text:  An English judge after hearing evidence for the defence in such a case--evidence in justification--would not sum up to the jury or if he began his summary the jury would stop him with an intimation that their minds were made up! _But to the Irish jury--the special jury of landlords before whom this case was about to be brought_--the proprietor of the Irish newspaper looked forward with a certainty of being convicted on a criminal charge the punishment of which would have probably been one or two years' imprisonment and a heavy fine