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Idiately told him that he was in •quarantine, and made
him get into the quarantine boat, and pulled him on
board the Bull dog, where he was obliged to remain the
term of her durance.
WOOLWICH, OCT. 24.—The Vivid steam-vessel, Cap-
tain Sinithett, brought over on Sunday morning last, to
Dover, his Royal Highness Prince Adelbart of Bavaria
and suite, on his way to Lisbon, via Southampton.
The Iphigenia, formerly occupied by the Marine So-
ciety boys, was towed up to Deptford on Monday, and
moored at her former station, to be appropriated exclu-
sively as an hospital ship
for cholera cases.
The Wye, reserve, was towed from her moorings op-
polite the west end of Woolwich Dockyard, and is now
stationed alongside the Unite', for the purpose of having
the cholera cases which may subsequently occur- kept
separate front the other patients. Tho number of cases
of cholera on board the Unite hospital ship up to twelve
o'clock to-day has been forty-three, two new cases yes-
terday, and three to-day; fourteen discharged as reco-
vered; ten convalescent, and thirteen fatal. Captain
Fitzroy, acting superintendent of the Woolwich Dock-
yard, deserves great credit fur his exertions to place the
convicts formerly in the Justitia in a more healthy loca-
lity than they previously occupied, and Lieutenant Ro-
bertson was most active in superintending their removal
to the Hebe and Sulphur hulks, opposite the dockyard;
but the inhabitants of the town are very dissatisfied, as
new cases have since occurred, and intend petitioning
that they should be removed further down the river than
they formerly were. About one hunired of the healthy
convicts formerly on board the Justitia have been taken
to the Royal Arsenal to work there to-day, and will be
taken back in boats to the Bebe in the evening:

IRELAND.

THE TRIALS 41T CLONIVIEL.
DUBLIN, TUESDAY.—It will be seen by the follow
ng report, that sentence of death was yesterday
passed upon Messrs.- Mtklamb, frDonohoe, and
Meagher, after 'whieli the Commission adjourned to
the sth of December next. The speeches of the ill-
fated convicts are deeply interesting.
The time for carrying into effect the executions on
O'Brien, M'Marnis, O'Donohoe, and -Meagher, were
yesterday entered in the judge's book, but it was not
announced to any of the parties most deeply interested.
A communication was made to Orchard, Tyne,
M'Donnell, and the other peasants, against whom
bills for treason had been found, that if they
pleaded guilty ",a mitigated punishment would be
inflicted upon them. Their attorney intimated that
if the sentence were only 18 months' imprisonment,
they would
,withdraw their plea of not guilty ; if,
however, the Crown insisted upon " transportation,"
his clients were resolved to take their chance of a
trial. They would not even join in their challenges.
The Attorney-General declined this, and they will
be tried at the adjourned commission, to be held in
December next.
The correspondent of Saunders gives the following
account of the scene in the Court-house on Saturday
night :
" CLONMEL, OCT. 22.—The jury in Mr. Meagher's
case were about three quarters of an hour consider-
ing their verdict, and the period which intervened
between their withdrawal to their room and their re-
appearance in Court was one of great interest. A
number of constabulary arrived, with muskets and
fixed bayonets, and were stationed round the dock, and
at the several doors. The corridors and various passa-
ges were also filled with armed men. The Court-house
was dimly lighted, and, to use the metaphorical lan-
guage of Mr. Butt, the gloom that pervaded it was
slightly diminished, or rendered a little less intense,
by the dim and partial lights; and one could scarcely
avoid conjuring up the shadows of those who had
been hurried to the grave of the felon, and beholding
them flitting around that dock where the prisoner,
with all his genius, power, and chivalry, stood upon
the very spot which had been trodden by many an
assassin, and from which so many had been hurried
to an ignominious death.' It was a scene that the
graphic and gloomy Dante could have described.
£he night was dark and rainy, and the dismal, dreary
appearance of the streets, in which few persons but
armed constabulary were to be seen, was in keeping
with the aspect of gloom that met the eye in the in-
terior of the building. The feeling could not be sup-
pressed that it was a melancholy termination to the
career of a gifted young Irishman, who, had he
directed his talents to the attainment of prac-
ticable and useful objects, might, in the senate
or at the bar, have advanced the interests and
promoted the prosperity of his native land. The
nneuettfaithl'iltiugiitsrli, will, in the end, lead to the
ruin of the rash and unreflecting possessor, and blast
those prospects whose very brilliancy and promise
render downfall and discomfiture more overwhelming.
