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LONDON, THURSDAY: AUGUST 3, 1142.

LATEST FROM IRELAND.

DUBLIN,
WEDNESDAY EVENING.

The accounts received this morning state that the
mid-day mails from the south brought no intelligence
of the movements of the rebel leaders, All was re-
ported quiet.

Lord Hardinge was to leave Dublin this day or to-
morrow for Tipperary. The 75th Regiment had
received orders to march forthwith from Kilkenny to
Callan. Thurles is being reinforced by a detachment
of the 43d. A demi-battery of artillery had moved
from Pilltown to Clonmel, and that stationed at
Waterford had marched to Pilltown.
The Birkenhead, with a reinforcement of 250 ma-
rines, was to leave Kingstown for Waterford yesterday
afternoon.

Callan, on Tuesday night, was quiet. The military
continued, in occupation of Ballingarry. Dr. Karin
had been arrested that morning at Kilkenny.
The following has been received from the Electric
Telegraph Company :
"DUBLIN, AUGUST 2, 5.50. P.M.

The country, according to the reports of the guards
of the train which arrived this afternoon from the
south, continues perfectly quiet.

" Two more arrests took place in Dublin this day.
—C. Taffee, Esq., barrister-at-law, President of the
Swift Confederation Club, and T. Walter Mayler,
President of the Citizen Club, both of whom are com-
mitted to Newgate.
" Dublin never was more tranquil."
(From the Pilot.)

The following arrests hive taken place in Gal-
way :—C. Rochford, attorney ; John Blake, editor
of the
.Galway Vindicator 4, and Geoghagan, gun-
smith.

(From the Dublin Evening Mail.)

It was generally rumoured last evening, that
O'Brien, Meagher, and Reilly, had succeeded in em.
barking on board a vessel in Galway, which. was Gu
the point of sailing for America. •
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No certain intelligence has been received from. Ire-
land respecting the movements of the rebel chiefs.
There are of course a variety of rumours, none of
which, however, appear to rest on sufficient founda-
tion to entitle them to any degree of credence. The
statement that SMITH O'Baiaa had established a
camp on the side of Slievenamon Mountain, and that
some thousands of the peasantry still remained under
his command, which was yesterday communicated
by electric telegraph, appears to be wholly untrue.
The defeat at Boulagh Common on Saturday last
was too decisive, and too clearly exhibited the folly
of an undisciplined, unofficered, and badly armed
mob attempting to oppose a well-organized band,
although far inferior in point of numbers, to render
it probable that any serious resistance would be
offered to the powerful force of military and police
now concentrated upon, the disturbed districts.
Trifling contests may is e;, place in order to favour
the escape of the fugiti alders, but the rebellion
has been practically sup , and the dark and
threatening clouds that red over the poli-
tical horizon have been's 'Completely- (ll*
'Tile people are now told that they must ben
storm
eventuallyun
tilrieintgbaas blown over, and that Ireland wille
SHEA. LA ox, a her proper attitude. So says Mr.
prominentooti vry
emember of the Young
Ireland party, ne f few who now ventures

to address the clubbists, and there is no reason to
doubt that the prudent advice will be followed by the
latter. Mr. LALOR, however, appears to reckon
without his host in supposing that the hurricane, as
he terms it, will so speedily pass away. It will in
its progress purify the atmosphere from the treason
taint by which it has so long been polluted, and
carry with it the hopes of those who fancied that
Ireland could exist as a separate republic, and that
they could with impunity renounce the allegiance
they owed to the SOYERZIGN of the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland.

Much, however, now depends on the manner in
which Government will fellow up the victory they
have attained. The clubs, which clearly were the
hot-beds of treason, in which the arrange-
ments for the rebellion were concluded,
have dissolved themselves. Care trust be taken
that they shall not be re-established under any
pretext whatever. The arms which were purchased
with so much ostentation must be surrendered to the
proper authorities appointed to receive them, before
any relaxation whatsoever can be permitted. A strict
surveillance must be kept over those who, by their
connexion with the principal traitors, have afforded
too strong a presumption of their own participation
in the guilty designs now happily exposed and de-
tected ; and if a necessity should arise, the pro-
visions of the recent Act should be freely
brought into operation. It will be an act
of kindness to the misguided individuals them-
selves to withdraw them for a time from the
opportunity of committing mischief or implicating
themselves still more deeply than is at present the
case. It would have been fortunate for Messrs.
O'BarEN and MEAGHEE if verdicts according to the
evidence had been returned by the juries who tried
them. If that had been the case, they would now, in
place of being proscribed fugitives with large rewards
offered for their apprehension, be undergoing a tem-
porary imprisonment only. They escaped moderate
punishment in consequence of the admission of sym-
pathising confederates to the jury-box, and have now
exposed themselves to the extreme penalty of the
law if justice should not be tempered with mercy,
and the sentence of death exchanged for perpetual
banishment. How far superior is the condition of
JOHN MITCHEL' the prime instigator of the rebellion,
to that of his still more unfortunate associates.

The approaching trial at the commission, which
will be opened in Dublin on Monday next, will in-
dicate in some degree how far a healthy tone has
been restored to society in Ireland. The law officers
of the Crown, in the discharge of their important
duties, will doubtless take every proper precaution to
guard against a failure of justice. No person who
is at all supposed to have been implicated in the
treasonable practices that have taken place
should be placed upon the panel, or if such persons
should chance to be summoned, and should answer
to their names, the prerogative of the Crown should
be freely resorted to in setting them aside. Let the
spirit of the instructions given by the Attorney-
General on AlmHais trial be strictly adhered to.
Exclude no person on account of his religion, but
strike off every man who professes political opinions
in accordance with those of the prisoners about to be
tried, or who justifies a resort to physical force under
any circumstances whatsoever.

