The Sun.
London, England, 1848-08-11 00:00:00

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LONDON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 11, 184$.

LATEST FROM IRELAND.

[BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.]

A reward of MU has been offered for the ap-
prehension of Richard O'Gorman. The following
proclamation was issued by the Lord-Lieutenant
yesterday :
" Whereas we have received information that Richard
O'Gorman, jun., has been guilty of treasonable practices.
Now we, the Lord-Lieutenant, being determined to bring
the said Richard O'Gorman to justice, do hereby offer a
reward-of 3001. to any person or persons who shall secure
and deliver up to safe custody the person of the said
Richard O'Gorman, junior, and we do hereby strictly
command and charge all justices of the peace, mayors,
sheriffs, bailiffs, and constables, and all in her Majesty's
service, to use their utmost diligence in apprehending the
said Richard O'Gorman, junior.
" Given at her Majesty's Castle of Dublin, this 10th
day of August, 1848, by his Excellency's command.
" T. N. REDINGTON."
O'Gorman yesterday crossed the Shannon in a
boat, and is now supposed to be in Clare.
A cargo of gunpowder has been seized in Dun-

garvan.
In the case of the Queen v. O'Doherty, yesterday,
after various objections and arguments regarding the
jurors, a jury was sworn at three o'clock, and at half-
past five the case for the Crown was closed. The
proceedings were adjourned to ten o'clock this day,
and constables were sworn in to guard the jury for
the night, who were ordered to be provided with
every accommodation at Gresham's Hotel.

The rumours respecting the mission of the Rev.
Mr. MACKAY to the Irish Government, to which we
alluded in The Sun of yesterday, appear to have been
at least "founded upon facts." It is certain that the
Rev. Gentleman proceeded to Dublin, and went to
the Castle for the purpose of opening his communica-
tion to the authorities. His proposition, however,
only concerned Mr. T. F. MEAGHER, the young gentle-
man whose language was the most fervid and glowing
of all the conspirators, and whose constant appeals
to the " God of Battles" might have induced the
public to believe, that when the time for action ar-
rived, he would not be found wanting, retreating
from an unpleasant proximity to the military and
police, whose disaffection to their SOVEREIGN he so
repeatedly and so untruly (as the event has proved)
dared to insinuate, or stipulating for personal
immunity, so far as his own wretched life was con-
cerned, regardless of the more daring associates with
whom he had formed plans for the campaign. It is
but a few short months since, when, after he had fled
from the atones and bludgeons of the advocates of
" moral force" in Limerick, and when he bad con-
sented to leave Jour' MITCHEL, who, with the single
exception of Mr. SMITH O'BRIEN, was the most sincere
and enthusiastic of the entire party, to his miserable fate,
that in a vein of prophetic inspiration he exclaimed,
" Call me coward, call me renegade, I accept these
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titles as the penalties which a fidelity to meon *c
tions has imposed upon me. It will be for a she rt
a
time only. At the end I see the path which Iha
been ordained to walk. No object intercepts ve
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view, and on the grave that closes upon that path I Icayn
read no coward's epitaph." We know not
whether his present proceeding can be regarded as
the realisation of that " peep into futurity," which he
detailed with such graphic force—whether he will be
called "coward" and "renegade" for " a short time
only," or what may be the character of the epitaph
on the grave that closes his mischievous career. The
proposition which solely concerned himself, which
only stipulated for the remission of the extreme pe-
nalty of death which his conscience too truly in-
formed him he had most richly deserved, and which
'declared his willingness to drag on the remainder of
his existence in the convict hulks or the penal settle-
ments, provided only his life were spared, can scarcely
be regarded as the act which was to re-establish his