The Express.
London, England, 1850-01-09 00:00:00

IRELAND.

The requisition for the protectionist " densmino
tioo" of the 17th appeared, as anticipated, inthe Mail
of last night, and by its form precludes all tasted
disismion at the meeting, which will consist way of
persons who have already recorded the uniformity of
their opinions by signing the Olengall address to hie
Majesty. The requisition is as follows :
We, the undersigned, deeply impressed with the impora.
ante of giving the most effective expression to public opinion
upon the p at modifies of Ireland, and the absolute se-
eemity of a change in the policy of meat hereby
regurst a meeting of those who have often to
het Most Gracious Majesty, of Use peen, mashers of parlia-
ment, gentry, magistrates, baskets, merchants, sod tenet-
terniers of Ireland, to be held at the Rotunda. in Debits, os
Thursday, the 17th day of January, 1850, at the hour of 11
**cloth, to deliberate apes the best mots of presenting the
address to her Majesty, and to adopt petitions to both bosses
of parliament. ano vote such meolutions as may appear el-
pe4ient for obtaining protection to native isdustry, sad a
reform of the present oppressive system of poor laws.
Attached to this appears a roll of but twenty sig-
natures, selected for the high honour of representing
the protectionist beet, and consisting of fourteen
peers to represent the aristocracy, three members of
the lower house, for the Commons, and as many de-
puty.litutenanta, for the magistracy and private
gentry. as follows :—Downshire, Westmeath, Shan-
non, Glengall, Enniskillev, Miltown, Loran, Rodeo,
Gormans:own, Mayo, Bandon, Mountoashell, Lorton,
Cements, Lucius O'Brien, Bart, M.P., Francis
Dunne, M.P., J. C. Cbattertoe, M.P.. Hugh Barton,
D.L., W. W. Fitz William Home, D.L, George Ma-
, D.L.
11T. Jallaa cemmeneed his annual series of concerts
Is Dahlia last evening, at the Kneads Rooms.
Jetty Tres was the chief attraction as the
cot ion.
'five Limerick Chronicle says "Mr. John O'Con-
nell, in a letter to Joseph Murphy, Req., secre-
tary of the committee which assembled last week.
has intimated that he will not vacate his meat in
parliament until the liberal party in the city have
selected a candidate of their own choice to succeed
him."

SCOTLAND.
HIGH COURT OF JUSTICIARY.

