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 spewing 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 p'aced 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.

ARRIVAL OF THE SUSPENSION OF THE HABEAS 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 pf 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 pent." 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 :
" ENNISCORTIIY, 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-bill, to celebrate Mr. O'Brien's first
visit to the cunt 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 has been trying to enlist the clergy in
behalf or the rebels. He tried Dean Vaughan, but hat
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 purpos.) 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 the 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 burning 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 24th,
entertained at Waterford. O'Brien and Meagher had
been there harrangueing the peoplein inflamatory language.
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 Nenagh
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 Borrisoleizh, This step has been taken in
consequence of information received of a general sAlughter
of the constabulary in that locality."

At Clonm-'
.el, all the firearms in the gunsmith's estab-
.. have been removed by the police.
letter frc m 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
cool 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 tlom. _ _

Eigh` 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, r. traveller for a highly-respect-
able English house, but connected with the club r 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-ball, which was fitted at the soldier, has been
found, but no clue whatever to the detection of the cow-
ardly assassin."

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 whet 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 were all " men in buck-
ram." Not one thousand, nor a hundred, 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 fehn. 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 n.achinery 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-
solvedottself.

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 ttanitested a determination to break the van, and
throw the arms it contained into the river Stoney. 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 but 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. Meany, 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 /tar-
Louring 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 arrt st.
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 for by a strong and effective force of military,—

August 1, 1848.

infantry, horse, and artillery ; but it requires it not. 'ea
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 may
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 POLICE.-
We have received accounts from authentic sourceer
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 pur-
suit on Satur,lay morning, who went up to the collieries.
When on the common of Boulagh, 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, an"
Dillon.

The rebels, in their endeavours to dislodge the politer_
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 prect-.
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 !buries, on Saturday, et
which 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 Corn- •
memoration till he had ascertained that Bishop Hampden
was not to be present.
1M I'ORTA NT 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. wills
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 . f Rochester will comprise Southwark,
Lambeth, Camberwell, Battersea, Kingston, Epsom+
Dorking, Wevbridge, 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. It is stated, but whether with any'
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 EarFlof 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.]

