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

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, Auo. 6.
All Dublin was startled this morning by the intelli-
gence that Mr. Smith O'Brien was arrested. No one
was prepared for it. Many heard it with discredit.
He had so long avoided the vigilance of the authori-
ties, and baffled the inquisition of the police, that it
was not expected he would be immediately cap-
tured.

The train which brought the now celebrated pri-
soner arrived at Kingebridge at 2 o'clock a.m., and
this being considerably earlier than the mail was
due there were no persons at the terminus save
a very few of the railway servants upon night duty.
Mr. O'Brien was instantly marched away to a little
lodge near Kilmainham hospital, which was occupied
by a guard of the enrolled pensioners, and here he sat
down by the fire. Intelligence was immediately sent to
Town-Major White, who soon after arrived, and
walked with Mr. O'Brien without any parade to Kil-
main:.am gaol, only a few hundred yards distant,
where the prisoner arrived before the mail train had
reached Dublin. Mr. O'Brien was within the walls
of that prison before one individual in Dublin knew
anything of his arrest. When it became known, how-
ever, the almost universal feeling was one of satisfac-
tion. The great body of the people of this metropolis
are gratified at the prospects of the re-establishment
of order and the rerivalof trade, now completely para-
lysed. The gentr, see a prospect of returning to
their houses and not finding them in rains, and the
millions rejoice that the harvest shall not be swept
away by contending hosts, but shall remain without
the control of the "national commissariat" for the
good of all the people. Many persons would have
been not ill pleased that the unhappy man, now % pri-
soner in Kilmainham, had escaped from Ireland, but
being here, the universal feeling is, that for the Bak..
of every interest dear to man, the Providence which
has plaCed him within the reach of the law is most
felicitous for Ireland. _ _ .

This afternoon two professional gentlemen, solici-
tors, applied to Mr. Redington, Under Secretary for
Ireland, at his office in the Castle, for an order to
obtain an interview with Mr. Smith O'Brien, they
having been refused access to him at Kilmamham.
Mr. Redington informed them that he could not give
them the required order, but added that it was totally
unnecessary he should do so, as Mr. O'Brien would
have abundant time to prepare for hi s defence, i nasmuch
as it was not intended to place him on his trial at the
approaching commission. Mr. Redington intimated
that the only political prisoners intended to be
arraigned next week were those connected with the
suppressed newspapers.
An American officer, one of the sympathisers, was
arrested last night, in Thurlee, by the police. Dr.
M'Carron, brother-in-law to Mr. Duffy, recently from
America, was also in custody in Newgate.
Accounts have just reached town that the mails to
and from Dublin to Kerry, on the Limerick route,
have been robbed. Yesterday, near Abbeyfeale, a ,
mountainous district on the border of Kerry and
Limerick, the coaches both ways were Ma and guts
rounded by several hundred men, armed with guns
and other weapons, and the guards were called upon
to surrender the bags or they would be instantly shct.
Terrified and hopeless they yielded, and the coaches
proceeded both ways —the guards proceeding in each
ease to Limerick to swear informations in the case.
the names of these guards are Galvin and Purcell.
L MONTAY MORNING, AtiCl. 7.

From the accounts of the arrest of Mr. S. O'Brien,
published this morning, it would appear that the
prisoner was not at any time in Prince George's pre-
sence, and the circumstances leave little doubt also
that it was his intention at least to place himself in
the way of arrest.
The arrest of the party from America at Thurles is
confirmed ; as also that of a second person, also from
America. Their names are Fitzpatrick and Nolan—
both Irish, it is said, by birth. Messrs. Lawless and
Hanley, both connected with the Dublin clubs, have
been arrested.
Mr. O'Brien's arrest has created a profound sensa-
tion among the peasantry, and will, it is hoped, act
strongly as a sedative to the irritation which the
disappointed leaders have so sedulously excited. Mr.
Doheny is in Tipperary, and all the accounts concur
with some force. The plan, as is now manifest from
the affair at Abbeyfeale and Mr. Doheny's presence
in the Keeper range, was to distract and harass the
troops in a mimic guerilla warfare. Against such
an intention of•the insurgents no event could serve
more than the principal person in the movement
being placed hors-de-combat.
According to accounts by the train which arrived at
the Kingebridge station at three o'clock this morning
all was tranquil along the line. The arrest of Mr.
O'Brien had produced no excitement in Thurles.
The Clonmel Chronicle, a new journal devoted to
the cause of order, intimates that his former unpopu-
larity has returned on Doheny, and that he is in the
mountain of Slievenamon, utterly without a follower.
After all there may be some truth in this.
The Freeman expresses the feelings of the re-
peelers on the arrest of Mr. O'Brien, in an article
from which I take the following passages :