IRELAND.
The Dublin City Commission for the trial of uffonders was m last week. The 'wales who charged Mr. Mareus Costello with her) before the Election Commissimi were discharged, as Arr. Ii was too ill to appear against them ; but it is said that tiny will Is secuted by the Crown lawyers.
Mr. Thomas Reynolds was tried for riotous conduct at the rs ses's in the Coburg Gardens ; held to eonsider the cuisine: of Mr. Rs • Shaw. The evidence egainst him was not at all to the point ; exception of that given by a man of bad character, 1 who is totally unworthy of credit. This fellow swine' that nolds struck at him with his sword. For the defenee, Fleming, Mr. Gabbett, a Police Magistrate, and several other s men of the highest respectability, SWOre distinctly that Mr. Rey- so far from inciting the people to riot, exerted himself to the us for the prevention of disorder, and that his manner was niost tory. It was pros-oil that the riot was oecasioned by the breaking-Lt is. a party of Orangemen, armed with sticks, into the garden. The viii ject of the meeting was lawful, and every precaution was taken by Reynolds to preserve the peace. There never was a clearer a . mild, peaceable, exemplary behaviour, under circumstances of s provocation. Yet the Jury—all of them Protestants, if not Ofs men—found Reynolds guilty; and Chief Justice Doherty and 11. Smith, the Judges, actually sentenced him to nine months . It is clear that this was a party trial, a party verdie t, and a party ; and we bind' indeed be much surprised if it is allowed to semi!. It is but very lately that a party of Granyemea convicted of open rioting, destr uction of property, and personal assaults, in Monagleia wers FC. • teneed only to one month's imprisonment.
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