picture of the depraved condition of the lower classes of this country. He said that Daly was married to his aunt, and that he had been living with him for two months before the attack. He had several conversations with Daly about Mr. Bailey's being shot. Daly said Mr. Bailey was running him out of his house and home on account of a writ, and he must have him shot. He asked witness to do it, and he said he would, but that it would be a bad job to him (Daly), as he would be the first taken up, on account of the writ. About a fortnight before the outrage was committed, Mr. Connor, who was also related to him, offered him a suit of clothes if he would shoot Mr. Bailey, but he refused unless they would give him money enough to take him out. That was agreed to, and Connor told him that he was then going to meet two other boys about the same business. They afterwards met by appointment at a public-house in Nenagh. Roughan, Carty, Ryan, and Daly were there, and all except himself were drinking whisky. Roughan said it would be a good thing to shoot Mr. Bailey, as he had been tumbling houses at Dungarrah. They pressed him to go with them; he at first refused, but on their importuning him he at last consented. Roughan had a gun, and Carty said he had a case of pistols. They accordingly started from Nenagh for the purpose of shooting the unfortunate gentleman, but they were so drunk that the witness said he would not go further, and they all turned back. From that time he did not see any of the party until the Thursday after Mr. Bailey was attacked; but on that day he met Roughan, Ryan, and Carty at Haye's public-house in Nenagh,

and Ryan then asked him why he had turned back on the first night. His answer was that they were too drunk, and he was afraid of the police. Roughan said, "Didn't I do the job well-I downed him." "Whisht," said Ryan. "Oh, no fear," said Roughan, "there's nobody here to speak of it," and he repeated his words, "I did it well, I downed him." Ryan then said, Oh, as to that, we all had a hand in it. He is not dead yet, but he may be down in a short time."

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Ön his cross-examination he said he agreed to murder Mr. Bailey because Daly and Connor, who had asked him to do it, were related to him.

"Then," said Mr. Rolleston, "I suppose you'd murder me if they had asked you?"-" By gob, I would," was his reply.

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The jury returned a verdict of "Guilty" as to Daly, but of "Not Guilty" as to Roughan.

January 31.

Terence Corboys was indicted for the murder of Patrick Gleeson on the 17th of October 1846. His unfortunate victim was a person in humble life, and the only offence he had given was, that he filled the unpopular office of processserver under the sheriff, and in the course of his duty had served a notice on the prisoner's father. The murder was committed in the open day-not only in the presence of many men, women, and children, but they actually moved a short distance from the spot in order to give the assassin sufficient room for its perpetration.

On the 15th of October, 1846, Gleeson, in the discharge of his invidious duty, proceeded from his residence in Nenagh to serve some:

notices at the village of Garrafanna, one of the worst localities in the county. On that occasion he was pelted with mud and dirt by a number of women who had assembled together for the purpose, but he was allowed to perform his duty and return home without an attempt having been made on his life. Two days subsequently he had to revisit the village for the purpose of serving additional notices. His coming was expected, and the prisoner was prepared to prevent his ever returning alive. Gleeson, on the morning of Saturday, the 17th of October, between eight and nine o'clock, revisited Garrafanna, transacted his business, and was on his return, when, at a short distance from the village, the prisoner came out of a ditch by the side of the road and presented a blunderbuss at him. He entreated the prisoner to spare his life, and promised that never again would he disturb the peace of the village as a latitat server. But the prisoner was not to be moved; he told the poor wretch" he had had his life long enough," and instantly, in the words of the witness, blowed" the contents of his blunderbuss through him. The poor fellow, though he was shot, did not immediately fall; the prisoner ran up to him, knocked him down, and whilst he lay on the ground fractured his skull with the butt end of his blunderbuss. There were a number of women and children within fifteen or sixteen yards of the spot, and the prisoner, before he fired, called to them to move further off. The prisoner absconded, and was not discovered until April last, when he was arrested in Wales.

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John Cleary said, he was a fellow passenger with the prisoner

from Waterford to Bristol, in October, 1846. There was a great storm, and the prisoner was very much frightened. The captain wanted them to assist in managing the sails, but the prisoner could not for fear. He was on his knees, calling to God to save him. Witness thought there must be something on his mind, and asked him what was the matter with him; but he said "Nothing." On reaching Bristol they went on to Newport, and there lodged at the same house, and in the night, as they slept together, the prisoner told him that he had left Ireland for shooting a man named Gleeson, and that he had shot him with a blunderbuss.

The jury, without hesitation, found the prisoner "Guilty."

The scene which the Courthouse presented this morning has scarcely ever been paralleled. Five human beings, four of whom were convicted of murder, and the fifth of an attempt to commit that crime, stood side by side in the dock to hear the dreadful sentence of the law which consigned them to a violent and ignominious death.

When they were asked what they had to say why sentence of death should not be passed upon them, one of them said, “A long day, my Lord," another declared his innocence, and the others were silent.

