The arguments in the case of Mr. Duffy were resumed
in the Dublin Commission Court on Thursday, by Mr. Baldwin for the Crown.
Mr. Baldwin contended, that " if the offences of the Treason-Felony Act were now created for the first time, they were not new "; and therefore, now as before, the compassing is the essence of the crime. At the end of Mr. Baldwin's arguments, Mr. Batt referred to an intimation made by the Attorney-General, that he intended to demand final judgment on the prisoner immediately after the Court decided the demurrer, if that decision were in favour of the Crown. Mr. Butt drew a distinction between the pleading consequences of a demurrer in rases of felony, and similar consequences in cases of misdemeanour: in the latter only could final judgment be demanded on decision of a general demurrer. Indeed, it would be =matrons that, for the offence of pleading a bad plea by his counsel, the prisoner himself should be debarred from
j trial by jury, and be transported for life.
The Attorney-General was to address the Court yesterday.
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