IRELAND.
In the Dublin Court of Queen's Bench, the arguments for a new trial of Mr. O'Connell and the other traversers were continued on Friday and Saturday. It was agreed that four counsel should address the Court on that side, before any reply ; Mr. Whiteside was followed by Mr. Hatchell, Mr. Moore, and Mr. 011agan. The arguments developed the grounds stated in the notice of motion,—principally the omission of names from the Jury-list ; the fact that there was no such person on the Jury-list as " John Jason Rigby," the proper name of one of the Jury ; that there was no evidence of any act of conspiracy in the county of the city of Dublin ; that Chief Justice Pennefather had misdirected the Jury—and on this point Mr. Whiteside produced several extracts from the Judge's charge, of passages which made strongly against the traverser:, which he contended were calculated to produce a bias in the minds of the Jury ; ihz' statutable proof of the proprietorship of the Repeal newspapers had not been made out ; with several other points, revivals of arguments advanced at the previous trial.
At three o'clock on Saturday, the Solicitor-General began a reply on behalf of the Crown, which he continued on Monday and Tuesday. He maintained, that even in the case of a common trial at Nisi Prius, none of the objections would suffice to justify a new trial ; but after a trial at bar, a new trial is never granted except on the merits of the case, or where the verdict is against the evidence—never on the ground of any mistake in point of law. As to a mistrial by reason of ajuror's having been sworn not under his proper name, it had been held that even if a person not on the panel answered and served, a trial would not be a mistrial ; while in the present case, the declaration of Mr. John Jason Rigby himself, in the attempt to be excused from serving, fully identi- fied him as the "John Rigby " on the Special Jury-list, and he was sworn as " John Rigby-." As to the omission of the names is the Jury- list, the arguments now adduced were only a repetition of those ad- vanced on the motion to quash the panel ; which were then disposed of. The charge of the Chief Justice was listened to throughout by the counsel for the eight traversers without one word of oljection ; which was not consistent with their duty if it bore the character now imputed to it. The reply on other points was purely technical.
The Solicitor-General having finished, he was succeeded by Mr. Henn, who replied for the traversers ; he by Mr. Monaghan ; Fitzgibbon and M'Donogh to follow, with all the arguments over again. On Wed- nesday, the Court had arrived at the end of Mr. Monaghan's speech.
The weekly meeting of the Repeal Association was held on Monday. Mr. Smith O'Brien carried a petition against the renewal of the Bank of Ireland charter. Mr. O'Connell, still preaching "peace and perse- verance," moved the adjournment of the meeting till Friday; when he would bring forward a plan for carrying on the agitation after the ter-
mination of the State trial. Mr. Doheny, a barrister, gave notice that on the next day of meeting he would move that an inquiry be instituted into the present spy-system, as carried on by the Government. The rent for the week was 1921.
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