The Sun.
London, England, 1867-06-13 00:00:00

IREL AND.

DUBLIN, June 12.
The Special Commission for Limerick was opened
yesterday by Chief Justice Monahan, Mr. Justice
Keogh, and Mr. Justice George, who had arrived on
the previous day by the mail train from Dublin. A
pilot engine had preceded the train, and armed
police were placed along the wholeline for their pro-
tection. The judges were received upon the platform
by Alderman Quinlivan, J.P., city High Sheriff ;
Mr. John White, county High Sheriff ; and Alder-
man Tait, D.L., Mayor ; the civic officers in their
cocked hats and livery being in attendance. Their
lordships having entered their carriages, they pro-
ceeded to their lodgings in George's-street, escorted
by a troop of the 6th Carabineers and mounted con-
stabulary. An immense crowd assembled in the
vicinity of the station, but there was nothing to in-
dicate the state of public feeling. The Attorney-
General and the Solicitor-General arrived in the
same train with their lordships. A large number of
persons collected in the vicinity of the Court-house
cheered the prisoners as they were being conveyed
from the county gaol. The court, the internal ar-
rangements of which are of the very worst possible
character, was densely crowded, several ladies being
accommodated in the side galleries. Mr. Brown, who
was wounded at Kilinallock, was present in court.

The Deputy Clerk of the Crown called over the
names of the grand jury as follows :—Sir D. V.
Roche, foreman ; Lord Adare, Hon. John Massy,
Sir W. H. Barrington, John Lowe, Stephen E. De
Vere, E. Croker, H. White, Joseph Gubbins,
Henry Lyons, John Franks, John Boucher, Henry
Maunsell, John Howley, George Fosbeary, Jas. C.
Cooper, Dawson L. Westropp, W. G. Gubbins, John
Browne, Richard Ellis, Gerard Blennerbasset, Neil
M•Donald. Mr. Justice Keogh having communi-

cated with the Attorney-General, informed the
grand jury that bills for treason-felony would be
sent up, instead of those already before them for
high treason. They were substantially the same,
the only distinction being that they did not
require two witnesses to an overt act, or one to two
separate overt acts. Bills were then sent up, and
the Grand Jury retired. The City Court was ad-
journed to Friday, the Grand Jury to be in attend-
ance when summoner by the High Sheriff.
The following counsel appeared for the Crown:—
The Attorney• General, the Solicitor-General, Mr.
Sergeant Barry, Sir Colman O'Loghlen, Mr. Long-
field, Q.C., Mr. De Moleyns, Hon. David Plunkett,
and Mr. Chatnney. For the prisoners :—Mr. Coffey,
Q.C., Mr. O'Loghlen, Mr. A. Cleary, and Mr.
Michael Joseph Barry.
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At a quarter past one o'clock the Grand Jury re-
turned into court, having found true bills for trea-
son-felony against Patrick Walsh, Daniel Bradley,
Patrick R. Driver, Denis Hennessy, John Sheehan,
Maurice Fitzgibbon, Thomas Daly, Robert Cant-
low, Michael Noonan, Denis Connors, Michael
Riordan, and William O'Sullivan.
Mr. Coffey said he was instructed that it had
always been the custom in the county of Limerick
to arrange the panel alphabetically. That had not
been done in this instance, and he would therefore
put in a challange to the array.
Mr. O'Loghlen said, on the part of the prisoner
Patrick Walshe, he challenged the array of the 247
jurors whose names appeared on the panel; 130 were
Roman Catholics, and the remaining 117 Protest-
ants and other persuasions. In the arrangement of
these names, among the first 120 there were 104
Protestants and but 16 Roman Catholics. On this
ground he would hand in a challenge to the array.
The Court then adjourned for a short time to allow
the Attorney-General to consider the challenge.
Upon returning into court, the Attorney-General
said ho would put in a plea that the panel was well,
equally, and impartially arrayed by the High Sheriff.
issue having been taken by the counsel for the
defence, the following gentlemen were sworn as
triers :—Sir David Vandeleur Roche, Lord Adare,
and the Hon. John Massy.
Mr. Coffey then proceeded to address the triers

in support of the challenge.
John O'Donnell was sworn and examined by
Mr. O'Loghlen.—lle stated that he was a solicitor.
He had heard the list of jurors read out by the
Clerk of the Crown. He had a copy of it in his
hand, and could tell the religious persuasions of all
the gentlemen on it.
Protestants and
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arbitrators Joh
Mr. Tighe against the Waterworks Committee, for
£25.000, for damages sustained thrcugh the con-
struction of the Vartry reservoir, close to his pro-
perty at Rosanna. Several civil engineers were
examined, and the general tendency of their evi-
dence was to the effect that the construction of the
reservoir was deficient in several important points,
and that in case of any accident the claimant's pro-
pei ty would inevitably be swept away.
The Lords Justices have directed that the Town
Commissioners' Act shall be immediately carried
into effect in the township of New Kilmainham, near
Dublin, and that nine 09111113i63iQuers be appointed.