RAILWAY A FFAIRS.
The Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle Dissolution
Railway Bill was thrown out by a committee of the
House of Lords on Wednesday.
The key-stone of the last arch of the Wharfdale
Via-
duct, on the Leeds and Thirsk Line, was placed on
Monday.
The traffic on the Chester and Holyhead Railway, for
the week ending July 22, was as follows :—Coaching
traffic, £1,356 17s. 9d. ; goods and cattle, £9B Bs. 2d.;
do. excess, £24 19s. 9d. ;—total, £1,480 ss. Bd.
At the special meeting of the Dutch Rhenish the share-
holders agreed to refer all their differences between the
board and the Liverpool party to a conference between
three of the London directors and three of the Liverpool
deputation.
During the present session 55 railway 'bills received
the royal assent, the aggregate capital amounting to
£8,588,466 ; and the loan to £3,515,550 ; making a total
of £12,104,016, authorised to be raised, in some cases, as
additional capital to complete lines in course of construc-
tion,
the extent ionandinother
s 3miles.
for making new, railways and branches
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miles
sowdeesnt bofrindgeexhoavmer,
and
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whichfaot WarTyreden, about
tionof
the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway, was destroyed by
fire on Thursday morning., ignition haying been caused, it
is supposed, by the falling of some hot cinders from the
fire of the engine of a luggage train which had passed over
it but a short time previous to the fire having been dis-
covered.
The report presented to the half-yearly meeting of the
North Staffordshire proprietors declared a dividend of ,115‘;
per share, from the interest received on capital andba%re
surplus proceeds on the canal. The works appear to
been actively carried on, and the passenger traffic ort.finee
portion of the line opened from Stoke tc Norton 13rleg
is satisfactory and promising. The report and accounts
were adopted unanimously.
From our official returns it appears that the amount of
traffic for the last week, on 4040 miles of railway, was
£223,107, thus accounted f0r:—£120,983 for the convey-
ance of passengers only, £45,560 for the carriage of goods, -
and a remainder of £56,564 for passengers and goods to-.
gether, not respectively apportioned ; being an increase of
£28,591 over the corresponding week of last year, when,
the mileage was 3158. The average earnings per olio
were £55, whilst in 1847 they were £6l.
OBSTRUCTION.—At the Cambridge Assizes, a man'
named Creek, was indicted for having placed an iron char
on the Eastern Counties Railway, and having thereby
obstructed an engine, and endangered the safety of per-
sons travelling on the line. The jury at once returned
verdict of guilty. Mr. Justice Mettle wished it to go forth
that if any life should be lost in consequence of obstruc-
tions placed on the line of railway, the persons placing the
obstructions would be guilty of murder, and fit objects ff
the infliction of capital punishment due to this crime. re
the present case. though no life was lost, it was impossible,
to award any but a severe sentence, and the prisoner roue'
be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for one year. ,
JOBBING IN RAILWAY SHARES.-In the late apphea,-
tion for the dissolution of the Liverpool and Nevveastl
Junction Railway, Mr. Wilson, the secretary, detaill:
before the Parliamentary Committee the "jobbing" with
the shares, which excited the indignation of a crowded
room. That in August, 1845, 100 shares were allotted ~,
each provisional committeeman ; that 10,000 shares were
set apart for members of the managing committee equally
2,000 to solicitors; 200 each to local solicitors • 500 to
bankers; 2,000 to members of parliament ; that the sharebg
were then at a high premium ; that the second allotroef;
was on 26th of August, 1845, of 4,200 to the committee el_
management, 1,565 to the provisional committee, 1,1000
solicitors, 200 to surveyors, 300 to bankers, 3,500 " to the
friends of the committee of management," and " 6,085 it!
the general public !"—making in all 23,800 allotted. .nyi,
September there was another allotment to directors. 11,0
at a meeting of February, 1847, these allotments we.
questioned, as refusals of shares to landowners were to
existence. That in November, 1845, there was a furfli'
allotment to directors (promoters of this bill,) but those
allotments of September and November were cancelled,
only half to be used. That 23,700 shares were allotted 4
officials of the company, and they only registered f°
12,080, leaving above 11,000. sold in scrip. That all the
directors hold now but 4,796 shares out of 70,000; they
had signed the subscription contract for .-E695,002. 003
the amalgamation in 1845, each company took 3511i5
shares and divided them amongst its company. Since t
bill was in contemplation, purchases of shares had bee
made by directors and solicitors, and were included in t in
assents to this bill (now 42,000.) The price of sharektr,
1845 was proved to be 5 to 7 premium, and now hs.„,„loal
Ffrance (the Chairman) admitted that in 1845, "Ph t;
shares were allotted among the committee of managetneahe
but, on subsequent complaints, half were to remain in Jo,
company until the act passed, and only 250 were issue
each at that time.—Railway Times.

