The Sun.
London, England, 1848-08-02 00:00:00

11.1 Ilrainek 4Atit.

LONDON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2, 184$.

LATEST FROM IRELAND.

[BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.]

DUBLIN, TUESDAY EVENING.

Smith O'Brien established the head-quarters at
Killeash on the side of Slievenamon early this morn-
ing. He had from 3,000 to 4,000 followers.
The Lord-Lieutenant has issued a proclamation
cautioning all persons against harbouring the rebel
leaders or aiding their escape under the penalty of
high treason.
Lord Hardinge has arrived, and is consulting with
the military authorities.
Dr. Kane was arrested in Kilkenny, yesterday.

It is stated that Richard O'Gorman has been shot
dead at Tarbert.

BRISTOL, 'WEDNESDAY, EIGHT, A.M.

By the Rose steamer, Captain Burgess, which left
Waterford at nine o'clock yesterday morning, we
learn that that city was in a state of perfect tranquil-
lity.

The general opinion was that Mr. Meagher has left
the country.
The express which arrived from Cork as the Rose
left Waterford brought intelligence that all was quiet
there.

No apprehensions of a rebellion are now enter-

Aained.

No arms have been brought in under the recent
enactment, and but very few stands of pikes had
been found. The 3d Regiment of I3uffs had arrived
at Waterford.

The following extracts from the Dublin Evening
Post hare been transmitted by the Electric Telegraph

Company :

" DUBLIN, FOUR. O'CLOCK, P.M.

" The inland mails by the Great Southern and
Western Railway have arrived, and report all

tranquil.
"It is stated that Smith O'Brienhas fled from the
colliery districts of Tipperary, and had arrived at
Woodward, on his way to New Quay, a little sea-
port village in the county of Galway.
" One letter informs us that the peasantry were
returning towards Thurles, and resuming their
work."

The accounts from Ireland this day fully confirm
the former intelligence of the decisive results of the
victory obtained by a few policemen over the rebel
force, amounting, probably, to one hundred times

their number.
It is impossible to overestimate the zeal and
activity displayed by Mr. BLAKE, the county
inspector, in making his arrangements for the attack
on the rebel encampment, or the gallantry and de-
termination evinced by Mr. TRANT and his fifty
brave associates, who sustained the burden of the
contest. Two other gentlemen appear also deserting
of favourable mention—Mr. Cox, a sub-inspector,
who was approaching with nineteen men from
Cashel, when he encountered an immense body of
insurgents retreating from Boulagh-common.
Their leader, a black-coat boy—(su termed
to distinguish him from the general mass
of the frieze-coated population)—attempted to cheer
01: his associates to the attack, but the gallant little
nd
unintimidated by the extraordinary disparity of
numbers, having fired a volley, which killed the
chief and wounded several of his associates, the party
dispersed, and sought safety in flight. Sub-Inspector
MoNAGIL& was approaching by another road, bring-
ing with him 90 of the constabulary, who, the moment
they heard the firing, dashed forward with the utmost
enthusiasm to the
rescue of their comrades.
Nothing during the ntire transaction is
admirable more gratifying than the
ved manner in
behaved which the police invariably
upon every
occasion, when their services were called into requi.
sition. From the sergeant at Mullinah and his
troop of seven men, three of them enfeebled y recent
illness, who refused to surrender theirarms,
to the
neb
more brilliant exploits of Mr. Tai and
the same gallantry, devotion, and fixed determination
efficiently efficiently to discharge the duty entrusted to theiro
bands has been exhibited. How utterly unfounded
were the assertions of the agitators when they in. '
sisted that considerable disaffection existed in the
force, and that they would be prepared to take an
active part with the people the moment the standard
of insurr action was unfurled. We trust that adequate
rewards may immediately be granted by the Go-

