IRELAND.

New Zealander, Volume 4, Issue 286, 24 February 1849, Page 6

IRELAND.

ANOTHER OUTBREAK IN TIPPERAUY. Dublin, Wednesday Morning, Sep. 12 The Kilkenny Moderator, printed late last night, contains intelligence of a f eriou* character. The peasantry of Tipperary were then collecting at Slievenamon mountain, and it vras supposed Gorman, Doheny, and several other outlawed chief* were there with them. The following is from the Kilkenny Moderator :—

" IMPORTANT FROM THE COUNTY TIPPERARY— • RUMOURS OF AN OUTBREAK. "We stated in our last publication that, from the information which we have received through several authentic channels from Carrick and its neighbourhood, another appeal to arni9 on the part of the defeated insurgents of Ballinqarry might be immediately expected. Reports received as we are going to press fully prove the correctness of our anticipations. On Friday last, in consequence of a rumour being afloat that a ' black night' or goneral rising and massacre, was to take place, the troops in Carrick and Piltown, consisting of a greater portion of the 3rd Buffi, and a company of the 83rd, together with the constabulary of the district, were placed under arms, and were kept in readiueis for action till the following morning.~ However, the night passed away without any alarm, and the entire rumour treated as an idle report. Tuis state of things lasted till Monday evening, when a report wa» received from the Slate Quarry Police station (County of Kilkenny) that a camp had heen formed on the portion of the Slievenamou range of hills neighbouring that district, and that beacon fires were everywhere gleam ng on the heights. The military and comtabulary were immediately placed under arms, and were in expectation of an attack on Carrick or the Betsborough encampment during the entire slight and Tuesday morning. When cur informant— a trustworthy gentlemen, intimately connected with some of our local authorities, left Piltown, they were still in readiness, ami reports corroborating the fint intelligence as to the rebel encampment were pouring In from all the surrounding police stations. It was generally stated, that the intention of the insurgents was to break down the bridges on the main roads leading towards the scene of action, in order to impede the advance of troops."

Waterford, Sept. 12. This county is once more in a state of open disaffection ; Carrick is in arms, some thousands being thoioughly armed with pikes, &c. Portlaw is alto stirling, and report has it that Curraghmore, the leat of the Marquis of Waterford, had been a' tacked ; several pieces ot cannon, and a number of small arms, powde r , ball, &c, have been carried off.^jfTlie noble Marquis bnd not returned from the last Curragh meeting. The mail-coach, while on its way through this city, and pasiing through Mullinavat, was sunoun'led by a large mob and detained a considerable time. When the mob first interrupted the coach, the guard, James Doolan, ordered the diiver forward; the coach succeeded in getting clear, the crowd running after, and shouiing that they would soon stop them: Accordingly, when the coach arrived at Granby Bridge, about two and a half miles from Waterford, the bridge was in the possession of the insurgents, who were endeavouring by every means to pull it down. The coach was then forcibly stopped, the horses taken from it, an elderly gentleman, an inside passenger, taken out, questioned, and searched, and after a delay of nearly half an hour, the hories were permitted, after much entreaty on the part of Doolan, to be again put to, and the coach allowed to proceed. The mob was under the immediate control of an apparent gentleman, mounted on a large bay hone, well accoutred, and nothing was done except by the directions and command of the captain, as thin person was called. Jt is intended to send an escort of military with the mail to night. (From the Clonmel Chronicle.)

