The Express.
London, England, 1848-10-06 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS,

IAY EVENING, OCTOBER 6, 1848.

walla= M
arte O
inisre *mei epee it,
Mr. Whiled. Wised ups his thaw as a burieter
that he was eighl, tad he wield set spat to the ease
MINI the tisinemats were gins to Ida to the same etas es
that la ark they ware wles headed to hiss whim ease
earshig the Thaw Delays.
The •Wisey-Geseral peered fa the hatemat the
whole et the papers an origholly prised to hamthat ad
era the wan to permit hi. to Nowise the wows
solleher.
The Soiliter.Geseeel add that he had the eight other bel-
idbapasts is his Mad, sad he mew the name of the pri-
was yin the alas, sad he made a sea et the arse at
Aar
NA Mbileside—Were the papers herded to me ?
Sieber Oeseral—l don eity they were.
Aid Wire Doherty—The witness stated that twenty-
allee
pee to Illt Olaf persons hallooed; why was rot the lasetion
hal t
Mr. ithhadde—That would have been a win graestion
he the awn. I eat wfliag that It shoed ge to the jay,
that rare wee sly on paper with the hood seas el tht;
prow, sad twentyase or thirty balloted oa the easedon.
Sew whew wen wared apes the poist Weed by
M Mlikeids, WI der NM aremisa the hart breath'
Old they weld hada that the widow gins es the perl
el the saws weated to this—that the an et hir.
Celts appeared upee is. of the bellodag pawn esle.
lib. Whibmide, Q.C., theorise ea mid, that it beanie hie
err to raw the jay es the pant et re Wow at the
M. Me barged he WNW penisady addressed a jury
samesadens et the Woes sty wads devolved
epee bl ia. Me mast ales wen that it would
have ben mest ahead ta by
Mr. Seith
O'Brien adoeled • nerd men lane ad
knavish., Is address seek • ahead a lee this •paw
tem Ira ; bat it wee in et do dens ear devolved
ups the ambers ad the krembie yeahodis to which
he belayed, aerie to rams isailmtakiag say treat,
however edema and awful, which to the Mina
Of *AZ peefeadoesl duties might kappa t• be
impend law them. The very effort to ohanhend all the
teases of the oxidises to this complicated ease wee mica-
Sited to theta* the *meet tie reams ; sad
he Md. there/on, yto salt the jay to give him
the beetellt sit *We , both to eserest bias wisetwer
he WOO he tote user, and to bear
eswith hia whomever
they Wilt essetier ke eiheig dwelt to the
matter nestity is Ira. H wee
e not
(Mr. ithitesids) ha kissed
So apply to the eeat NpsMp sa• the trial el W. dint; hat
ultimately is wee ees by Meat ea hi bather
esaasel tit* the men mealy care would be to
ad it wee the dare of Mr. &a Brt awe* that kr=
haw OW Ned for all his rite. Kit whiled to take is
Besse. beano he believed that he bed beta projedipost.th
llicallir. Whiseside) hair red the beige of the Lord
hales darter et the apeniag et that
ismadere, ad he bad aks head read fa • newspaper a
madam warmers et dm guilt of re prows, ea a
heisrat upped to the Jay to hada. Übe thenght,
that emit when article arbil frames se eight we.
elm that had Win hoe the hoot, es the Midi of say et
the paismos ia the jarrhat, he weld *ea withdraw
from the en*, and lean his sliest, who held his life ander
the lets, to be seerilleri es • victim at the Wine et hard
rat, too well dii he has, that the endue
whir bees were by Meareld, Heit, sad Hale wed
eh be Wail by ay of tie abrader( magi/orates that
he aw balm his. Owe el the humid judges who Ikea
presided over that amasides kW had • beilliaat caner in
the user ad ell at the her; sad he wee at we as
el his ewe Whew, that each sad all of them would rejoice
is the hest at his client's Janssens@ beim established. He
had to apakithe far having delayed, ter • short time, the
=et that trial by ea objection to the *so Thateb.
was set made traa say improper or raw seam
Mr. 011ries did set wish, Is his thawed to sew
trails the spade= et his pest idle ; sad be, did
saber • wmalea to the cart, whir bad ben
sad, a dart, sightly ; ad he (Kr. Whitaide)
pOO%
wet erthimmft le led, trim the rem et the eidef las-
hes eat the ell *the Mho that the jun peal tad
ben heart weedy lad, bat Leib*. MI All OW
WM= eir lid mmel, ad his dient Wit
..a... ilearts.lll4;= It.
whatever
iyce;
be the Wait of that told, saber to Moo
nee Wear weld ow breath a Wed et spinet
*eh ars. It riser ewer We kb to se et se
es that itepeetehb gedemen, the high @WM
011.0riarealp. Hat was he mid be ha se semilastlo hake
thury, he moot observe that ha bed a wins
clir lie= tithe law for this Is was dear—that if Mr.
011eies had bees is and had OM tartar to
be hied is lialial. he wall have haws, as des days
bits Ms ar the seam @taw jaw is the mei. ea
the was of every whew to he career aids* him,
together with their titles, their emplaisms, sad their real.
Seneca. In this cowry it kid bias raided that the law is
int=yetate did eh anew *he prallegeo, sad a same
hunk at the walbetessaineale eielegtog
from that ewe of the law, sew presented fin *es is
the imams, et the Wham Dobbni, Ire wee lately
ensiled is that owl. That sum appeared ea the
table to in away the 116 al his rat, Mr. O'Brien' ;
and yet, so single wen he the NW add an him one
Ss* isdiesties es le who that mes wee—erbe be we—
when he calfMlth-li NOW, Bering kli pad Ws 1
lai' Milli. Thel, le re at thea, as lama might
the We cad deliver armee whir so
ElisibisfeWeret sad res &Om issaisee Weer et
gar He did set eseekar that the aposilisa
law gins by the armargereal fa thee ems was
maim* daer; and it weer, theeelbee, be hie day to
=l wthil:gory that view et the law of idgh ahem
he to
as the tree on t womery, wil:lserdss
thi, wad to Wham Mr whir be
mei Wawa lam the alsamer; Oft hs Ws erns ell:
stws, the harshest whir be Ward to Kihio They
were rhea ward to try the phew by an mast efste,
need se Wag ago as the rer=dward lU. The papa
of
tiagiresi, embed by Um at dr ho
mew his et high Wises, daintier lir triclit should be n-
=liit Me maser is Wish it aught to be espremed fa •
f heedem, with delhatems est peddes. The
lurid ewe* Weiss reed • amber et wheels hea the
were et Ore, Haledits,,, deallingthe Maw at rp=
whish have takes la dm lewd MO trews.
se slate that the aria@ heir is the istentios, asinahieg,
ead imeghters. he that was
traria oath mad
was inismillo Nanl et the ied !spas at the
Ada, bot, by the "dram of ea ast. Led Ore sad
re beds laid It dew that as overt no we sot wanly
adore et the latest, bat the hens whereby it we @seer
=sea it was to these overt aet, ae expremed is this
t, the jun shot direst their p lee the
Wept wee to be Miereena oily by the et the
red =.6.terhasy to Ire way the et the Wag
• e We death, bat what
ligitisteestikeisy wee it t The horsed pathos= the. re-
=seer Leg* to re were ended Hales the wee
Ts the we et the Mial el Who at or time the
laienelle at Kama Irealser.the ad =rimed to Woe the
Iwo in order to herd her is Add to aria rased@
wife he ma*. The Wig et re ism la this wee wee
the were at Lid is the Midair It wee also head.
