Italy. 25 July 1848

* Dublin, July 20. According to the *Tipperary Free Press*, the arrest of Mr. Marks, secretary of a Repeal club, and of two other Repealers gave rise to a considerable tumult in Carrick-on-Suir. For hardly had the arrests become known, than the alarm was at once sounded from all sides; the members of the various clubs streamed to assembly points known only to them in advance, marched from there to the prison and, armed with muskets, pikes, etc., would have stormed the prison if the prisoners had not already been released on bail a quarter of an hour before. A particularly striking circumstance was that all the persons who were just attending a funeral in the churchyard, at the first sound of the alarm bell, rushed away en masse to fetch weapons and calmly left the coffin standing beside the grave. That is saying a great deal among Irishmen!

Yesterday the Irish League held a meeting in the Music Hall. The Mayor of Kilkenny presided. 702 new members were admitted. When the Member of Parliament W. Smith O’Brien (Protestant) appeared, the storm of applause would not cease. O’Brien delivered a speech which swept all present into enthusiasm. “However much they might love peace,” he said in one passage, “they would not shrink from necessity if their country called them to the field of battle.” (Many-thousandfold: No, No! and the cry: “The sooner the better!”) All the other speakers, and in particular a Roman Catholic clergyman, spoke in the same spirit and with equal excitement of minds.

South America. * Monte Video, May 19. Oribe had a copy of the terms proposed to him by Captain Gore and Baron Gros sent to General Rosas, and 17 days later received a reply 27 sheets long, declaring that Rosas does not enter into any of the conditions. Rosas disputes General Oribe’s right to negotiate at all, since he (Rosas) alone is authorised to conclude peace treaties or to declare war. He declares himself most decidedly against the withdrawal of the Argentine troops. Finally, he declares that he will only enter into the conditions presented by Mr. Hood and that he insists on the amendments made to them. Rosas is said to have given General Urquiza orders to advance into the Banda Oriental. Today a new interview took place between Oribe and the plenipotentiaries of England and France, the result of which is said to have been the breaking off of all negotiations.