IRISH STATE TRIALS.

Auckland Chronicle and New Zealand Colonist, Volume 2, Issue 57, 5 September 1844, Page 3

IRISH STATE TRIALS.

It would appear that ihe G%v\errtm<mi were determined upon par-sin:;- sfHiiHtiee upon Mr. O'Connell and the other Traversers, The Freeman's Journal of the 15th April says : "On this day Term opens. The long expected 15th April, on which O'Connell and his brother Conspitators are again to answer before the bar lor the crime of patriotism, has arrived, and no small excitement begins to be felt as lo the results it will bring forth. Nothing definite will, however, be done to-day.

" The judgment of the Court cannot be pronounced to-day, for though it is not neoassary that a four day rule shall be served upon the Conspirators/ it is generally understood that that course will be adopted. In the event of the rule being served, and that tne defendants shali not be advised to interpose any motion or application on the subject, the judgment of the Court may be delivered we believe, on Friday. As soon as the Court shall have pronounced its judgment, the counsel on be. half of the Conspirators, will move for a writ of error. To this the law requires the formality of the Attorney-General's assent, but no one anticipates that tbe right lion gentleman will refuse what is in leality, a matter of mere technical form.

" But, though the writ should thus issue, it wij' be in his option to insist upon immediate satisfaction of theljudgment; and the accused may not only be imprisoned upon a judgment following proceeds ings that may be pronounced in error at a future time, but the Judges—the satisfaction of judgment have commenced—have no power to suspend the operation of the sentence pending those proceedings. *' Such is tbe form. Whether the Crown will move for the four day rule to day or not, is not yet known to tbe accused. The rule may be made on this or any other day that would permit of its termination falling within the Term. What the sentence will be, and whether it wil be at once exe« cuted or not, is mere matter of conjecture- One thing only do we know, and that is, that come what may, the leaders and the people are alike prepared to do and to suffer in the cause of national ndemption. Every noble and just cause bad its martyers: and if all Ireland were examined tomorrow, there would not be found amongst its nine millions eight men to whom the approaching Term aid its results bring less of uneasiness or more of honest pride than to the eight Conspirators.

" The excitement iwhich prevails through every part of the country to learn the sentence which awaits the Traversers is described to us as a most Intense and absorbing, and along the entire line from Dublin crowds are eagerly watching the arrival of the coaches in the hope of hearing some favourable ttd: gs. As the mail was passing through Temple, more last night a dense multitude were'sssembled ft »:d finding that Father Mathew was a p.issengei in tie coach, they knelt down and intreated of him to , in with them in a prayer for ihj safety aud pro. i etion of Mr. O'Connell and his fellow " Traver- %**■" m