The LORD CHIEF BARON—­I cannot allow you to refer either to
    the American people or to the American government.

    COSTELLO—­Would you allow me to state they enticed me from my
    allegiance to England; therefore she (America) is guilty of
    high treason?

    The LORD CHIEF BARON—­We cannot allow you to speak on that
    subject.

COSTELLO—­I will conclude, then.  I have nothing to say further than to thank your lordships for the latitude you have given me in these few remarks, and also to thank your lordships for your kindness during my trial.  I know you have done me every justice; you did not strain the law against me; you did everything that was consistent with your duty to do, and I have nothing to complain of there.  I must again thank my learned and able counsel for the able, zealous, and eloquent manner in which they defended me.  I am at a loss for words to express the gratitude I owe to each and every one of those gentlemen who have so ably conducted my case.  Now, my lords, I will receive that sentence which is impending.  I am prepared for the worst.  I am prepared to be torn from my friends, from my relations, from my home.  I am prepared to spend the bloom of my youth in a tomb more dark and horrible than the tomb wherein the dead rest.  But there is one consolation that I will bring into exile, if I may so call that house of misery—­a clear conscience, a heart whose still small voice tells me that I have done no wrong to upbraid myself with.  This is the consolation that I have,—­that my conscience is clear.  I know it appears somewhat egotistical for me to speak thus, but it is a source of consolation for me that I have nothing to upbraid myself with, and I will now say in conclusion, that if my sufferings can ameliorate the wrongs or the sufferings of Ireland.  I am willing to be offered up as a sacrifice for the good of old Erin.

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GENERAL W. HALPIN.

At the same Commission, before the same judges who had tried the cases of Colonel Warren and Augustine E. Costello, General William Halpin was put on his trial for treason-felony.  It was alleged that he was one of the military officers of the Fenian organization, and, had been appointed to take command, in the Dublin district, in the rising which had taken place on the 5th of March; and this it was sought to prove by the evidence of the informers, Massey, Corydon, Devany, and others.

General Halpin employed no counsel, and undertook the conduct of his case himself.  The considerations that had induced him to take this course he thus explained to the jury:—­