ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIV, Issue 15, 12 April 1906, Page 17

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

' IN DUBIO.'— (1) We have not read that work of Benson's, but his ' King's Achievement ' is a very* close and accurate description of the events of the early Reformation period in England. (2) The mozetta. (3) We do not think so. (4) Papal cape referred to is deep red; stole according to TTie "color proper to the festival of the day (white or red, etc.) with gold embroideries ; slippers white, with gpld embroidered cross ; we do not know what stone is in papal ring in portrait. Always pleased to 'hear from you,. DUBLIN MAN.— O'Connell was first ' brought up ' in the year indicated (18411). On November 8, of that year, true Mils were found against him and eight others, and they were tried at the Queen's Bench, Dublin, on January 16, 1844. On February 2 the jury (from which Catholics were excluded) returned a verdict of guilty. A writ of, error was argued, but the verdict was upheld by the judges, and on May 30 the court delivered judgment, O'( onnell being sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment, fined £2000, and ordered to give bonds to keep the peace -for seven years. The writ of error was brought before the House of Lords on July 4, when [the counts held good by four Irish judges were held to be bad by nine English judges. The Irish trial/ was pronounced by Lord John Russell in the House of Commons a mockery. O'Connell and his fellow-prisoners were released in September, 1844, and on their return home were received with wild enthusiasm.