The Sun.
London, England, 1848-09-14 00:00:00

EVENING, SEPTEMBER 14, 1848.

arrival &' the 33 Buffs they started, accompanied by
another c(mpany. of the Buffs, from Carrick, and one
company of the 833, together with a troop of the 4th
Light Dragoons and a party of artillery with two
pieces of cannon. They proceeded to Kilwacthomas,
where the rebels were said to be encamped.

ARRANGEMENT OF THE REBEL FORCES.

"It is reported that Doheny headed the armed
insurgents who made the attack on Curraghmore for
arms last night. He has taken the command of the
Waterford rebel division, whose present rendezvous is
to be l'ortlaw ; and the Tipperary rebel division,
under the command of O'Mahony, is to rendezvous
at Slievenamon. Their commissariat is said to be
most abundantly supplied at the expense of the
neighbouring farm-houses; and it is a condition on
all recruits joining, that they are to bring arms,
ammunition, and a supply of bread, meat, &c., for
a certain number of days. This has all the appear-
ance of a determined and sanguinary rebellion. It
is also reported that General Dlactlonald has de-
manded an immediate reinforcement of artillery and
cavalry."

The following has been received by electric tele-
graph :

DUBLIN, WEDNESDAY MORNING.

As the Cork mail was on its way to Dublin, it was
met last evening, between Clonmel and Glenbower,
about six miles from the former, by a party of the
people, who told the coachman and guard to return,
as there was a collision between the police and the
people at the Glenbower police-station. On arrival
there, a man was found lying dead in the road; the
police were still safe, but expected a renewed attack.
The coachman hurried on to Callan, where he deli-
vered a note from the police, asking for assistance.
The mail-coach did not meet with any obstacle on
the part of the peasantry, who are in a high state of
excitement, in consequence of ejectments in the neigh-
bourhood, and seizures of corn for rent.

The Waterford mail, which left Dublin yesterday
(Tuesday) morning, was stopped near Granny-bridge
by a large party of men, who in the first instance
would not allow the coach to pass, as they were about
to pull down the bridge. After some remonstrance,
they permitted it to be drawn across. On arrival at
Waterford, the guar3 reported the circumstance to
the Postmaster and to Sir C. O'Donnell, the General
of the district.

According to the Nenagh Guardian Messrs. S.
Egan, Nicholas Nagle, Michael Doherty, and James
Russell, all of Roscrea, will be tried at the approach-
ing Special Commission at Clonmel, on a charge of
high treason. All the parties hitherto held a respect-
able position in society.
Among the anecdotes connected with the late
rebellion, and which are daily coming to light, the
following, furnished by a correspondent of the Cork
Reporter, is substantially correct. The hero of the
tale is Mr. Eugene O'Reilly, the son of Mr. Matthew
O'Reilly, a respectable solicitor in this city, and law
agent to the Chief Secretary for Ireland.
" Very soon after it was known that Smith O'Brien
and his companions had assembled in the neighbourhood
of Ballingarry, five or six young men, holding a respect-
able position in society, some having attained collegiate
honours, went down from Dublin to join him. They
reached the locality of the rencontre the evening after
the affair at Widow Cormack's house, and on learning
the result, and finding that the `leaders' were divided
and dispersed, they made their way back to the county
?death, where they purposed to lie perdue for some
time. There, however, they found that the
pulice wero on their track, and they determined on
re turning to Dublin and taking their chance. Accord-
ingly they did so, and reached the city about eleven
o'clock at night. Here, after consulting for awhile, they
resolved on calling upon a young friend and asking
quarters for the night until they could decide on their
future location. Proceeding to the house of their friend's
father, a respectable professional gentleman, whose po-
litical sentiments were greatly at variance with those of
his son, they knocked at the hall door and inquired for
the person with whom they desired to communicate,
who presently came down to them. While conferring
in the hall as to how ho could best provide for them, his
father overheard the conversation, and coming out he
locked the hall door, putting the key in his pocket, and,
having called for assistance, he sent a servant through
the back door for the police. The son intrusted, prayed,
and pleaded the sacredness of a stranger seeking shelter
and hospitality ; but in vain. His parent was immov-
able, and, seeing the urgency of the case, he said to his
friends, Come, boys, this shall never be.' In an instant
the father was seized hold of and overpowered ; he was
brought into a back parlour and tied hand and foot in
an arm-chair ; the hall door was opened, and the son
having seen his friends safe out of danger, returned to
the house. Next day he was made a prisoner, as ' sus-
pected of treasonable practices,' and sent to Newga.e.
His father went to visit him, and he refused him an in-
terview. He is now in the prison of Belfast, and his
mother, who knew that no act or deed of her son had
compromised him in any illegal proceeding, was, I am
told, refused an interview with him there within tho last
fortnight."
DISMISSAL OF POLICEMEN.
The Cork Reporter of Tuesday contains the fol-
lowing:—
" In consequence of. an order received from Colonel
Macgregor, inspector-general of constabulary, the two
policemen, Tone and %Vhealan, who permitted Mr. T.
B. M'Manus to escape from them in Monkstown, were
dismissed from the force on yesterday."

