The Express.
London, England, 1848-01-17 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 17, 1848.

the train were much shaken. A gentleman who was seated
pthe co
hrouupe' ogh thef a first-clam carriage had his he ad forced com-
plete glass windew, by which his lace
etely t
was much cut and lac. rated.
The passenger train was due at Woking at 8 o'clock, and
not having arrived at a quarter to 9, Mr. Miller. the tom-
avay.s agent at that station, cent • pilot dawn the litre to
vet the cause of the delay. In about half an hour ..fter,
a plate le) ar, who had been despatched from the scene of the
accident, strived at the Woking station with intelligence of
the disaster. Mr. Miller immediately sent to W. tiring, about I
a mile and • half distant, fur medical aid, and pro-
ceeded with • second engine and several carriages towards
the spot where the accident had taken place. Be- I
fore Mr. Millet had gone very far down the line he met
the pilot engine returning with such of the carriages as
could ba remosed, and all the wounded pas. ogee.. On
their arrival at Woking, Mr. Flet her and Mr. Waters, two
medical gentlemen resident in the village, were in attend
ante, and, the passengers having alighted, such assistance as
their several cases required was immediately rendered to
them. Mr. Miller, Oil the part of the company, offered to all
those who bad suffered injury the option of remaining at
the neighbouring hotel, or proceeding to London. Without
/single exception all the passengers elected to proceed to
town, and the train having been re-made up, and all the
broken carriages detached, left fur Nine Elms about half-
past 10 o'clock. Mr. Flat:wet kindly undertook the charge
of Fortescue, who was in a raving state,*and Calvert also
Came to town under this gentleman's charge. The body of
htarkland was left at Woking.
Upon the arrival of the train at Nine Elena, Foricscue and
Calvert were immediately sent off to St. 'I homas's Hospital,
where amputation of a tuttion of the hand of the latter was
at once performed. This poor fellow has also had his jaw
fractured. The state in which Forteseue was, precluded the
possibility of attempting to operate upon him, and as he hes
not yet rallied, no hopes are entertained of his recovery. Many
of the passengers who wr re not very seriously hurt, preferred
• proceeding to their own homes, but three gentlemen and two
ladies, all members of one family, who had together oc-
cupied a compartment of the second class &smart car-
riage, were so much injured as to render it necessary to
convey them to the hotel opposite the station, where Mr.
Statham and another medical gentlem in were summoned
to attend them. Tire names of these parties are: the Rev.
Mr. Ridings, of Atherfitune, Warwickshire, severe injury of
the arm, and contusions in various parts of the body; Mrs.
Ridings, a severe shock to the system; the Rev. Mr.
Hutchins, leg broken; Miss Hutchins, contused wound on
the forehead, and other injuries ; Mr. Hutchins, brother of
the rev. gentleman of the same name. The latter gentle-
man has recovered sufficiently to leave the hotel, and Mr.
Ridings' fractured leg was successfully reduced this after-
noon by Sir. Statham and assistants. At an early hour this
morning Mr. Gooch, the superintendent of the locomotive
department, Mr. Stov:n, the manager of the traffic, and Mr.
Beattie, of the carriage department, came down to Woking
to view the scene of the accident. After inspecting the spot,
and instituting various ingeines, they returned to tows for
the purpose of further investigating the matter.
In the course of the morning a formal inquiry was set on
hot by Mr. Snubs, but the evidence which that gentleman
was enabled to obtain still leaves the met ice: manner in
which the Resident occurred a matter of don The line
was very little Injured by the collision, only a few chairs
being broken. None of the rails were displaced, and the
traffic was scarcely at all interrupted. Information of the
melancholy event his been forwarded to Mr. C. Woods, o
Oodalming, coroner for this division of Surrey, and it is sup-
reed
,the inquest on poor Merltland will be held to-
day. The statement which has gone forth to the effect that
the train containi .g the wounded passengers was detained a
long time while the tickets were being collected, is untrue.
The only delay which took place was at Kingston, where
Mr. Fletcher, the medical man, in charge of Fortescue, com-
pelled the driver to stop while he obtains-I a little brandy
for his patient, who was in a fainting state.
On inquiry at St. Thomas's hospital last evening, it was
ascertained that Fortescue, the guard of the goods train,
who, as stated above, was picked up ins( nsible after the ac-
cident, bad rallied a little during the afternoon, and that
some hopes were entertained of his recovery. His amis so
much injured as to render amputation absolutely nee, seary,
but untihis system has snore perfectly recovered the shock
it has received, no operation can be attempted. The injuries
which he has received about the head are very serious, and
it is feared his brain is affected. Calvert, the stoker of the
passenger train, witness hand has been amputated, is pre-
grafting favourably. The Rev. Mr. Hutchins, whose
broken leg was act on Saturday by Mr. Statham, of Nine
Elms, is in a fair way of recevery, as are also the Rev. Mr.
Ridings, and the two ladies, Mrs. Riding's end Mira
Hutchins, the wife of the latter, and the sister of the former.
All these parties remain at the Railway Hotel. It will be
seen by our Lambeth police report that the offending parties
were brought before the magistrate and remanded.

