The Sun.
London, England, 1848-08-01 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, SUNDAY EVENING.--It was generally
expected by the public that the three o'clock train
from Tipperary would bring up, if not Mr.-O'Brien
in person, some particulars of his movements last
night, The terminus at that hour was surrounded
by an anxious crowd, who eagerly inquired of every
passenger after the chief outlaw ; bat the only infor-
mation they could elicit was, that all was quiet along
the line from Limerick. A glance at the map will
show that Urlingford, the last place at which Mr.
O'Brien was reported, is midway between Thurles
:end Kilkenny, about ten miles from the line of rail-
way along which the passengers from the county of
Tipperary travel to town.
Last night the enrolled pensioners of Dublin were
under arms at their several barracks throughout the
city.
Yesterday Major-General Napier and Colonel
Doyle left Limerick for Thurles, where they were to
meet the 74th Highlanders, two guns field battery,
200 of the 60th Rifles, 200 of the Bth Hussars and
King's Dragoon Guards; the whole column being sent
expressly for the purpose of pursuing Mr. Smith
O'Brien and the other outlaws, who were reported to
be in the neighbourhood of Thurles.
From Waterford we learn that the Tweed corvette,
20 guns, the brig Frolic, the Royal Adelaide, and the
Dragon, with troops, arrived at this port, the greater
part of whom marched towards Carrick-on-Suir.
Special constables have been sworn in, and the excite-
ment had somewhat abated yesterday.
A great many Confederates have fled from Water-
ford, Limerick, Cork, and Kilkenny.
Every post brings intelligence of the dissolution of
clubs. The presidents and other officers are panic-
stricken.

In the Dubli❑ corporation on Tuesday next, a mo•
tion is to be made in reference to the propriety of
dealing with its solicitor, Mr. Francis Morgan, who
is proclaimed in the Hue and Cry as an outlaw.
The trials of Messrs. Duffy, Martin, Doherty, and
all other editors and printers of the Nation, Felon,
and Tribune newspapers, in custody, will be brought
on at the next commission, which will commence on
the Bth of August.

COLLISION BETWEEN THE REBELS AND THE
CONSTABULARY-TEN KILLED AND UP-
WARDS OF FORTY WOUNDED.

Duni.lN, MONDAY MORNING.—The intelligence
brought to town this morning by the early train is
painful, but it can hardly be said unexpected. Ten
human beings—poor deceived wretched rebels—were
on Saturday shot dead, arid, it is reported, upwards of
forty wounded, by the constabulary unders the orders
of Inspector Trant.
The accounts yesterday morning mentioned that
Mr. Trant and his party were shut up in a slated
house at an open space near Ballingarry ; that Mr.
Smith O'Brien with his party of rebels had summoned
him to surrender ; and that a collision was appre-
hended, as the military were fast closing on the hca-

lity. The following account, from the special corre-
spondent of the Freeman's .Journal, gives the fullest
particulars known here :
LATEST FROM THE SOUTH.
Freeman Office, Four o'Clock.
We have received the following by special express
from our correspondent in Kilkenny :
"KILKENNY, SUNDAY NIGHT.

"Early on Saturday morning Sub-Inspector
Trant, of the Callan station, county. Kilkenny, with
between forty and fifty men under his command,
Proceeded to the neighbourhood of Ballingarry, on
the borders of the county Tipperary, and twelve
miles from the city of Kilkenny, to assist in arrest•
ing Smith O'Brien, who it was reported was some-
where in the mountains of that locality, surrounded
by a large body of armed peasantry. . Some time
afterwards a mounted policeman, constable Carroll,
was dispatched from the Maudlin -street station, Kil-
kenny, with a dispatch for Sub-Inspector Trnnt.
Carroll rode on until he came to a part of the coun
try between Ballingarry and a place called the Com-
mons, when he heard several shots fired, and wa;
soon afterwards taken prisoner by armed country
people. Some of them were for shooting him, say-
ing as I have been informed, If this man gets back
he will hang us all,' but others declared they would
not take Carroll's life. I should remark that the
constable was in coloured clothes. He was then
brought into the presence of Smith O'Brien who, it
appears, wore a cap with a peak and silver band, and
carried a stick in his hand.