Whir en swat ad when as attempt wee made by Wee II
amid the Wen is yield to adds demean; hat web
IMMO to be Woe • 0 essibeei is ~ewe ir-alles=
wiewonedied to wham they wee, lialle to be
impessei. alitemed, sad minedenNed t toeli a pr
des a seas We awn/things whir he sew led to de;
M leer, reed" ad set esallailde let they &odd be
wend ale bit tows, end be wee ewer there we
so as. who whit day that ems was hawser peeper, sad
eseeiessat with the laws if. tree wary. Da the law had
set gee so he as the din book when there wee seek
istrolased as anstrestive Wins. The Bari MI
wished irk a pest awl Wes to shit
Serape,
_bee, bee with this her
li ine WM by *at it wee set Memo WM
Airs *at the J we. • math ledgesent, hat he
We he impiety, ad abe ier it dews la
il.: itt free whir he (11r. W.) ucayittiL Then wee a
berme et war mad a et wee, whir
we Me—it ••veils in I/Ts= eat, sad Ward*
edown a messiegleawk wee set stasessen Weer I
it the rubble Waded le pen lows any
bower, thet we seedisethe trews, Wain it wasila
I=lng the et the hew; bet wh y the ws
the pares down the MilimplimMwo le
Min dilli grallesl.. Kul -Lia— r---Ltrareb"....,,,
~,,,,zeigast the was. aro were need with a war I
is lernies, rose naiad it ad palled I 1,
row They were ell msvisted if hestradive tresses;
Is I ose by Wire; they ems .11 perdend, al
warmed to their passe W pay lair the wows
the soft eller. Lanai if ow whet the queen re-
=has thaga. It was • ineeties et la, as raid
emeahle of a het beies&s to IL Lea Hale lass
tiosams shady la Ishjodipawa• (trees whisk the horned
poems i=fo=o). Thenwee • vest ameba of
mss re le he might orris enstainasat ad
Weld Ms view etas ow. mid whir showed that there
rlo weimene dile, aubillione ride, hat yet they USN
d. hisses. •MS bowing up his has to emir ,
ewer that how beieutriebehed, sal dared by Ai
era, ad the Weer pat to deer—_ wee set'
sass. Ia rethense to king's Immo if the IWO
lisalrest at the had ot them wee by ea awl
party, or provers' keet weals( the elle* rey hel le ,
view—ist that me It les Mgh treeseme es
it wee hid dews Mahe were ewe dimegfrov
sad that the esnaismen rose laws and thus
oat—bled was set teeesos, and hold met ow have bees
heid is He wail mew to a hie like the lessee—tat ma
the askineled worm! ere. to The wanes to
Leers win rheded with what they eard eighte Ina'
They first applied to podium* lir =we Ihme km
hat earlisinest dkl at lowly with
*ea awl that they dwell Sarre eaaitarliteliitYrTaZ
War ad
bet beam re Mt ad ll* et WOW Is tors is
eatabler lief leer ohs re Wash d theEs lablests k whisk *see bow an pat op ; they
gram bee; ad this mesa la several eireake—dray
Wand shoal plash is Linda, is Mildhiso * Two
ad Barn ; ad in the Wier Wry they lethe tat the at.
Waimea el • Mr. arm as& people, to re Wear K
in theeenade et wee seedbed; la an awe
they were not hisrawel el* by the serediea mow,
we. the Whirrs@ set War embed at, bat iseseserd
their peeseedin; ad they wen set pot Imes sil=
were arid oat. The twin lail
Mi'les WAN ad Dadra, et dr Lod Male was wo
The if thie jape amid *dm that it was lialt herr
The other Ave was et • wren Weiss ; amil Lied Ilehe
eh one of the lhe rho 1111.111iTed that the am did set
be within the esotradsra el high Meer There inet
mgbe a gam) aka atm the levying ot war spinet Os
Se charged—s hare)pertgect on the part of a paid-

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walor wets woo sot ralliolost ; bat is the IMO of the was.
owe ke ettersopieswel they* lb to Last the pelin
:oa
la
t these troaeretir AIR le ,
kites of wor as
wee••k g• assies fit am
keg ; hod
*hi~ dim
were a lowdown pikeigi ratthe akkg Oast is work
SI blab tratheiry—he the be* of Ma Nam
Fats; whisk he isteseted the meet seal Meet
taxi k the eons of hie oleervados• Ea the_lelml of the

reTiCsigaliriiiiaseifirsties—a wig obliimiliiiviit Wet
them es% diat they MA efil the bilges bed
Melther. IIIIImitie) thought we a event bd. but
age en meek libleli is vie the e& seetillek MOS
ney le yews ie We ere is order ie wait thalleZ
hid In Mirlielnientsmire the resielien
land jeep elle* «.. Is assidatt alms words,
sad elseemeeili he "As le owe greeds they an sup-
peeelleellihr useurielly hum "Wog in
else ese Ilatie le red miehereesehilin. end distriiiie=
ask le aill. be evert ash et mom Conned is
re-
hired.* the emit la the Imileinent in wideii Fa!
_ _

laid down that Mr. O'Brian levied war web=
the slalom From the hots that mimed oa the trial
it um who* evident that there wee as levykag of war
as the part of Mr. O'Brien; hr, ameelieli to the maims=
M the atesmergamel, It was no his them this, that if three
or lam assubme of the imaleilonties weal isle the entry
sad sommitted trimenabk prattle= the entire andidesatim
partielpated in their gnat Ha quoted Lord Oalket Leff.
tete, ea the tali= of words, and showed from Ihme though
words might make a tam a heads, they =di aft ammikuto
him smelter. In weeds few =mews agreed tirstsw, far
they were liable not enly to =Make w mid, bat to
eantrailkt seek other. He thee relswe Mtn
awe sif Lord
Gage Gordon, who, Minima at irty theme= men, with
banes, &a, marched oaths prdsmwt Is terrify them into
a mogul Ma earteha est et fmiamwt in fameref the Roman
eadmits. Re treat Itneegli A the peeilmineLittieres, and
Mote MIN' miebrated we, to theater, fifths Mr,
to the miebreted sate appended to AM charge, sad to me
reemeeeble eremite of the Mimi advocate of the gel.
sower, " that any men who seemed hie Ghent of Issesa, or
said be was guilty ef it, was a =Mem" His appomeeil was
that tresses was amt to be determined by the assmismis
the emit dwelt apes the seaamasness rad
tapes the Wattles and abloom as the tree ahem est SS
levying ef war, as matter bow awful, woe set to diddle
its wrimbrality ; and altkoogh the hones at Lord ltasefeY
was bent to the Foetid, all the primers was acquitted of
high Iseamm, span the primipie that the thetractioa d
piny end the ley ef ItemMem end tlw dM not o=
high team; bat it ormiled if the Matt with width the
act wet dene—id whom it *Oft party intended
dizicana
to get hw eagented, the eine waollagitioes, the
mime et Idgil women wee eL There was imother
semediable ease—that et ate was tried la the
eillasiss. Biz C. Wetherell Mia with
wad 1111011/1. Is thst ase there wee membleg
=o= wereiMeg, aad am MiraOrtake the Tower.