INgrEsT,I, S.MitDAY.— SUICIDE.—By Mr. Payne,
at No. 8, Watling-street, on the body of Charles Treacy, ,
aged 17 sears, a young man in the employ of Messrs. West-
Iron, Dignam, and Co., who had blown out his brains with a
pistol. It appeared that the deceased, who had been in the
servile of the firm about five years, wss one of the best ens.
ducted persons that had ever been in their employ. On the
previous evening he hsd leave to go out until ten o'clock,
but he ought not to have sopped oat all night, which he I
did. About helf-past eight o'clock that morning deceased
came into the warehouse, and it being evident from his ap-
pearance that he had been out as night, William Ellis, a
fellow-servant, joked him on the circumstance, and said he
might have told him he was going to do so, and not let t.im
leave the lamp burning all night. Deceased made some an-
swer,_which Ellis did not distinct', hear, and went up stairs.
Shortly afterwards Ellis heard an exploei,n, sod ran up
stairs, when, on entering the store department, he found the
deceased bleeding from the head. A surgeon was instantly
sent for, who found that deceased's head was shattered by a
pistol shut, and that life was quite extinct. Mr. Janus Dig-
nam said he could not at all account for the commission of
the act, unless some 'verses found since his death would
throw some light on the matter.—The jury returned a ver-
dict of "Temporary insanity."—SUlClDE OF AN ARTIST.
—By Mr. Wakley, at the Queen's Head, Kiag'f-road, Chel-
sea, on the body of Mr. Joseph William Brett, aged 34,
who committed suicide. The deceased, who was an artist,
was the son of the Rev. Joseph Brett, a clergyman of the
&lurch of England, and heel with his aged parents in a ore
tage, Ne. 4, Keppel-street South. The deceased was ene
of the large numb. r of artists who competed for the prizes
offered for cartoons to embellish the new Houses of
meet, and, like the majority of his compe, re, was an unsuc-
cessful one. Deceased chose for his theme the historical sub-
ct of " King Richard pardoning the soldier who had shot
him," which it will be recollected was exhibited with the
others in Westminster Hall in the summer of 1843. De.
ceased, although he never complained of his disappointment,
was never afterwards in such good health, end since April
last had gradually been getting weaker. On Tuesday last be
was last seen alive by his parents about hale-past 10 o clock at
night, when he was in bed, and wished them good night.
The next morning (Wednesday), about 9 o'clock, his father,
on going into decenyet's bedroom (a front parlour), found
him still its bed, and saw what he thought was a red hand-
kerchief round his neck. Being near-sighted he examined
closer, and then found that it was blood, and that his
son was dead. He, however, made no alarm beyond
telling his wife, up to one o'clock, when he informed a
neighbour, who advised him to tell the police, which he slid,
and Mr. Smith, a surgeon, was fetched, who pronounced
deceased to have been dead some hours, and found th..t he
mat his throat lift-handed, with a razor found in the bed.
The coroner at d jury, on viewing the body, were struck '
with its attenuated condition and the wretched state of the
room and house, and appeared to commiserate greatly with
the impuverish.d state to which the family were reduced,
which was unknown to them before; and, after a lengthened
inquiry, a verdict was returned—" That the demised was
found dead, w i h his thrust cut, supposed by his own act,
bnt that there was not sufficient evidence before the jury to
show them what was the data of his mind at the time he
did it."

IRELAND.

Dvinter, JAN. 14.
of the great seal opened their

commission yesterday in the Court of Chancery.
They formed an imposing array, consisting of five
judges and two masters in chancery—Baror.s Penne-
father, Richards, and Lefroy ; Judges Jackson and
Moore; and Masters Henn and Brooke. Baron Pen-
nefather, as senior judge, addressed the bar briefly.
Alluding to the Chancellor, the baron observed :
" That able judge who has discharged the duties of
his high office with so much satisfaction to suitors, so
much benefit to the public, and urbanity to the bar,
will soon, I trust, be restored to health and the re-
sumption of his duties." The business in the Exche-
quer being heavy, only one judge, in the absence of
the Chief Baron, can be spared from that court. The
temporary tribunal to-day consisted of Baron Richards
and Justices Jackson and Moore. They heard long
causes, and afforded general satisfaction.
The Dublin Herald states that the convicts from
the Limerick commission will be immediately re-
moved to the Belfast House of Correction, previous to
transportation to Norfolk Island. The Belfast is on
the principle of the Pentonville Model Prison—the
cells arc separate, and the inmates arc not suffered to
hold communication with each other, or see any human
beings except the officers of gaol.
Some incidents are related of the special com-
mission in Limerick which are not without their
significance. For the first time in Ireland the
courts have been made accessible to the people.
Hitherto, the sheriffs posse, or the police, have stood
at the portals of justice, and withstood all at-
tempts of those not of "the better class" to gain an
entrance, unless their admission was indispensable to
the proceedings. Now, the humblest as well as the
highest individual was enabled to make his way near
the bench. He heard (says the local journal) the ad-
dresses of counsel, the evidence of the witnesses, the
patient attention of the jurors he witnessed—heard
the impartial charges, and the advice and remon-
strances of the judges. They saw that the danger-
ous but usual defence, an alibi, was scarcely once re-
sorted to—and they saw that only in two in-
stances were the accused able to produce a
Ingle witness as to previous good character.
Renee (adds the journal) neither a sigh nor a
throb, nor a tear of commiseration was heard
lir the guilty victims.

