The Express.
London, England, 1851-07-19 00:00:00

IRELAND.

LL
DUBLIN, JULY 18.
At the Meath assizes, the Rev. P. Ginty, a Roman
catholic priest, was, on Wednesday last, put on his
trial fur a misdemeanour, in threatening a crown
witness, to prevent him from attending to give evi-
dence against persons charged with a whiteboy
offence. The following evidence was produced:
James Finnegan sworn—Lives in Moynaltv, in this
county. The parish priest is the traverser, kr. Ginty.
Remembers the 9th of January last. Had been examined
at Moynalty sessions on the 7th of that month, in respect
of the attack on Carolin's house. On the 9th of January
Mr. Ginty came to the house of witness, and asked him to
come down to his (Mr. Ginty's) house. It was between 10
and 11 o'clock in the morning. When he came down he
saw Mr. Sheridan, the curare, in the parlour. Mr. Ginty
then, addressing Mr. Sheridan, said " Here is a man who
works itir the gentlemen of this neighbourhood—he is urged
to hang these boys, for his oath is dreadful." Mr. Ginty
then asked witness how long he had been in Moynalty.
Witness replied, " Since the ear 1832." He then said, I
" \Vail, then, you can't but know that Caroline
character is • bad one, for he would have killed his
own father in the bog where he was working, but that
Pat Family saved his life—he also brought a party of men
to beat the friend of a girl whom he wanted to marry him,
and refused to do so, and he defamed her character.' Wit.
ness said, in reply, " he believed that the opinion of the
neighbours corroborated with Mr. Ginty's character of
him." Mr. (linty then said, '• Will you not swear on the
j table that his character is bad?" Witatats, in reply,
said, " When the book is put into my hand I shall tell the
i truth." Mr. Ginty then pushed witness out of the parlour,
saying, "
that the language which passed then should not go
further." He appeared to be angry with witness. "Fin-
negan," said he, " don't attempt to speak of what has taken
place here" Remember last assizes. A week before that
time Mr. Ginty's boy came fur witness, and said Mr. Ginty
wanted him down. Mr. Ginty, Mr. Sheridan, and the boy
(llinnings) where all in the stable when he went down.
Father Ginty was the first that spoke. He:stretched out
kis arm, mid said, " There is a man whose ears will be
cut utf for perjury—his oath is dreadful—he is going to
prosecute them that he knows arc innocent of the charge."
Witness said "it was a damnable thing to say so
for it was • lie," and witness retired front the place
at that word. Was examined at the last assizes, which took
place about a week atter. On the Sth of April witness mut
Mr. Ginty coming from Kens. It was on a Saturday. This
was after the awaxes.

Counsel for the traverser objected that what took plates
after the assizes could nut be evidence.

Chief Justice Monahan—l think it may be used as a cots
ruborative evidence of what took place facture.
Examination resumed—Witness and Father Ginty were
on the road together. There were two other men present.
It was between three and four o'clock in the day. When
witness passed out before Father Ginty, the latter called to
him, and said, was he able to meet the call ou his shares in
the bank ? Witness said he was not. "I don't believe a
word of it," says Father Ginty, "or anything you say.
You said first that you were in Bailieborough, at the
market, on the day of the attack on Carulin, and you after-
wards swore against the buys who were transported. I'll
prove you a perjurer. 111 prevent you from drawing the
breath of life."
Crosa.examined by Mr. Battersbe—Mr. Ginty did not at
any of the times desire me nut to tell the truth, but only nut
to go forward. Mr. Ginty bore a good character in the
parish. In the time of the famine and distress he was
active there. Was implicated in the bank for 171. Mr.
Ginty interfered, and got him time to pay it at 11. a month,
but he asked tat. from witness to take his shares. It was
not for nothing he got witness time at the bank. He
gave Mr. Ginty value and workmanship far it. Gave
evideuce last assizes in regard of the outrage on Carotin.
Got only 30s. from the crown on that occasion. Never
knew that Carotin got 50'. until this day. Witness was
accused at one time of breaking a press and taking meat out
of it, but there was no proof against him.
Patrick Costigin and Joseph Lanigan (policemen) were
examined. They stated they were at the chapel of Moy.
nalty on Sunday, the 12th of January last, and heard W.
Ginty, from the altar, read from the Meath Herald an
account of the attack on Carolin's house. lie said the
statement in it was untrue; that it said 40 men were con-
cerned in the attack, and that there were only sic or seven
there, and that he could prove it; and also that the persons
who were charged with it were persons of good character.
He also said that the people who hunted those poor boys
through the country, and persecuted them, were nut as
good characters as those they were persecuting.
The jury ultimately returned a verdict of Not Guilty.
The only son of Mr. Henry Grattan, M.P., died
this week.

TILE DERRY FAMILY AND Tow!, OF PRESTON.
—When the late Earl of Derby entered parliament for
Preston, 1796, this town was the winter residence, as
I well as the resort at other times, of his lonlship's and the
other aristocratical families of Lancashire, although, from
the recent introduction of the cotton trade, it WWI beginning
; to lose the character for exclusive gentility which it had so
long enjoyed, and which obtained for it the name it yet
bears of " Proud Preston." The earl's tither was a native
of Preston, and received a portion of his education at the
ga r school in this town. His grandfather was also
born in
Preston ; and his street grandfather, the eleventh
earl, served the office of mayor of l'reston in the years
1731-2. The inhabitants of Preston, at the time the lato
earl first represented the town, numbered about 7,000 or
8.000; the introduction of the cotton trade had just given
an impulse to the population, which had been almost sta-
tionary at about 6,000 for nearly two centuries. The
corporation, allying itself with the new interest, was
strong enough in • few years afterwards to divide with
the Stanley family the representation of the town ; their
joint nomination, though often assailed, was triumphant
until the year 1818. The small genteel borough has now
risen to be an important manufacturing town, of 70,000
inhabitants ; and its representation, though gained some-
times by very questionable means, is at any rate no longer
at the disposal of a peer or a coterie of aldermen. Great,
indeed, are other changes. The extension of trade and the
rapidity of communication with the gay metropolis have
displaced the nobility and gentry from the ranks of our ne-
*ideas, the Earl of Derby being one of the last to leave:
and tho completion of the change from the old to the new
p'yinte was characteristically marked by the razing of the
ancient mansion of the Stanley family in the town, to make
way for a row of shops.—Presten Manias.
THE LATE LORD Gamma BENTINCX.—The ground
has just been marked out in Cavendiah.square, opposite
Holler-street, for the bronze statue, erected by sucriP-
tion, to this lamented nobleman. Much delay has been oc-
casioned by the tedious process of polishing the huge block
of red granite which is to form the pedestal, and weighs'
near a donne tons.