The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-08-01 00:00:00

STATE OF IRELAND.

The projected crusade of the Protestant Repealers in
Ulster has been abandoned. A rumour prevailed that the
whole of the deputation from the body had been arrested
in Drogheda. •
A diabolical attempt was made by three clubbists at two
o'clock on Wednesday morning, to murder a policeman,
in South Great George-street, Dublin. The victim, John
Byrne, met three young men, one of whom had a pistol
in his hand, and the officer asked him, on the weapon
being waved across his own face, to give it up, or show
him his license for carrying it. He refused, and a scuffle
ensued, in which the officer got possession of the pistol—
when the young man turned round and plunged a dagger
into his groin. The constable knocked him down, but
soon after, when some other police officers came up, he
fainted for loss of blood and was taken to the hospital.
He is not likely to recover. The assassins were taken.
Two of them bore the name of Moran, and are brothers.
On the ground were found two other pistols, fully charged,
and another dagger. Their houses were searched, and at
Morans' a helmet was found ; also papers shewing that
both were contributors to the Nation. The further hear-
ing of the case before the magistrates was postponed.
Patrick O'Hipgins (the first arrested under the Habeas
Corpus Suspension Act) was committed to Kilmainham
on Thursday on a charge of high treason. About a thou-
sand gunstocks in the rough were found on his premises.
A gentleman named Fitzgerald was apprehended early on
Tuesday in Westmorland-street, Dublin, with a pike in
his possession. He stated before the magistrate that he
was bringing it home after vainly applying to have it re-
gistered. Prisoner was committed for trial, but bail was
accepted.

Newgate Gaol, Dublin, is placed in a state of military
defence. Instructions have been given to the keeper to
prevent the continuance of the practice of parties therein
writing treasonable articles to the Felon, the Nation, and
other papers. Henceforward, the wives and children of
the prisoners and their legal advisers only, will be permit-
ted to visit them, and they only, upon a previous pledge
being given by each of them, upon the occasion of each
visit, that no papers or other communication will be taken
from the prison by them for publication, or for any pur-
pose except for the purpose of defence of the prisoners,
when being tried for the offences for which they stand
charged. The arming of the people throughout Tipperary
and Waterford is reported to be proceeding rapidly. At
Carrick, the cry of the whole population seems to be for
war ; and: Smith O'Brien has told his benighted dupes
there that "if the government attempt to arrest him,
they shall have only his lifeless corpse." Mr. Meagher
added that " the assistance of the people might be called
into requisition in a couple of hours, if the authorities at-
tempted to arrest him."

It was rumoured on Wednesday in Dublin, that Trinity
College and Birmingham Tower were to be converted into
prisons.

ARRIVA, ireAS CORPUS

The Banshee left Liverpool on Tuesday, with the offi-
cial documents empowering the Lord Lieutenant to put
the act in force, and arrived early on the following day.
His Excellency forthwith issued his proclamation to en-
force the provisions of the suspension of the act. At
the mere touch of that well-tempered weapon the Con-
federate forces began giving way in numberless directions,
abashed, crest-fallen, and confounded.
Dublin, it is needless to say, has from the commence-
ment been the focus and stronghold of these felonious
combinations ; at once their bulwark and head-quarters.
The clubs disappeared on Tuesday, their machinery having
been broken, and the feeling amongst them being " sauve
qui peut." One member is afraid of impeachment by
another, and none safe. Were a Congreve rocket thrown
into the centre of each club-room, it could not have caused
greater consternation, or a more thorough dispersion than
guilt and a dread of betrayal have produced among the
Dublin rebels. A salutary terror also seized the disaffect-
ed in many of the provinces, and a number of clubs were
dissolved.