The public has been taken by surprise in the an-1
nouncement of the Earl of Clarendon, at the Mansion-
house dinner, that the British Association were now
feeding over 70,000 poor children, and that the num-
ber was likely to extend to 100,000. This silent
progress of the association in the work of charity,
maintaining the most helpless and innocent portion
of society, and in such via numbers, has excited
general surprise and admiration.
One barony in Fermanagh is to be subjected to the
disarming provisions of the late act. A deptit has
been fixed for the universal surrender within a given
day. Threatening notices and appearing in arms is
the cause of the licensing intrusion. Fermanagh
abounds in the instruments of Orange turbulence,
which escaped notice in the disarming times of Earl
Grey's administration. Friendly lieutenants connived
at the retention.

THE LORD MAYOR'S DINNER AT THE MAN-

SION•ROUSE.

The annual dinner of tie Lard Mayor was celebrated last
evening, in the Mansion-house. The company was nume-
rous, comprising his Excellency and household, the Chief
and Under Secretaries, the Master of the Molls, and several
of the Judges, the Commander of the Forces in Ireland,
with a large number of the most distinguished of our so-
ciety. After the formal toasts, the Lord Mayor proposed
the " Health of the Earl of Clarendon," and eulogised,
among other qualities, the zeal he has shown for the agri-
cultural interests of the country, and his energy in the pre-
servation of peace, order, and quiet throughout the country.
After enthusiastic cheering for several minutes, his Excel-
lency raid :
I feel that the manner in which yon have received
the tout which has been proposed by the Lord
Mayor, imposes upon me an additional obligation to
employ all the zeal and energy which I can com-
mand in the performance of my duty; and my only
regret is, that my ability must fell so very far short of my
desire to be useful to this country ; for I well know how
hard a task it is even to mitigate the evils with which this
country is afflicted—evils, many of which have been the
growth of ages and the offspring of unrighteoua legislation
(loud and protracted applause)—and which new that the
cause happily no longer exists, may still be tedious and
difficult to remove, (Hear, hear.) The creation of evils
may not require much labour or ingenuity, but their
reparation and abatement are invariably long and diffi-
cult. To bring together ties that have been unhappily
loosened—to harmonise interests which arc in reality iden-
tical though they are in appearance divergent—to oblite-
rate the memory of the past by creating well-founded
hope for the future—these, indeed, require all the talent
and the wisdom that the ablest statesman can bring to bear
upon them; but I conscientiously believe that her Majesty
never called to her councils men more earnest, more devoted
to the interests of Ireland than the present government;
and I sty not this in disparagement of other men holding
different political views, because my conviction is, that by
men of all parties and all clan-es in England, the welfare of
Ireland is now regarded as an imperial interest of the first
and the most momentous importance. (Hear, and cheers.)
But knowing, as I do, the views and intentions of my noble
friend at the head of the government—knowing that the po-
licy which I should have to pursue here was not one of piety
nor exclusiveness, nor aiming at an ephemeral popularity ;
but that it was essentially an Irish policy, having for it.
objects to do equal justice to al. classes whether the highest
or the lowest in the community, and to promote by every
practical means, legislative or administrative, the s..cial
prosperity of Ireland, I felt that in coming here I might
confidently rely oo the support of every honest Irishman and
well-wisher of his country. And in so relying upon Iriettmen
1 have not been disappointed. (Cheers.) I believe that that
policy has been rightly understood, for I have received an
amount of support--and I rejoice in this opportunity of pub-
licly and gietefully acknowledging it-1 have received an
amount of support which, did I not fear that I might speak
pr sumptuously, I might almost venture to call general ; be-
cause it has proceeded not alone from political friends, but it
has been given in a manner the moat cordial and disinterested
by those whom the government cannot rank amongst the
number of their political supporters. (Cries of hear, hear.)
My lord, this has been to me a circumstance most cheering
at a moment of unexampled difficulty and danger; for when
no chute in the community can escape the severest pressure
men do not always reason with justice, and a government is
sometimes blamed for evils which it cannot avert, sail for
not resorting to measures which are heyonsl their power to
apply. But of no such injustice however can 1 complain. I
hate met not only with that generous co-operation whirls
is essentially national, but with demonstrations of conti
deuce far beyond what I consider 'nye& entitled to. I
cannot disguise from myself, however, that we are in diffi-
cult and perilous times, and that those difficulties may for
some time continue to be even still more Appalling then
those through which the country so painfully struggled last
year, for I regret to say that the mums of alleviatin.r them
are diminishing. Ireland is thrown more upon her own
resources—England is less able to assist her ; and that this
is the case is unfortunately no matter of doubtful opinion,
for we know it but too well from documents that have been
laid on the tables of the houses of parliament, by which we
learn that in order to supply deficiencies occasioned by the
visitation of Providence we imported grain at the cost to
the importers alone (without counting that of the consumers)
of 33,000,0001. sterling; that at the same time, as a nt usury
consequence of this great but unavoidable expenditure, our
revenue has fallen to the extent of 2,400,0001., whilst our
expenditure has been greater than usual ; that this occurred
at a time when the cotton crop failed in Ana rice, which to