Tale
Clerk, start
ads Maekessie ssi I—pees Weed. ea- tier Lord Justice
sai l
Taw, 101 Maass Off • GIANIMPII.
Andrew Fermat, • basksalth, was pissed at the bar,
demi with the arias of murder, haviag on the 6th of
September raw, on or near the reed whisk leads from Stoney-
meadow tell by Creektableas tell-bar, in the perish of
Cambeelsag, meaty a Lurk, at • part of the road situ.
atoll is the palish el Cambeelerg, whisk is SI yards to the
eastward of Steserstaiew IA sad ad yards to the west-
ward 41 the wasters esenatatiest of • doable row of trees
skirting • ppoartion of the saes of said road, and commonly
• d tie Beaches, stashed sad seesalted the now deceased
Joseph Kirby, • gukeseer, residing at Osibertneld castle,
fa the parish of Cambeekei, sad did, with • gun or other
fire-arse, loaded with powder sad tomato shot, wickedly and
feloniously shoot at the said Joseph Kiri, near his left
bros. whereby he was mortally wounded and soak three-
dam rated.
Tee pun pleaded fasilly. The first wiser called wee
Jaime Dick. sea a Robert Dick, tamer at Turelaw, in
the parish of Casabeelang, who dossed to amine on hos►
bask on the night is questim, the primmer bearing a gun,
and shortly after he put Kirby, who bad two doge with
him. Farther on the read he met the boy Fames. He
nut so one else at that time. Oa returning, still on hoses
bask, witsw saw the body of Kirby lying oa tlittedre=
the two dogs were beside him ; sad the cord was •
to Kirby's hand. The blood Wooded some yards west of
she body.
William Forrest, a man of the prisoner, MY oat with
the frau es the night is question. On the Monday befta
the gamekeeper's death, the pekoes. us to Bridgessila, sad
went oat shooting on Tessay. The seal on Tuesday, abet
saps sad moortowl, madame was drink takea that evesimg.
Thumbs:4er slept lathe au home with wises that Are
(ranasy) ; reamer was • little tipsy when he ease he bed,
which was a few boon after vitas. Witness went eat ea Wed-
nesday mein( with prisoner, who had his gun with him.
Both went along Crookedskields-read. Prisoner went into
a path there on the Duke of Mamiltea's ground, and fired
at some birds there. lie amt to the road again, and both
went in the direction of Greenlee' toll. Witness yew
through a hedge at • plain called the Betas, for a ass
eery purpose. Saw the gamekeeper there at the beck of
the hedge with his gat end two doge. The gamekeeper
came out with his dogs:bat left his gas. Meantime eke
primate had walked on towards Oresalass toll, and Kirby
(the geekeeper) followed him. Witness saw a mas
ride past bat before be posed raw the gamekeeper sad
prisoner speak to each other. They were standing
together was the man on horseback passed them.
Heard the voices of the two bet not the words.
The am on horseback rode on. Witness went back into the
hedge into the dad, at the junctia of the Iroostentrcad,
and Wee out of the sight of the two. While standing there
heard a shot sad cry of " Oh." Prisms then came to
aad said that he had shot the gamekeeper.
There was bleed on the vest et the prism. r. Witness
and prisoner went dealt the road, through a field, on the
way temto Bridgemils. Oot home about seven Aida
Went through the field, as being a near hand eat. Os
getting home prisoner changed his cloths. He pat as
asoleshin trousers, yes', and jacket, belonging to willamie
cassia. Primmer then went off on hie way to Glasgow
&haat eight O'clock. Witness carried the powder lash
end shot bag that night, bet threw then over • hedge
on seeing the releaser and gamekeeper together. The
dogs mood beside the gamekeeper quite quietly. The di,-
tante, from the slim bit the hedge through which wiles&
went to where the rmestrasper sad prisoner were, wee
about twenty yards. Saw the prisoner's gun, hat it wee
sot while standing at the W eat the witness toast the
shot. Did sot seo the make any attempt to
size the peleaser. The dot was Bred in about ten miaates
after the two met. The ream why willies had turned end
al net aft for Andrew Pones was, that be was afraid
the gensekeerer would taker him too, The shot same from
the pass WINN the two were stesdiag. After the shot the
same as situ rumalag. Witness did not go to
blue he was agitated. Told
a7stioillil""ri" irks!. tb:: "I"
Werisoner wnlywhethrtegda:ll.-ot
tabs Matailf. pt for suer that be Masada to shoot
the the gun west aff sad seeldestally shot the
mss- ess that as gun.
by Mr. Itsame—The gun was sot the
gg="erissees. 40a the Wedreslags, the passer shot at
the. Faintkliat with the gas, hat ness was MA WlNsss
law the geinasteTtr. Witnem's bar is Meat of the farm
was mask agitated after labs
1102riant wept. ire:itl the as Maw on blea, ad bit
kdm as OM thigh sad calf of the leg. Witness saw his
UMW Ma than, sad Meet law ers sack suds bass.

Wits. haw the dog ; it wee • very begs see, sad bit
people .awed.... Had knows it attack poachers. Pri-
mmer's was quiet sad iseffeesive.
Br the two—caw she primmer's thigh ding;lslee maw
the bleed magas teem the meted ; did em thigh at the
time that an the bleed had mete trim thst waged. Pri-
soner did sot say whether i< was helm is after the that
that the deg bit Ids. Never saw the deg Mack as
NOW woes est sheathes with the ptiseaer before.
wee is peel • swath.
B a Juror—The Irksome% este is Id; the pdsiesee 1/1.
limeihes,siersgfrogetmarorm,ssid
that the deg wee peony elm
hell. Bed potty • New-
Issedleed. Thedeg was researkably seder kb surster's
.argil. It we Vary's peers& plea te have • bid rased
lb heed w the deg. The deg wm somedasse
meisied• .snore. sot. As night, though the dog wee
gelid, 014 eels it hoe* • pens our, aid went 1011. d
hise dlHisby ems up. HieW wee • eightiose sad poem-
able pewee. So weer let that deg upon • perms. whoa
that he err swan el. Saw Kirhy's bode es the
:eel .hest hake. it had bele lemered. The MA arm
was empties oat, sad the Igen beet ie. dew the mark
of the sled rated the wrist weit he. The abashes from
the slay le the hedge le where the body woe might be about
160 pole.
TU Lard Adveaste thee addressed thejery for the puss-
maim It would set, the mid. be demied that the gum,-
keeper died frees a pa-shot, eel that gem wes used by the
primmer at the her. The asst thing to belle woe, was the
gee deed eisidestelly at LW es ? There
was see wham. Willis. ffeeseit. eneeeled with the pri-
soner by bleed sad easspeeiseildja Tems that whams he
rdship) swaged same tam beessiseL He bed set
gives all he Imew, sod ail dime he led Pees was set ie be
treated. Still he bed made impseiset @amides% Om*
he muds statesimite set aseditest id& the ether miasmic
✓owed said thee the gemakeeper eel WNW IMO Whim
load, sad that bt was Melia etall =gel yet ha re-
tests to Tastiest a isle weed in the -
de*. It main
He pihemer's gas whisk killed the desissed,
and the seediell testiessay was dear teem this, that the gum
nest hew bow aimed at the deemed% brews. The Ishii,
sedge grime was ose inch, sad ems leek only. His lied-
ship them sheered the inooosisteeey of two deeleautises ai
the /*sem At first, the wiener said that the gas had
some el essidentally by being week as the butt sed ; as
sewed thougLes, he said that he suet to bare shot the
dag, bet, is aiming at the deg. he aesidentelly shot the
sme.deg The evidee se showed • Merest mese. He said
the bit hint ; bet, ski the sue eras killed, the deg
was min fenhad attackedSiead of his swum. The
primmer was bit, but whirs ? Not ta boat, se if au altera-
tion bed been going as between the issmoseper aad
priseimv, but behind, just at the very planwhere it was
nee 'stun& the dog should have bit him, after the
priewair bad tweed to ran away ; sad the positios of the
desteetffs head, being strat4M oat, was a proof that the
deg bid attempted to drag his master alter the erlsoaer.
It wee • stump eireamstamee, tee, that, who. in Gleagow,
the primmer add that the dashes he thee had on were the
NM as he bad as when the gamekeeper was shot;
and is those bosom there was a test at the beck, to ro.
-suable the titer sahib lie gima by the Zales:stbsie
mowers were the pair the primmer* at from his
Meads there. That wee est the modest else nes.
The poisoner gave beserigeet staiemesie, sad etessmaset et
urban with the ides of the priesmer's leasesace. The pal
sonar saw so explanatioa of the 1110M1101111 which can be
believed; but the Hood spoke, the 111101 .asspoke, the dog,
still at ached to his master, spoke, sad all said that the pri-
soner was guilty. Whatever may have bees the conduct et
the primer previously, there could be an doubt that at the
time of this occurrence the primmer was engaged in an
illegal prudes. Looking at all the circumstances of the
ease, he (the Lord.Aducate) felt bound, ha all sobriety, to
ask from the jury a verdict for the proareutioe. If the jury
meld by possibility see any way of coming to • different con-
clasiaa, he would be vuy glad ; bat, to his mind, the cam

