Monthly Chronicle.

hended several persons in Belfast . I did not receive the intellgence early enough to prevent the Insurgents from taking possession of Antrim , and I am not therefore acquainted with their first proceedings there ; but I prevented many magistrates from leaving Belfast ; and many others , being Officers of Yeomanry , on on permanent duty , did not attend the mee-ing . I ordered the 64 th Regiment , and Light Battalion , and looof the 22 d Light Dragoons , under Colonel Clavering , and Lieutenant-Colonel Lumley , with two five-and-a-half inch howitzers , and two curricle six pounders , to proceed with the utmost tlispa < ch through Lisburn

to Antrim . I also ordered from the garrison 250 of the Monaghan Militia , with Lieu'enant-Colone ) Kerr , and fift y of the 3 rd Dragoons , together ivith Ihe Belfast Yeomanry Cavalry , with Major Smith , to proceed under the command of Colonel Durham , with two curricle six pounders , through Carmouey and Templepatrick to Antrim , to co-operate with the other detachment . The Dragoons under Lieutenant-Colonel Lumley having made the attack upon the town , without waiting forthe Light Battalions , were fired upon from the windows of the houses , and were consequently obliged to retreat , with the loss of , I am sorry to add , three Officers of that excellent regiment , killed and wounded , and the two curricle six pounders . Colonel Clavering , on his arrival near Antrim , finding the Rebels

pouring into that town m great force , very judiciously took post on a hill on the Lisburn side , and reported his situation to Major-Genera ! Goldie . In the mean time Colonel Durham , with his whole detachment , proceeded to ivi'hin half a mile of Antrim , and after a cannonade of half an hour drove the Insurgents completely out of the town , and retook the two curricle guns , together with one brass six-pounder , very badly mounted , of which it seems the Rebels had two , supposed to have been smuggled out of Belfast . The Colonel then proceeded , without the loss of a man ( through the town , which for obvious reasons suffered much ) to

Shane Castle and Randelstown , in which direction the principal part of the Rebels fled . He remains there still for orders from me . Lord O'Neil , I am sorry to say , is dangerously wounded . Lieutenant Colonel Leslie , of the Tay . Fencibles , reports to me , from Carrie ! : fergus , that I . eiut . Small , with a detachment of twenty men of thai corps , in the barrack of Larne , defended themselves most gallantly against the attack of a numerous body , and maintained their post with the loss of two killed and three wounded , inducting Ihe Lieutenant . I have ordered them into head quarters at Carrickfergus . The Glenarm Yeomanry

( sixty strong ) being also threatened by an attack , in the course of the dav took possession of Glenarm Gastle , where they will maintain themselves if possible . Brigadier Genera ! Knox , having heard of a party of the Toome Yeomanry beingmade prisoners by the Insurgents , sent to me very early this morning to march by Toome Bridge , into the county of Antrim , which I ' have desired him to do , in order to liberate Colonel Durham's detachment , and enable them to cross the country on their return to Belfast .

Although the insurrection has " been pretty general in the county , I do not find they had much success ; but I have not received as yet any reports from Ballycastle , Ballymena , Ballymoney , Portgienore , and other places in the northern parts , in which the Yeomanrv are stationed , As my information led to a general rising in the county of Down , I have been obliged to call in all the small detachments of the York Fencibles to Newton Ardes . Colonel Stapleton has every tbing in readiness to move at a moment ' s warning . The Yeomanry are al ! on permanent duty throughout the counties of Down and Antrim ; and I have distributed arms to 140 loyal men in Belfast , who will be attached to the Monaghan and Fifeshire Regiments , and thereby become very useful . Offers of

service are very numerous . F . XTBACTS OF LETTERS FROM THE LORD LIEUTENANT OF IRELAND . DUBLIN CASTLE , JUNE 10 . 'On the 9 th , a very large body of the Wexford Rebels was driven back , withgreat loss , from their at tack upon General Needham's post at Arklow ,. Col . Needham relatestheparticularsof this action as follows : ' About 3 o'clock P . M . the rebel army presented itself at mv out-post in very great numbers . Tliev approached from Coolgre . xny road , and along the Sand hills on the shore , in two immense columns , while the whole of the intermediate