The Sun.
London, England, 1848-07-29 00:00:00

LATEST FROM WATERFORD.

(From a Third Edition of the Brittol Mirror.)
13y the Waterford steamer Victory, Captain Stacey,
just arrived, and which left Waterford at 6 ♦.m. yes-
terday, we have received the latest intelligence from
Waterford, Clonmel, Carrick-on-Suir, Mullinahone,
and Thurles. Smith O'Brien and Meagher had not
yet been arrested. The last account states that they
were at Thurles on Tuesday. It was suspected that
Meagher was secreted in his father's house in Water-
ford. Everything was quiet at Waterford and the
other districts named when the steamer left. Special
constables were being sworn in. A brig, a corvette,
and two armed Government steamers were lying in
the harbour. It was the opinion of a very intelligent
gentleman, with whom our reporter conversed, and
who had travelled, the day previous to the packet
sailing, through the country from Carlow, aid Kul-
kenny to Waterford, that no serious outbreak was
to be apprehended ; probably, if Smith O'Brien,
Meagher, or any of the other leaders, were arrested
in the midst of the rebels, a rescue might be attempted.
Some of the poorer class of Irish, who were on board
the steamer, stated (and probably they are the most
likely to understand and sympathise with the feelings
of the insurgents) that each party was watching the
other, and that there would be no row until the
leaders were arrested.

The Victory has a full complement of passengers,
thirty-six of whom were ladies.
Most extraordinary to state, neither the captain,
steward, or any passenger on board, was furnished
with a Waterford paper. The above facts have been
therefore gleaned as stated, and are fully confirmed
by the following letter, kindly forwarded to our re-
porter by a gentleman on board, and which was
written from Waterford to Clonmel :
" WATERFORD, WEDNESDAY.
" I hasten to inform you that en my arrival here I
found everything quiet. Mr. Fenelly (merchant),
thinks there is no danger of any outbreak whatever
at Yiltown, Besborough. In the park there are
about two hundred men encamped, and in Carrick
about six hundred. Messrs. Meagher and Smith
O'Brien were said to be amongst them, and on yester-
day evening to be at Mullinahone. They are now
(on Thursday) at Thurles. They were determined
to keep clear of Waterford. Clonmel is perfectly
quiet. About 1,500 soldiers and the whole of the
police are called into requisition."

Another partition of Poland has cast an additional
infamy on the Prussian Government. German per-
fidy, brutality, and despotism have been again dis-
played against the wretched population of that dis-
membered country. So extraordinary has been this
new instance of faithlessness on the part of the Ad-
ministration of Berlin, so inhuman have been the
cruelties practised by the troopers of Brandenburgh,
so odious and accursed has been the tyranny exer-
cised over the unotTending inhabitants of Posen and
the surrounding districts of the Grand Duchy by the
German and Jewish minority, that we cannot re-
frain from returning again to the consideration of
these deplorable occurrences, and especially
are we justified in so doing, when it is
remembered that the unfortunate Poles of
Posen are still subjected to the atrocious severity of
the Prussians. A pamphlet, recently issued by the
"Literary Association of the Friends of Poland,'
and authenticated with the signatures of the Vice-
President and the Honorary Secretary of that dis-
tinguished and benevolent institution,* enables us to
form an accurate estimate of the relative behaviour
of the belligerents.
Before commenting upon the execrable conduct of
the Prussian soldiers, and the truckling of the Minis-
ters of FREDERICK WILHELM to the favourite policy
of spoliat3on, it may not be unadvisable to give in
a few seiitev.ces, a rapid resume of the events
which have. 'transpired since the commencement
of 1848 in .thz t portion of Continental Europe. To
be brief then :-4t was only on the 19th of March, six
days after the /breaking out of the revolutionary
spirit in the see is of Berlin, that the cause of demo-
cracy triumphed over the old and obsolete system of
Conservatism . It was only the 19th of March that
the armed bu rghers conquered the soldiers and con-
verted their reluctant Sovereign from those political
prejudices w hich had hitherto rendered him incredu-
lous as to the possible regeneration of their common
fatherland.
It was Sunday when the KING rode
through his capital on horseback wearing the national
tricolour in his helmet. On Monday the
20th, the men of Posen sympathising with

* "A N. rrative of Recent Occurrences in Posen,"
pp. 53. DI $4116, London, 164 a.