The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-05-30 00:00:00

Dublin,

THE CROPS TN IRELAND.-With respect to potatoes, it
is gratifying to know that a considerable width of them
has been got down in the district, and that the early
planted ones a:-e doing well; exhibiting, where they have

Seen examined, proots m oealthy germin-
ation. Wheat is most luxuriant in appearance, and bids
fair, so far, to vie with the crop of last season. Oats, in
rich, well pulverized land, are looking remarkably healthy.
Early sown barley has a very healthy hue. Grass lands
and young clover beds are remarkably promising.—Drog-
heda Arclua.

uxuriant and

On Tuesday week, a man named Harty, living near
Limerick, died of fever, and before life was extinct, his
brother went with a party of ruffian 3, and entered Ys
house and pillaged it of everything, and then drove the
cattle off the land, without leaving his wife as much as
would bury her husband. The Sunday after they again
visited the house, took the corpse of the dead man, flung
it on to the dunghill, and beat the unfortunate widow and
her friends. The police afterwards obtained possession of
the cattle, which they gave to the widow, and eight of the
ringleaders in the barbarous act have been committed for
trial.

There is no limit to the ferociousness and fanaticism of

the Irish Confederates. At a meeting held in Dublin on
Sunday, a Mr. R. O'Gorman, jun., hazarded the hold
idea that Mitchel's advocacy of murder by vitriol squirts
and ginger beer bottle grenades was a direct act of
Divine inspiration. "Perhaps" said the brilliant orator
" that glorious enthusiasm which has swept him so far
ahead of us may have come from God, and as yet we do
not perceive its light." The idea was greeted with tre-
mendous cheers ; and fired Mr. Mitchel's colleague in
guilt, Mr. T. F. Meagher with still more brilliant con-
ceptions.
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THE " UNITED IRISHMAN." The renowned priest
of Templederry, the Rev. Father Kenyon, has arrived in
Dublin, for the purpose, it is said, of superintending the
editorial department of the United Irishman, in the event
of that journal being deprived of the services of its pre-
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sent staff. Mr. Kenyon has been relieved of his ecclesi-
astical duties, and as it is added that he has no intention
of taking any steps to induce Bishop Kennedy to with-
draw the sentence of suspension, the rev. gentleman will
have ample time to devote to the pursuit of newspaper
literature. He is possessed of property in the county of
Limerick sufficiently ample to render him independent of
the income derivable from the parish of Templederry.

THE STATE PROSECUTIONS IN IR

In the case of the Queen v. Mitchell, on Wednesday, at
Dublin, Mr. Holmes, counsel for the prisoner, applied for a
postponement of the trial on the ground of the absence of a
material witness. An affidavit was put in supporting the
application. The Court agreed that the matter should
stand over until next day. when the trial of the prisoner
proceeded, before Baron Lefroy and Judge Moore. The
attorney-general, J. Monahan, Esq. ; Mr. Henn, Q.C. ;
Mr. Whiteside. Q.C. ; and Mr. Perrin, appeared to con-
duct the prosecution ; and Mr. Holmes, Sir Colman
O'Loghlen, with Messrs. Pigot and O'Hagan, conducted
the prisoners defence. A challenge mas made to the array
on the part of Mr. Mitchell, and the matter was referred
to the jury, who, through their foreman, found that the
panel was fairly and impartially made out by the High
Sheriff and his officers. A jury was then sworn in, and
the indictment was read at length. The prisoner was in-
dicted for two distinct publications—one a speech delivered
at the Limerick soiree, and published in the United Irish-
man of the 6th of May; the other a letter addressed to
the Protestant farmers, labourers, and artisans of the
north of Ireland, published in the same journal, on the
13th of May, of which the prisoner is the proprietor and
publisher, the object of both articles being to take away
the style, honour, and royal name of our sovereiem lady

the Queen ; and to compel her to change her measures.
The prisoner pleaded not guilty. The court then ad-
journed to Friday, when the case was fully gone into, Mr.
Holmes making a splendid address in favour of the pri-
soner, and contending that it was perfectly legal to recom-
mend the public to arm, on account of the oppression
exercised by the Saxons.

Mr. Hethl then replied, and after Mr. Justice Moore
had charged the jury, they retired, and after about two
hours and a half consultation, returned a verdict of guilty.
Mr. Mitchell was then removed, and on Saturday morning
he was brought up to receive sentence, and on being
asked if he had any objections why it should not be
passed, he said he had ; it was because he had
been found guilty "by a packed jury; by the proceed-
ings :of a partisan sherif, and by a jury which was
packed—was juggled—not by a sheriff, but by a
juggler." He was proceeding in this strain when he was
interrupted by Baron Lefroy, who then in a lengthened
address passed sentence on the prisoner of fourteen years
transportation. The learned baron, in the courseof his
address, said that the jury could not have come to any
other decision, and condemned the line of defence
adopted by Mr. Holmes for the prisoner, which his lord-
ship said amounted very nearly to matter as objectionable
as that for which the prisoner stood charged. Mr.
.Mitchell was then allowed by the court to speak, when he
went on to say that he had several weeks ago promised
Lord Clarendon that his lordship should either pack a
jury to convict him, or he (Mitchell) would provoke his
lordship to a contest in another field. He was then going
on to speak of " packed juries, partisan judges, and
perjured sheriffs," when he was stopped by the court, and
told that he could only be heard within the limits of
public decorum. He then said that he retracted nothing
and repented of nothing which he had said or done, and
that hundreds were ready to follow his course, but on this
Baron Lefroy ordered him to be removed. The turnkey
then caught Mitchell by the arm, and as he was taken

away Lis friends crowded round him, but durinE

e whole

time he deported himself in perfect composure and deli-
berate self-possession. At this moment a scs

eitement ensuei

which, we bel

not been Cc,

It was nervous

I thrillin-g in the extreme

The personal friends and

adherents of Mr. Mitchell, who thronged
the dock, rose, and, in a rush to get a touch o
the prisoner, created a commotion at once_reckl

ho. vicinity of
sight of

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presence of the judges or the police authorities. Gentle-
men of the bar, who wore the costume, disrobed themselves
and entered into active resistance to the police, by whom
several persons were taken into custody, amongst whom
were Messrs. Meagher, Doheny, and Richard O'Gorman,
jun. During the excitement that prevailed at this period
of the proceedings in which the crowded court seemed
completely absorbed, Baron Lefroy rose and retired from
14 bench, but Judge Hoare remained unmoved by the