The Sun.
London, England, 1848-08-07 00:00:00

THIS EVENING.

Commencing at Half-past Eight; and Two Day Performances, en
'Wednesday and Friday Mornings, commencing at Halt-past Two. A
Grand Farewell Morning Performance, on Monday, August 14.
Boxes and Stalls may be secured at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library,
33,,01d Bondstreet.

ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.
Under the direction •f Mr. Kerschner.
Engagement of Mrs. FITZWILLIAM and Kr. BCCKSTONE,
THIS EVENING

Will be perfumed THE FLOWERS OF THE FOREST, in which
Mrs. Fitzwilliam and Mr. Duckstone will perform.
'Arter which, ft Comic Drama, called A ROUGH DIAMOND, In
which Mrs. Fitzwilltant and Mr. Buckstone will perform.
To conclude with THE IDIOT OF THE MILL.
It:Mager and Treasurer, Mr. B. S. Fairbrother.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL A3IPIIITHEATRE.
Proprietor, Nil-. W. Batty.
FiUball's new and completely successful Spectaeie.
Unparalleled Equestrian Feats.
THIS EVENIN:.;,
Will be performed, the new brilliant Spectacle, founded on Sir
Walter Scott's celebrated poetical Romance, and entitled MAR-
; or, The Battle 01 Flodden Field.
To, be followed by the inimitable EQUESTRIAN and GYMNAS.
TiC EXERCISES in the ARENA.
To cuitclude with a Grand Pageant, entitled LADY GODITA
AND PEEPING TO OF COVENTRY; or, Clearing the Toll.
The Prize New Boat to be rowed for at the Greenwich Annual
Regatta TO-DAY, will to presented to the winner on the stage of
the Amphitheatre, TO-MOUROW Evening, August S.
Box-office open from Eleven till Five.
Stage Manager, Mr. W. West.

ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.
Attraction unprecedented.
JULLIEN and hit UNRIVALLED BAND.
GRAND MONSTRE CONCERT.
New Quadrille, composed expressly for the Gardens.
Continuation of the Engagement of Miss HUDDART.
Engagement of MISS SARA FLOWER,
The DAYLIGHT VIEW of ROME, by Daimon.
Superb and UeNue MENAGEME.

Grand Display of FIREWORKS, by the Messrs. Southby.
No Extra Charge.
MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, TIIURSDAY, ani
FRIDAY.
View of Rome —Promenade Concerts, Vocal and Instrument

- conducted by Mons. JULLIEN, whose splendid Band ofSolo Per-
formers includes Messrs. Baker, Barrett, Bauman, George and Viotti
Collins, Ciotti, Collinet, Koenig, Lezariv, Itichardaon, Sonnenbeig,
&c.—Two Solos each Evening. —Several favourite Songs by Miss
- Sara Flower and Miss Huddart during the Evening.—Also to be seen,
durin; the day, tile beautiful Menagerie—Shakspere's House—The
Magic Bridge—and other novelties will be exhibited, the whole
concluding with a most magnificent and not to be rivalled displa)
of Fireworks, by the Messrs. Southby, representing the Girandols
during the Holy Week at Rome.
Gates open at Ten ♦.m., Feeding Time Five—Jullien's Concert at
Six—Fireworks at Niue.
Admission, as usual, One Shilling.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.
No communication can be attended to unless autheati
sated by the name and address of the writer.
Rejected communications cannot be returned.

TILE WEATHER—SUN OFFICE, AUGUST 6.
THERMumETED., Lawest, 51; Highest, 66; Noon, 6S,

BAROMETER, 29.78.
WIND W.N.W.; heavy rain in the evening.
Saturday Evening—Heavy rain, .with lightning.
AUGUST 7.

THERMOMETER, Lowest, 50; Highest, 69; Noou, 66.
BAROMETER, 30.05. —WIND S.W.; fine.

The Barometer has risen half an inch since Saturday.