vernment to all those who have more particulary dis-
tinguished themselves, and these rewards should not
be limited to the officers, but should be extended to
all who have participated in the contest.
It now appears that the loss of the insurgents
amounted to ten or eleven persons, either killed or
mortally wounded, and that many others, perhaps
from SO to 40, have received minor wounds. It is,
however, impossible to say with any degree of cer-
tainty that there was not a greater amount of casual-
ties, inasmuch as many of the wounded were removed
by their companions, and are now lying hid in the vici-
nity, where the coal-pits afford great facilities for
concealment. A strict search will take place for
those who appeared in arms against their SOVEREIGN,
and more especially for the ringleaders whe insti-
gated the misguided men to so ruinous a course. An
efficient military force, under the command of General
MCDONALD, has now encamped in the neighbour-
hood of Boulagh, the head-quarters are at Ballin-
garry, only one mile from the field of battle, and
such measures have been taken for the capture of
such of the leaders as may be lurking about the
country, as to render it impossible that they can long
succeed in evading justice.
While matters are thus proceeding in the disturbed
districts, no less activity is displayed in the metro-
polis. Ten persons, employed as assistants in
the establishment of Messrs. Plat and Co., have
been arrested, and on some of them regular commis-
sions duly appointing the holder to the rank of cap-
tain in the rebel army, were discovered. It is now
known that many such appointments had been made.
It had been decided that when the harvest was
gathered in the outbreak should take place. In fact,
the preparations were on the most extensive scale,
and had it not been for the promptitude displayed by
be Houses of Parliament in so nobly responding to
th e appeal of the Prime Minister, and conceding the
ea tensive powers demanded without a moment's delay
or hesitation, much blood would necessarily have
been shed ere the rebellion could have been sup-
pressed. The suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act,
however, precipitated the crisis. The revolutionary
leaders were struck with terror, and fled
feom the metropolis. The rashness of Mr. Sltrrn
O'BRIEN in at once raising the standard of rebel-
hon, his vacillation and inefficiency in command,
al id manifest imbecility since the vast responsibility
of the generalship in the field of the rebel army was
conferred upon, or assumed by him, coupled with
tl ,e decisive defeat he sustained from a handful of
p 4 dice, have completely crushed the incipient revolu-
ti on, with less than one hundredth part of the Be-
st ruction of life and property that must have taken
pl tace two months later. Had there been a temporary
success the consequences might have been formidable,
and greater difficulties would have been encountered
At putting down the rebels—the issue, however,
could not have proved doubtful for a single moment.
It is said that Mr. O'BRIEN has succeeded in again
rtssernbling some thousands of followers, and that a
rebel camp has been established on the side of
lievenamon. This position has manifestly been
ilected from the facilities for escape and shelter in
the mountain fastnesses, where it would be
a:qnost impossible for the military to pursue the fu-
gitives very closely. The parties who thus remain
t2ong with the proscribed chieftain are most probably
Chose who have already committed themselves too
deeply at Bouglagh, and who dread the consequences
Off their own insane conduct, and the avenging arm of
General MeDoNALD, who, it appears, is entrusted with
ample powers for the punishment of all those impli-
ctated in the rebellion. They may fancy themselves
sufficiently strong to set small parties of police at
defiance, but it is by no means probable that they
will venture to await the attack of a regular
Iltilitary force, with artillery and all the other appli-
ances of war. Should such an attack take place they
Hill probably immediately disperse amongst the bogs
scud rocks, of which the mountain consists, without
waiting to receive even the first fire from the troops.
NYe cannot anticipate anything very formidable from
this last convulsive struggle of these desperate men.

