The Whig standard. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1843-1844, 1843-11-22
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
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ARRIVAL OF STEAMSHIP CALEDONIA.
FIFTEEN DAYS LaTER FROM EUROPE 1!
From the Boston Tsmes-Ertra.

arrived, we have files of English papers TO the
4th instant. We give below all the news of inn
portance.
Ole Bull, the celebrated violinist; Bishop Pur-
Gill, and Professor Park, have arrived as passen-
gers in the Caledonia.
Free Trade IN En- gldnd--One of the most
striking domestic events of late years is the re-
suit of the city of London election Il has aston
ished both parties The commercial metropolis
Of the world has unequvocally declared its adj
herence to those principles Of free trade which
have been recently promulgated with such energy
by Messrs. Golden, Bright, and others. As it
affects the ministers strength in the House of
Commons, the election itself is a bagatelle. Not
so it's moral influence upon the country.
Robert Peel, the Premier, has been making
great speech at Tamworth on practical farming.
The speech sounds the approach of great and
speedy changes in what is called "protection to
agriculture" There is no direct allusion to the
Corn-laws, but his earnest exhortation to all en-
gagged in husbandry to depend upon themselves
alone
The Acadia and Great Western.--The Euro
pean Times says: Few of the former triumphs
Of steam have surpassed the last homeward trips
of the Acadia and Great Western. Notwith-
standing the heavy gales with which our coast
has been so recently visited, the former vessel
entered the Mersey early on the morning Of the
29th ult., having performed the passage from
Halifax in ten days and nine hours. The Great
Western arrived on the LIST inst, after an excel
lent run of twelve days and seventeen hours
from New York.
FRANCE.
The Duke d'Aumale left Paris for Italy Satur-
day. He will proceed to Sicily, and thence to
Constantine.
M Emmanuel de Cessaiac, nephew of nj. de
Lamartine, has been appointed one of the At
taches of the Embassy 10 China
IRELAND-THE STATE PROSECUTIONS.
On Thursday morning, November 2, the Court
of Queens Bench was crowded to excess at an
early hour, to witness the commencement of the
State trials. The proceedings did not commence
till one o'clock. The audience in the galleries
was very numerous, and consisted OF large de-
gree Of ladies'.
The Hon. Judge Burton entered the Court
about one o'clock, and the clerk of the Crown
proceeded to call over the grand PANEL. The
Attorney and Solicitor Generals, Sergeant War
rem and Mr.. Brewster, @. c., took their seats
shortly after the arrival Of his lordship.
After some Introductory remarks, the Judge
charged as follows:
The exhibition Of immense bodies of men, be-
ing persons pctitioning for Repeal of the Union,
and at the same time asserting in their presence
that in part at least, by their intervention it must
ground for charging it in the indictment as a
purpose of intimidation.
After referring to the attempts made to ey-
cite dissatisfaction in the army and navy, which,
if proved, his lordship pronounced high INSIDE
meanor-to certain letters and articles published
in the Repeal papers, his lordship proceeded to
consider the fiscal part of the charge-the col
lection of the rent. Gentlemen, this is the
charge of soliciting and obtaining, as well from
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foreign countries, large sums Of money in order
to promote and effecuate the objects charged by
indictment.
feel that must, according to my view Of the
subject, add that this offence, as it appears to me
to be charged allude here to the contribu-
tions-isa misdemeanor The appointment of
arbitrator to decide on matters of litigation be-
tween the Queens subjects, calculated as it was
to bring into contempt the legal tribunals Of the
country, his lordship pronounced, proved mis-
demeanor.
The concluding portion of the charge referred
to the importance Of the case, and to imprcssing
on the grand jury the necessity of giving it their
best consideration.
His lordship's charge, which lasted forty-three
minutes in delivery, was listened to with breath
less interest
The Attorney General said that the indict-
ment in the case alluded to by the Court would
be laid before the grand jury at hall past ten
O'Clock on Friday morning, or at any other time
that would suit the convenience of the jurors.
SPECIAL EXPRESS FROM DUBLIN!
FRIDAY NIGHT.
We have, this morning, received intelligence
from Dublin, by Special Express, bringing us the
newspapers to the latest possible hour last night.
The Grand Jury had been occupied the whole
Of the day in reading the indictments, which
covered the enormous space of thirty-three skins
of parchment This enormously wordy affair
had prevented the Grand Jury from examining
any witnesses, although large number were in
attendance. 1t is expected that the proceedings
of the Grand Jury, in the O'Connell trials, will
be retarded until Monday next; certainly the
bills cannot be returned before the evening of
this day, and it seems hardly possible that the
bills can be found even so soon.
The proceedings on these important trials will
probably extend over fortnight, unless Mr.. o.
Cornell succeeds in traversing until next term,
but there seems to be some legal doubt as to the
possibility Of traversing in these cases. The
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