The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-09-19 00:00:00

IRELAND.

Lord John Russell has been subpoenaed as a Witness by
Smith O'Brien. Ten sovereigns were, it is said, handed
with the subpoena, which, however, Lord John declined
to receive.

A letter has been received from Rome, according to
which Dr. M`Hale has succeeded in inducing the Pope to
issue another rescript condemnatory of the Irish Colleges.
the polite solicitations of the Earl of Clarendon notwith-
standing.

The Dublin Herald declares that the correspondence
found in Smith O'Brien's portmanteau implicates four
Roman Catholic prelates, one of them an Archbishop,
and declares that Lord John Russell's visit to Irish shores
was itn consequence of a disagreement between him and
the Lord Lieutenant ; Lord Clarendon desiring that equal
justice should be meted out to all traitors, while the Pre-
mier insists on the expediency of an amnesty to the cleri-
cal rebels.

X declaration has been presented to the Lord Lieu-
tenant of Ireland, by a deputation of the nobility, clergy,
gentry, &c., in favor pf the union between Great Britain and
Ireland, signed by 80,000 persons. The following is an
analysis of the signatures :—Peers, 110 ; eldest sons, 10 ;
bishops, 12 ; baronets, 68 ; deputy Lieutenants, 330 ;

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IM.P.'s 44 ; fellows of Trinity College, 30 ; justices of ' black with the assembled multitudes, which continue to
peace 1010 ; deans, 19; arehdeacons,l9 ; beneficed clergy, pour in from all quarters. Our informant most positively
568 ; barristers, 270 ; solicitors, 200 ; physicians and sur- asserts that there cannot have been less than from 20,000
geons, 260 ; merchants, 104. to 30,000 men, partially accoutred and generally well
THE WIDOW CORMACK.—This person, whose name has , armed. Last night, fires blazed on every hill in the counties
been spread far and wide by chattering fame, continues to of Wexford, Tipperary, Kilkenny, and Waterford."
hold daily levees at Farrinroy. Crowds of people from all At Carrick-on-Suir, on Friday, the soldiers succeeded
quarters have paid their respects to her, and been received in capturing nine of the rebels, and twelve more with
in the kindest manner, She takes great interest in show- Pikes were taken by as many of the constabulary a day or
ne her visitors all the localities rendered famous by the two before.
battle; her house still remains in the same dilapidated The Cork Constitution, of Saturday, the must honest
as it was left by the police on the memorable day of Paper published in the south of Ireland, contains the fol-
gement, the port holes they made in the back wall lowing account of what has been done by these misguided
many other mementos of men :---" On Monday morning, large masses of armed
Lsion. All the barricades men were to be seen moving from all directions towards
in the same state as they Clonmel, and who were to have been encamped on the
hill. Here they were to have remained until the military
Id police appeared, who if overpowering in number the

, and to keep up a retreat harassini to the soldiery
ice, and if by this movement the army and consta-
were detached the rebels should take circuitous
routes, so as to concentrate at an appointed position,
_and

telling those who offered an excuse
that their -houses and property would be burned that
night, and they and their families would be piked. The
chapel bells were also rung during the day, which was a
signal to move to the rebel camp, and that night, as well
as the previous, the hills were lit up with signal fires.
Monday night large parties left Clonmel, Kilkenny, and
t-

sions they

ae villages, armed and provisioned, to join the insurgents
on Carrick mountain. The rebels, had to pass through
Portlaw, and endeavoured to induce the police in the sta.

ther having been complied with, a skirmish took place, the
police discharging their carbines effectively from the house.
while the result of the rebel volleys was merely smoke and
noise. Here the insurgents must have suffered severely,
for they retired in the greatest confusion. This proceed-
ing having been reported, the police, in conformity with
previous orders, prepared to leave the out-stations and
concentrate. Shortly after a rebel band was decried
moving towards the polim-cation at Glenbower. This is
at the toot of Shevenamon. wita.A4 about eight miles Prom
Clonnael, where the Kilkenny mail coach and Blanconi's
car change horses. At this moment the police of that,
station were packing their luggage on a car to abandon the

pony to the Nine-mile-house station men, who were re-
ported to be on march to join them. This was in con-
formity with a regulation, that when the coustabulary

move on towards or wait the arrival of the men of
other stations, so that they might form a body less
likely to be ineffective. Perceiving the rebels coming,
in the direction of the station, the Glenbower- police
removed from the car their ammunition chest and arms,
4 retreated •into