Lancashire, the industrial centre of England, was almost
as severe as the destruction of the potato crop to Ireland ;
that this occurred at a time when famine converted our
continental neighbours into our rivals in the corn
market; and also that this occurred at a moment of
exhaustion at home, which was owing to ourown imprudence
in having expended in railway., not our savings out our
capital, which capital was thereby diterted from its ordi-
nary and more profitable employment. (Hear, hear.) I
will ask, therefore, an 'practical and candid man conversant
with the condition of Ireland to consider the amount of
almost universal preiaure which such a state of things
must necessarily cause—the destitution—the stagnation of
trade and manufactures which it entails, and the hundreds
of thousands of hands willing to emit employment, but un-
fortunately unable to find it ; and I will ask any such man
whether it would be possible for the imperial parliament to
take largely from the distress of England to give to the
distress of Ireland without, at least, eiffusing the whole
of such relief generally over the community. We are all
of us suffering at this moment under a common calamity, and
I fear that it would be neither just nor wise, nor even use-
ful, to apply the national resources to the relief of that
distress until all local and individual resources were ex-
hausted. With respect to the resources upon which we
must rely, I am aware that the poor law ta not popular
—(hear, hear); but it must be remembered that under this
law the duties of property have for the first time been ren-
dered intelligible, and under this law the poor man in Ire-
land has for the first time acquired the right not to
starve—(hear, hear); and although I fear that, in many
instances, this law may prove insufficient to meet the exist-
ing distress, yet I can assure you that every instance of neglect
is promptly inquired into, and, as far as possible, repaired;
and I believe that under a system of inspection which will
become more vigilant every day, we may hope that this law
will work far more efficiently than was expected. I can
assure you, however, gentlemen, that the government is not
iounsible of its duty, and that whatever can be done shall
be done to mitigate this distress. (Cheering.) The govern-
ment have placed at our disposal some of the best steamers
in her Majesty's service to assist in the work of relief, and in
order to carry food to the depots which have .sees esta-
blished in the moat destitute districts; and I am sure you
will learn with pleasure that the most anxious care and
attention is now being bestowed on the mist suffering, be-
cause the most helpless, portion of the community-1 mean
the children of the poor. (Hear, hear.) There are at this
moment seventy thousand children, for the most part, clothed
and daily fed from the funds subscribed by the British
public, and under the superintending care of nay friend,
Count Streletcki, to whose active benevolence Ireland is not
a little indebted. It is almost impossible to overestimate
the usefulness of this measure—nut only to these poor
suffering children themselves, but to their parent+, who
when they know that the wants of their children are satia-
fled, have more courage to provide for themselves, and more
time and means to seek employment. I have every reason
to believe that the number of children so cared for will
shortly amount to at least one hundred and twenty thousand.
I can assure you, also, gentlemen, that there is nothing
which depends on the government—and I need hardly esy
on myself—which shall be neglected, in order to relieve
the distress which unfortunately exists. (Cheery.) But I
am sure I need not say to this company that there is no
relief which the government can afford which will suffi:e
without the greatest individual exertion i and my only rea-
son for alluding to this is in order that I may have an op-
portunity of saying how much I rejoice at the exertions
which have been made, and are still making—exertions
greater, perhaps, than any one could have thought erosible
some months ago—and also of expressing my confident hope
that Ireland will yet be able to demonstrate to the legisla-
ture that she has not been untrue to herself. (Cheering.)
The awful crisis which we have now endured so long
will, I hope, be speedily drawing to a close, and I trust that
it will he borne as heretofore with that exemrlary resigna-
tion which characterises the Irish people, and with that
manly resolution which a sense of duty alone can inspire.
There is not one individual in the couateT on whom some
duty does not devolve—who has not within his reach the
power to do some good ; and if the collective result of these
exertions be that the people depend on a higher class of
food for subsistence—that the attention of the whole
country be really and earnestly devoted to developing the
resources of this most fertile soil—if all classes recognise
the great truth that he who labours is a better man, and a
more useful citizen, than he who is idle, and that industry is
not only indizpensible, but honourable ; above all, if the
rights of property are on the one hand scrupulously re-
spected, and are on the other hand exercised with kindness
and forbearance, then, indeed, we may look for happier
days for Ireland ; because her social regeneration will spring
from the social improvement of the people—that basis of
national prosperity which has hitherto been wanting,
but without which neither progress nor improvement
having
lord
(Cheers.)
forM
and gentlemen, I believe I ought to apologise
can permanently be relied upon.
at fint intended, and probably I have adverted
-
trespassed so much longer on your
tofl°me
had
topics perhaps somewhat inappropriate to the present
sively as they
did my own. (Hear, hear.) I onlyill ear,
sioa ; but I am sure they occupied your attentionasexclu•
have manifested towards me this evening is not
and good-will
winhcoichncyhumion, that the feeling of •kindness
but I think that it has a far wider
only most ratifying tome, tun any which attachej
and more important bearing

