The Sun.
London, England, 1848-07-27 00:00:00

RUSSIA.

In St Petersburgh the fearful character assumed
by the cholera has occasioned great consternation.
The EMPEROR has frequently personally visited the
public hospitals, where there are numerous cholera
patients. The disease is said to be on the decline in
the capital, but has broken out in several places in the
suburbs.

ITALY.

NAPLES.

Advices from Naples of the 17th mention that pre-
parations were making to invade Sicily with a large
force. No less than 30,000 to 35,000 troops are to
be engaged in this enterprise. The embarkation was
fixed for the 20th or 21st, and their landing-place
was to be Syracuse.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

(THIS DAY.)

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
The SPEAKER took the chair at Twelve o'clock.
LORDS AMENDMENTS.

The Lords Amendments to the following Bills were
considered and agreed to :
Great Northern Railway (Isle of Axholme Extension).
Great Western Railway (Branch from Slough to

Windsor).
London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway (London-
bridge and New Cross Stations, &c.)
Midland Railway (Gloucester and Stonehouse Junction).
Whitehaven and Furness Junction. Railway (Extension

or Deviation from Silecroft to Foxfield, icc.)
Mr. GREENE contended that the consideration
of the Lords' amendments to Bills should be referred to
a Committee of the House, as it could not be expected
that the House in its collective capacity could give that
consideration to these amendments that should be given
to them.

Mr. M. MILNES was of the same opinion.

Mr. BERNAL thought great good would result from
tho adoption of the course pointed out.
REPORTS.

The following reports were considered and agreed
to:--

Clerkenwell Improvement Bill.
East Anglian Railways (Ely and Huntingdon Railway
Extension of Time, &c.) Bill.
Huddersfield Improvement (No. 2) Bill.
THE CHARTER OF THE COLLEGE OF SUR-
GEONS.

Mr. WAKLEY presented petitions from places in
Lancashire, Shropshire, Gloucestershire, and places in
Wales, complaining of the undue powers granted to the
College of Surgeons by thy' Crown, and praying that a
measure might be passed to modify it.
FRIENDLY SOCIETIES.

Mr. WAKLEY presented a petition from the Pimlico
Friendly Society, stating that they had formed a society
for the purpose of raising funds, the surplus of which,
after relieving distress, &c., was to be applied to the
employment of their members ; that they were enrolled
by Mr. Tidd Pratt under the Friendly Societies' Act for
three years, but that recently they having had occasion
to make an alteration in their rules, Mr. Tidd Pratt had
refused to certify the rules so altered; and that the
whole of the property of the society was thus placed at
the mercy of the creditors of the trustees, one of whom
had recently died. The petitioners therefore prayed the
House to take steps to enable them to be enrolled under
the provisions of the Friendly Societies Act.
THE CHARTIST PRISONERS.

Mr. WAKLEY presented a petition from the Chartist
Association of Finsbury, complaining that Jones, Fus-
sell, Vernon, and the other prisoners convicted at the
last session of the Central Criminal Court, were treated
as felons; that they were not allowed to speak to their
friends, that their hair was cropped, and that they were
kept in solitary confinement. The petition furl her stated,
that it was to be feared that the prisoners were treated
thus in consequence of having been convicted of political
offences, and they prayed the House to institute an in-
quiry, as it was no use applying to the Home Office, as
the instructions under which they were thus treated had
most likely been issued by that department.
THE ALARM. AT LIVERPOOL.
Mr. CARDWELL said he had received additional
signatures to the petition he presented on Monday. He
wished to know what course he should adopt.
The SPEAKER said the Hon. Gentleman could not
present the names alone. They might be appended to a
new petition.
Mr. CARDWELL said he would send back the list of
names to his constituents.
POOR-LAW UNION CHARGES BILL.
Mr. FORSTER presented a petition from the board
of guardians at Berwick, against the Poor-law Union
Charges Bill.
MISCELLANEOUS ESTIMATES.

Mr. V. SMITH brought up the report of the Com.
mittee on Miscellaneous Estimates.
POOR-LAW UNION CHARGES.

