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

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

IRELAND.
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[The following is from our Second Edition cif' Tuesday
last.:—]
A warrant has been' issued for the arrest of Mr."Bmith
O'Brien, but he left Duolin, it will be seen, for Wetford
on Saturday. The clubs " talk" of rescuing their leader.
We shall see. The squadron under Sir Charles Napier
has been ordered for service on the Irish coast, to co-
operate with the authorities.
The Irish. Privy Council have proclaimed the county of
Kilkenny, city of Kilkenny, county of Meath, four baro-
nies in the county of Waterford, and thirteen baronies in
the county of Cork.
The city of Waterford is still fearfully excited. .Strong
reinforcements of military have arrived. The Lord. Lie-
utenant's proclamation, ending with the usual phrase
" God save the Queen," has been posted over with a
counter proclamation, signed T. F. Meagher, and 'ending
" God save the People." The police, according to their
instructions, tore down the latter, and in doing so re-
ceived every possible annoyance and obstruction. There
are several smithies hard at work making pikes-, ,and all
the =young ash trees near the town have been cut down for
pike-handles. The Waterford Chronicle says that the
influence of such of the Roman Catholic clergy asdo not
sanction the clubs has been declining apace, and their
admonitions are without effect.
THE PIKEMEN.—Within the last few days a sturdy
application was made by some persons, in the adjacent
town, for a small piece of iron, and a bit of steel, to
make a few pikes, to a Quaker gentleman in the iron trade.
The merchant, more kind than merchants usually are,
gave the poor applicants iron and steel sufficient to make
two thousand pikes ! Honest quaker, that, say we.
Other gentlemen in the same neighbourhood volunteered
to supply handles gratis for the pikes, and now, we under-
stand, there are no less than 4,000 armed Men ready to
take the-field with arms well calculated to turn the tables,
and what's 'better, without much drilling.—Waterford
Chronicle.
_ _ .

It is said that informations have been sworn against
Mr. Doheny for a seditious speech.
Infantry and cavalry are daily arriving at Carlow, ICH-
kenny, and other places. The Rhadamanthus steam fri-
gate arrived at Waterford on Friday.
The sale of pikes, guns, blunderbusses, and pistols, is
still very brisk in every town in the disturbed districts.
Mr. John O'Connell has issued a letter to the repealers
of Cork, again advocating his moral-force doctrines.

The Agricultural Show in Kilkenny is described as in-
differently attended, in consequence of the unquiet state
of the times. _ _ _ .

The accounts from nearly all parts of Ireland, received
this week, represent the potatoes as in a very flourishing

condition.
Mr. M. T. Baines, M.P., being nailed as a member of
the Dublin Election Committee; has been prevented, so
far from attending the northern circuit as usual.
Several parties have been arrested in Drogheda on a
charge of training and drilling." Amongst these was
the editor of the Drogheda Argus, and Messrs. Hart and
Drew. The parties were subsequently bailed, and were
met by a crowd, who shouted " the Queen and Repeal "
As the sentry at the barrack-gate in Youghal was
walking his usual post on Monday night, he was fired at
by some miscreant. The adjuttnt saw the flash of the
intended murderer's piece, and the sentinel at the same
time heard the ball whistle by him.
A person named Flanagan, a noted pike-maker, has
been arrested in Dublin. In his house were found swords
and cutlasses. In the houses of other suspected parties
were found various weapons of warfare, as well as bullet-
moulds, wadding, and ammunition, and also documents
showing the connexion of the parties with the clubs.
Some of the country banks are refusing discounts upon
the most solvent securities. A gentleman possessing pro-
perty to the extent of £5,000 a year, has been refused ac-
commodation by a bank in the province of Connaught.
In consequence of this refusal he was compelled to sell, at
great disadvantage, a vast quantity of live stock in order
to meet his engagements.
THE CLUBBISTS' AMMUNMON.—On Thursday a large
parcel was delivered at a mercantile establishment in
Dublin, directed to a clerk in the house, who is connected
with the clubs. It was marked " with care" on the out-
side. On account of suspicious appearances the proprie-
tor opened the parcel, and found that it contained several
pounds of gunpowder, which he at once delivered to the
authorities.
ASSAULTS ON SOLDIERS.—On Tuesday, at the head
police-office, Dublin, two persons were summarily con-
victed of aggravated and unprovoked assaults on two sol-
diers, one a sergeant of the Enniskillen Dragoons, the
other a private in the 55th Regiment. One of the pri-
soners was fined £6, and the other £3, or two months'
imprisonment, and the fines were paid. These cases
exhibit the growing feeling of hostility against the sol-
diers amongst those classes infected by the revolutionary

