17-3-1870 From the Times. Irish Sentences. To the Editor of the Times. Sir-If you would have the goodness to publish the following statement of how some Irish Judges perform their duties, perhaps many of your readers would no longer wonder why murder and bloodshed run riot through this unfortunate country. On the night of the 23rd of Sept. last two men entered a cottage in the mountains near Cappawhite belonging to a man named Mara and his wife, who at the time had an infant in her arms. After talking for some minutes with Mara, they both set on him and his wife, knocked them down and left them for dead. The doctor's evidence on the trial was as follows:- I know Mara. I saw him on the 24th Sept last. He had 13 lacerated wounds of the scalp, and two fractures of the skull. His wife had two lacerated contused wounds on the head, one of them 3in. long. Their lives are in iminent danger." The two fellows were tried at Clonmel last Friday before Baron Hughes, convicted on the clearest evidence, and sentenced to 12 months imprisonment in a comfortable gaol, where they will be well fed. I enclose my card, and remain, Your obedient servant, A Tipperary Grand Juror. Tipperary March 12th. Mary