SEDITION IN IRELAND. Liverpool, Monday.

New Zealander, Volume 4, Issue 228, 5 August 1848, Page 3

SEDITION IN IRELAND. Liverpool, Monday.

Thk following letter win received this morning by a tradesman in this town, from a relative residing in the neighbourhood of Dublin:—" Saturday nivht, 9 o'clock.—An officer that is lodging with us hai just received information that there is an outbreak at Limerisk, and the people have beaten the soldiers. The hills which are seen from here are all luminutud with large fires. "We can see 20 from our window." We have received no confir.nation of this report.—Times, March 28.

INFORMATION AGAINST THE LEADERS OF TUB CONIEUERAIION On Tuesday informations were sworn before the magistrates of the head office of police by Mr. Kcramis, Crown Solicitor; Mr. Hodgcß, short-hand writer, and others, upon which warrants are issued for the a'lest of Mr. W. S. OBrien, M.P., and Mr. T.l\ Meaghcr who are charged with uttering Bcditioub speeches on the 15th of March instant, at tha Music Hall. A warrant was also issued against Mr. Mitchell in which he is charged with puhlithing in the United Irishman, of which papar he is proprietor, several articles of a, seditious and inflanaatory character. Aurbst of Mn. W. S. OBrien, M.P., and Mr. MjTCiinLi» — Mr. OBrien was arrested at five o'clock on Tuesday, while in the act of packing up lor France, where he is deputed by two meeting to present addresses of congratulation to the Provisional Government. Mr Mitchrll has likewise been arrested. Messrs. Smith OBrien, Meaghcr, 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 Rtand 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 Irishman articles of a like tendency. The three gentlemen wore escorted by a huge 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 coun. sel. On the magistrate saying he was ready to receive bail, Mes.sr*. Maurice and John O'Connell tendered it for Mr. OBrien and Mr. Meagber. Mr. OBrien thanked Mebßrs. O'Connell, but eaid lie had come prepared with sureties.— The magistrate then addressed Mr. Mitchell, and said from the gravity of the cbargo preferred against him by the AttorneyGeneral, he would be iec[uired to give bail in person t'ur|X'2oO, and two sur«ties for X'lOQ each, The

mn|>i«tratc also informed Messrs. O' linen and MfKglicr of the charges agninst them. Sureties were tendered, to which the Crown did not object. They then proceeded to Dolier Street, when the three gentlemen delivered a short ioflarnatory speech to between 4000 and 5000 persons ; atler which the mob dispersed, nnd the large body of police in attendance were marched buck to their barracks. Our Liverpool agent adds— "lam informed that Mr. O'Biien arrived in Liverpoo] this morning, per mail boat, en route for Paris,', All the troops stationed at the difl'<m>nt pullio offices have been temoved to their barracks, it being considered that the reernt display of military foice had droduccd the desired clVect. Mußnr.its. — A farmer, named Michael Donohue, aged seventy years, wai murdered in the county Longford, on Sunday.— Mr. Lloyd, of Longford, near Monlygall, was fired at on Monday, and wounded, in consequence, it is said, of the stopping of an old road. The assassin is now in Nenngh g.iol.

The Mayor of Cork refused to convene n meeting to adthess the Trench republic, upon a requisition bcuring 500 signatures. The following choice extinct i"» from an address recently voted to the Provisional Government of Fiance, at iv meeting held in Dublin:— "lt is now known tbioughout the world, that we lost 2,1-00,000 «l our population last year, by famine, fever and emigration, but it is not known that this famine, fur worse in its effects than the ravages of any war, was purposely suffered to rage and deitroy us by the English Govern* ment, in the vile hope" of extirpating our undent nnmo and race. Oh, happy men of France!— think) of the amount of human suffering our country underwent during the last eighteen months, when 2,000,000 of ouv countrymen, fellow beings, made m God'li image, Chnstians, redeemed by the blood of his son, were bloodlessly, but most foully murdered, tortured to death by starvation — and by means of this vile Government, tho name inhuman murders are daily being perpetrated."