The prisoner, for some time after the Judges had re-
tired, sat in the dock with a cloak folded about him.
He conversed with his friends, chatting and laughing
with them, in apparent good spirits. The High
Sheriff told him he might retire, which he did, and
remained in the cell till the Judges returned into
court. At twenty minutes after seven o'clock their
Lordships resumed their seats, and the jury were in- '
formed that they were ready to receive their verdict.
As each juror entered his serious and anxious look '
was a sufficient index to the decision ' • and the solemn '
and reluctant manner in which the foreman handed
the issue paper to the Clerk of the Crown must have
removed any hope of an acquittal that the friends of
Mr. Meagher entertained. The Clerk of the
Crown put the usual question, How say
you, gentlemen, is Thomas Francis Meagher
guilty or not guilty ?' The foreman replied,
in a faint, low voice, Guilty; The word ran
through the court, and soon whispered from lip to lip in
the streets. The foreman read from a paper the re •
commendation of mercy, on the ground of the youth
of the prisoner, and other reasons, and handed it to
the judges, who made no reply. They then rose to
retire, and gave the order Remove the prisoner.'
Mr. Meagher bowed to them very respectfully, shook
hands affectionately with some friends, and was re-
conducted to the cell. The dock was so dark, having
only a dim lamp pendant from one of the bars, that
the prisoner's figure was little more than visible. The
prison van was then driven to the court-house, and
the horses were backed to the little door which leads
from the cell into the area before it. The gates were
ja,ko to keep, _Tit the cm,* find,v9,..ophem mak
„re,;opengi g)r ,tka departtike 4 Ate prisorier4
constabulary -were arranged in such a manner as to
.stirrounerthti conveyance, Which;
gaiarded- and-
environed, was driven as slowly as a hearse to the
gaol, and Mr. Meagher was escorted to his apartment.
It is expected that the three prisoners who have been
convicted will be brought up for judgment to-morrow.
The sentence, which must be pronounced according
to the law, is one of the most appalling that could be
devised—hanging, decapitation, and quartering ; but
it is very generally desired by all classes in Clonmel
that justice should be tempered with mercy, which
blesseth him who gives, him who receives, and drop-
peth like the gentle
c dew from heaven.' "
o
THE SIMISSION IN DUBLIN.
Yesterday !Michael Moran, John Joseph Moran,
APCormack were indicted; Michael
.il Moran
and John
for 'maliciously assaulting wtititetiihntehnithit
withki police-
constable John Byrne, by 3a. g adag.d
ger, and the
.other two prisonersfor aiding and
abetting assault. There were five other
abetting. in
counts in the indictment, in which Michael Moran
was charged with assaulting, with intent to disable,
to do grievous bodily harm, &c., and the two other
prisoners with ailing
din and abetting.
The prisoners severally pleaded not guilty.
The case
was, after a few words from Mr. Curran,
ordered to stand over.
counsel for M'Cormack,
fienry Mac Ilree was indicted
CASE OF ASSAELT.---.th.
for assaulting M.
The traverser pleaded Guilty.
It appeared that the assault had been committed
under the following circumstances :—The traverser
Majesty's frigate
had served on board Castor,
performing.
on the New Zealand station, and while
on the side of the
duty there received
neaarlsyacceorsetbhliomw his life, and from
he slowly recovered. His
head, which very
the effects of which
subsequent state of
forbidden him,
became such that the use
him, but on his return to this
of spirits was forbid
country, while in
cold company with a friend one day, the
and wet, he was induced to par-
take of some liquor ; weather being
he afterwards went with his
friend to the house of the w prosecutor, with hom the
former was acquainted, and while there took a
glass
of punch. The effect di
of drinking upon him was to
bring on a temporary delirium, under the influence of
which he struck the prosecutor a
.violent blow on the
front part of the head with a stick, without having
received anything like provocation. He was imme-
diately given into custody, and removed to the
station-house, but on recovering. from the delirium
he remembered nothing of what
. ad occurred. These
o the
sly Court,
mentioned
facts were disclosed in anaffid.av ?
it made by the tra-
verser himself, by the directiopnrevoif
u
counsel (Mr. Curran) haviuo.
them in explanation of the case. The affidavit further
stated that when the traverser was made aware of
what he had done he offered the prosecutor 101. by
1 way of reparation, being. all the. money he was pos-
sessed of, and expressed the greatest sorrow fur what
had happened.
