The Sun.
London, England, 1840-06-27 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, JUNE 9.4.—TRIAL OF JONES FOR RlB-
lONtsm.—This case, which occupied the Commiss:on
Court the entire of yesterday, was brought to a conclu-
sion this afternoon. Sergeant Green recapitulated the
evidence on behalf of the Crown. Mr. Justice Ball
addressed the Jury, and his summing-up occupied nearly
an hour. He read all the documents proved in the case
very minutely, and made observations upon them : the
tone and bearing of his charge were strongly against the
prisoner. He was of opinion that the documentary and
parole evidence given on the part of the Crown was very
satisfactory. The Jury retired, and at a quarter
before three o'clock returned into their box with
a verdict of Guilty and a recommendation to mercy,
on the ground that the offence committed occurred
very recently after the passing of the Act of Par-
liament under which the prisoner was convicted.
The Court took a note of this recommendation. Coun-
sel on the part of the prisoner then intimated their in-
tention of moving an arrest of judgment on certain
points, and the Attorney-General having agreed to post-
pone the judgment till to-morrow, the points raised will
then be argued. This is the first conviction under the
Bill brought forward by the Government last Session
for the more effectual suppression of illegal societies in
Ireland.

The Mail has a letter from Bclturbet about the
seizure of two Ribbonmen in the house of Mr. Patrick
Prunty. One of the men, it is said, has been com-
mimed to Cavan jail ; the other held-to bail.
LIBEL CASE.—The Court of Queen's Bench has
been three days occupied with an action for libel,
brought by the Rev. P. Cumming, Rector of a parish
in Monaghan, against the proprietor of the Frceman's
Journal.. The Jury were discharged last night without
agreeing to a verdict.

-THE REGISTRIES —At the registry of Ratlikeale,
county Limerick, the Reformers registered 46, and the
Tories only one ! The Tories arc holding back until
the passing of Lord Stanley's Bill!
THE CATHOLIC CHURCH.—OR Sunday, by the di-
rection of the Right It v. Dr. Higgins, Bishop of Ar-
dagh, a solemn thanksgiving was offered to Almighty
God In every Catholic church within this extensive
diocese, for his late merciful preservation of the Queen
from the treasonable attack upon her life and that of
her Illustrious Consort. The Clergy of the diocese pur-
pose meeting at his Lordship's residence Ballyshannon,
next week, for the purpose of forwarding to her Majesty
a congratulatory address.
The.Pdot complains of the non-attendance of Irish
Members, affirming that the majority oa Saturday
morning, which was si-,ven, might have been sixteen, al-
lowing the English Solicitor-General the leave of ab-
sence, to which a recent domestic 1.43 clearly entitled
him.

DUBLIN, Juict 25.-.-TarAr. OF JONEs..—At the
siting of the Court this morning, the prisoner was placel
at the bar, when Mr. Brewster, Q.C., rest•, and moved
an arrest of judgment on certain points ; among others,
on the omission of the word such in the indictment : for
instance, in the indictment, where it charged the pri-
soner with being " a member of a secret society using
signs and pass-words," and " communicating with the
members," should have said " communicating as such
members," according to the terms of the streut2 undtr
which he was indicted. The omission of the word such
would leave any communication between members of a
secret society, however innocent, liable to the penalties
of the Act, whereas, the word such confined the com-
munications to the actual business of the society.—T►:e
Court postponed giving judgment on the points raised
until Saturday.

MR. EGERTON. WEBBE.—It is with the deepest
sorrow that we have this day to announce the death of Mr.
Egerton Webbe, son of Mr. Samuel Webbe, Park-terrace, Tox•
teth-park and nephew to Mr. Egerton Smith. 'Mr. Webbe
was well-known in the literary circles of this country and of Eu-
rope, as an elegant and profound scholar, and an accomplished
writer, who excelled in every department of literature, and em-
bellished every subject of which he treated, by the originality
and vigour of his versatile and almost universal genius. Nilal
[digit pod non ornavit. This extraordinary and much lamented
young gentleman died on Wednesday afternoon, in the thirtieth
year of his age, after a severe indisposition of six mouths.—Li-
verpool Mercury
ALL. TILE DIFFERENCE.—At a small market
town in Oxfordshire, delightfully situated on the banks of the
Isla, the docile parishioners have lately suffered a rather heavy
church.rate to be levied upon them, which the churchwardens
determined to expend in ornamenting the interior of the
church. Whilst the painter was busily pursuing his avocation
within this venerable structure, the curate entered the sacred
edifice, and observing that the man of colours hed his hat on,
he inquired, in a very authoritative tone, why be presumed to
wear his bat in the church. "I am afraid of catching cold,"
was the meek reply;
" Never mind that; ''you see flee n
e windows are all ope."
you must not wear
inquired your hat in the
cliureh." " Pray, Sir," the painter, ,4 why do -you
wear yours?" "Me , sir ! oh, that's a very different matter!
1 am a part of the church !"
A SUBSTITUTE.--.Alt Irish officer in the 40th
rang his bell so often that no servant the landlady could hire
would stop in the house, or could stand running up stairs.
The officer consequently received notice to quit, which being
unwilling to do, and finding the cause of warning, he promised
never more to ring his bell again. Upon this understanding;
he retired to his apartmeht. In about half an hour the whole
house was alarmed by the report of a brace-of pistols in the
Captain's room. Up rushed the landlady, the lodgers, and the
servants, and burst open the door, in the full expectation of
some di cidiul catastrophe. " Coffee !" coolly s isl the Captaln.
On their expr, ssing surprise, the lodger cried, " hy, as yott
do not like nie to ring the bell, of course 1 mua find same
subAitsite."—Shrrk;urize
,Journal.