Tuesday, 2 o'clock. The most distressing anxiety still prevails regarding the state of Carrick-on-Stur. One of our reporters hat juit returned by the Carrick car, and givei the following particulars from his own obiervation, and from what he has been enabled to ascertain : The jo d and country along presents the most deserted appearance, but few persons to be seen, the labourers have left their occupation, and everything seems at a stand. I wai informed by a gentlemen that Mr. O'Mahony had a review of a large body of armed men, estimated at nearly IUOO, Inst night, on a road leading from Mievenamon to Carrick, which they lined at either side for a considerable distance, and who are supposed to have gone on towardi Carraghmore. Last night Carraghmore was attacked by a body of insurgents, for the put poie of taking the swivel guns and cannon with which the Marquu of Waterford recently fortified it. The Marquis sent for the troops, but 1 did not hear of the result. A large body of marines left Waterford this morning for the icene, having been first served out with biscuit and meat for some dajs; they were marched off by Major General Macdonald, who ii busily engaged at that place in the deposition of the troops at his command. Everything lrads me to believe that we are on the eve of another insurrection. Meanwhile the most alarming rumours began to prevail ; seven Confederate leaders were siid to h*ve imitated the tactic* of the military, by getting up a '• flyjng column," whoie quick and sudden movements are the mbject of general surpriie ; one timr, at the hill of Cnrriekbeg, another at Lowrys bridge t in the evening encamped at Curraghmore Wood, and away at Kilmactliomas in the morning. Informers themselves are puzzled in giving secret information to the authoritiei as to the whereabouts of the rebel*, their movement! are so daring and uncertain. Last night (Tuesday) there were bonfires on the mountains.

Dublin, Wednesday Eveninp. The intelligence leceived from the south, by the mid day train, confirms the material portion* of the rumours

of another insurrectionary movement mentioned in the Kilkenny and Limerick papers. An abortive attempt was made to blow up the bridge at Gramiah, over the river Suir, for the purpose of checking the progress of the military. The parapets were torn down and piled in the centre of the roud.— It was currently reported in Waterford and Kilkenny that Doheny *s»s at the head of the insurgent*, who were well provisioned for fully two days to come. The chapel bells of Bailyline and Kilnish were rung by the rebels, but on the approach of a party of the 85th regiment they ceased. Yesterday, about 4 o'clock p. in., the insurgents set fire to the \ olice barrack at the slate qutrriei, and it was rumoured that other barracks had been attacked. There was a conflict at Portlaw between the police and the rebeli — two of the latter were killed, and several wounded. The insurgents visited the factory of Messri. Mai- ' comson, at Portlaw, and tried to induce the workman to accompany them. Very few complied with their so* licitations. The 60'h Rifles were sent off this morning by train, to the biene of action. Two companies of tbe 75th were to have marched this morning from Callan, but were countermanded in consequence of the distuibed state of the neighbourhood. Major-General M'Donald leaves this afternoon to resume the command of the troops in the disturbed districts. A large body of constabulary wai sent from Dublin by train to the south to day, and this evening detach, nients from the regiments in this gairison arc to follow.

