The Sun.
London, England, 1844-02-09 00:00:00

The SOLICITOR-GENERAL said he would not say ono
word on his not being produced; but they certainly should
close their case before he addressed the jury.
The CHIEF JUSTICE thought the Solicitor-General
ought not to be called on to begin his statement until
they had closed their case. The Court could not im-
pose any course of proceeding on him which he did not
think right. •
Mr. MooßE—We will not press it, my Lords.
CHIEF JUSTICE—I think you had better not.
Mr. MooßE—My Lords, we now close.
The Court then adjourned till to-morrow, when thew
Solicitor-General will commence his address to the jury.

TWENTY-FIRST DAY.
The Court sat at the usual hour, but little interest was exhi-
bited to hear the reply t,f the Solicitor-General. On the jury
taking their places,
The SOLICITOR-GENERAL commenced his address and said,
—I am called to stand single-handed and alone—and the con-
sequence of knowing how much your verdict may affect the
law of the land, the peace and tranquillity, and the happiness
of this country—all those considerations might well appal a
person far more competent than I am, either in mind or body.
You have sworn by the most solemn of all obligations to find a
verdict in this case according to the evidence, unaffected by any
other considerations, political, sectarian, or religious—unaffected
by fear, favour, or affection—uninfluenced by any ether consi-
derations than the truth and justice of the case. I
ask for your verdict, not by appealing to your
passions or to your prejudices, but by calling on you, as
honest and intelligent men, to exercise your sound judg-
ment in giving your verdict—and if you cannot give me your
verdict upon the fair exercise of that Judgment on the facts, as
given in evidence, I shall not seek it at your hands. .;-I think I
shall present this case to you in such a light as will relieve you
from the slightest possible difficulty as to the course you should
pursue—so that, in the eyes of every honest and fair man in
the country you will be justified in giving the verdict I con-
fidently anticipate from you. Ours is a plain, straightforward.
and just case ; it needs nothing less than the mere exercise
of sound judgment and an honest heart to arrive at a proper
conclusion respecting it. There has, however, been so much
misrepresentation, both in point of law and in point of
fact—so many irrelevant and extraneous topics have been in-
troduced—so much obscurity and confusion have been heaped
upon the case. by the ingenuity, learning, and the talents of
the various gentlemen who have addressed you, that,
before I can hope to make the case for the prosecution intel-
ligible, it will be necessary for me to divest the case of many,
I may say all, of those topics which do not properly belong to
it, and which could have been introduced for no other reason
than to divert your attention from the real question you have
to try. You have had no less than eight addresses on the part
of the several traversers. Many of those have been not only
different, but inconsistent. In one respect, however, there is
a marvellous coincidence among them all, and that is the total
absence of any, the slightest comment—l may say of the least
reference to the evidence in the case. My Learned Friend,
Mr. Sheil, has not often favoured us in this Court by a display
of his splendid talents—his visits have been few and far be-
tween. This was considered an occasion on which some-
thing extraordinary should be resorted to, and accordingly
Mr. Sheil has, on the part of Mr. John O'Connell, addressed
you—he must pardon me for saying, not on the case, but on
various extraneous matters to which it will be necessary for
me to advert. He appeared as Counsel for Mr. John O'Con-
nell , and he certainly delighted us by one of the most splendid
exhibitions of eloquence; the execution was beautiful, brilliant,
elaborate—but the matter very meagre indeed. In sheet, he
threw the case of his client overboard. My Learned Friend the
Attorney-General was actually called the " artful dodger of the
State." I forget the other phrase that was applied to him, but the y
all meant just this, that the Crown and the Government had lite-
rally seduced those people lute the commission of ct ime, and after
they had been suffered to go on, day after day, week after
week, they (the Government) suddenly come down on them
and tell them they have violated the law. Why, it is
monstrous to set up an allegation of that kind on the
question of the guilt or innocence of the parties ? Be-
fore I proceed further to the topics' which Mr. Sheil in-
troduced, I think it right to divest your minds of an ap-
prehension which has been sedulously attempted to be raised
in them as to who it is that we are prosecuting. You
have heard over and ever again that this. is an indict-
ment against the people of Ireland—an indictment for the
purpose of putting down free discusion, and extinguishing the
right of petitioning, introducing a sort of arbitrary control
over the constitutional exercise of legal rights. Gentlemen of
the jury, allow me to say that this is a prosecution not against
the people of Ireland for the exercise of their legal rights— it
is not a prosecution against those unfortunate and deluded peo-
ple who have attended monster meetings at the instance of the
traversers—they are net the persons prosecuted. No, it would
have been more just, more fair, and more true to say that this
is a prosecution against the traversers. It is my conviction that
a verdict which would have the effect of stopping the proceed-
ings of which so many unfortunate people have become victims
would be the most favourable that could happen with respect to
them, so far as their amelioration is concerned. It is said we are
prosecuting for the purpose of putting an end to free discussion.
