Connaught Journal Galway, Ireland Thursday, April 3,1823 Volume 69 Price 5 Pence CASTLEBAR ASSIZES March 31,- On Friday evening the Assizes terminated-The following convictions took place. Andrew BARRETT, for stealing a cow, recommended by the Grand Jury to be transported for seven years. William FLYNN, for similar offence, same sentence. William STAUNTON, manslaughter, to be imprisoned 12 months. Pat DURKEN, rape on the body of Bridget MULROONEY, to be handed on the 12th May. Thomas CASHELL, for stealing a mare, to be hanged on the 12th May. John ADAIR, for robbing the Mail, to be hanged on the 12th May. Neal M'MAHON, for having in his possession a forged Note, purporting to be of the Bank of Ireland, for 1l 10s, to be imprisoned for 14 years. Pat MORAN, James MORAN, and Thomas MAXWELL, for coining and counterfeiting six shilling tokens of the Bank of Ireland, to be each transported for seven years. John HOPKINS, for administering unlawful oaths, to be transported for life. Pat LEA, for stealing two sheep, to be transported for seven years. John GRADY for stealing a sheep, the same sentence. Mathew KIRBY, for stealing a lamb, the same sentence. William KNEAVIN and Pat GOODWIN, for stealing three sheep, same sentence. Mary MAHON, for stealing wearing apparel and twenty bank tokens at 10d each, to be imprisoned six months. Bridget DUGAN, for stealing tobacco, to be imprisoned twelve months. Pat FLANAGAN, for stealing twenty-four Irish Bank tokens, recommended to be imprisoned three months. John SULLIVAN, stealing wearing apparel, to be imprisoned twelve months. Hugh WOODS, for steal leather, to be imprisoned one month. The whole of Thursday, or nearly so, was occupied by the Grand Jury in an investigation of a claim by Mr. FAIR, of the Heath and his son Mr. R. FAIR, of Fortville, both in this County, for compensation to the amount of about 500l, for property belonging to them, stated to have been maliciously consumed by night, in the month of January last. The Jury, however, decided against the claim. About 200 bills of indictment were sent up to the Grand Jury, against persons charged with offences against the revenue, in the manufacture and sale of illicit spirits. Mr. Leslie FOSTER, and Mr. PENTLAND, the Solicitors of the Excise, attended on the part of the Crown. The Grand Jury, however, ignored the whole of the bills, and thereby saved those Gentlemen the trouble of prosecuting, saved the country the expense of such a multitude of trials, (which might have amounted, in fees, of officers, support of prisoners, &c. to little short of 1000l) and saved the public also the unseemly exhibition of such trials, so little accordant with the customary and dignified forms and practices of our Law Courts- a description of trials, not merely valueless in the way of example or correction, but calculated, we greatly fear, to remove those solemn impressions which the administration of justice in all its other departments in this country is so eminently adapted to produce.