(From the Kilkenny Moderator of Wednesday.) The intelligence from Carrick and the surrounding districts, received since we went to press last night, has been much more alarming than we had then anticipated. No doubt now remains of the fact of an insurgent force having assembled aHd shown a spirit of the utmost determination. The main body of the rebels, said to be 4000 strong, is encamped on Abbey Hill, in the county of Tipperary, but immediately adjoining the slate quarries in this county. The position is an extremely strong one, and every possible measure appears to have been taken to add to its security. There is no doubt that leaders of some military experience are in the camp, tnd some peasantry are being regularly drilled. They are chiefly armed wiih pikes, but many hate rifles. Richard O'Gorman is said to be the chief in command, and Doheny is also said to be amongst them. The commissariat is regularly supplied by the neighbouring farmers, who voluntarily lend in cattle and other provisions, knowing that otherwise they vveuld have to surrender them by compulsion. At about 4 o'clock p. m. yesterday, a detuchment from the camp proceeded to the Police Barrack of the Slate Quarries, which the constabulary had only quitted about twenty minutes previously to taking refuge at Piltown. The insurgents at some distance from the house, fired through the windows ; but finding that there was not any person within, they took posiession of it, and ultimately set it on fire, reducing the entire house and furniture to ashes. Rumour states that all the other sui rounding constabulary stations were attacked, and that, in tome casei, the polled we c disarmed, whilst in others the men had fortunately quitted their barracks previously, and retired upon Carrick and Clonmel. The driver and guard of the Cork mail, which arrived here at about ten o'clock la§t night, report that the police had quitted the Glenboner station, and lwd retired to that of Nine-mile House.— Shortly previous to the arrival of the ctach at the latter place a party of iniurgents had surrounded the sta tion and demanded that the united parties within, numbering about ten men , should surrender their arms. The police refused, and upon the iniurgents proceeding to attack the house, the little garrison fired out, and put tbe belligerents to flight. The guard states that he saw one man fall, the people of the neighbourhood told him that many had been wounded. He was also told that the insurgents had only gone for a reinforcement, and that they would soon reiuru from the camp, and take vengeance for the loss of their comrade, The fate of the gallant little party of police is still doubtful. One report states that they have left the barrack, and taking with them their furniture, &c, on cars, marching in the direction of Carrick. It, is, however, scarcely possible that they should have been rash c .ought to leave the shelter of a house to travel by a road which was occupied in many places by the enemy. The insurgent parties, encounteied by the mail, did not interrupt its couise, though they frequently stopt and questioned the guard and driver. Rumoms, which are not yet authenticated, assert that a skirmish took place yesterday, at Portlaw, between the police and iniurgents, in which some were killed on both sides. Another report asserts that 800 men, armed with pikes, matched through Coolnamuck Wood, from the county of k Waterford, to join the j insurgents at Aheny Hill. It is also stated that a temporary encampment of iniurgentß was|held lust night at Lismatigue, in this county, and near Kilcaih, in Tipperary. In the middle of yesterday a mob of labourer! paraded the streets of Thomastown demanding that they should be given employment or food, or otherwise they would join the rebels. What their ultimate proceeding was we have not yet ascertained. At a late hour last night Sir R. Langrish, Bart., with his family, arrived in this town, and stopped at the Club House, as the district of Knockstopher was in an alarming state of disturbance. Several fugitives from Kilmaganny arrived here in the night, amongst whom were Mr. Duncan, Mr. Adams, and Mr. Morres, with thtir families. The Rev. Jeremiah M'Shane with his family took refuge with T. Shaw, Esq., at Kilree. From some of the Kilmaganny fugitires we learn that yesterday a party of the rebels proceeded to the house of Mr. George Sheppard, of Kiltrassy, and presenting their pikes at him demanded £5O t as a ransom for his life. He was ultimately compelled to swear that he had not such a sum of money, and was then suffered to take hit horse and depart. By his advice the inhabitants ot Kilmaganny fled to Kilkenny, and the police af that station retired on Callan. When they were leaving, the peasantry were collecting in crowds, and apparently about to join the insurgents A gentleman from Kilmaganny assures us that he had conversed with a person who had obtained a very near view of the rebel camp upon Aheny hill, and saw a large force being drilled to the exercise of the pike, whilit others were engaged in slaughtering cattle, and cooking at an immense fire lighted on the centre of the hill. He also states that there were three pieces of rannon on the hill, which the rebels l>ad obtained by a ■uccesful attack on Curaghmore House. One hundred and fifty were laid t« have been despatched to attack Castletown, the residenrt of W. Y. Stewart, Esq., H gu Sheriff of this county ; and it was rumoured that the remaining iesurgent force meditated* descent on Carriek — a report was even received here that that town had been taken and burned by them, but this is not authenticated. Many people passing along the roud weie slopped and pressed into the insurgent rank?, while others were suff red to depart on an assurance that they were not spies or messenger! of the authorities. During the night fir s were blazing on the surrounding hills.

A correspondent of the Fi eeman writes as follows— " Kilkenny, Tuesday, Sept. 12. "The neighbourhood of Carrick U in a dreadful state— thousands of men are in array on the hills there. I have just seen a gentleman from Carrick at the bank, who came by the car. They were stopped at the slate quarriei by about sixty men in arms, and he «aw the police barrack, as he was passing, in flames. He says it is owing to the tenants being driven off some estate there, but that the hills are covered with armed men. I think he wa* so much frightened that he exaggerated the matter. However, theie is no doubtbut they arc on the hills in that place."

