The Sun.
London, England, 1847-05-24 00:00:00

ON DA Y EVENI.N G, MAY 24, 1847.

Spirits—The market in general dull. We have heard
of sal( s of-
-27 hhds, brown brandy Rs. 3 2 0 per gallon
2 „ ditto, pale ditto
8 puncheons rum
Gin appears to be neglected.
EXPORTS.
Cotton Wool—We have a quiet market, and prices
of the new staple, arrivals of which have been very free
lately, are lower than at the date of the last report. A
greater reduction would, no doubt, have taken place,
particulaaly in the prices of Broach and Surat, if a great
portion of the supplies that have come forward of these
descriptions had not been required for the fulfilment of
contracts made some time ago, but we may look for it as
soon as stocks begin to accumulate, for the tendency of
the market is undoubtedly to a further decline. At pre-
sent there is but little disposable cotton on the spot, of
the new; but a good quantity still remains of the old.
The Broach and Dhollera are both inferior in quality
this season compared with the previous year's growth,
but, on the other hand, in Oomrawutty there is an im-
provement. Prices may be quoted as follow:—
Broach and Surat, New, 96rs„ old, 6Srs. to 72rs. per cdy.
Dhollera Ditto, 82rs. to Sirs., old, 6Ors.

I)itt,,S6rs.

Oomrawutty
Compta. old, Ors.
Sheep's Wool—ln this article there is very little
doing, owing chiefly to the continued high rates of
freight. Prices remain unaltered, being as follow :
Eltiorassan, 108 rs. to 1 lOrs. per candy, of 5881 b.
Mekran, BOrs. 91
Marwar, 90rs. to lOOrs.
Pt f f
Cutch, 10Ors. to 11Ors. f
Persian, 130 rs. to 140 rs. ft
Linseed—Very little doing. The price has declined
Ora. per cwt.
Rapeseed—None at market.
Opium—The accounts received from China not being
of an encouraging nature for this drug, there is at pre-
sent little demand for Malwa, the price of which has
fallen to 1,075r5. per chest. Very little good in the
market.

sight have been sold to some extent at 4s. 4d., but few
other bills offering. East India Company's accepted
bills on Bengal sold immediately on arrival of the mai!
at 215 rupees.

DEATH OF MR."'O'CONNELL.
It is with unfeigned regret we announce that the Paris
journals of Saturday, received last tight, bring the con-
firmation of the account already published of Mr. O'Con
nell's death.

