the trial a legal farce.
On the 12th, the entire day was occupied by O'Donnavan in his address to the jury in his own defence.
He commenced at the opening of the court, and did not desist until after six o'clock in the evening.
There was nothing remarkable in his address, a large portion of it being the reading of editorial articles from the Irish People newspaper.
He insisted that he had done nothing criminal; asserted that his case had outraged all law, and gave it as his opinion that Ireland would never be free without fighting.
His bearing was insolent, and when he remarked upon the court his language was offensive and saucy.
On the 13th, after about an hour's absence, the jury returned a verdict of guilty on all the counts against O'Donovan Rossa.
The Attorney-General called the attention of the Court to the fact that the prisoner had pleaded guilty to a similar indictment in 1859.
In reply to the usual question, if he had anything to say why sentence should not be pa