The Express.
London, England, 1848-09-18 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, Bm. It
The Marquis and Marohionem of Lansdowne ar-
rived in Dublin this afternoon, by the Banshee
steamer, front Holyhead. The illustrious visitors
revarttn
immediately set out in aprivate carriage of the mar-
quis's for the vice e, where they will remain
the guests of Lord while they 'down in
Dublin.

_
The accounts from the south this afternoon be-
speak all quiet. The mining company's agents at the
mines and slate-quarries assure the company's officers
here that the men continue at their employment.
The Clonmel papa received to-day is quite full of
moving incidents connected with the later insurrec-
tionary movement They consist, however, of state-
ments, not acts—of rumours and accounts, not facts—
anctall wear the colour cf exaggeration. Neverthe-
less, when we come to analyse them, we shall find, I
think, that they contain abundant material to sustain
the statement in a former despatch—that, however
ridiculous this new movement was in action, there was
at the bottom danger which the authorities re-
calked with uneasiness. It is not the out-
that ie feared—that is harmless, or
only perilous to those engaged in it. It is
not the attack upon a police station, hazardous
to the lives only of those who venture on it; but it is
the conviction which those overt sots afford of the

existence of that temper in the people which be-
tokens recklessness and restlervoess, and which proves
how little we can calculate on peace and order even
for an hour.

The insurgents we are assured continue to scour
the country in armed but scattered parties—here
driving away cattle, there attacking a house—taking
vengeance in one direction on some obnoxious indivi-
dual, and in another flying before the glitter of a
soldier's bayonet, or the glare of his scarlet coat. It
may be the absence of that confidence which
insurgents without a leader are sure to feel, and we
find that the marauders are wanting in that particular,
for it is stated in the Clonmel Chronicle that they had
the audacity to carry off a gentleman resident in
Clonmel, and a man of good property and station, to
lead them. This gentleman, having been brought to
the mountains, and the command tendered to him, re-
Wit of course, and, strange to say, he seems to
hen permitted to go freely to his home. How-
ever this may be, the fatigue of the troops meat be
terrible, and if they are te be continued during the
winter at this dodging warfare, the consequences
EVcalamitous.
movement of the troops from Dublin, and
from Waterford also, upon Carrick, would seem to
have acted upon the insurgents' fears and prudence.
They have therefore retired from Tipperary across the
Suit, and now occupy the south-west district of Wa-
terford. All the accounts tend to show that manifest
disaffection is spreading. The insiuratt, in de-
tached bodies, hover along the ridge of bills
called the Comeraghs. They keep perpetually
shifting their quarters, bat their commiranat is at-
tended to, and it is stated that they roast whole**
carcases of beef stolen from the pastures below on
iron gates laid gridiron-fashion over immense tu:l
fires. Of the latter there takbandance on the hills.

The npperary Vindicator mentions to-day, on the
authority of a codent at Carrick, that the
house of the Rev. Mill, at Mothill, three miles
from that town, had been attacked, his sow shot, and
himself carried off to the mountain& The Evening

Packet, just leaned, establishes certainly the fact of
the attack, but inasmuch u the letter announcing it
was written at Mr. Hill's house, and states that
though "the windows were riddled none of us were
hurt," adding that they have now a guard of police,
we need feel no anxiety for the fate of young Mr.
Hill. The circumstance clearly establishes the exag-
geration which we must deal with in every incident
coming to our knowledge.
The coroner', jury on the body of the insurgent
killed at Olenbower has recorded a verdict of " Ju,-
tillable homicide." The coroner refused to give the
body to the friends of the man to hold "a wake"
over the remains.

