cis Meagher, who replied respectively as follows:--

MR. M'MANUS.--"My lords, I trust I am enough of a Christian and
enough of a man to understand the awful responsibility of the
question that has been put to me. My lords, standing on this my
native soil--standing in an Irish court of justice, and before
the Irish nation--I have much to say why the sentence of death,
or the sentence of the law, should not be passed upon me. But,
my lords, on entering this court, I placed my life, and what is
of much more importance to me--my honour--in the hands of two
advocates; and, my lords, if I had ten thousand lives, and ten
thousand honours, I would be content to place them under the
watchful and the glorious genius of the one and the high legal
ability of the other. My lords, I am content. In that regard I
have nothing to say. But I have a word to say, which no
advocate, however anxious, can utter for me. I have this to say,
my lords, that whatever part I may have taken through any
struggle for my country's independence--whatever part I may have
acted in that short career--I stand before your lordships now
with a free heart, and with a light conscience, ready to abide
the issue of your sentences. And now, my lords, perhaps this is
the fittest time that I might put one sentiment on record, and
it is this: Standing as I do between this dock and the scaffold;
it may be now, or to-morrow, or it may be never; but whatever
the result may be, I have this sentiment to put on record. That
in any part I have taken, I have not been actuated by animosity
to Englishmen. For I have spent some of the happiest and most
prosperous days of my life in England; and in no part of my
career have I been actuated by enmity to Englishmen, however
much I may have felt the injustice of English rule on this
island. My lords, I have nothing more to say. It is not for
having loved England less, but for having loved Ireland more,
that I stand now before you."

Mr. O'Donohoe confined himself to a few words concerning his trial.

MR. MEAGHER.--"My lords, it is my intention to say a few words
only. I desire that the last act of a proceeding which has
occupied so much of the public time should be of short duration.
Nor have I the indelicate wish to close the dreary ceremony of a
State prosecution with a vain display of