The Judges of the Queen's Bench, Ireland, delivered judg- ment
in the cases of Mr. Healy, Mr. Devitt, and Mr. Quinn on Wednesday. The Crown accused these persons of language inciting to sedition, and argued that the Court was bound to require securities for their good behaviour. Nobody sug- gests, least of all the accused, that the language used did not incite to sedition,—Mr. Devitt threatening insurrection, Mr. Healy calling the Government of Ireland "an organisation of pirates and brigands," and Mr. Quinn declaring that those im- prisoned under the Coercion Act "went in reformers, but came- out rebels." The jurisdiction of the Court was questioned, but the Judges held that it had always existed, and adjudged the first two defendants to give personal security for £1 ,000 each, and other security for the same sum, or to be imprisoned in de- fault for six months; and Mr. Quinn to find half those amounts. They are allowed a week to decide upon their course, but according to the Freeman's Journal, their decision is taken. They have decided to go to prison. We shall, therefore, hear all through next Session that Mr. Trevelyan is worse than Mr- Forster, that Lord Spencer is a "minion of a degrading tyranny," and that the Judges—the Lord Chief Justice, Mr. Justice Lawson, and Mr. Justice Barry—ought to be impeached..
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