2 MAY 1868, Page 3

The trial of the Fenians accused of the Clerkenwell outrage

ended in the acquittal of all except Barrett, the man who fired the barrel. He was sentenced to death, but will scarcely be hanged,

as there is some faint question about his identity. The remainder of the accused were acquitted, partly because the legal evidence was defective, and partly because the jury were sick of informers. The verdict is doubtless right, but the result of the whole business has been a gross failure of justice, under circumstances of the most dangerous kind.