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agreed. Mr. Griffiths, the chairman of the school, had fre-
quently spoken to her on the subject. Did not make any
deposition at the request of Mr. logleby.
Cross-examined by Mr. Whitehurst: Mr. Lee was
clearly, to appearance, intoxicated ; fro that any
or her senses could see it, she should suppose. Sarah Ball
opened the door. She was not here. The dying child wan
between 13 and 14 years old. His sister, who was in the
sick ward, was not here. She was about 16 or 16. The
mother was much distressed, but remarkably calm. She did
not sob. She showed great firmness, and was not excited.
Rev ained a little time with her at the door. The discourse,
she dared my, would have been most excellent. She didn't
think it was a good discourse for Mr. Lee. It wasn't. then,
(snappishly) an excellent discourse. It was a good one, and
for an ignorant man would hays been an excellent one.
Re-examined.—Had never heard a religious addr, se from
Mr. Lee before. His manner in the committee room, where
she had beard him speak, wan not like that exhibiti d oa the
evening in question. The difference consisted in a thickness
and uncertaioty of utterance. A. far as her memory went
the discourse was incoherent. Did not think it an ex-
cellent discourse, beeaspe it was not clear and in beautiful
iangusge, as she bad heard Mr. Lee's discoursts were.
Mrs. Charlotte Bayliss, the mother of the boy, deposed to
the illness of her eon, his ppeerfect conecioneness and the
attendance of Mr. Lee to • • religions consolation.
Her son was tensed thirteen years et age. Mr. Lee and
Mrs. Foster went into the room segediser. Witness was at
that time reading the Bible to her sm. Mr. Lee ordered
witness sad her dsaghter imoreltesety to Mare the room.
Mr. Foster went down stairs and fetched Mrs. Foster up.
On leaving the room Mr. Lee spoke to witness, and asked
her if she was the mother of the child. She replied that
she was. He told her to make kernel( contented, for he
(her son) would not be there long. There was a light on
the stairs, but she did not particularly observe Mr. Lee's
manner. He was thick is his talk, and she could not under-
stand him, but she did not know what to atttribute it to.
Mr. Foster, on leaving the room, took hold of Mr. Lee's
shoulder, and told him to take care as he went down stairs.
By a Juror: She never saw Mr. Lee before that night.
Clara Walker, mistress of the Testimonial School at
Fleetwood, Lancashire, but formerly senior teacher in the
Blue-coat School, Birmingham, recollected seeing Mr. Lee
visit the Boy Bayli.i. In the conrse of the evening he ad
dressed the children. Had frequently seen him before.
There was something on that occasion peculiar in his appear.
&nee ,• he was remarkably excited. Her impression was that
Mr. Lee was much excited, but could not tell from what
cause.
Mr. Gutteridge : I now ask you distinctly, did you con-
Sider Mr. Lre intoxicated or not f—Witnea (after some
hesitation): I have not been in the habit of seeing gentle-
men intoxicated, and therefore can scarcely judge; but I
thought there was something remarkable in Mr. Lee's
manner.
The Rev. J. W. Downes, formerly one of the curates of
St. Philip's Church, Birmingham, deposed, that in Fe-
bruary, 1844, Foster, at that time master of the Blue Coat
School, told him that, during his (witness's) abler ce from
home, Mr. Lee had been sent for to visit a sick child in the
school, and that he mine intoxicated.
Mr. J. B. Payne gave evidence to the same effect as last
wit nets.
The Hon. and Rev. Grantham York, rector of St. Philip's
church : In the latter end of 1846 he mentioned to Mr. Foster
that he had heard him mentioned as an authority for the
charge of intoxication against Mr. Lee, and asked him as to
its truth. He said he should be glad to contradict it if he
could. He (Foster) founded his belief open two distinct
acts—the indistinet manner in which he read, and a false
step on the stairs.
In cross-ezamination by Mr. Whitehurst, waxers said
that, clan men of his acquaintance, Mr. Lee was least liable
to a charge of intemperance or intoxication. He always con-
sidered him to be a moral and excellent man.
Mrs. Elliott deposed that she was at Bishop Ryder's
church on a Sunday in June, 1844, when the present Bishop
of Manchester officiated. His manner was monotonous and
without emphasis. He had a sleepy tone. Did not know
what to think of him. Could not say that he was not sober;
if he had been any other person than Mr. Lee, she should
have thought he had been intoxicated.
