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S UN7 SEPTEMBER 15, 1848.

rives, with a portion of the above regiment, were
left to take care of Waterford. A company of Royal
Marines immediately occupied each barrack, which are
in their character similar to small forts. A captain
and sixty men also were in the Court-house, and the
defence of the bridge was confided to a captain and
forty men of that corps. The presence of a small
steamer, with a light draught of water, would have been
a most valuable auxiliary above bridge, to check the
advance of any hostile party on the city.—Herald.

[PRICE SD.

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, THURSDAY MORNING.—The battle of
Glenbower was even a more despicable affair, in a
military point of view, than that of Ballingarry. It
appears that the police barrack at the former place
was attacked by about 100 men—the few con-
stables who had charge of it retired towards Carrick.
Before they were able to remove their clothes the
insurgents pounced upon them, and carried them off
as trophies. The chiefs immediately arrayed them-
selves in the boats, shirts, and other articles, not
showing exactly from what source they were de-
rived. The list of casualties on one side appears to
be—two insurgents shot dead, five or six wounded,
and several prisoners. One policeman is reported
wounded.
The Kilkenny Moderator contains the following :
THE OUTBREAK—LATEST AND AUTIIENEIC
INTELLIGENCE.

Callan, Sept. 13, Five o'clock P.M.
Having come to this town to-day for the purpose of
ascertaining the-truth or falsehood of the various flying
rumours as to the position, strength, and exploits of the
insurgents yesterday encamped on Aheny-hill, which
you have already given to your readers, I now proceed
to inform you of the statements which may be depended
upon as strictly true, and those which were exaggerated
through the terror of the narrators. You were fully
correct in stating that the authorities in the neighbour-
hood of Carrick had apprehended an outbreak, and had
taken precautions to meet any sudden attack upon that
town, during the latter end of last week ; and it ap-
pears that on Monday the insurgents began to muster
upon the hill of Aheny, or Kilclispin, near the slate
quarries, where they were drilled by their leaders,
and supplied themselves with food by levying con-
tributions from the surrounding farmers, who were
compelled to send in several head of cattle. Who the
leaders were remains unknown at present, and it is very

doubtful whether they were men of greater experience or
information than the masses who composed the main
body of the rebels. I believe that the first act of actual
aggression was made against the constabulary party
stationed at Portlaw, in the county of Waterford. A
detachment of insurgents surrounded the barrack, and
demanded a surrender of the policemen's arms. The
party within refused to comply, and several shots were
then fired on both sides. The police escaped altogether
uninjured; but the insurgents sustained a loss of two men
killed upon the spot and some wounded, which caused
them to retire in great confusion. About four o'clock,

P.M., another detachment from the camp of Aheny pro:
ceeded to the slate quarry police station, which they
found deserted, and then burned, as you have already
stated, the constabulary having retired upon Piltown.
They also went to the house of Mr. G. Sheppard, of
Kiltracy, and endeavoured to extort 501. from him; but
permitted him to depart upon his making oath that he
did not possess such a sum. At about seven o'clock
in the evening a body of 100 men, armed with pikes and
guns, proceeded to surround the police station at Glen-
bower. The various constabulary parties in the district
had, during the day, received orders to retreat to Car-
rick, and convey their property with them, as they were
'exposed to much danger whilst remaining in their iso-
lated position, and so near the rebel camp. The Glen-
bower men were in the act of placing their effects upon
cars for the purpose of removal, when they perceived
the enemy approaching, and they then immediately be-
took themselves to the barrack. The insurgents pounced
upon the clothes-boxes of the men, which they broke
open with large stones, and then deliberately proceeded
to array themselves in the various articles of apparel
which they found therein, throwing away the old
clothes which they had previously worn. They then
demanded a surrender of the policemen's arms, but
the constables, eight in number, had been occupying
themselves in making the arrangements for defence, the
trick of which they were so well taught by Mr. Trent at
Farranrory, and accordingly replied to the demand by
firing a volley at the besiegers. Just at this critical
moment the eight policemen who formed the Nine-mile-
house party, and who were on their march to Carrick,
arrived at Glenbower. They immediately gave the in-
surgents a volley in the rear, and the fellows did not
stand to receive their further compliments, but ran away
in all directions. Two men fell before the barracks,
one of them was wounded, and the constabulary made
him a prisoner; the other was killed on the spot. The
latter was a person residing in the neighbourhood, and
well known to the police—he had upon his feet a pair of
boots rifled from one of the boxes, and his own old
brogues were found where he had thrown them by
the road•side when he had fitted himself more
to his liking. An old woman, whom I met
at the place, stated that she was looking
on at the entire engagement, and that after
the " boys" ran, one of them, whilst crossing the
hill was struck by a ball from the barrack, and fell, but
got up again and was assisted off by his comrades. She
ulso said that several others of the attacking party a ere
believed to have been wounded. The constabulary party