The prosecutor was sworn and stated that he had
undergone much suffering from the wound, a dan-
gerous one, from which he was not yet recovered,
and bad besides been put to expense for medical
treatmentt _

•
A gentleman was examined, who stated that he
had known the traverser for twelve months, and had
always found him a mild and gentlemanly person.
Judge TORRENS, addressing the traverser, said
that he had made all the reparation in his power for
that which he had done, by pleading guilty to the
accusation of the law, and by offering compensation
to the person who had suffered from violence of
which he had been the instrument. Ills Lordship
dwelt on the unfortunate nature of the occurrence,
and the statement made by the prosecutor as to his
sufferings, and said he hoped it would weigh on the
traverser's mind ao as to cause him hereafter to ab-
stain from ardent spirits; and said that in the opinion
of the Court the sum of 101. compensation offered by
the traverser was not sufficient, and that 41. should
be added to it. The traverser should in addition be
fined 6d., and should be confined until such time as
he paid the fine and the compensation, for a period not
exceeding six months.

APITAL SENTENCES ON M‘MANUS
O'DONOHOE, AND MEAGHER. I
ADJOURNMENT OF THE SPECIAL COll.
MISSION AT CLONMEL.
CLONMEL, MONDAY. The Lord Chief Justice
Blackburne, Chief Justice Doherty, and Mr. Justice
Moore, took their seats on the bench at half-past ten
o'clock this morning.
The Solicitor-General, Mr. Scott, Q C., Mr.
Lynch, and Mr. Sausse, appeared as counsel for the
Crown. The Attorney-General was not present,
having gone..tot4iblin. to; attend the Commission in
that city.
Mr. Butt, Q.C., Sir -Colman O'Loghlen, Mr.
O'Callaghan, and Mr. Francis Meagher, were in at-
tendance as counsel for the prisoners who had -been
tried and convicted.
The SOLICfrOIIo•GENBRAL desired the Clerk of the
Crown to bring to the bar the following prisoners :
James Orchard, Patrick Denis Tyne Patrick
O'Donnell, Wm. Pert, Thomas Finane, John Bren-
nan, John Preston, and Thomas Stack.
The prisoners were accordingly arraigned. They
are all men in humble life, labourers and mechanics ;
two or three of them are fine stout men, particularly
Stack, the rest are miserable and impoverished crea-
tures. Each of them pleaded not guilty to the in-
dictment, which charged them with high treason.
They were some of the followers of Mr. W. S.
O'Brien, and the overt acts imputed to them were
similar to those set forth in the indictment under
which that gentleman had been tried.
Mr. O'CALLAGHAN applied to the Court, as counsel
had done in all other cases, for lists of the witnesses
and the jury panel, and handed in a plea correspond•
ing with those previously put in. He made the pre-
liminary motion merely to prevent its being said
that the cases of the prisoners then at the bar were
distinguished from the others because no claim had
been put in for the privileges which counsel had con-
tended should be extended to them.
The SOLICITOR- GINERAL said he would assume
that all which he had done in the previous cases had
been done in that case.

The pleas were then signed by the prisoners, and
handed in to the Clerk of the Crown, and the Solici-
tor-General directed them to " stand by."
They were then re-conducted to the cell.
Mr. BUTT, Q.C., asked the Court if it would con-
sider the points which Mr. Whiteside and he had
urged on Saturday evening?
The CHIEF JUSTICE said that the Court had them
under their consideration ; they did not think there
was any substance in them, but they would give them
all the weight which they might deserve.