Carrick-on-Suir and Carrickbeg were amongst the
most excited, after a meeting on Sunday week. The
peasantry then cut down the plantations for pike handles.
Clonmel was in a very excited state, but though great
alarm prevailed, the rumour that the insurrection had then
broken out (as stated in the Liverpool Times of Thursday)
happily proves to be incorrect.
The Freeman's Journal gives the following account of
Mr. Smith O'Brien's progress through Wexford :
" ENNISCORTHY, July 24.—Mr. Smith O'Brien arrived
in Enniscorthy by the Dublin coach on Saturday evening,
en route to visit John Maher, Esq., D.L., with whom he
immediately after proceeded to Ballinkeele. During the
few minutes he remained in town he was waited on by
many members of the club, and others, to whom he ex-
pressed his desire to see a cordial union amongst all classes
of Repealers, and an active organisation of the national
party into clubs. In the evening a large bonfire was
kindled in Vinegar-hill, to celebrate Mr. O'Brien's first
visit to the county of Wexford. On Sunday morning,
Messrs. T. F. Meagher and J. B. Dillon arrived from
Dublin by the night mail, and proceeded to join Mr. S.
O'Brien at Ballinkeele. At eleven o'clock a.m., the three
gentlemen came to Enniscorthy, when, after Messrs.
Meagher and Dillon had heard mass, an immense con-
course of people surrounded them in the market-square.
They addressed the assemblage in spirit-stirring and most
effective speeches. Messrs. O'Brien, Meagher, and Dillon
then left Enniscorthy for Kilkenny, and were attended
nearly to the bounds of the county of Wexford by a few
gentlemen. It was expected that Mr. O'Brien would have
remained here a few days, to begin an effective organiza-
tion of the repeal party in this county."
From Enniscorthy Mr. O'Brien and his staff proceeded
to Kilkenny, where they addressed the people, and were
received with great enthusiasm. Yesterday week they ad-
dressed the people in Carrick-on-Suir.
The police of Nenagh have been re-inforced, and a
large military barrack is to be erected. An encampment
is also contemplated.
Mr. O'Gorman hss been trying to enlist the clergy in
behalf or the rebels. He tried Dean Vaughan, but that
functionary declined to accede to his wishes. In New-
port, Tipperary, he was rather more successful. Addres-
sing a vast mob there on Saturday evening he indulged
in such language as follows :—" He said he came among
the men of Newport, not for the purpose of making a
speech, but to remind them of the duty which they owed
themselves, their wives, and children, and their country,
and to be prepared in the event of ie worst, to sustain
them with their lives.—(Loud cheers.) He wished to
know whether the men of Tipperary were content to lie
down calmly for another year and behold the teeming
produce of their country sent to foreign lands, and they
left to starve.—(Cries of " Never.") This is the policy
of a paternal government, and will continue to be their
policy until human endurance shall be exhausted; and,
thank God, a spirit has at length arisen in the land which
proclaims that human endurance has its limits.—(Cheers.)
For the bold and fearless expression of those sentiments
(and which I here openly avow,) Mr. Mitchel has been
convicted, and punished as a felon."—(Loud cheering for
Mr. Mitchel.)
The city of Limerick was visited, and the clubs inspected,
by Mr. O'Gorman on Saturday. The Reporter gives a
glowing descriptiOn of the " General's" reception on the
occasion :—" Words cannot express the buiefing enthu-
siasm with which he was received in every club, while he
described the deadly tyranny under which the nation
groans, and pointed out the duties and kindled the hopes
of the people.
The Limerick Reporter states that the clubs now
meet every night, and that their numbers are rapidly
increasing.
A letter from Carrick-on-Suir states, that among other
extensive preparations on the part of the people of that
town, 12 anvils ring night and day with the sound of the
pike, in defiance of all legal consequences" and the pre-
sence of police and military.
In South Tipperary the suspension of the Act has had
a good effect. At Clonmel and Nenagh, a yeomanry
force was being organized.
Great apprehensions of an outbreak were, on the 21th,
entertained at Waterford. O'Brien and Meagher had
been there harrangueing the peopleininflamatorylanzune.
The -Bishop of Dromore, the Right Rev. Dr. Blake,
Lord French, and his eldest son, the Hon. F. French,
have sent in their adhesion to the Irish League.

Rathkeale was also greatly disturbed. The Nenegh
Guardian says :—" The several out-stations surrounding
the town of Borrisoleizh have been ordered to be broken
up, and the entire force in that district are to concentrate
in the town of Borrisoleigh. This step has been taken in
consequence of information received of a general slaughter
of the constabulary in that locality."

At Clonmel, all the fire-arms in the gunsmith's estab-
lishments have been removed by the police.
A letter from Dublin, dated July 25th, says :—" The ac-
counts from the South this morning are really most alarm-
ing. The confederate leaders appear to be so insane as to

contemplate an insurrection ; and, indeed, already they
have gone little short of an actual outbreak. The deepest
anxiety and apprehension prevail amongst the gentry and
well-disposed of all classes. The danger is imminent, but
the Lord-Lieutenant is well prepared and determined
promptly to crush, any insurrection forced on by the
wicked men who are now endeavouring to produce a con-
vulsion. Troops are constantly arriving from England
and departing from the South, where the danger is most
pressing." . _

