The Express.
London, England, 1848-10-13 00:00:00

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very acts charged in this indictment, The learned gentle-
man, in conclueion, said he mould almost ask the jury, in
dealing with the eve of his client, to forget that they were
lovers of public order, and consider it with the oldness and
impartiality of public men who had no such feeling in favour
of order, for it was only by divesting their minds of this
feeling that they could honeetly try kis client. He felt that
be was under many disadvsntaget in addressing them, being
a stranger in that bounty. He knew not the copies that
were most likely to have weight with them. One thing,
however, he was sure of, that he had twelve Irish gentle-
men in the box before him, and to their honour and im-
partiality, as gentlemen, he would confidently appeal. His
client was then far from his own home end coun-
try. He was brought there to answer before men who
knew nothing of his history, character, or connexions.
He made no appeal to their feelings. e felt that he
laboured under the additional disadvantage of not ad-
dressing them ?on behalf of a man of their own rank in
life ; but believing the jury he addressed to be Christian
men, he was satisfied that the case of this stranger would
receive from thon just as anxious a consideration as if
they were trying the first nobleman in the land. He
midst, perhaps, be disappointed in the anticipations he had
forma of the verdict they would deliver, but if Cry could
reconcile the facts proved in the eau with the h,nrocuce of
his ellen*, then he could call upon them, according to law,
according to justice, and according to the Peered sanctions
under which they were assembled in that box to edelinister
the law, to pronounce a verdict of not guilty, and restore his
client to his occupation and his home. In applying himself
to that case he had endeavoured to keep himself within
the law, and assist them in the investigation of the solemn
question they had to try, and he would now, with the most
perfect confidence in the uprightneu of their decision, leave
his client'scase in their hands, sad in the name of the law
demand their verdict of acquittal. At the conclusion of Unit
learned counsel's address he was cheered.

T. L)ms (a magiatra•e of the city or Cork, and the fits'
mayor under the ccrporste Rotor= Bill), J. Carmich tel (a
tea der in Cork), J. Tic:marsh (grand jern a Kilkenny),
and R. A. Carleton, were examined, and gave the prisouer

L excellent character.

Mr. Maurice Linehan examined.—Was proprietor of the
Tipperary Vindicator. \Bu a member of the 'B2 club
which was founded in 1843. It had been the habit of the
club to wear the unit win at riublic dinners; had seen it
worn at repeal meetines, which was not confined to the
members of the club. Was not a freemuon. Thought that
the dress bad been worn at social p,uties. Had o uniform
a. de h ix. Was not c, gi nerel. (A laugh.)
The Attorney-General admitted thatthenniferat belorged
to the 'B2 club.
Bir Colman O'Loghlen examined.—Was Vice President of
the ,n Club. Lord Cloneurry wee president. Ideneified
the neitorm in the box. Had attended dinners of the 'B2
Club in the uniform. Had a distinct recolleolon of baring
seen tho prisoner at the bar appear in that uniform at din-
ners of the club. No member could dine at the club dinners
unless be wore the unit*. em. It was designed by Mr. Angelo
Hayes, and the peak was not to the cap when originally
made. It was added six months afterwards. Ile very often
elle Mr. O'Connell wear the uniform. Saw the membas of
the club wearing the uniform at tho levee held by Mr.
O'Connell on the 30th of M ,y, 184.5. Wore it himself. The
gold bend wu added with the peak. His cap never had a
peak, nor did he assume a military character.
J. Ce. H elaes examined by Mr. Butt—Are you a member
of the 'B2 C:tib ? Wirneu: Na.—Have you awn seen the
uniform worn et meetings other than theta of the club ?
Saw it lately upuu the return of the deputation from France.
—Cross examined by the Attorney. General Saw Mr.
Suites, Mr. Dunne, sad Mr. Doheuy weer the uniform. Mr.
Meagher, Mr. O'Brien, Mr. O'Gorman, and Mr. Mitchel,
did not wear the dress. The meeting to which he referred
wee a joint meeting of the repealen of Coucilistion Hall and
Confederation Ilall. The farmer were the persons who wore
the dress.
Horace Fitzgrred examined—ls a member of the bar.
His lste brother, Mr. Richard Fitzgerald, was member for
the county. Ile was a member of the 'B2 club. Saw him
Mr. Curtis and Mr. O'Farrell wear the uniform at several
parties. Saw it worn once (and thought twice) at a ball.
Knew that it had been worn at a fancy bell given by Sir
Henry Winston Barron.
The evidence for the defence tinged here.
Mr. O'Callaghan then 4e:dressed the jury, speaking to the
evidence for the de ence of the prisoner, and to the general
evidence advanced in support of the promention.
The Solicitor General was about rising to tiaras the
court and jury, when
The Chief JUIA.C• said that was the time for the prisoner
to address to the court any observations which he miete de-
alt* to make.
The Prisoner said—l hove nothing to say to the jury, my
lord, but to endorse all that has been already soil by both
my counsel. All I desire to soy is, that I (lid not belong to
any chartist society. I pledge my honour as a men that I
never did. I never attended any of their meeting-, Our Was
I connected with them in any shape or form.
Attorney-G- neral—Allow me to soy that I would net have
stated that the prisoner had attended a chartist meeting,
had it not b-en that the policeman mentioned that the speech
atteihnted to him had been spoken at one.
Chief Justice—That was understood by the *curt.
It was then a quarter after 5 o'clock, and the Solicitor-
General preferred proceeding with his edam!' next morn-
ing, owing to his being affected by a wild.
The court then aelj Aimed.