indeed avail myself of this solemn moment to vindi-
cate my
ysentiments
fear. The u
rnents, arid of that conduct, in a light, I think, far
different from that in which the jury by which I have
co andnt country m3N.vcil oln judgeduet o Butf thles haveesc mtnio
such -
been convicted have viewed them ; and perhaps the
sentence you, my Lords are about to pronounce will
be remembered only as the severe and solemn attes-
tation of my rectitude and truth. Whatever may be
the language in which that sentence will he spoken, I
know that my fate will meet with sympathy, and that
my memory will be honoured. In speaking thus
accuse me not, my Lords, of an indecorous presump-
tion. To the efforts I have made for what I conceived
to be a just and noble cause, I ascribe no vain im-
portance; nor do I claim for them any high reward.
But it so happens, and it will ever so happen, that
they who have tried to serve their country, no matter
how weak their efforts may have been, are sure to
receive the thanks and blessings of its people.
With the country, then, I leave my memory, my
sentiments, my acts, proudly feeling that they
shmß.lhanuepi
cisnsl:ttlryeaclgoyoaufi entertain
lfndetshethlet
require no vindication from me this day. A
jury of my countrymen, it is true, have found me
crimeah neorn out d returnedt ohi fel
;influencedl slightest
eiwhichgfinht
ot
as
tssolhtttehhifie'ersayeosilinielenli
nrulgddsnilteciottthyfe.
have
vro.
resent-
ment
,be,tFhenheatoin-t4r
by the charge of the Lord Chief Justice, they, per-
of. that.charge? Any strong obserrations upon it I
scene ; but I would earnestly beseech of you, my
Lord-you, who preside upon that bench—when the
prejudices and the passions of this hour have passed
away, to appeal to your own conscience, and ask of
it—was your charge, as it ought to have been,. im-
partial and indifferent between the subject and the
Crown ? My Lords, you may deem this language
unbecoming in me, and perchance it may seal my
fate; but I am here to speak the truth, whatever it
may cost. lam here to regret nothing that I have
ever done—to retract nothing that I have ever said.
lam not here to crave with lying lip the life I con-
secrate to the liberty of my country. Far from it.
Even here—here, where the thief, the libertine, the
murderer, have left their foot prints in the dust—here
in this spot, where the shadow of death surrounds me,
and from which I see an early grave in an unanointed
soil opened to receive me—even here encircled by these
terrors, that hope which beckoned me to the perilous
sea on which I have been wrecked, still consoles, ani-
mates, and enraptures me. No! Ido not despair of
my poor old country—her peace, her liberty, her
glory. For that country I can now do no more than
bid her hope. To lift this island up—to make her a
benefactor to humanity instead of what she is—the
meanest beggar in the world—to restore to her her
native powers and her ancient constitution—this has
been my ambition, and this ambition has been my
crime. Judged by the law of England I know this
crime entails the penalty of death. But the history
of Ireland explains my crime and justifies it. Judged
by that history I am no criminal—(and turning to
his fellow-prisoner M‘Manus)—you are no criminal
(and to O'llonohoe), you are no criminal, and we
deserve no punishment. Judged by that history,
the treason, of which I have been convicted,
loses all its guilt—is sanctified as a duty—
will be ennobled as a sacrifice. With these seati•
ments, my Lords, I await the sentence of the Court.
Having done what I feel to be my duty—having
spoken now, as I did on every occasion during my
short life, what I felt to be the truth, I now bid fare-
well to the country of my birth, my passion, and my
death—that country whose misfortunes have invoked
my sympathies—whose factions I sought to still—
whose intellect I prompted to a lofty aim—whose
freedom has been my fatal dream. I offer to that
country, as a pledge of the love I bear her, and the
sincerity with which I thought, and spoke, and
struggled for her freedom, the life of a young heart ;
and with that life all the hopes, the honours, the en-
dearments of a happy and an honourable home. Pro-
nounce, then my Lords, the sentence which the law
directs, and I trust I will be prepared to hear it, and
meet its execution. I trust, too, that I shall be pre-
pared with a pure heart to appear before a higher
tribunal—a tribunal where a judge of infinite good-
ness as well as of infinite justice will preside; and
where, my Lords, many, many of the judgments of
this world will be reversed.

[A low and protracted murmur of applause per-
vaded the conclusion of the prisoner's most eloquent
and impassioned address.
Tr); into tics e n this court it was my
intention, in the performance of the very painful
duty which devolves upon me, not to have prolonged
your stay at that bar by any length of observation.
