sented
that Mr. Conway, of the _Dublin Evening Post_, had received from the
Castle a most dreadful rumour, which he was about to publish in a second
edition of that paper. The writer then went on to say, that he took
advantage of our queen's messenger going off at the moment for London,
to forward the intelligence in a parcel to Messrs. Willmer and Smith,
of Liverpool, who, no doubt, would transmit it to London by the electric
telegraph. The mayor of Liverpool, about an hour after this, further
communicated to me that he is perfectly satisfied that the Irish
intelligence, contained in the paragraph published in the morning
papers, is utterly untrue, unless government have received a despatch
from Lord Clarendon, confirming it. He also states that a queen's
messenger certainly had arrived from Dublin by a steamer this morning,
and he left Liverpool by the half-past six express train. Now, it is
perfectly true that a queen's messenger was dispatched from Dublin last
night. I had sent him over with a despatch, stating that the bill for
suspending the Habeas Corpus Act had received the royal assent, and he
left Dublin with a despatch from the lord-lieutenant yesterday evening,
and arrived in London by the express train this morning by half-past one
o'clock. This despatch certainly describes the state of the country in
the neighbourhood of Clonmel, Carrick, and Thurles to be dreadful, but
in relation to any actual outbreak it is perfectly silent, and makes no
mention whatever. I have seen the messenger, and he states that he
left Dublin at three o'clock yesterday afternoon, but he assures me he
brought no parcel or letter for any party whatever. The messenger is
stated to have come over by a special steamer from Kingston yesterday,
that he started at three o'clock by the steamer which was reported to
have had the queen's messenger on board. Now, no queen's messenger
came over in that steamer; but I have received letters from the
lord-lieutenant, written after the departure of the queen's messenger
yesterday afternoon, which contain no allusion to those frightful
accounts. I am also assured by an hon. member that the hon. gentleman
the member for Totness left Dublin yesterday by the steamer which leaves
at seven o'clock, and that everything was tranquil when he left--that no
rumour of the kind had reached his ears when the steamer left the port.
I will only add that I certainly shall endeavour to trace the wilful
originator of