Edmund Henry Thrasher, of Islington-row, Birming-
ham, and master of the national school of St. Thomas's,
Birmingham: Was at Bishop Ryder's church on a Sun-
day evening in June, 1844. Mr. Lee officiated on that
occasion. He noticed his manner ; it was decidedly cliffs-
rent from what he had seen of him. His manner was
nervous, and his utterance indistinct. He was astoninished
at the manner, but did not form an opinion of the cause at
the time. As soon as he heard reports of Dr. Lee's intoxi-
cation, it struck him that the appearances were very Weal
those of intoxication. Would not swear that Dr. Lee was
intnx'cated, but he had that appearance.
Edwin Cotterill was present at Bishop Ryder's church on
the evening in question. He considered Mr. Lee's manner
singular, and his reading very incoherent. His impression
at the time was that Mr. Lee was drunk, and he spoke
to some upon the subject as he left the church the Darnel
evening.
Mr. Thomas Rolluon, of Birmingham, was warden of
Bishop Rider's church in 1842, 1843, and 1844, swore most
positively that, although the manner of Mr. Lee, when he
officiated at Bishop Rider's church, was somewhat nervous,
he was, in his opinion, sober.
Mr. Gutteridge : What was your opinion at the time ?
Witness: I had no opinion about the matter. My impres-
sion was, that lie read the service imperfectly; but I did not
attribute it to intemperance, but rather to exhaustion.
This concluded the case for the defence.
Mr. Whitehurst, in a very able speech, replied on the part
of We crown ; and at halt-past six, p.m., Chief Justice Wilde
was summing up the case to
us thDAT.e jury.
Ta
We have received the following by the Electric Telegraph
Company's express: "Chief Justice Wilde concluded his
summing up this morning, and the jury returned a verdict
of Guilty sgainst the defendant."

To the alienated gentry they said, if they did justice to
the people the past would be forgotten; and to the
middle classes they were ready to say, join us and
make the solution of this struggle • peaceful one
us, and your interests shall be preserved —in
this our hour of triumph we are willing to stretch forth
the hand of friendship to you. (Loud cheers.) The
speaker then read another extract from the answer of Mr.
O'Brien, which was to the effect, that " they had not ceased
to hope that the great question now at issue between the
English Government and the Irish people might be adjoined
by an amicable settlement." (Cheers.) There was no um
who desired to shed the blood of his countrymen. They
wanted liberty, and not the death of any one. At the bet
meeting he proposed a pledge, which would be brought to
the several clubs for adoptioa by the members it they
thong[ fit to do so. The pledge which had been prepared
was to the effect that they resolved, in the face of the coun-
try, to refrain from the use of all intoxicating liquor from
that day till the legislative independence of Ireland was
established.
Mr. J. O'HAGAN, in rising to move the first resolution,
read a letter from Mr. J. Dillon, who was ill. It called on
the people to arm; and in conclusion it stated that the groat
body of the repealer. of Ireland were not republicaus, buten-
peelers, who wanted their own Houses of Lords and Com-
mons in Ireland under the Queen of England and Ireland.
He (Mr. Oliagan) fully agreed in every word of the letter
be bad just read, and be would proceed to submit the
resolution entrusted to him by the council, which was as
follows:
Thatj we hereby repudiate so a gross calumny, the imputation
thrown out upon us by Lord John Russel'', that the object of this Con-
federation is social disorder and a violent separation from Great Bri-
tain; and we het eby declare that ow object is now, as it always was,
the legislative Independence of Ireland, sod thereby the atiainmelit of
secial order and we desire that such independence may he obtained.
if passible, without civil wee.
This resolution became necessary in consequence of the
slanderous falsehoods which the press of England asserted
—that they ware the advocates of social disorder. (Hear.) I
Mr. Manx F. OTIAIIEUTY seconded the motion.
Ile said, that his advice to the people of Ireland was to be
spa& and frank in all their actions. Hie neat advice to the
immist Intend was to arm and bide their time, for they should
mat gleam their thoughts and hopes too much on other
.seisms; and after they were armed they should proceed to
the formation of • Council of Three Hundred, and to este.-
Mish a national guard of 303,000 men. (Hear.)
The motion having been passed,
Mr. Jonas MITCHELL, of the United Irielintan, was afraid
there was some misconception abroad with regard to some-
thing be bad said at their previous meeting—namely, that
be had expressed himself as a republican. (Hear, hear.)
