The Express. — 1848-08-11 (London, England)

REDINOTON.  We have some more particulars of the arrest of Mr. Smith O'Brien to-day. It seems his motive for placing himself in the way of an arrest, was, as he intimates himself in a letter to Mrs. O'Brien. the fear and hesitation manifested by the peaple to harbour him. No doubt, though he does not avow it, he concluded that that fear and hesitation might become dangerous when operated upon by the hope of gain. The houses of several of his friends were searched by the police; amongst others, the of his brothers' residence, at Gromoland ; the seat of Mr. Godley, on the borders of Cavan and Leitrim, who is connected by marriage with Mr. O'Brien's family ; and the resid, nee of his brother, the Rev. Mr. O'Brien, a clergyman of the diocese of Kilmore in Cavan.  A gentleman who visited Kilmainham to-day, informed me he saw Mr. Smith O'Brien in that prison, hut had no communication with him. His room is in the debtor's side of the prison, at the extremity of a corridor, having at the entrance of the passage an armed policeman, and at the door on the outside au armed soldier, with fixed bayonet. Soon after my informant er4ered the prison, Mr. O'Brien passed along the corridor, proceeding to the prison-yard. his appearance manifests no symptom of recent trouble or privation. Having reached the yard, he proceeded to exercise him-elf, by flinging a ball from one extremity, a gaol-guard catching i and flinging it back again. Thus Mr. O'Brien passes time in his prison-home. It is a significant circumstance that, not alone was there no excitement in Limerick on the news of Mr. O'Brien's arrest reaching them, hut not even in Rathkealc—at his own door, I may say—was any excitement manifested.  Mr. Meagher is, it is said, on the Keeper Moontains, and Mr. DL:heny at the Slate Quarries. Mr. O'Gorman is still reported to be in the neighbourhood of Abbeyfeale. Mr. Dillon's whereabouts is not indicated. The accounts from the South by the afternoon train to-day report all quiet—no armee, but the utmost vigilance exercised by the police. Hogben, the constable seized at Abbeyfeale, on suspicion of possessing a warrant against Mr. O'Gorman, was, it appears, actually carried off from the public street of that town. Ile was stripped and left in a bog,but his property has been restored. So much do the townsfolk sympathise with the insurgents, or so much afraid are they, that not a single article of food would be cold to the police, and they are obliged to go into the grocers and provision shops, weigh and carry off what they require, leaving the money. Th ire are in the town two companies of the BSth, and 200 eon -tabulary. A guard of the latter daily accompanies the coach to and from Tralee to Limerick. Several of the highwaymen have been arrested. Two American sympathisers, named Langtry and Egan, both of Irish birth, have been arrested in the King's County. Mr. C. R. Malowny, news-room proprietor, and a member of the clubs, who has been "on the the run " some days, appeared publicly to-day, and was taken into custody. Upwards of 50 persons have been arrested in and around Callan, in the vicinity of the Tipperary colleries,"without any attempt at rescue or disturbance. Among them was Feehan, the well-known Tipperary pike-maker. The Very Rev. Dr. Blake, who was threatened by the disaffected for his advice to the people on last Monday, was more strong than ever. His exhortations and Smith O'Bri. n's arrest have given the coup de grace to the clubs in that quarter. Mr. H. J. Loughman, a late candidate for Kilkenny, has been refused a gun license. A tradesman at Dungannon, who was president of a club, having been refused a licence to carry arms, went and purchased a game licence of the excise, and, coming back, exhibited it in court, demanding if the magistrates could take that back ? " No," replied Mr. Singleton, the resident magistrate; " but it the government had acted on my report, you would be now in prison, instead of having arms in our despite." The rebuke told. The magistracy in Limerick have prohibited all sale of powder, and have taken the stock into charge of the authoritit a. The two men executed for the conspiracy to murder Major Mahon hive acknowledged the justice of their sentence. Such cont., ssions we very seldom hear— allegations of innocence are more frequent.