The Dublin Mail of Friday calls earnestly on the go-
vernment to arrest the rebel leaders without fear of con-
sequences and in the midst of any mob they can raise.
Our contemporary says, " A pistol held at Mr. Smith
O'Brien's ear, by a brave and determined man, with a
tool intimation that the brains of that criminal lunatic
would be blown out upon the first indication of an attempt
to rescue him, would, we have no doubt, terminate in a
moment all danger both of a temporary collision and of
protracted rebellion. A single troop of horse artillery,
and one squadron of light dragoons, would be more than
sufficient support .to the captor of the King-designate of
Munster; but, if the over-caution of the authorities deem
that more force might be needed, have they not an army
of 40,000 men at their command ? The capture of Smith
O'Brien, and some two dozen of stripes upon his back
with a boy's cat-o'-nine-tails, would, to-day, terminate a
farce of insurrection which, a week hence, may grow into
a tragedy, from the catastrophe of which the empire would
suffer for half a century."
On Thursday, Mr. O'Brien addressed the mob at Ur-
lingford, in the county of Kilkenny, and called on them
to rescue him in the event of his being arrested.
The mails leaving the Post-office, Dublin, have double
guards mounted on them.

Eigle: members of a Confederate club were charged on
Thursday, at the Dublin Police-office, with a conspiracy
to murder three inspectors of police. They were re-
manded. An Irishman, n traveller for a highly-respect-
able English house, but connected with the club £ ystem ,
was followed last week from Liverpool by an officer, and
has probably by this time been arrested. His trunks
were seized, and one was found to contain a full suit of
green uniform; with a commission in the rebel forces, to-•
gether with some arms.

We take the following from the Dublin Herald of
Thursday evening :—" Messrs. Reilly and Brennan, of
the Felon, have absconded. A great number of warrants
are known to have been issued for the apprehension of
others. A blacksmith has been arrested in Kingston for
forging pikes, and three persons for purchasing them.
Several of the shopmen employed in the large mercantile
houses in this city, being deeply implicated in the insur-
rectionary preparations have absconded through fear of
arrest under the new act. The police have been, since the
arms act came into force under the recent proclamation,
engaged in a diligent search for arms throughout the city,
but as yet with very inconsiderable results. The utmost
care and cunning have been employed in concealing the
weapons, and with but too much success. This naturally
-adds greatly to the anxiety and alarm which has hitherto
prevailed. In one instance, however, they have been suc-
cessful to a considerable extent. Thirteen hundred
musket stocks were taken in the house of Mr. O'Higgins,
whom we have mentioned having been arrested. We
have elsewhere alluded to the attempt to assassinate the
sentry on duty at Aldborough house, on Sunday night.
The musket-hall, which was fitted at the soldier, has been
found, but no clue whatever to the detection of the cow-
ardly
assasFin."

The following extract from a letter written at Kilkenny,
on Saturday, by a respectable gentleman in that town,
though favourable to repeal, was received yesterday by a
house in Liverpool. The information is important, and
the sentiments of the writer, though strongly expressed,
are reciprocated by no small proportion of the Irish public
of all political denominations
Kilkenny, 29th July, 1848.
" O'Brien was obliged to retire (from the neighbour-
hood of Carrick-on-Suir) to the foot of a mountain called
Slievenamon, where for a few days he was followed by
perhaps a thousand men, who were to some extent armed.
Since that. even these men have deserted him, and he
moved further towards a place called Killenaule, a few miles
further on ; and, although this is onl, fifteen miles from
here, all we can hear of him is, that he has about seventy
men along with him. A collision may occur in arresting
him, but there is not the least danger of anything like a
revolutionary movement taking place. I think this
country will be in a more quiet state in another week than
perhaps it has been for a long time. We have our faults,
but we have also serious grievances, of which the English
people as a body are utterly ignorant, and which an
English ministry, at least the present one, are unwilling
to redress; but, God knows, we cannot so much blame
them, when the fact is before us that a greater set of
rascals never entered the Hall of St. Stephen's than the
present representatives of unfortunate Ireland, call
them what you will—whig, tory, or repealer. They have
all played false to their colours when a job was to be per-
petrated. The troops are, I suspect, trying to hem in
O'Brien."