They eleeled !Why la hmithildil. Tie only epossies
Milts ilsitahrzese:dthje..&ultatis by
Warornaesdli. ileis
LP"Mash lie posket. ( Immo* Newel here nal
Fire, v est forth the Melling into whisk the
Pity WSW 1111 be Owned.) It wee UMW that they reeffint to
Mho the Tower,
_but the asstßlM fall far short of the
=jag of overthr•wkg the Meg, I although the display
of pikes waa proved, awl the MN PAW within a few yank
of mum of the somas it the emagirsey, the jury in trinity-
Ilve =mutes were of oplalea that the case, although oat of
sumisioa, was a doubtful me, sad the paper which bad been
found aot beins satisfactorily explained, they acquitted the
prisoner. The last case of high tresses tried in Bails=
was that of Frost, and the charge of Lord Odd Just=
Tyndal in that cue was the very model of propriety. The
attorney. general in that case called upon him, at least six
times, to explain this thing and the other. He dealt with
the mass as if that were a chancery snit, where park pat
Milla number of papers drew interrogatories, end
gion the opposite counselre to answer them. He
would Wks to know .hat statute said that a prisoner was
bewail to mower anything—what constitutional judge laid
It dews ? They should establish the
.guilt of the primer
by the law of England ; whoever gainsay= this prim*,
did set exposed the law of England. The attorney gourd
mitapprottendod the whole mann of the criminal law. The
learned enamel then detailed the facts connected with the
cue of Frost. He was a leading agitator in Newport, sad
them was evident that there was a general M.
Mimi of masking Up= Newport, and of a
patrol rising in Birmingham. The see for the
was that be was not bound to explain anything.Wilk= wee, that the party manhood to the
wee dem &NM* 'Mast from the county gaol in which
he was trenfleed ; mil the judge in hie elFeetd, that
!Idle comet of the party hod been , yet If
the believed the widow. was deadest the man la.
g of levykg war egmlaat the queen, they shseld se.
quit the primmer et the amp a high Mesas. Mohammed
counsel next referred to the shag. the Omer.
The fact that, though the NM eleal lgesoolvered only nee
week la July the WA neewithmewileg
referred to egathee =by him le he beit se leavery,
1847, width eitebVstismal et delat. Me err glebe*
des am mode we .11m hr the whale of his
Ilia The assn sett reined to the eel-
=lif M. Itsilissr sell mkt if there tem say eme Meg
ow abet then meeffter, it err =Meg oat the ohm* a
toss by eamillsho matter—Pea was to my, obit it.
awe moo were sot awes, a esealthetisa el the
11.1 11814111014 to it. putt 4 WNW IV, es led bees
arm nil byn witty churl, Is dld Mt /MS =lry ilea
tektite ens make me block hone. TIM week to be egi.l
awes mat be believed le have bin Rehm is fartheeme d
MI heemeable latest, this preens la the pelooser's marl
The Amami gestiesers folks mined to the widens, of
fle. ledges. end emtmedeerted epos the
iseseendft the primer wow ter high traeoterVrerviaglirl
emit awiela epee*. whisk were read up.. the preview
seiler sedition whin the jury who tried Mr. O'Brien
[The learned mimed than aka n& to the maw
toned Wel el Reidy.] That gestiamin Mid relig-
ion:try sham, and be laid that lb. di Uses dOsmiesse
was sty _
and teed leiguege 4n sisssest that
Kr. 0.58= dose. This Pe quids mess as te
the obassoiss of the math*. to whisk the w 6
MGT billil, and the sewn laid down the dar-
thil ea ameeledes sailed wader sales,
_it
_wee
babe beamed that the mmalitio adored it ages thettilh MI
Item sits, and it la spas the purl, !Pe mesetul the ea
sue Se yam it. Now thy would dud in the PROM et
Ms ppemat that that wee the whole on
sad It -showed
thows
id &Mfg d the Wilmsoyetearel. He mull set
lam his Mass is Mt shin or masa all
hies or Waft hie We ; ff hmdt...
the elhT aistralloshome MA Millsienle
no men It Re jury -box would maps band le viewt7ruTZ.
worn. The tigellfor all esiser
Swabia, grirs=riggirabs a leftmost fa the ads& et
the Pm Pr he Olio* cleated Illey wen ape& Shea
Pat lime laws the misty PP whIP be was
essaselei omemised he mm
. heap a.!
yam age lit (Mies entered hie eateeters
for seem geserations repremated Clare. . 011eila ma. !
nasal la the Roan of Comsone, lie par-
liamentary halm, down to 1843 or 1844, widest ,
amodelies =Wag is Inks& At that Pee a bad'
from tibia the esididenties originally opmeg—the use
b0i11f.......rat of moral /re, and the edam whet were
terse rigisista ILt. llitea belonged te
triaTtisecirsie—Tt Isieli somesse, whose boast it was" maw to
be WOW sold," and always amid isdepoi&say.
_That
sr to men lid SOP essestrkitt—i' EC Paths, k
, It wae..bst he &bred with assay, end
saeitylesemi dmall alt, begrime he would set steep is say,
at be beesd to any Ism abating.,. Is the noses
M lehest the PI it ft--be delivered_ .• sth la
the ems et Hamems:42 ha (ilt.
_usw) held
hi hilt—• ided lb* ostillOolwbUtol Airco
hie Need, sad as ea.
them* the meatry at the die. He
(1111.kailmilebisill spew Paths
= ell the plaid t
ai
Idatealirtt
blow ollidlimt. mem who
=disimbei slat se ese sal/ whit but, &e-
-ine ottnigoorit Ile as* Ite Maio
bosom hi et ; bid it psi saes, wed wee
elieseetideld by MINI Noilloilguit weed
Xs WWI visas Is es", that if ray gondola& in
box mod that spro
b. he weeld at ems my, whatever 4t
be the seater the greamt trial, would to leda=as
sot ta a MOP some it the seri; bat • of
sees te easy eut the to
sod
eisliebei la diet spas*. With Amy et the
owned is It, they were so dasht eharshilddedit,
the liAlt searessamdm, the hasales, edges
sod Ps iiiilasisa a WI yeses boa is the
Irdielnee ne psalms sewatit the bat=
TIP bilkireassers geadeimm willi ea
se mieldha • 17,—ionmamba el the
lash pees tresil==ralie midwthlectst ma-
*" sem easimine; sad NI he (Mr. ) should
my a wok He - weed thi gouda* et pea minim bills
*sr Woad, /Amami— to the par law, est .del—cad mid
truly—ead Ws Mr. Rbiteddo) Wild ea the Sty=
It wire set the I/mew d. .!ft " that the ashy li
ad
asminterims of the matt' itises whoa dist seams
was dimmolos were study dimegarded awl mit ride,
sad theses/ Mr. Mee& Posed The "emit ass egoist le
all ISOM sommidess beast es the imaillieli ot the seas-
try, the imbastammeate std, esd the arm la whisk
figesszelailed heat the ends of railways ad lis ph.