myself, because it proves that any max who labours with
anxiety of purpose faithfullly to perform the duties of his
station (end to more than that I Lane no manner of pretc n-
sion) may with confidence rely en the highest of all rewards,
the approbation of his fellow.countrymen. (Loud and enthu-
siastic cheering amid which his excellency resumed his seat.)
His excellency, in compliance with an ancient silage, rose
shortly after and proposed in turn the Lord Mayor. On
the health of the Countess of Clarendon having been pro-
poaed, with a special allusion to the fact that " her ladyship
is the parent of one Irish son," his excellency replied in an
amusing speech, in which hie lordship adroitly proposed the
" Health of the Lady Mayoress."
Though hie Excellency retired before eleven, the merriment
was kept up to a late hour.

REWARDS FOR 000 D CONDUCT.—The house of a family
named Kenna, at Aracrony, Tipperary, having been
attacked by an armed party, they beat them off, followed
them, arrested some, and handed them over to the police.
The two attracted the attention of Sir William Fraser, of
the Life Guards: he wrote upon the subject to the catholic
clergyman of ihe pariah, and having received his reply, sent
the following communication
Let Life Guards Barrack, London, Jan. 7.—Ree. Sir,—Absence
from London has prevented me from replying to your obliging note,
which 1 received some lime ago. 1 emigre a Pl. Bank of England
note, No. 09,387, which 1 request you will have the goodness to for-
ward to Kenna. I regret that he has recv.ived no official reward for
his resolute conduct. A few such acts would do more towards sup-
preening outrage than any increase in the police force. May I trouble
you to acknowk dge the receipt of this.-1 he,ve the honour to remain,
faithfully yours, Wawa's Atacama Fumax.—Rev. Michael Scanlan,
P.P. Ballygibbon, Newish.

SPECIAL COMMISSION.

COUNTY CLARK
(PROW OUR OWN REPORTER.)

ENNIS. THURSDAY, JAN. 13.
MURDER OF MR. WATSON.—J limes Hayes and Patrick
Ryan were placed at the bar, charged with the wilful mur-
der of Mr. James Watson, at Ballycorney, oa the 17th of
May last. The indictment also charged that John Crow
and others feloniously conspired and incited the prisoners to
commit the molder.

Denis Flynn examined by the Solicitor-General : I knew
the late Mr. Watsidi, and lived near him, en the townland
of R 046. I was standing outside my father's door on the day
of the murder, when I heard • shot fired on tke road. I
looked, and saw three men on the road, one of them lying
down. I saw one man standing over him with a gun in his
hand. I was not mire than twenty yards from them at the
time. I ran towards Willycarny mills and met my brothnr,
with whom I returned. We biund DO person then at the place
where I jaw the three men, but the one that was lying on the
ground. That was Mr. Wutso•, who was swimming in his
blood. His hat was off, and his horse was grazing by the
ditch side a short way up from him. James Lacy came up
first, and he and I put a hand each on Mr. Watson's arms,
and raised him off the ground. Several others then came
up and took him from us. He was taken into the house of
a man named Walsh, while I went to inform his servants of
what occurred. I knew Mr. Weson well before that.

Mr. John L. Worrell was examined to prove the accuracy
of a map he made of the scene of the murder.
Nathaniel Barton, a boy about eleven sr twelve years of
age, examined by Mr. Bennet, Q C.: I remember the day
on which Mr. Watson was attacked. I was in the national
school house, near the place, when I was called out by an-
other boy, and saw two men on the road. I know a man
of the name of Hayes.—Mr. Bennet: Is either of the pd.
toners the man you allude to ? The witness looked at the
prisoners, and said they were Plot the men he saw on the road
Out day. Examination continued : I met a man of the
name of Hayes that day on the road when I left the school-
house. Some time alter I went before Mr. Browne, the
magistrate, and pointed out the man I met on the road.
None of the boys left the school, on hearing of the Terry's,
hut myself. I pointed out to Mr. Worrell, the surveyor,
the place where I was standing, and where Mr. Watson lay.
The two men I met saw me. The man who had the gun
wore a cap, and a light coloured coat and trousers.—To the
court : I can't tell the height of the ditch between me and
the men, hut I could see over it.
James Lacy, examined by the lion. Mr. Plunkett I re•
collect the day on which Mr. Watson was killed; I lived
near the place. I was going from my breakfast to work
when I saw two men coming towards me from the place
where Mr. Watson was kill d. One of the men bad the
barrel of a gun in his hand without &stock. That was after
Mr. Watson had been murdered. They paused into the field
opposite the lodge where I lived. They went two or three
perches, and then were joined by another man, wl,o walked
across the field to them. 0.. e of those men was Ryan
(Small). I did not know the other at the time. (The wit-
ness here identified the prisoner 14 an, and stated that it was
he who had the barrel of the gun.) The other of the two
men was Win. Ryan (Puck), end the man who came to
meet them was the prisoner Hayes. After I saw them I
was called by the witness Flynn, and went down the road.
where I saw Mr. Watson, killed, and the stock of a gun,
I broken, under him.
Cross-examined by Mr. O'llea : I don't know of there
being a bit of a charge against mysi lf, nor was I ever obliged
to keep out of the way. They did not suspect me for this
murder. I was taken by the police for it in some time after.
It was after I was taken I declared what I state here to-day.
I can't say how anon after, as I kept no account of the time.
I disclosed it to Mr. Brown. 1 was released from custody at
the time. When the police asked me on the day of the murder
if I saw any persons at or near the place, I said not. It
was the second time I saw Mr. Browne that I disclosed
what I know. I met Mr. Brown in Limerick, hut he did
not speak to me about this, my father had a spot of land on
Mr. Arthur's estate, and I asked it from Mr. Browne, after I
told what I knew of this. My father was put out of the
land, but I didn't get it. [Mr. O'llea here read a portion of
the witness's information, in which he swore that the two
men who came towards bias from the place of the murder
were Hayes and Ryan (Small), and it was the latter who had
the barrel of the sun in his hand.] If that be in the informa-
tion I did not swear it. It must hove been the magistrate
made the mistake.—To a Juror: I did not tell what I
knew on the day of the murder, because I did not think
well of it. _ _

