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    6 THE NORTHERN STAR! _.... " ..- A .!!!?...

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    THE STATE TRIALS. COMMISSION COUBTDraus....

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    6 The Northern Star! _.... " ..- A .!!!?...

    6 THE NORTHERN STAR ! _" A _!!!? J '

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    The State Trials. Commission Coubtdraus....

    THE STATE TRIALS . COMMISSION COUBTDraus . August 17 . -Thtir lordships having regamed the sittings ef the Court at ten r . clock , Mr Kevin _Izid _O'Dogberty was pnt « tt . the . dock _^ to Stand bi 3 trial sgtin for felony nnder the new Ac , MS _JiMES _UAHH-f . # Mr Samuel _Waterhouse . the foreman of the jury who tried and convicted Mr Martio , addressed the Court with reference to an occurrence which hed taken place yesterday evening _afor the _verehct had been found , lie stated that Mr James Martin , brother to the prist ner , entered _omplaiuan-. ' s siiop in Dame street list night , and accosted him in an excited mariner , made acme observations on the subject of the trial , ia the course of which he accused Mr _Waterheuse of having ' bullied' his brother

    jurors into finding tho verdict , and concluded by challenging hia to mortal combat . Instead of accepting the invitation to meet Mr Martin in battle array , he felt it his duty to have him conveyed to _Collegestreet police-office . Mr O'Rorke , solicitor for Mr John Martin , subsequently waited upon _complainant , and apologising for the conduct of Mr James Martin , which he imputed to excited _feelings , he _represented the deep pain which the circumstance would irfKet on the prisoner and his family . He had also received & letter to the ssme effect from the gentleman himself , _espressin _^ regret for the course pursued . lie was to " have appeared , in consequence ef the matter , at _Coilege-itreet po'ice-offica this _morning , but having received a summons to attend this Court , he thouiht it his duty , as he intimated last night , to tiring the circumstance _bafore tha notice of their lordshipi .

    Mr O'Rorke and Mr Butt interposed on behalf of Mr James Martin , and apologised to the Court . The _Cnief Baron observed that Mr _Waterhouse had acted very properly-that a gi 03 s outrage on the administration of justice had been committed , and inquired whether the _complainant had sworn informations in the case ? Mr Waterhouse replied that he would bave appeared this morning at the Police Office to do so , but that he had received a summons to attend that Court . Tae Chief Baron then directed that Mr James Martin , at the rising of the Court , _bi _brought bafcre them , and either _spslogise _ft-r his conduct or be punished according to the discretion of the Bench . TRIAL OF MR o ' _dCGHEBIT . The Clerk of the Crown then proceeded to call ovsr the _psnel from which the jury to try -Mr O'Doghertv were to be tke .

    Mr Butt , Q C , challenged the array , oa the ground that tae panel hsd not been well , equally , and impartially tried by the Sheriff . The Crown having joined issue , Messrs Rathborce and Fig _« _is were appointed trim . Mr Bntt , Q . C ., then stated the nature of the challenge . The prisoner ' s _counsel did not mean to _inainnate that the panel had been arrayed by tbe Sheriff for _= he purpose of prejudicing the Crown or the prisoners , bat that he had been influenced by a motive , however honestly he might have entertained it , wbich ought not to have actuated him if he selected the panel with reference to the religion of tbe

    J urors , believing that there ought to be a preponderance of _Protestants on thejury . The bo > . k returned to ths Recorder , out of which the revised list was formed , contained 4 , 000 names frora which tho panel W 33 to be arrayed indifferently . Of those , 3 000 were Roman Catholics and 1 , 000 Protestants ; but into tbat Court a pr-:.: l had been returned of about 150 , of _whcT _. on'y 50 were Roman Catholics and 120 Protestant ? . He did not mean th _* ta jury of Protestant * wonld not do full justice , but assuming Buch a principle of ex . _lusi'in to have been adopted by theSheriff , however hones ' . ly , he conceived _notbiogcouid be more _calcu ' ated to excite distrnst ia the administration i , l

    justicp or feeling of disaffection , than if persons were to te admitted to privileges by law , and excluded _practically . Mr O'Rorke , _solicitor for all the prisoners , was then examined , and depased that he had twice applied fci s cop > of the panel , or for permission to compare it with a list of jurors which had _been made _ous at the time ef tbe revision . Mr Croker , agent for Mr Williams , gave similar testimony . A witness , named _Charle 3 Barter , was then _rximine . ' frith reference to the list which he had nr _; d ? out at the time of the revision of the panel by the _Recorder . A ! _--n _? discussion ensued on the subject of this list , which was objected to be received as secondary evidence _.

    Tne original list , as _actuary revi ; ed ami signed by the Recorder , was then _produced , and having hem _handed io Barber , ha wa 3 _required to give _evideccas to hie knowledge of the religion of the _prisoners whose names it _contained . Oa cros 3 examination his testimony was deemed insufficient . Mr Buit intimated that he would allow the fact of but thirty Roman Catholics being oe the panel to go to : he _irial of itself . The _nith Sheriff wa 3 then _examined , and deposed that to ; he best of his ability he had arranged tbe panel without referar . ee to the religion of the partie _.- _* .

    He w _£ 3 not aware of the religion of the prisoners at the time , nor even that they would be tried , and he had _n-. t made any inquiry of Mr Hamilton , tbe only person who assisted him in making out tha array , aa to the religion of any of the gentlemen whose names he had returned . After tbe list had been made our , he _shewed it to Mr Ponder , who believed it to bs a very fair one ; but _fiading that there were but thirty Roman Catholics on it , and deeming that proportion too small , he displaced twenty Prote 3 _taatB , and he believed _ibst there were fifty Roman Catholics on the present panel , and ne thought that a _juai proportion .

    The issue —as then _leftti the triers , who found that the array wa 3 fair and impartial . The Clerk of the Crown then resumed the caTmg of the list from which the jury was to be taken , _.-md the challenges on both sides _having been disposed of , the following _gentlemen were at length sworn : — David Alexander , foreman ; William _Carann , J . ; _, seph Robert Camrain ? , John Cannon , James Wi _' _soa . George Lyon ? , Wm . B . _Lnwry , James Hare , _Ja-arj _HunUr , John Ilarris , Samuel MAlister , and Francis Walker . The Clerk of the Crowa having read the indictment , which charged the prisoner with the 35 ms offences -is _thess alleged on his first trial—namely , thj compassing , devising , < fce ., to depose the Queen from feer _* tyie , honour , and Royal name as Sovereign of the United Kingdom , and with levying war _pgainat her Alajesty for the purpose of compelling her to change her me & _sares ,

    The _Snlicitor-Geaenl then stated the ca ; e on dbhz \ i of the Crown , and intimated that other evi deace wonld be _presented to tbe jury , which the Cro _* n had cot been able to offer on tha first trial of the prisoner . The _statemsstjor the Crown was , in substance _, the _saiae as that made by the Attorney-General on this dsy _wet-k . The nrst witness called for the Crown wa 3 , Frauds _M'Keaver —He _depossd that he knew the prisdnc-r for four or five years . Was engaged in the game establishment with him—namely , _thst of Mr Donovan , apothecary . Mr _O'Doherty was then serving his apprenticeship . Witness was at present Mr _Donovan ' s " assistant . Witne 33 was acquainted with tha handwriting of the prisoner ( a document was here pat into _tu-j witness ' s hand ) He believed this to ba in the handwriting of Mr O'Doherty . A Juror . —Did y * u ever see that document before EOS ?