) sesame' the yemsge
far
milt to email Id
Oiled his MP astesidimest ; al lir. O'Dell's
was a She melt se.sjved he ins hos& to
the drierirdo with that imialisses sad the Ise teimaat
Mktg width shineatisol him, he ablated le the cows
ay dm Name He at lildseatios be Ude muds,
team it esslemisi Sim
item
air
vismet tittirmuisCCo4.
esseislisas and
st=l4: bs&
CaPials=arsOsEss teed the week itdij
ea mesa' ot Xr. Midis% snag spites%
the miles whisk followed it la the Heels el
Oammeme—ebeidasd 164 vow to se. Op to *Ss
Yes he tem not on term of latimEodenta the late
Mr. OPOsaaell ca the the costsery, differonces
misled between that geatimeas eat Piwilf—bst ~,_°`•
d Ibs peallaritir la the saner net elilelolmla of am'
Vies am to slit them who seeded it aim that as-
dame was mem squired. Mr. O'Cluasill was messed et
simales, siel at PM time, when Mkus*, as* Ammer, ad
Word. he ems formed. tOo • etAarilAwrgyert. Re
a member of the and mewed
Pat bleeds is a letter •=is at the Pee, sod dated
ohm Oahlhafelle. The hafted geatismes this seed the
MIL ea yossesded : The. wise the *Pod a
Mr. O'Brien, sad it wee vim issugli Se soy attire groloS,
that it was constituted they it one Meet of egyeakto solar.
for hie withdrawal from it. MA all Ihmades a the
federal= bad not tapes Am Pis. They weed all raminn-
bar that in the admit et
to et the ant fflootoolAt
Mr. O'Coanell was reMered to the ommi Gabe poem of
which he had been deprived, and it was &thalami that all said

el his wee fonatledia error, bat Mr. O'Brien's name was left
est. Mr. O'Connell bad amehlarablelollasact in parliament; I
bat Mr. O'Brien was teMenaleable man be had
always been, end sada met We for *Kg or tor/ but asl
his jedgment led sag abet Koala he WU not
rottoot4 to the tam tibia he alio had been en-
eluded. But the rank of that mission wee, that twenty- I
two magistrates of the amagy Limerick demanded of the I
Lord Chaneellor on *bag wand Kr. CPCessell was rit- 1
Mooed soda r who hal been • gad assghteste—
who sated with ma ad ability, end gatiseneely aseenehiestl I
with the pose law shield be lett oak gal the wager was Ids 1
restoration also to the mmaieelea eff the poem. The mend
mad project, as they &wall all samenthaf, began about I
this period by a mat entrufallesay dlienmien cm meal and I
physical (ores. Mr. O'Brien wished to pat an end to the
continuance of the meal force kmalfille—ef men ottotblll
in connection with the of the day—oon acting I
that agitation with --met going too fez, and in return I
gutting good Kass lee thsasseirne—that is, they were pre- f
featly at liberty, no meta what the conduct of the govern.
sent, or the anistermentations of ministers were, to con.
'lane ea agitation, which wasted the resources, end blasted
the prospects sad energies of the country ;_ to Continue
that course and get themselves rewarded by a good
situation. He said, " yea wad give up your pluses," and ,
they Wad him en inareetioable man—he insisted on having
the Right Haa. Richard Lelor Shell turned out of Dan-
germ, and they mid it wee impossible that he was a
friend of theirs, and it could not be done. His reply was,
that he was perfectly in earnest—that he believed heal
legislation would be a blessing to the °Gantt) —and the
effect of their agitation would be, unless they were in ear-
nest, to °ripple the energies of the people. The learned
gentleman then read soother speech of Mr. O'Brien',,
showing that his object never was to separate the two
countries, or have recourse to violent measures. In
January, 1847, when the attorney-,general said he erma-
monad his trewonable conduct, Mt. O'Brien made a
speech is which he denounced the wickedness and fatuity of
a recurrence to physical force, although he was of opinion
that a time watt come when it would be perfectly lawful.
At that time the beet men in the country, among them
many persons of his creed, agreed to try if it were possible
to form an Irish Council, consisting of men of all parties,
to do something for this unfortunate country. They applied
to Mr. O'Brien to join them, and he did so. He attended
e meeting at the Bernado, were we was received most
kindly. The learned gentleman then reed Kr. O'Brien's
speech, and went on. The opinions expressed in that 'peak
ware those of a patriot, end Mr. O'Brien abided by that
council as long se it was posaible, but unfortunatily a most
unhappy disunion and disruption took place, and the Irish
munch ailed in realising the parpose for which it was es-
tablished. The neat thing construed into a political crime
against him was a speech on the great question of absenteeism.
Hs made that @push at a time when he wee accused of
crime, in which be spolus like a man of good sente and a
true patriot. la tM month of May the same &trines
were dammed, and it was also considered how the re-
peal of the union could be carried with the greatest certainty
of moan. At this meeting lit. O'Brien said, "he did
not believe that any nation ever won Its liberties by place
hunting ;" and then he went on toeay that he felt very
strongly the enmity of carrying repeal means of en as-
socauon composed of the Protestants and Rby
oman Catholics of
Ireland. And he farther asserted his opinion " that a repeal
of the aniononght never to be sought for without the consent
of the Protestants a Ireland," adding, " that if obtained
without and against sash consent, he would not desire to effect
it." IL% O'Brien then proceeded to make Ito important
statement respecting his ewe opinions of the confederation.
Ho said is one place, that " FOT his own part, he had no hest-
tation in avowing that speeches had been frequently made
hare, and documents read, in many of the madonna of
f which he did not concur." Ea the month of November fol-

lowing, a report wee reed by Mr. O'Brien, at a meeting of
this body, which was composed and written by himself, and
to which he would shortly call their attention. In that re-
port he found this remark, " We have formerly disavowed
W imperatioas oast epee on by persons who regard us as a
body eramerekiste, who wish to involve the country in civil
war, and we sow wish it to be rally known, that we
seek se mere thus the salfesal independence of Ireland,
under the severely of Great Britain. We believe that the
' national will Is vallelith to secure the accompliihment of
this object, it gelded by able, fine, and disiuterested men."
Now, woulErenjellier tell him (Mr. Whiteside) tha• if a largo
number of &sem to seek the attainment of such an
object, by t essesa *sly, that they weeld be acting in an
illegal manner? Than were the 'visions of Mr. O'Brien.writ
tan by himself, and Y dudedirime they Were the sustissontsof
an saarehist, a reveinlieWlet. in sa earrey of social order ;
and be (Mr. Widessilo) Wads& that the jury would not
rely on any solitary esionste walled from Mr. O'Briat's
*Ms speeder% bet Mire all, ask viewing them as a whole,
ask anneehes whelber the geed did not altogether over-
bears, the eeL Me. MOW, tam referred to Mr. 8.