James Crow examined by the Attorney-General I knew
Ryan (Small) and Ryan (Puck) a month or two before the
murder. I saw them at the house of my uncle (John
Crow), a fortnight or three weeks before Mr. Watson was
killed. I was oa the road the morning Mr. Watson was
killed. I saw the prisoner. at the bar on that day,
together with William Ryan (l'uck). I saw them
coining from Knockaderecn (where the witness's
uncle lived), by the road that ran by the school
house. I was standing at the minister's (Mr Stowers) gate
when I saw the three men. I saw them first on the hill
above Thady Keogh's house, but not near enough to know
them. I lost sight of them in the hollow, and law Mr. Wat-
son riding up the road before I them again; he was
walking his horse at the time, and Ryan (Puck) jumped out
on the road before him, and cocked a gun at him. He was
then about the length of the table from Mr. Watson, who
rode back quickly until he came to Walsh's wheaten field,
out of which Pat Ryan (Small) jumped, with a pistol in his
hand. He took the horse by the bridle ; the horse made a
couple of springs, and brought Ryan with him, and Mr.
Watson fell; he fired a shot at Ryan (Puck), who struck
him on the head with a gun, and Ryan (Small), the pri-
soner, struck him with a pistol. Mr. Watson asked for
mercy. Ryan (Puck) next struck him on the head a second
time with the gun, and broke it they then ran away to-
wards Keogh's bog. From the time I saw the three men
first, I d d not see Hayes, the other prismer, till I saw him
standing at the ditch at Keogh's bog. He was standing there
while the others were killing Mr. WaVon. After the murder
the Rpm ran off towards klellynialony bog. Hayes did not
WO far with them. He had a gunor blunderbuss in his hand.
He could not see Mr. Watson murdered from where he
stood at Keogh's bag. He could not see any part of the road
on which the murder took place from that. It was about half
a quarter of a mile from the place of the murder. I pointed
out to the surveyor where Hayes was standing. Beside the
ditch he was standing, not on it.
To the Chief Justice : He was not standing in such a way
as to conceal himself.

Cron-examined by Mr. O'Hea: I didn't tell this at once
to the police. I did not tell it till near Christmas. I walked
out that morning to amuse myself. I was at no particular
amusement. I did not go to school for a good while before.
While the board of works was going on I was labouring.
I did not see the boy Barton there. I saw the three men
away down the boreeu that led from my uncle's house. I
handled a pistol that morning. It was not loaded. I often
loaded a pistol, and fired at my cap when I bad nothing else,
but I never fired at a cap with a head in it. I was not charged
with killing a goat or stealing wheat from my uncle. I was
never turned away by my uncle. There in a dispute about
land between my aunt, with whom I live, and my uncle. I
don't expect to get the lend when my aunt dies, if she is able
to retain it. My uncle is endeavouring to take the land from
her. That is the uncle mentioned in the indictment. He
gave me a dragging and a couple of clout about a cow of my
aunt's. I don't care about him, for he don't care about me—
that's the truth of it. (A laugh.)—To • juror lam sure
Hayes had either a gun or a blunderbuss.
John Browne, Esq., examined by the Solicitor-General:
I am now agent to Mr. Arthur, and a magistrate of the
county. I took the itformations of the witness, Barton. A
number of persons, seven or eight, were brought before him
in the police barrack, Limerick, in order to see whether he
could identify the persons whom he said he saw on the day
of the moister. That was the day I took his informations.
The boy was in a room of the police barrack. Mr. O'Hea
said that, as he knew the locality, he wished to ask the wit-
ness a question or two, when perhaps it might appear that
his evidence was not admissible. In reply to Mr. O'Hea,
the witness said the boy was in a room, and the persons
brought before him were outoide in the yard, ranged opposite
the window, where the boy could see them without being
seen. Mr. O'Hea submitted what the boy said then, when
the prisoners could not hear him, was not evidence against
them.—The court derided that the evidence might be given.
—The witness then stated that the boy identified Hayes
among knumber of persons, and that he was afterwards
brought alone, and in custody, into the room where the boy
was. To Mr. O'Hea : I did not bring that boy into court
to-day, but I brought another one of the Crows, for the pur-
pose of identification.
Dr. Parker I attended Wm. Ryan (Puck) in Limerick
gaol when he was in fever. I examined his body and found
an abrasion on his shoulder. It was healed, and seemed to
have been inflicted by some blunt instrument. A bullet
would inflict such a wound. To Mr. O'Hea. It was in
December I attended him. A stone would inflict such a
wound.
Dr. George Purdon deposed that he attended Mr. Watson
from the day of the attack, on Monday, till his death on the
following Friday. He was unconscious all the time. There
were several woonds on his head. They were inflicted by
some angular ponderous instrument. The butt of a gun
would inflict them. They were the cause of death.

Mr. Worrell, the surveyor who made a map of the scene
of the murder, deposed that the spot where the witness Crow
stated that he was standing, wee about 1130 yard.• from where
the murder was committed. The witness Barton stood farther
off. There was a hill betwe. n where Hayes was said to have
stood and the place of the murder. It was the witness Crow
who pointed out those places to him.
A policeman swore that be arrested Hayes at Tarbert, on
board a steamer, and that he heard the steward and tiptain
tell him to go to the vessel, in which he was about to proceed
to America.—To Mr. O'Hea: All the prisoner's family were
going to America in that vessel.—The case for the prosecu.
tion closed bare, and Mr. O'Hea addressed the jury for the
defence. _ .