111011 WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY.
Morning .. 3 min. after T Evening .. 24rain. after 7

~_fittriening .:-zattu.
LONDON, MONDAY, AUGUST 7, 1843.

LATEST FROM IRELAND

[BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.]

DUBLIN, SUNDAY EVENING.

The midday mail brings intelligence that Doheny,
one of the rebel leaders, slept on Friday night in a
cabin near 'nudes. Informations to that effect
have been sworn, and there is a hot pursuit after
him.

On Smith O'Brien's arrival in Kilmainham, he
complained greatly of fatigue ; he slept heavily
during the morning.

The Waterford Chronicle, received this morning,
says—" On Thursday morning, at eight o'clock,
Waterford was ' honoured ' by a flying visit from
Rear-Admiral Sir Charles Napier, who arrived at
our quays on board the Birkenhead war• steamer.
After having a short interview with Sir Charles
O'Donnell, the military commandant of this garrison,
he returned to the vessel and left the city as he found
it—full of disaffection ' for bad laws—bankrupts,
and paupers. During the evening of the same day
the Stromboli and Trident, both war steamers, also
cleared out from our port."

, ATTACK ON THE LIMERICK AND TEALEE MAIL.—
ROBBERY OF THE MAIL BAG AND ARMS.—As the up
and down mail between Limerick and Tralee arrived
yesterday at Abbey Peale, about twenty miles from
Cahirmoyle, the seat of Smith O'Brien, the coach was
surrounded by some hundreds of the country people,
*ell armed, who demanded the firearms and mail-
bags, which were given up to them by the guard,
resistance being useless. On reaching Limerick, the
guard lost not a moment in reporting the circum-
stance to the magistrate, before whom he was under
examination when the mail left for Dublin.
When, the two mails were attacked and robbed at
Abbey Peale, the country people seized a policeman
in coloured clothes who had a warrant fur Mr.
O'Gorman's arrest, they proceeded to search him, and
took from him his watch, 101., and a six-barrelled
pistol, tore the warrant to pieces, and kept him in
custody five minutes, when they liberated him. Sub-
sequently the money was returned to the constable.

The varied and conflicting rumours reap acting the
rebel general have at length been" brought to a con
elusion. Every doubt has been set at rest. Mr..
SMITH O'BRIEN was captured on Saturday evenin
by one of the guards, of the Great Southern and
Western Railway Company, at the statioa,p,tiwrg.,
without any resistance or attempt at opposition. Ie
was transmitted the same evening, by special train, to
Dublin, accompanied by a body of police, and, at an
early hour yesterday morning, was safely lodged in
her Majesty's gaol of Kilmainham. It would
almost appear as if the unfortunate man,
vvas anxious to be arrested—that the wretched
condition in which he had been placed

since the defeat and dispersion of his followers
at Boulagh, on the preceding Saturday, might be
brought to a conclusion. Any termination was
better than a continuance of his fugitive career- He
could not, however, make up his mind to throw him-
self upon the mercy of the authorities he had so re-
cently set at defiance, so with the same vacillation
,AncEinentsirdeaision ►t has characterised his every
movement' since km Appeared in arms against
his SOVEREIGN, be placed himself in a posi-
tion from which the slightest consideration might
have convinced him there was no possibility
of escape. The foolhardy and desperate attempt to
travel by the railway-train to Limerick, where his
person was well known to every inhabitant, cannot
be accounted fur on any other supposition. The
following are the particulars of his capture :