—We, the undersigned English residents and visi-
tors in Paris, desire to convey to your Majesty, both
for ourselves and for our fellow-countrymen, our
profound respect for your Majesty, and to express
our deep thankfulness to Almighty God for having
shielded your royal person against the late atrocious
attempt on your valuable life. We sincerely trust
you may be long spared to rule over that great dn.
pire which, in God's providence, has been committed
to your sway, and that the enlightened policy pur-
sued by your Majesty in favour of social freedom
and of religious liberty may conduce to the best in-
terests and happiness of your subjects. We most
fervently and devoutly pray that God's gracious
blessing may rest upon yourself and upon all the
members of your imperial family."
His Majesty replied—Gentlemen, I am greatly
obliged to you ; I am deeply touched by the
address you have presented to me, and I cordially
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thank you for it. If anything can soften the bit-
terness of the deplorable event which recently oc-
curred it is the kind sympathy which I have re-
ceived on every hand, and more especially from the
representatives of Great Britain whom I see before
me. I am, indeed, grateful for your kindness. His
Majesty then cordially shook hands with the reader
of the address.
The Rev. JAMES DAVIS then, on behalf of the
Evangelical Alliance, addressed the Emperor as
follows :—As the representative of a society known
to your Majesty—the Evangelical Alliance—formed
to promote Christian fellowship and co-operation
among Christians of different churches and of all
nations, I beg to offer your Majesty, on the part of
the council of that society in London, and of the
numerous members of it both in England and many
parts of the world, our joyful congratulations on
the Divine interposition so graciously vouchsafed to
your Majesty on a recent occasion. We cherish
grateful remembrance of your Majesty's kind in-
terposition in cases brought before you for the pro-
tection of our co-religionists in your Majesty's
dominions, and we would especially tender our
hearty thanks for the printing and circulation of the
Holy Scriptures among your Majesty's subjects,
which have received your imperial sanction. Our
prayers will continually ascend that long life and
the best blessings of heaven may be enjoyed by
your Majesty, by their imperial highnesses the
princes now with you, and by all the members of
your imperial house. Your Majesty's visit to this
country has been a joy, not only to the French na-
tion, but to ourselves also in the gratification af-
forded us of cordially uniting in the welcome given
to your Majesty, and in the cementing and strength-
ening of those friendly relations between nations
which are among the best omens of peace and of
the progress and prosperity of the people.
His Majesty again expressed how deeply he was
touched by these sentiments of kindness and good-
will, and shook hands with the secretary.
The Emperor then received from one of the depu-
tation, connected with the British and Foreign Bible
Society, a volume containing specimens of the 150
languages in which the Scriptures have been trans-
lated, also a copy of the New Testament in Chinese.
Some 300 signatures to the address were obtained
in a few hours ; had there been time a very much
larger number would easily have been added.

THE REFORM LEAGUE.

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The Council of the Reform League, at their usual
weekly meeting in Adelphi-terrace, have adopted
the following address to the " Peoples of Europe,"
and directed the secretary (Mr. Howell) to forward
copies of it to the various organised bodies of work-
ing men in each country in Europe :

" A VOICE FROM THE REFORM LEAGUE OF ENGLAND
TO THE PEOPLES OF EUROPE.