THE STATE PRISONERS.
The following explanatory statement appears in
the Freeman's Journal regarding, the rumours cir-
culated in respect to the secretary of the Confede-
rates :
" Mr. Halpin is at present confined in the gaol of
Naas, to which prison he was brought on Friday last
from the Belfast Bridewell. Several rumours respecting
M. r. Halpin have been in circulation for the last few days,
in consequence of a paragraph which appeared in one of
the Belfast papers respecting him. These rumours are
not only exaggerated, but for the most part without any.
foundation. It is true that officials have visited some of
Mr. Halpin's relations, in order to ascertain from them
if he could give any information respecting the State
prisoners; but the parties referred the officials to Mr.
Halpin himself, and we are in a position to state that
Mr. Halpin informed the authorities that he had no
evidence whatever to give—that the acts of the body to
which he belonged were open to every one—and that he
knew nothing more. It is right to state this much, as
prejudicial reports have been circulated regarding Mr.
Halpin's character."
The following accounts are from local correspon-
dents :
WATERFORD, SEPT. 12.—1 t is with much regret I
have to acquaint you that for the past week armed
parties have been going about at midnight through
some parishes in the neighbouring county of Kil-
kenny, warning the farmers and labourers to be pre-
pared to attend when called upon. These proceedings
are said to have taken place owing to the newly cut
crops being in possession of bailiffs placed over them
by the landlords, who appear determined to have their
rents at all hazards. This morning some uneasiness
was felt here as to the Dublin coach, due at five
o'clock, which did not arrive at the appointed time,
but at ten minutes before six o'clock it reached the
post-office, when James Doolan, the guards reported
that he was stopped at Granagh-bridge, within one
mile and a half of this city, by 500 armed men, who
declared their intention of detaining the mail until
the bridge was blown up, which it is said they en-
deavoured to do, but failed in their purpose. The
bridge has been visited by several persons
to-day, the battlements are much broken,
and the centre torn up to - a considerable
extent. The postmaster, Thomas Parsons, Esq.,
on receiving the guard's report, proceeded
to the residence of Sir Charles O'Donnell, corn-
rnandent of this grrrison, who at once took measures
for the defence of the city. A guard of Marines was
placed on the magnificent bridge which here crosses
the Suir, the portcullis was drawn UP, and all per-
sonsurr forbidden to pass. At a later hour, however,
here
some relaxation was permitted, and persons were
permitted to pass as usual. A Government steamer
which fortunately arrived was moored within
yards of the bridge. In the meantime a police
cava-
lier arrived from Portlaw for assistance, and 500
of the 85th Regiment who had only arrived
from the Camp of Turtulla on Saturday, and who
expecting to enjoy a little rest after the fatigue
they had undergone, were ordered off to cg h
more, the rumour being that that village was
at-
tacked last night ; that the police fired from their
barrack window ; that two or three of the rebels were
killed ; that the police barracks were entered, and
were
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10,000 pikemen.

