The Sun.
London, England, 1848-10-19 00:00:00

THE STATE TRIALS.

DUBLIN*, WEDNESDAY MORNING. -It has been
arranged that the Tipperary Commission is to con-
tinue until all the cases for trial shall be disposed of,
and that the Dublin Commission is to proceed at the
same time.

It is now arranged that the commission will not
ct.nclude-untill next:week, the Judges having resolved
to dispose of all the cases for trial before they rise.
The Solicitor-General remains in Clonmel to bring
the business of the commission to a close. The
Attorney• General proceeds to Dublin to conduct the
trials there.
The Clonmel correspondent of the Freeman's
Journal says—
" The 3d Buffs and a park of artillery arrived here
this evening from Pil!town. This addition makes the
garrison here one of considerable strength. The streets
in the neighbourhood of the Court-house have been pa-
trolled during the last day or two by a party of mounted
dragoons..

" In compliance with a requisition, numerously and
respectably signed, by men of all sects and parties, the
Mayor has called a meeting of the inhabitants of Clonmel
for Thursday next, for the purpose of agreeing to a
memorial to the Government in favour of Messrs.
O'Brien, M'Manus, and the other state prisoners, in con-
formity with the metropolitan memorial."
The following communication from Clonmel appears
in Saunders' News Letter-..
"The Crown have still a large number of witnesses
to be examined. Mr. Whiteside and Mr. Butt will speak
for the prisoner, and witnesses will be examined for him.
The Solicitor-General will then speak, and Chief Justice
Blaokburne charge the jury. The trial of Mr. O'Brien
lasted nine days, and that of Mr. Meagher will, I think,
have concluded Wore the end of the week. Whether
the sentences upon Mr. M'Manus and Mr. O'Donohue
will then follow, or other persons be put upon their
trials before this is done, is not known. It is rumoured
here to-day that C. G. Duffy will be tried at this cum-
mission. One of the Judges has been heard to say that
'he thinks he will eat his Christmas dinner in Clonmel.
The sittings here exceed anything known in Dublin.
There the Judges at commission sit about eleven o'clock
each morning and adjourn before six, but here they
often sit at nine o'clock and do not adjourn till half-past
seven. As the prisoners did not join in their chal-
lenges, they could not be tried together; the consequence
has been that the Court is every day travelling over the
same ground, witnesses are detailing the same facts, and
with few exceptions, the evidence given is similar
in all the cases. There is no public excitement.
Much interest, indeed, is felt in the trials, and
though there is great monotony and sameness in the
details, the spectators, many of whom are ladies, are
still numerous and unwearied in their attendance. This
morning a sensation was created in the town by a de-
tachment of the 4th Light Dragoons drawing up with
swords unsheathed, exactly opposite the house of a
person named Smith, in which the Attorney-General
lives. Some said that the first law officer of the Crown
had been molested in the street ; others hinted that he
had information which rendered such a military escort
to court necessary ; but these suppositions were at once
answered by the appearance of the Attorney-General
outside the court-house at the time that the soldiers
were opposite his residence. It is supposed that the
dragoons were merely waiting for their captain or lieu-
tenant, who intended going with them to Dungarvan.
Neither Judges nor Crown counsel fear insult or moles-
tation. They have been seen walking in secluded places,
without arms or escort ; and a few days ago the
Attorney-General was unbending his mind by con-
versing with a number of boys who were flying their
kites by the side of the River Suir. These fucts,
however trifling, clearly show that the town is quiet,
and the proceedings are free from tumult or violence of
any kind."
The Clonmel Chronicle says—
"On Thursday night last, Mr. Trouton, charged
with high treason, on the evidence of Dobbin, as eli
cited on Mr. O'Brien's trial, and Martin James Burke,
also charged with treasonable practices, were brought
from Dublin, and lodged in Clonmel gaol, under war-
rants of his Excellency the Earl of Clarendon. Their
removal to Clonmel is believed to have bean caused
by their being required to give evidence for Mr. Thomas
Francis Meagher, now upon his trial for high treason."
DEPUTATION TO THE LORD LIEUTENANT.
Yesterday adeputation, of which Mr. John O'Brien,
M.P., Aldermen Watson, Geary, and M`Mahon, and
Dr. Gore, were members, presented three memorials
to his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant, one from the
corporation of the city of Limerick, a second from
the inhabitants of Limerick and its vicinity, and a
third from the Limerick Society, praying that his
Excellency would he graciously pleased to commute
the sentence of death passed on Mr. W. S. O'Brien,
in compliance with the recommendation of mercy of
the jury by whom he was convicted at the special
commission now sitting at Clonmel. His Excellency
tric;ecei received
memorialsthe deputation
withtiohneen
his
presented,u thesualNob
courtesy,l
e Earland
briefly returned a verbal reply, in substance the same
as that which he gave the deputation from the city of
Dublin on Monday, on the occasion of the presenta-
tion of a memorial of a similar effect, namely, that as
the commission was sitting at Clonmel for the trial of
persons charged with the same offence as that of
which Mr. O'Brien was convicted, and as a notice of
a writ of error had been served, he would refrain
from saying anything on the subject beyond that of
repeating the assurance that full weight would be
given to the recommendation of the highly respect-
able jury who tried Mr. O'Brien.
REPLY TO THE ORANGE ADDRESS.
The following is the reply of his Excellency the Lord-
Lieutenant to the memorial in favour of the exercise of
clemency to Mr. W. S. O'Brien:—

