M'MANUS.--"My lords, I trust I am enough of a Christian and enough of a man to understand the awful responsibility of the question that has been put to me.

My lords, standing on this my native soil--standing in an Irish court of justice, and before the Irish nation--I have much to say why the sentence of death, or the sentence of the law, should not be passed upon me.

But, my lords, on entering this court, I placed my life, and what is of much more importance to me--my honour--in the hands of two advocates; and, my lords, if I had ten thousand lives, and ten thousand honours, I would be content to place them under the watchful and the glorious genius of the one and the high legal ability of the other.

My lords, I am content.

In that regard I have nothing to say.