01roes duvet Sdhst and the rude reception he and
ethers of the Year Ireland party who accompanied him
rase with hem the Old Intendant who attended the meeting
whisk ha place there. At that meeting Mr. O'Brien,
rehrring to the distal= which existed, asked wee that
the way is which they hoped to obtain a repeal of the
Thra herbs, observed that their disunion was
calculated to swell the ranks of their enemies, he re.
ntarked " that there were men who believed that Ireland
wee net fit to enjoy liberty," and " that he bad more than
coos been oessed to ask himself whether that state.
met waif pot founded npoo Wolk" War not that
and horst Ipeeklags Me part of his client Now, let
the jury mart the next sentence of this meet treasonable
anarchist He (Mr. O'Brien) was a Protestant himself ;
bat he had es deity le repeal the at unless be believed
dot overy tioglepoolejoot in Inked shoat in the event
et repeal ban obleined. win an Vire of Minima
sad pelkisak.freedoes with their eesieelie
He (Hr. Whiteside) ekomady told the
rurarZliai wet emeadal to show what were the nil
objects of thh enshderat'oe alkyd to be tressossable
by the attemegyperaL The leered gentlemen hare reed
the Mee of the manderatioe, whisk have appeared la the
Publh fere* wad memented en tier'fish enplaned
the padded therms MI that body. We them be would
ask, any ennui dodge in those ems mince The
resolutions were settled by Mr. Hum
y=edam*
shin the formation se that bod, Um , the
presrent render, alleaded its medige. e would
set, with what hes swath the adtreryieneral say that
the @kneader eel thistle se the are tea were treeeer.
able, a body whit h sammened Isedally, and all of whose
premedings wen esedeold egad: ? Then wee • iswg
troth read by Db. !bhp ei vii sernmeenur et the
odd ;hr that speak Wake br helm ahead, pew
mated hr seditism The fry as le lbe sears
rein that synth t_ soil the
sed eterrat with hie dry se a pit etherari&
dost trait should be again intreght forward either his
dirt se this trial he his lids, ant that what he spoke in
should be mode to have rehears to what eeeelied
go is July. Whet wee that bat assartiabg
heron ? He add ea the imp mirth, watimri. his ,
and free moo, set to dhow the allereppipersi le seevist
Me. O'Brien sed M Ithe over hit lib lathe Ongstime set
forth la tlie thisetents et lbtattemorgreith Heredketed
them tee meth sore. Whoa per-
iwig othesism wad dither rat-
tin therm hied theytheellbe wader bowthey spear
them to the dims of high tromem Oa the donne MI
ns~esige~~o WI dierit by the atternergenend, a speeds meal
in 1847 mild be brought splint him In 1867, if
tGie deswine sad modes were seademed, which he trusted
it sone would in a mat et nabs le Word. The leersed
the. rim& to dews path is the numb el He.
rißeiera, and to the serum in yeardselse in whisk be add
that what the nor baked the bleb abed vu a pear
meat in Imbed. asiegialmenerettesperible to that
parliament, sod a/ brims. Whelan they
thought that fist was or tresses be loam not) bat
he woad refer Mleagres tidy then any Mr.
O'Brien ever attend. Bum twelve er Ten ago
Lord Ira ldueuß serreeed a Nair of *ldea to terry
the Rehriajilli la Poomia. Ti ens of the letters, a me.
rateable ens, writ ha dewed ea that reesism to the
Blemieghar Palled Hasty ha syske " se the raw d
a whs." ot the Hat
err, el that Natised Cased
mowed of 10,1111 mee memildeg en Loehr, ribs ten
herd the stemeend if that National Grid en a Melia.
guided marry genders& He wrote to Arwood, a men
of mot talents sad tietermination. The peers threw out
the bin which wee the reposed for adoption. It was to
I overawe sad terns, the bedlam into the adoption of the
Reform Bill that that dries bed been given—and be need
not my that if that advise wen Neel apes, the Iced
Chief Aube, would say that ft would amount to high tree-
, sou. The hand gentleman wet about reading the letter
I when
The Attorney-General interfered and interrupted him.
Mr. Whiteside repudiated the interruption in the droned
esible teem
The end allowed that, u matter of statement, the later
be used.

Mr. Wheelie sere used keen the Tinto nt the 29th of
Oelebir, lids, se melele ongusedve at the terror felt at a
nellesed neomemeet ter selblll. It neat raid that the pen-
alp. epee were Vie trash natioatel gaud were formed
were well erViarf emetamaties. It spoke then of an
" ," Pik* of bormaglunongas."
It laid dews thribs had a right to arm, and
zobody in te Asap it. A ran upon the
banks was= aernit tens mid of a gentleman, who
was afterwarde Lard Cheamiler, Mat he was in good fighting
odor ; time UM a 01110•11, wise lead the how the
euse-
earelry seek' be . am& artlikey taken. The
kerma nwel *ea reedresisted the Muir Of Lod Atha Sena to
Ile Anemia, of Ibudegbees:
Mg to silsowte*ge haarlialt the Maisie
awl hirer aver dome ma by MANGE rag asantrymen. Oar
IMO domed to a storiet—l entree a ritement—ex
b bat the whispw al • tads' on soma whist the
"aka redss.
He did net me( at the int mieister. He had written
Feseilltatlea of inland, and he had a
te Mar is Ida as be wadi is the opinions of Hale.
Ambb4 mid, I. his lobar te Mr. hemmed, that " it was
impeedble Vat tke whimper of a beim weld prevail against
the voles of a Wks." Wave wee the wldepr of a faction
to which the let teleistet of Ste crown dled ? It was
the deliberate *rise of the Hems of Peers—of the aseem-
bl white Meal of dm emit of Wellington, Nelson, and
diet tremb of the legialatute which
existed kr ages, end wield seetimee to eater, fouaded opal
the Ababa of a people. If 150,000 men
saareltad w imam to a the egad designed by the
premier, belles thief Jags* Weald tell the jury that sash
•preseedleg wield ho blab lawesse. The learned gentle-
itaa, edeg to lb' volitive speech ot Mr.
O'Brien, reed it by detached peeetieee, axed applied his-
sat to show that, neither feiddeallp nor collectively,
wars they basasaaho or troidamie at ateaitorons intent.
If • calked guard saws net Measeeable in England,
it could sot be treaseesble h Wand ; hnt gnash-
men—for whom he had a- Web respect— were apt to

regard it as a vulgar error to suppose that Irishmen had
the same rights as themselves, and would only argue with
yes aAee you had admitted they were right. The attorney-
general had thought tit to state that "conspirators had
realmrie to the publication of seditious:newspapers ; he ought
le be prepared to prove. His client had not written a Hu
lea paper, and he was not a proprietor of a newspaper; and
B was admitted that a dispute erase between him and Mr.
