But the urgency of the times admitted of no temporising policy.Messrs.

O'Brien, Meagher and Mitchel, were selected for prosecution; but the latter was honoured with a double suit--one for an article, and the other for a speech.

The morning they were called upon to enter into security, all Dublin was startled as if by a spell.

The streets were crowded by a dense and anxious mass of men.

The police-office in a short time became inaccessible.