PROVINCIAL.
LANCASHIRE.
Procarox IN A SHIP.—On Tuesday, the ship
Columbus was moved out into the Mersey, with the view of
getting her ready fcr r rocesding from Liverpool to America.
In the course of the day some of the passengers fauck.l they
beard a noise betting from a box between decks. snd on
opening it a female was discovered inside. Tho female, of
whom no particulars are k..own, was taken out, but she ex-
pired almost instantaneously. It is supposed that sho either
secreted hissell, or was secreted by some one else in the box,
in order to escape payment of the passage money out, and
up to last night no clue to her idenuty had been dis:overed.
An inquest will be hel-d_ upon tub:Embody to day.

CRESTED AND HOLYHEAD.—FLOATINO OF TUE
SECOND TUBULAR lllllDOE.—Yester.lay the second tubular
bridge over the Conway Straits was floated on the pontoons to
the piers. The operation attnn led large crowds from Conway
and other parts of the principality. The wind was fair, the
Conway water calm, SDI the rein that fell during the night
had the effect of causing a copious fall of freid water from
the heights, thus holding back the tide, and tempering the
strength of the current which was emential to tk e success of the
great operation. At 9 o'clock Capt. Claxton, R N., gave the
signal to pipe all hands. The tube was lifted in about sixty
minutes, was got safely home at a few minutes past 10 amid
, the applause r t the bystanders, and a salvo of artillery from
' the Castle walls. The entire operation was effected without
the slightest accident. Tbreecheers were given fur Stephenson.
Oa Monday the whole structure will probably be completed
by means of the hydraulic machines. The musonry will be
built in under the car-elling, and in another fortnight the
trains will run through uninterruptedly. The other tube
will then be closed fur a short time, to allow of the alteration
of the rails so as to admit of the removal of the transverse
timbers, which may be dispensed with, thus trustieg only to
the transverse plates of iron. The first tube has now been
subjected to five months' experience, in all weathers and it
has been found, from the mo-t minute and delicate obeerva-
, Lion, that the deflexion varies only from the temperature up
and down an inch, and although heavy trains have passed
daily the general dill( :ion observed has not varied from
what it was when fleet brought into use. The greatest rao-
don registered from the strongest gale was I,6oothe of an
inch. The tube has at present six feet rest at either end,
but it is intended, by building up the abutments, so that
eventually it shall have twelve.
WARWICKSHIRE.
MIDLAND ASSOCIATION OT MECHANICS' AND OTHER
LITERARY INSTITLTIONS.—On Monday last, the 9th inst.,
the first annual meeting of this body was held in the rooms
of the Philosophies' Institution, Cannon-street, Birmingham,
and was attended by delegates from Derby, Chesterfield,
Grantham, Linc-in, Nottingham, gad Stourbridge. The
chair was occupied by W. Schuh field, Erg., M.P. The
secretary, the Rey. A. Turner Blythe, read a report upon
the state of the institutions connected with the uniun—in
number 20—from which it appeared that they ware in a very
'war) ing state of efficiency, some being very prosperous, but
nearly all very limited in means. The report suited greet
interest, and resolutions founded upon it were agre:d to,
after which the meeting adjourned to the Union tun, when
the members dined together.

DEATH FROM T"llTirlit IN OF TUE POTATO DIS-
1183.—0 n Friday last a man of the name of Dyer, formerly
a polineman in Worcester, died in the infirmary, under the
following extraordinary circumstances. He had been en-
gaged about a fortnight ago in chopping wood, and raised
an or.:inary blister on the palm of his hand, which, having
and let oil the water, he thought nothing more of.
rhotg afterwards, however, he had occasion to dig or wall
some diseased potatoes, and in doing this he took some of
them up in his hand and squeezed them. In a little while
after his hand began to swell, and beams d in such
an extraordinary way that he deemed it advisable to gctsome
advice upon the sutject. He ace reliantly applied at the
Worcester Inflltmary, and was received as en in-door patient.
Mr. Carden, one of the medical dile 111, examined the
baud, and found that the whole of the flesh was in a
auto of mortification, and at onee expressed an opinion
that it had been p.tiioned by MIN foreign sabstance. The
disease did not tontine ittelf to the hand, but very rapidly
mounted to the arm, when the other hand and arm began
to swell and decay in a similar manner. The poor man
shortly after becanac delirious—ran out of his ward into
mother—threw himself on the bed, and died. A post
modem examination was made of the body, when all the
viscera appeared in a h althy state. lle was a tree liver,
but not by any means a drunkard, and the surgeon ex-
pressed an opinion that nothing of that kind could bc as-
sired as the cause of death. In menticning the coo to
his pupil., Mr. Carden again ezpreued his opinion that
some virus mist have entered into the hand through the
wound, and thus have occasioned the disease. If the virus
which caused death was absorbed from the diseased po-
tatoes, this occurrence will open a wide field for scientific
investigation.

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