IRELAND.

Southland Times, Volume III, Issue 248, 30 April 1866, Page 3

IRELAND.

♦ (From the Telegraph?) For the present, arrests have ceased in Dublin, the American emissaries having been nearly all captured or forced to make a hasty flitting from the country, and a great number, if not all, of the suspected inhabitants of the city having also been taken into custody. The police, however, are not idle ; their vigilance in searching for arms and tracking the movements of the conspirators is unrelaxedj and the systematic manner in which their operations are conducted, aided by informaton, sometimes- communicated anonymously, will, it is hoped, ultimately enable them to seize all the stores of concealed arms which, the Eenians were preparing for their contemplated rising. N In Various parts of the couutry — in Tipperary, Limerick, Cork> Westmeath, Belfast, and other places — searches for arms and arrests are goinng on simultaneeously. Hitherto the seizures have not been many. The Northern Whig of yesterday states that the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act has been the means of ridding Belfast of a great number of suspected people. On Monday and Tuesday many who were known to have no business whatever in England or Scotland were seen to leave the quays by the cross channel steamers. The magistrates and police who attended at the quays for the purpose of seeing who left the town, did not consider it their duty to prevent the escape of those who thus departed. Four men were arrested in Belfast on Tuesday and committed to prison. One was a publican, another a sergeant of the Antrim Militia, a third a pensioner, and the fourth, Patrick Hassan, is described as lately an officer in the Federal army. It is generally stated (says the Whig) that this is only the beginning of the exercise of magisterial power in Belfast under the Habeas Corpus Suspension Act. In Hillsborough county Down, three men travelling as pedlars were arrested ; and in Monaghan, some pessons who have long been suspicion were taken up, and further arrests are expected. Six arrests were made dv Monday night in Mullingar. The prisoners arc described as being all stout, athletic men — : some of them are six feet in height. Three persons arrested in Bruff, county Limerick, have been lodged in the county gaol. One of them, named Devanny, is said to have been a captain in the American army. Yesterday a soldier of the 3rd Buffs, arrested on the previous night by the constabulary of the Ballinacurra Station, county Limerick, was marched into the station-house, charged with being an avowed Fenian, and proclaiming himself as such before the public on the high rq^d His name is Edward Bowling, a stout athletic man, from the neighborhood of. Doneen, near thia city. It ' appears he. had been drinking with some friends ; who were in his company when taken up, and being, the worse of liquor 1 forgot his loyalty to the Queen and • espoused the Fenian Brotherhood. The ' accused, who, it is said, will be handed ! over to the military authorities, remains ' in custody for the present. ', The Cork correspondent of Sounder's 1 News Letter states that the mere suspicion » of the intended suspension ot the Habeas Corpiis Act has " rid that city and neigh--1 borhood of the alarming presence of a ' host of American and Irish Americans i who infested the . streets and bye-ways, 5 and who, by lavishing drink -on the 1 soldiers who came in their way, sought tc '' seduce them from their allegiance — some 5 of the victims being now on trial in our ' military barracks before a general courtmartial." » The trial of Corporal James Rose ol s the 20th Eegiraent was proceeded witr. ■ and concluded yesterday at Cork. The charge 'against him is for saying, in the t presence of Constable Carson of the Iris! • Constabulary Service,— " This rifle v ' loaded. I'm an Irishman from the countj ' Clare, and a Fenian. All the Irish • soldiers aye liaipg, $&& if thejr m

c ca Hed out they "will .never fire on the 0 People," being conduct prejudicial of it Sood order and military discipline, and >f c ontrary to the Articles of War. The s prisoner, in his defence, denied altogether, c the truth of the charge. The trial of 0 Sergeant Darragh, which was commenced f on Monday, was then resumed v and had s not concluded. B The Limerick Chronicle reports the 8 death of Constable Dunn, who was fired 1 at and wounded on Saturday night in the » county of Tipperary by a party of Fenians, whom he detected in the house f of a fanner named B-yan. r '