Spaight, a magistrate, and to whose father the pri-
son. r Hayes had been a tenant, gave him a good character.
Up to the time of the present charge, he never heard any-
thing against him.
The Solicitor-General having replied, the Chief Justice
charged the jury, who retired for about ten minutes, and
found both prisoners Guilty. They heard the announce-
ment of t►e verdict without any apparent emotion. They
were then ordered beck to prison.
A DANGEROUS MISTAKE.—A number of other prisoners
were arraigned on various charges. Among them were live
persons accused of the murder of Martin MacMahon, and
ene of them, when asked the usual question by the clerk of
the crown, pleaded guilty. Mr. O'Hea said the prisoner
was under a mi-conception as to the nature of the offence
charged, and asked liberty for him to withdraw the plea of
guilty.—Mr. Bennett Let him be asked the question again,
and let him be told that if he is found guilty, or pleads
guilty, he will be hanged. The prisoner was again naked if
he were guilty, and he replied that he was—Chief Justice : Do
you know that
_you must be hanged if you plead guilty to the
murder?—Mr.Fros ,an attontey,whowasconcerned for others
of the party, explained to the prisoner the nature of the charge
on which he was arraigned, and desired him to consider well
what he said before he pleaded guilty. The prisoner again
said he was guilty, himself and five more, but not the pri-
soners at the bar; hut, on the matter being further explained
to him, he pleaded not guilty. It seemed that the pri-
soner conceived he was pleading to an indictment for man-
slaughter,:he having been present when the deceased received
a blow of a stick, from the etficts of which he died.
The court adjourned shortly after this till nine o'clock next
morning.
The Chief Justice took his seat on the bench on Friday
morning at ten o'clock. The Chief Baron had not taken his
seat up to one o'clock.
APPEARING IN ARILS AND INJURING PROPERTY.—
Patrick Cusack was indicted for having, on the 16th of
October, appeared in arms and injured the property of Wil-
liam Molony, at Crannagher. Mr. O'llea said he would not
he jusuned in occupying lite publie limo ie this case ; and he
would therefore ask permission for the prisoner to withdraw
his plea of not guilty, and plead guilty.—The Attorney-Ge-
teral said that as the prisoner had been given in charge, the
trial should he proceeded with.
William Minogue was examined by the Attorney-Genera,
and deposed. that, on the day in question, as he was proceed-
ing to Ennis, he saw two ten-loads of corn on the road,
and shortly alter saw the prisoner, who was mewling in a
field on the road-side, fire a shot and run away ; a police-
man ran after and arrested him. Witness heard that one of
the horses th the carts was shot —A policeman named Willis '
deposed that he saw the prisoner with a double barrelled
gun conceal himself behind a house, and when the carte
which witness was escorting came up he discharged both
barrels at the horses. Witness pursued and arrested bias.
The gun, and also a pistol, which the prisoner had on the
occasion, were produced.—The prisoner was convicted and
sentenced to two years' imprisonment with hard labour.
rhe Chief Justice said the prisoner might have been trans-
port. d fur the otfeuce.
ATTACKING A DWELLING-ROUPE, AND ROBBERY
ARMS.—John Liddy, Patrick Conry, Michael Hickey, and
3ltchael Skeane were indicted fur leaving, with others, on the
Ist of August last, attacked the house of William Walsh, at
Prugh, and stolen a gun and pistol.—The Attorney-General
stated the facts of the case.

Mrs. Walsh, a respectahly dressed lady, deposes' that on
Sunday, the lat of August, after her husband went to
church to Limerick, a number of armed men came to her
house, and demanded fire-arms, threatening her life if she
did not give them. She retreated into her bedroom, where
they followed her, and one of them unlocked her wardrobe,
and searched it. 'They got no fire-arms there, and when
they demanded them a second time, she said "she would
go and look for them, but solemnly declared that she did not
kaow where they where." (The witness identified Liddy,
Skeane, and Hickey, as hay ng been of the party). They
broke open my' ral desks and boxes, until they found a
double barrelled gun, pistol, and powder-horn which they
took away; they took nothing else. —To Mr. powder-horn,
I was
greatly alarmed at first, particularly for my cnild, a year
and • half old, which I had in my arms; but I soon reco-
vered my presence of mind, as I knew that all depended
upon me. —To Mr. Bennet Prugh, where we lived, is four
miles from Limerick.—Pat Connell also deposed to the fact
that the house bad been attacked; and identified Skeane.—A
man, named Drury, Mr. Walslt's steward, swore that
as he was returning from mass, to his master's house, he
saw the party in a field. When he came near the house he
heard • great noise inside, and shortly afterwards saw the
party come out. On being told by Mrs. Walsh what happened 1
he pursued the party, notwithstanding that one of them
presented a gun at him, and threatened to shoot him. Ile
followed and kept them in view until they separated, and
one of them, Liddy, took refuge in the house of • man
named O'Halloran, where he was taken. The prisoner also
identified Conry.—Pat O'Brien, • tenant to Mr. Waleh,
and who joined in the pursuit of the prisenere, also deposed
to the arrest of Liddy under a bed.—Constable 'Taylor, who
pursued the party, produced the gun found with Liddy on his
arrest.—Evidence having been given of the arrest of the
other prisoners in different places, the case for the prosetu
tion closed.—Mr. 011ie& addressed the jury for the defence,
After • short charge from the Chief Justice, the jury,
without leaving the box, found all the prisoners GUilfy, and
they were sentenced to fourteen years' transportation. His
lordship addressed the prisoners in language somewhat
eimilar to that he used in Limerick, when sentencing the
prisoners to transportation. Advice or admonition, he slid,
was useless as regarded the prisoners; but it might—is
ought to be—of benefit to others--to the untried, unappre
hended criminals, to call their attention to the fate of the
primmers, and to warn those criminals that if they pereistad
is violating the law, or in the perpretation of outrages that
disgraced the character of the country, they would assuredly
he subjected to similar punishment, or worse. He felt bound
to pass that sentence in mercy to the well-disposed portion of
the community, as well as to operate as a warning to others
who might be 'disposed to engage in outrage and violation of
the law.
Friday, 2 o'clock.—Sentence will not be passed today
upon the prisoners convicted last Light of the murder of
Mr. Watson. I understand the Chief Baron will not sit
to-day.
SATIIHDAY JAN 15.

