CONVICTION OF MR. O'DOHENTY.

New Zealander, Volume 4, Issue 292, 17 March 1849, Page 3

CONVICTION OF MR. O'DOH ENTY.

Mr. Justice Crampton cliargod th. jury at ten o'clock. Tho jury retired at one, iwd at lialf-pasl, three returned with n vcidict of Guilty, accompanied with a rcciirmnendatiou to mercy, on account of tho prisoner's youth, and of the excited state of public feeling at tho time of the publication of Jiis treasonable writings.

The Writs or Ekroii.—We understand that writs of error having been allowed by tfte Attorney-General in tbe cases of the State prisoners recently convicted at Clonmel, wunant* respiting the capital punishment during pleasure will be transmitted to the High Sherift'. We ore enabled to state that the Lord Lieutenant had, previous to his departure, intimated Ins pleasure to this effect, and had allowed an assurance to be conveyed to those most interested in learning the fate of Mr. OBrien, that the extreme penalty of this law will not be carried into effect. The oilicidl notification of a respite has only been delated until the writs of error had been regularly allowed. —Evening Post.

The State Prisoners in Bfijtast Gaol —In pursuance of the order for libeiating ceriaiu state prisoners to buil, made by the Pi ivy Council on Wcdueiday last, the following gentlemen, confined in Belfast, were to have left that town for Dublin yesterday (Wednesday), under escort, for the purpose of .having tluir sureties perfected before one ot the \Tusticcß of the Queen'o Bench: —Mr. Charles Taaffe, barrister; Mr. Patrick Marron, late editor of the D)oyheda Argus; Mr. James Cotty, Mr. William Walsh, and Mr. Jumerf Baker, oilicer of the Mercantile Assistants' Club. Tho order of council was forwarded to the governor of the prison on Thursday last. Out of 14 political prisoners transmitted to Belfast prison from the gaols of Newgate and Kilmainhain on the 18th of August, only Lin a now remain, namely—Mr. Patrick O'lliggins, Prcsia dent of the Irish Chartist Confederation, and of the '98 Club; Mr. Stephen J. Meany, late editor of the Tiibune, and president of t c llu#h O'Donnell Club ; and Mr. Joseph Brennan, one of the writers of the Felon, and President of the Molyneaux Club. These gentlemen stand committed for trial on distinct charges ot high treason —and against the latter two there are also pending, independent of high (reason, charges of treason-felony for writing in the Tribune and Felon. Mr. J nines F, Lalor, at presc.it a prisoner in Newgate, stands in a similar position. The trials of these gentlemen will not, it has been decided, take place at the present commission, and we understand official intimation of the postponement was forwarded to the parties in the latter pirt of last week. Since the above was written, we have ascertained that, ai the piesent order of Council, unlike previous orders in other cases, given power to all justices of the peace to receive bail, an intimation has been forwarded to Mr. Taaffe, and, the other gentlemen included, that bait may be received in Belf-ist, and that consequently the presence of the parties before a judge of the Queen* Bench is not requisite. The course to be puriued is this —the securities, on being approved of by the Crown Solicitor, mny, when in Dubliu or their respective localities, peifect the bonds, when they will be forwarded to Belfast, to be acknowledged by the parties before a magistrate.—Evening Packet, Oct. 26.

Revisal of the LiTuitGY. — We have authority for stating that the report which has been largely circulated by several papers, that it was the intention of Government to ibsue a Cotnmisiion for a revisal of tha Liturgy, with a view either of erasing or bracketting certain passages, is totally without foundation.— Church Times,

Anything for a Change.— •' Well boy, where's your father ?" " Down stairs, Sir." " Getting druuk, I suppose ?" "No Sir, he aint." " What tbeu ?", " Why, Sir, he's getting sober."