The following letter from Dr. Duff, an English physi-
cian at Genoa, who attended Mr. O'Connell in his last
moments, is published in Galignani's Messenger :
" Genoa, May 16.
" Some account of the closing scenes of the life of an
individual who has filled so remarkable a position in the
world as Daniel O'Connell, must prove interesting to the
generality of your readers, and I therefore, as an English
physician called in to attend him, take leave to lay before
you the following statement:—
" On Monday, May 10, I saw Mr. O'Connell for the
first time, end he was then suffering from profuse and
involuntary diarrhoea, with great pain of the abdomen
under pressure, strong rapid pulse, flushed face, &c. Mr.
O'Connell had also chronic bronchitis of acme years'
standing. From the remedies employed these symptcam
were much amelicrated. and on the morrow he seersec
convalescent. But, from Mr. O'Connell's great repugnance
to swallow even the most simple medicine, this state us
improvement could not be f Mowed up. On the evening
of Tuesday (11th), the new symptom of congestion 01
the brain presented itself. Active measures were imm, -
diately had recourse to, and from them there was a de-
cided improvement. Again the aid of internal remedies
was denied, Mr. O'Connell refusing to take any medi
tine. Towards the evening of Wednesday (12th) the
symptoms increased. Mr. O'Connell was restless, and
sometimes slightly incoherent. Our former measures
were again employed, but with slight success. During
Thursday all the symptoms increased with great ten-
dency to sleep, from which, however, he could easily be
roused ; the breathing was much embarrassed ; circula-
tion became difficult, and in some degree indistinct, and
the mind wavered. Thursday night was passed in a
state of profound heavy sleep, with increased difficulty
of breathing, and in addressing those about him, he
imagined himself in London, and spoke to them as if
there. On Friday. be was much worse, the breathing
very laborious, the voice scarcely audible, and the
words halt formed ; all the symptoms had in-
creased. In this state he lingered on till Satur-
day night, seemingly conscious of the presence of
those about him, but neither attempting to move
nor speak. My treatment of Mr. O'Connell was
always in conjunction with Dr. Beretta, of this
place, and a young French physician, who had accom-
panied him from Lyons, and, on the day preceding his
demise, we had the advantage of consulting with Dr.
Viviani, the oldest practitioner of Genoa, and of high
repute. By his advice, and as a last resource, a farther
application of leeches to the temple was advised, but all
was in vain; he expired last night at half-past nine o'clock,
P.M., apparently suffering but little pain. During the
whole period of our attendance upon Mr. O'Connell it
was with the greatest difficulty he could be induced to
take medicine or even necessary food, and he perse-
veringly abstained from drink for fully forty hours.
Had this been otherwise, the period of death might have
been procrastinated, but his failing health and spirits,
with constant tendency to cerebral congestion, rendered
certain his death at no very distant period."
The death of Mr. O'Connell had created a greater
sensation in France than was to have been expected.
The Univers, the chief organ of the Catholic or high
church party, appears on Saturday encircled with a
black border, as a mark of respect to the memory
of the eminent liberator of Irish Catholics. We
give the following selection from the remarks of the
Paris papers on Mr. O'Connell's death. The Univers
says—
O'Connell is dead at the height of grief as at the
height of glory, harassed by the ungrateful conduct of
some of those whom he saved, but still less troubled by
their ingratitude than frightened by, their folly. On
leaving Ireland he saw other adversaries of his designs,
other enemies of Ireland than those he vanquished. This
is not the moment to explain who these Irishmen are,
and what they desire, who feared not to hate and insult
O'Connell dying in the midst of the world's respect; but
no one is ignorant that, restrained by his hand to the
last moment, they made him contemplate with dread the
death which approached to deliver them, hastened by
their impious hope. That was the secret, too easy, alas!
to penetrate, of the august sadness which was imprinted
on his features, and which wrung us with grief during
the few moments that we saw and heard him. His manly
heart succumbed in the agony which the future inspired.
The famine afflicted him, but Young Ireland would have
driven him to despair. To strengthen himself against
such alarms all the energy of sentiment which with him
was the spring of his glorious life, was not too much;
he prayed, he confided himself to God, he invoked the
Holy Virgin, and demanded assistance both for his soul
and for Ireland, equally desolated. Let us hope and
pray like him, let us hope and pray for Ireland, let
us hope and pray for Daniel O'Connell, this great ser-
vant of God, because he was a great servant of man,
a great and sincere apostle of liberty. Before Him who
judges the judges of this world he will, we are confi-
dent, be found pure. Let our prayers come to his aid,
if, after his slow agony, he has still to efface some of
those stains with which human frailty marks the most
elevated souls. Let us remember that what he has done
for the Irish Catholics he has done for all Catholic na-
tions. His rights to our gratitude are not less numerous
than his titles to our admiration."
We read in the Constitutionnel—