SENTENCE. Os' DIATH ON RYAN AND HATES.—At the
sitting of the court this morning the convicts Ryan and
Hayes (for the murder of Mr. Watson) were brought up for
sentence.
The clerk of the crown, after reading the record of
conviction, put the usual question, if the prisoners had any-
thing to say why sentence of death and execution should
not be passed upon them according to law ?
The convict Hayes replied: I have nothing to Bay, my
lord, but that we are innocent of the charge. I was not
near the place at all. I never saw Billy Ryan (Puck) since
the day I was born. I am as innocent es the child unborn.
The convict Ryan also protested his innocence, saying that
he was fifteen miles away at the time of the murder.
The judges having assumed their black caps, the Lord
Chief Baron passed sentence as follows : Patrick Ryan and
James Hayes, you have been found guilty of the crime of
aiding and abetting in the crime of wilful murder. The
circumstances under which that murder was committed it is
my duty to refer to, not for the purpose of increasing the
ini•ery of the situation in which you now stand, but because
it forme a part of the obligations which we discharge here,
to present the facts of the crime in connexion with the punish-
ment: awarded, for the instruction and example, and the
Corning of others. [His lordship recapitulated the facts of
the case as they appeared in evidence.] Were Ito consult
my own feelings I would not go further in commenting on
this atrocity, but I am bound for the interests of others—
for those who may learn what is passing here, to suggest
some reflections upon the nature and character of this
crime and upon the results which—if its progress be not ar-
rested by the strong arm of the law, and, what is essential
to give the law its due power, the co-operation of all classes
—must attend society by a continuation of such crimes. Of
all the various forms that the dreadful crime of murder as-
sume., there is perhaps none in itself so hateful—so loathsome,
as that of assassination—none so base in its cowardice—none
so deep sad dark and cold in its malignity ; and, what for
the interests of society is more unfortunate, none so effectual
for the perpettation of its terrible purpose. Against the arm
of an assassin no man can be safe—no caution or foresight
CAA effectually guard against it—no strength of frame—no
bravery of spirit can sufficiently protect against the foe who
comes upon the party unawares. The assassin may trace his
victim for days—for weeks—for months—he can select his own
time, and place, and opportunity; he can choose the spot of hie
ambuscade,and when the victim is without defence,and without
suspicion of danger, the assassin, unseen and unthought of,
may inflict death without the possibility of resistance. No
wonder that, in all ages and nations, this crime should be an
object of honor mid execration ; and is it not lamentable to
• think that now, when it is nearly banished from every
country on the earth that boasts of civisilatioa, it should be
found prevailing and inducing daily its dreadful results
within the sphere of the society in which we live. What are
its results to society? To make the entire sphere in which it
operates one wide circle of suspicion, distrust, and terror.
In the present instance it was levelled against a landlord—it
was applied for the purpose of connoting the owner of property
in the exercise of the rights given him by law. The effect of
this crime applied to that class must be to leave
i the owner of property only the alternative of becoming an
absentee from his country—of abandoning the enjoyment of
his rights, and the discharge of his duties on the one hand,
or of remaining at home at the peril of his life en the other.
But, as I have said before from this place, this dreadful evil
in its effects does not stay here—the landlord or the agent
may be the first victim ; but the next will be the farmer or
the peasant. His lordship proceeded to enforce the duty of
all classes to aid in the vindication of the law ; and after a
feeling and impresaive address to the prisoners, passed
sentence of death in the usual form. Tuesday the 15th
February was fixed as the day of execution.
The prisoners heard their sentence with much calnmess
and apparent resignation. Ryan, on leaving the dock ex-
claimed, " Thanks be to God, I am innocent."
CHARGE or MTRDER.—Michael Butler and Matthew
Honigan were indicted for the wilful murder of John Cleary,
at Broadford, in the month of November last.
The long panel having been called over, and a jury sworn,
the prisoners were given in charge.
From the Attorney-General's statement, it would appear
that the case rests mainly on the dying declaration of the

deceased Cleary, with soma circumstantial stridence corrc•
borative of it to some extent.
The case was proceeding at poat-hour.