of Nine-mile-house remained at Glenbower, fearing. that
they might be interrupted in their march to Carrick, and
an intimation of their precarious condition was conveyed
to Sub-InspectorTrant, to Callan, by a letter entrusted to
the guard of the Cork and Kilkenny mail, which passed
soon after the skirmish. Upon the receipt of this billet,
immediate preparations were made of going for the rescue
of the constables. A portion of the 57th Regiment was en-
camped at Callan, and the head-quarters of the 83d had
arrived from Kilkenny, en route for Fermoy. Notwith-
standing the fatigue of the day's march already sustained,
two companies of the latter gallant corps turned out with
the utmost alacrity and cheerfulness, and with two com-
panies of the 75th, and about thirty policemen, under
command of P. Blake, Esq.. C. 1., and Thomas Trant,
Esq., 5.1., proceeded to Glenbower. They, however,
found that the constabulary had left previous to their
arrival, having been relieved by a company of the 3d
Buffs, and a company of the 83d from Carrick, who came
to their assistance on jaunting-ears as soon as the news
of their danger reached that town, and made prisoners of
several people whom they found congregated near the
Glenbower station. These men, though found in this
position, were not armed, and we believe no charge will
be sustained against them. The 75th and 83d Regi-
ments, with the Callan constabulary, bivouacked for the
night at Glenbower, in the open air. On the following
morning communications were held with the troops in
Carrick touching the advisability of marching from either
point on the hill of Aheny, and giving the insurgents
battle. However, upon making observations of the
ground it was found that the rebel force had evacuated
the camp and disappeared into the various woods
and mountain passes of the district, to dislodge them
from which would require a much larger force and more
matured plan of operation. Accordingly the troops and
police returned from Glenbower to Callan to-day,
and I believe the 83d is to continue its march to Fethard
to-morrow. You will perceive from this statement that
the reports in Kilkenny last night, and which were con-
veyed chiefly by fugitives from the neighbourhood of
Kilmoganny, were much exaggerated ; and I believe
that the number of insurgents actually appearing in
arms was much over-rated. The police were nowhere
disarmed, as you were led to believe, but, onh the
bcolas-
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latter
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defeated. came in
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e to
ascertain the truth or otherwise of the rumour
that there were three pieces of cannon on the
hill of Aheny, during its occupation by the in-
surgents, but I was assured that Curraghmore had been
plundered of the arms which it contained—whether can-
non were amongst them my informant saith not. I am
also assured that there was no turn-out of unemployed
labourers at Thomastown yesterday, all the able-bodied
poor of that place being employed on the railway works.
The insurgents I do not consider as totally defeated.
On the contrary, I fear that, lurking in the mountains,
they will make occasional descents upon the property of
the neighbouring inhabitants, keeping up a guerilla war-
fare, and harassing the troops by frequent forced marches,
without coming to action. It is at all events quite evi-
dent that plunder, and not the assertion of any political
right, is the main object of the outbreak.
At is, late hour this (Wednesday) night the 60th Rifles
arrived in this city from Dublin, en route to the seat of

disturbance.
General M'Donald arrived in Kilkenny last night.
The Freeman's journal of this morning contains the
following version of the outbreak, from its correspondent
at Glenbower, a little village adjacent to Slievenamon I—
" Glenbower, near Slievnamon, County Tipperary,
Wednesday Evening.
"Having heard of the general rumour of a rising of
the people of the district around Carrick and Pills
revolu-
own,
and read the alarming accounts given of the '
tionary' assemblages in the Kilkenny and. Clonmel
journals, each of which issued special editions, I pro-
ceeded forthwith to the district in order to ascertain the
precise state of facts—whether, in fact, there was the
precise and if there was, what was its object and

extent.
"I proceeded from Kilkenny this morning to Callan,
where I learned that there had been a movement of the
pcgsantry in the vicinage of Carrick, in the hilly district,
which is a continuation of the Slievenamon mountain.
A con number, amounting to probably from five
for the most part labourers, assembled
where they formed a sort of
to six hundred
learn,
t term to an assemblage
.r4thalttoogeftohremr
on the hill of Ahen.,,
encampment-4f I can use z:..:.`
wherewith e r:
of men unptosided with anything'
a camp. The object of the Assemble
of an agrarian character as far As I con;.2
and so far from there being anything of a political (oz as
the Alarmist journals had it, revolutionary) clittrecter
about the assemblage, I could not learn that a single
man ever known to have taken a part in politics had any
connexion whatever with the proceeding. As to the
presence of Mr. Doheny, Mr. O'Gorman, or Mr. O'lla-
bony, , it is a pure fabrication—none of these gentlemen I
were even said to have been present by any of the parties
who spoke of what they saw or even beard in the vicinity.
At Callan, which is situate about nine miles from the
hill of Aheny, I was informed (as it afterwards appeared
' correctly) that the people had dispersed in the course of
yesterday evening or last night, and that the affrighted
district on this morning wore its wonted aapect of tran-
quillity. Not willing, however, to trust to any rumour,
1 r.solvcd to proceed to the I,ceue of action. On my way

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