    WitcesB . —Tea ; three or fonr days ago I did . Jurcr . —And yet you could not now say that it was iu ihe prisoner ' s handwriting without looking over it ? Att : _- - _? e _j-General . —I desired him to look over it . _Witness . — -I have no doubt of its being in tha prisoner - _handwriting . A . i iiror . —You say there are several corrections all through the paper . D j you believe them to be in the _prisoners handwriting ? Witness—I believe they are . _Atii ' rrj & _j-Gener & l . —When you first knew thia gentleman _, did he prefix the ' O' to his name ? Witness . —I think not .

    Crcs ? _examined by Mr Butt . —I saw the paper _produced m Mr O'Ferrali _' a offics three or four days ago . I think it was on Monday last . It was not a Smday . I _cancot exactly say on what day it w ? . _s , but it was this week . I g < it a letter from the _police _commisgionert _reapeotine my attendance at their _tffiaa , and in eon * qience I went to Mr _O'Ferrali _' s office . I did list know whr . t they wanted with me . I knew Mr V _Donovan had been at the Castie rrevi _us ' y , but I did not know then that he w _? nt there to examine whether the handwriting of this paper was tha _prhoaar ' s . _Bsfore 1 went there Mr O Donovan to . 'd ne for wint I was wanted . Mr O'Ferrai showed me the manuscript , and the _mysient I _? a » it I _aaici I believed it was in the prisoner ' s handwriting . I did not read it _throng . I looked at ; he

    _commoncment oi it . I did _noi sea tho _prisoner write _tinse two years . I used to fee him write _eonsiautly . ! used t « see him make entries in Mr O'Djrovan ' s books , _md write _rnadioal _prescriptions , but I never saw ii : m write any _iong d cument , such as a letter . I have ao doubt that tha paper produced ( the m _* _uuscrii-tof the article headed 'Oar Harvest Prospect *') in the prisoner ' s band _writing . ( Another document _—tba manuscri pt of tha article _headed ' Our _War _Dapanrcent , ' _ws 3 here put into tha witness ' s _hsnds . ) ThiE : s not ia the prisoner ' s handwriting . I _nstd to live :.: _Poc-ibeg-st ! _e- -T , and was not then very well off . I was rot promised anything ior giving my e > _idrtce , nor c ~ i expect _anyibicg on oath . ( ; he _maEUScrie-t of t !> e a : fides _headed * A Le _.-son from the Insurrection cif _Paris' aad ' _Courage , ' we _? c then put into tho _wuncoaS hands , an ! Ho _ituttd the , were not iu tho _prisoper _' _-s _handr-ritin < r . )

    Mr . Vernon , ot ths Stamp Office , wa 3 next exr _.-mined —lie deposed to tho declaration of _proprietor _, ship of ibs _Tribobs having been lodged at b B offiiw , signed b j Mr _O'Daherty and Mr Williams , a > , d Daniel _Uoban _, the printer ; and also te copies of _eaca

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    publication of that paper , signed by the prisoner , having been lodged there . Cross-examined b y Mr Butt . —I account for the circumstance of one of the newspapers now produced beinp _signed' Kevon Izod O'Doherty , ' and tbe other , ' K . I . Doherty , ' by supposing that the prisoner , whose ori ginal name I found on inquiry to have been Doherty , accidentally forgot his own name ia the harry of writing _. Constable Michael M'Ginn , 12 G , examined . —He brought the newspaper produced at the office of the _Tribusb on the S : h of July .

    Serjeant Prender examined by Mr Baldwin . —On the 8 ch of July last _lae went to the printing establishment cf Mr Pardon , on Batchelor ' _t-walk , araed with a warrant , for the arrest of a person named Hoban . After arresting Hofcan he got from him certain manuscripts ctwnected with the Tribune _newspaper , which he brought away to tho detective officer in Exchange-court , and iDckfd up tbere ; thsy were afterwards taken to the _Liwer Castle-yard . The _iiianuscripts already referred to were produced , and identifitd by the witness aa those which he had seized . Constable _Alh-n . 5 G , examined bv Mr Ponce fatber . —I arrested the prisoner , Mr O'Doherty , at his lodgings . I asked him if he waa Mr O'Doherty , and he said he was . I then said I had a warrant for his arrest . He ashed me if it was for any matter _conneeted with the Tribone _, and , on my repl ying in ihe affirmative , he said , ' Very well , that will do , ' and that he expected it .

    Edw * rd Purdon _examined by Mr Perrin . — De wa 3 the proprietor of a printing establishment en _Batchelor ' s-walk . He knew Mr O'Doherty . The printing of tbe Tribone used to be done at witness _^ establishment . Saw Mr O'Doherty there fonr or five times asking for proofs .

    MR JAMBS MARTIN . Mr Martin , _Ivother to Mr J- _-hn Martin , reoMitly tried and _convicted , was then ,. at the command of the Chief Baron , placed at the bar of the court . Mr Wnterhouse was also called , but he was not in attendance . The Chief Baron said—We dssire Mr Martin and Mr Waterhouse to be in attendance at the sitting of the court to-morrow morning . Mr O'Rarke then applied that Mr Martin might bs allowed to stand out on bail , _Btating that he would b 9 responsible for his _appearance next morn - ing . Tbe application was granted . Bailiffi were then sworn to keep thejury ( for whom accommodation was provided _« t the Northumberland Hotel' * from communicating with any person , and the court adjourned till this ( Friday ) morning , at t _; n o ' clock .

    Fridat , Au _^ uBt 18 . —The court sat at the usual hour . THE ATTACK ON THB FOREMAN OF JOHN MARTIN ' S JCRY . Mr James Martin , the brother of John Martin , was sentenced to ene msnth's imprisonment for contempt of court . THE QUEEN V . D 0 HBRTT . Mr Kevon Iz id O'Doherty , the prisoner in this case , was placed at tke bar , and the jury having answered to their names , The Attorney-General read the two articles headed 1 - 'r Harvest Prospects , ' and * Our War Department , ' from tbe manuscript proved to be in the _handwriting of the prisoner , after which the case for the Crowa closed .

    Mr Butt , Q C . addressed the juryfor the prisoner . This wm ; he second time be had to address a jury for hisciient , the Attorney-General in the exercise of bis discretion _having thought fit to subject tbe prisoner a second time to the agony of a trial in the same commission . He did not object to his taking that course ; on the contrary , he preferred that he should do so ; because he thought the whole case was now before thejury with such immense advantage to tne prisoner that he expeoted on this indiotment he should be wholly discharged . He oalled the attention of the jury to the law 3 nd facts of the case , and begged of them to enter into a calm _consideration of the condor t of the prisoner . He perceived that his learned friend Mr Whiteside was taking notes for the purpose , be _presumed , of replying to bim , and he

    wou'd ba glad to be replied to by a man of genius , because a man of genius would not seek to prejudice the minds of thejury , or condescend to dander the advocate who discharged bis duty to his o'dent fearless of Attornej 8-General , and perfectly regardless of constquerccs . It was said that be ( Mr Butt ) had made an oratorical exhibition the other day , _because he pronounced the English lan-ua _^ e as it ought to be pronounced ; and yet the Crown now invoked the aid of tho man at the Irish bar , of all others who was best ab _' e to m _ke an oratorical display . But though thejury wculd be fascinated by ; his eloquence , he begged of them t > come back to a sober consideration of the case , and ask themselves how far the prisoner at tte bar sought to depose the Queen , or to levy war _acainst her , to compel her to change her _measures .