A correspondence published in the Packet this
evening, gives us facts for which the actor vouches
by his name. Had we mare men in his position of
the same forward manfulness, our alarm would be
much less. Seeing it stated in the public journals
that "the insurgents had demanded 601. from Mr. G.
Sheppard, and were only put off on his taking his
oath he had not so much money," Mr. Sheppard
deemed it proper to state the facts in a letter to Lord
Clarendon, as follow.:
On Monday evenia, the 11th instant, the rebels mem-
bled near the Slate Quarries, about six miles from Carrick-
on- Snit, on shill near the toweled of Clammemull, and
within a sheet view of my residence. They passed the
night firing shots and keeping up wateltfireo. On the fir:-
Lou mg morning, when I got up, they were visible from my
wiodows, and countermarching in military array,
as if intending to chaps ge the military and police to come
out from Celt-on Bair (in view of which town the chain
of mountains is situate) and attack them. Towards five
o'clock bodies of rebels were observed waszaise down the
hill, but soca after one of them returned and fired
a shot in amending the hill. Not very long after
I happened to be with my met inspecting the stack.
ing of oats upon a field in rear of my house. I
heard one of my workmen say—. Oh! muter master look
at the pikeman riding towards us." I looked up in UN di-
rection of mJ house and perceived a man furiosaly approach-
ing on with a pike, and who almost immediately
euki.ed Whim I. your master 1" One of my men re-
plied "heis in field," when the partisan, looking at him
savagely, said—"tell me, you coward, where he is ?"- I then
ashamed (being mertliikosonosaled at the timethe corn)l
when he pointed hie at me, sad demee did arms
my
.
replied that had an them up to the pare. Be rid—
You are tan g
the a lio," and ilmolaltk Jaased from
his hone, and collared me • Were
m=l.B when
I perceived his pike upon the I healtheted one
of my men to soars it. r some parlay
let our hold, dr rebel felling upon
aelsimktg I wee • goserman and a Wks. as.
seeks me net • thee epee my head eked& be Waxed.
He elm went la the Moeda of say Limes (kw the pumpers,
es he stated sit the tryst Ile keep off hie party), whoa he re-
turned' end demon of 1101., whisky, and earmuff, all
whisk I dediell giving. As sort as I heard the Amur
f= ma ins imilin ems to taad by my 811“1011, to
per, .41111) had lib ay yard I teak or a
ease of yards, had • gar ISlNSaisd, la with me
117 Iscatips, some Ayr, eel immedlstsly erased the
ea het, in sempthy
nth a 1 tire are, until we
Newmarket, whs. I kethardy met a returned car
ors es litheray. I hired this oar and reached my beo-
thrli residues, sear Itheisgee, Is or about 12 o'clock at
a•vltgOwe smeary haetatatitt •at the
sad mopmenur se pared skunk
The following Wreath are from the journals
arrived to-day
CATULICLON-81/12, THURSDAY 11011X/X 0 7 °Twee.—
The insurrectionary movement ia this edgbltsudreil con-
tinues to process, as wall in magairde as is dieing and
tmedul eu
hiding btax Tratinteheirrota, le allii=ges the
description of cowardly outrage upon privet* pespetp whs.
wader the shade of der ims& On Wednesday thebt thsy en
ambled in large numbers on the hills, end disk, end
lighted large signal fires ; they were gathering berg the
day from all quarters, and at night were eslimeeed to
number from three to six thorned ass. Oa that
erode, Mr. O'lllalrey, who Is astmewleispd to
be the mast missbierens, thepethea rid mast de-
termined of any of the rebel kedies, was closely
wart from the &resew of Glathersamokowards Cu-
r.*, end after having bra very indeed, he
got out ef der ; bet, k • lithe, the pay in permit
swildwely mem wpm Ilea; be was es He made
kr the thee end* was sheet lathethile km* whin he
Few& by a dm Idiom wise Prthably win meats to
him er the gathreleg at the Weaselled seowatalus ;
dried into the *mon the bone, end Tweed the Water-
ked side. The knows whe weird he him also crowed
Ina la • bar, which they lei Is esediame. This
severed between six and sera Vele* la the evening,
sad at a place celled Detheld Castle, whisk I within four
miles from Card*, en the main read is arreel. He is
treed up to 1k11:7=1 where he anived a little after
sere; bre he was by ems of the parrings, esti
mated at about 1 mer, nee sII of whom were armed,
Ind well rend with previdens. gamma into rank',
and merehoi self is mitheity eider te Obese, where the
were joked by melba belly, all of whom se Nes pros
to are* the emithase of William Men, Esq., of that
Nees. They feed tab the truer, broke open the doors and
windeeth semorked the pesedess for areas, and carried off
some guns whisk they (reed; they did • peal deal of
damp, GM bed emenl ado on N_lnfog the pile. They
dun presseded ea he • Pees sethd Meths' anChalted when
they cams %the glebe, the ruthless of Ate Bev. William
Hill, who is ea heglarive old pedsoun. The Rev. Mr.
Byrne, Catholic curate, at Cankh-on-Suir, gave me a glow-

