Year: 1867

postpone the day. as long as we can.
for that awful penalty of the law that
YOU are doomed to suffer, IN order to
afford each of YOU time for prayer and
repentance. and Tor asking gAmercy Of
Your Maker and that Savior who is
almighty to save. Nothing now re-
mains Tor me, then, but to pe.iysIn the
sad, painful duty imposed en- me bv
law, and that duty Is. to pronounce
the sentence | must upon YOU


His Lordship here assumed the black
cap and proceeded


That sentence is. taat vou and laeh
of you shall be taken frola where YOU
now stand to the place from whence
you came and that, on "a cdncsdav.
the 18th Of Nav, YOU he drawn on a
hurdle from that place to the place Of
execution; and that there yoQ and
each Of YOU shall be hanged bv the
neck until Won are dead: a-3 .hat af-
terward your heads be severed from
Your bodies. and the bodies OF each of
you, divided into four quarters. shall
be disposed Of as Her Majesty or her
Executives shall think fiji and proper.
And may the Lord have Mercy on
your souls.


At the conclusion Of the sentence
the prisoners, who remained calm as
before all throughout, turned from the
front Of the dock and quickly prepared
to leave it in the usual way, III COM
pany with the goalcrs. Mr.. Lawlcss.
their solicitor. came up To them before
they left, and gave each OF them a
hearty squeeze by the hand, which
they returned with warmth They
then left the dock in charge of the
gaolers. lmmediately after the SEN
tence on the prisoners had been pro
nounced, the Court House. which had
become densely filled toward the close
of the proceedings, began to empty
itself and soon after the court ad-
iourned


The Dublin spondence of the
Cork Erdn'i1scr contains the following
description of the scene IN court dur
ing the speech of Burke:


OF Burke's speech it is not too much
to say, that it will fill a not obscure
page in all future Irish history. How
it may read | know not: but, to hear
1t spoken, il was one of the most el
oquent and manly addresses raoa on
the brink of death ever delivered in OK
out of a court of Justice Burke's
pale, sad yisage, lit up, while he was
speaking. with a sort Of poetical eff
fulgence, that gave vast additional in
e,
models; his voice and sentences round
ed and flowing, as if he were reciting
something by heart, in place of deliv.
ering what was evidently the most
extemporc address. And his sweet.
sad voice and gracious air, with the
evident look of suffering. lent ten
fold interest to all ne said. The oc-
casional divergences he made into po-
etic diction were plainly no labored
efforts. but the simple utterances of a
mind which, in its normal state, was 4
highly poetical and cultivate one
A many points in the address one IN
sensibly felt that swelling In the throat
and mistincss of vision which deep pa
thos induces IN spite Of ones self, no
matter Of what iron mould a man NAV
be and after the address many a
moist eve was IN court As la turn
ed from the bar. at the end Of his
speech, a murmur went round tho
court, which would infallibIy have be.
come n cheer but for the ferocious
howl.acs of the officials with which it
was instantly extinruisned. The
ca.woet man present. apparently was
Burke, who bore throughout the radi
ance OF his ha0.tuai sad smile hover
ing round his manly but worn Eace.-
When he left the dock every nan III
court felt that perhaps the most in
teresting scene that FeniaMslu had
ever given birth TO had just passed by.
And that one of the Eoblcst. bravcst.
manifest men that has ever been as
sociated with revolutionary enterprise
in Ireland had passed from the new
OF the court. 1t was q scene 10 deep.
ly ponder over; and it sent c-~sy
many a reflective and saddened nan
from the building.