    He called the attention of the jury to the fact , that _ons _paec of the prisoner ' s manuscript was missing , and he thought the only passages on which they could deliberate had been inserted in that manuscript . He found , on comparing the mamncript with the printed article , that the manuscript of the following passage was not forthcoming : — ' To save the _comicg harvest _asd ease their longin ? thirst deep , deep in the bit oi of the English foe . ' It was a curious thing that the manuscript which contained that particular passage , and two er three passages before it , was not in the manuscript that had been produced . Taking all the facts of the case , the construction he asked theja _^ y to put upon it wi > _3 this , that the editor , who was newly appointed , finding tbat this manuscript waa not Etrongly enough written to suit the altered tone

    given to the paper—for an altered tono had _baen given to it—altered ; his very pas a _2 e which was so strongly relied upon . Did not this show the enormous danger to an innocent man of permitting a persin to be convicted on constructive evidence . They found one page gone , aHd thsy could only find that that one page was gone because the editor bad removed it , and _subati _^ tuted for it something of his own . He begged to call attention to the part of the article which ha would assume was in the prisoner ' s handwriting , and from the ieading idea in that article they could judge of the _sceiita that had tended to mislead hiB judgment . His client during tho famine fever of last year had at tended ! he fever sheds , and witnessed there the greatest scenes of misery . This it was that _sucges _' ed

    the idea to hira , and even the name of tbe paper , _because in ancient R « me ' The Tribune ' _stoDd between tho Senate and the people . He called upon thejury to recollect the scenes that had occurred during the last year . Could they forget that a coroner ' s jury had found a verdict tbat the present Prime Minister of England was guilty of the deaths of those who died of starvation ? And though it might be wrong on the part of the prisoner to speak of the Whig Minister as the ' jackal foe' who drove away the corn from the island , ic was not treason to the Queen to make that assertion . No evidence was produced on the prisoner ' s behalf . Mr Whiteside , Q . C ., about ha ! f-pa 9 t two o ' clock , rose to reply on the part of the _Crown .

    Mr O'Rorkei the prisoner ' s solicitor addressiug their lordships , said he objected to the _laarned geBtlfman appearing as counsel 8 gainst his client , _inasmuoh as he had offered him a retainer oa the V _* of the prisoner on _circuit before he was retained by the Crown , and he refused to take it . The Attorney-General : My lord , Mr Whiteside is one of her Majesty ' s counsel , and he is bound by hij oath to act for her whenever called upon to do so by tbe law officers . Baron Pennefather : Mr _O'Rorka , Ibis ia a matter we cannot listen to here . It is q _^ ite irregular . Mr O'Rorke : 1 consider it my duly , my lord , to mention the circumstance , and to enter my protest against the learned gentleman ' s acting for the Crown . Baron _Pennefathtr : Ycu have done so ; but you were quite irregular .

    Mr Whiteside then proceeded to reply , acd in doing so expressed his deep regret at the occurrence which had just taken place , lest it should bs imagined fjra moment that he had acted in any way which was unbecoming a gentleman ef bi 3 _profusion . The facts of theoase were shortly these—Mr O'R'jrke , thogentlomsa who had addressed tbe Court , applied to himon circuit to defend some of the parties eharged under ihe Felony Act at the commission , and offered him a retainer in the usual way , but he declined to receive it , and he considered _propsrly so , alleging that he had acted for the Crown in a similar case a short _tirns previously , and that he _bslieved that as one of her Majesty ' s counsel , the Attorney-General _puroosed calling upon him again to act for the Crown . Under

    _theae circumstances he ( Mr Whiteside ) refused to be retained by Mr O'Rorke , and _hs _btlieved that he acted as ho was bound in duty lo act , as oae of the Qaeen ' s counsel , sworn to appear on her behalf when called on . The learned gentleman then went on to refer to the Ac . a of Parliament upon which the prosecution was founded , and to show the jury that the manuscripts proved to be in the prisoner ' s handwriting fully sustained ths indictment , by _establishing the intent which _existed in his mind . Ho aho submitted tbat be was equally to be judged as to hia intention b _? all the publications relied on by the Crown , although not in bis own _hxndwriting . Mr Whiteside concluded his reply at six o clock , when tbe court _adjournod _. at ten

    Saturday , Ang . 19 . —The caurt _^ at o ' clock ; the prisoner was placed at the bar , aad—Baron Peancfath ? r proceeded to charge the jury . After the very full discussion _tfce case had _undergone and the vory able arguments thf y had heird , as well for the prisoner as for the Crown , little more remained for him than to draw the attention of thejury to the exact question they had to try—to the _Acn of _Pariiamrat upon which that question arose—and shortly to _drtw their attention to the portions of the evidence _Hiicfc appeared to him mainly to bear upon the case . The Crown were bound to establish , by legal evidence , ths cbarge made against the prisoner . In this case they bad legally established it , if the jury believed tha evidence , and , in point of law , _tbsy were not bound to call any other evidence . Then it came te cb > : s—whether there was any reason , from his manner demeanour , or defect ol _opportunity , to doubt the evidence of the witness who proved the prisoner ' s hand '

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    writing ; and , secondly , he was bound to tell them that , if a faot were sworn to by a witness , and when that fact could be contradicted by the prisoner , if it were not true , and if no such contradiotion was given , the jury must a 9 k themselves _whether such contradiction cculd be truly given ? _Coull they conceive that the pritOQer ( if this was not his handwriting ) could not produce a witness to prove that faot ; He had not done 80 i and the jury were bound to ask themselves what credit they wero bound to give to the uncontradicted testiraany of a witness swearing that he had no doubt of the handwriting . These were questions which it was his duty _topresentto thejury ior their consideration , and it ' was the duty of thejury to give them the

    answer , which their sense , Eaoral feeling , and attention to their oaths , required them to do . Assuming chat it was the prisoner ' s handwriting—or at least assuming that he was bound to leave it to the juryfor thoir consideration whether it was or not—they should next consider what bearing it had upon the case . It appeared to be a manuscript with several corrections and interlineations , and they were to judge whether it expressed a deliberate intention or not , cr whether it was merely a hasty composition not intended for use or to express a deliberate opinion . The jury were to _cDnsider from this document , and frcm the manner in which it was prepared and circulated ( and all on it , including the corrections , are aworn to be in the prisoner ' s _handwriting ) ,

    and from th 9 faet of the publication , whether it evinces the mind of the prisoner , and his concurrence in th 9 matters stated in that publication . It would appear that the print is a faithful copy of the writing , ae far aa the writing exists ; but there waa a portion of the printed paper which was not in the writing . It appeired from some reason—accident , or other cause not explained— -that about one sheet , or what might be supposed to be one sheet of this writing , had been lost or abstracted , and the part ef tbe print for which there was no corresponding manuscri pt , was unquestionably a part of the print deserving serious consi - deration , and , perhaps , not tho least objectionable in the whole of the printed document . It was assorted by the prisoner ' s counsel that supposing , but by no

