.
Ir the witnevaes from the South have not suceeeed
ia connecting Mr. Meagher with those who were *env. ly
engaged in the di.turbinees they hove, it would seem. de.
covered ir. Mr. *Mains more titan wa antieiptte I. Tins
person is declared to be no Ws than the leader soh r e died on
the police at Mulioaeone to surrender, and the chief w o led
the attack on the poliot in Mrs. M'Cormich's home at
Boahmh. In both instances, it is said that, though sub ud.-
nate to, he meted ag lust the advice of Smith O'Brien
Althsiugh this is stated with greet cot titans in a panel
conneced with the Evening Peat,l aht very marl Mango
to doubt it. lutletd, tai. irurasi would seem to write under
the influence of en imprission, the prevalence of wokk in
in deem iel quoit n rumour has freely asserted—'hat is, the.
Mr. O'Brien was =A...ally affected Junto; his pro. meting.
in the etith. Mr. Cu lee, a superintendent of the Menu
Comp-tors works, it reported to b. of that impr. Won trout
cornmaoication wi b his at the thee. There art may
pampa in his conduct certainly d M t o re. once.° with
prudence; but to suppose Mr. O'Brwn " affected in mind "
in the °Maar, acerpuitioa of the term is wicked end eh-
t4rd. There is e to be presumion ce sting in hi At quar-
ter* that Mr. O'Brien was led by ninnies and denuder
men into the comae he took—that be was an unconscious
tool in the ham!' of others; in Flom 'm.p.g.,. that Mr.
Ditifey f laird him u a puppe'. The pohos of policy oil
which he dittoed from M 64011.004 e, too., would go to prove
that hi. vie•• f omir of the iavio.eb lay of lrp en, and
the sob ',dictation of rank., were lee from C m non-
hm or " Bed Republicanism ;" and, dowries., those
in authority are Lady to estimate there &CUM
stances. Bat we ought not to beget—indeed, we
11/1110 —that, bad Mr. O'Brien succeeded, hni views noel
hate availed but little. With respect to the rime at which the
reel end vain far.qapt at insurrection was made, the Corium
atstes this the direnairimion of the comet which
decided was somewhat precipitated by the vigorcus course
adopted by the g mem:lent ion the issuing of wines, t• after ,
the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Ac. ; and Mr. O'Biteo
is said to have demanded and obtatioeri the signatures or all
the council of the ornfederatiOrs unseat et the wit me. to
abide wit* him toe lime untie% he was ready to das. This
declaration, his wooded, is sew MI the hands of the govern-
meet The story may be tree, ea respect' the deelersion,
Mit as M
regards the time of braving the mart, I have Vie b est
grounds to behave ft anionaerd. When r. O'Brien lett