Mitchel, who left the association, and Mr. O'Brien re-
mained in it. The attorney-general next broke out into ob-
servation upon the French revolution. For half • ument7
that revolution had beta the bugbear of English politician&
Berke and Macintosh took epposite views; and although
the atom/menses' might differ as to the matter, other
peruse might sonnet' a different opinion. The epee*
was inhered fa by the &honer general with rhetorical ob-
serve**. Hs said that he prosecuted Mr. O'Brien and he
failed ; and le added that the use he made of his liberty was
to ge to Frew& The fact of his not having been convicted
was in favour of the pekoes!. The attorney. geese-
ral referred to the apse& delivered at the saris
in April 1848. In that speech Mr. O'Brien said
that !ores was not to be muted to till the will
of the whcls people had been ascertained. There never was
a ease in which such a speech was before given in support of
a charge of high treason. TM ',tithe( of the speeches of
Mr. O'Brien by the attorney•gennal showed the conviction
of his mind, that without those speeches the charge against
Mr. O'Brien would be unsustainable. Before he (Mr.
Whiteside) ushered in to thejury the last topic introduced to
their notice by the attorney-general, he should mention that
the great disagreement and the many diecusions which took
place between between the confederation and Conciliation-
hall were brought to a elate by &combination of both. The
Irish league thenceforward was established by the common
content of all parties of repealen, both moral and physical
lorce—where all could meet on common ground. Parties of
men called clubs—or local associations, which wen sutured
over the province', but entirely separated from the league—
sprung up at this time. It waa said their object was by
anarchy and civil war to accomplish the repeal of
the union, and to destroy life and proper 4„ In
order to contradict that assertion, and to remove that
impression, the presidents of those clubs resolved to
hold a meeting, and they did so, to pass resolutions
which should explain their feeliisp and sentiment..
Accordingly, on the 16th of July, a meeting it held at
D'Olier-street, of which they had heard from the witness
Dobbyn. There they panted the resolutions, which were
signed by the reseidents, end published the next day in the
newspapers. One of those was moved by Mr. S. O'Brien ;
and ft e jury should remember the just and very sensible
rule laid down by the court, that whenever a man made a
public announcement of hit opinions he was fur that alone
responsible, and not for what might be said or done by others
over whom he could have no °outran!. The learned gentle-
man then read the reeolutions, which declared that the pur-
poses of the clubs were not to overthrow British connection
but British legislation in this country—that religion should
be upheld and maintained, and the independence of Ireland
achieved with the least possible injury to the inhabitants.
Tilose resolutions, the jury would remember, were signed by
Mr. Dillon and the other presidents of the club', but there
was no club called the" Red Hand" club, of which
he should have more to say at a future period. Mr.
O'Brien was not president of any club, althoupresent
there and moving oho of the resolutions. Subsequently,
a day meeting of those clubs was held to considere pro
elamation of the Lord Lieutenant proclaiming Dublin, and
to devise mans for offering it a passive resistance. Teat
was held on the 19th of July, when it was said by the
attorney-general that he had unequivocally and distinctly
setablished treason on the part of NIL O'Brien as averred
la the indictment. It was held in the Music Hall, where
Mr. O'Brien made a speech after proposing the Rev. Mr.
Ennis and another Catholic clergyman as members. Could
it for a moment b 3 contended that if his olgeets were of
a temeenable nature, he would ever have proposed them,
basenes that all members of a body engaged in a treason-
able conspiracy against the state were equally guilty.
Mr. O'Brien next observed that " there appeared to be
bet one unanimous feeling abroad, that one great and
simultaneous effort mast be made to accomplish the
teed= sit this country. Would the attorney-general
tweed that language as treason ? Was not this the
else onetitational plan of procedure which the late
Mr. O'Conoell adopted through the whole of his long public
life—the mieemplishment of political objects by means of
simultaneous meetings all over the country—a plan which
Mr. Wyse considers to be one of the happiest means ever
invented to obtain the freedom of the Roman catholic" of
Ireland. Then, alluding to his review of the clubmen of
Cork, which the government organ had styled a review of
his troops, he observed " that he met at Cork 2,000 men, as
well trained as any soldiers in her Majesty's army." Was
there any treason in that sentence? Why, the same senti-
ments, in still stronger words, had been over and over again
repeated by Daniel O'Connell, to the multitudes he was In
the habit of addressing, who often remarked that he could
at any moment all together a number of fighting men as
numerous as the united armies who fought at Waterloo.
Such had been the sentiments of many public men during
the last twisty years within his own experience, and yet ho
amid wet recollect a single instance in wbich any person was
for
to asyntwthrienlier they wouldilr take *stay than
tntrs
life berme he had talked Mere tsnperately ant discreetly
than the use who had pies& hie learned friend lilt anttlittY-
tentlal it the ofilee he QM tat (Applause.)
The Chief Julia-4 mud observe that no exhibition of
feeling out be teleadei by the court.
Mr. Whit** seetinued to read Mr. O'Btien's
epee*, be wide be eseaseened the peewit poor law on
eases* el the Megan In which it been worked, and
IpeleBlll dr Man et the many attempts he had made:to
erne imILIMMINIts jm ft by appeals to the House of Com.
GEr. fttenis_ .) would ask whether Mr
V IZ. seen M be emehmened for haviag punned that
Num of gentlashome he to be censured by the attor-
settesend hewn he found fault with a poor law that
was dame* by every man in the country? Now if
each were the opinions which Mr. O'Brioa held in the
month of July last, ha wadi needdently appeal to the jury
to my whether hie olio* suilleaget high treason or the
Intlwar teaaa life fie at anything calculated
* werlaronseysenems, sea he deluge the tountey
Vieth bleed asp he that period of dsee. He (Hr. Whiteside')
UMW thanked the anorney-geosail for introducing that
becausehe had thereby anallinted the innocence of
retat, who was to he tried not byelretunstanoes, but by
e• very intentions of his soul. The speech referred to
Kenn right. Was that treasonable ? Mr. Whiteside told
Hasa that that speech spoke tempt...tongued in favour of
the Imamate of his client. He world ask, could the man
whir than spoke *tenths a soden, or did he entertain an
ileellta 'of kiilin the or of omens a mobile
ilde Otentry ? It wee . He *Wed upset them,
in lb* Wed is a hen *entry, es they were free num
end teeny loved *den le take care that they would not
fled esedist maid big Anse after that speech. It was
out of the queries that they *al .. If they Mat his
mat en the gibbelltht that epee* their (the jurors') names
Maid fie flown le dm* pateeity stamped with eternal in-
Weneedea). The epee* went on then to refer to re-
massures he *e lead ; end this, too, was brought
forward es a groundwork of Wee* against Mr. O'Brien.
It of the arming of the people, eat of the pretexts
for the withdrawal of erne hem them, In maw-
queen a aserdersierstrated ba two or three of the
amithere semities— which be earnestly and int er.
sheseneed sonlanmed. As to the arming of
(Mr. Whieseide) aided that them maid be
ao 1:t be
of eh riga. It was guaranteed by the Bill
el Weds, and he sew fee beard that it was treasonable
to say that arms he in the leads of the people.