" Viceregal Lodge, Oct. 17th, 1848.
" am directed by the Lord-Lieutenant to ac-
knowledge the receipt of your letter of the 16th instant,
together with the accompanying memorial in behalf of
Mr. W. Smith O'Brien.

" In reply, I have to convey to you his Excellency's
regret, that the persons who have affixed their signature
to that document should have thought fit to introduce
into a petition for the extension of mercy a groundless
imputation upon the impartial administration of justice
by the Executive Government. —I have the honour to
be, Sir, your obedient servant,

" S. CORRY CONNELLAN.
" To the Rev. C. M. Fleury, 24, Up. Leeson-street."
THE STATE PRISONERS IN NEWGATE.
The Freeman's Journal contains the following :
"In consequence of the suspicions excited by the
alleged attempt of Charles G. Duffy to escape from
Newgate, all access to him has been cut off. No person
whatever is now allowed to see or communicate with
him under any circumstance. He has been removed to
an inner apartment of the prison, and double guards placed
about his apartment. It is stated the prisoner's health
appears to suffer much. Messrs. O'Doherty and Wil-
liams have been also removed from the rooms lately oc-
cupied by them. The prisoners are most rigorously
watched."

JENNY LlND.—Yesterday evening their Excellen-
cies the Lord-Lieutenant and the Countess of Claren-
don received a numerous party at dinner at the Vice-
Regal Lodge. Mdlle. Jenny Lind bad the honour of
being of the party.
ALLEGED ESCAPE OF O'MAHONY.
The Cork Constitution has the following:—
" O'Mahony, for whose arrest on a charge of high
treason 'the Lord-Lieutenant has offered a reward of
1001., is supposed to- have escaped to a foreign shore.
The story told is this, that he was s fugitive flying from
place to place in the Curraghmore mountains, his where-
abouts being even unknown to his family until Tuesday
night last, when, to their amazement, he knocked at the
door of his house, and took a hurried farewell of his wife
and children. From this he hastened across to the Wa-
terford mountains, and the next night arrived at Bon-
mahon, where he was to be met by a boat which was to
convey him to a vessel lying off the land. While in the
dark he was scrambling, unaccompanied, his way over
the rocks •to the beach where the boat was to be in readi-
ness for him, his foot slipped and he fell down a preci-
pice, a height of some two hundred feet into the sea. His
escape is said to have been miraculous and providential,
not so much in reference to the fall as to the difficulties
be had then to encounter. Ho swam along the base of
the rock for some time, but could find no means by
which he could regain a footin
had to support himself by h g, and eventuallye
was s
of stone wh anging from a pie
ich protruded from the rock, but which
carcely distinct enough to enable him to rest half
his fingers on. Here he remained for over six hours,
until the fishermen who awaited his arrival at the ap-
pointed cove, supposing he had missed his way, rowed
along the shore, in hopes of attracting his attention. It
being then day-break, and he having perceived the boat,
screamed for assistance, which was heard and afforded,
and he was carried out to sea. Having got on board the
friendly vessel, no more has been since heard of him, but
it is expected he was transhipped, as was proposed, on
board a French fishing smack, in search of which the
vessel proceeded.
" MORE TRooPB.—Orders have been forwarded to
Clonmel to prepare quarters for four companies of the
Rifle Brigade. It is not known whether their services
are required for the Special Commission and the safety
of the prisoners, or to aid the civic authorities in the
levying of executions, and the collection of poor-Cates
and county cess.
" THE CONVICTED TRAlTORS.—lndirect intimation
from the Government has been given to Mr. Smith
O'Brienjand Mr. M‘Manusithat their lives willjbe spared.
It is expected they will be removed from the gaol of the
county to a prison in the north of Ireland. Their rela-
tives and friends are not prevented at present from visit-
ing them.

"'THE CONVICT O'Dowonois.—lt was understood that
O'Donohoe hadldetermined throughout the:trial he would
twit and snub Mr. Attorney-General, with whom for
many years he had been on terms of intimacy. He says,
that in his position as scrivener to a solicitor in Dublin;
ho Was the first person who handed a fee to the gentle-