Dublin, 18th Sept., 1848. The movement in the south hat been stopped, notwithstanding there is a further supply ot alarming rumours from that part of the island, which was th scene of 80 much confusion on Tuesday last. People are some how or other greatly, prone to exaggerate facts, and give reality to fiction. lhe following is an extract from the Limerick and Clare Examiner, just come to hand :— " We are informed an express has just arrived in this city, conveying intelligence that a conflict took place last night at Currnghmoie ,Wood, (Co. Waterford), between a party of the 85lh|Regiment and a body of insurgents, and that eight men were killed, several wounded, and a considerable number taken prisoners." On the moving of the insurgents yesterday morning by the Tipperary side, they attacked the house of a Mr. Haheisy, into which they fired. They broke the doors in, and were faced by the owner, who told them he would not give up hii property. He placed himself at the door armed, and after a scuffle with the leading men, succeeded in closing it. " Mr. Haliesiy, who was wounded in the side by the insurgents, to whom he refused to give up his arm 3 when his house was attacked, is beyond recovery ; indeed he is reported to be dead. The fellow who fired the shot ii known to the authorities ; his name is Dee, a farmer possessing about 40 acres. Informations have been sworn to this effect."

The Dullin Evening Post of Saturday contiins an artic'e on the insurrectionary proceeding, which, from its demi-official character, and the startling disclosures which it contains, is well deserving; of attention. The article commences with the following description of the outbreak, and its objects : " Troops of banditti, organized by the clubs in the counties of Xi kenny, Waterford, ami Tipperary, con« tinue «o keep the country around Carrick in a state of excitement and alarm, by their nightly demonstrations and daily demonstrations. We believe thdt a number of those who take an earnest part in these proceedings ii very limited, but that they swell their ranks by menacing the peaceful portion of the population with arson and murder, if they refuse to turn out at the behest of the organised plunderers. There is no doubt attacks on towrs have been planned, but the rebel leaders are well aware that they cannot rely on their followers, the most of whom have been forced into their ranks by sheer intimidation. Properly speaking, there is no longer any such thing as a revolt against the Government ; but there is a terrible conspiracy, and almost open war, against the rights of property ; it it not a rebellion, but a Jacquerie, which rages in the disturbed districts, and this is the natural and necessary result of the pestilent agitation which has been continued for so many years, and of the atiocious instigations addressed to the deluded multitudes by the jacobin pres3 [which the Post and the Whigs fomented]. '• Amongut the worst results of the Jacquerie, is tha almost total abandonment of farm labour. At the mandate of some b-mdit chief, the spade fulls from the hand, and the plough sops in the furrow ; labour is suspended, and the labourer is hur.ied off to the mountains, to go through a farce of weaiisome drill, and to hear, for the ten thousandth time, that he is one of the 'finest peasantry on the face of the earth,' and has a right to be supported in luxurious idleness at the expense of the intrusive Saxon here, or the industrious Saxon in England. " The depredations of the bandits on the landlords and farmers are extensive and audacious An entire crop of wheat was taken from a field which actually joins the town of Clonmel ; full a dozen Carts must have been employed in its removal, and the operation must have lasted several hours ; but the last sheaf was far on its way to the mountain* before the slightest notice of the outrage was conve)ed to the police authorities, Sheep and cattle are openly taken for the support of the insurgent forces, and ' blackmail' is regularly levied on the homesteads of the farmers and the shops of the villages. In plain terms, there is a wanton and ruinous waste of the provisional resources of the country in the face of approaching famine." Regarding the position of the Roman Catholic clergy at this emergency, the Post says — " Against this pernicious state of things the lergy struggle in vain. Wherever the influence of the club has gained the ascendancy, that of the priest has been more than weakened in proportion. We know that some of the most estimable members of the Catholic clergy, men whose exertions during the late periods of scarcity and sickness were incessant, are now deserted by their congtegations, and reduced to endure the most severe privations. We have heard from good authority, that the bandits have menaced with destruction those who ventured to warn their flocks of the danger to which they exposed themselves by joining in insunection." [It is well that their reverences should teap that which they have sown.] The Dublin Evening Post, the Government organ, thus writes, about what it calls the Danger of the Crisis :— " Let no man underrate the danger of the crisis, through which the country is doomed to pass, by saying that the banditti have no intelligible object, and may therefore easily be put down. They have an object, and one that is very intelligible too— they seek to get the entire property of the country into their own hands, and to obtain possession of their share of the £800,000,000 pointed out to them for confiscation by tne Felon press of Dublin. They do not understand that, iv their hands, these provisional resources would be wasted and destroyed because the " finest peasantry on the earth" have been taught to dispense with all considerations of political economy. Already they have inflicted severe losses on the farmers and the corn dealers, and have prepared for their own future an amount of evils which ii fearful to contemplate. There are others who lay the flattering unction to their souls, that the Banditts cannot long resir the farce of the military and the police ; nor could they if they made a determined stand any where. But the mountains ol Waterford and Tipperary, with their secluded glens, deep ravines and labyrinth of footpaths, afford unrivalled opportunities fordispersio land escape. Long before the authorities can coiuo up with any

