IRELAND. Arrival of Lord John Russell.

New Zealander, Volume 4, Issue 273, 10 January 1849, Page 3

IRELAND. Arrival of Lord John Russell.

Dublin, Saturday, August 31.— At half-past three o'clock a steamer appeared in the distance, aud a sigiul from the Bukenhead war iteamer elicited a reply to the etiect that the strange smoke wai from the Banshee, commanded by Captain Smithett, and that Lord and Lidy John Russeil were on board. A gun wag then tired, aid the spectators on the pier were apprised of the near approach of her tVJajeaty'a Prime Minister, an event of rare occurrence m Ireland. About ten minutes after four o'clock, the bow of the Binshee turned the eastern pier of the harbour, when Captain Wi hams, of the Iron Duke steamer, commenced a feu de joi, and did not cc ise till the Banshee came well up to the pier. Messrs. G. Rae, J. Magee, J. Fim, and other directors of tue Dublin and K'ngstuwn

Railway, went on board and paid their respects to his Lordship. The Lord Mayor likewise discharged this duty, and several itraugers expiessed their gratification at sering Lord and Lady J. Rubsell. The lower orders present did not shout, but they did not groan, as some apprehended thry would do. One fellow roared out '• a cheer for Mitchell," another a " cheer for Repeal," but there was no responsp. His Lordship and Lady J Russell was then conducted to- the terminus of the KiiK-bton railway, where a special train was in waiting, .md in eight minutes after starting it arrived in Dublin. Here again a large assemblage of persons of the middle and lower orders was pre-ent The moment his L-n d 'hip was recognized a faii.t cheer was raised. An attempt to Ket up a groan ianed. J'he dis<inguUhed visit rs got into one of the Loid Lieutenant's carriages winch vra? in waiting, and before five o'clock they reached the Viceregal Lodge at the Paik. Lord and Lady John Russell drove through Dublin to-day in the carriages of the Lord Lieutenant. His Excellency an I the Countess of Clirendon accompanied their distinguished Msitors. The absence of oi* tentation in the equipage enabled the party to past through the most public parts of the city without attracting attention.