The leaned ormaell petneeistt at great With to com-
ment ea this speedy aed et tie hot that Dad Jobe
WeallvioB dummaBBlB%9 IMIKB,OIBOIItI
loaf Roman
Jaren ea the Uhl el Kr. in 1843, when
the bat wen that the law slam woke Joint Russell's
gemeament Mad ashy siber the erne in the trial
of Kr. Kleisekie Ilia Kr. O'Beka eideded. Mr. O'Brien
avowed be lb epee* that he bed no irks 'to destroy
credit, wildreedi be* ten dedzoyed had there
bees a nesisties. It was eisnetrees to call this high ma-
tes The rise* cif des was, that the
cotedettied see a an the part
pdestiscle baulk soi. Mizisteem• at .10
was, that Seiltal_ Wear Wad*
were loojallstriwollati =rein sonselieliellal
ae-
lion by the sessdri; we MOW Id& be Weld
ilia the eel • the elegy • lite themes to
talgitit also. u the liZa et MN at=flunfal won to
wome, be greatly *se the Odholio clergy
n very much dime* by the law °fiber
et the mown. Mr. O'Brien the mid that though
his was of • pespsakla thereddep be wadi not fetter himself
with regati to asp ultimate seedingeacy to rind!-
** dee *near ef the Gauntry I awl as K a men untied
seek eintimeets as them he was tsa bit sada for high
tsars. Freon the beginning of the *the sad there
was teething In it that would *dose jeer te convict the
=of high treason. They wail eat eir doer right
fore they would do so. The lona awned dim
(four o'clock ) proceeded to consider the evidence that
bad been adduced on behalf el the crown. He
collared that the best camas for him to adopt would be to
take eleven of the witnesses Seesaw at once—these wit-
name were Mr. Hodges, Linton:at-Colonel M'Donald, the
Captain, the stipendiary magistrate, Mr. Cox, Bagwell, the
poke, Norton, and one or two others. Then whittles
peeved the arrest of Mr. O'Brien, and the finding of the
u—thel had heard the attorney-gencraf get out
=Matiss that DEr. O'Brian had in his possession only
101. Ks. 2d., and this, *mooch, was the man who was
*eat enflaming the British marre, with 101. in his
pease ! Did they ever know a sane man inform his pross
eater where his trunk was, that trunk being in • place where
the crown could reach ? Mr. O'Brien was an educated gen-
tleman, and he knew how many lives had been taken away
by the production of • pissof parchment or a letter. Did
not Mr. O'Brien evidence his innocents, by Jamming the
stipend' ary neagistrata that his poetmantean was in a fermis
place ? Mr. Gore Jonas pledged his honour to Mr. O'Brien
that the portmanteau would be restored, end forwarded to
him, and the present righteous case began by a breach of
faith. Tbe secretary of state, upon the 13th of August,
promised that the contents of the portmanteau should be re-
stored to Mr. O'Brien for the purpose of his defence, yet up
to the present hour that premise bad not been kept. The
hot question fur them to amidst was, whether his client
was responsible for the contemn of the pormantean. Suppose
that the title-deeds of a nue family relation of Mr. O'Brien
ware in the porttnanteau--snppow books of account—the °r-
id ins
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Now what were the facts actually proved res g this
teas It had been kicked about from p ate to plate
rit=luntoer. It was Sang at one tine Into a lime-kiln,
and ie another time was tossed aboat a mesa where tug
body might have access to it, and yet a quantity of written

I documents were produced on that ten), and offered in evi-
-1 deny@ which ware alleged to have been found within it—
I documents which were alleged to have been written by men
in desperate circumstances, or men who were actually in
gaol. It was not to be supposed that such persons had
been allowed to pen treasonable letters to persons outaide
the mime ia wroth they were confined. Before the con-
tents of this portmanteau were offered as evidence, it ought
to be clearly shown that they had been kept in •
oafs pins et custody from the time they left the
omemly of the prisoner until they were read in open court.
If this rule was not allowed to hold, he would respectfully
ask what chance of acquittal the late Mr. O'Connell would
have had if, when he had been placid upon his trial, every
paper found in his custody was read as 4vidence against
mime The learned counsel then proceeded to justify and
eiplsin the prooentiogs of Mr. O'Brien front the time he
left Dublin for Ennisoorthy, up to the period of his arrest
The real facts in connection with this period were these :
Mr. O'Brien had been invited by Mr. Maher, the late
M.P. far Wexford, to spend a few days with him, and ac-
cordingly, having accepted the invitation, he left Dublin
with his title-deeds in his portmanteau, and arrivrol at Mr.
Usher's place, near Enniscorthy, on the 22nd of the month.
Mr. Maher, it appeared, was anxious to consult with
Mr. O'Brien on the propriety of his joining the Irish League.
On the day of Mr. B. O'Brien's arrival, Mr. Maher and
Mr. O'Brien dined and spent the evening together, and Mr.
Maher, who would be produced on the table, would prove
that, during the conversation he bad with him on that
evening, he never broached or alluded to any revolutionary
project whatever. Meanwhile, the news of the suspension
of the Habeas Corpus Act arrived in Dublin, and two young
gentlemen, frienca of Mr. O'IL ice, hearing of the circum-
stance, started; for Enniscorthy, with a view to apprise Mr.
O'Brien of the probability .of his being arrested. Mr.
O'Brien, being told of the circumstance, told Mr. Maher,
son., that he did not wish to be arrested in his hones
and wished to leave it, and accordingly Mr. Maher sent
him in his own coach as far as the town of Enniscorthy,
in company with Messrs. Maher, junior, and Dillon. It
then appeared that thew three gentlemen left Enniscorthy,
and passed in a car through Callan, Carrick-on-Buie,
and other places, at all of which they made speeches to
the people who had assembled to meet them; respicting
which speeches • large oody of police had been examined,
for the purpose of proving the treasonable nature of
the sentiments they contained. Now, he (Mr. Wbiteside)
contended that Mr. O'Brien's object all through these pro-
ceedings was merely to escape ureic. From his very
flrot appearance at Bunimorthy to the period of his arrest
there was nothing whatever in his language or proceedings
that was inconsistent with that object—the evasion of arrest.
In all these sprochea he found hint again and again speaking
to this effect—" Lord Clarendon is desirous to arrest me and
send me for trial, but I do not want to be arrested, and I
ask your aid to prevent say attempt to effect any capture,
because I regard such attempt as unconstitutional." No
doubt it was plain, from all Mr. O'Brien's re.narks made at
those various places he stopped at that he was determined to
escape from arrest, and even if is cenesry to evade it by open
and armed resistance. All this might be wrong, but it did
not, however, amount to the crime of high treason. The
learned gentleman then read the speech of Mr. Menghi r,
in which he said he would place the flag of liberty over
the tomb of Mr. O'Connell. Many liberties in Ireland were
taken with that tier of liberty, and were the jury to hold Mr.