mama.
On Thursday, at two o'clock, a car, containing five
persons, was stopped at the Blanchard's town turnpike
gate, by a constable and one of the police of that station.
On examining the car, they found three guns, three
pistols, two bullet moulds, and two pike heads, with a
large quantity of ball cartridges, loose powder, balls, &c.
The parties were arrested, and the car taken to the
station house. The prisoners gave their names at
I'Kenna, O'Rorke, Hayes, Lee, and Fahy. They were
escorted into town by 12 mounted police of the reserved
force, at four o'clock next morning.
The Dublin correspondent of the Times, writing on
Monday, says :—" A well-circumstanced estate in the
west of Ireland, producing a rental of £7OO a-year, was
put for sale in the Master's-offices on Saturday last.
There was not a single bidder, and the sale was adjourned
without a day being named for another trial. Negotia-
tions for loans, which last week were about being made
on the faith of solvent security, have been suspended
within the last twenty-four hours. Lenders button up
their pockets, and look to the chances of a transfer of
their persons and properties to countries more likely to
afford adequate safety to both."
NEW POTATOES.—Scarcely at any season,' and during
the most plentiful years, were there more potatoes to be
seen in market than on Saturday. They were remarkably
fine, and free from discoloration or disease. Really good
ones were purchased at so low a figure at 74d. per weight
of 211 b ; inferior ones were disposed even at 6d! It is
some years since new potatoes could be bought. at this
season of the year; at similar prices to the present, and
there is every probability of their being lower—many are
inclined to think that they will be sold so low as 4d. per
weight generally. In a few of the country towns, on Sa-
turday, the top price was 6d. per weight.— Cork paper.
AN IRISHMAN'S NOTION OF CRIME.—At the Cork
Assizes, last week, the following colloquy took place be-
tween a counsel and witness ;—I was in the dock before
now, but it was'nt for much. Mr. Wallis—What was it
for Jerry ? Witness it was only for stealing a pig. (A
laugh.) Mr. Bennett—Did you ever steal a pig since?
(Loud laughter.) Witness (shaking his head at his Lord-
ship)-By dad, my Lord, many a good man stole a pig
before now. (Great laughter.) Court—What ! Do you
mean to say that good men steal pigs ? Witness—A good
man, my Lord, might whip away one pig if he did'nt go
higher. (Loud laughter.)
MURDER.—On Sunday the 23rd of July, a man of the
name of Timothy Sheehan, of Garnavella, near Caher,
left his house for the purpose of going to mass in the cha-
pel of Caber ; when within a short distance of the town he
was joined by another man, whom he knew, named Gilli-
gan, and while both were walking on the high road, a man
leaped over the hedge, with a pistol in his hand, and or-
dered Gilligan to go on. He then presented it at Shee-
han and fired. The contents of the pistol were lodged in
his abdomen ; and when the villain perceived that he yet
lived, he drew the butt of the pistol and struck his victim
on the skull, saying at the time, " There's Leamy's
I ground for you." The poor man was killed on the spot.
This occurred in the presence of several persons who were
on their way to the chapel. We have not yet heard whe-
ther the murderer has been arrested.—Clonmel Chronicle.

THE NEW ACT TO SUPPRESS REBELLION IN IRELAND.
—The new act to suppress rebellion in Ireland (llth and
12th Victoria, cap. 35) has just been printed. It contains
three clauses. The preamble declares that a treasonable
and rebellious spirit of insurrection now unfortunately
exists in Ireland, and therefore for the better preserva-
tion of her Majesty's most sacred person, and for securing
the peace, the laws, and liberties of this kingdom, it is
enacted by the first clause, " that all and every person
and persons who is, are, or shall be, within prison within
that part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland called Ireland, at or on the day on which this act
shall receive her Majesty's Royal Assent (25th of July
instant) or after by warrant of her Majesty's most Hon.
Privy Council of Ireland, signed by six of the said Privy
Council, for high treason or treasonable practices, or sus-
picion of high treason or treasonable practices, or by
warrant signed by the Lord-Lieutenant or other chief
governor or governors of Ireland, for the time being, or
his or their chief secretary, for such causes aforesaid, may
be detained in safe custody without bail or mainprize
until the Ist day of March, 1849, and that no judge or
justice of the peace shall try any such person or persons
committed, without order from her said Majesty's Privy
Council until the Ist of March, 1849, any law or statute
to the contrary notwithstanding." By the second clause
it is provided that persons to whom warrants are directed
shall detain persons so committed in safe custody. Per-
sons charged with custody, as also the place of detention,
may be charged with warrants by the Lord Lieutenant or
Privy Council. The third clause directs that copies of
such warrants respectively shall be transmitted to the
Clerk of the Crown for Dublin. This Act passed the
House of Commons on Saturday, the Lords on Monday,
and received the royal assent on Tuesday, when it came
into force—the quick est possible time of legislation in the
annal 3 of parliament.
The following letter, dated " Waterford, July 26th," is
important :
" Sir Charles O'Donnell, who has a special comm And
in this district, has received an application for reinforce-
ments fromearrick-on-Suir, where Messrs. Smith O'Brien
and Meagher, lave for the moment established their head-
quarters. The request, which was founded on the excited
state of the town and the immediate danger of an out-
break, was at once complied with. One hundred soldiers
were landed from the Rhadamanthus steamer in the har-
bour, and marched without delay for the spot where their
services were required. They took their departure
amidst the hearty cheers of their comrades, to which they
themselves as heartily responded ; and though the move-
ment created some excitement and infinite curiosity
among the inhabitants, not the slightest attempt was
made to impede them in their progress. The men were
full of alacrity and zeal, and at a later period of the day
were met half-way to Pilltown. proceeding on their route
at a smart pace. Carrick is inhabited by a wild and law-
less race, ripe for any scheme, however desperate, and
likely when called on tofight with steady ferocity. Though
the population is not ,more than fr0m,5.000 and 6,000, the
neighbourhood is densely peopled, and within a very short
time its own natural resources for an outbreak would be
swelled by the sanguinary peasant!), who. surround it.
...Fcr_dars and weeks pastithas been in.& state,otincipica