(From Bell's Messe?iger, Sept 9 ) Lord John Rusaell will, it is undei stood, leave Dublin thib day (Saturday) for Balmoral, Where he will join the Ro)ul pp o rty. Nothing of an official nature has transpired respecting the precisa oljecU of his Lo'dship'svi-u to Ireland; neither have hiss movements afforded any clue to satisfy the public curiosity. On Wednesday his, Loidship paid a visit to several of the public buildings in Dublin. At the special commission fixed to open at Clonmel on the 19th instant, the grand jury vnll be addressed by Chief Justice Blarkburne, and bills of indictment for high treason will be sent before them against Messn. W. S. O'U len, Meagher, Leyne, O'Donoghue, and the other leaders then in custody for the insurtectionaiy movement in Tippemry The jurors will be taken from th? grand panel of the county. Mr. Butt, Q.C., wih be one ot the leading counsel lor the prisoners, with Mr. Wluteside, Sir Colman O'Loughlen, Mr. Holmes, and other diu'ingu shed lawyers. Captain Hu-bdiid, lute Poor-law Inspector of the North and South Dublin Unions, has been appointed commissioner, in the room of the late William J. Hancock, Esq , deceased. Mill-stret Convent, in Cork, was closely searched for suspected rebels a few tl.iys since. The " flying column," under General M'Donald, has received order* to disperse, and this week the camp will be broken up, a>id tue troops v> ill inarch to theic winter quarters. At an auction in the village of Moynalty a few days since of the wheelbairows, crowbars, pick*, &c, foimedy used by the Board of Works in the barony of Lower Kells, the biicles sold realised about onetwentieth of the original cost. Amongst the collection, 1060 barrows, that cost 10s. each, were sold at 6d. and 1 7d. The latter price was the highest given. The celebrated "Sam Gray" died at his residence in Ballibay, county Monaghan, on the 2nd Sept. A laige body of Orangemen attended his fuueral. Five American, who were at rested at the Charle" mont hotel, Armagh, on Sunday last, having been, sent to Dublin, guaided by a stiong police torce, were, alter a brief examination, liberated by order of the Lord L eutenant. — Irish Paper. A person named Nolan, who had come over from. New Ot leans to visit Ireland, had been arrested ia Tippet aty. It is stated that the arrvsts of pa-lies connected with the Irtte Dublin clubi will not be pursued any further, unless new circumstances should teem to demand it. As an indiction of the va'ue of the barley harvest, a paragraph in a Cork paper is valuable. A sample of barley cut early litst week, while the weather was still wet, was offered for sale on Saturday, yet tha grain was the hrgest and best description, and the produua as great as wai ever known in any previous year. The military and police have been called upon to aid in the collection of th# poor rate in N u nagh. Mr. J. O'Conuell has addressed a long and lugubrious letter to tbe Repealers of Ireland, calling upon them to rally round the old standard, and stating, that unless tb. y do so within a month. Conciliation Hall and its furniture must be sold. Mr Smith O'Brien's Papers. — Among the parties sni J to be compromised by the seizure of Mr. Smith O'Brien'i portmanteau, is a cleigyman (Catholic) who has bi'hcrto figured as a staunch moral force Repealer, and who is somewhat celebrated throughout the south for an extraordinary lati'udeof tongue. The portmanteau of the " rebrl chief is described ai ex. ceedingly chaiacteristic of the man, The letter addresses are all carefully preserved in its ' ample dime- sions, whilst every newspaper paragraph of a complimentary nature — and dear knows lie swallowed a- many ai would sicken an ottritch in his tune— are neatly pasted on the blank leave-, of a well-bound volume. I need icarcely add that all complimentary letters and speeches are also in a state of tbe highest preservation.— Times' Correspondent, Honour among Tuaitors.— A remarkable illustratijn of the rottenness of the clv'» by^tem, which we were told was to do so much, has jmt come to our knowledge. On the night of the general smash up of the clubs, the — — Club, was by a unanimous resolution, declared dissolved. What is to be done with the books? a»ked one rebel. '• Bu^n them," replied three or four. "No, no," responded the secreiary, " You know that I have all along takes care lo lee nothing dangerous appear in them, and if they should be burned, who knows what assertions might hereafter be made ? I undertake to bury tbem uniil Doomsday ifnocesfary. 1 ' The worthy s^c.etary's speech had the desired effect. He was appointed custos in dae form. At 11 o'clock, p m., the assemHy separated. At sixteen minutes after 11 o'clock twoniaide oars stopped at the door of the office of the detective police in the Lower Castle yard, and by the faint ghoimei of a light the treasurer of the late — « Club en-ountered the secretary with the book* under bis am ! They tnea mutu illy discoveied the seciet thai each was, and had bee i for some time, an informer, the tivaiurer giving daily iepor s of tbe procerdingt> ot tne club, '.vitii neat outl nes of the rebellious spe dies of the teuietary, while this fu ctionary just >>s icgularly iepo'led prog ess. In short, there was no single act peiformedat uny of the club meetings which was not immediately reported to Colo iel Browne. He holds ace in are 1s s ol all the member*. He knows who his arms, and the description, whether gun, pistol, pike, or sword. Hence the large number of arrests fiat have been made. Many of the parties in custody will not be tried as on furtuer investigation it has tuin'd out they werj meiely listeners to treason ia tin it respective dub*, and not unlrequ-ntly protested against the plaus of Red Republicans. It i« usterted that of the th.ity men who formed Smith O'Brien's body guard at and subsequent to the buttle ot' Hdllmg-iiry, liltvin hive turned approvers, an I lodged depositions a.>. in 4 him, and Mr. Doneny is openly accused of luviug betrayed M . Mejgher, a.id th )sa who were captured at ihe sauis time.— lark Conititution,