" The hopes which had been conceived of the recovery
of Mr. O'Connell have been cruelly disappointed. The
great orator had scarcely arrived at Genoa when he felt
himself mortally attacked, and was the first to declare
that he had only three days to live. His malady was
complicated with an inflammation of the intestines, and
nothing could stop the progress of the illness. The
death of such a man would have been an important event
at any period; but in the present difficult situation of
England, and with the famine which desolates Ireland,
the disappearance of the Liberator acquires extreme im-
portance. Nobody can foresee the consequences of such
an event, or the influence that it will exercise over the
fate, not merely of the English Cabinet, but also that of
the three kingdoms."
The following is from the Courtier Francais :
" Daniel O'Connell died on arriving at Genoa. Per-
haps this patriarch of the accursed tribe sought the
isolated mountain on which he could die far from his
own. If he did not despair of his :people, it is certain
that his people began to despair of him. O'Connell had
the soul of a prophet, but he had the mind of a lawyer.
It was in the paths of legality that he desired the Irish
agitation to move; to the encroachments of England he
always opposed legality, and England often retreated
before that respected buckler. But has Ireland made a
step? Look where she now is after these thirty years
of sterile agitation! If Ireland be bound to pay a tribute
of tears and grief to him who announced himself as her
liberator, it is to that magic and inspired voice which it
will hear no more, it is to that ardent soul which in-
spired a whole people with its breathing, it is to that elo-
quence, winged like a canticle, sad as a psalm, varied as
a drama, and in which appeared at times the disordered
inspiration of the ancient prophets—it is, in a word, to
the consoler of the afflicted that Ireland owes its re-
grets, and in no wise to the avenger of the oppressed.
Let her weep for this great soul that expires; but it is
for England especially to regret in O'Connell the con-
ciliator who, by his oratory, effected so long a truce be-
tween the oppressed and the oppressor. Perhaps the
voyage of O'Connell to Italy was a voluntary exile; per-
haps he felt before ho died all the vanity of the task he
had undertaken. In the last years of his life he might
have seen Ireland, it not separating herself from him,
and taking from him the popularity she had given, at
least demanding a more powerful and more resolute
action, seeking in short in Young Ireland' more active
and more decided instruments of agitation. O'Connell
never employed against O'Brien and the other agitators
who lately came forward to dispute with him the direc-
tion of Ireland, those bitter sarcasms, those crushing
bursts of wrath, with which he armed himself against his
adversaries. If the great agitator did not confess that
he deceived himself in submitting the cause of Ireland
to the justice of a Saxon Parliament, his noble heart, so
loving and so devoted, did not at least desire to show
those who thought of the salvation of Ireland by more
energetic means that they were wrong. When he saw
O'Brien and his friends appeal resolutely from Ireland
oppressed to Ireland armed for the combat, the old
champion exclaimed, May they accomplish a work
which I have not dared to attempt !' and he retired from
the arena to die."
The personal history of Mr. O'Connell is identified
with the political history of Ireland for nearly the last
half century. To publish, then, in the columns of a
newspaper, a sketch of that history, would obviously be
as impossible as it might be said to be superfluous. The
early portion of his life is not, however, so familiar to
the public ; and hence the following details, extracted
from a work recently published by his son, John O'Con-
nell, Esq., M.P., and thus stamped with a character of
authenticity, may be of interest to our readers:—
" Daniel O'Connell was born in 1774, at Carhen,
situate about a mile from the present post-town of Cahir-
civeen, at the head of the harbour of Valentia. His
childhood and boyhood passed at this birth-place, with
the exception of visits, sometimes of considerable length,
to Darrynane, then the seat of his father's elder brother,
Maurice O'Connell, who, being childless, adopted his
nephews, Daniel and Maurice, and took, in a great mea-
sure, the charge of their education upon himself." The
sketch proceeds to say—" A poor old hedge schoolmas-
ter, by name David Mahony, may be given to fame as
the first who taught Daniel O'Connell his letters. At
the age of 13 Mr. O'Connell and his brother Maurice, a
year younger than himself, were sent to the school of the
Rev. Mr. Harrington, a Catholic clergyman, at a place
called Redington, in the Long Island, two miles from Cove,
the first school publicly opened and held by a Catholic
priest since the penal laws. At the expiration of a year
the two brothers were removed from this school by their
uncle Maurice in order to be sent to the continent, to
pursue their studies at greater advantage; for this pur-
pose they were embarked in a brig bound to London,
the captain of which was to land them at Dover, whence
they were to take the packet to Ostend. The tide being
out at Dover when the vessel arrived, those passengers
who were in haste to land had to do so through the surf
on the open beach; and Mr. O'Connell's first acquaint-
ance with England was marked by a ducking in the surf,
the boat having capsized through some mismanagement
in beaching her. An opportunity offering in a few days,
the party proceeded to
Liege,
where,and thence by treyk •
however, a dis
schuyt and diligence to
pointment awaited them. L.'. O'Connell was foundapto-
have passed the age when boys could be admitted as
students, and they had to retrace their steps as far as
Louvain, there to await new instructions from home. The
difference of disposition between the two boys was here
strikingly shown ; Maurice, the younger, naturally
enough, availed himself of his six weeks unexpected holi-