    means admitting , that this paper was in the handwriting of the prisoner , the part missing was abstracted purposely by some other person who super - intended the printing in the nature of an editor , and that this passage was not in the genuine writing of the prisoner , and never did express his _sentimen ' s . He had with a pencil marked the passage in the indictment which was to be sent up to thejury , and tbey would have to consider , on lo . king to tbe part where it broke off in the manuscript and where it recommenced , whether the entire printing was or was not composed by the same person . They would see , whether the publication of the entire of the print took place with the privity or consent of the prisoner , and he would suggest to them that if any person had interpolated a passage in the prisoner ' s writing against his privity and consent , and if this person were the editor of the paper , under his control , what ought to have been his conduct _bafore any

    subsequent publication took place ? What ought to havn _bejs his conduct in any subsequent _publication ? When he was apprised of what waB published , what should have been his course ? Should he have continued the editor in office , or should he have continued the paper if he could not control the editor ? He badthe means of releasing himself from further responsibility by withdrawing bis declaration from the Stamp-office . In calling their attention to this article , he would remind the jury of the excuse which had been offered on his behalf by the prisoner ' s counsel . He said tte prisoner ' s feelings were so much excited by tho misery he saw passin g before his eyes , that he made those publications . But was it consistent to say theve were motives in the prisoner s mind for the publication , and then to deny the publication _altogether ? He had also understood _i be learned counsel to say , that even if it were the intention of the prisoner to prevent the exportation of corn , that would not amount to an intention to

    levy war . ' Salus populi suprema lex . ' He did not know whether that _expression was used , feut whether it was used or _wasnot , it was not frr _individual to judge what was ' salus populi . ' It was not for the writers in newspapers , or any other _clasa of the community , to form a judgment of what they considered the ea _' ety of the people , or to carry out by force and violence , and by general insurrection , those projects which they might consider necessary . What , he asked , would bathe state of _thinss in this country , if the imaginations and caprices cf each individual wero to be enforced by the point of the bayonet , and if every man could justify tho coiling of the people into insurrection by the motto , ' Salus populi suprema

    lex ? ' A man was not to do that because he _thought it waa right , and _v _*» 3 resolved to do it at all hmrdB . The constitution knew of no such thing . People might discuss n question calmly and _diapasdonately —they might discuss with vehemence and with talent those measures which they thought right , and enforce them by argument to the utmost extent of their _ability , but beyond that they had ns right to go . They had noright to enforce or to attempt to enforce by armed insurrection the thing which , perhaps , they might think right . He said ' perhaps . ' because it was hard to suppose they could think right _suoh things as were contemplated by theae productions : but suppose they did think them right , they were not justified in point of law in enforcing those intentions by insurrection and violence . If such general insurrection broke out , whether it be to prevent the exportation of corn or any other purpose whatever , it would be a levying of war , and an act of high trea .

    son on tho part of all those who _engaged in it . If tbe insurrection did not break out but was merel y contemplated , the partiea who devised and intended it would bo guilty of an intention to levy wnr against the Crown , and that would bs a felony within the act of Parliament . Thejury were to consider this question , and give to it the mildest construction th » y could . Let them not attribute to tbe prisoner guilt , except they felt conatrained to do so , for the law considered every raan innocent until his guilt was proved . If he might venture to express a wisb _, it would ba thia—that _thoso who had been led away by publications , fuoh as had appeared before them —by evil advice , by asanKu _' _na temperament , or any inciting or exciting cause—might re _flact calmly and di _^ _assionately upon ths blessings which t hey r . ow enjoy , upon the safety and security for life and liberty , aud upon the safeguards which the _onBtitution throws around even those who ara accused nf

    an endeavour to sacrifice and destroy that _constitution . They should think of those blessings and not by a rash desire of change—by the desire of change to be _effected by bljod—by the _sacrifice of life—by the loss of everything tbey held ( ie : _ir—lead to resulta which _wcu'd sink them in a state of slavery , and subject them to an iron despotism . He wi > hed those ' . _hvnga coidd be thought of , and that raen when about creating duturbance o ? revolt , would—laying aside all _consideratioss of others—all considerations even of light or wrong—oalmly reflect upon the consequences , and see how much tbey were likely to lose

    and hazard by Buch conduct . He could not avoid _expressing these feelings which pressed upon his mind in a manner ha coull scarcely give utterance to ; but he did _rol _uao them in any manner to influence their verdict against tho prisoner at the bar . They were trying him on an _abstraofc question to be decided upon—by his act 3 , and his _aots aloao , inde . _pendently of other _cansiderations . They were not to conriter the _consequence 3 of what ho had done , or what he had intenacd ; but they were to consider whether ho did intend it , and had evinced that intention in a manner _bsyond all doubt _.

    Thejury retired aboutone o ' clock . Tha fireman , after a brief absence , returned into court and _asktd for the newspapers . Attorney-General . —I have no objection ; tho publications bave been proved in evidence ; but a question was raised respecting the papers . Baron Pennefather . —The prisoner ' s counsel objected to _sending up the newspaper ? , as they contained other articles besides those which aro tho subject of the prosecution , and un ! e 33 the prisoner ' s counsel _cansent , _Ioaanotsond them to y , _ju . Mr Butt . —I don ' t think that in a ca 3 e of tbis kind we would he justified in consenting . Attorney General . —The ti-st sheet of the indictment contains a verbatim copy of ths at tides . The jury retired . At half-past oro o ' clock the jury again came out , and applied for aoopj of tho Act of Parliament

    . Sir Colman _O'Lighloi . —Since that _questinn was last discussed I have referred to Thistle wood ' s oase , and » that case LordOhisf Justice Abbott consented to give the Act of Parliament to the jury _Attorney-General —Ho read it to them Sir Colman O'Loghlen . -He offered it _thsra , but one of tnern said it would be sufficient for his _lordshio to _read it . _Foremao _-Thcv-o aro some of the jurors who have a doubt as to theact ' _sshowm ? hia intention , and beg you will again explain it . Baron Pennefather read an extract from the Act of _Parliament bearing upon the point to which his attention had been called . A Juror . _—Djea the mere _publishing of an article imply an _intent to di ihe aot ? Some ot the jurors think we must tell the _inuormoi ; thoughts of tho _yentleman . °

    Baron _Pennefatber . —The _mcra publishing will not be _enough . You must ba of opinion that ho had tho intention m hra mind . If he wrote it a raan can scarcely be said to write what he did not intend , _sa that if he knowingly publishes a thing , it is to be taken that ho intends what is the _fairimoort of what he knowingly publishes . At half-past three o ' ol _ic ' c tha court directed the sheriff to mqaire if the jury were likel y to agree . Theshentt on his return intimated that thejury told him they wero deliberating , there was no chance of their speedy agreement but they did not dye tha matter up . At half-past five 0 _- Clock tha Chief Baron again directed the sheriff to ascertain if thejury were likely to agree . ' The High _Sheriff .-They have not Bgreed , my Chief Baron . —Swear bailiffs .

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    The High Sheriff . —Two of the jurors desired me to mention to your lordship that they are very ill _. The jury were called out . Foreman . —There is not the slightest probability of our agreeing . There are three or four of thejury who are not of the same opinion as the rest , and if we were to remain closeted until Monday morning , I am as confident an I exist , that I would have the same answer to give to your lordship . I am very unwell , and have been lone in attendance during this commission . I must call in the first place for medicine , and I feel if I were oloseted fjr the night , it would endanger my life . Another Juror . —I am also nnwell . Dr Speedy was directed by Baron Pennefather to ascertain the state of those jurors' health , and report to the court .

