Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1844-11-07
Correspondence Of The Erening Post.
Reversal Of the Judgment Of the Irish
COurt.-LibrratiOn of O'COnncii--mcct-
ing Of the Repeal Association.
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And now we 20 down, down, down
And now we ~ backwards and forwards,
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And now 90 down, down, down
And now - backwards and forwards
And hey ios London Town -
The appeal to the House of Lords the writ of
error, has been decided IN OConne.ts favor-the
judgment of the Irish Court of Queens Bench has
been reverscd-the ..Liberator is at liberty Truly
the nursery rhyme just quoted does not III illustrate
the changing current of events, and the ups and
downs of political life
The reversal of the judgment took every one by
surprise The Irish repeal papers, anticipating an
uniavorable result, against the Judgment of
the Lords before it delivered. 1.-The traversers.
exclaimed the Dublin Plot, Ibid not appeal to the
Saxon IN expectation of obtaining Justice bat IN
der that injustice might be made manifest" Al a
low calculation, II may be set down that at least three
hundred ready prepared editorial articles filed with
Thoughts that breathe and words that burn and
overlooking with righteous Indignation against the
Saxon Lords had TO be put into the fire. in place of
being but into type. in consequence of the decision
being favorable, instead of unfav TO O'Connell.
1t was was hard upon the editors.
But must go Mechanically to work. and '.bcgin
with the beginning The affair Is rather tangled
piece of business. | viii endeayor, as clearly |
can. to give the leading points in brief compass.
As the Irish Court had pronounced an adj
verse sentence upon the traversers, they appealed
tie House of Lords against the ludgment-hat House
being the highest court of appeal III the United King
dom. The Lords referred The different points
sue 10 Tie English Judges, order 10 have the bene
fit of the opinions of these legal authorities gu-
dance for their own Judgment
SIX Of the counts IN the monster Indictment the
English Judges proved to be bad informal. for
rlous technical reasons The sixth and seventh counts,
winch the Irish Judges had pronounced to be 'uneX-
ceptonable. the English Judges pronounced utterly
bad These counts charge the pr, oner with seeking
to gam these ends by intimdaiion but. SAID the Eng
isl Judges, there Is no mention made whO they in
tended 10 ntimidate-consequcntly the counts mus
fall to the ground.
On the whole, however, the majority of the Eng
llsh Judges decided that TIE judgment Of the Irish
court ought to stand because although the Judgment
had been pronounced both good and bad counts it
held tina. the good counts sufficient To-
tain the Judgment ''NO'-said the minority of the
Judges ''thc bad counts vtiate the rho n licmon'
In this shape the went to the House of Lords.
Five claw lords took part in the discussion which
ensued. The Tory Lord Chancellor Lyndhur>t. Gan
American by the by) conicnded that the Judgment of
the Irish Court ought TO be sustained: the nondescrpi
Lord Brougham followed the same side the three
Wing Lords, Dcnman, Campbell, and Cot;enham,
took the same view the minority of the irish Judy
es. and contendcd that the bad counts yi,ated the
Whole indictment.
The House then prepared TO gte It's vote. when up
rot Lord Wharncliffe, one of the minority Orcs dent
Of the Councll) and proposed that the questions
turned upon legal points. the claw Lords should
alone give their votes. HIS views were acduic>ccd
in-thc Lords reiired-and the Judgment of tic Irish
Court was reversed by vote of to >.