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A PUZZLER.-2A few weeks ago, the following persons
necupied a pew in the Baptist Chapel, at Wainsgate, near
Hebden Bridge, Yorkshire, viz.,—Three mothers, two
grandmothers, one great-grandmother, two daughters,
one granddaughter, one son, one grandson, and one great
grandson. And yet there were only four persons !
To PRESERVE CHERRIES.—Take large ripe morello,
Fherries, weigh them, and to each pound allow a pound of
loaf sugar. Stone the cherries (opening them With a..
the process. As you stone them, throw them into a pan
pr tureen, and strew about half the sugar over them, and
let them be in it an hour or two after they are all stoned.
Then put them into a preserving kettle with the remainder
aoafd yrathaesupgar and boil and skim them till the fruit is clear
thick.
RELATIVE PROPORTION OF JEWS.—The comparative
number of Jews to Christians is as follows :—Great Bri-
tain.,,, and Ireland, 1-2,076 ; Sweden and Norway, 1-5.012 ;
Belgium, 1-2,157 ; France, 1-482 ; Denmark, 1-366 ;
Netherlands. 1-61; Austrian dominions, 1.57 ; Russia,
including Asiatic Russia, 1-56; in Germany, the propor-
tion is 1-90, but their repartition .among the individual
states varies considerably, for while in the kingdom of
Saxony the proportion is 1-1909, in Brunswick it is 1-180;
;
Hanover, 1-158 ; in Wurtemburg, 1-149 ; in Baden,
'62 ;in Anhalt-Dessau, 1-37 ; in Hamburgh, 1-22. In
the villages of Prussia the proportion is 1-237; in the
cities and towns, 1-26; (in Breslau, 1-16.)
VALUE OF MINERAL PROPERTY.—MineraI property
on the hills, which, when the Monmouthshire canal and
its tramroads were constructed, was only worth ss. an
acre surface rent, soon increased in value to £l5OO an
acre, or more, underground. The area of the Monmouth-
Shire coal field exceeds 89,000 acres, and the various
seams of coal that can be profitably worked are said to
average about 50 feet, which produce a gross yield per
acre of nearly 73,000 tons. The total quantity now
'crked annually is estimated at about 2,200,000 tons ; at
Which rate there is a sufficient supply left for the next
'OO Years. The net quantity available for export has
been, estimated at about 3,000,000,000 tons ! Great Bri-
tain annually consumes from all her collieries about
9
-'„0-k)000 tons.
SEA-WEED BREAD.—Sea-weed bread, or Laver cake, if
not one of the delicacies, is one of the edible curiosities of
the Gower coast. A great sensation was made some years
ago,
by a statement that thousands of the peasantry in the
wild west " of Ireland were obliged, for some months in
the year, to live mainly on sea-weed. In Gower and at
Swansea sea-weed is rather a popular article of food.
Women attend Swansea market with baskets of laver
cakes, which are sold at Id. to 2d. each. This weed

porphyra laciniata) makes an excellent ingredient
in sauce for mutton. It is got close to low-water mark ;
washed well in sea water to free it from sand, then boiled
twelve hours, and seasoned with salt. In winter it is only
necessary to boil it two hours. The weed grows rapidly,
except in winter, and is renewed every other spring tide.
It is also used in several parts of the Scottish coasts and
islands, where it is called sloke or slokum.

MOUNTAIN FARMING IN SOUTH WALES.—The farms
are of vast extent ; we have seen one which was more
than six miles in length, the farmer's dwelling being at
the extreme end, nearest the market town ; the shepherds
and their families, who also look after black cattle and
ponys, which are turned out to pasture about the middle
or end of May, were stationed in three aged farm-houses
of the most primitive sort, two or three miles apart, buried
tear water-courses in the deep shadows of lonely cams,
into which sunbeams never penetrate throughout weary
Winters. The simple people rarely emerge into the every-
day world except at fairs. The farmer had several thou-
sand small ragged sheep—true mountain mutton—a
number of which are snowed up in deep drifts and lost
in winter, but they are wonderfully hardy. One of the
adjoining hills bears the expressive name of Drum yr cira,
" the snowy Ridge." The peasantry live chiefly on oat-
cakes, cheese, and buitermilk ; they hare so faint an idea
of growing corn or potatoes, that we have seen heaps of
manure placed in the middle of brooks, to be swept away
bY the first fresh of water.
DR. CHALMERS IN LONDON.—When Dr. Chalmers
first visited London, the hold that he took on the minds
of men was unprecedented. It was a time of strong po-
litical feeling ; but even that was unheeded, and all parties
thronged to hear the Scottish preacher. The very best
judges were not prepared for the display that they heard.
Canning and Wilberforce went together, and got into a
Pew near the door. The elder in attendance stood alone
by the pew. Chalmers began in his usual unpromising
Way, by stating a few nearly self-evident propositions,
neither in the choicest language nor in the most impres-
sive voice. " If this be all," said Canning to his companion,
it will never do." Chalmers went on—the shuffling of
the conversation gradually subsided. He got into the
Vass of his subject ; his weakness became strength, his
whation was turned into energy ; and, bringing the
e volume of his mind to hear upon it, he poured forth
a t(
"Tent of the most close and conclusive argument, bril-
liant with all the exuberance of an imagination which
ranged over all nature for illustrations, and yet managed
and applied each of them with the same unerring dexterity,
as if that singly one had been the study of a whole life.
" The tartan beats us," said Mr. Canning ; " we have no
preaching like that in England."