The Cork Constitution of Saturday says, " Everything
is quiet at Cork and the neighbourhood. As to the 4,000
men whom the Clubbists believed to be encamped with
Meagher at Slievenamon, they wert " men in hi-Irk--
ram.— rrot one wousanu, nor a undred, nor even a
dozen were visible, and as to Meagher himself, a letter in
a Dublin paper says that he was in Waterford on Tues-
day, looking very bad, and not unlikely, should opportu-
nity offer, to be off. As to his vaunted sword," a wooden
one would suit a hero of his kidney best. Perhaps, however,
he would have ventured a brush • but he found that the
people would'nt stand by him, and he must therefore either
fly or meet the fate of a felon. It is nearly all " up" with
the clubs in Cork. They are at " sixes and sevens."
Suspicion has crept in among the leaders ; and suspicion
among the leaders will be followed by dissension among
the members (indeed, we hear, that on Sunday evening
one of the Vices was either thrown out of the window of
his club-room, or hurried down stairs). We noticed on
Thursday the " curious fact" that the names of three Pre-
sidents were missing from the Appeal which had been
posted through the City ; but there was a fourth
missing also, and that fourth the name of one of the
earliest and most prominent, and, it was supposed most
resolute promoters of the insurrectionary scheme. It is
even said that he was the originator or the mover
of the appeal ; but be this as it may, he refused to sign
it. Out of fifteen Presidents, the names of only eleven
appear ; and we should like to know whether even those
eleven were all written by the owners, or whether the
owners were even consulted ? "

A proclamation has been issued against the printers and
publishers of all seditious and treasonable newspapers, or
other publications of a similar tendency.
The Lord Bishop of Down and Connor and Dromore
has given orders that for the present the occasional prayer
to be used in time of war and tumults shall be read in all
the churches and chapels under his lordship's super-
intendence.

Mr. Eugene O'Reilly, a rather prominent leader of the
Confederates, surrendered himself on Friday to the au-
thorities, on the compulsion of his father, a respectable
solicitor, who accompanied his son to the Police-office.
The prisoner is an extremely prepossessing young man.
On Saturday, Mr. J. F. Lalor, of Felon notoriety, was
arrested by a body of about thirty of the constabulary,
within six or seven miles of Nenagh.

On Friday evening, the printing-office of the Nation
newspaper, in Sackville-place, was visited by the police,
who arrested the printers there, (eleven in number,) and
took them before the magistrates at Henry-street police-
office, when they were remanded. All the papers, types,
and machinery were seized. The publisher's office of the
Nation newspaper, in D'Olier-street, was about the same
time taken possession of by the police, who seized all the
papers. &c., found on the premises.
At Clonmel at Carrick, the John Mitchel clubs re-
ceived O'Brien and his confederates with great shyness,
and the Carrick clubbists requested him to begin some-
where else. The Clonmel Mitchel club has since dis-
solved itself.

The vendors of weapons at Carlow have abruptly fled
with their caravan. They were desirous of making a
stand in Tullow. Here, to the credit of the inhabitants,
they manifested a determination to break the van, and
throw the arms it contained into the river Slaney. The
opposition was so vigorous they fled from Tullow to New-
townbarry, subsequently were compelled to decamp to
some other town, or, what is more likely, they crossed
the channel to Bristol. Thus terminated the crusade of
the rebel commissaries.

Further arrests took place on Saturday. including some
members of the Irish Confederation and the Dublin clubs.

In Clare, Kilrush, and other places, the clubs which
were hut recently established have been disolved.
Lord Clarendon has followed up the suppression of the
clubs by a similar blow against the " Irish League." Its
secretary, Mr. Halpin, with other leading members of its
council, have been arrested, and all the books and docu-
ments belonging thereto have been captured and safely
lodged in Dublin Castle.
On Saturday proclamations appeared in the Gazette,
offering rewards as follows :—For the arrest of William
Smith O'Brien, £5OO ; for Francis T. Meagher, John R.
Dillon, and Michael Doheny, each or either, £3OO, " to
him who shall secure and deliver into safe custody the
persons aforesaid." The charge alleged in the proclama-
tions was, "having taken up arms against her Majesty."
The Hue and Cry published on Saturday contains the
following notice : " Dublin Castle, July 28th, 1848.
" Whereas, the under-mentioned persons stand charged
with having been concerned in treasonable practices, and
have absconded : Michael Crow, late of the city of Dub-
lin ; Thomas M. Halpin, ditto ; Francis Morgan, solicitor,
ditto ; John H. Dunne, ditto ; James Cantwell, ditto ;
Thomas D'Arcy M`Gee, ditto • Joseph Brennan, ditto ;
Thomas Devin Reilly, ditto ; john Cantwell, ditto ; Ste-
phen J. Mostly, ditto ; Henry Shaw, printer, ditto ; and
James F. Lalor, of Tinnikill, Queen's County.
" Inspectors of police, constables, and sub-constables,
are authorized to apprehend and cause to be committed
into safe custody the before-named offenders, to be dealt
with according to law. And inasmuch as they respectively
stand charged with having committed felony, all persons
are warned against incurring the penalties to which in
such case they will become liable, under the provisions of
an act passed in the eleventh year of the reign of her pre-
sent Majesty, chap.' 2, entitled 'An Act for the Better
Prevention of Crime and Outrage in Ireland,' by har-
bouring or sheltering them or any of them !"
A determined effort is being made to secure the person
of Mr. S. O'Brien. At six o'clock on Saturday morning,
a special train was despatched from the terminus of the
Great Southern and Western Railway for Thurles, con-
taining the 74th Highlanders, the 60th Rifles, and a park
of Artillery, for the purpose of this day, if possible, effect-
ing his arrest.
Attempts have been made to form clubs in Belfast, and
though a number of parties have joined, yet the affair is
slightingly regarded by the majority. The town is well
provided fox by a strong and effective force of military,—