large body, it is scattered and dispersed like a wreath of mitt before the rising sun. Contradictory reports of events greatly add to the perplexities of the authoritiei. Ten miles from the scene of any outrage, such as the attack on the police at Glcnborer or Portiaw, every man is full of information, though not always the moat accurate, on the subject. When you come within five miles you find that the matter is wrapped in a vague cloud of mystery ; nobody has heard anything about it, save from accidental report, and the answers you receive admit of a most surprising latitude of interpretation* But when you reach the spot itself, you find every source of information suddenly raniihed. There is not a male about the place who was not by some itrange accident at least twenty miles off when the thing happened. Female curiosity was, during the crisis, in a state of susi ended animation ; every woman wai fast asleep or was Ireightened by the shots, that the kept her heaJ under the bed-cloths. It is unnecessary to speculate whether this affected ignorance is to be regarded as the result of disaffection or of intimidation ; bur the fact is beyond controversy, and it is a source of difficulty which cannot easily be overcome."

THE INSURRECTIONARY MOVEMENT. The following is an extract from the Times correspondent at Clonmel : — " I now proceed to r late a circumstance which hap* pened in this neighbourhood two days ago, which is as yet scarcely known — indeed, for reaions obvious here it is kept a secret. A party of rebels waited on a gentleman of high station and large propeJty, to inform him that his presence wai required at the Rebel Camp ; he ha» been called radical in politics, and was supposed to be open to the offer of Generalissimo of the forces, for this district; he first endeavoured to humour then, then begged to be excused, aud finally positively refused to go. They, however, weve not to be put off, and insisted on taking him by force to Head Quarters, and in accordance with their determination look him many milei away into the inteiior of the County of Waterford mountains, till they arrived at the encampment. He then saw a body of men, whose number he estimated at 3,000, and was introduced to persons dressed in green and gold uniforms, who offeredand pre-sed unon him the command. He refu-ed, and expostulated with them on their folly, saying that it was hopeless to cope with the Queen'i troops, especialy for unarmed men, upon which one of them stepped out and ordered the multitude to show their arms, which indeed he was surprised to see, on account of their number. The upshot of the whole affair wai, that, after a long conference, they allowed him to depart, threatening him ff he told of their position, or was in any way unfriendly to them." Extract of a letter, dated Clonmel, Sept. 2lst — "An express has just been reoivpd in town, stating that the insurgents had moved from the Comerah mountains, (county Waterford) where they have been, in very strong force for several days. A large j-osse of mihtaiy and police started from the town of Carrick, on Thursday, in pursuit of Doheny and O'Mahony. They proceeded as far as Raithcormick. (county Cork) and were near capturing O'Mahony. The force consisted of 200 of the 3rd Buffs, some companies of the 83rd regiment, a troop of the 4th Dragoons, and about 100 constabulary. They returned to Carrick yesterday, bringing wi h them some arms, pikes, and ammunition, which some of the insurgents left behind them in a chase; O'Mahony was *o closely pursued, that be turned on his horse, and discharged a brace of pistols at some troopers in the advance, who were hot in his pursuit, (one of them was slightly wounded) and then jumping off his horse, bounded over a stone wall