Launceston, April 8,

Public interest is concentrated on the one topic of the week, the trial of the Van Die men's Land bushrangers, Dalton and Kelly. They were tried yesterday, before Judge Home, convicted, and sentenced to death, without hope of mercy. Throughout the whole of the so lemn scene they evinced the most callous in difference to their fate. In fact, they are two of the most hardened ruffians that ever stood in the felons' dock. To use the words of the learned Attorney-General, in his opening ad dress to the jury, their case was without a " pa rallel in the history of the colony." Well it may be if it provoke not imitation; for in a convict settlement such as Van Diemen's Land we are never secure against the repetition of these terrible crimes.