Tho adjourned debate on this Bill was resumed.
Mr. RICH supported the Bill, and denied that its
effect would be to throw the support of the agricultural
poor upon the towns. The Hon. Gentleman cited a
number of facts to show that the assessment of the rates
upon the whole of an union would be the fairest mode
of supporting the poor. He considered it was absolutely
necessary to continue the principles of the Bill of Mr.
Bodkin. Nothing could be more impracticable than the
collection of a national rate.
Mr. R. PALMER opposed the Bill on the same
grounds as those urged against it by the Hon. Member
for Oxfordshire. At the same time he felt bound to
give the Right lion. Gentleman who had brought in the
measure every credit for having introduced it, and the
attention ho had paid to the subject. If the Hon. Gentle-
man expected to pass the Bill during the present session he
must bring its provisions within a much smaller com-
pass. Although he was opposed to the Bill he would
not object to its going into Committee.
Mr. C. BULLER trusted that the House would
allow him to say a few words in explanation. He had
had the Bill so drawn that that part of it which re.
ferred to the establishment charges might be excluded
in Committee, and feeling that the House was against
him upon that point, and in his favour with respect to the
irremoveables and vagrants, he would not press the ob-
jectionable part of the Bill.
Captain PECHELL thought that inasmuch as the
Right lion. Gentleman had acknowledged the Bill to
be defective in many particulars, it would be much
better that it should be at once withdrawn and intro-
duced in an amended form in another session. He
thought the Bill ought to be delayed until another ses-
sion of Parliament, believing that the present time was
most inappropriate to bring it before the House.
Mr. DRUMMOND rose, and was
(LEFT SPEAKING.)

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Baroness de Clifford and the Hon. Misses Russell
have left town for the family seat in Leicestershire.
The Earl and Countess of Ripon have arrived at
Mowbray House, the Earl's seat, near Ripon, where it is
their intention to reside several months. Viscount
Goderich had previously arrived there.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Blandford and
their youthful family have left town for Ryde, Isle of
the smuttier,
Wight, where they propose residing during

HIGHLY IMPORTANT
FROM IRELAND.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY MORNING.
The following intelligence was received (per spe-
cial engine) last evening, by Mr. Conway, editor of
the Dublin Evening Post :
HIGHLY IMPORTANT FROM IRELAND.
DUBLIN, WEDNESDAY.
Commencement of the Rebellion.
Thurles, Clontnel, and Kilkenny in arms.
Defeat and disaffection of the troops.
Burning of the railway station at Thurles.
The whole of the south of Ireland is in rebellion.
A special engine has just arrived in Dublin, from
four miles this side of Thurles (eighty-two miles in

two hours).
The station at Thurles is on fire; the rails for
several miles are torn up; and as the engines arrive
the mob intend detaining them.
At Clonmel the fighting is dreadful—the people
arrived in masses. The Dublin club leaders are
there. The troops were speedily overpowered. Many
refused to act.
The military at Carrick have shown disaffection,
and have been driven back, and their quarters fired.
At Kilkenny the contest is proceeding, and here
the mob are also said to be successful.
No news from Waterford or Cork.

(From the Chronicle.)

WATERFORD, JULY 25.
ARRIVAL OF MESSRS. ME A. GHER AND
O'BRIEN AT CARRICK-ON-SUIR-GREAT
EXCITEMENT THERE, AND AT WATER-
FORD-REINFORCEMENT OF THE CARRICK
GARRISON-DEPARTURE OF THE REVO-
LUTIONARY LEADERS FOR CASHEL-=,
FLIGHT OF LOYALISTS FROM WATER-
FORD-OPEN REBELLION.

Intense anxiety prevailed in this city last night and
throughout to-day, as numerous reports were afloat ;
at one time it was stated Mr. Meagher was ad-
vancing against Waterford at the head of the Car-
rick-on-Suir clubs, a determined band of 2,000 men
of a hardy daring character, suited to any desperate
enterprise; at another time it was stated that the
disaffected of Clonmel, Cashel, Fethard, Killenaule,
Callan, and Nine-mile-house, were to storm our poor
city. These reports arose from the fact that William
Smith O'Brien and Thomas Francis Meagher reached
Carrick-on-Suir at half-past five in the evening from
Kilkenny; on their route, at Callan, they addressed
thousands, and told them for the present not to inter-
fere with the police or soldiery, as they should per-
form their duties, but when the word should be given
not to spare any who opposed them.

