The Sun.
London, England, 1867-11-14 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, Nov. 13.
At the sitting of the Commission Court yesterday
the Solicitor-General applied, on the part of Mr.
Price, the governor of liTanaiuham, to be allowed
to examine him, in order to refute the charges made
against him in General Halpin's address. The Chief
Baron recognised the reasonableness of his request.
Mr. Price was then resworn, and in the most posi
tive terms deposed that there was not the slightest
foundation for the statement that prisoners who did
not salute the governor were sent to the cellars. On
the contrary, there was an express rule in the prison
that no prisoner was to recognise any officer. He
never inflicted punishment of any kind on a prisoner
for not saluting him. With respect to the complaint
that he had deprived the prisoner of a toothpick and
other articles, he was not aware that they had been
applied for—if they had been they would have been
given. Looking glasses and everything of that kind
were permitted to untried prisoners. Had furnished
the prisoners with portions of newspapers containing
accounts of the trials, and when he found that he
was undefended by counsel he lent him his own
copy of the State trials of 1865, in order that he
might make himself up in the law of treason felony.
All his statements with regard to the discipline of

the prison were equally unfounded. The prisoner re-
peated that he sent a letter applying for his tooth-
pick, and that he saw a warder hand it to the gover-
nor. He denounced Mr. Price and one of the warders
as perjurers. Mr. Price appealed to the Court for
protection against such a charge. The Court charac-
terised the observations of the prisoner as most im-

proper. The emphatic contradiction given to the im
putations east on theerown officials must be regarded
with satisfaction. Had they not been promptly re-
futed a feeling of indignation would have been ex-
cited in the public mind. Some impression had been
produced by the circumstantial and positive manner
in which they were brought forward, and it is pro-
bable that an inquiry would have been demanded to
vindicate the fair and generous character of English
justice. As it is, however, the reckless assertions of
the prisoner, which were meant to awaken the sym-
pathies of the jury, only recoiled upon himself, and
could hardly have failed to produce a reaction pre-
judicial to his case. After the governor's examina
tion the Chief Baron charged the jury, explaining
the law and reviewing the evidence with great care.
Before he had concluded he asked the prisoner
whether there was any point to which he wished to
have the attention of the jury particularly drawn.
The prisoner called upon him to state that there was
no evidence whatever that he was a subject of Queen
Victoria. His lordship declined to do so, and re-
peated what he had stated in the beginning of the
trial, that it was for the prisoner to show that he
was not. The prisoner contended that it would not
be justice to convict him upon the assumption that
he was a British subject when the Crown prevented
him from showing the contrary. It was in evidence
that he had asked for his trunk, which contained his
papers. The Chief Baron observed that there was
no evidence that his papers ever reached the Crown.
They had been searched for and could not be found.
He reminded the prisoner that when he might have
had a jury composed in part of aliens he had declined
to say whether he was an alien or not, and the jury
must now act upon the information which they had.
The prisoner then asked his lordship to say that
there was no evidence that he was coaneeted with
the conspiracy. His lordship declined to do so. The
prisoner next submitted that there was no evidence
that the documents produced were in his handwrit-
ing. Ms lordship said there was the evidence of a
warder. ne advanced other points with a like re-
sult. The learned Judge then thoughtfully sug-
gested to the jury the expediency of their taking
lunch before he finished. They availed themselves
of the hint, and, after spending half an hour in
fortifying themselves against the risk of a long
deliberation, heard the remainder of the charge.
His lordship observed that the narrow question
was whether or not the prisoner had con-
spired with others in the county and city of
Dublin to levy war against the Queen. Massey, the
informer, was recalled, at the request of the jury, to
explain some points in his evidence. His lordship
thought it fair to the witness to remind the jury
that, while Corydon and Devany both admitted
that they had received money from the Crown, he
denied that he had stated that he was influenced
solely by fear. The jury at 2 o'clock retired, and at
five minutes to 3 brought in a verdict of guilty.
Sentence was deferred. The Court then adjourned
until this morning, when Costello, in whose case a
jury disagreed, will bo again put upon his trial.
The rival claimants for the patronage of the city
prisons have gone into court to settle their dispute.
Mr. Macdonough, Q.C., applied yesterday on behalf
of Mr. Ormsby and Dr. Burne, who have been ap-
pointed by the grand jury to the offices of inspector
and physician to the prisons, for a mandamus to
compel the board of superintendence to admit them.
The corporation, from which the board of superin-
tendence is elected, assert a right to nominate to the
vacant posts, and have 'appointed two other gentle-
men. A conditional order was granted, in order to
have the question argued. It tarns upon the con-
struction of the Dublin Improvement Act.
His Eminence Cardinal Cullen has convened a
meeting for Friday next, in compliance with a re-
quisition signed by a large number of respectable
citizens, whq " desire to express sympathy with his
Holiness the Pope, abhorrence of the wicked invasion
of the remaining portion of his dominions, and de-
termination to use every influence at our command
to support him in his present difficulties."
The Royal Dublin Society's winter show of poultry
and farm and dairy produce was opened yesterday.
It is on the whole a creditable exhibition.
A meeting of the inhabitants of Bandon was held
on Monday for the purpose of urging upon the Go-
vernment the necessity for railway reform, as illus-
trated by the want of sufficient accommodation for
the important agricultural district in which the
town is situate. The meeting was addressed by
Lord Bandon and other speakers, who complained
of the excessive fares charged by the companies
upon which it had to depend, and the advantage
which it would derive from extended facilities of
traffic. A resolution was passed appointing a com-
mittee to bring before the Railway Commission the
defects of the railway system in the South of Ire-
land.

The Chair of Mathematics in Queen's College,
Cork, has been filled by the appointment of Mr.
Charles Niven, 8.A., a senior wrangler and fellow
of Trinity College, Cambridge. The Professorship
of Natural Philosophy in Queen's College, Belfast,
has been conferred on Mr. J. D. Everett, M.A., of
the University of Glasgow. Both appointments are
likely to give satisfaction.

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