SEDITION IN IRELAND.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 315, 5 August 1848, Page 4

SEDITION IN IRELAND.

Liverpool, Monday. The following letter was received this morning by a tradesman in this town, from a relative residing in the neighbourhood of Dublin :—": — " Saturday night, 9 o'clock. — An officer that is lodging with us has just receired information that there is an outbreak at Limerick, and the people have beaten the soldiers. The hills which are seen from here are all illuminated with large fires. We can see 20 from our window." We have received no con - firmation of this report. — Times, March 28.

INFORMATIONS AGAINST THE LEADERS OF THE CONFEDERATION. On Tuesday informations were sworn before the magistrates of the head office of police, by Mr. Keramis, Crown Solicitor ; Mr. Hodges, short-hand writer, and others, upon which warrants were issued for the arrest of Mr. W. S. OBrien, M. P., and Me. T. F. Meagher, who are charged with uttering seditious speeches on the 15th of March instant, at the Music Hall. A warrant was also issued against Mr. Mitchell, in which he is charged with publishing, in the United Irishman, of which paper he is proprietor, several articles of a seditious and inflammatory character. Arrest of Mr. W. S. OBrien, M. P., and Mr. Mitchell. — Mr. OBrien was arrested at five o'clock on Tuesday, while in the act of packing up for France, where he is deputed by two meetings to present addresses of congratulation to the Provisional Government. Mr. Mitchell has likewise been arrested. Messrs. Smith OBrien, Meagher, and Mitchell, attended at the Dublin police-office on Wednesday, in pursuance of notice served on them, for the purpose of entering into bail to attend the Court of Queen's Bench and stand their trial, the two former for, having, on the 15th March instant, delivered speeches calculated to excite unlawful opposition to her Majesty's government, and the latter for having published in the United I? ishman articles of a like tendency. The three gentlemen were escorted by a large body of their admirers, who loudly cheered them. Mr. Kemmis, the Crown Solicitor, attended officially on behalf of the government ; but the defendants had no counsel. On the magistrate saying he was ready to receive bail, Messrs. Maurice and John O'Connell tendered it for Mr. OBrien and Mr. Meagher. Mr. OBrien thanked Messrs. O'Connell, but said he had come prepared with sureties. — The magistrate then addressed Mr. Mitchell, and said from the gravity of the charge preferred against him by the -Attorney-General, he would be required to give bail in person foe £200, and two sureties for £100 each. The magistrate also informed Messrs. OBrien and Meagher of the charges against them. Sureties were tendered to which the Crown did not object. They then proceeded to Dolierstreet, when the three gentlemen delivered short inflammatory speeches to between 4000 and 5000 persons ; after which the mob dispersed, and the large body of police in attendance w.ere marched back to their barracks. Our Liverpool agent adds — " lam informed that Mr. OBrien arrived in Liverpool this morning, per mail boat, en route for Paris." All the troops stationed at the different public offices have, been, removed to their barracks, it being considered that the recent display of military force bad produced the desired, effect.