The Sun. — 1848-09-23 (London, England)

COURT. OLD COURT. TRIAL OF WILLIAM DOWLING.  Re-examination of Thomas Powell (esnatinued from our Third Edition yesterday)—Was notito receive anything if these persons were convicted. Did not exi.Nect anything except protection. Might have told the men that he was sick of their talking, and that they did nothing. Never told the men that they were going too slow, and that the best thing they could do was to set fire to London. I do not believe I ever made use of such an expression. The only way I stimulated them on was to give Gurney half a pound of gunpowder. I swear I never gave gunpowder or bullets to any one besides. Gurney told me to get some paper and powder in order to make cartridges. I expected they were to be made by the Queen's troops and the police, but yet I assisted him to obtain them. Ido not know whether this was patriotic or not. I believe they suspected that I was a spy on account of a certain person with whom I was in communication being seen to come to my house. The charge was made against me, but I successfully refuted it, and the person who made the charge was turned out of the room. I was elected a delegate by the council. I was proposed by a stranger, and was at once elected. I do not know that I ever saw the stranger before, and I have not seen him since. I did not press myself forward. I was desirous to get into their confidence gradually in order that I might betray them the more securely. Every delegate was made acquainted with the pass-word used. Knew the object for which it was given. I swear I had no portion of the money that was collected. Mr. Dowling did not say on one occasion that some of the plans had been arranged in his absence, and that so far as he understood them he disapproved of them. He did resign at one of the meetings, but he was re-elected. Mullins and Rose were accused of being spies as well as myself. I always indignantly repudiated the charge of being a spy. I spoke to two men about " firing " the houses and premises, and one of them agreed to do as I desired, but the other did not appear willing. II thought I was bound to carry out the resolution of the committee, that each delegate should engage some men for the purpose of firing houses, or else I should have been ,suspected. I did not consider I was entrapping these two men into the commission of an offence. I communicated with a certain party immediately after the first secret committee meeting was held, and my information was no doubt communicated to the Government. I only once heard any mention made of a republic, and then the prisoner was present. Rose spoke about murdering the police. I had no right to be present at that meeting. I swear the words "fighting men" were used. A man named Donovan proposed to send a messenger to Limerick, in order to ohtain a true version of what was going on in Ireland. When Mullins said, " May the bitterest curse of Ged rest upon any man who would betray any of us," it ►%as not addressed to me, but I thought a good deal of it. I have not made so much by being a spy as by carpentering. Sergeant Thompson deposed that he searched the lodgings of Rose, and found the papers which he produced. They appeared to be plans of London, apparently marked out in different districts, and a :list of men whose names were in cypher, supposed to be the intended leaders of the insurrection, and this number of men each leader had apportioned to him. It being now a quarter to seven o'clock, the