The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-08-28

We give to-day voluninous details of the foreign
news, brought to this country by the steamship
Britannia, at Boston, including our latest tele-
graphic despatch, and the commencement of our
extensive foreign correspondence, the rest OF
which we shall publish from day to day, as our
space will allow to the arrival of the next steam
ship.
The intelligence from Ireland is of very differ
ent character to what it was expected 1t would be-
The arrest of the patriot O'Brien, and the apparent
repression of the contemplated lnsurrection, with
out the loss of hardly single life, either on the
part of the government or the people, certainly
notlooked for The intelligence acted as damper
on the public, and especially on the Irish people in
New York. For two years or more the people of
that country have been in the highest state of ex
citement. They have been for that period arm
ing, and talking, and drilling, and target shooting
and manouvring, and what not besides-and yet
after working themselves up to point, which led
the world at large to believe that they were deter
mined to strike blow for liberty, and to brave the
power and resources of England-lo and behold,
the leaders are arrested and mprlsoned-thep people
see them dragged from among them without
struggle to prevent 1.-THE criminal courts proceed
to try them, as if nothing unusual had occurred,
and to all appearances the great revolution that was
to be, turns out gigantic bag of gas, which col
lapsed by single push of British bayonet
Such tremendous failure is mortfying to the
friends of Ireland and freedom everywhere, while
on the Irish themselves 1t has inflicted stain
which they can hardly ever wipe out. We
expected better than this from them and we
are chagrlned and puzzled at the result. It
is asserted by parties more sanguine than we
are that the Irish revolution has not yet COM
menced-that the masses of the people will not
rise until winter at least until after the harvest
shall have been reaped-hat they satisfied, for
the present. with harassng the soldiery, and keep
ing the government on the alert continually, until
the proper time shall have arrived, and then they
mean to do something worthy of themselves. We
are really not inclined to believe that any general
movement of this kind will be made. The lead
ing men IN whom the people have professed to
entertain confidence, and whom they swore to
protect in the hour of trial, have been arrested and
put out of the way, with but little trouble and
when the masses refused or neglected to rise with
those leaders at their head, we hardly think they
will make any movement without them We
may, however, be mistaken; and we wish we
could think so. We wish that we could see
ton IN that country, which would result in Ire
lands ndependence-but at the present time we
see nothing of the kind. new race of men
must make their appearance on the stage before
any plan at all likely TO lead to success will
be again undertaken-men who will talk less and
act more, and men whose influence over the
people will be superior to that of the Catholic
priesthood
There can be no question that, had the Ca
tholc priests not gone forward and denounced
the threatened resort to physical force, Ire
land would be to-day engaged in bloody, but,
IN all probability, a successful, physleal-force
struggle with the troops of England The moral
force principle, or the moral humbug principle,
kas taken deep root in that country and as long
as that doctrine is preached from the pulpit there
will not, we think, be an armed revolt against the
government-unless, indeed, the people, which is
not very likely, will divest themselves of the IN
fuence which the clergy exercise over them.
That country has, indeed, sunk very low In our
estimation.
Affairs on the continent OF Europe were still In
an unsettled state England and France had
united in the effort to bring about peace; but 1t
was thought that the capltulation of Milan to
Radetzky would increase the demands of the
cabinet of Vienna enough to prevent the success
of the mediation.
Hostilities between Prussia and Denmark con-
tlnued they may yet involve Russia, Sweden,
Norway and all Germany IN war
U. S. SCHOONER FALCON arrived yesterday, from
Sisal. She was built some time since, in this
city, by Messrs Brown and Bell, for the Mexicans,
from whom she was captured, at the taking of
Tampico, on the 18th of November, 1885, since
which time she has been engaged in active and
arduous service, In the Gulf, under her present
energetic commander. The annexed is list of
her officers John s. Glasson, Lieut.. Com
mander; Abner Reed, Acting Master; Jas Park
er, Mdshipman; Thos. Pember, Captains Clerk
STEAMER HERMANN, hence for Southampton, was
again spoken on the 9th, at 2. M lat ~ 30