nouse, which ..ney proceeded to
fortify as well as time and material would permit to
defend their position and their lives. The banditti, which
numbered about two hundred men, having arrived in
front of the station, all apparently armed, a number of
them set to work examining the contents of the car.
While this was going on, a man, who appeared to coni=
mand, and who was of a superior class to his followers,
walked up to the station and got into conversation with
one of the inmates. The policeman determined to post-
pone the affray as long as possible, expecting every mo-
ment to be reinforced by the men from Nile-mile-house,
had recourse to the stratagem of appearing to fraternise'
and induce his associates to do the same, A colloquy
ensued, and Ireland's rights and Smith O'Brien's peril
wsre freely discussed until a shout was heard outside, and
the rebel party rushed in the direction of the road the
Nine-mile-house men were expected to travel. In a
moment after shots were fired, and the Glenbewer men,
fearing their comrades were in danger, opened the door
and came out, and immediately they perceived seven
policemen retreating to the station-house. There they
received their comrades in arms, and the reinforced
body, now numbering 15, retired into the building, deter-
mined to expend their ammunition and sacrifice their
lives, or be victorious. They had scarcely taken up their
positions, when the rebels rushed towards the house, but
were met with a volley from within. This threw them
back for the moment, until their leader leaped over the
small road wall in front of the building, when his fol-
lowers rushed towards it, but stopped short, perceiving
that he fell from a shot from the police. Another, how-
ever, followed the daring example, and the result to him
was the same, while every fellow outside on the road, who
came within carbine range, was popped at by the police.
The fire having been kept up at both sides for about
twenty minutes, there was a cessation on the part of the
assailants, who retreated, taking with them a number of
men dead or wounded, but leaving after them the bodies
of the two shot within the wall, and which none would
dare to remove. This transaction having been reported
at Callan, a distance of twelve miles, a party of the 75th
Regiment, and the head quarters of the 83rd, proceeded
to Glenbower, and returned at five o'clock the followirg
morning with the fifteen policemen, the two bodies of the
rebels, and the baggage. An inquest was held yesterday
on the bodies. During this time several other police
station houses were attacked by the advancing rebels,
but being found unoccupied were sacked, and some of
them burnt. The slate quarries station, near Aheny,
was amongst the latter. The same day a party of the
rebels, on a mission for arms, men, and commissariat,
visited the hop,q. -r le farmer, named
_ woom they required wall his tviv _
them bringing with them their fire-arms and whaeprovi-
sions were in the house. Hahessy replied that he sup-
nnsed they would take th. .rm.

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mould not join them, and he hoped his sons would.
follow
his example. This they were not satisfied with, and
though they excused his presence they insisted on that of
his sons. After some threatening, the sons proceeded
with them, and the father followed, imploring them to
return. He was warned by the commandant of the party
to retrace his steps, but continuing to follow and beseech,
one of the ruffians turned round, and, levelling his rifle at
the unfortunate man, shot him dead, and then proceeded
on their route. Another party visited the house of a
blacksmith, nicknamed Gowbeg, who lives on the moun-
tain, where they met a young man the son of Dr. Coch-
ran, of Clonmel. This gentleman had gone there for a
few days to fish in the lakes at Comfee, carrying also with
him a gun. Having taken his gun, one of the rebels said,
" He would spy," and he was ordered on his knees to be
shot. The young man fell upon his knees, imploring of
them not to take his life, which they disregarded, until
Gowbeg's wife threw herself upon him to protect him, and
then they declared it would be a waste of ammunition to
shoot him. They next directed Gowbeg to make pikes of
what iron he had, for which they would call the next
night, and if they were not ready both he and his wife
would be piked. They then, about a hundred in number,
proceeded on " their mission." Two of the fellows who
left Clonmel to join the rebels were fallen in with by the
police and arrested. Each was armed with a pike and car-
ried provisions on his back. The name of one of them is
Quirke, a cutler by trade, and the other named Murphy,
a ladies' boot and shoemaker. On Wednesday night the
residence of the Rev. Mr. Hill, at Moate-hill, within
about two miles of Carrick, was attacked by a party from
the adjacent mountain, and his arms demanded. These
were refused, and the rev. gentleman and his son fired a
few shots through their windows to announce that they
were prepared. These were answered by shots from with-
out, but the party kept out of range and in a short time
retired with a fiendish yell, when it was discovered that
his out-offices and haggart were on fire, all of which were
destroyed. The same night, about ten o'clock, over 500
armed men passed along the Stieragh mountain, opposite
the town of Clonmel, in the direction of Carrick.
'Nothing can exceed the spirit of disaffection that exists
among the labouring population throughout the three
counties, and which there is no hope of suppressing, un-
less an engagement should take place between them and
the military.

SENTENCE ON A SOLDIER.—The sentence on the soldier
of the Athlone garrison found guilty of having cursed the
Queen and cheered for repeal, is seven years' transporta-
tion—a warning to red-coated sympathisers.
The military are in active movement, and we may now
hope that an end will be put to these insurrectionary
disorders.