The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1848-08-01 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

IRELAND. #__  [The followicg is from our Second Edition of Tuesday last A warrant has been issued for the arrest of Mr. Smith O'Brien, but he left Dunlin, it will be seen, for Wexfcrd on Saturday. The clubs " talk" otreseuing their leader. We shall see. The squadron under Sir Charles Napier bas been ordered for service on the Irish coast, to cooperate with the authorities.  The Irish Privy Council have proclaimed the county of Kilkenny, city of Kilkenny, county of Meath, four baronies in the county of Waterford, and thirteen baronies in the county of Cork.  The (it-; of Waterford is still fearfully e7;,--ited reinforcements of military have a;rivo. q" Strong tenant's proclamation, enr.'.llo , wt" Lord Lieu" God s.-- - " '"• vim ictucen,-- Las the usual phrase counter proclamatioa, sign," been posted over with a " God save the People." dT. F. Meagher, and ending instructions, tore 0- . The police, according to their ceived every Kw-. .own the latter, and in doing so reare several r _Able annoyance and obstruction. There the young ~mithies hard at work making pikes; and all pike-b- 0 ash trees near the town have been cut down for jar ..idles. The Waterford Chronicle says that the ..vence of such of the Roman Catholic clergy as do not .4nction the clubs has been declining apace, and their admonitions are without effect.  THE PlKEMEN.—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 understand, there are nb less than 4,000 armed men ready to take the field with arms weli calculated to turn the tables, and what's better, without much drilling.—Watetford Chronicle.  It is said that informations have been sworn against Mr. Doherty for a seditious speech. Infantry and cavalry are daily arriving at Carlow, Kilkenny. and other places. The Rhadamanthus steam frigate arrived at Waterford on Friday. The sale of pikes, guns, blunderbusses, anal 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 indifferently 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 adjutrnt saw the flash of the intended murderer's piece, and the sentinel at the sametime 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 bulletmoulds, wadding, and ammunition, and also documents showing the conrexion of the parties with the clubs. Some of the country banks are refusing discounts upon the most solvent securities. A gentleman possessing property to the extent of £5.000 a year, has been refused accommodation by a bank in the province of Connaught. In consequence of this refusal be was compelled to sell, at great disadvantage, a vast quantity of live stock in order to meet his engagements.