    On his return , he examined tho foreman , who was very unwell , and had all the premonitory _symntoms of fever . It would be dangerous to his health if he were longer confined . Another juror alco suffered from palp itation of the heart . Baron Pennefather . —If they wero kept for the night , would it be dangerous to the life of Mr Alexander ?—Witness . —I think so . Baron Pennefather . —Wou'd keeping him now on be attended with danger . —Witness—Certainly , my lord . An entry was made on the record pursuant to the evidence of the physician , and the jury wa 3 discharged . It is the intention of the Attorney-General to have the prisoner again tried the next commission .

    Mr Butt . —I am instructed to apply on the part of the prisoner that he should be let out on bail . Baron Pennefather . —Certainly not . The prisoner was then removed . SENTENCE OF TBANSPORTATION ON JOnS MARTIN . The prisoner was brought up to _receive sentence . The Clerk of the Crown asked him if he had anything to say why _sentenoe should not be pronounced upon him . Prisoner—My lords , I have no _imputation to cast upon the bench , nor have I anything with whioh to charge the jary . I think the judges desired to do their duty as upright judges ; and I think the twelve men put into the box , as I believe , to convict me , voted honestly according to their prejudices . I have no

    enmity againBt the sheriff , or _against the Bub-sheriff , or against any oerson _engaged in the arrangement of the panel . I have no enmity to the Attorney . General , or to any person who was engaged in what is called my trial . I don't think I have been yet tried . Le gal formalities have been _carried on for three " days , and thera bas been a verdict of guilty _acainstme , but I have net yet been _putnoon my country . Twelve of my countrymen , indifferently chosen , have not been pat into the jury box , but twelve men selected by the persons who represent the Crown in this oountry , for the purpose of convicting me , and not of trying m « , were put into that box . They were put into that box beoauae the parties

    representing the Crown knew that their political principles were opposed to mine ; and the question at issue was a matter of politics , and not a matter of fact . I do consider the judges to bo upright nnd horourable men ; and with respect t 8 the charge I make _apainBt the constitution of the jury , I have no legal evidence of its truth ; but nobody has a moral doubt about it . Everybody _knaws what I have said is the faot , and I would represent most respectfully to the court that they , as upright and honourable meH—as judges and citizens—ought to see that tbe _administration of justice in this country ia above suspicion . I have no more to say about my trial ; but I wish to say something in vindication of my _i-haracter ana motives , after sentence is passed .

    Chief Bann . —We can hear nothing from you after sentence ia passed . Prisoner . —Even admitting the _confined constitutional doctrines I hive heard bmohed in this oourt to be the right doctrines , I am not guilty according to Act ot Parliament . I did not intend to levy war against the Queen , or to depose the Queen , by the article of mine on which _thejurr have framed their verdict of guilty . The object of the article written in prison and published in tho last number of my paper , was thi 3—to advise my countrymen to keep armB , because it was their inalienable right , which no Act of parliament cr _proclamation can take from them . I advised them to keep their arms and use their arms in their own defence against all assailants

    —even assailants who might c me to aUack them unconstitutionally and improperly using the Queen ' B name . My object in all my _prccedings was to assist in establishing the national independence of Ireland—for the benefit of all the people of Ireland—for the benefit of the people , the landlords , the judges , professional men , and all Irishmen . I _sought tbat object _becauso I thought it waa a right object , and because I think national independence the right of the people of tho country . Living in retirement , I never would have engaged in politics , but because I thongbt it necessary to make an end of the horrible _orimes thiB country presents , its pauperism and the hatred of all classes towards each other . While that system lasted I e . _iuld not have peace of mind , and

    could not enjoy anything in this country at all , so long as I believed my countrymen were forced toba _vicieus and to hate each other , and were made paupers and brutes . I acknowledge I have been but a weak aasailant of the English power , I " am not a good writer —I am not a speaker at all . I had only two weeks of experience in the conducting of a _newspap _9 r when I was put into gaol ; but I am _sstisfied to rcier to my countrymen to _everything I have written and said , ar . d to res _^ , my ohara 'tor on a fair and candid examination of them . I will say nothing in vindication of my motives ; but let every fair and honest man , no matter how prejudiced it may be , _calmly take what I have done , and consider my acts , and he must be satisfied that my motives were pure and honourable . I have no more to say .

    The Chief Baron then proceeded to pass sentenoe on the _prisonar , and pointed out the evils whioh were likely to result to the country from the course he had adopted . He mentioned tho =. e _circumstanoo 8 , not with a view of calling them to the attention of the prisoner , but as a warning to tho _? e who had been led , or might be led , into similar _oourses . Tho court had ' elt bound in awarding their sentence not to _disivgard altogether the recommendation of the jury to mercy . Prisoner '• I bog pardon for interrupting your lordship , but I _cannot condescend to accept mercy . I belitv _j I am morally right , aud I only want _justice . The Chief Ba'on , aftor some further observations , sentenced tbo _prisoner to ten years' transportation .

    THE qUEES V , SHAW , Tho trial of Mr Shaw , the printer of the _Fewf , was also postponed . TUB QUEEN V . DELAHY AND OTHERS . Thomas Delany , and tbe other printers of the Nation , were admitted to bail . They are bound by their recognisances to attend at the next commission .

    THE DANGER OP KEEPING PIKES . Mr Baldwin , Q _, C , reminded the court that during that coraaii 8 . ion a lenient course of c _nduct had been adopted by the Crown towards those _persons in whose posse ? _aion pikes were found , on the parties submitting ; but be beggel to _sive notice , that taking into consideration that the pike ia a weapon which could not be kept for any good purpose , they would feel it their duty in every _caie whore , in future , a pike was found in a man ' s possession , to press the _oase against him .

    THE QUHEN V . WILLIAM ? . Tno trial of . Mr \ Vi !! iara 3 , the partner of Mr _O'Do _^ herty in the proprietorship of the _Tsiddsb , was postponed , en tho application of the Attorney . General . ( From the Morning Post ) Dublin , August __ 17 th . —Great damage has been done about Limerick by the heavy rain of the last few da ) _s . Fields of wheat , barley , and cats , are prostrate in all directions . Th 6 potato rot is now almost universal . , Oa Saturday night , a barbarous murder was committed on the person of Mr Leahy , an Irish sohaol instructor , while returning from _Etinitkeau ( county Coik ) frtir , held on that day . He was struck on the head with a larye stone , a _'^ d killed on the spot . Nine persons have been masted en suspicion .

    Several men-oi-war steamers are now cruising about tho Bay of Killala _, and one is actually anchored in Kilcumin . where , it will be reoollected , the French lauded in ' 93 . _1 CXKC 0 TIOY OF PATRICK PIUCB . This unfortunate young man , _wsio was only about twenty years of ag _<" , wai convicted at the late _asiizss held for " the Queen ' s County , for the murder of John Mabon , at _Loughtaajtie in that county , on Sunday , the 7 th day of March . 1817 , underwent the awful sentence of the law thia day . At ab _^ ut half-pa 3 t eleven o ' clock . 100 of tho constabulary , with the _dstaoiiEaeii '; ot ' the 7 _lst _Regiment , quartered here , were drawn up in front of the gaol , _Thfra were about 1 , 000 _psraonB eol ' ected to witness the execution . At twelve o ' clock theoanviot was launohed into eternity , and died without a _struggle .

