On Saturday last the troops in Dublin made a house4o-house
search of• one of the northern -districts sad•discovered the rebel headquarters. The rebel 'leaders MtfCrtanately escaped, but -left all their-papers, containing plans for outrages in this eountry,' as the Chief Secretary informed the House on Monday. A patrol of the Hampshire Regiment on Sunday surprised a rebel gang-near Midleton, and after a sharp fight overcame -them ; thirteen rebels were killed and the remaining eight were taken. The same day a large party of rebels near Ballinrobe, County Mayo, was surrounded' and captured. A party of troops was attacked in Kilkenny on Monday, but dispersed.the Sinn Feiners with loss. A police patrol -was ambushed near Tullamore on Tueaday, and a police sergeant was murdered in Maynooth. Two policemen were murdered in a main street in Dublin on 'Wednesday afternoon.
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