11 AUGUST 1883, Page 2

The trial of the Liverpool dynamitenrs before Mr. justice Stephen

ended on Thursday, with the conviction of four of them—Timothy Fetherstone, Dennis Deasy, Patrick Flanagan,. and Henry Dalton—for treason-felony. O'Herlihy was dis- charged on Wednesday, on the ground that there was not suffi- cient evidence to identify him with the crime committed. The speech of the Solicitor-General on the evidence was very masterly, and, to our mind, final; and Mr. Justice Stephen's sum- ming-up left so little doubt in the minds of the jury that, after- an hour's deliberation, they brought in all four prisoners guilty.. They were sentenced to penal servitude for life,—a wholesome warning to future meddlers in the policy of dynamite.