The Sun.
London, England, 1848-10-21 00:00:00

whose head 5001. had been offered was forced to accept
the office of Attorney-General in the colonies. All the
rebels were furnished with the best situations they could
get; and when Mr. Meagher anticipated the return of
Mr. Mitchel from transportation he bad a p rfect right
to do so; and from beginning to end, however wrong it
would be to rescue any man, it was not high treason;
and even if they had rescued him on the quay, and
dragged him out of the van, he could not have been pro-
secuted for treason. The Learned Counsel then read
the letter written by Mr. Meagher in reference to his
visit to Cork, and his intention to go to America. In
that letter there was a passage pregnant with treason—
namely, that "he forgot what the day of the week
was!" His client, no doubt, was a lean man, plotting,
like Cassius, the ruin of the Republic; and his treason
consisted in his forgetting the day of the week. Then
the writer said that they had made a flaming speech.
The Attorney-General hated such speeches, but had
they nut lived on them in Ireland for twenty years, and
were they not their food and drink for years? Then he
announced his intention of going to New York; and here
was the grand levying of war on the field—a contem-
plated trip to America. This to be sure was to be held
by the force of construction as an intention to levy war
in Tipperary. The Attorney-General insinuated, or
stated, that the object of Mr. Meagher was to invoke the
sympathy of America in favour of Ireland. Had not the
American people given the Irish their sympathy when they
were bowed down by famine; had they not flung provisions
upon their shores—and was the Attorney-General justi-
fied in saying that he intended invoking the sympathy of
the Americans to support an insurrectionary movement
in Ireland? They bad a law book which said that "et
ceteras " wore full of meaning. Lord Coke had said so,
and he presumed that the profound wisdom of the Soli-
citor-General would prove that the "et ceteras " in the
letter of Mr. Thomas Francis Meagher meant that he
designed to kill the Queen, murder Prince Albert, and
destroy the eldest child of her Majesty, and if they be-
lieved him, the jury would, of course, find his client
guilty. The letter written by Mr. Meagher to Mr.
Smith was written in 1847, when he was ill at Belleville,
and it had as much reference to the insurrection in Ire-
land as to Ispahan. Was it then justifiable in the At-
torney-General to rake up that letter and bring it for-
ward as a proof of treason? The Learned Counsel then
explained the words used by the prisoner in his letter to
Mr. Smith, " don't forget France and the Revolution,"
and represented them to have been used in reference to
the " History of the Girondists;" Lamartine, a
copy of which he had given to Mr. Smith, and not to
the revolution which took place in the present year,
and consequently the passage could not have applied.
to it.

At half-past six o'clock, Mr. WurrEsmE, addressing
the Court, said—My Lard, having finished the written
evidence, may I ask you to adjourn, as I feel myself
to be much exhausted?

CHIEF JUSTICE—Very well, let the Court be ad-
journed.
Several persons in the gallery cheered the Learned
Counsel at the close of his address.

The CHIEI JUSTICE pointed to the gallery, where he
saw persons disturbing the Court, and the High Sheriff
desired the police to take any persons into custody who
gave expression to their feelings in a manner unbecom-
ing a court of justice.
The Court was then adjourned to Friday morning.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
SOUTHWARK.

John Donovan alias James Leary, was brought be-
fore Mr. Secker for re-examination, charged, with
three other men not in custody, with assaulting and
robbing Mr. John Chambers, of Stace's- terrace, Park-
road, Old Kent-road.
When the prisoner was placed at the bar Policeman
Wright, 63 M, stated that there was additional evi-
dence against him of a character that left no doubt as
to his having been one of the parties engaged in the
outrage and robbery.
It will be recollected that the complainant in walk-
ing home from the city, about eight o'clock in the
evening of Wednesday, the 11th instant, in passing
through the Willow-walk, Bermondsey, was suddenly
seized from behind by some person placing his hands
over his eyes, upon which he was immediately at-
tacked by three other men and robbed of his watch,
which was separated from the chain by the violence
of the pull. The moment his assailants effected the
robbery one of them struck him a blow on the
side of the head, which knocked him down, and
while he was lying on the ground they all ran away
in the direction of the Grange-road. He, however,
recovered himself, and went in pursuit, calling
" Stop thief," and they were observed by Policeman
Wright, who also joined in the pursuit, but they
were lost sight of at the rear of Alfred terrace, and
in the garden of one of the houses there the prisoner
was taken into custody, and in the adjoining ground
the complainant's watch was found. The prisoner
when apprehended assumed to be unconscious of what
had taken place.
John Surnam, a youth, was now examined, and he
stated that ',he was in the employ of Mr. Muller, a
surgeon, of Devonshire-place, and that on Wednes-
day evening as he was returning home he heard the
cry of "Police" from ithe Willow-walk. It being
moonlight at the time he looked in that direction, and
saw a man down on the path, and four other men
stooping over him. He saw on• man, who had no
whiskers, feeling about the iclothes of the man who
was down, and he 'saw some of their hands over his
_eyes and face. He (witness) ran towards the Kent-
road, crying "Police," and he looked back and saw
the four men run from the 'Willow-walk towards the
Grange-road, and he followed them into the Queen's-
road ; and they all four got over a wall into the
garden of a house in Alfred-terrace. Witness then
got on a high ,heap of dirt and saw three of them go
over the pailings which divided the gardens, and they
went away to the right ; and he then distinctly saw
the prisoner go ;towards the back of Mr. Mayer's
house. Shortly afterwards witness saw a po-
liceman in a garden a few doors eff, and he called to
him saying that one of the thieves was there—
pointing out the place. He (witness) then saw Mr.
Mayers come out of his house into his garden
seize the prisoner by the collar, and gave him into
the custody of the policeman. Witness then followed
them to the station-house and had no doubt at all that
the prisoner was the man he had seen feeling about
the complainant's clothes when he was lying on the
ground. He noticed at the time the prisoner had no
whiskers, and that he was dressed in a sleeve-jacket,
similar to that which he then wore at the bar.

Jane Birge stated, that on the following morning
(Thursday) one of her children found the complain-
ant's watch in their garden, which is next to that in
which the prisoner was secured.
Holmes, a policeman, said that on the evening in
question he saw the prisoner and three others running
from the direction of the Willow-walk ; that he seized
the prisoner, but he broke away from him, and ran
towards the backs of the houses in Alfred- terrace.
John Wright, 63 AI, stated, that he was present at
the Surrey sessions, in July, 1846, when the prisoner
was tried and convicted of felony in the name of
James Leary, and sentenced to seven years' tran-
sportation.
The prisoner, who declined saying anything, was
committed.