THE STATE TRIALS.

Auckland Chronicle and New Zealand Colonist, Volume 2, Issue 47, 27 June 1844, Page 4

THE STATE TRIALS.

(From the Dublin Monitor.) We are enabled to communicate some anlhentic information as to the course which the traversers will pursue. Mr. Sheil will commence in the morning. His Speech will be brilliant, but brief; he will not occupy more than three or four hours in the delivery, but his effort will convey more in that short period than one ten-fold more verbose. The cause of the limitation may be ascribed in part to indisposition aud partly to bis desire to be succinct and compressfd. Theu will follow Mr. Moore and Mr. Hatchell, whose speeches will be concluded within tbe first day ; so that three will be despatched within a space to which three days were allowed by the public. " , Mr. Fitzgibbon will fill up one day's sitting of the Court, as his task is heavier; and the same ..complement may be allowed to Mr. Whiteside and Mr. M'Donougb. „ Mr. O'Connell, to whom most of our provincial contemporaries allow ten days at the least, will content himself witb a couple of hours, and Mr. Steele, who has been set aside altogether in the forensic display, will speak for a couple of hours. The Speeches then will occupy altogether five days, a peftod within which a great deal might, and doubtless will, be said, but the extension was considerably greater. The witnesses on behalf of the traversers have been sunimOned for Wednesday morning, but it i s not probable their services [will befsoon required. They amonut to more than 200, and allowing 20 for each day, the case for the traversers will not be complete within ten days. Their object will be to prove, not only the peaceable and orderly character of the ' monster meetings,' but. what ia of more consequence, the 'independent' nature of such meetings.

The Crown has given no direct evidence of the connection of these'meetings with the Repeal Association, and as tbe indictment is framed, it will be necessary to prove that they had their origin witb that body, in order to substantiate the general charge of ' conspiracy.' , The ' independence''of the meetings will be .-ought to be established by the traversers. They wil'l endeavour to prove that they were got up in the several districts wholly unconnected with the Corn Exchange, and if they succeed in this way, they will take the sting out of the indictment, v It ts of little consequence for the crown, that some of the traversers attended these meetings. The Attorney General ought to go further, and establish rither an immediate connection, or at least a question for ihe jury, we leave tbat to the leaders of his statement and the evidence already given.

It was also believed that the crown would have two mo.- *. --- ; n ey were entitled ; but we understand they will be content with a general reply by the SolicitorGeneral. ■

What time the Chief Justice will occupy in his charge we may not conjecture, but two days w> uid not be too many. Such, in substance, is the inlormation we have received.