The Sun.
London, England, 1868-04-25 00:00:00

TIIE FE,VIAN TRLILS.

(Continued fro:n our First Edition)
_Mr. B:►ker Greene proceeded to sum up the case
or the defence of Barrett. He contended that the
witnesses he had called in support of the alibi had
?assed unscathed through one of the most searching
ordeals to which witnesses had ever been exposed.
Me prosecution were so wedded to their case that
.hey were determined to carry it through
o the last. It was not an unnatural thing that,
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laving watched over it in its fancy, tended it in
.ts youth, and paraded it in that Court in all the
,ride of its manhood, they should be unwilling to
follow it to its crave. The alibi, he contended, was
fully established.

At three o'clock the Attorney-General rose to
reply on the whole case, explaining that it was the
last wish of the law advisers of the Crown to press
.vith undue harshness against the prisoners at the
mr. Calling the attention of the jury to the sketch
,f the Fenian plot as furnished by the in..
Mullany, ho pointed out the cir-
:unistauces attendant upon the delivery, by
,Irs. Barry, of the letter to Murphy fro►n
3urke, written iu invisible ink. Shortly after that
otter was shown, as Mullauy said to Barrett, a

ieries of moetings were held, at which arrange-
❑ents were made for the purchase of :gunpowder.

Ile fact of the dolivety of the powder at Airs.
Martin's was fully corroborated by independent
anesses. That Mrs. Martin was not
fact much commented on by some of the

.ounsel for the defence, was surely not surprising,
vhen it was remembered that if the theory of the
grown were correct, she was in full sympathy with
the Fenian Brotherhood. In considering the evi-
.lence of Mullany, could the jury find one flaw in
.he statements he had made as to the purchase of
the powder, the use that was made of it
without success on the Thursday, but with

success on the following day ? That testimony, sup-
ported by independent witnesses, implicated all the
prisoners now before the Court. The meeting at

\Vilna's' Desmond's was admitted, but it was con-
tended that during the time it was being held he
himself was absent, and therefore knew nothing
►bout the arrangements for the explosion which
.vere then made. The evidence of the man Vaughan,
the Attorney.Goneral admitted, must be looked at
.kith great caution. As regarded Timothy Des-
mond, about whose case there were some peca-
daritie, which the jury would carefully watch,
it was not denied that he was seen in the
vicinity of the explosion, but it was
Argued he bad been there visiting certain public-
!tenses. Passing on to the interview said to be

'mid between Vaughan and Timothy Desmond, the
learned counsel contended that the improbability
which the defence argued surrounded it had in
reality no existence. Witnesses had proved that
l'iniothy Desmond had been engaged in draw-
ing the truck on the Thursday, and was found in the
neighbourhood on the actual day of the explosion.
Raving noticed the evidence against English, evidence
which he held to be conclusive, the Attorney-General turned
ills attention to the case against Barrett, which, in addi-
tion to the testimony of 31 ullany, was supported by
that furnished by the apprentice, the woman Kennon,
Martha KempsleA, and her brother. These had
icon Barrett frequently and continuously, and it
was absurd to suppose that they could one and all
have been mistaken. The evidence of the boy
..,lo6eley, who saw the barrel on the 13th, was
listinet as to the part in the conspiracy taken by
Barrett. The identifica.Aiou,oi him was clear and

iistinct, and he wa3 corroborated by the other ~
boy Wheeler. His altered appearance and change I
dress after the explosion were fully spoken to 4
the apprentice and Mrs. Keppell. None of thes3 i
witnesses were itnpeachei, and their evidence, he 1
contended, clearly implicated Barrett.
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(At this stage the Attorney-General broke oif

his address, and the Court adjourned till Monday,
the jury being conveyed as usual in an omnibus to
the City •lerruinus Hotel, Cannon-streut.)