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The State trim nag continued its precarious course in the Dublin Court of Queen's Bench, and has arrived at a new check. On Friday, Mr. )11•Donough closed the arguments for the traversers. The Attorney- General then began his reply, and concluded on Saturday. He was close and effective in his argument. He happily ridiculed the tra- versers' treatment of their favourite juror, Mr. John Jason Rigby; whom they struggled bard to keep on the Jury against his will, and aow they insisted that the trial was a nullity because they had suc- ceeded in retaining him. As to the strong passages in Chief Justice reanefather's charge, he ailed from the charges of Mr. Justice Bayley, Lord Kenyon, and others, still stronger comments on the merits of de- fendants' cases, to show that Chief Justice Pennefather had by nd means exceeded the licence of the bench. When Mr. Smith finished, Mr. Whiteside rose, and said that, as the Attorney-General had alluded to some new cases, the traversers' counsel had a right to reply. The Attorney. General resisted; and Mr. Justice Burton said that the Court would decide the point on Monday. Monday came, and all was expectation. Mr. Justice Perrin re- mained in chambers throughout the morning, and other business occu- pied the Judges. At half-past one he entered the court; the Crown- lawyers also entered it, and remained for the rest of the day; but the Court adjourned at four o'clock without saying a word of judgment. Then came Tuesday, with more intense expectation; the court being thronged. The event was not altogether unanticipated, though curious— "Mr. Justice Burton took his seat on the bench about half-past eleven o'clock, and proceeded to hear the motions of the junior bar. In a short time after, Judges Crampton and Perrin entered, wearing the appearance (it VMS remarked) of men who had been recently engaged in warm discussion. The bar bad scarcely made their bow to their Lordships, when 'silence' was again called for the Lord Chief-Justice. At this time the Court was very full. AU the Law-officers and counsel engaged for the Crown, Mr. Kemmis the Crown- Solicitor, some of the counsel for the defence, and two of the traversers only, (Mr. Steele and Mr. Tierney,) were in their usual places. 'When the Lord Chief-Justice entered, a member of the outer bar was addressing the Court in support of some ordinary motion; which his Lordship listened to for a few minutes. As another gentleman was about to address the Court, his Lordship, interrupting him, and addressing the Attorney-General, said= Mr. Attorney, I am sorry to tell you that the Court find that they cannot give judgment is the—(hesitating)—the case until next term.' " The case, to wit, of the Queen versus Daniel O'Connell and others.. People looked at each other; there was a general move towards the doors ; and in a few minutes the court was abandoned to mere lawyers and litigants.
An adjourned meeting of the Repeal Association was held on Friday.. It had been stated Mr. O'Connell would bring forward some new plan for future agitation, and he made a long speech on the usual grievances; but there was no new plan in it—merely the customary exhortations to "peace and perseverance. The Association met again on Monday. Mr. O'Connell postponed' an address to the city of Cork which he meant to move; but he depre- cated the conduct of certain parties who put forward the Parliamentary interests of Sergeant Murphy in contradistinction to Repeal : let Mr. Murphy at least become a Federalist, and he woald in fact be a Repealer;. 'but he solemnly protested against continuing, the controversy on any other ground than Repeal. Mr. O'Connell read two addresses from Germany, lauding himself, as he said, in exaggerated terms; and be made a speech in which he expressly abstained from preaching peace and perseverance, as not being necessary— But he could not allow a day to pass without impressing upon every man bow how imperative it was for him to avow himself to be a 'Repealer. The enemy, when they looked at the small quantity of Repeal rent which they had received, were beginning to triumieb, and say that the people were disgusted and in- tended no longer to continue any exertion for Ireland. (A voice—" They are liars ") Ile thanked his friend for his courtesy—he was about as civil as they deserved—the fact was, they were liars. A liar was no good whatever unless he took care to have some colour or pretence for his lie; and their enemies bad that pretence, for the Repeal rent was much dimmished. They forgot, how- ever, that this period was what the poor called "the buing-time," when the crop of last year was exhausted, and the people were obliged to live fromband to month, and that there was always a diminution of the Catholic rent, the- Repeal rent, and every other public payment of money, at this period of the year ; but when it was once noticed that the enemy relied upon this circum- stance, he was sure the amount of Repeal rent would soon exceed what it had ever been. He cautioned the people against the system of espionage which was going on and against connexion with secret societies. He announced that he hoped to be in London to vote for the Ten-hours Bill; and he- finished by saying that the priests were Repealers—would the people desert their priests ?
The rent for the week was 2481. •
A Government inquiry, conducted by Mr. Martley, QC., has been- instituted at Shinrone, into the conduct of two Policemen. Ogle and Lyndon, who were accused of fabricating charges of Ribandism against divers people. The story is that Ogle applied to one Revington to in- troduce papers and Riband signs into the pockets of three men—Delany, Meehan, and Lalor ; promising to give him papers which had been. found in the pockets of M'Loughlin, who had been committed for trial on a Riband charge. The conspiracy reached Delany's ears, and he applied to the Magistrates for summonses, which they refused ; and Mr.. Martley was sent down to investigate the matter. He began the in- quiry on the 29th April, and it lasted four days. On the 26th Revington fled, it is supposed, for America. Police-Inspeetor Parker deposed that Lyndon had told him that he heard of Ogle's proposal- Revington himself; tendering a written statement of that fact. Mr. Parker remarked to Lyndon, that both he and Ogle would be dismissed,. Ogle for the act, and Lyndon for not reporting it sooner than he did ; on which Lyndon obtained Mr. Parker's leave (0 to withdraw and niter his statement ; which he did by substituting the words, "I never .hartl a conversation with Revington on the subject," for "I had a conver- sation," &c.1 George Johnson deposed that he was riding in a cart with several people, Ogle among the rest, and that he heard the con- stable tell one Thomas Johnson that he could not transport APLOughlin unless he could get a man to swear that he swore him, in as a Riband- man ; but that a witness would get 501. and a free passage to any part of the world he liked : Thomas Johnson afterwards "made the infor- mations." Michael Mara deposed that he had been accused of rape. that Ogle gave him information of the proceedings against him, which failed ; that Ogle asked him to post a threatening notice, which he refused to do; but he said nothing about it, out of gratitude to Ogle. Both the constables received good characters ; but they were pro- nounced to be " over-zealons " in getting up prosecutions. The result of the investigation was not stated.
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