The Sun.
London, England, 1845-03-22 00:00:00

DUBLIN STOCK AND SHARE MARKET.

The following were the closing prices at the Stock
Exchange this day :—Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent.
Stock, 1023.; Bank Stock, 211 ; Grand Canal De-
bentures, Four per Cent., 71fr ; Four per Cent. City
Debentures, 971.—Railways : Dublin and Drogheda,
90/ ; Great Southern and Western, Extension, 74 ;
Dublin and Belfast Junction, 6/ *; Irish Great
Western, Dublin to Mullingar and Athlone, 2* 4 ;
Belfast and Ballymena, 3i ; Dundalk and Ennes-
killen, 21, 3,2 i; Waterford and Limerick, 4; Wex-
ford and Carlow, 2-a ; Kingstown and Bray, 9,8 j ;
Dieppe and Paris, 2i.

THE ASSIZES.
In the absence of that agitation to which we were
so much accustomed up to a late period, we must be
content with every exciteable event that turns up,
even at the other side of the Channel. Hence it
is that the trial of Tawell—his bearing before and
since conviction, have furnished us with a topic
of very general conversation. Indeed, our own
assizes, although light, with the exception of two or
three districts, have created a very unusual degree
of interest in Dublin. A capital conviction being
happily a circumstance of rarer occurrence than here-
tofore, when such an event takes place it becomes a
leading subject of conversation.
This day's post brings an account of the conviction
of a man for murder at Deny, on Friday, and the fol-
lowing is a sketch of the trial:—

MURDER IN FANNET.
Michael Dogherty was indicted for the wilful murder
of James Friel, at Tullinadal, on the 27th February
last, and pleaded not guilty.
John Friel, brother of deceased, examined by Mr.
Schoales, Q.C.—The deceased, witness, and their
brother Michael, held ground jointly under the Earl of
Leitrim. Last year, or some time before, there was a
division of farms in that part of the estate, accord-
ing to which witness and his brothers got thirty
perches more or less of the ground held by prisoner's
father, who got some in lieu of it. Witness and his
brothers cropped those perches last year. Before
breakfast, on the 27th of February, witness and his
brothers were turning a lea rig beside an old ditch
on the acquired ground. Michael had a crow-
bar—the others spades. The prisoner came down
to them with a gun in his hand, and a bayonet
tied on its muzzle. He was holding his gun in both
hands. Witness was then four or five yards from de-
ceased. Prisoner swore by the five crosses that he
would stick or skiver some of them. Michael was
nearest to prisoner, and James next. Prisoner made
an attempt to stab Michael, but he escaped the blow.
He then stabbed James, who cried, " 0, John, I am
done!" Witness got hold of him, and, opening his shirt,
saw a wound on the left breast, and blood rushing
from it. Saw several persons at a distance, and called
to them, and laid deceased on the ground, still having
him in his arms. He may have lived about twelve
minutes, but not more. He and his brothers did or
said nothing to provoke prisoner, but tried to keep
him off with their spades.
Cross-examined by Counsellor Doherty.—They
had been neighbours of the Doghertys for 12 or 13
years. The Doghertys had been longest on the land.
Mr. Law, the agent, had been making new arrange-
ments and division lines. There were trees, some of
them pretty old, on the ditch he has spoken of, and
witness and his brothers were going to uproot them.
They had a hatchet with them. The trees were
got, and they got it
ash and sycamore—some, perhaps, twenty years old.
The Doghertys never came to them to say that
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taken away three of the trees the day before, at which
time he cannot say whether old Dogherty was taken
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about the trees, but next day heard it.
Several other witnesses were examined.
After some time spent in deliberation, the jury re-
turned with a verdict of guilty, to which was added a
recommendation to mercy. The Judge inquired the
ground of their recommendation, and was answered
by the foreman that it was the youth of the prisoner ;
on which his Lordship shook his head doubtingly,
and the prisoner was removed from the bar.
On Saturday the unfortunate culprit was sen-
tenced to be executed. When the Judge had con-
cluded, the prisoner fell on his knees, and with hands
uplifted and pressed together, implored that he might
be transported for twenty years or be imprisoned for
five -years. The witnesses against him, he said, could
say what they pleased ; but, if wronged by them, he
knew "he would not be wronged when he came