Mr. Thomas Devin Reilly was arraigned on Monday, before the
Commission Court, on the true bill of a Grand Jury, charging illegal training and drilling, in Dublin, on the 21st of May last.
A warrant was issued on Monday for the apprehension of Mr. Martin of Lougherne, for a felonious article in the Irish Felon. Mr. Martin is said to be eluding the police, and to have gone to the neighbourhood of his residence in Newry.
The trials for violating the Drilling Act were held on Tuesday. All the prisoners were convicted; but the Jury recommended them to mercy. Gogarty, the chief offender, was sentenced to trabsportation for seven years; English to be imprisoned two years; and the others to be imprisoned for twelve months.
In the Dublin Court of Queen's Bench, last week, an action was tried at the instance of Martin Coegrave against his landlord, Mr. Christopher St. George, M.P., for a false imprisonment and wrongful seizure of crops. Cosgrave gave up his small holding in November 1845, in order that a reallotment of holdings might be carried out; and received it back on a reletting for one year certain, on the understanding that crops sown in the autumn of 1846 might be reaped by him in 1847. Cosgrave was arrested for arrears of rent, and kept in prison after making a tender in payment of those arrears and all costa; his house was pulled down, and his large family of young children were driven with their mother to lodge in a barn, for many months during the famine and fever of 1846; and his crop of corn was seized and sold at a loss. The defendant denied tire agreement, and consequently he denied that the imprisonment after the tender of payment, or the seizure of the crop was illegal. But the agreement was proved by his discarded agent. The Jury found a verdict for the plaintiff, and awarded him 350L for the false imprisonment, and 84L for the crop wrongfully taken and sold.
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