that the first gun fired in anger between this country
and America will be a knell of comfort to my ears.

THE CHIEF BARON--I will be compelled to remove you from where
you are now if you proceed with this line of observation.

HALPIN--Well, then, if I am not permitted to say that,--

CHIEF BARON--You are not permitted to make any observation
upon what any government of any country may do.

HALPIN--I think the reference has not anything to do with any
government or any country. It refers to a fact that will
come to pass, and when I shall hear the death-knell of this
infamous government.

The CHIEF BARON--I will not allow you to proceed.

HALPIN--Well, I cannot be prevented thinking it. Now, I will
refer to a subject which I may be allowed to speak upon. You
will recollect that I had addressed a letter to Mr. Price,
asking him to furnish me, at my own expense, with two of the
morning papers--the _Irish Times_ and _Freeman's Journal_. I
believe they are both loyal papers; at least they claim to be
loyal, and I have no doubt they are of the admitted character
of loyalty registered in the principles of Dublin Castle. The
reason why I wanted these papers was, that I believed that
the best reports of the trials since the opening of the
Commission, would be found in them. I said to Mr. Price that
it was important that I should see all the evidence given by
the informers who were to be produced against me, to enable me
to make up my defence. I was denied, even at my own expense,
to be furnished with these papers, and that I complain of as
a wanton outrage. Perhaps Mr. Price was governed by some rule
of Kilmainham, for it appears that the rules of Kilmainham
are often as far outside the law of the country as I have been
said to be by the Attorney-General. In fact, Mr. Price stated
when giving his testimony, that he was not governed by any law
or rule, but that he was governed solely and entirely by his
own imperial will.

CHIEF BARON--That I cannot allow to be said without at once
setting it right. Mr. Price said no such thing. He said that
with respect to one particular matter--namely, the reading of
prisoners' correspondence, he was bound to exercise his own
discretion as to what he would send out of the gaol, and what
he would hold. This is the only matter in whi