I trust I shall be prepared to meet its execution.

I hope to be able, with a pure heart and perfect composure, to appear before a higher Tribunal--a tribunal where a Judge of infinite goodness, as well as of justice will preside, and where, my lords, many--many of the judgments of this world will be reversed." The sentence of the court was then pronounced, as it had been previously on Mr.O'Brien.

It was in the following words:-- "That sentence is, that you Terence Bellew MacManus, you Patrick O'Donohoe, and you Thomas Francis Meagher, be taken hence to the place from whence you came, and be thence drawn on a hurdle to the place of execution; that each of you be there hanged by the neck until you are dead, and that afterward the head of each of you shall be severed from the body, and the body of each divided into four quarters, to be disposed of as her Majesty may think fit.

And may Almighty God have mercy upon your souls." A writ of error was sued out principally on the ground that the principles of constitutional law were violated.

The House of Lords finally quashed the error and confirmed the judgment.