3-070-772 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Irish Land League Trials: the leading counsel for the crown - Mr. Sergeant Heron; Solicitor-General; Attorney-General, 1881. Lawyers at the trial of '...Mr. C. S. Parnell, M.P., and thirteen other leading members of the Irish Land League...in the Irish Court of Queen's Bench at Dublin...But Mr. Parnell and several others of the "traversers," or defendants, who are members of the House of Commons, have ceased to attend their trial, having come to London for the opening of Parliament...The evidence produced by the Counsel for the prosecution has...consisted, almost entirely, of extracts from the speeches of the Land League orators at various meetings throughout Ireland, proved by witnesses who were mostly Government reporters, or officers of the Royal Irish Constabulary who could write shorthand...The witnesses have been called and examined by the Attorney-General, Solicitor-General, Mr. Serjeant Heron, and other counsel for the Crown...Portraits or these learned gentlemen, in their most characteristic attitudes while engaged together, on the one side and on the other, in the present trial, were sketched a few days since by our Special Artist, Mr. Wallis Mackay, and are now presented on the front page of this Number of our Journal'. From "Illustrated London News", 1881.