Produced by Brendan OConnor, Jonathan Ingram, Josephine Paolucci and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net. (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Library of Early Journals.) BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE. No. CCCXLIX. NOVEMBER, 1844. VOL. LVI. CONTENTS THE O'CONNELL CASE, 539 MY COLLEGE FRIENDS. NO. 1. JOHN BROWN, 569 THE TOMBLESS MAN. BY DELTA, 583 FRENCH SOCIALISTS, 588 MARSTON; OR, THE MEMOIRS OF A STATESMAN. PART XIV., 601 SONNET TO CLARKSON, 619 LETTER FROM THE RIGHT HON. CHARLES HOPE, 620 POEMS BY ELIZABETH B. BARRETT, 621 UP STREAM; OR, STEAM-BOAT REMINISCENCES, 640 WESTMINSTER HALL AND THE WORKS OF ART, 652 LINES ON THE LANDING OF HIS MAJESTY KING LOUIS PHILIPPE, 654 LAMARTINE, 657 * * * * * EDINBURGH: WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS, 45, GEORGE STREET; AND 22, PALL-MALL, LONDON. _To whom all Communications (post paid) must be addressed._ SOLD BY ALL THE BOOKSELLERS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM. * * * * * PRINTED BY BALLANTYNE AND HUGHES, EDINBURGH. BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE. No. CCCXLIX NOVEMBER, 1844. VOL. LVI. THE O'CONNELL CASE--WAS THE JUDGMENT RIGHTLY REVERSED? The astounding issue of the Irish State trials will constitute a conspicuous and mortifying event in the history of the times. A gigantic conspiracy for the dismemberment of the empire was boldly encountered at its highest point of development by the energy of the common law of the land, as administered in the ordinary courts of justice. That law, itself certainly intricate and involved, had to deal with facts of almost unprecedented complication and difficulty; but after a long and desperate struggle, the law triumphed over every obstacle that could be opposed to it by tortuous and pertinacious ingenuity: the case was correctly charged before the jury; most clearly established in evidence, so as to satisfy not them only, but all mankind; the jury returned a just verdict of guilty against all the parties charged--the court passed judgment in conformity with that verdict, awarding to the offenders a serious but temperate measure of punishment--imprisonment, fine, and security for good behaviour. The sentence was instantly carried into effect-- "And Justice said--I'm satisfied."