A proverb, long popular among the peasantry of
Flanders, says, Quantl le Francois dort, le Diable le
b erce—" When the Frenchman sleeps, the Devil
rocks the cradle I" Since the insurrection of June
there has been, politically speaking, a lull within the
circumference of the Boulevards. The Parisians
have been sleeping. Worn out by the agitation of
&Jur months of perpetual vigilance, stunned by the
interminable din of the rappel—they have at last
yielded to the demands of nature and have slum-
bered. Who rocks the cradle ? Ask General CA-
-v-AIGNAC. Not that we mean to insinuate, by any
e leans, that the victorious Dictator of the 23d, 24th,
25th, and 26th of June, is identical with his Satanic
Majesty; neither is it that we pin down our credence
to the accuracy of the old Flemish adage, attributing
the occasional drowsiness of our Gallic neighbours to
such diabolical lullabies. We couple with the proverb
of Flanders the fact of the late unwonted quietude
in the French capital—and demand the solution of
the problem from the man best qualified to answer
the inquiry. M. EMILE DE GIRARDIN has gone
further—his interrogations have been rather more
disagreeable in their criminal inference—be has not
only pointed out where the shoe pinches, he has
trampled upon it with a sort of sardonic glee, and
illustrated the accuracy of his perception by the
poignant agony and writbings of his antagonist. In
letter addressed to our contemporary the John Bull,
the principal editor of the Presse has put these ques-
tions :—On the 22d of June the existence of the c on-
spiracy and the plans of the insurrection being known
to the Government, on which of the Ministers did the
duty of taking precautions devolve in a particular
:manner ? On the Minister of War. What
precautions were taken by the Minister of War ?
None whatever ; the Minister of War was in a state
of profound inaction. Who was the Minister of War ?
General CAVAIGNAC I The deductions to be drawn
from these considerations would be inevitably to the
prejudice of the fame and character of General CA-
VAIGNAC, were not the earnestness of his patriotism
and the goodness of his heart, believed in most cor-
dially by his admirers. M. DE GIRARDIN confesses
as much, and is compelled to transfer the odium of
that conduct which led to the unobstructed outburst
of rebellion, and consequently to the concentration of
the powers of Government into the hands of General
CAVAIGNAC, from General CAVAIGNAC himself to his
more designing and less conscientious associates. If,
then, the Republican Dictator was not actuated by the
callous calculations of self-aggrandizement even at the
expense of his unfortunate country, he was an instru-
ment in the hands of knaves who saw a brighter
perspective for themselves through the bloody mists
of civil war. If he was not a criminal he was a dupe.
If he did not wilfully permit the horrors of battle and
anarchy to rage in the beautiful streets of Paris for
the purpose of availing himself of the confusion by
snatching the fasces of the Republic out of the dust the
instant it was hurled from the grasp of the Executive
Committee—he unconsciously allowed himself to be
deluded into a stupor which very nearly caused the
destruction of France, and resulted in such an
extraordinary accession of authority to himself as ne-
cessarily gave rise to insidious rumours, and, in a very
great measure also, justified suspicion. Such is the
severe logic of the Redacteur en Chef of the Presse ;
and certainly his arguments are wonderfully per-
suasive, if they are not altogether unanswerable.
The political commentaries of M. EMILE DE GI-
RARDIN are, nevertheless, very far from being infallible
or oracular. In witness whereof we may adduce a
communication just published in the columns of the
SWele. The author of this communication is none
other than the illustrious founder of the French Re-
public—that man more eloquent than VERGNIAUD,
more brave than ROLAND, more philosophic than
CONDOIICET, more pure than CHENIER, and more
abused by the slanders of ingratitude than the gentle-
hearted and enthusiastic DessiouLiss. The letter
inserted in the Siècle has allusion to a statement
made by M. DE GIRARDIN, in his recent pamphlet,
to the effect that on the 29th of March " a paid band"
threatened to destroy his printing-presses, and that
for three days " paid rioters" were stationed opposite
the office of his newspaper. Here is the refutation of
this enormous calumny, as contained in the commu-
nication addressed to the Slick by ALPHONSE DE
LAMARTINE. It appears to us so nobly characteristic
of the man that we give the circumstance precisely as
it Is related by LAMARTINE :
b0d"..0_31, Young men, the evening," he writes, " of March the 29th a
men, filled the court-yard of v,
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