We are not prosecuting persons for entertaining any political
or religious views, and I avow at once that every one of the
traversers have the fullest right to express, in a constitutional
and legal manner, his opinions on any public question—nay,
more, to use his best exertions, if he thinks-his opinions right,
to propagate them, to have them entertained as far as possible
by all persons in the community, and to use all legitimate and
proper means to accomplish his purpose. But I deny the
right of any persons to attempt to bring about an object by
the means which are charged in this indictment, and to
which I shall presently more particularly direct your atten-
tion. Is this a prosecution against the liberty of the press?
It is true there are included in this indictment three gen-
tlemen who are proprietors of newspapers ; but they are
not included as proprietors of newspapers, but as conspirators,
ant I deny the allegation that this is a persecution or proseco-
tion of the press. But it is said, why arc not the editors of
other Liberal journals included in .this prosecution; you
know that there are proprietors of other newspapers in Dublin
and other parts of Ireland, which advocate the same views on
the subject of the repeal of the union as those entertained by
Dr. Gray, Mr. Barrett, or Mr. Duffy, but they are not ad.
verted to in this indictment ? Why are they not ? Because
they have not become the agents or the instruments for carry..
ing out the designs to which I shall hereafter call your atten •
tion. The charge was that Mr. O'Connell, Dr. Gray,
Mr. Duffy, ;Mr. Barrett, and the other traversers, had
entered into an illegal confederacy to effect changes in
the Constitution. In a popular sense conspiracy might
mean secrecy, but a conspiracy, so far as the acts indicated
its being formed, might be as open as day ; and suppose a
number. of tradesmen entered into public resolutions to pre-
vent others from working below a certain rate of wages, that
would constitute a conspiracy. The Crown said that the
traversers had entered into a common and unlawful design, to,
repeal the union by means of intimidation. The Crown did,
not prosecute the millions who assembled at the meetings, but
those who made them their instruments, and called them toge-
ther, in order, by the demonstration of physical force, to inti-
midate the Legislature.—The Solicitor-General then com-
mented on other counts in the indictment, but did not finish
his speech at the rising of the Court. It is understood the
whole affair will be over on Saturday.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
TATTERSALL'S--YESTERDAY.
CHESTER CUP.
14 to 1 agst Mr. Collett's Cattonite
15 to 1 agst Mr. W. Dawson's Merry Andrew—taken
16 to 1 agst Mr. Lancaster's The Prior—taken
22 to 1 agst Mr. J. Tuting's Tacita
20 to 1 agst Mr. Bristow's Pharaoh—taken freely
25 to 1 agst Col. Cradock's Pagan—taken
25 to 1 agst Lord Westminster's Martyr—taken
30 to 1 agst Mr. Stephenson's Freedom—taken
40 to 1 agst Mr. Speed's Everton—taken
40 to 1 agst Mr. H. Stebbings' Celeste—taken
1000 to 20 agst Mr. Igoe's Broken Down—taken
1000 to 15 agst Mr. Minor's President—taken.
Nothing worth mention was done en the two leading fa-
vourites; nor, in short, were any in request, except the
Prior and Pharaoh, about whom the odds above quoted veva
not obtainable at the close. Business generally was very fiat.
DERBY.
30 to 1 agst Mr. Ford's lot—taken
6to 1 agst Mr. John Day's The Ugly Buck—t freely
8 to 1 agst Mr. Crockford's Rattan
16 to 1 agst Mr. Lichtwald's Leander
17 to 1 agst Col. Peel's Leander—taken freely
25 to 1 agst Lord Maidstone's Cockamaroo
35 to 1 agst Mr. Thornhill's Apprentice
35 to I.agst Mr. Payne's Vat colt—taken
2000 to 40 agst Mr. J. Osborne's Mount Charles
1000 to 100 agst Orlando and Leander—taken
500 to 50 agst Leander and Cockamaroo—taken
1200 to 400 Ugly Buck and Rattan—taken
The Buckites, fonder than ever, increased their invest-
ments to a large amount at 6 to 1, took 1,200 to 400 about
their pet coupled with Rattan, and still were not " convinced."
11 to 2 was the closing offer on the field, and Bto 1 against
Rattan, whose friends stood out for 9to 1. Leander had a
numerous party against him, and so few to "bear up," that
we cannot well quote him at less than 16 to 1; the only bets.
we heard were 15 to 1 in hundreds, early in the afternoon.
and 1,000 to 100 against him jointly with Orlando, at host
two points above the market price, and of course taken ea-
gerly. Orlando was backed freely at 17 to 1, and anything
above 25 to 1 would have been taken about Cockamaroo. N t.)
other change.