iingust I, 1848.

infantry, horse, and artillery ; but it requires it not. The
loyal Protestants of that great town would, in a single
hour, put to flight the whole of the rebels of the county
Antrim, including the " murderous boys of Hercules-
street." As a confirmation of this statement, we Way
observe that the Befast Protestant Association, commenced-
only a few weeks ago, is progressing with great rapidity.
It now numbers 700 members.

DEFEAT OF THE REBELS.-COLLISION WITH THE POLICIC.
We have received accounts from authentic sources,
which state that the rebellion had actually commenced.
It was known to the authorities -it Callan, that Smith
O'Brien had taken refuge among the colliers in TipperarY-
They accordingly despatched a body of 60 police in pun'
suit on Saturday morning, who went up to the collieries.
When on the common of Boulagb, near Ballingarry, they
were compelled to take shelter in a large house, which
was blockaded by a large body of insurgents, headed by
Smith O'Brien, with whom were Doheny, Reilly, and
Dillon.

The rebels, in their endeavours to dislodge the police,
attempted to burn and tear down the house over their
heads, but were fired upon by the police from the upPe.r
stories. This compelled the insurgents to make a preci-
pitate retreat, after three of their number were killed,
and several wounded.

It was rumoured that Dillon was slain.
Smith O'Brien fled in he direction of Urlingford.
When he left the scene of action he was completely de-
serted by the rebels. His immediate capture was expected.
a large body of police being in close pursuit.
Major-General Napier and Colonel Doyle took their
departure from Limerick for Thurles, on Saturday, at
place they were to meet the Seventy-fourth High-
landers, two hundred of the Sixtieth Rifles, two hundred
of the Eight Hussars, and the Dragoon Guards. These
forces have been despatched in pursuit of Smith O'Brien
and his associates.

Messrs. Duffy, Doherty, and Martin, who were arrested
some time ago, and who are now in custody, will be tried
at the next commission, which commences its sittings on
the 18th August next.

UNIVERSITY AND. CLERICAL NEWS.

The Archbishop of Canterbury has intimated his in-
tention to contribute £5O a-year for a time to the Welsh-
Education Fund.

A correspondent of a weekly paper states, that the
Bishop of Chichester refused to attend the Oxford Com-
memoration till he had ascertained that Bishop Hampden-
was not to be present.
IMPORTANT ECCLESIASTICAL CHANGES.—The ar-
rangements which are in progress for rendering the Pri--
mate of all England independent of Episcopal control
over any particular see will create some changes in the
dioceses of Rochester and Winchester, while the limits
of the present see of Canterbury will remain compara-
tively untouched, consisting as heretofore of the Arch-
deaconries of Canterbury and Maidstone. Over this
diocese a Bishop will be appointed who will rank with
the other suffragan Bishops in the order of consecration.
The diocese of Rochester, at present comprising part of
Kent, and the whole of Essex and Hertfordshire, will,
under the new arrangement, comprise that portion of
Kent at present under the jurisdiction of its Bishop, the
whole of Essex, and part of Surrey now under the diocese
of Winchester. The part of Surrey which will be added
to the diocese tf Rochester will comprise Southwark,
Lambeth, Camberwell, Battersea, Kingston, Epsom,
Dorking, Weybridge, Walton. Charlwood, Kew, and all
the intermediate towns and villages. Hertfordshire,
which now forms part of the diocese of Rochester, will
be erected into a new Episcopal see, deriving its name-
from St. Albans. Tt is stated, but whether with ant
degree of certainty we are at present unable to say, that
the Hon. and Rev. Robert John Eden, D.D., Bishop of
Sodor and Man, and brother to the Earl of Auckland,
will be transferred to the see of Canterbury, and that the
Hon. and Rev. H. D. Erskine, Dean of Ripon, will be
appointed Bishop of St. Albans. Morning paper.--
[Notwithstanding the circumstantial character of these
details the Times states that there is no truth in them.]