days (the interchange of comnaunication between their
then abiding place and the remote shores of Kerry re
quiring that interval) to indulge in all a boy's vacatior
amusements; while, on the other hand, his brother, tee)
ing no relish for idleness, attended class in one of th.
halls of Louvain as a volunteer, and with such assiduity
that ere the arrival of letters from home, for which they
were waiting, he had risen to a high place in a class of
one hundred and twenty boys. Their uncle's new order,
were, that they should go to St. Omer, whither, accord
ingly, they proceeded, and remained a year—viz., from
early in the year 1791 till a similar period of 1792—wher
they were removed to the English college of Douay for
some months. Mr. O'Connell soon rose to the first place
in all the classes at St. Omer."
The following is an extract from a letter dated 1792,
written by the Reverend Dr. Stapylton, president o'
the College of St. Omer, to Mr. Maurice O'Connell,
giving his estimate of the characters and capacity of his,
two pupils respectively :
" You desire to have my candid opinion respecting:
your nephews, and you very properly remark that IF
habit can be Is orse than that of the instructors of youtl
who seek to gratify the parents of those undo
their care by ascribing to them talents and qualiti.
which they do not really possess. You add, that, b: in,
only the uncle of these young men, you c
affoz d to hear the real truth respecting their abilitie, o•
deficiencies. It is not my habit to disguise the precis
ruth in reply to such inquiries as yours. You sha
therefore, have my opinion with perfect candcur. I begi.
with the younger—Maurice. His manner and demean,.
are quite satisfactory. lie is gentlemanly in his con
duct, and much loved by his fellow- students. lie is no
deficient in abiiities, but is idle and fond of amusement