You, and each ofyou, appear there having been con-
victed by the verdicts of three successive juries of the
crime of high treason—the crime of the greatest
enormity known to our laws. I feel bound to say
this, that it is the deliberate, dispassionate, and calm
opinion of the Court that the verdicts which were
found by those juries, and the verdict which was found
by a former jury, could not have been other than they
were—that no honest, fair, impartial, and conscien-
tious jurors, attending strictly to their oaths and
listening to the evidence that was produced in
this court in the course of these unusually pro-
tracted trials, could have come to any other conclu-
sion than that which they have done. They have
pronounced you one and all guilty of the crime of
high treason. That crime consists in having levied
war in this county within and during the last week of
the month of July—of having levied war for trea-
sonable purposes—and that you, and each of you,
more or less participated in, excited to, and prepared
for, and were yourselves some of you more, some less,
actively engaged in the furtherance of that project.
In order to constitute the crime of high treason by
the levying of war, it is no ingredient that the means
should be proportioned to the end sought to be ac-
complished, or that there should be a rational pros-
pect of success. The parties who engage in such
transactions become responsible if they have arrayed,
assembled, collected, drilled, and prepared those NA ho
by force endeavour to accomplish that object—the
common object that was in. view. It is not, I am
4titiWo4lay, to y4foilfeltance on your part that
gliCh .may term it—which
jzre,lcp out. in _that, weeki wrta-,-sbreught-;Ace sa-4,
speedy conclusion.., It is not clue to yon;,,_ miler God attributable to the fidelity and the
bravery of the police force. When I reflect on what
might have been the consequences if that police
force, either seduced by promises or intimidated by
threats which were made use of, had yielded to the
advances that were made to them, if they had been
overwhelmed by the congregated numbers that assem-
bled and attempted their destruction, or if they had
failed in dispersing those bands of rebels who assem-
bled around them on the hills, I think there is no fair
man who, looking at and contemplating what the
state of this country might have been, will not see
how rapidly a temporary success might have added to
the numbers of the insurgents, and how soon this
country might have been deluged in blood, and given
over to all the horrors of a civil war. It is from that
we have escaped by the fidelity and by the bravery of
the police foree. lam very far, God knows, from wish-
ing to say one word at this moment that can raise or en-
hance the feelings which some of you may endure. But
I cannot, in looking to what was the state of this country
in the month of May last, avoid adverting (without
entering into particulars of it) to that authentic
speech which was given in evidence upon the last
trial; eloquent no doubt it is; but who can avoid
seeing, in the perusal of that speech delivered by you,
Mr. Meagher, on the 6th of June, a terrible picture of
what was at that time the state of this country, and
the calamities which were impending and meditated,
and from which, by God's assistance, we have es-
caped. I have told you that it was my wish to abstain
from enlarging or giving any details, and I shall do'so.
I shall merely add this observation, that from the
commencement to the conclusion of this commission,
which has now extended to the fifth week, there has
been a perfect coincidence in the views of every mem-
ber of this bench as to the law ; and if the obseria-
tions of.the distinguished judge who presides here did
seem to you, and I can make every allowance for
their doing so, to press and bear severely upon you—
perhaps, in a calmer moment, when you come to
reflect upon it, you will see that it was from the very
nature of the transactions themselves that those com-
ments legitimately arose, which appeared to you to
press with undue severity on you. Perhaps, when you
come to reflect dispassionately, you will see this in the
same light, and I trust that you may be more recon-
ciled than you appear at present to the justice of the
unhappy fate which awaits you, and which there is
not an individual with a heart to feel who must not
deeply deplore. I shall not now detain you longer.
I have merely to exhort each of you to reflect on the
awful situation in which each of you at this moment
stands, and to prepare for the dreadful fate that im-
pends over you. We have not failed to send, as wry
our.duty, to the leord-Licutemint, the ~TepornmenArk
tions with which the juries in your respective cases
have accompanied the verdicts that have been found
against you. But you must be well aware that it is
with the Executive Government, and the Executive
Government alone, that the fate of those recommen-
dations rests. And we in the discharge of our mos'
anxious and painful duty have now only to proceed
to pass upon you, and upon each of you, the awful