Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1848-09-01

ARRIVAL OF THE BRITANNIa--FoREIGN
NEws-IRIsH AFFAIRS In our paper of last
Friday, we gave the news brought by the
Acadia, and in a P S. stated that letter pur-
porting to have been written in Dublin on the
Sd of August had appeared in the New York
Tribune, stating that great battle had been
fought between the Irish patriots and the
Queens troops, in which the latter had been
defeated, with a loss of six thousand killed
and wounded, and that Smith O'Brien was
then at the head of $4,000 insurgents, At the
time of communicating this, we gave it as our
opinion that it was g hoax The intelli-
gence brought by the Britannia fully confirms
our suspicious. 1t was a most cruel hoax, the
author of which should be held up to the Sc
verest reprobation CT the public.
The Britannia sailed from Liverpool on the
18th uitimo. BY the papers brought by her,
we learn that no serious disturbance has taken
place, with the exception of the affair of Bal
lingary, between some policemen and few
hundred insurgents. Smith OBrien, the great
at this moment prisoner in kilmainhamEJail,
Dublin. He was arrested at Thurles, /and if
the accounts before us be correct, he/declared
that he found the people unwilling even TO
harbor him, much less to sustain him, in his
efforts to libera,e his country.
The papers before US say that all idea Of a
concentrated rising Of the people of Ireland is
for the present at an cid. A number OF ar
rests of prominent Irish patriots have been
made since the sailing Of the Acadia. The
intelligence from the other portions of Europe
is not of any marked Importance. Business
in England was quiet. Cotton was firm, and
the provision market was steady. The crops
i'll England were not harvested at the sailing
of the Britannia, and, Of course, the matter is
still in doubt dependent entirely on the wealth
er.) with regard to the future state OF the
breadstuff market. The accounts of the fail
ure of the potato crop were daily multiplying,
! and it was feared that it would become gene
raj in the British Isles. We hope not.
With regard to the Irish news, we quote
| from the Baltimore Sun Of Monday morning
the following paragraphs, which express our
feelings and views much better than We could
ourself =
! The BRITANNIA's NEws.-The anxiously ex.
pcccd advices of the Britannia reached US yestor-
day morning, two or three of the principal facts
having been flashed through by telegraph on Sat.
urdav We may say in "a word, that more unwel-
come intelligence it has rarely fallen to the lot OF
expectation TO receive. It comes with the eppres-
sion of doom upon the cheerful hopes which had
expanded the bosoms of the generous sons and
friends of Ireland here. and\sweeps the cherished
anticipations of the national redemption and glory
OF that ill-fated country into the dark and uncer-
tain future. Again has British determination
with its yet effective and consunmate system OF
organized espionage and power, tffamphed over
the burning aspirations and ardent zeal Of as noble
and genuine a spirit of patriotism as was ever
klndIed in the Irish heart; and again awed op-
pressed and under the cravings of a dependency
that has known neither means nor opportunity ia
exert the energy Of despair Ireland must bend to
the hateful yoke of the oppressor and hide her time
We have said that hope and purpose have been
swept together into the future. But for how long
Wronged and wretched, and dashed to frenzy hy
ceaseless unrest, England can never possess the
loyal heart of iceland ; the bond of her allegiance
Will be hereditary hate and should such an allie
glance ever prove the bane of England, it will be
The bitterest ingredient in the cup of her adversely
that she has mixed the potion with her own wan
ton, unFelenting hand.