bag &Keene of biped nature and kind &maiden, and spoke
in elms of peat regret, that any such disgraesfal outrage,
se I ans sheet te relate, shield have been emissive& They
knocked at kis doors sad demanded adnuthmer, which
they were denied by the brave old Bentlemin
from within; he immediately got up, and with bb son, and
seams-law, provided thems-lves withrue Ise their defence.
The mete gentlased battering at the dues, bet they were too
web baolerisd within. They were Mac bli the house
them\ the widows, when the three, with *e=
anma% sad astarsiald bravery, appeared at do
end returned • fire which they had sustabed the slag I
agedn fired, which they also returned. The 11th[ he this
seesaw was kept up for nearly two lawn and a built
mod the realm finding themselves foiled in thrfelt ei
ression, divided themselves. One party emellitube
to Ire in at the windows, another battering is the
doses, and a third got some bundles of straw, lighted
those, and set fire to the barn, cowhouses, and all other
eat-emcee, which they burned nearly to the grand.
The firs reached up to the house, which was also ig-
niting, when the brave defenders of their home were
compeEed to strike. They yielded up two old guns, having
managed to dispoo of their working arms. The mob be-
came turbulent, and insisted upon taking young Mr. Hill, es
a hostage, with them in their coterie. This proposition was
urged with great vehemence and threatening, and aa Faso
lute:y opposed by Mr. Hill ; and although rumour rates
that they did take him with them, I can state positively
that they did not; for he has since, with his father, sworn
informations of the attack. They than proceeded to the
residence of Mr. Moore, at Ballynavin, whore, after break-
ing into the house they made search (or arms and provi-
sions, and after some time (no resistance had been offered
to them), they found a pistol end some powder which
they took away with them. They next attacked the
residence of Mr. Henry Wilson, also of Ballynavin ;
they fired into the house, broke open the doors,
and took a gun away with them ; also a quantity of cattle
which were on the land ; those they drove off for the pur-
pose of replenishing their oommissariat. Not content with
all this plunder, the cowardly ruffian' next proceeded to the
residence of Mr. Walsh, at filenhower ; they broke into the
house, and although they turned over everything in it, and
destroyed much valuable property, they did not succeed in
finding any arms, but on their leaving the ground, those
model patriots subbed with a pike a most valuable ctolt, his
property, in the ribs, from which it is expected the animal
will not recover. They then went off in the direction of
Bathcornsuk, where they were again joined by the main
body ; they then marched up the mountains. Immediately
on intelligence of those outrages reaching Carrick, Heed-
Constable OTT and a party of constabulary proceeded to the
Rev. Win. Hill's residence, to scour the country round about.
At two o'clock yesterday, a body of constabulary from the
Dublin depot, numbering about sixty men, drove into
Carrick from Kilkenny, under the command of Suebispector
Mathew (on the staff of the Pamela depot). They are de-
cidedly one of the finest body of men in Ireland, smart,
active, and intelligent. Their first words were " Are we
going at them." " Why stop here, but follow them into
their own camps." Theis sernem were soon, however, called
into requisition, for • despatch from the mountains very soon
arrived. The CUT which brought in this force were pressed
on service, 'the horses led in • hurry, and, in an hour after
their arrival in Carrick, the men who had come a forced
march from Dublin, were oa their way up the
mountains. A large body of the 83rd and 3rd Buffs, and
a party of the 4th Light Dragoons also accompanied
them, all under the instructions of Mr. Coulon, R.M.
At five o'clock p.m., an express was received at the bar-
racks that the insurgents were marching on the bridge of
Carrick to break it down. Two of the 4th Dragoons were
sent off with • despatch to the camp at Pilltown, and the 3rd
Buffs at Carrick were marched down to the bridge, upon
which they took no position, under Mr. Briscoe,
loaded, and there awaited the attack. No enemy amend
as such. The town was greatly excited. Multitudes began
to assemble, and in 26 minutes after the dragoons had been
sent to Pilltown, a company of the Old Buffs, under the
command of Captain Chamberlain, came doubling into the
town, cheering se they hurried along. Thom tine men, not-
withstanding their recent humming duties, came in a quick
trot from Pilltown to Carrick, with their knapsacks on,
three good Irish miles in the incredibly short Bisect of
26 minutes. At six o'clock the Butt retired from the
bridge, but strong patrols, both of military sad police, were
kept up daring the remainder of the evening, taking pri-
soners and lodging in Bridewell every man whom they found
in the struts alter 10 o'clock. At nine o'clock an express
arrived with news that the insurgents had gone towards
Purism, and that the military and police under Mr. Coulson,
who went out in the morning, bad token up position for the
night at Rathoormack, and also that they had been joined
by the Marquis of Waterford and hie tenantry and his at-
tendants, who kept the lead in pursuit all day. At hall-past
10 p.m., when I was about to write my report, I heard that
another express had arrived in town for military form. I
determined to accompany them. Captain Chamberlain's
company of the 3rd Buffs, who hadthe run from Pill.
town, a party of the 4th Light Dragoons, under Lieut.
Blade, and two constables, under the instructions of H. W.
Briscoe, J. P. eom the force. We went out in the
direction of Xi an, searching all the suspicious cabins
and farms in our way. The Balls divided—one party, under
Lieut. Luau, took the river side—the other kept on the road.
We journied along for a mile or ea, whoa we turned up a
borheen, and joined the road . I accompanied the
I river party ; upon which we that a body of men
were moving on the opposite Desk of the river. We lay in
atebnah here for soma time, but meld net clearly distinguish
their movements or the direction which they took. We
prommied on and searched other houses, and also Doefield
eM ards, and returned back to Carrick • little before four
this morning. The military last night were very much die
sppelated at not having had an opportunity to fraternise
with O'hiahony's form. Oa Tuesday night, however, they
had • little satisfaction by pouring three rounds into them
on Newton-hill ; there is no account of killed or wounded,
but without doubt some lives were lat.