" Brethren—lt is time that we should come to a
true fraternal understanding with regard to our
mutual interests and our common rights. Freedom
is the birthright of no particular nation or race—it
ought to be the universal inheritance of all. Des-
potism and arbitrary power :are detestable in what
ever shape they appear, and wherever they intrude
their noxious influence. Good government and
equal and beneficent laws bless every land alike that
is fortunate or wise enough to possess them. Steam
power and the electric wire have swept away the
barriers that geographical distance, popular preju-
dices, and dynastic ambitions or disputes, purposely
fomenting international ignorance and antipathies,
used to interpose between us. Our interest is one
and the same ; peace, concord, and harmony are
equally precious to us all. We can have no interest
in injuring each other. A million fold better must
it be to labour for each other's welfare than strive
for each other's ruin. Brethren of Paris and Ber-
lin, you have spoken worthily the words of peace
and friendship—may they find an echo in every
honest heart. War is the mad and wicked game
played by Emperors and Kings with the lives and
wealth of the people. Place it under your ban.
If you refuse to furnish the men and the means
—if you refuse to sacrifice yourselves
and immolate others, the bloody game
must cease. It is horrible and awful to think of
men making a trade and profession of murdering
their fellow-men, especially to think of Christian
men trampling under foot the most solemn maxims
of the religion they profess, and outraging the cha-
racter of human and rational beings by rushing in
their tens and hundreds of thousands to engage in
mutual butchery. It is frightful to think of human
intellect and science being occupied in the conti-
nuous invention of new means for the speedy and
wholesale massacre of our fellow-beings. Brethren,
this should not be. It is for you to say it shall not
be. The spirit of the age forbids it. Why should
not law and arbitration decide disputes, if disputes
arise, between people and people as well as between
man and man ? But it is seldom, if ever, that one
people quarrels with another ; the quarrel is between
those whom they allow to rule over them, and whose
quarrels they are foolish enough to embrace, to
their own misery and destruction. Refuse, then,
any longer to be hounded on to mutual slaughter by
the passions or selfish interests of your rulers or
the intrigues of their diplomatic craftsmen. Con-
sider what a crushing burden would be removed
from toil and industry if there were no longer
huge armies to support, and all the machinery and
pomp of military and naval institutions to supply.
How taxation would be minimised, how much of
suffering and misery would he banished from our
earth, how much of sorrow and anguish from our
homes, how the power of the tyrant and the despot
would be paralysed, how trade and commerce, the
sisters of peace and freedom, would spring forth
with fresh elastiCity to distribute and multiply
among the nations the rich and varied products that
the bounty of Providence yearly calls forth so abun-
dantly in every clime to minister to the necessities,
the comforts, and , the happines3 of mankind !
All this rests with you. There is nothing of this
earthly good that your united moral force can-
not, by the will of God, accomplish. That forco

is irresistible ; armed hosts fall away before it.
Grounded in justice, based on law and order, it
has more than the power and none of the evils of
physical force and revolutionary violence. We
Englishmen have been employing that force, and
em pi oyi ng i t successfully, to effe.-A peacefully, orderly,
and lawfully the greater development of our consti-
tutional liberties, to improve and enlarge our system
of Parliamentary representation, and vindicate and
prefect our righ!:, to meet in public for the conside-
ration and discussion of matters affecting our poli-
tical and social interests. Why not thus employ
that force in every land for the development of what
is right and just, the better administration of public
affairs, the abatement of misrule, the correction of
abuses, the removal of all aristocratical usurpations
and injurious class privileges, the abrogation of all
unjust and oppressive laws and imposts, the esta-
blishment of true and entire civil, political, and
religious liberty, the diminution of poverty, the re-
conciliation of the apparently conflicting interests of
capital and labour, the promotion of the equality of
social and political interests at home, and the break-
ing down of all fiscal and trade-restrictive barriers
to the perfect freedom of commerce and
and the progressive inter-
national exchanges abroad,
ad-
vance of the mutual enjoyment, happiness, and fra-
ternity of all the nations of the human family ?
Much is thus to be done everywhere. Misrule and
maladministration but too generally prevail. Feu-
dality still lingers among us. Bigotry has not lost
its appetite for persecution. The war mania still
exists, though lulled for a time. Brethren, the
future is before you, the past warns you. We in-
vitelou to ponder these things. To diminish wrong
and suffering, to augment peace and prosperity, to
labour for good, and try to leave the world better
than we found it, is worthy of every real man, what-
ever his faith, of every true philosopher and philan-
thropist. The age is called the age of progress.
Make it more worthy of its name by sweeping
away more and more ofthe
evil. We struggle not against the righteous
and the honest in any class or sphere, but be you
resolved to be no longer the victims or the tools
traces of past
of unjust rulers or false prophets, of either king-
craft or priestcraft. There are heart-stirring words
in which we all can join, whatever our creed, our
country, or our race. We can all join in the hea-
venly chorus of ' Glory to God in the highest, and
on earth peace and goodwill towards men.'
"By order of the Council of the Reform League,
" ED3IOND BEALES, President."