He expressed himself so certainly, but he did not intend,
when using that expression, to commit the confederation or I
any of its members to it, although he believed many of
them held the same creed. (Cheers, and cries of " We do.")
Every chartist, universal suffrage man, and radical re-
pealer, was at bottom a republican—(loud cheers)—but there
was no use then in entering into considerations as to the na-
ture and form of the government they should have. What
they wanted was shortly—lreland for the Irish. (Tremendous
applause.) If the aristocracy would lead them in their
struggles, they might do so sod welcome, and they should I
have their Lords; and they, the commons, would have)
tiedrCommons. (Loud cheers.) If he (Mr. Mitchell) spoke
a republic, it was because he sow the higher classes,l
Instead of joining them, signing addresses to the govern-
ment expressive of loyalty, which was treason against
them; in fact, his personal predilections were not repub-
lican, but they were his predilections from necessity.
(Cheers.) For his part, what he wanted for Ireland was
her own parliament ; he had no objection to queen, lords,
and:commons ; but it it were not granted peaceably, and they
were ebliged to take the matter into their own hands, then
be would say it should be a p.rliament for the people.
(Tremendous cheers.) The resolution he (Mr. Mitchell) had
to submit to the meeting was as follows ;
That the Council suggest to all repeaters, both in town and country,
that, in order to form the basis of a national guard, they Immediately
form themselves Into mamas, each consisting of 20 men, living near
each other, in one street or other limited district, and that each sec-
tion elect • master and warden, in wham they have implicit °milldams;
that five of such sections (which should also have their residences
adjacent) form a class, numbered clam No. I, No. 2, and so forth ;
that the masters and wardens of the the sections elect • vice-preiii.
dent and secretary, and that the several vice-presidents and secre-
taries of the classes elest a president.
It was necemary, perhaps, for him (Mr. Mitchell) to men-
tion, in connexion with this resolution, that it would not be
necessary to carry it out in Dublin. because be was happy
to say the confederates were rapidly forming into sec-
tions, and appointing officers to command them, so as to
be ready at any emergency to act as circumstances de-
manded. (Cheers.) The resolution was prepared and in-
tended for the country towns and districts, for the purpose of
making the confederates in those localities arm and organise.
Everything should be done openly, because they should re-
member that any attempt at secretly would be in vain and
foolish, as the country was swarming with detectives.
(Cheers.) " Wherever two or three were gathered to-
gether"
there were Colonel Browne's spies. (Tremendous
applause.) In fact, the meet treason-speaking man in
the room was the man who did Colonel Browne's dirty'
work, who did the dirty work of Lord Clarendon. (Loud
cheers.) Who Lord Clarendon did the dirty work for, he
(Mr. Mitchell) did not know. (Cheers.) The object of this
spy system they should be aware of. It was doe the pur-
pose of furnishing his excellency with evidence to manu-
facture a case to disarm the citizens of Dublin. (Groans for
Lord Clarendon.) That was the palpable object of the spy
Kirwan, who was detected buying pike*; and when be
(Mr. Mitchell) called on the magistrate to commit him for
trial, he refused to do so, lest the authorities
might turn on him and charge him with sedition. (Loud
cheers.) Another motive of the spies was to lead the
people to believe it was illegal to buy or sell guns and pikes.
(Hear.) Now, he would tell them that such was not the
fact, for a man had as good a right to make and sell a pike as
he would any other article. There was another observation
he (Mr. M.) would make on this subject. He would caution
the people from purchasing Birmingham guns for 10s., for
they were worse than nothing; a good stick would be a
thousand times better. (Cheers, and cries of " Pikes, pikes,
pikes!") As to the question of union amongst re glen, no
one wished it more ardently Kean he did, and he believed a
union was about to take place from what he had beard from
Cork, Limerick, and elsewhere. (Cheers.) Hitherto he had
said little on the subject, but he believed he had done as
much to bring it about as any man, by showing that he was
determined to carry the repeal. That was in his mind the
true way to form a union of repeaters to dissolve the legis-
lative union. (Loud cheers.) Of all classes of men with whom
he wished to forma union were the Orange farmers of Ulster,
for he knew them well, and knew they could be depended
upon. (Hear, hear.) Be would, therefore, call on them to
come forward and join the men of Leiester, Munster, and
Connaught, and declare that their parliament should be re-
stored. (Cheers.)
