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(From the Cork Constitution of Saturday.)
SATURDAY-NINTH DAY.

Baron PENNEFATHER and Mr. Justice TORRESS
took their seats on the Bench, this day, at about
half-past nine o'clock. _ _

Aff. SOLICITOR-GENERAL, and the Counsel for
the Crown, being in attendance,
Baron PENNEFATIIER wished to know what courss
the Crown intended to pursue.
The SOLICITOR-GENERAL said, that his Learned
Friends and himself had come to the determination
not to bring on, this Commission, the trial of any
other of the persons-against whom indictments had
been found for the conspiracy. This determination
had been induced ky two considerations—one, the
character of the evidence on which the prosecution
rested—the other, an honest wish to give to the men
still untried time and opportunity fully to rebut
that evidence. The Crown would have no objec-
tion to suffer the prisoners, still untried, to return to
their homes; but on the condition that they should
give boil fir their appearance, to stand trial at the
next Assizes.

Mr. O'CONNELL said that the Commission being
now about to close, lie could not avoid saying that
the proceedings of it taught two important lessons,
which he would have al that heard him to medi-
tate on and appreciate. It first told the guilty,
whosever or wheresoever they were, that crime is
not safe; that a confederacy of guilt is ever likely
to be broken in upon, and that those who are cal-
minted upon as the)nstruments of iniquity become
the instruments of punishment and exposure. This
was a lesson ‘vhich the Commission inculcated; but
it inculcated another also—that the people should
always have confidence in the laws of the country;
end never was he more impressed with that tut-03,
than when he reflected upon the dignified, the almost
majestic itnpartiality with which those laws had been
administered, in the last of these trials.

Baron PENNEFAT!IER addressed a few emphatic
words to the gentlemen who had been summoned to
serve as Jurors during the Commission ; he eulo-
gized their prompt and numerous attendance, awl
bid them be satisfied that it was by such attendance
they could best secure the interests of the commu-
nity, and render unfrequent the necessity of such
calls as that they bad so creditalq.answered. The
Baron next complimented the gentlemen engaged
for the defence and the pr'secut►on, and concluded
by remitting the fines which the Court had felt it
its duty to impose, but which, upon inquire, it found
not to have been incurred wilfully or negligently.
The SOLICITOR-GENERAL—NIy Lords, I hope
you will pardon me for making one remark, as from
the circumstances of some of the cases remaining
over for trial at the next Assizes, I have determined
to abstain from offering some observations, which
under other circumstances I would feel were neces-
sary. It is my Lords to say that in the assistance
which the Crown received from the Gentlemen and
Magistrates, who from the peculiar state in which
they were placed, or in the discharge of their duty
had to take an active part in those prosecutions, I
never witnessed a more anxious desire to have the
ends of justice satisfied, with the more tender feel-
ings of humanity. And would to God that some
of the infatuated people who now disturb and dis-
tract that part of the country in which these trials
had their might, were present at the different con-
sultations that it fell to my lot to have with these
gentlemen in the discharge of my duty; they would
find that in marking them out as objects of assas-
sination they were dooming to destruction their
most benevo'ent friends, and their kindest benefac-
tors. This much I felt it due to these gentlemen
to state; and I cannot also avoid expressing the
gratification I feel at the prowl array of Jurors,
who attended so promptly ut the call of the govern-
ment.

Mr. O'CONNELL made come enquiry as to the
amount of bail.

Mr. Serjeant GOULD replied—The same as before.
Mr. O'CoNNELL—That is reasonable.

It was then ordered by the Court that the hail
should be given before the Chief Magistrate of this
city.
Mr. 0' CONN ELI, sh3rtly after this withdrew.
The SOLICITOR-Ui ENERAL and Mr. Serjeant
GOULD took a farewell of their Lordships ; the lat-
ter personages remained a few minutes ruling the
books, and then retired.
We understand that the 14th of November has
been named for the execution of John Leary and
the three other men, who were tried with him. We
should suppose, however, that we shall. hear more
of this matter.

On the adjournment of the Court, the untried
prisoners were conduced to the Mayor's, to enter
into recognizances—Michael Barrett, John Barry,
Denis Shea, William Ileaphy, William Flynn,
Charles Murphy, Maurice Regan, Owen Hickey,
James Barrett, Edmund Walsh, Edmund Coghlan,
and Thomas-Daly, to appear at and attend at the
next General Assizes, or any other gaol delivery
for which they should be noticed—Timothy Barrett
and John Shine to keep the peace for seven years to
all his Mejesty's subjects, more especially to Mi-
chael Creagli, Esq.
The bail was the same -in all the instances—
themselves in 1001., and two securities in 501: each.
A considerable crowd followed the prisoners, of
which the greater number consisted of their personal
friends and relatives, who testified the most un-
bounded satisfaction as each of the prisoners were
discharged—the women hugging them, and the
men eagerly pressing to take their hands. The re•
mainder of the crowd seemed to share and sympa-
thise in the general joy; and every tongue was loud
in praises of Mr. O'Connell, to whose exertions this
total discomfiture of the Crown Prosecutions is uni-
versally attributed.

DEPARTURE OF THE JUDGES.—Shortly after re.
tiring fa•om Court yesterday, the Judges left town
for Darling Hill, in the County of Tipperary. the
seat of Mr. Baron Pennefather.—cork Constitution.

A melancholy circumstance occurred in
Templemore on Friday last :—A young practitioner who
arrived there lately from Dublin, attempting to rem: ve a
lump which had risen to an enormous size on the head of
a woman named BRIDGET HUNT, of Thurles, applied the
knife to the lump, when he found, too late, that it was of
a species called by surgeons Fungus Hentatodis—which
is certain death if operated on ; the wretched woman died
in 15 minutes. An Inquest was held on the body the
next day by Mr. CORM A CK, Coroner, and the young gen-
tleman held over to bail to answer at the next Abeires for
the woman's life.