" Mr. O'Brien, addressing Carroll firmly, said you
are one of the mounted police ?' The constable at
once replied that he was, being aware that he was
known to persons in the neighbourhood. Mr.
O'Brien then, I am informed, turned round and asked

the people about him would he give himself up ? but
they not having advised him to such a step,
he walked about for some time, and then
mounted the constable's horse and rode away. Carroll
was detained for some time afterwards in the custody
of four men. During this period Sub-Inspector
Trant and his men were shut up in a house to which
they had retreated, surrounded by country people, on
whom they fired from the windows. After a lapse of
two or three hours Carroll was left in charge of one
man, and this one allowed the constable to take his
departure. In coming along the road, on his way
back to Kilkenny, Carroll encountered Mr. Smith
O'Brien, who had' changed his dress, now wearing a
hat .and on horseback. Mr. O'Brien stopped him.
The constable, I am told, informed Mr. O'Brien that
he had no arms, remonstrated with him, and told him
it was foolish to think of holding out against the
'force that would be brought against him, especially
as the priests were exhorting the people not to join in
resisting the authorities. Mr. O'Brien seemed to
think deeply on what the constable had said—ob-
served that for twenty years he had been trying to
serve his country, and that if the people did not stand
by him he might as well give up. Shortly afterwards
he parted, Carroll giving him his stick, and rode off
by himself. On the return of the constable to Kil-
kenny, orders were given to the military and police
to march to Mr. Trant's assistance; and at half-past
eight in the evening the city was thrown into an aw-
ful state of excitement by the moving onwards to-
wards Ballingarry of a most formidable-looking force.
In the van was a troop of the 4th Light Dragoons ;
then followed a large body of police, then came about
;300 infantry soldiers, headed by the resident magis-
trate, Joseph • Green, Esq., and the rear was brought
up by another body of police. There were in all between
300 and 400 soldiers, and about 160 of the consta-
bulary. A guard of the 831 Regiment kept watch
on the Tholsel, and a very large number of police
were under arms in the assembly-room, it being
generally supposed that Smith O'Brien would be
brought in a prisoner during the night. However,
shortly after the departure of the military and police,
news of the safe retreat of Mr. Trant and his party
were conveyed to Kilkenny, and cavalry police were
dispatched to recal the soldiers and constabulary who
were on their way out. They were overtaken in
Kilmanagh, about eight miles from Kilkenny, and
returned at an early hour this. morning.
" Mr. Trant and his men got off in safety, but 1
regret to say that several of the people were killed
and wounded. Amongst the latter, it is thought,
Mr. Dillon.. Some accounts state that twelve people
were killed, but I believe those to be exaggerated.
" I have heard that there were about 300 armed
men about Smith O'Brien at the time Carroll was

taken, and some 400 more on the hill-near him. Ca-
tholic clergymen were seen in vain exhorting the
people to cease resisting the police, whilst the shots
were whizzing around them.
" It is supposed that Mr: Trant proceeded to I3al-
- under the impression that he was to find a
large force there to meet him, and that the mounted
policeman was sent after him to recall him on its
being known that he would not be joined by the ex-
pected force. It was confidently asserted that it was
owing to the interference of the Roman Catholic
clergymen that the police were at length allowed to
retire unmolested.
" The last accounts from Ballingarry state that the
military were concentrating on that point from all
the surrounding districts."
ANOTHER ACCOUNT.

WILLMONT, NEAR BALLING ARRY, COUNTY OF
TIPPERARY, SATURDAY NIGHT.
This morning, !at three o'clock, intelligence was
received 'at Kilkenny that O'Brien, Meagher, Do-
heny, O'Reilly, and Dillon, had been proclaimed
traitors ; that rewards had been offered of 500/. for
the apprehension of O'Brien, and of 300/. for that of
each of his four confederates. Notices to this effect
were posted up not only in Kilkenny, but all over
the country, policemen having been dispatched on
cars in every direction for that purpose. Scarcely
had the announcement been made at Kilkenny, when
Mr. Blake, the County Inspector of Constabulary, re-
solved to undertake the important duty which the
Lord-Lieutenant's proclamation pointed out. Having
matured his plans with the most praiseworthy dis-
patch, ho started from Kilkenny shortly after day-
break, and reaching Harleypark, ascertained there
on undoubted authority that Smith O'Brien and the
other proclaimed traitors had passed the night among
the colliers (or " Black Boys") of Boulagh.
COMEIIOII
within a mile of Ballingarry. This important point
having been settled, Idr. Blake sent a messenger to
Callan, where the constabulary of the. surrounding
district had been concentrated some days previously.
These, to the number of 50 or 60 men, under the
command of chief-constable Trail; he directed to
march on the common of Boulagh, a distance of 10

