The Express.
London, England, 1848-10-21 00:00:00

• brought Into a case where the crime charged was a matter
ot fact—an absolute levying of war. The attempt to
rescue Mitchel, a proposition to do it showau a single and
individual attempt, and not one of a general character. The
prisoner literally envied the project of a rescue, and yet
they ware told he had been guilty of treason. lie did
not explain anything, but lett it to him to ex-
plain ; and his explanati. a was, that his client had 144
before the emba, as the document bad Mated, the reasons
for not atteicptirg a rescue. John Mitchel was
convicted and sentenced to transportation. There had been
no outbreak, no insurrection, no violence, yet his client
wei to be regarded as a traitor for his speech.
He supposed that Mr. Measlier had alluded in
his speech to the Canadian revolt. The Canadians
did return in triumph, and the gentleman for whose head
SOU had been offered was toned to accept the office of
Attorney-Gei eral in the colonies—all the rebels were fur-
nished with the best situations they coull get—and when
Mr. Meagher anticipated the retain of Mr. Mitchel from
transportation, he hed a perfect right to do so ; and from
beginning to end, however wrong it would be to revue any
man, it was not high treason ; mid even if they had rescued
bim on the quay, and dragged him out of the van, he could
not have been prosecuted fur treason. The learned counsel
then read the letter written by Mr. Meagher in seference to
his visit to Cork and his intention to go to America. In
that letter there was a passage pregnant with treason—
namely, that " he forgot what the day of the week was !"
His clies.t, no doubt, was a lean man, plotting, like Cassius,
she ruin of the republic ; and his treason consisted in hie
forgetting the day of the week. Then the writer aa'd that
he had made a flaming speech. The Attorney-General hated
such speeches, but had they not lived on them in Ireland, and
wire they not their food and drink kr for 20 years? Then
he announced hia Intenti ns of going to New York; and
here was the grand levying of weir on the field—a contem-
plated trip to America. 'ibis to be sure was to he held by
the force of construction as an intention to levy war in Tip-
p. rary. The Atwell. ',General insinuated, or stated, that
the object of Mr. Mt cipher was to invoke the empathy
America in :nvour of Ireland. Had not the American
people given the Irish their sympathy who n they were
hon.el down by tansine—had they not Nurse prov:eions upon
their chorea—and was the Attorney-General justified in
' saying that he intended invoking the sympathy of the
Americana to support an insurrectionary movement in Ire-
land? They hid a law book which slid that "etceteras,'
were full of meaning. Lord Coke had said so, and he pre-
sumed that the profound wisdom of the Solicitor General
would prove that the " etceteras " in the letter of
Mr. Teem.' Fnuacia Meagher meant that he designed
to kill the Queen, murder brines Albert, end destroy the
eldest child other Maiesty ; and if they believed him, the
jury would of coune find his client guilty. The letter writ-
ten by Mr. Meagher to Mr. Smith was written in Ma,
when he was PI at Belleville, and it had as much reference
to the insurrection in Irebuid as to Dothan. Wes it then
juetifieble in the Attorney-General to rake up that letter and
bring it forward as a proof of treason ? The learned counsel
then explained the words used by the prisoner in hie letter
to Mr. Smith, " Don't forget Prance and the revolution,"
and represented them t', have been use. d in reference to the
" History of the Girondists," by Lamartine, a copy of which
he had given to Mr. Smith, and not to the revolution which
took plan in the present year, and consequently the pas-
sage could not have applied to it.
At half•paat six o'clock Mr. Whiteside, addressing the
court, mid : My lord, having finished the written evidence,
in .y I ask you to adjourn, as I teal myself to be much ea-
banned?
The court was thin adjourned.

ACCIDENT ON THE Garr SOILITHEUN AND WESTER.*
RAILWAY.—An accident occurred this morning on this line.
The particulate, as well as can be meertained at present, am
as tellows :—There is but one line of rails laid down between
the Limerick Junction and the town of Tipperary, and is •
matter of course two Mains from the different stations cannot
travel the line at the mite time. Whether the Tipperary
train should have awaited the snivel of that from Lisieriek,
or vice versa. we have not learned ; but it so happened rea-
m:day morning that both trains started almost simulta-
neously from their resp:ctive stations, and, as a natural con-
sequence, came one Against the other a'<out midway on the
line. Th, collision was of a fearful nature, both trains having
been travelling at the time at • very rapid rate, each trying
to reach its terminus before the starting of the other. For-
tunate!) there were no persons in either, with the exception
or the guards and engine men : two of the former were very
seriously injured, and had to be removed 11,: mediately to
Limeriik for menial treatment; the engine men were not
PO severely hurt. The CATiIECI were completely hattered.
A delay of nearly two hours in the snivel of the Cork mail
resulted from this accident. —Cork Euaniner ot Wednesday.