The exultation of Mr. Ginnell and Mr. Hayden is not
to be wondered at in view of the result of the recent trials in Dublin. Twenty-six men were charged by the Crown with unlawful assembly, riot, and conspiracy in connexion with cattle- driving in Galway on June 8th last. There was practically no defence and no denial of the charge of cattle-driving. Mr. Justice Wright in summing up stated that twenty-five of the defendants were young -men without any capital to work the' land if they got it, while Michael Kennedy, the owner of one of the five farms cleared of their stock, had been in possession of his farm of eighty-five acres for the past sixty-six years,
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and had paid rent for it. There could be no mistake as to either the law or the facts, and on the facts and on the admission that the defendants were there the jury ought to find them guilty. In the result the jury disagreed, and the defendanti were bound over to appear at Woodford Petty Sessions. Five other men, however, who had been found guilty of unlawful assembly in connexion with cattle- driving in Galway on Monday week were sentenced to four months' imprisonment each.
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