The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1867-06-01
NEWS FROM HOME.
From The Irishman.
The Special Go Emission in Dublin.
SCENES IN COURT.

upward number of gorgeousy dressed ades SIT IN the
small gallery whose front bench the reporters are accoo
dated behind on the upper tiers of benches in the large
gallery sit crowded closely packed as they can large
auditory most of which to me to consist OF jurors WIN
MANY constable nterposed between AS the prisoners
not in the DOCK although the judges are sitting, tor mlscon
cepon arisen about hour when the Court was to
to-day and the Lords Justices of Special Commission chaf
hardly delay They sit clad in their rosecoored robes
and there officials sure to be ebuked tor prisoners
are only being sent now and hum arises from the audi
tory like the low of the bees in summer Woodlands
whilst
WE ARE WAITING
waited here before in the days of the State Trials when
Mr. Justice Keogh the presiding genius at the
look down into the empty DOCK where the prisoner Lub stood
spoke that speech which made his memorable
see the step Hickman stumbled he merged from the
dark region behind and below. fix my upon the iron
bar across which John eary leaned his he made his
bold plea the memories and hopes of his country
the where CDonovan Rosa stood after his sentence
he turned to enter his captivity since so bitter and
graped of the oueched hands that extended to
him if gulf which there yawned wide to separate
him from friend and wife, and sacred home forever wonder
much the voices heard then speak such accents
rang loud the answering echoes OF those walls will ever
in all time be heard elsewhere than in the corridors PRISONS
amid the convict gang to whose ranks they have been
doomed.
THE SITUATION.
Does the bold spirit without the shadow of the prison
glooms when all the ngenues of man is exercised to bury
it in the living grave of the dungeon? How-no how
great the dare that ehow does the soul stand
fast by strong impulses when the iron gates close upon the
dreay hours and the only glimpse of heaven vouchsaed
blackened in its glory by the looming height of prison walls
and blurred by the bars of the prisoners CRATE how does
guage the wish that babbes fields when the
rises high and sends stray beams that wanderers
from its glory lost amid the dark places of jail
THE PRISONERS ARE BELOW,
Is murmued around the Court noise is heard in the
depths below hidden away in the passage of the dock We
the shung of their feet they toward the Court
last they from the portals of the depths of de-
spa through which before only go back
to imprisonment and to face the grmmes horrors of the
victs DOOM And first of those, walking forward to the bar
GENERAL THOMAS BURKE
AS he moves that he lame and walks with difficulty
and as seems painfully AS he he is pointed out
whilst all bend forward to look at him. dressed in
suit of plain grey tweed and appears to be stopped but that
NAV arise from the debility which his wound on distant
battlefield has caused impress you with
of being athelec and his hands and thin,
their epdons being distinctly defined through the skn
which the blue veins swell out and ramy Salow in
pexon portion of his face is covered with black
and bushy beard his eyes CLEAN with light which, doubt
often flashed its fires amid the smoke of battle and his
impresses with the idea of cool determination
He has anxious look but it is the anxious look of
whose health is far from being robust AS he stands gazing
him. first at the judges and then at the crowded bar
and galleries. he strokes his mousache with his fingers if
were habit with him. and turns his brow into wrinkles in the
intensity of his glance from beneath his overhangng
brows Whilst he is looking around, and whilst have been
lent me- there have been crowdng beside him the who
dare his fate. And now they must
ANSWER TO CALL.
There was once a French soldier La Tour d. Auvergne
whose name after he slain of the fields of
where the flag of the great Republic borne to victory
neglected the sergeants list His comrades
used to answer for him, Mort le champ 6atae do
know how tell why this La Tour d. Auvergne and his
answered call rises my mind here in this Court in Green
street; but as if it impulse of intuition and
memory of history startled by the application to the
repy of the prisoners here Thomas Burke FIRST
then replies Edward Duffy in words ominous to ear with
the yable, "ereH The Clerk of the Crown mumbes
their names over and the reply arises from EACH single
out amongst who answer only few Edward Duffy,
pae and worn stands Themes Burke the accused beside
him and in front clad r velvet lounge coat is Captain MCa
rtv then behind is Patrick Doran and George Connolly whose
stature like that of Ajax ovrtops them all for like the Ho
merc hero he exceeds them by his head and lofty shout
ders" those stand Meaes Curran, and Others
whose files extend even beneath the portals of Despair and
each called the hearers answer When the roll
wonder what are the sensations of those Some
called on the battle field before the fight and heard
it answered when it was over How do they listen this
awful black list to-day? Which would they rather meet, its