I do not think he will answer for any laborious profes
sion, but I will answer for it that he never will be guilt
of anything discreditable. At least such is my firm b-
lief. With respect to the elder, Daniel, I have but one
sentence to write about him, and that is, that I never
was so much mistaken in my life as I shall be unless he
be destined to make a remarkable figure in society."
The Jacobin politics of France had no charms for the
young men, as was evinced -on their journey home,
when they fell in with strange company :
" At length came the order, and the funds, for their
journey. On the 21st January, 1793, the day the unfor
tunate Louis was beheaded at Paris, the brothers set out
in a voiture for Calais, which they reached early on tilt
morning of the 23d ; not, however, without some
parting compliments from their friends, the soldiery ;
who went so far as several times to' strike the head
of the vehicle with their musket-stoats. The Eng-
lish packet-boat, aboard of which the boys pro-
ceeded with as little delay as possible, was pre-
sently under weigh, and as she passed out of the har-
bour, Mr. O'Connell and his brother eagerly tore out
of their caps the tricolour cockade, which the commonest
regard for personal safety rendered indispensable to be
worn by every one in France; and after trampling them
under foot, flung them into the sea. This boyish out-
burst of natural execration of the horrors which had
been committed under that emblem, procured them a
few of those sonorous curses which only a Frenchmat.
can give, from some fishermen rowing past at the mo-
ment, by whom the cockades were rescued from the•
waves and placed in their hats with all becoming rever-
ence. It was the packet-boat which brought over the
intelligence of the murder of the king. On board thal
packet-boat were the unfortunate John and Henry
Sheares, whose tragic fate, in the year 1798, is so well
known. To their heated minds the revolution of France
did not bear the same revolting aspect that it did to
others; and they were loud in praise and prediction of
its ultimate tendencies to good, in despite of the crimes
and abominations marking its progress. The execution
of the unhappy Louis was freely canvassed between them
and an English gentleman on board, and John Sheares
boasted that he and his brother had been present—having
paid two national guards for liberty to wear their uniform,
and do duty for them on that occasion. Good Heavens,
Sir,' said the English gentleman, what could have in-
duced you to desire to witness so horrible a spectacle?'
Love of the cause, Sir,' was the reply. The
excesses of the French Revolution were so re-
- volting to the subject of this sketch, that 'it is not to be
wondered at (we give the author's words) that Mr.
O'Connell should, when, in 1794, he became a law
student at Lincoln's Inn, be in a state very nearly ap-
proaching, as he has often said, to that of a Tory at
heart." This, however, did not last long; and his con-
version from the one extreme to the other seems to have
been as rapid as extreme conversions generally are:—
"So strong and agent were these feelings, that the cele-
brated trial of Hardy and others having occurred about
this time (viz., October, 1794), Mr. O'Connell attended
it daily, certainly not more for the mere interest of the
thing, or benefit of the law arguments to him as a
student, than for the gratification of anti-revolutionary
feeling, at seeing a supposed offender in a fair way ot
receiving condign punishment. To Mr. O'Connell's
astonishment he found, ere the trial had proceeded very
far, that his sentiments were fast changing to those ot
pity towards the accused, and of something of self-re-
proach for having desired his conviction and punish-
ment; and, each successive day revealing more and
more the trumped-up and iniquitous nature of the
prosecution, the process of change in Mr. O'Connell's
mind ended by fully and finally converting him to
popular opinions and principles, and confirming
his natural detestation of tyranny, and desire 01
resisting it." Mr. O'Connell's manner of life,
during his bar career, is thus vividly given in au
extract from an extract :—"ln one of those entertaining
sketches of the Irish bar which, some two-and-twenty
years ago, Mr. Sheil and Mr. William Henry Currat
supplied to a London periodical, Mr. O'Connell's minim
of life, in the time referred to by himself in the foregoing
extract, is, if we may use the word, outlined with consi
derable vigour and effect. The silent and absorbed vigil
for hours before the dawn; the dimly-lighted study; as
sign of our salvation hanging pictured against the wall
the motionless form beneath it, with head bent over thf
voluminous law papers scattered in profuse disorder

around ; the same hermit-like figure, tCfew hours later.
transformed into the bustling barrister, keeping con
tending attorneys at a run, to match his mountaineer
rate of going, as he hurried to the courts ; the third
transformation, late in the afternoon, when the man 0.
legal points, precedents, and abstruse arguments would
be found the merry, rollicking agitator, declaiming in a
popular meeting and now playing on the laughing fa
culties, and anon on the deepest and most powerful feel•
ings and passions of his auditory with a master hand—
as he assailed with ridicule the petty despots of the day.
or depicted with terrible vividness the wrongs, the mise-
ries, the oppressions of Ireland and her people ; such
were the leading features of Mr. Sheil's sketch, and they
were true to nature."

ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN.—On
Saturday last her Majesty's box was occupied by tilt
Marquis and Marchioness of Normanby, Viscount and
Viscountess Barrington, the Hon. Miss Barrington, and
the Hon. Percy Barrington. There were present, hip
Excellency the Hanoverian Minister, the Danish Minis-
ter, Count Reventlow, Count Kielmansegge, the Prince
Francois de Lichtenstein, the Duke and Duchess of
Beaufort and Lady Blanche Somerset, the Dowager
Duchess of Bedford and Lady Rachel Russell, the Mar-
quis of Douro, the Marquis of Headfort, Earl Granville,
Viscount and Viscountess Castlereagh, Viscount Canter-
bury, Viscount and Viscountess Maidstone, Mr. and
Lady Eleanor Graham, Viscount Exmouth, Count Po-
tocki, Lord George Powlett, Lord Henry Lennox, M.P.,
Lord Suffield, Lord Alexander Lennox, Lord George
Manners, Lord and Lady William Powlett, Lord Aber-
dour, Mr. and Lady Caroline Sanford, the Hen. Sir
Edward and Lady Buller, Hon. Mrs. Phillips, Hon.
George Miles, lion. F. Byron, Sir William and
Lady de Bathe, Lady Ilarley, Sir Jaques Clif-
ton, Sir Bellingham Graham, Sir Arthur Aston, Sir
Henry Webb, Sir Clayton and Lady East, Lady Jodrell,
Sir William and Lady Molesworth, Lady Macfarlane, Sir
Charles Kent, Sir Jasper and Lady Atkinson, Sir John
and Lady Campbell, Hon. Charles Banbury, Sir Ben-
jamin Hall, Hon. James Byng, Sir James and Lad)
Ross, Sir Charles Marshall, Sir Richard Quentin, W.
11. Gregory, Esq., M.P., Henry Baring, Esq., M.P., 11.
T. Hope, Esq., Henry Greville, Esq., F. F. Courtepay,
Esq., Admiral Mitford, Admiral Sykes, Mr. and Misses
Morior, Colonel Thornton, Colonel Derville, Colonel
Northland, Colonel Blane, Captain Hood, John Den-
nistoun, Esq., M.P., and Mrs. Dennistoun, Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Roberts, Mr. and Mrs. Coghlan, Mr. and Mrs.
Villebois, Mrs. Ashton Yates, H. Halsey, Esqv Mrs.
Crawshay, Captain Riddell, A. Bernal, Esq.,E. Dela-
field, Esq., Arthur Webster, Esq., Mrs. Milner Gib-
son, &c.

_
NARROW ESCAPE FROM DROWNING OF R. DOUBLE-
DEE, THE CELEBRATED OARSMAN.—Yesterday morning
an unfortunate accident happened to Robert Doubledee,
the celebrated waterman, and coxswain of the Sons of
the Thames Club, which doubtless would have ended
fatally had it not been for the activity of the captain of
the Starlight iron steam-boat. It appears that Double-
dee was out on the river, practising in one of those
cockleshells, miscalled wager-boats, when his boat was
struck by a heavy surf, which instantly filled it. Find.
ing that the boat was sinking, Doubledee shot head fore
most out into the water, with the intention of swimming
ashore. At that instant the Starlight steamer came
along, and had it not been for the captain stopping the
vessel and dropping astern, Doubledee would have been
cut in two by the wheels of the steamer, for when he
jumped into the water the boat was within a couple of
feet of him. As it was, his wager-boat had her bottom
stove in; but Doubledee was kept from sinking until a
waterraan came along, who pulled him into his boat and
took him ashore.
ROBBBRIES AT EPSOM.—lnformation has been given,
that on Wednesday a gentleman was robbed on the
Epsom Race-course of a gold skeleton lever watch,
and
gold dial and seconds hand (No. 52,038),
n
a gold chain and key, with a cornelian stone
l Coffee-house,top.Ontli,
same day Mr. John Gibbons, of the A ,
City-road, was hustled on the Epso
a emgeDsoiwlvnesr by four
men, who robbed him of 501. in gold, .
, 'Tor-
rington"), o-t. Santrda a w
pair
rbiontgtotomn,et a hunting
ringg watch
set
with(makebrlo'sodnas
mtoen",
top boots. One of the men who knocked him down was
dressed in a blue jacket and dirty white trousers and cap.
At the London-bridge railway terminus, on the same
day, Mr. Blythe, of Leather-lane, Holborn, was robbed
of a lady's gold watch, with lever escapement, gold
dial engine-turned (maker's name "C. \\'
No. LEW.")

THE LATE ARCHDUKE CHARLES OF AUSTRIA.—
The states of Bohemia have decided on erecting a
monument at Prague in honour of the late Archduke
Charles. Some members proposed that the other pro-
vinces of the Austrian monarchy should be invited to
join Bohemia in constructing a monument to the hero on
the field of battle of Aspern ; but this, after a long de-
bate, was overruled.
Mr. David Salmons has resigned his appointment
as returning officer for the borough of Marylebone, con-
, sequent on his having become a candidate for its repre
sentation, in the room of Sir Charles Napier, at the Fn-
suing election. Mr. Salomon's successor, as returning
officer, has not yet been named.