The Lord Chief Justice said: John Lonergan, you have been tried and found guilty of the wilful and deliberate murder of William Roe; you, Henry Cody and Philip Cody, have been found guilty of the wilful murder of Edward Madden; you, Terence Corboys, have been found guilty of the wilful murder of Patrick Gleeson; and you, John

Daly, have been found guilty of a malicious and wilful assault on the person of Richard Uniacke Bailey, with intent to murder. I feel it impossible to conceive a more awful or melancholy spectacle than you now exhibit. Five men, in the prime of life, in the vigour of manhood, stand at that bar to hear the sentence by which your days will be numbered and your lives cut short. I would that in the consideration of any of your cases I could discover one mitigating fact, one gleam of humanity, but I am constrained to say that the case of one and all of you presents crime of the most atrocious character, instigated by a vindictive and sanguinary spirit; in every one of your cases there was deep premeditation; and long interval between the formation and execution of your murderous design-an interval, God knows, long enough to awaken in you some sense of pity and compassion, some degree of compunction and remorse, but all failed; you went forth to your fell and deadly purpose-a purpose, too, accomplished by means so desperate that incorrigibly wicked must be the hearts of those by whom it was plotted and perpetrated. The whole course of your crimes has been marked with unrelenting cruelty, and with that cowardice which is always attendant upon a cruel and vindictive spirit. You armed yourselves with deadly weapons, you attacked your victims when they were not prepared, when they were defenceless and incapable of resistance, when they expected no danger, and you sent them with all their sins upon their heads into the presence of Almighty God. You stand there convicted, not of murder caused by sudden resentment or excitement,

or by the infirmities of our nature, but of that worst species of crime, the crime of assassination-the most horrible and hateful shape the crime of murder can assume. In the prime of manhood you all stand there branded with the character of assassins, a disgrace to yourselves, to your country, and to your nature. Oh! that the spectacle which now presents itself may work out the great ends of reformation, and the prevention of crime-that those who are pursuing the course that has led to your destruction may see, in the fate which shortly awaits you, that if they will not be turned and deterred by other motives from their career of guilt, the course of the law, though slow, is sure, and that sooner or later the murderer will be tracked, detected, and brought to condign punishment. But there are other classes who ought to take a lesson of warning from your fate; there are those who have taught you to "avenge your wrongs," who have justified, palliated, and excused your crimes, and they must be responsible for the consequences-those consequences which are exhibited in your dreadful cases. Such doctrine and such teaching has been productive of such cases as yours. But there is another class upon whom I wonder that all that has occurred has made no impression. Some of you have wives-some of you have parents-some of you have children

you have friends and relatives. Have they done their duty, and warned you against the crimes that have brought you to destruction? Have they, who knew your designs, warned you against the perpetration?

Have they endeavoured to prevent them, and used their influence to save you? Sorry am I

to say that, from what I have witnessed, the friends and relatives, who ought to have been true to you, who ought to have been your protectors, have been the first to concur in bringing you to justice; for if they did not prevent, they have in some degree caused those crimes which have brought you here. Let your fate be a warning to them; and whatever may be the calamity and affliction which your death may produce to your friends and relatives, let it be a warning to save from destruction others who are traversing the same course."

His Lordship then passed upon them sentence of death in the usual form, directing all of them but Daly to be buried within the precincts of the gaol. Henry and Philip Cody and John Lonergan were executed on the 1st of March, Corboys and Daly on the 4th of the

same month.

Lonergan and Daly listened to the address of the learned judge with the most distressing watchfulness, and as he announced their fate Daly raised his eyes, and appeared to be repeating to himself some short prayer. The other three unhappy men heard their doom with the same stolid indifference that had marked their conduct during their trial.

Six men from the neighbourhood of Coodborne, in the Barony of Lower Ormond, were then charged with assaulting the dwelling-house of a man named Ralph, on the 25th of October, and stealing certain property therefrom. The jury found all the prisoners "Guilty" of the charge.

Sentence was deferred, and on their being removed from the dock four other "boys," from the same barony, were tried for an offence of the same description.

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.

DUBLIN, May 15th.

Before LORD CHIEF JUSTICE BLACK BURNE and a Special Jury.

THE QUEEN v. WILLIAM SMITH

O'BRIEN.

Mr. Perrin opened the proceedings by informing the Court and Jury that the traverser at the bar, Mr. William Smith O'Brien, had been arraigned upon an ex officio information, charging him with having delivered a speech on the 15th of March, in the parish of Saint Thomas, for the purpose of exciting hatred and contempt against the Queen in Ireland, and inducing the people to rise in rebellion. The traverser had pleaded "Not Guilty."

The Attorney-General said that, as Mr. Perrin had informed them, the traverser at the bar stood there to answer a charge that he felt it to be his duty to exhibit against him-namely, that upon the 15th of March, at a meeting of the Irish Confederates, he delivered a speech of a most seditious character and tendency. They charged that in the delivery of that speech he was actuated by motives and feelings that rendered him responsible in a criminal court for his conduct upon that occasion; and that was the only matter which they had to determine, namely, as to the object, motives, and intentions with which that speech had been

delivered; because, as to the actual speech itself, he really thought it would not be denied or controverted by Mr. O'Brien or his counsel, that the tendency of the speech, and the object in delivering it, was to excite disaffection, hatred, and contempt of the Government of Her Majesty; that the tendency and object of that speech was to excite the people to rise up in rebellion against the lawful Sovereign; that another object was to induce the people to endeavour by force of arms to cause and procure changes to be made in the constitution of the country. They also said that one of the objects was to induce the military and constabulary to join in such attempt; and they further said, that another of the objects was to induce the people to believe that, if they made such attempts, they might rely upon the co-operation and assistance of the military and police. If he should be able to prove to the jury, beyond all doubt, from the speech which that gentleman had delivered, that such was the object with which it had been delivered, no doubt could remain as to what their duty would be upon that occasion: their duty would be, regardless of consequences, and in accordance with the solemn obligation of the oath which they had taken, to do justice to their country by a verdict of guilty. He entertained no doubt that he would be able to prove that the speech had the tendency which