The trial of the Fenians accused of complicity in the
Clerken- well outrage is fixed for Monday next, and will probably occupy a week. The Lord Chief Justice presides, but it is feared that none of the prisoners will be defended by counsel. The Treasury has declined to find the funds, the Sheriffs' Fund, sometimes used for similar purposes, is in this case inapplicable, and the prisoners are all exceedingly poor. We trust this state of affairs will be remedied before the trial begins, if only for the sake of the impres- sion the trial will produce upon the American Irish. The crime, great as it was, had just sufficient of a political character to make the slightest appearance of unfairness most objectionable. One of the prisoners, too, Ann Justice, is a woman, wholly unable to defend herself against the formidable Bar to be arrayed on the Crown side.
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