Yesterday being fair•day at Carrick, the town
was filled with country people, and Messrs. Meagher
and O'Brien addressed the people, it is said by
some who were present, in a more violent and de-
termined strain than heretofore, stating their de-
termination not to be arrested under the provisions
of the new Act. Both gentlemen, it is stated, were
armed with pistols, which they are determined to
use in the event of an attempt being made to cap-
ture them; they stated that they had spent their
fortunes in the people's cause, and would hazard
their lives for their service, and would now throw
themselves on the protection of the people. A num-
ber of Waterford, men, who were at Carrick doing
business at the fair, begged of Mr. Meagher to come
to Waterford, and that his fellow-citizens would pro-
tect him from arrest, but Mr. Smith O'Brien would
not listen to that proposal, and brought off Mr.
Meagher to Cashel, or, as others say, to
Tipperary. Whilst this scene was enacting,
two hundred of the 3d Buffs marched in
from the camp at Besboro and took up their position
in the barracks. Few of either party slept during
the night ; the Young Irelanders, however, did not
do anything to disturb the peace of the town, but
business is totally at a stand-still, and all in and about
the town are resting on their arms, waiting for the
battle hour, which, God grant, may be far distant.
In this city the clubs are well organized, and armed,
and ready to act when called upon. The people
' seem reckless from poverty ; groups of work-
men may be seen in the streets by day and night,
discussing politics and retailing the news of the
hour. The Queen's forces here now are about 1,000
strong. The Rhadamanthus steam-vessel lies in the
river, and it is proposed to form two camps on the
hills which command the town. In the country the
peasants are arming ; at Coolnamuck so much timber
has been cut down for pike handles, that the clubs
wont allow any more to be taken thence in compas-
sion to the proprietor. At Mount Bolton the owner
has it cut and left outside the wood for the people, to
prevent further waste ; at Lord Waterford's demesne
more ash trees have been cut down, and the useless
Parts left behind. All the anvils in the country ring
with pike-forging, and every weapon is put in order
for the fray.
Last week fourteen loyalist families left Water-
ford for England, Wales, and Scotland; to-day the
Rose (Bristol steamer) is overcrowded with more,
who are frightened at the aspect of affairs ; the
consequence is, that numbers of workmen are dis-
charged from employment, and thus sent to swell
the torrent of disaffection, which threatens now to
plunge this country into the horrors of civil war.
Since I wrote the above, I have learned on the
best authority that Messrs. O'Brien and Meagher
are beyond Carrick-on•Suir, surrounied by the
armed peasantry, determined to sell their liberty
dearly if arrested. It is also stated that Messrs.
Dillon, O'Gorman, and D. Lane are with them.
Two dragoons arrived here express at three
o'clock, and further reinforcements were sent
from this city to Carrack and Pilltown. The
greatest alarm prevails here amongst the peace-
able portion of the people. Should the Confederates
remain in their present position, I will write from
Carrick to-morrow. The soldiers are confined to
barracks here.

DUBLIN, WEDNESDAY.-It was rumoured through
town yesterday, that a portion of Trinity College is
being fitted up as a gaol, in anticipation of arrests
under the recent Act. It was also stated that the
Birmingham Tower, and other portions of the Castle,
are set apart for a like purpose.
Yesterday morning twelve men, under the com-
mand of a head constable, were sent from the
constabulary barracks in the Park, to Newgate,
where they have mounted guard in military fashion,
one man inside and another outside, with fixed
bayonets.
k'Ve understand that an order from Government
was received at Newgate yesterday, directing the
officers of that prison not to allow any person to visit
the political prisoners at present confined there.
THE FELON JOURNALS.

In consequence of the highly inflammatory articles,
bearing the signatures of the editors, which have ap-
peared in the recent numbers of the Nation and
Felon newspapers, the board of superintendence of
Newgate prison has given orders that those gentle-
men shall not be permitted henceforth to publish any
articles dated from this prison, with their names or
signatures attached. It is generally understood that
the Nation and Felon are not to appear until their
proprietors ure relieved from the fangs of the law—a
period considered rather remote—to induce many
new subscribers to come forth to their aid.

The following letter appears in the Evening Post :
" Sligo Crown Court, July 24, 1848.
" The Crown business here is very light, and the
grand jury have postponed the traverses for damages to
the next assizes, when and where they will be put off
sine die. Two respectable persqns—one the deputy
postmaster—were arrested here yesterday morning, for
being agents and disposing of the Nation newspaper.
They were admitted to bail late last evening.
" We have not the least particle of excitement in either
the town or country.

" The crops, including the potato, are looking most
uxuriant."

