When Mr.Mitchel first promulgated his principles, they grated strongly on the public ear.

Men openly pronounced the doctrines pernicious and bloody.

But the veteran of the bar, speaking in the spirit of the more glorious times he remembered, denounced as a slave and a toward any one who thought them too strong for the occasion on which they were used, and the provocation to which they applied.

For a brief moment he awoke in other hearts the spirit that lived in his own.
The jury refused to convict, and were discharged.

But the prosecution in which the Attorney-General failed, was transferred before a more loyal tribunal, and Mr.Duffy was condemned by the judgment of _Conciliation_ Hall; a judgment of which something remains to be said hereafter.
It has been stated that the subject of testifying the respect of the _Nation_ for its chivalrous advocate, after his release from the prison of the House of Commons--he was discharged without compromise or submission on the 26th of May--was under discussion.
A public and triumphal entry was determined on.