WATERFORD
SEPT. 12.
This county is once more in a state of open disaffec-
tion ; Carrick is in arms, some thousands being
thoroughly armed with pikes, &c.Portlaw is also
stirring, and report has it that Curraghmore, the seat
of the- Marquis of Waterford, had been attacked,
several pieces of cannon, and a number of small arms,
powder, ball, &c., have been carried off. The Noble
Marquis had not returned from the last Curragh
meeting. The mail coach, while on its way through
this city,
by,
a and
largepassing mob,
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rounded
consider-
able time. When the mob first interrupted the coach,
the guard, James Doolan, ordered the driver forward;
the coach succeeded in getting clear of the crowd
running after, and shouting that they would soon stop
them. Accordingly, when the coach arrived at
Granny Bridge, about two and a half miles from
Waterford, the bridge was in possession of
the insurgents, who were endeavouring by every
means to pull it down. The coach was then
forcibly stopped, the horses taken from it, an elderly

gentleman, an inside passenger, taken out, questioned,
and searched, and, after a d( lay cf nearly half an hour
the horses were permitted, after much entreaty on the
part of Donlan, to be again put to and the coach al-
lowed to proceed. The mob was under the imme-
diate control of an apparent gentleman, mounted on a
large bay horse, well accoutred, and nothing done
except by the directions and command of the captain,
this person was called.

It is Intended to send an escort of military with the
mail to-night.
EJECTMENTS IN BELFAST.

Monday forenoon, North Anne-street, Earl- street,
and part of Corporation-street, presented a scene
which, from its very novelty in this quarter of the
country, and the peculiar circumstances connected with
it, may, with all truth, be said to "baffle description."
Upwards of forty individuals, the inhabitants of
about twenty houses, were forcibly dispossessed
from their homes, their furniture cast out, and
themselves obliged to seek shelter where they could
best find it. The circumstances under which the
strong arm of the law has in this case been brought
into operation are somewhat curious. The title to
the houses, which are three stories, capacious, and
well finished, has been several years, and is still
pending, in the Court of Chancery, in the case of
Wise v. Medill. No receiver, we understand, was
appointed over the property. No individual was re-
cognised as haring the slightest claim to it, and the
consequence has been that those who were in posses-
sion at the commencement of the suit have remained
so ever since, without paying a fraction of rent, and
houses which were then unoccupied became crowded
by some unknown means, with a class of tenants who,
we may presume, never harboured the ambitious idea
of being the immediate proprietors of such valuable
and splendid mansions. Tinkers, " gather-ups, "
carters, navvies, and a heterogeneous mass of the
refuse of society had not only managed to get and
keep possession of several of the dwellings, but had
actually secured, in a few instances, numerous
lodgers, who were paying them a tolerably round
sum for the use of apartments for which they
themselves had never paid, or intended to pay, a
single shilling. With such tenantry it might be
expected that the houses would suffer; and so they
did, most shockingly. For some time past repeated
notices to quit were served upon the parties ; but the
servers were treated with ridicule and contempt. The
inhabitants seemed to be fully persuaded that no
power could reach them until the Court of Chancery
had given judgment in the case of the claimants ; and
even yesterday, when the warrant for the forcible
ejectment had been received, and a number of police-
men had beset the houses, to see it carried into exe-
cution, the doors were found to be well barricaded,
and a number of the " unwashed" peering from the
upper windows, put their finger. to their nose, and
jocularly exclaimed, " It's all right, Mr. Peelers—
don't you wish you may get in ?" It was not with-
out considerable difficulty that an entry was effected,
but when effected, the bailiffs made a clean sweep,
the result being as we have stated.—Banner of
Ulster.

to ashes. It is rumoured that the surrounding con-
stabulary stations were attacked and in some places
the police were disarmed, but in others the men had
fortunately quitted the barracks, and retired upo❑
Clonmel and Carrick.

The driver and guard of the Cork Mail, which ar-
rived here about ten o'clock last night, report that the
police had quitted the Gienbower Station, and retired
to that of Nine-mile House. Shortly before the arrival
of the coach at the latter place a party of rebels had
surrounded the station, and demanded that the men
(about 10 in number) should surrender their arms.
The police refused, and upon their proceeding to at-
tack the house the little garrison fired upon the
insurgents, and soon put them to flight. The fate of
the gallant little party is, however, still doubtful.
Rumours, which are not authenticated, assert that a
skirmish took place yesterday at Portlaw between the
police and the rebels, in which some were killed on
both sides.

Another report asserts that, yesterday morning, 800
armed men, with pikes, marched through Coolnamuek,
and from the county of Waterford, to join the insur-
gents at Aubrey Hill.