The Express. — 1867-11-02 (London, England)

TES SENTENCE.  The usual proclamation was then made, and both Judges put on the black caps. Mr. Justice Mellor, addressing the prisoners, said—You have been severally convicted, after a full, patient, and impartial investigation, of the crime of wilful murder. No person who has witnessed these proceedings can doubt the propriety of that verdict upon the evidence that has been given before the jury. Your crime was attended by circumstances of peculiar audacity In the daytime iu the immediate vicinity of this populous city, you sue: seeded in rescuing prisoners from the custody of the law, This is • crime which strikes at the very foundations of civil society ; and were it possible that it could be committed without bringing down condign punishment upon its perpetrators, it would deprive the subjects of the realm of all sense of security for their lives and property, and would completely throw us Lack into a reign of terror and violence. The unfortunate man Charles Brett, whom you killed, was not au ordinary citizen ; he was a policeman charged with the custody of persons who were committed upon serious of enoes against the law, and you made Min the victim of your violence, because, in the courageous execution of his duty, he would not yield to your unlawful threat.. I quite believe that none of you entertained any actual malice against the individual Charles Brett ; and 1 doubt not that you would have much preferred that he should have yielded the keys and suffered you to rescue the prisoners wham sem"e you had conspired to effect. While I say this, lam not the less perfectly convinced that all of you had resolved, at may risk and by any amount of dangerous violence and outrage, to accomplish your object, and that, in fact, Charles Brett was murdered because it was essential to the completion of your common design that he should be. So far as the interests of the community are concerned, there is no offence which can be committed of a grayer nature, or which demands nt the hands of justice more exemplary punishment. There is but one sentence which the law assigns to the offence. It is not my sentence, but it is the sentence of the law. I hare not the power to modify it. nor to discriminate between the various perpetrators of the offence. I should be deluding you into • false security if I were to hold out to any of you any expectation that your lives may be 'pared, or that you can derive any advantage from the points of law which were urged by your counsel. I beseech you therefore most earnestly to apply yourselves with all diligence to make your peace with God. Repair, I entreat you, in penitence and prayer, to the cross of Christ, from which no penitent sinner was ever spurned sway. I ha- e now only to perform the solemn duty which devolves upon me, to pale upon you the sentence of the law. That sentence is that you, and each of you, be taken hence to the place whence you came, and thence to • place of execution, and that you be there hanged by the neck until you shall be dead, and that your bodies be afterwards Intrital within the precincts of the prison wherein you were laid confined after your reapeetive convictions ; and may God, in His infinite mercy. have mercy upon you. Before the prisoners left the bar, they reached over and shook hands with Messrs. Jones, Cottingham, and Roberts. The Court adjourned at 20 minutes past 8 o'clock.  A telegram from our Dublin correspondent last,l night says :- -"The wounded policemen are still alive, but Kenna is rapidly sinking. The corporation of Dublin have voted 1001. for the benefit of the families of these men, and have opened a personal subscription for the same purpose. Three men were arrested this afternoon in • public-house in Britain-genet. One had a ten chambered, and another a six chambered revolver."  and he could not complain. Of course his lordship was BANQUET To rHs