    STATU OF _CmSMBL AND ADJA . _CSNT TOWNS . ( Prom Saunders ' s News Letter . ) _Clonmcl , the adjacent towns , and surrounding _couniry remain perfectly quiet , tr . _eugh miuy placoa are still without their _confilabu ' ary station ; thero seems to be a remarkable abs ? no _? of even mino r crimes , _r-or does there appear to bs tha least likcli " hood nf a _sarious outbreak here , or anywhere in this county . Tbe only thing that w _uld reader it at all _probablo 13 the _progress of the _ptitaw disease . Many of the uniall landholders say , if tho po _atoss fail they cau pay no rent , and _ths _^ will not ai ' ow their corn to _bsBoli _. _^ r reiv . oved , but tha ; it Hunt remain with them to _support _tham—and thoy _sta _o thoir doi 9 r ; . _ai nation to keep it in tb . oiro _? m _hacd _* at all risks . I groa'dy regret to gay that 'be b : i ; ht _doos prevail morj and nvre : third are few fields in this neighbourhood that aro free _fram it , Many of them are badly attacked , and in several instances a considerable pro . portion of the crop is already gone .

    THE CROP _4 IN THE _SOUTU OP iaELAND . A gentleman who has traversed the greater _portha of the counties of Cork , Wattrford , Carlow , and Kilkenny , _wifihin tha last week , bas oommur- ; _iCate ( j the following information of th ? gror , i " jg crops

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    which is _posaosBed of national interest at the present m iir the cTunties of Cork and Kerry , which form a large proportion of the Bouth and south-west ot ireland , the plant of potatoes has been exceedingly large , computed by many to fully _equalthe growth ot two years ago , when the most _d-struotive blight was experienced . With scarcely a single exception , the fields now present nothing but a ' blackness of withered foliage , the stems in some instances retaining their gn en hue , and in others , turned to a yellow colour , after the destruction of tbe leaves . The disease , judging from the colour of the fields , has been _nnst virulent in the extreme southern and western part 3 of the county . In Kerry especially , not only the leavesbut the _steraH also are perfectly black .

    , Traversing the road from Cork to Youghal , which skirts the north-eastern aide of Cork county , not a field could be seen that ; was altogether tree , the great bulk , equalling five-sixths of the whole , being to all appearance completely destroyed . The tubers , when dry , present , in these counties , more or less unequivooally the signs of decay ; black spots are apparent , and in some oases they have already rotted

    away . The wheat-lands in Cork have universally suffered from the heavy rains . Oats are ldged on the ground ; and the general feeling throug hout the _caunty ia one of extreme despondency . Proceeding in a north-easterly direction from Youghal , through _Dungarvan to Waterford , the lessor quantity of rain which has fallen in that district is apparent from the better standing of tho grain . Wheat , notwithstanding , _iB very light and thin , but little has yet been cut , and the continuance of wet unsettled weather during the present week is every day diminishing the ohanca of a successful housing . From Waterford , striking northerly by _Koocksople , though county Kilkenny to Carlow , the conntry wore a more cheering aspect . In the neighbourhood of Kilkenny , wheat and oats are _reported as being good crops should not a longer continuance of wet prevail .

    After _levring Waterford , the eye ia relieved in a great measure from the succession of blackened fields which wear bo distressing an aspect further south , but over the route of one hundred miles travelled from that city to Dablin , a perfectly healthy field was a rare exceptien , the large majority varying in their darkened hue from tho first brown tint _. _symp tomatic of approaching ruin , to the jet black colour indicating oomplete destruction . As a general deduction , the main or late crop is almost universally affected , the disease assuming a greater intensity in some districts than others , but from its direful t fleets in those parts where its fist appearance waa manifested , great fears are entertained for those where at present it is yet in a less viruleBt form . The grain crops in South Ireland being thin on the ground , and a very small proportion yetcut , are anticipated to bo under an average in jield . To these barley forms a partial _exoeption , which in most places appears well .

    JOHN MARTIN . ( From the correspondent of the Morning Herald ) It is really melancholy to hear the poor people of tho neighbourhood of Loughorne ( near Ne wry ) speak of their benefactor . Several of his tenantry came up to town to be present at his trial , and , as they hoped , hiB escape—for they could not bring themselves to believe a man so amiable , so gentle , and pious , as they had long known him , oould be an inciter to bloodshed . Mr Martin ' s property at L nughorne is said to ba worth & clear net rental of £ 700 a year . Two of his brothers have al _.-o landed property in the same neighbourhood , eaoh of about equal value . I understand that before he published a single number of tbe Fblon he _aligned all his interest at Loughorne to his brothers and sisters , which pretty plainly

    _showB that he calculated on tho punishment which has been pronounced upon him . He served his _apprenticeship to an eminent medical man , but having more taste for agricultural pursuits than those ot his pro e 8 sion , he devoted himself to tbe _moresimpleand _le-s exciting . However , he did not abandon entirely the study of physic . He was ever ready tn administer advice and medicine gratuitously to his pour neighbours , and all who _sought his assistance ; and , accerding to the report 1 have received , an incalculable amount of good he did in this way . As a landlord , he was _beleved by his tenantry for his kindness and liberality , while from his suavity of manner ard excellent qualities he was a gre it favourite with the gentry around him . It _appears that John Mitchel and he wore schoolfellows and most devoted friends .

    ( From the Daily News ) REMOVAL OP PRISONER ? . Dublin , Aug . 18— This morning fourteen prisoners were removed frcm the gaols of Kilmainham and Newgate , under a strong escort of constabulary and city police , and sent by railway to Kingstocn from whence they were transmitted , on beard war steamers , to Belfast . It is supposed that the crowded state of those gaols * waa the cause of this removal . . We _tubjoin the name _, of the prisoners . —Mr Meany , of the _Tribiwe news paper ; Mr _Brennan _, of the Irish - Felon ; Mr _O'HigginB , the Chartist leader ; Mr O'Rorke , of Chmtarf ; Mr Walsh ; Mr Crotty , one of the clerk _< in Pirn ' s establishment ; Mr Baker , of the same ; Mr Taaffe , a barrister ; Mr Bergin ; Mr Eugene O'Reilly . MORE ARRESTS .

    Dublin , Auo . 19 . —Five of the young men employed at the establishment of Messrs Cannock _atd White _, " of Henry-street , were this day arrested in thoir employers' shoo by a party of polios , andt & _kan to the Police Commissioners' Office , Lower Castleyard , Five foreigners , who were arre 3 ted at the Charlemont Hotel , Arraaeh , on Sunday morning last , after being sent to Dublin , guarded by a strong pol ' oo force under the command of Sub Inspector Kelly , were , after a brief examination , liberated by order of the Lord Lieutenant . They were all Americans , who had been making the tour of Europe . ( From the correspondent of the Morning Chronicle . )

    ABBSYFBALS , rrjBLis , _Fciday . — Several more persons have been arrested , charged with being concerned in tbe robbery of tho mail _btsa . Five peasant * , named Tuoray , Danaher , MAuliffe , Grady , and _Collins _, werd arrested by the police in the mountains , and were brought into Abbeyfeale on Wednesday la' _-t _. Nine others were _arrea ted ona similar charge , near Listowel , on the Kerry side . W . F . Haitnett , who is in _Liraorick gaol , on a warrant for ' treasonable _praotices , ' is not at all im _* plicated in the attack on tho mail-coaches , but hiB brother , Daniel Hartnett , who has absoonded , Stephens died in Kilkenny , on Thursday night , of mortification of the leg . The _Ci-onmbl _Cdroxiclb contains th © following - . —

    ABEE 6 T OF ONE OF THE _BALLINOABBr WOUNDED Rebels . —A man of tho nims of James Dwyer _wa » brough iBto Clonmel yesterday ( _Thuradsy ) _, and _lodgtd in the comity _gool ; he was one of tke insurgent band in tho _battlo of Boula ; h Common , and at Balli ? garry , and had a dreadful wound in tho right _tinast . _Ew since the affr . \ y , he hai been _conooatod in one of tho pits in the vioinity of _Boulajh , an 1 from information _recalred by the authorities , he wa _? arrested down in tho pit a few days since , and conveyed to _Killeuaule , from whioh place be was escorted to _Clonme ) . JOHN O ' CONNELL .