insurrection, which accident has alone prevented from be-
coming open rebellion. Club organization has been car-
ried there to a high state of perfection, and every art has
been used to aggravate the excitement of the population.
There yesterday Mr. Smith O'Brien proclaimed the Re-
bellion of 1848,and,offered himself as leader in its despe-
rate hazards. In a highly inflammatory speech he re-
minded the people that there was a time when the name
he bore would have aroused the whole country in his be-
half, and he invited them to follow him now. His address
was rather coldly 'received, and it was probably from a
perception of this that he gave them two hours to decide
on the proposition which he had made to them. At the
end that period tl'e terms were, I suppose, accepted,
and to-day it was generally reported and believed in Wa-
terford that he had betaken himself to the hills, with
100,000 followers. The departure of reinforcements for
Carrick-on;Suir was taken to be a confirmation of this
rumour,, and it was almost amusing to see the solemn ea-
gerness with which this foolish fabrication was communi-
cated and received by the gossips and idlers of this city..

" Waterford itself remains 'undisturbed. The clubs
met to-night in unusual force, but, after showing. the
same restless and uneasy spirit, they dispersed quietly.
For the military defence of this city the most ample pro-
vision has been made. The steamer in the harbour is
placed so that its guns command the principal street.
Cannon will be posted so as to sweep the quays, an en-
campment is to be formed on the heights above the bridge,
and the barracks, Which are also situated above the town,
complete a strong chain of fortifications against which
even the drilling and training of the clubs must prove
powerless.
" While the timid are flying from the threatened dan-
ger, the great landowners in this neighbourhood are re-
turning to their estates, and preparing to lend their aid in
defending the Crown and Government of the empire. The
Earl of Bessborough has set an example in this respect
worthy of imitation. The military force at Pilltown is
encamped within his grounds, and Bessborough-house
serves as an ammunition store, while the noble earl him-
self is actively engaged in providing for the comfort of the
troops and the safety of the town of Carrick. The Mar-
quis of Waterford is also expected to visit his estates here
immediately, and, it is said, intends to raise his tenantry
for the defence of the country. In such a cause as the
present, when Ireland is threatened with a servile as well
as a civil war, it is not only for the honour but for the in-
terest of the great landowners to take their share in the
struggle."

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'Higgins (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.

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 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 f 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
paity 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 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 insthe 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 people in 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
thelown of Borrisoleigh 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
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 them.
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, a. traveller for a highly-respect-
able English house, but connected with the club system,
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 preparation's 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 only 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, hut 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 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 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 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-
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 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 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 regartied by the majority. The town is well
ilrayided.fu.l3yaa otopg and eirective force a military,—

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infantry, horse, and artillery; but it requires it not. tile
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 oar
observe that the Befast Protestant Association, comm enced
only a few weeks ago, is progressing with great rapiditl•
It now numbers 700 members.
DEFEAT OF THE REBELS.-COLLISION WITH THE VOLICIC.
We have received accounts from authentic sources'
which state that the rebellion had actually commenced.
It was known to the authorities at 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 Saturday 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, end
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 Ace from the upper
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 t exper
_ea'.
a large body of police being in close pursuit.
Major-General Napier and Colonel Doyle took their
departure from Limerick for Thurles, on Saturday, ,et.
which place they were to meet the Seventy-fourth Ilign;
landers, two hundred of the' Sixtieth Rifles, two hundreu
of the Eight Hussars, and the Dragoon Guards. These
forces have been despatched in pursuit of Smith O'Briell
and his associates.
ed
Messrs. Duffy, Doherty, and Martin, who were arrest
some time ago, and who are now in custody, will be tree
at the next commission, which commences its sittings en
the 18th August next.