that lined the road-side, aud taking the fields, baffled all further efforts of his pursuers ; his horse fully equipped was made a ' prisoner of war,' and matched in triumph, back to Carritk. A large body of constabulary have been just de»patched to the village of Kilsheelan, whither the Insurgents are said to be moving from Slievennmon. An extensive foray was made labt night in the neighbourhood of this celebrate! mountain; a I the farm houses having been visited and stripped of both arms and provisions." The Dublin Evening Packet publishes the following communication from Cloumel, received by the mail train :— " There was considerable excitement here yesterday evening by the appearance of a hrge body of men within a mile of the town, on the top of a mountain, that rises from the riTcr ; they remained there on motion for several hours, and when night came on, lighted up signal iires ; but they seemed to have nil decamped before the morning, and there is now no trace of them. On the night befoie last there was a great gathering, a few miles further out in the mountains and word has been s>ent to the psople living in the suburbs, ' that the boys would be coming before long.' " The Times thus notices the ' Trade of Dublin/ " Trade in this city continues miiarebly languid, there not being the slightest symptom of amelioration in any branch of commerce. Even in the leading streets, one-third of the housei are closed, and in some cases the proportion is even greater." Extract of a private letter from a person residing in one of the Midland Counties in Ireland, to a friend in Melbourne by the Manchester. '• Until lately, I had hoped to be able to give it as my opinion, that there would have been as much crop grown in the kingdom, as would have sufficed to feed the inhabitants, or nearly ■o — but what shall I now say, for the deeply marked and wide spreading indications of the c ilamitoui visi" tation of '46 have re-appeared, and are considered more rapid in tbeir destructive consequences than in that year— so that if the nation be fed it must be by foreign supplies, and none can calculate the consequence! of such a calamity in the present phreuzicd state of pub* lie feeling, added to all the rest of our pubic scourges."

THE STATE PRISONERS. The Clonm'l Chronicle thus describes the progress of the state prisoners from Dublin to their final destination in the gaol of Clonmel:— '• The special train arrived at Thurles in three hours and twenty minutes. Here they were met by a large military and constabulary force upon Bianconii car*, and the travelling carcinge haxinar been removed from the train and put to, Messrs. OBrien, Meaeher, and Leyne were placed inside. There was nobody else with them. Mesin. O'Donoghue aud M'Manus occupied seats outiide, and ths rest of the vehicle was occupied by police inspectors, constables, Sec. They left Thurles at about 2 o'clock in the morning, and travelled on at a very rapid rate through Cashel, were they remained for tome time to refresh the escort and the hones. The prisoner* were al»o offered refreshments, which, however, wera declined, except a few cigan, which some of the party took. They then came on to Clonmel, which place they reached at half.past 7 o'clock. The prisoners were ihen handed aver to Mr. Strahan, the Governor, and were immediately supplied with an exce.lent breakfast, of which they heartily partook. Messrs. OBrien and Meagher were removed to a rather comfortable apartment, prepared for them in the Hoipital rooms of thebuilJirg, where they immediately retired to reitj Messrs. M 1M 1 Maims, O'Donoghue, and Leyne were then placed ii the same department with other prisoner* charged with treasonable offeuces. All tho priionert enjoyed exedkn' health end 6piriti."