The Express.
London, England, 1848-01-28 00:00:00

THE KING OF DENMARK.

The death of the King of Denmark, which was
announced in the Daily News and Express of yester-
day, is confirmed by letters from Copenhagen of the
21st. His Majesty expired, after a severe struggle,
between 10 and 11 o'clock on the night of the 20th
inst., universally lamented by his subjects.
His successor, the late Crown Prince, was imme-
diately proclaimed as King Frederick VII., and issued
a proclamation declaring his intention to follow, in
his government of the country, the example set him
by his late father.

SPECIAL COMMISSION.

COUNTY TIPPERARY.

CLONMEL, JAN. 24.
The grand jury having been sworn, the Lord ChiefJuatioe
addressed them as follows :—Geatlemen of the grand jury
for the county of Tipperary, I regret that the state of ton-
nes' in the eounty of Limerick prevented us from meeting
you at the hour originally appointed for opening the com-
mission. We have done all in our power, and with moues,
I hope, to avoid personal inconvenience to you by the alter-
ation of the hour at which we have been able to meet you.
The duties you have now to discharge are those which ordi-
narily are peformed by you at the assizes ; but each bills
only as her Majesty's Attorney-General shall think proper
to intrust to you will be brought under your consideration ;
and in disposing of those bills I have only to repeat,
what you must have so often heard, that it is
your duty to find the bills upon such evidence as,. if un-
oontradicted, would warrant a special jury in finding the
prisoner guilty. This is the last county in which, as I un-
denten& it is proposed the powers of this special commis.
mission shall be carried into execution. The delay in coming
here I trust will be compensated by the publicity which the
proceediags in the counties of Limerick and Clare have
already obtained, and by the ample time there has been
allowed for serious and salutary reflection open those pro-
ceedings. Indeed this commission has attracted such intense
interest, that there can be no doubt that the disturber of
the public peace, and those who have aided them, or who
are the authors of those disturbances, are already very well
aware of what has been done—of how much has been suf-
fered, and of how much remains to be suffered. Hardened,
indeed, must they be in guilt, irredeemably abandoned to
wickedness—if they can view without consternation and dis-
may the irresistible power of justice in the terrible punish-
ments of those in whose footsteps they are treading, and
whose fate it is now for them to decide whether they will
follow or avoid. But amongst the delusions which wicked
men have practised on themselves, or which have been pro-
tisol on them by others, the hope of impunity or escape,
which rested on the belief that through terror juries would
not do their duties, enough, and more than enough, has
occurred to show how utterly vain—how utterly groundless
is such expectation. In the counties of Limerick and
Clare the constitutional tribunals of the country have dis-
charged their duties with firmness and conscientiousneee—
unmoved by for—unexasperated, as if all around them was
repose and peace. In almost every case that has been tried
there has been a conviction. And why ? beano in almost
every case the charges were supported by. a mass of evi-
dence which made the conviction of
.the prisoners a matter
admitting of no doubt—evidence given by witnesses who
spoke the truth, and spoke it fearlessly. And from three
eases it augurs favourably with respect to those counties and
to their prospects, became in the conduct of those witnesses
I think at last I see a returning confidence in the power
and authority of the law, and also a resistance to the opus-
Sion which We at least boom* so intolerable se to awake
and to arouse men to self-preaction and self-defenn ; and
circumstances of the same kind have transpired in numbers
of the trials I have adverted to, where in many of those
eases it will be found that families, with intrepid bravery
mod complete succor, have rained the atones of assaidaate
upon their habitations—have detested tholes attache—hoe
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