IRELAND. (From the Times Correspondent, Dublin, July 12.) ARREST OF MR. T. F. MEAGAER.

New Zealander, Volume 4, Issue 260, 25 November 1848, Page 3

IRELAND. (From the Times Correspondent, Dublin, July 12.) ARREST OF MR. T. F. MEAGAER.

After Mr. John Mitchell, the most dangerous, became the most sincere, of the apostles of treason, Mr. Thomas Francis Meagher, has been made amenable to justice. This .gentleman, you are aware, was on the eve of his departure for America, on " a mission of importance as regarded the political condition of Ireland," and had proceeded as far a8 Waterford, his native city, where his apprehension was etl'ected yesterday. He arrived this morning at the Kind's Bridge terminus of the Great Southern and Western Railway in the custody of the police, and at one o'clock this day he was brought before Messrs, Tyndall and Wyge, the sitting magistrates of College Street police office, on a warrant issued by a Mr. Brown, a stipendiary magistrate of Limerick, grounded on informations, charging him with having uttorbd a seditious speech at a club meeting held at Rathkeale a few days since. On the occasion of the arrest the people of "Watei ford collected in great numbers, and expressed a determination to reiist the removal of their townsman at. any and every cost. Through an awkward mistake, Mr. Meagher was conveyed at an eaily hour this morning to Dublin, although the wariant uas trade returnable to Limerick, and was kept in the custody of the police up to the hour lie was brought before the magistrates of College btreet office this day. W Mr. Tyndall then informed Mr. Meagher that he bad been arrested for a misdemeanour only, and not under the Felony Act, and that the caae was therefore one in which bail wight be taken. This, however, was a step which the magistrates of that, office had no power to take, for, as the warrant was teturnable to Limerick, it was indispensable that Mr. Meagher should eolUUiuc in custody until hit return to Lime* rick, wheie the magistrate who signed Jhe warrant for bis airest would receive bail for his appearance to stand his trial for sedition at the present Limerick assizes. Portuna'ely for the prisoner, Mr. Biown, the stlpendUiy magistrate, who backed the wurrant, happened to be in town, and.even in the- office at the time, aud accoichngly, when this circumstance was notified to the magistiates. they consented at once to receive bail— Mr. Meagher's own recognizance in £300, and two sureties of ii J 350 each. Mr. Richrrd O'Gormaii, jun., who was present, then tendered as sureties his own father, Richard O'Gorman, een., and Mi. Richard M'Donnell, paper merchant. Subsequently Alderman Butler was substituted for Mr. M'Donnell, and the bail bonds being perfected, Mr. Meagher was bound over to attend in Limeiick to morrow. A?, however, the offence charged is a misdemeanour, Mr. Meaghar is entitled to traverse, and cannot, therefore, under the present information, be tried until Spring Assizes, 1849. Mr. Lawless, who acted as Mr. Meagher's agent, then requested that his client might be allowed to traverse until the next assizes of Limerick. Mr. Brown replied, that it was neces«avy that Mr. Meagher should go to Limerick, and apply there for liberty to traverse to the next assizes, as the warrant, though endorsed m Dublin, was made returnable to Limerick. The seditious matUr for which Mr. Meagher is alout to be prosecuted was uttered ut the Ratnkeale Club a few days since, in the presence ol two of the Limerick police, ujion whose sworn informations of •the wcids u»ed the warrant was istucd. The language objected to is recited in the informations as follows— 11 That the said Thomas Il'.I 1 '. Meagher did, on the sth of July*last, at Rathkeale, in the county of Limerick, delivered a seditious speech befoie an assemblage of persons, calling on them "to organise in force to obstruct the execution of the law, and bu prepared to prevent the law from being carried out, by force ; in ca^e a similar attempt was made, as in the case of John Mitchel, to strike such a blow as should prevent the law beintf carried out by force in such a case." The following account of Mr. Mciighcr's arrest appears in the H ale) foul Mail of yesteiday — " Oti Thursday afternoon, as Mr. Thomas F. Meagher, who was in this city since Tuesday last, was proceeding from the house of Mr. Sweetman, of Blenheim, in this county, he wan arrested on a charge of felony by Captain Gunn, R.M., who proceeded with him to his father's residence on the Mall. As soon as the news of his capture became, known, great crowds assembled in the immediate neighbourhood, and it was deemed advisable to call out the military force, horse, infantry, and artillery, who took up a position along 1 the line fram Coleoeck Street to John Street, leading to the Manor ; the police in considerable force being stationed in the Town Hall. Up to our going to press, howevei, everything was tranquil — not the slightest sign of disturbance."

ANOTHER ARREST. This morning intelligence reached town that another of the very " earnest" men, Mr. Michael Doheny, who has been one of the most active missionaries of propagandigtn in the south, and an energetic promoter of club organization, was arrested in Cashel yeiterday, arid committed, not without an attempt at rescue, to Neongh gaol, to abide his trial for felony at the present assizjs. Mr. Doheny is a contributor to the Tribunt newspaper ; but it appears that it ii for a speech delivered at Roficrea, in liii capacity of emissary from the Irish Confederation, that he has been made amenable, and not for tmy of his contribution! to the treason press of Dublin.