Irish miles. Mr. Blake also dispatched a messenger
to Mr. Greene, the resident magistrate of Kilkenny,
nquesting him to get a strong military force moved
at once from the barracks there to, the same point.
r Proceeding to Ballyphilip, the residence of Mr. Going,
he there received further information as to the where-
abouts of Mr. O'Brien and his rebel crew. Acting
upon this, he proceeded at once to.ThurleS, and hay-.
ing secured military reinforcements of the most corn- •
plete and overwhelming' kind from that place, and, by
the aid of messengers, from Fethard, Clonmel, Tern-
plemore, and Cashel, he had these all concentrated on
the spot which had been pointed out to him as the
head-quarters of the rebel army. While all these prepa-
rations were in progress, the small but courageous band
of policemen from Callan had already penetrated to
the very centre of disaffection, and with a resolution
which, when all the circumstances are known, will ,
excite universal admiration, had in effect suppressed
the insurrection. A body of fifty armed men had
checked the rebellion which was to sweep before it
the armies of the Queen and to disunite the two
armies for ever ! As I have not yet been on the
field of battle, I am only able to give a general out-
line of.what took place there. Toe police, marching
to the common of Boulagh, found Smith O'Brien and
his associates in treason stationed there with an over-
whelming force, ready to give them battle. The
1)ell of the nearest Roman Catholic chapel lad been
rang as soon as they were seen approaching, and 1
crowds of persona were momentarily flocking to
!he ranks of the insurgents. Finding himself in dan- I
ger of being surrounded and cut off, chief-constable
Trant threw his men into a substantial slated
Meuse which stands on en eminence close to the
common. Here they were speedily assailed by the
armed mob without and by their leaders. RTer. Smith
O'Brien went up to the window with a brace of
pistols in his hands, and called on them to surrender
their arms, promising them that if they complied
their persons would he safe. While he parleyed and
endeavoured to fraternize by sh.;king hands with the
men through the windows, his adherents were very
coolly piling straw and hay at the entrance of the
house, with the view of suffocating the poor fellows
within, or burning them alive. The time was now
come for action, but the police did not use their
muskets till several shots had been fired at diem, and
stones thrown in on them through the window. One
Account says they fired a volley, another that they
fired only three shots. Certain, however, it is that
two men one of them, I believe, named 2PBride,
were killed dead on the spot, and that a
third expired shortly after. It is also currently re-
ported that one of Smith O'Brien's friends (some
say Dillon) was wounded in the knee. The effect of

doterinined conduct was that the crowd re-

treated, and although Smith O'Brien urged them
over and over again to go and pull down the house,
they wculd not attempt it. The Roman Catholic
clergyman of the district, it is said, arrived at this
time on the scene of strife, and implored the people
to abstain from violence. Smith O'Brien. and his

friends then appear to have got disgusted. Declar-
ing that as the people would not stand by him, he
would not stand by them, he fled across the country,
upon the chief-constable's horse, and, rumour says
in the direction of Ur3ingford. By this time
a reinforcement of constabulary had arrived
from Cashel, and soon after strong 'bodies of
the regular troops, cavalry, artillery, and in-
fantry, came pouring in from every quarter_ By the
time they had arrived the utmost tranquillity pre-
vailed—the rebellion had vanished, and was nowhere
to be found. The military will bivouac tonight on
the open field—no pleasant position, as it rail's in tor-
rents. •So much for the battle of Boulagh-common,
fought between 4,000 or 5,000 insurgents rind 50 or
80 police.
BALLINGARRY, SUNDAY, THREE P.M.—The scene
of rebellion swarms with troops from every quarter.
The disturbances are completely suppresse4.
General M`Donald is here in command. I
Two of the insurgents are mortally wounded, and
are dying now, and there are a great many hurt.
There is no new 3 here of Smith O'Brieal and his
companions.
It is said they fled to Johnstown ; the cavalry and
police are in pursuit of them. Another :report, in
which I place some reliance, states that O'Brien was
fired at yesterday within a distance of tea yards by
two policemen, and that he fell wounded ; if so, it is
likely he and the others are not far off.

