AURIVAIi Or DOUD HAtlOINGE—UTS RUMOURED APPOINTMENT TO THE LORD MKUTENANCY.

New Zealander, Volume 4, Issue 263, 6 December 1848, Page 3

AURIVAIi Or DOUD HAtIOINGE — UTS RUMOURED APPOINTMENT TO THE LORD MKUTENANCY.

Lieutenant General Viscount Hardinge has arrived in Dublin, to give his invaluabie co-operation in su]>pre&siug the insurrectionary movement in the south. The distinguished officer arrived in Kingstown by the Araphion, and reached Dublin by hdlf-pabt one o'clock by a special train of the Dublin and Kingstown railway. The gallunt geneial proceeded to the vice-regal lodge. Piieeaix Park, lo visit the Lord Lieutenant. Lieutenant General Sir Edward Blakeney, commander of the forces, hus also gone to the vice-regal lodne. It is stated, that Lord Hardinge is to proceed to joiu the army in the south, to morrow morning, but this ib not certain. The correspondent of the Herald hays —I am enabled to state thut Lord Hardinge will be appointed immediately to the Lord Lieutenancy of Ireland. PROCLAMATION AGAINST THE RE DEL LEADERS. The following important notification has been issued by the Lord Lieutenant—" Caution — Whereas William Smith O' linen, Thomas Francis Meaglier, John U. Dillon, Michael Doheny, and div,:is oihcr persons, stand charged a? being g»ilty of lUe cnnii. ol hi^li

treason, and being engaged in rebellion against Her Majesty ; now, this is to give notice to, mid warn all persons, ihit ali those who shall protect against their punuers, any of the above named persons, or others whom they shall know to be engaged in similar trea> bonnblc practices, or who shall afford them the means of escape, or who shall aid in their disguise, or who shall mislead those who are in search of them, or who shall haibour or shelter them by receiving them into their dwellings, or otherwise, are themselves guilty of high treason, and will be dealt with arcoi dingly. By liis Excellency's command, T. N. Kebingion. •— Dublin Castle, August 1, IS IS." Mr. Eugene O'Reilly, a rather prominent leader of the confederates, and ng tinst whom a warrant had been issued, surrendered himself to the magistrates, and has been committed to Kilmainham under the Habeas Corpus Suspension Act. Mr. O'Reilly took this step at the initunce, or on the compulsion rather, of his father, a respectable solicitor, who accompanied his son to the police office. The prisoner, who is an extremely prepossessing young man, of education, with »oi)d expectations, formed one of the Ir.sh cniba sy to l\uiu, with the ultimate view of entering the French army. Having, however, taken a few lessons in military tictics, he changed his mind, and returned to Ireland, where he shortly afterwards became president of ono of the clubs*