O'Brien guilty of high treason because a young gentleman
made a declamatory, boyish speech ? If the speech had any
meaning at all it told against the crown, for it was notorious
that the men over whose grave Mr. Meagher intended
placing the flag of liberty was the advocate of moral force-
and he lett the jury to my whether morel or physical
force was more to be desired? He approached the next
past of the case with considerable alarm. The rzvolu-
non strengthened apace. The wicked conduct of the
arch-traitor was s:ldom surpassed in wickedness. It
was proved that the prisoner literally did walk
down Rilkenny with Doctor Cane's son. Up curie
Edward Stephens, whose evidence had no precedent in the
oath of the criminal law. lie came upon the table and
Whored is his evidence with the gravity of an attorney-
general. He (prisoner) went to the Roand Tower to take a
view, in military fashion, to consider what part of the coun-
try he would destroy and what be would spare, and while
the cattle show was going on, in a spirit of remoneless
wickedness which had no parallel in hotel, he ascended
" the round tower of other days," watched by • little boy,
who was paid by an inspector for preserving a faithful re-
cord of that awful fact for the fire law officer of the crown.
Henceforward, • round tower in Ireland would be an object
of apprehension to him; and when he th tught of these
memorials of the faith of an ancient people,
be would think of the attorney-general and the law of
high treason. Oh ! but the attorney-general says there is
a meaning in it. It was fraught with suspicion—it was the
Guy Faux of the whole. (Laughter.) But did Mr. O'Brien
go up with the alleged intention of coutemplating the
country with a view to its pillage and destruction ? No, be
:ascended the tower, never spoke to any one, remained a
few minutes on the top, and then went away to pay a visit
to Dean Vignolles. (Laughter.) This is a peculiar deacrip.
Lion of treason, and the two facts combined is too much for
human nature to endure. (Laughter.) I remember hearing
a gentleman, who once defended himself in • very peculiar
ease, make an observation, which I think would apply in the
ass. He said to the jury—" Gentlemen, how am
rtirdadise Myself when my sate Of innocence are brought
up r pied of guilt against me ?" I never can forget the,
ofirithe words made upon me. The jury saw the force
inouched their hearts, and convinced their reasons.
Loa at the position in which my client was placed. Every
set Wes watched, and every word which he might casually,
utter was treasured up by the police against him. Really if
each a circumstance is to be construed into treason, I must
immediately communicate with my friend Mr. Petrie • for
ea he has been up every round tower in Ireland, be mu it be
a doubly-dyed traitor. (Loud laughter). Gentlemen, I
think the attorney-general would have acted wisely if he
had not put a preposterous bearing on that innocent
am. Gentlemen, we now proceed to trace Mr. O'Brien to
Callan. He made a speech at that place, which Constable
Mahony has deposed to, although that person did not make
Gay depositioc. Mr. O'Brien, we are told, addressed the
, people, and said—" Friends, policemen, and 'soldiers, I am
I 'lad to meet you." Sorely, there was no treason there?
He is then reported to have put a question to them—" Will
I boalet me go should Ibe arrested ?' Here you will motive
h the same ruling idea all through. He also said the police
would be better under an Irish than an English or Scotch
government. What was that expression of opinion but the
Wei which Mr. O'Brien had always advanced—meaning that
no
lAA adminiatratioo would be the best form
of constitutional government. Nothing. was end of
an appeal to arms, or of overthrowing the con-
stitution of the country—he merely asked them would
they let him be arrested. Mr. )(meter Own spoke : He said
he was glad to am so many wearing green around him, and
that he hoped peon to wear the green himself. Barely there
was no lemon there ? Another witness said that Mr. Mea-
gher advised the people "to throw off the English rke."
If Mk. Meagher did make use of that observation, it was
ratibilig-more than Mr. O'Connell had said a thousand
ihms,, mid as often impressed on the people. We find by the
Mes, that from Callan Mr. O'Brien went to Carrick-on-
e elr. Two *Melees, named Coghlan and another named
Hamilton, were examined upon this branch of the question,
and I wish to chow you • the curious manner in
which they gave their evidence. One of them had the
story pat off. He repeated it fluently. But when he was
arese-szassined, he admitted that the notes with which
be OM ribmbild his memory were written since he went to
"Ohnosi, OM that he tad taken his notes from his furor-
He' she mid that he could not remember Mr.
Pkegiseih, as be did not expect to be called upon for
t Vie MI Meat powerful evidence that could be
61Alvan of the *Milne character of this kind of evidence.
The e witrias disposed that Mr. O'Brien mid he was
1 r
at the Masora of people— that he saw and ad-
' their entimilmisr, and that the beet way he could
Mae of their harts would be to bring them *tome to the
mid This Is so withentely unlike everything that was said
at Xilkenny Ronheorthy, and other places, that it ought
1:1 reetilied except upon the dearest evidence of dine-
mid intelligent witnesses. The men, however, who
this singular observation wee a dull, heavy_ log, who
had evidently got the speech off by heart He added,
too, that Mr. Gore Jones wee in the crowd. Mr. Jones
is a gentleman of education. He was not disposed to be in
favour of Mr. O'Brien. He could have proved the contents
of a speech or of a portmanteau against Mr. O'Brien, end,
though he was In court, the crown did not roll him. The
crown is bound to proclaim everybody in a ease like this with
relation to speeches alleged to be made. This fair. Jones did
not keep the pledge he made to Mr. O'Brien, and up to this
moment he has not received his property, though I hold in
maiiit.hrad the written promise of MRe r. dingron to that
')lt. Whiteside here read Mr. Redington's letter,
l putts; that directions have been given that all rineumeots
seenered with Mr. O'Brien's private affair should be
retained to him ; and continued thus Look at the rest
of that speech where Mr. O'Brien ems he is going
to be made the vied= of /hash misrule and domina-
tion. "I am about to be taken—l em about to be arrested "
said he. Now, gentlemen, if you believe that to be the preva-
lent idea of his mind, you must adopt my view of the case.
These speeches prove nothing but what we admit—that my
client was resolved to escape—that he wished to get away,
sad that to effect this object he did keeo men about him bathe
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ahem in a hotel ! I now cowls to the words " blacdy govern-
ment," alleged to have been need by Mr. Meagher.. Now,
this is a coarse, .entleensaly expression, very mate lan-
guage that I would suppers Mr. O'Brien to use, and i must
add, very unlike what I would imagine a young gentleman
who has delivered suds eloquent and gentlemanly speeches as
Mr. Meagher would use. Ido not think Mr. O'Brien wand
have the bad taste to nuke use of the war* er teat Mr.
Mugher would do so either; but remember that bad taste is
not high :treason. In the trial of Hardy there was a
nasty song introduced, but it was not taken against him, tor
it was not considered treason. As regards the expressi,ns
attributed to Mr. Meagher relative to the burning ship sofar
from there being any treason in what Mr. Meagher clidteay
on the subject, his *illation to the burnine ship was takes
from a beautiful•incident is history, and relative to a I.eval
enragemeat describe! in Lamartine's popular work, " The
History of the Girondists." The learned counsel he re read