Mr. M'Elaa seconded the motion. He agreed with Mr.
Mitchell that they were not to import their freedom from
France. Freedom never was the gift of a foreign nation. It
should grow up upon the soil—root itself in men's hearts—
blossom in their deeds—run with the course of their blood—
and lead them if necessary to the scaffold. (Loud cheers.)
Native freedom could alone spring from the acts of native
hands. (Cheers.) They should negotiate with arms in their
hands, but they would not go through another year of
famine, and leave another half million of victims slain by the
inhuman means that were resorted to last year. (Cheers.) The
Confederation should enlarge its borders, and every man
should go forth that night a recruiting serjeant for the new
national guard. They should have no more words about
what they intended doing. Without an army they could
not do anything. They should set about creating a union
of all classes in right earnest ; and the very first flash from
their front ranks would drive from the soil for ever the
tenants of the castle. (Cheers.) It was a base calumny
against the people to say that, if necessity compelled them to
draw the Orford to smite in the cause of Ireland, they would
play the burglar and the petty thief. They would not
break into any private house. They would not outrage any
private feeling or violate any tie ; but would smite the
common enemy over the heads of those who were neutral
or hesitating in the cause of their common country. (Cries
of " Hear," rod cheers.) He regarded no man as an enemy
except the foreigner and the intruder. If they were obliged
to draw the sword, as a last resource, every man would lie in
the street a corpse with his hand beneath his lifeless head, or
else Ireland should be a free nation. (Cheers.) He had been
informed that the British minister had sent for • person in
Dublin to ascertain if the Irish people would accept some
parings of their rights. (A Voice,—" No; we will have
nothing but the whole hog.") (Cheers.) Would they not
be reasonable? (Laughter.) 'Would they not have a
teetotum Parliament spinning about occasionally in Dublin ?
(" No, no.") Would they not accept a; federal parliament
and • Tint at certain periods from her majesty ? ("No, no ;
nothing but the eld house at home'—no more burials at
Skibbereen.") He did not know who presumed to take upon
himself to treat in the name of the Irish people ; but if any
such thing had been done—if any man went to London to
treat with their common oppressor without consulting them,
and if he made any other condition except a full and un-
conditional independence, the Irish people would tear his
treaty to pieces, and he would escape very well if he did not
share ;the same fete. C' A:groan for John O'Connell."—
Groans.) He would tell them that they would scorn their
teetotum Parliament, spit upon their federalism, and accept
nothing but unconditional repeal. (Cheers.) They would
have no authority but what was native; no soldiery, but
what they would raise themselves ; no foreign flag should
fly between them and heaven. Their green flag should
float above their own towns, and go in the van with their
men to battle. (Cheers.) They would fight,—they must
fight ; they. would be disgraced before the world if they did
not determine their cause that year. (Loud cheep.) ng
land should be quick about it it she desired to restore peace,
and nothing but unconditional repeal would content them.
(Loud cheers.)
I he resolution was adopted, and
Mr. Wa.i.l.ens then proposed the following resolution,
which was seconded by Mr. CosTELLO, and adopted :
That this Confederation, anxiously desiring a union of all. Web-
men, recommend to the confederate clubs that, to promote that object,
they admit is membership all enrolled members of Conciliation-hall
on the same terms as members of the Confederation.
The following resolution, proposed by a person named
DOYLE, and seconded by Mr. Sierra, was next paned
That as attempt. are at present being made to entrap the people
into worst associaitiens, the Irish Confederation feel it to be their day
strenuously to advise to do all things openly which they may belling
the meanies of the country require.
These several re.olutiona having been passed, Mr.
Duffy warned the people to return home peacefully and ab-
stain from riot ; and hoped the press would convey the mm.
plimenta of the meeting to the Provost of Trinity
College, and inform him that there were 20 students upon
the platform that evening. (A cheer for the students of
Trinity College.) The meeting then tranquilly dispersed.

DISTINCTIVE BADGES FOB SPECIAL CONSTABLES.— 1
The authorities of Scotland yard have just trued to the
konseholden and others, special constables of St. Martin's
and neighbouring parishes, white belts, about one inch in
width, to be worn on the bat and arm when engaged in
I active duty. They each and all are intended to hold them-
selvess in readiness to be called upon on Mon

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