“’There is a world where souls are free,
     Where tyrants taint not nature’s bliss;
   If death that bright world’s opening be,
     Oh, who would live a slave in this.’

“I am proud to be thought worthy of suffering for my country; when I am lying in my lonely cell I will not forget Ireland, and my last prayer will be that the God of liberty may give her strength to shake off her chains.”

John Flood and Edward Duffy were then sentenced each to fifteen years of penal servitude, and Cody to penal servitude for life.

Edward Duffy’s term of suffering did not last long.  A merciful Providence gave his noble spirit release from its earthly tenement before one year from the date of his sentence had passed away.  On the 21st of May, 1867, his trial concluded; on the 17th of January, 1868, the patriot lay dead in his cell in Millbank Prison, London.  The government permitted his friends to remove his remains to Ireland for interment; and they now rest in Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin, where friendly hands oft renew the flowers on his grave, and many a heartfelt prayer is uttered that God would give the patriot’s soul eternal rest, and “let perpetual light shine unto him.”

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STEPHEN JOSEPH MEANY.

The connexion of Stephen Joseph Meany with Irish politics dates back to 1848, when he underwent an imprisonment of some months in Carrickfergus Castle, under the provisions of the Habeas Corpus Suspension Act.  He had been a writer on one of the national newspapers of that period, and was previously a reporter for a Dublin daily paper.  He joined the Fenian movement in America, and was one of the “Senators” in O’Mahony’s organization.  In December, 1866, he crossed over to England, and in the following month he was arrested in London, and was brought in custody across to Ireland.  His trial took place in Dublin on the 16th of February, 1867, when the legality of the mode of his arrest was denied by his counsel, and as it was a very doubtful question, the point was reserved to be considered by a Court of Appeal.  This tribunal sat on May the 13th, 1867, and on May the 18th, their decision confirming the conviction was pronounced.  It was not until the 21st of the following month, at the Commission of Oyer and Terminer that he was brought up for sentence.  He then delivered the following able address to show “why sentence should not be passed on him":—­

“My lords—­There are many reasons I could offer why sentence should not—­could not—­be pronounced upon me according to law, if seven months of absolute solitary imprisonment, and the almost total disuse of speech during that period, had left me energy enough, or even language sufficient to address the court.  But yielding obedience to a suggestion coming from a quarter which I am bound to respect, as well indeed as