SECOND EDITION.

Standard-office. Half-past Nine o'clock.

IMPORTANT FROM IRELAND.
Further Particulars ©f the Re!Pellion.

GR►FAT LOSS OF LIFE.

The following account of the affray between the police
and the rebels is from the Dublin Evening Mail :
When the police arrived within a short distance of Bal-
lingary,
they were encountered by Mr. S. O'Brien, at
the head of a body of from 400 to 1000 men. The police
then took possession of a house close at hand, when the
rebel leader, addressing one of the police, summoned the
Party to surrender. The policeman, in place of shooting
Mr. O'Brien, went to the part of the building where In-
Spector Trant was at the time, to report the matter to his
commander. Mr. Trant hastened to the spot, but Mr.
O'Brien had taken his departure. Mr. Trant forthwith
ordered his men to fire : the engagement then commenced
and speedily terminated with the defeat of rebels of whom
about eight or ten were killed and several wounded. Dur-
ing the conflict 2 shots were fired at O'Brien, but neither
took effect. One shot killed a rebel at O'Brien's side.
Another party of police under the command of Mr. Cox,
and accompanied by Mr. Ffrencb, the stipendiary magis-
trate came up at the instant and fired on the rebels with
considerable effect. The insurgents immediately fled.
18 were killed, and a considerable number wounded. The
Police ultimately retired upon Callan, without suffering
any loss whatever. A sergeant of police was caught in
tht rebel camp, and was only liberated on the interference
of Mr. O'Brien. His horse was taken from him, on
Which Mr. O'Brien mounted and rode about amongst his
troops in a general's uniform. The horse was then re-
turned to the man, who has since arrived at his post in
safety. He describes the appearance of Mr. O'Brien to
be very miserable, but he is determined never to surren-
der, as he feels his fate would then be certain.
At Killenaule, a barricade of several huge blocks of
timber, trees, stones, &c., had been erected to arrest the
Progress of a party of the Bth Hussars, and it was only
taken down on the officer in command pledging his word
that he had no warrant against Mr. O'Brien. It is thought
that the troops will surround the coal pits, in one of which
it is believed the rebel leaders are concealed, and so starve
them out.
The train from the South which arrived at Dublin yes-
terday at midday, reports that all was quiet. Mr. O'Brien
Was said to be in Johnstown, county of Kilkenny, and
General Macdonald close at his heels.
A Privy Council was held at the Castle yesterday, when
it Was resolved to place under the Crime and Outrage Act,
the counties of Kerry, Wexford; Carlow, Kildare, Wick-
-I°W, Westmeath, Louth, and Queen's County, seven
More Baronies in Cork County, eight Baronies in King's
'County, and four Baronies in County Cavan.
Yesterday the police entered the haberdashery estab-
lishment of Messrs. Pim and Co., Dublin, and instantly,
to the consternation of the proprietors, commenced a
search for arms. The police then enquired for several
Persons and ten answered to their names, who were im-
oa ediately taken into custody. It appeared from papers
founds on them, that they had received regular commis-
ions in the rebel army, and were about to leave that very
day to join their leader, Mr. Smith O'Brien. The arms
in their pessession were of course seized.
Three persons have been arrested at Wexford, who were
°n
to their way to Liverpool with several cases of fire-arms
k
." pikes, which are becoming a drug in the Irish mar-
.

Great excitement exists all round the disaffected dis-
trict. In the towns scarcely a man is to be seen, though
it is well known that large armed parties are concealed.
From all quarters we hear of the dissolution of the clubs
m the province s.
Fires burn nightly on all the mountains in the disturbed
locality. '

[ERRATUM.]
In our advertisement of the sailing of the Londonderry
for Sligo, We should have announced it for

TUESDAY, 11 O'CLOCK, EVENING.