clearly proven.
Mr. Nome then addressed the jury for the prisoner, and,
though he felt considerable anxiety, yet he was convinced
that the jury would give a very different verdict from that
claimed by the public prosecutor. He was not there to con-
demn the value of circumstaatial evidence, but there was no
theory set up by the crown which could be held valid. That
the death a-Kirby was occasioned by the prisoner's gun, was
at once admitted. The greaser had owns down from Glas-
gow to see some of his (needs, and while going out with his
gun, was it to be believed that the prisoner had met Kirby,
and'actially wilfully shot him, without having seen him be-
fore, sad that he should have so acted in opposition to all his
previous character for good habits, and peaceable cad
iaof-
feuive dispolitica ? He bad no wish to throw out anything
derogatory to the character of the deceased, but he
must be allowed to deprecate the conduct of thati
gamekeeper, or any gamekeeper, following his pro-
fission with a wild beast as his companion. Tin
greatest poacher who ever lived (sad the prisoner was
no poacher in the ordinary muse of that term) was not ma-
tied to be at the mercy of a bloodhound, for it was really ea,
and the jury could not sympathise with such reckless can. I
duet. The dog was one of the worst which was known.
It would be all very well if the gamekeeper could say to
his dog, " Thus far shalt thou go, and no further ;" but he
could not so control it. Kirby woe seeking the prisoner,
and he was seeking him with his dog; and nothing was
more likely than that the dog attacked toe prisoner. The
presumption were all in favour of the prisoner. There
were so motives assigned for the perpetration of the crime,
and he hoped that the jury would return such a verdict as
would dismiss the prisoner Ikon the bar without • stain
upon his character.
The Lerd Justice Clerk then summed up. In doing so
he denounced, in strong language, the practice of parregni
by such a ferocious doges that used by =
The uisenot such a dog was most reprehensible and
and ought to be put down. The promos of that dog gam
a character to the case favourable to the prisoner, and espeo
daily as one of the witnesses said that the brute was " noised
to guard his master "--in other words, to sans ppoacher,.
His lordship maimed up meet favourably for the prisoner—
almost straining the swiftness to acquit the panel—and
strongly 'ingested that the dog might have seised the pri-
soner before the gun was fired. As to the prisoner not aiding
the gamekeeper after he fell, the ferocious character of the
dog wee sufficient to have donned any one from going near
him. There was, his lordship said, every peemmlfiea in
favour of the prisoner, ng his age sad panianagaid
character.
The jury than retired and, after a brief consultation, they
gave fa their verdict, whisk was, that, by • in.jority, they
found the libel Not p, owl.
The prisoner ace. ?dicey left, evidently small to the
'an/facile& of a crowded apart-room.—NorthßritisA Moil.
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