    It appears that Mr John O'Connell arrived in Dublin on Wednesday , and proceeded to take measures for _inquiring into the expediency of renewing _agitation in Conciliation Hall . It would seem that tha parties _consulted upon thia question had a whole-Borne fear of the consequences , should the government insist upon all agitation being peremp . torily stopped ; and it was deoidsd that the Hall should remain closed for come months . —Leinster Express . ( From the correspondent cf the Morning Chronicle . )

    MOKE ARRESTS IS _DUBLIN . Sunday . —Last night constable Prender , of the detective police , arrested Thomas Crotty at tbe _establishm _2 nt of Me _^ srH Pim _. in South Great George's _, _streat on a charge of high treason , He has been _committed to _Kilmainham . Tho prisoner is brother to James Crotty , arrested at the same place some weeks sinoe , now detained in Belfast House of Correction . Mr Gunning _Taafe _, who was _srroeted iu _Balhngarry , has been committed to Newgate .

    ESCAPE PF MR O _GORMAS . Tho Limerick Examiner , a Repeal paper , _allegcB tbat Mr Richard _O'Gjrman has _caoaped , and that Mr Little , the resident magistrate , unconsciously aided in his flight . The following , which appears in the LiMKarCK _Ciironiolv _., relates to the same subject : — In c . _mvquenco of private _inforsnation rrcelv _crj tbat t \\ o cMetV _charged with _treooon were at _K'lkep a partv of constabulary nnd Captain _Norton ' s oomp ' my _ofthl-8 S _' . h It giment . _undtr the direction of Mr tittle R M proceeded to _Kilkee and its n . i _ghbourhooo" at tho ' hour ol mir _' nigho , Bolore * he _troopg bad quite _o \ . rired at K . _ikt-o

    Mr _Littla prooecded in advnnco , and ordered the local constabulary to immediately Bunrp und onl gua _^ d the hotels and _tsom « private _hcui _* 3 . oa tho nrrival of she mllitrry a rigid search wc . _a _u > ad '» of the different _pliG 6 * _- raentioiiod . Tbo tnti ' . _ors wor , _&\ A to be disguised es . f _* male !> , and occupied lad ' . « _, > 8 pr . _rtmtntB ; it , therefore , _heconio _abealutd _j _ucctaaary , on _thU _important duty , tbat all the _tides' h _« a rooms ( _notwithstanding the hi gh rank of 8 r ji , _j woon De _searched ' . This painful duty ( aa mr . ny 0 f tho _Udi-is weve in their bed . ) was _perforata _b- __ , Mr L _' ttlo aVine , _un-3 ia the _mos ' doiieate mauaer _possiMe _, _oomisteat with hia _maeUt-. rial duty _.

    Ihe sale of the household furniture and _iffsots _nj Mr _Uiar _' . eB Gavan Di _. ff _* , ' by order of the trustees , ' ' 'S _ano- _ounced for Wednesday next , and the two W . lo _^»\ ig days _Judging by thy catalogue , V . r DufFy ' :. UP _J 39 acd grounds at Morten , a mile from the _nietrnpolis , muss have been fitted up ia an elegant and costly manner . Amongst the items is the following : — ' The furniture of an apartment in bVchmor . d _Prisw , _oocapied by O'Connell , Mr Duffy , and the other _sta _' e prisoners of 1844 . mounted with the Irish harp in Bilrer _, and the date and _plaoa of their use /

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    _Dubus , Saturday Morning . —The arrangement are in progress for a special commission in _thecunnt of Tipperary , for the trial of Mr Smith O'B rien _m T . F . Meagher , and the other parties _implicaul in the insurrectionary outbreak in that count * The letters and other documents found in th . _poswsion oi Mr Smith O'Brien have , it ia under stood , induoed the Crown to expedite this com ! mission . I have reason to believe that the commission will sit at Nenpgh , the as _g n town of the northern riding , and not at Clonmel , as had been generally supposed . I have also learned that Mr Gavan Duffy will Q a tried for high treason , but his trial will take p ' ace a t the _GommtfaiOH in Dublin . _ _......-. _JgS _^

    Other parties ( now in custody ) will be tried f 0-treason at the same commission in Dublin , The Limbrick Examiner _cantains the following •« , Mr M ' Corrnack , an American , was arreste I on the ooich at Abbeyfeale , on his _wsy from _Kdltirnpy toDabUn He _woj brought to Limeriek by Head _Conuahle Mills ' au 4 left in chargo of Head Conatabla Mason at _Moore'i Iloel last _nlfht . He paid for the head _constables _cecom . raodatlon at the hotel , and waa _sont on thia dny t _, " Dublin , where his wifo and family are ; He com _plai _,,, bitterly of the wantonness ot his arrest , nn _3 says that ha has paid his passage to America ,

    SHOCKING _BARBAniTY . A correspondent at Miltown , Malbay , writes as follows to the Limbrick Examinee : — A horrible cane of death , _arising from utter destitution happened on Thursday week last , in tho parish oi Muling / county Clare . A poor man , who was cut off ihe relief list , having no moans of support , went into a po _' a < garden at _Moy-glasB , Tho son of tbo owner set a largo dog at IQ 9 poor maB , wbich ( horrible to relate ) _knocked him down , tore bim open , and actually devoured a part o ? his entrails , The inhuman wretch who set on the doij looked carelessly on . I hope that he will receive th ?

    _reward ho deserves (> r such an act . A party of police from Miltown Malbay wero out bunting for him on Wed . nesday last , but returned witbout him , ( From the correspondent of the Morning Herald . ) Dublin , Monday _erening— This day Mr Edward Mathews , a young man who holds a situation in a government office , was sent to Newgate , under a war . rant charging him with ' _treasonable practices' He is said to be the son of Mr William P . Mathews , Bee retary to the Board of Charitable Donati 9 _ns and Bi quests , and that tbe oharge against him is grounded on _correspeadence which he has had with Mr M _*» i _{ ber .

    Dublin , Tueday—Mr Smith O Bnen has retained Mr Jonathan Henn and Mr Whiteside . Mr Duffy has retained Mr Butt . We know not whether Mr _Meagher has yet engn » ed the _servioes of counsel . ARRIVAL OF THE STATE PRI 10 NKR 3 IN _BSLFAIT . About half-past twelve o ' clock today ( Saturday ) the government screw steamer _Trafalgar , landed fourteen of the _stat _* prisoners at Dunbar ' s Dock . In the House of _Correction ( gays the Belfast Chron icle ) the prisoners are privileged to remain during the day in a large room together , but at _niijbt each one retina to a cell allotted to himself . They are supplied with writing materials .

