19-9-1848 From the Nenagh Guardian. The Convicts in Nenagh Gaol. On Thursday last a reprieve from Dublin Castle was received at Nenagh Prison, respiting the sentence of execution passed on John Ryan (Garaghcus) at the last assizes of this town for conspiring to murder Mr. R. U. Bayly. The circumstance, as we have learned, which led to the commutation of the sentence is this;-It seems that the informer on the trial against Ryan was a man named Garrigan, who swore, amongst other things, that on the Thursday after Mr. Bayly was fired at, he was speaking to Ryan in the town of Nenagh. This circumstance Ryan denied, and he communicated the matter to the Rev. Mr. Bowles, the clergyman who had been attending him in gaol since sentence of death had been pronounced. Ryan in order to prove what he stated, informed Mr. Bowles that he was actually in custody of the police of Nenagh on the day Garrigan swore he had been speaking to him. These facts no doubt, if true, would prove that in one respect the witness had sworn falsely, and Mr. Bowles accordingly resolved on sifting the matter and making due enquiry on the subject, and thereby test the allegation of the Prisoner Ryan. He proceeded to the Police Barrack, and when the diary was produced, in which the entry was made of Ryan being in the custody of the police on the day the witness swore he was speaking to him in the street of Nenagh. These facts were communicated to the government by the Rev. Mr. Bowles, and the consequence was that the sentence of death has been commuted to transportation for life. On Thursday last the friends and relatives of carthy-under sentence of death for conspiracy to shoot Mr. bayly-took their final farewell of this unfortunate and guilty man. Carthy bore the painful ordeal with firmness, and almost apparent indifference, for the sighs and sobs of neither an aged father or mother, nor the wailings of a sister and brother, moved the stoic heart of this miserable convict. The other prisoner, who is to suffer the extreme penalty of the law on Saturday, the 16th inst. Is Matthew Ryan, found guilty last assizes for shooting Mr. Lloyd. Mary