It is the good fortune, or, shall we call it, the ine-
vitable prerogative of some families to identify them-
selves in a particular manner with the history of their
country; but it seldom falls to the lot of a distin-
guished house to associate the name of its members,
individually and collectively, with the civil, military,
naval, literary, and administrative genius of a whole
generation. In this respect the NAPIERS stand almost
without a parallel. Is the reign of the first JAMES
of Scotland, according to a famous heraldic legend,
the ancestor of this noble race, himself a chieftain of
the ancient clan of the Black Douglass, originated
by his gallantry on the battle-field the name
which has of late years been rendered so
celebrated by his descendants. Instead of dege-
nerating, the family has only been matured
in vigour and ripened in intellectual strength by the
lapse of centuries. To quote the chivalrous pun of
the Scottish monarch, the present generation of the
NAPIERs can find Nae-peers, even among the most
memorable of their remote progenitors.
Last evening a complimentary banquet was given
by the members of the Junior United Service Club
to the Conqueror of Sinde, Lieutenant-General Sir
CHARLES JAMES NAPIER. Apart front all other
considerations, it must have afforded a profound
sense of gratification to the gallant officers in the
British army to welcome back to his native
land the victor in the great battles of
Meanee and Hyderabad. The personal daring,
the military skill, the indomitable resolution,
and the imperturbable calmness displayed on those
occasions by this illustrious soldier, were facts which
of themselves would have been sufficient to inspire
the members of the Junior United Service Club with
an anxiety to greet him, soon after his arrival in
England, with their cordial and fraternal congratula-
tions. But when it is remembered that to his bril-
liant services as a captain Sir CHARLES NAPIER
had added the solid merits of an administrator;
when it is borne in recollection that he com-
pleted as governor what he had commenced as
conqueror, that he not only carried the prowess of
our troops triumphantly over enormous hordes of the
Asiatic aborigines, but that he also ensured to his ,
country the permanent allegiance of the population of
Sinde by his wise and temperate administration—it
must be acknowledged that there was sufficient reason
for the enthusiasm with which Sir CRARLES was
yesterday received by his gallant brothers in her
MAJESTY'S service. Nor could their sen-
timents have been otherwise than enhanced by
the presence of the Earl of ELLENROROUGH, seeing
that it was during the governorship of that nobleman
over the vast empire in Hindostan that Sinde was
first attached to the Oriental dominions of Great
Britain, and that thus the navigation of the Indus and
its tributaries, a navigation extending for two thou-
sand miles inland, was opened to the commerce and
the enterprise of the merchants of England.
What we would especially wish to be understood,
in connexion with this congratulatory entertainment,
is that the banquet is something more than a
noisy compliment. Inadequate as it may be, we would
have it regarded by Sir CHARLES NAPIER himself
as a genuine English welcome, a welcome coming, it
is true, immediately from the lips of some sixty gen-
tlemen, but one which finds a responsive echo in the
hearts of many thousands of the people of these

realms. Powerful as the precedents may be, from
NELSON and BRONTB of the Nile downwards, per•

suasive as may be his own experience to the contrary,
we would have Sir CHARLES NAPIER under-

stand that his country is not ungrateful, but
that she appreciates his eminent and splendid
services, if that be possible, to their very
uttermost. If slander 'and misrepresentation have
been conspicuous among the returns received by the
Conqueror of Sinde, for having enlarged the pos-
sessions of his SOVEREIGN by the acquisition of a po-
pulous and fertile kingdotn like that of Sinde, he
must remember the supeiinr misfortunes of one who
had preceded him by nearly three centuries. History
has bewailed, and will continue to bewail until the
end of time, the calumnies which eMbittered the
glory of the Adelantado of FERDINAND of Arragon
and Castile. And if the aspersions cast
upon, the colonial administration of the
Conqueror of Sinde were equally undeserved, there
is a certain consolation in reflecting that they have
been immeasurably less prejudicial to his happiness
than those which gave to chains, degradation, and
penury the discoverer of Guanahami. With all ear-
nestness, therefore, we would convey to the heart of
Sir CHARLES NAPIER the consolatory conviction that
his countrymen respond to the enthusiasm of the
Junior United Service Club, that they appreciate his
many and brilliant achievements, and that they regard
his name at once with emotions of pride and gratitude.

SPAIN.

Madrid Journals of the.27th.ult. have arrived.

The extent to which the spirit of insubordination
has extended in the regiments quartered at La
Granja has awakened serious apprehensions. Even
Niutvaxa has been compelled to give way to release
the insurgents from arrest, and to promise to punish
the officer who had ordered the punishment,—the
attempt to inflict which had occasioned the outbreak.
There has been a violent scene at he Palace

between the KING-CONSORT, ChRISTINA, and MuNoz.
His MAJESTY, it appears, is exceedingly angry at
the banishment of his father, which he attributes to
CHRISTINA, and he expressed his indignation in no
very measured terms, whereupon MuNoz took upon
himself to interfere, and the KING ordered him
under arrest. CHRISTINA, unable to restrain her
passion, boxed the KING'S ears soundly, whereupon
the courtiers interfered, and the differences between
the parties were patched up for the present.
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