About half-past seven o'clock in the evening of
Saturday, he entered the town of Thurles without
any disguise or attempt at concealment, and walked
through the principal street. There he met
lIULME, the guard to whom we have already alluded,
and inquired his way to the station ; HULME imme-
diately recognised the rebel chief, for whose apprehen-
sion the reward of 500/. had been offered, but prudently
refrained from giving any alarm, contenting himself
with dispatching a messenger to the barracks for an
immediate party. In the mean time he determined
to keep the fugitive in sight, so as to afford no
opportunity of escape. Mr. O'BRIEN proceeded to
the station, and procured a second-class ticket for
Limerick. The clerk noticed his extreme agitation
and embarrassment, but did not suspect that the pros-
cribed leader was in his presence. HULME, who had
followed him closely, not losing sight of him for a
single moment, waited until ke went to the platform,
from wheace he was to enter the railway carriage,
and there arrested him, seizing his arm to prevent him
from drawing any weapon. A strong body of police
were almost immediately in attendance, when he was
conducted to the town gaol. General M'DONALD,
who was speedily informed of the important event,
decided on sending him to the metropolis without a
moment's delay, and a special train having been ob-
tained, he was dispatched in custody of Lieutenant
AI'DoNALD, son to the General, and a party of the
constabulary, over thirty in number, at ten o'clock
the same evening, and before two o'clock on Sunday
morning he was, as we have already stated, delivered
up to the Governor of Kilmainham.
This capture may be said to bring the Irish rebel•
lion of 1848 to a conclusion. SMITH O'BRIEN was
the head and front of the movement—the hope of
the party, who desired to sever the connexion
between the countries, and the establishment of
an Irish republic. So fully was this understood,
that it was determined rather to precipitate the
crisis than to suffer him to get into the hands of
the officers of justice. This it was that led to the
premature outbreak before anything was in readi-
ness, and consequently to the speedy and decisive
suppression of the rebellion. A number of less dis
tinguished prisoners were also captured, and trans-
mitted to Dublin, charged with being engaged
with the insurgent army in their attack upon the
constables at Boulagh.

It now remains to be seen in what manner the
Executive will deal with the misguided men whose
lives may be unquestionably forfeited fur the part
they have taken in the recent proceedings. We
trust, however, most sincerely, that justice may be
tempered with mercy, and that no human being
may be put to death in cold blood. We do not de •
sire to extenuate the offence that has been committed,
or to become the apologists of treason. The crime
is, unquestionably, one of the highest magnitude, and
deserving of exemplary punishment. The voice of
public opinion, however, is now strongly
opposed to capital punishment, and it is
only in cases of wilful and premeditated
murder that it will be tolerated. The general accla-
.nation with which the first act of the Provisional
Government of. France was greeted sufficiently in-
,licated the popular feeling. The most glorious act
of the glorious career of LAMARTINE was that by
which he proclaimed the abolition of the penalty of
death for any merely political offence. Let our own
Government follow the brilliant precedent. They
,!an afford to be lenient. The arch-rebel is in their
hands. His principal coadjutors are fettered
prisoners awaiting their trials, while the
few who arc still at liberty are hopeless
and dispirited fugitives, lurking through bogs and
dyer mountains, their chief desire being to effect an
escape that will for ever compel them to remain
exiles from their native land. Let not the exultation
that must be felt by every loyal and well-affected
subject be damped by pity fur the sufferers. Let not
the triumph of the loyalists be tarnished by any sub-
sequent cruelties perpetrated in the name of our most
gracious and benignant SOVEREIGN. How gladly
would we see the pages on which the
political butcheries of 1715, 1745, 1798, and
1803 are recorded erased from our national history.
What disgust is excited when we read of the mis.
taken, but high-minded and gallant men who fought
for what they believed to be the right, being stran-
gled on the gallows, and their heads exhibited to
frighten the community. What sympathy do we
feel with the sufferers—what horror for their perse-
cutors. Is not the name of JEFFRIES a bye-word and
a reproach ? Let us not then practise what we so
entirely disapprove of on the part of our fore-
fathers. Let us rather establish a precedent on
which we may reflect with satisfaction in future.
Let the traitors be punished severely. Let the chief
delinquents be banished from their native land, in
which they occasioned disturbance; let them be de-
prived for ever of the liberty they have abused, but
spare their lives. If they should be executed they
will be regarded as martyrs and heroes, and perhaps
the seeds of new rebellions may be sown under their
scaffolds, manured by their blood, and ripened into an
abundant harvest. Spare them, and contempt is the
only feeling that will remain. The Irish nation will
be taught that they have, indeed, a mild, a paternal,
and a benignant Government, incapable of cruelty
or oppression, and the best practical refutation
will be given to the calumnies that have so long
been uttered by mischievous demagogues, and to
which the misguided people lent too ready a credence.

