quickly forward, and was soon lost to sight in the dense throng.

The next witnesses examined were the group who, headed by the Chief
Justice, had entered Cashel's room. If they all spoke guardedly,
and with great reserve, as to the manner of the prisoner, and the
construction they would feel disposed to put upon the mode in which he
received them, they agreed as to every detail and every word spoken with
an accuracy that profoundly impressed the jury.

The magistrate, Mr. Goring, as having taken the most active part in the
proceedings, was subjected to a long and searching cross-examination
by Jones, who appeared to imply that some private source of dislike to
Cashel had been the animating cause of his zeal in this instance.

Although not a single fact arose to give a shade of color to this
suspicion, the lawyer clung to it with the peculiar pertinacity
that often establishes by persistence when it fails in proof; and so
pointedly and directly at last, that the learned judge felt bound to
interfere, and observe, that nothing in the testimony of the respected
witness could lay any ground for the insinuation thrown out by the
counsel.

Upon this there ensued one of those sharp altercations between Bench and
Bar which seem the "complement" of every eventful trial in Ireland;
and which, after a brief contest, usually leave both the combatants
excessively in the wrong.

The present case was no exception to this rule. The Judge was heated and
imperious; the counsel flippant in all the insolence of mock respect,
and ended by the stereotyped panegyric on the "glorious sanctity that
invests the counsel of a defence in a criminal action--the inviolability
of a pledge which no member of the Bar could suffer to be sullied in his
person"--and a great many similar fine things, which, if not "briefed"
by the attorney, are generally paid for by the client! The scrimmage
ended, as it ever does, by a salute of honor; in which each, while
averring that he was incontestably right, bore testimony to the
conscientious scruples and delicate motives of the other; and at last
they bethought them of the business for which they were there, and of
him whose fate for life or death was on the issue. The examination of
Mr. Goring was renewed.

"You have told us, sir," said Jones, "that immediately after the
terrible tidings had reached Tubbermore of Mr. Kennyfeck's death,
suspicion seemed at once to turn on Mr. Cashel. Will you explain this,