WATERFORD, JULY 24.—The arrival of additional
troops, and other precautionary measures adopted by
the Government in this locality, have had a good
effect, giving confidence to the well-affected, and de-
ciding many waverers.
CONFEDERATE MEETINGS IN CORK.
The Cork Constitution of this morning has the fol-
lowing

" Meetings cf the rebels were called by placards to be
held in Cove and Passage-west on Sunday, to receive
deputations from the Southern Council. The Cove
meeting was to be held in the Berkeley Club, Mr. Fran-
cis Maguire, Vice-President of the Mitchel C:ub, and
M'Auliffe, fruiterer, Patrick-street, attended, and it was
announced that Mr. Ralph Varian was unavoidably ab-
sent. The deputation remained but a few minutes, and
no business was transacted. The President of the
Berkeley Club, Dr. Copinger, Cove, who was expected
to take the chair, did not show.

" The meeting'in Passage was to have been held at
half-past three o'clock, in the chapel yard, hut the parish
priest declared that they should not outrage the edifice,
and the felons then determined on taking possession of a
yard near the police-station. At the appointed hour a
number of young men congregated in the yard, and,
after a delay of an hour and a half, the deputation not
having appeared, Mr. Francis Power, of Tuckey-street,
president of the Lord Edward Fitzgerald Club, told them
that he saw no use in their losing their time any longer.
The gathering then dispersed."

THE FLEET OFF CORE..—Capt. Hirste, of the Minerva
steam-ship, begs to inform► the Editor of the Cork Con.
stitution that he passed the Channel fleet, under Sir
Charles Napier, about ten miles east by south, off the
Start Point, at three P.M. on the 21st inst., beating down
the Channel. Wind S.W., strong gale and heavy thick
rain.

CLONMEL, JULY 24.—Great excitement prevails
here. It is impossible to over estimate the quiet de-
termination of the people of all the surrounding dis-
tricts ; organization is everywhere progressing. You
hear no talk now at all ; silence and steady action
characterizes each act in the scene of popular enthu-
siasm.

The Tipperary and Waterford boys have not been
idle for the last week ; they have cut and taken away
a large amount of timber from the woods near and
about Carrick-on. &lir. The Castle proclamations
do not trouble them in the least. The second bar-
racks here are being fortified. A piquet of horse and
foot soldiers paraded the streets- all night,
ENNISCORTHY, JULY 24.—Mr. Smith O'Brien ar-
rived here by the Dublin coach on Saturday evening,
en rode to visit John Maher, Esq., D.L., with whom
he immediately afterwards proceeded to Ballinkeele.
During the few minutes be remained in town he was
waited upon by many, members of the clubs, to whom
he expressed his desire to see a cordial union amongst
all classes of repealers, and an active organization of
the national party into clubs.
In the evening a large bonfire was kindled on
Vinegar Hill to celebrate Mr. O'Brien's first visit to
the county of Wexford.
On Sunday morning Messrs. T. P. Meagher and
J. B. Dillon arrived from Dublin by the night mail,
and proceeded to join Mr. O'Brien at Ballinkeele. At
eleven, A.M., the three gentlemen came to Enniscorthy,
when, after Meagher and Dillon had heard mass, an
immense concourse of persons surrounded them. They
addressed the assemblage in spirit-stirring speeches.
Messrs. O'Brien, Meagher, and Dillon then left Ennis-
corthy for Kilkenny.
At Clonmel, Sligo, and Enniscorthy several per-
sons have been held to bail to take their trials for
selling seditious newspapers.
THE POTATO CROP.
The accounts received from the country today go to
fortify the opinion expressed yesterday—viz., that the
blight is not extending. At the corn market to•day the
factors and farmers seemed quite satisfied that no new
instances of failure have occurred during the past tew
days; and that some of the plants which exhibited signs
of disease are recovered.
The Tralee Chronicle says that the disease has stopped
in that neighbourhood, and that it has been but very
partial.
The Cork Examiner says—" We have received intel-
ligence of the potato crop from many quarters. It is
very favourable. All our informants admit that fog or
other atmospheric influences have spotted the stalks of
the potato, more or less; but state that the tuber is un-
touched, that the produce is plentiful, and the general
healthy appearance of the crop gives good assurance
of a favourable harvest. Full grown new potatoes were
sold in this city on Saturday for 6d. and 7d. per 211b5."
From Belfast we learn that the potato crop is sound
and abundant.
The reports from Derry and Sligo are of a similar
purport.