Although the popular will has been baulked in a
great measure by the refusal of Parliament to take
into its consideration the wholesale innovations pro-
posed by the Hon. Member for Montrose, we have
still another chance of turning to advantage the other-
wise idle and unprofitable session of 1848. Quickly
as we are approaching to the important season of
grouse-shooting, there is yet within the grasp of our
representatives one last opportunity. Thanks to the
Hon. Member for Bristol, one of the brightest dreams
of political improvement may even at the eleventh
hour be realised.

To-morrow the motion of the Hon. F. H. F.
BBRICELEY, in reference to the ballot, will be in-
troduced to the attention of the House of Commons,
and, as a judicious preparation, we observe that the
subjoined circular has been sent round to no less
than one hundred and seventy of the popular repre-
sentatives

" TO MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT.

" TUB BALLOT.

" Your attendance is reipectfully requested on Tues-
day, tbo Bth instant, to make .and keep a House for the
discussion of the aborts question, which will come ou
early." . _

Earnestly do we hope that the notification may be
productive of good in the way of insuring a sufficient
attendance of supporters to what we cannot but
regard as a cause intimately blended with the
morality of elections, with the prosperity of the mul-
titude, and with the maintenance of the representative
system of government.
Of all the demands made by the political reformers
of this generation, not one is so fruitful in argument,
not one is so justified by events, not one, we may
safely undertake to say, is so imperatively required,
both by honesty and common sense as the ballot
The reasoning of its advocates, is in every respect as
clear and, irrefraguble_ as the demonstration of the
first propositity.e. of. Euclid. From the. =time
lyllerirdOitieeces •••JA.mEs Fox illuminated the merits
6f . ballot with his eloquence, down to the dsy
when LEIGU iIuNT penned his brilliant essay upon
its advantages, the opponents of the measure have
been compelled to restrict themselves to the shal-
lowest ?sophistries arid the veriest platitudes. Beyond
wisicb it must never be forgotten that those who are
the bitterest antagonists of the system, as applied to
electioneering, are among the very men who are of all

others the most habituated to its practice es one of
the formalities of club-life. It is perhaps one of the
most ridiculous contradictions that can %cell be con-
ceived, that an llon. Member, immediately after
dropping a black ball into the ballot-box at BROOKES'S
or Arcrunit's, should go down to the House and
vote against the public adoption of the ballot
as a system un-English, dishonest, pernicious,
and unjustifiable. Yet such things have been done
repeatedly, and will again and again till the end of
the chapter.
Forcible, however, as the arguments in favour of
the ballot have hitherto been, they are now more
than ever incontrovertible when the practices of
treating, bribery, corruption, and intimidation have
been proved in so many instances to have been in-
dulged in upon the occasion of the last general election.
The honour of Parliament, not to say the honesty of
the constituencies of the United Kingdom, are impli-
cated in the cause, and neither can be secured without
its immediate and unconditional acceptance. There
fore it is that we are beyond all expression
solicitous to witness a full attendance to-morrow
evening on the motion of the Hon. F. H. F. BERKE-
LRY. With a moderate proportion of ardour on
the part of our representatives, we might even at this
late period of the session further the chances of the
ballot, and secure its ultimate acceptance by the
Imperial Legislature. We call upon the community
to watch the result of to-morrow evening's discus-
sion, and to scrutinize the division list. Let the
proposition of the Hon. Member for Bristol be re-
garded as the touchstone of the sincerity, the prin-
ciples, and the conscience of the Liberal representa-
tives.

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