LIVERPOOL, Mom:4r NIGUT.
To-night's Dublin mail confirms the accounts of
a collision having taken place, which was telegraphed
this morning. It appears that ten of the rebels were
killed and forty wounded; Dillon is thought to be
dangerously so. O'Brien is not yet take, but the
rebellion is crushed.

EVILS RESULTING FROM THE USE OF SEA-SAND
OR SALT-WATER IN MORTAR.—OnIy get rid. of the salt,
and sea-saud will make mortar fit for any Fr:pose. The
difficulty is to do this thoroughly; and so 1 Nig as there
remains any salt in it, so lung will there bo a tendency to
dampness and most serious inconvenience. We know a
house on the sea-coast where a wall was built'.to separate
two rooms, from mortar made, as the architect after-
wards ascertained, from washed sea-sand, and the result
is that on the approach of wet weather, this mull, like the
old barometer, a piece of sea-weed, is always: damp, and
throws out particles of salt. The injuries done to the
Duke of Wellington's books at 'Weimer Castle through
the use of sea-sand in the walls terming the library, has
been often mentioned. An architect much engaged on
the coast writes us as follows:—" There can be but one
opinion about the effect of salt-water-sand mortar or
plastering. The atmosphere acts upon it, as far as I
know, tor centuries, certainly to my own k nowledge of
walls of fifty years' standing, no paint, colour, or paper
will stand without discolouration." Ono of the commis-
sioners appointed to select stone for the Ilatu;es of Par-
liament, replied to us thus when we asked his. opinion:—
" I consider sea-sand for mortar would be objectionable
to a certain extent, under any circumstances, if dampness
is to be avoided. Supposing all other things to be equal,
an addition of salt, however small, will prevent the mor-
tar ever attaining the same degree of indurcedon which it
would have done had no salt been introduced." The
corporation surveyor of one of our sea-coast towns re-
plied to our inquiry in these words :—" I am so convinced
of the injurious properties of sea-sand as to induce me
always to put a clause in my specifications. precluding
its use, either washed or unwashed, under a. heavy for-
feiture."—Builder.
LOVERS FOUND DROWNED.—MYSTERIOTLIS CASE.—
On Monday morning the bodies of a young couple were
taken out of the canal belonging to the Hud aersfield and
Manchester Railway and Canal Company at Whitacre
Bridge, about two miles north-east of Huddersfield.
Their names are, respectively, David Carter, aged
twenty-four, son of and employed by John Carter,
of Colne Bridge, who carries on a whitening mill,
near Whitacre ]ridge ; and Elizabeth Sykes,
an orphan girl, who was employed as one of the
cotton-mills at Colne Bridge. An attachment had ex-
isted between the two for some time previous, and it
had been arranged last Sunday that their marriage
should take place on Sunday five weeks hence.
They spent some time together in company at the
Peacock Inn, on the Leeds-road, about one-third
of the distance between the place where they were
found drowned and Huddersfield. The landlord
states that, whilst there, they were in good spirits,
tied the young man in particular was in a joking
humour. They left there about a quarter to 11 o'clock,
and it appears that they had intended to take the road
home to Colne Bridge try the towing path of the canal,
that being the nearest way. The father of the young
man was surprised to find, on Monday morning, that his
son had been absent all night; and on inquiry he found also
that the young woman had been absent from her lodg-
ings, and it was supposed from this circumstance that
they had gone to be married. On Monday morning, a
hat and bonnet were found on the banks of the canal,
near to the place above stated ; and on drags being
procured, the body of the young woman was drawn
out of the water, and shortly afterwards also that of
the young man, both from the same place. The
arms of both were in a position to indicate that, pre-
vious to the drags being used, they were clasped in
each others arms. The bodies were taken to the
White Horse Inn, a short distance from the place, when
hundreds of persons, especially females, visited the
horse to view the bodies. At the time of our corre•
spondent's writing nothing certain could be learned as
to whether the occurrences bad been accidental, or a '
case of determined self-destruction; and it is very pro•
bable that even after the inquest, which was to be held at
half-past four yesterday (Tuesday), the whole affair
will remain involved in mystery.—MandiesterCheardien.
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the decision of the Peers, in favour of this
line, the South-Western Company proceeded to make
the most vigorous preparations for pushing on the Sa-
lisbury lino to Yeovil. The South-Western Company,
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