    M RE ARRESTS . A respectable _looking young man , whose name ap . peared on the sheet as Nicholas Johnston , dealer , was _brought before Dr Kelly , at the _Ilonry-atreet police-officp , charged with having a case of pistoUi in his ( _'ossession , contrary to law and without a licence . Dr Kelly sent the prisoner for trial at _sessions , but said he would take bail for his apper ce . ( From the Daily Nev . 's )

    MKMCAL INJPECTION OF MR MARTIN IN NEWGATE . Di'blin , Tuesday . —The Burgeon-general held a m dical eximination yesterday into the state of _health of Mr Martin . The result is not known . Mr Martin bas always been of freble constitution , and studious habits have not lessened it . His chest _lnoks very much contracted , and his extreme roundness of back den- _tes great _weaknoss there . Eviction on a large f calo is said to be in _progress at Ardmore , county Waterford , and at Carrigaholt , in _^ Clare . THE CR 0 P 3 .

    The _accounts of the _erlec . of tbe storm and rain of Sunday night , upon the crops ia the counties of _Dub'in , Meath , Clare , Kildare , and Louth , are very distressing . It appears _thatthe farmer ? , taking advantage of the favourable change in the weather on Friday and Saturday , set actively to reap the crops that were deemed fit for tbe sicklo . Between the raia that has fallen since , aad tbe _storm of last night , all that was cut down presents a wretched appearance . There is every _prospeot of an awful year , far worse than the year previous . The increasing blight of the potatoes , which ig almost _universal : the threatened _blight of grain from the bad we " _, tber , and even tbe difficulty in saving turf , c imbine to render the prospect _most gloomy . The potato , disease is spreading frightfully _thiough a'l quarters and they are now becoming so bad and offensive in manv places tbat the very beasts rofuse to use thero . At Limerick , the wheat is so _lisjht and thin in the ear , as to show scarce a _^ y nutritious substance .

    MR BUTT ANB THE SOLICITOR GENERAL . ( From the correspondent of the Morning Chronicle . ) _Dublin . Tuesday . —During the first trial of Mr Kevin O'Doherty , at the _Commission Court , last week , the Solicitor General , Mr Ilatchtll , made some observations io reference to strictures upon the conduct of the Attorney -Goreral , which Mr Butt , the counsel for the prisoner , looked upon as contain _, ing personal _reflections upon himself . When the commission closed , Mr Butt mada a _communication , through a third party ( _A'derman _Hudson ) , requiring ao _explanation of those remarks . The Soiioitor-General gave a reply ta the effect that ho did not intend any personal imputation whatever against Mr Butt , and thus the matter has terminated .

    THE CLEARANCE ST 6 TEM . The Dublin Evening Post _contains lbs following horrible account of evictions in Meath : — ' The sheriff attended at _Cloudoogan on yesterday ( August 16 ) , accompanied b y a numerous police forC 3 , and le _» veiled to the ground seventeen houses , _sending the _unfortunate inmates , eighty four in number , adrift upon the world . The following are the narae 3 of _these wretched creatures : _—Cbarlei Ash , wife , and five ohildren : Edward Morris , wife , and two children ; Thomas BrenDan , wife , and seven children ; Michael _Frzrimons , wife , and five children ; Patrick Salmon ,

    wife , and one child ; Richard llannon , wif ' , and three children ; Mary Feg & D . and child _; Ilenry Kin ? , wife , mother , and three children ; Edward Murphy , wife , and seven children ; Widow Kelly , two children ; Widow White , two children ; Patrick Stones , wife , and two children : Bridget _Shaunaas , fke children , deserted by her husband ; Widow Connell , two children : Widow Gilligan , two children ; Richard Gilligan , wife , and _twoch'llren ; Patrick _Monaghan , wife , and two children : Widow _Johujon , lw > children , I should feel obliged by your giving publicity to the above statement . I pled ge myself to its accuracy . '

    Ballisgabby , Mondsy , ~ Aug ' 2 l . —We had a _violent gale here last night . It raised incessantly . Nearly tha whole of _tbz _tcnta of the 74 th Reginiont were blown down—even the mess-tent , which was well sa cured , could not withstand tbe violence of the storm . Although the country is apparently tranquil , still few are delivered up . Ths eaeampment ia expected tj be struck in eight ur _nina days .

    FATAL _AFFRAT NEAR TIPPF _. RARl " . Temflsh > _hb _Barhacks , Au g , 18 . — -This day an inquest was held at this barracks , before Thonm _O'Meara , Esq ., r . n the body of Joshua Colville , private of the 43 rd regiment , who died from injuries re « ceived in an affray with the poople , on the 6 th inst . Charles Hunt , Esq ., R . M ., and several of the _i-fficers ot the 43 rd _regiment were present at the inquiry . The following evidence was given : — John Irwin , corporal , was on hw re _' . um from the town of Tipperary on Sunday , the 6 th in » t . ( in compar . y with a comrade . He saw a crowd of people assembled round a man on _horaebick . The man seemed to be exciting the people , who then ran away from hira , and threw atones _* t faur sohliera ol the 43 rd . Deceased wns one of that _paity " _.

    Jame 3 Mason , a private of tho 43 rd regiment , deposed that he and nine others of the military w ° ra _returning from a public-house to their camp , between _ei _^ _htjand nine o ' clock , when thev met ( _aMut fafty yards from town ) a friar on horseback _, lie _sskod _tber business , and was asked in turn what right had he to interfere . The orporal and deponent _gavo themselves up to the picket . It they hid pone to the camp in lie Btate they were , they would have been confined , being found in a quarrel with the _inhabitants . Heard no language that night calculated to insult any oae . Throe of tho party _vrero y drunk .

    John O Loary , a _constable at Tipperary , deposed that he saw two soldiers in an angry _conversion with tha Rot , Mr Griffin . Called ou them tn coin ] with him to their barracks , after whioh stones wits thrown at the military Oalled on a man whom ha saw raise stones , and asked him in God ' s namo to desist nnd he said— 'Don ' t you see cur _piie _^ t insulted V There _woim no 9 _tonea thrown while tha tria ? was there . _Cbeoftha military ( thinks the cor-Lora !) had tho mar ' s horse i . y the bridle . He went away as aeon as he was lot go . Arrested Ja _*^ M'Cartky , who had stones in hia hands .

    _Sub-Constable Denis _Sheehun deposed thut ! ie earns up to the place where tha sohliera and Rev . Mr Gr _. ffin were in _dispute . Was ttioro before tbe conatabla . Corporal I » win held the horse by I ' * reb . Told him to let hiia go . Ho w . mkl r . o ' - Another soldier canio up and _witnttd him tn _i * away . Ue then said , ' Tj hell with P .-perv . ' l ' ha ¦ _P' _^ p _' . c wished to strike him . _Dapuunf , _tulvuod the D _6 _iip ! e not , nor to _t-.-Vi up _stones . They th _oS th > ra away at the suggestion of the police . Some other evidenoe having boea given , the jury returned as their verdict— ' That the deceased died on the 16 th instant , from the injuries received en the 6 th , from a blow of a stqne on tho side of tha forehead j and that said stone was thrown byao _^ perwa unknown , ' _—jfrewtw _Pachet ,

• Citation
  • Northern Star (1837-1852), Aug. 26, 1848, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_26081848/page/6/