The Whig standard. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1843-1844, 1844-06-21
FOURTEEN DAYS LITER FROM EUROPE.
From the New York Express.

day afternoon. She has made the passage in III
days. She has brought out about rs passengers.
IMPRISONMENT OF O'CONNELL.
| The long protracted, and all but interminable
proceedings arising out of the Irish trials saws
the European Times, have at length been brought
to close by the imprisonment of O'Connell aud
the other traversers. This event occurred on
the evening of Thursday last, and although pub
lie patience has been exhausted by the diffuse-
| ness, the wire drawn harangues of the lawyers,
and their endless har-spltting, yet the event
which every one saw would come, now that il has
! at length arrived, appears--paradoxca as il may
| seem-to have taken the world by surprise.
| SENTENCE OF TIE TRAvERsERs.--Daniel o.
ConHell, to be imprisoned for twelve calendar
months; to pay fine of E2,O00, and to enter in
| to securities to keep the peace for seven years
himself in $4,000, and two sureties of .f2,5OO
| each. s"
John O'Connell, John Gray, T. Steel, R. Bar
| rett, &. G. Duffy, and IL M. Ray, to be imprisoned
for nine calendar months to pay fine of ESQ,
and to enter into securities to keep the peace for
| seven years--them-elves respectively in fl 600
and two suretes Of f500 each.
| Sentence having been passed, Mr.. O'Connell
Immediately rose, and said that he wished to re-
mind the Court that he had made solemn aft
| davt, declaring that he had never entered into
conspiracy with the other traversers, or commit
/
had now only to say it was his painful conviction
that justice had not been done. A sudden and
| vocferous cheer from all parts of the court fol-
lowed this result; and although it was accompa-
MED by the capping Of hands amongst the junior
| bar, and was two or three times repeated, the
judges did not interfere, although evidently dis
| pleased. The traversers immediately surrender
| ed him into the hands of the sheriff.
After delay Of about an hour and half which
gave time to allay the excited feelings Of the
people out OF court, as we'll as for the necessary
preparations, the traversers were conveyed to the
Richmond Pententiary, in the Circular road,
their future place of confinement. They proceed
ed thither in three carriages, attended by large
body of police great many people ran and
kept up with the carriages, and there was also
large assemhlage outside the penitentiary on his
| arrival. When Mr.. O'Connell stepped out of
the carriage, he was greeted with loud cheers,
and Immediately entered the gateway. Within
the courtyard large number of respectable
persons, many of them his most intimate friends,
were drawn up in two lines.
They received Mr.. O'Connell in silence and
uncovered, and, as he walked up between the
lines, he shook hands with many of them; his
bearing was manly and undauned. He thus en-
tered the governors house, which, we understand,
ne and his fellow prisoners will be allowed to oc-
cupy. The penltentiary is vast pile Of building,
in an airy and salubrious part of the suburbs Of
Dublin The governors house is large, and has
| garden attached, in which Mr.. O'COnnel, with
his daughters, Mrs. Fitzsimon and Mrs. French,
walked alone, soon after his arrival. The pri-
soners, as they must now be called, dined toye-
Their about half past six. They were all cheerful.
We are happy to state that there was not the
slightest breach of the peace during the proceed
ings.
The cotton market continues in very depressed
state. During the last four weeks prices have
receded Il per h.; in that which terminated on
Saturday, the retrogresson amounted to more
than 1-S.
The most absorbing event of the last fortnight.
with the exception Of O'Connell's imprisonment,
has been the contest for South Lancashire. Mr..
william Brown, OF the American house, Messrs.
Brown, Shipey, g. CO., stood on the free trade,
Mr. William Entwisle on the agricultural, interest
1t was fierce struggles which ended in the re-
turn of Mr.. EntwisIe by nearly 600 votes Both
parties fought desperately
The debates in Parliament upon Sir Robert
PeePs new currency project have been of high
ly interesting description.
The subject of the annexation of Texas con-
tinued to be prolific theme of discussion in the
English papers Some Of them have wasted
good deal OF Indignation upon it.
The general state of the English crops is good
have suffered from drought.
The King of the French has postponed for the
present his visit to England
Switzerland has been the scene of civil war.
trumpery in its nature and results, but sorrowfu,
as showing the barbartes which are perpelrated
IN the name of common christianity. Turkey
shows symptoms of the internal disease which is
fast wearing away IFS vitals. Albania is in arms,
the inhabitants disposed to. peril life in asserting
their Independence, and, in conflict with All
Bey, 800 Albanans were left dead upon the field.
The Paris banking house of Mcssrs. Caccia g.
Co., has declared It's insolvency. The debts are
said to amount to several millions of francs. Sew
eral members Of both Chambers, who had depos-
its in it, will sustain considerable loss NJ Caccia
was banker to the Pope.
Reports of discussions in the newly organized
Spanish Cabinet reach us from Madrid. Some
Carst leaders have teen shot.
The Portuguese Cabinet has undergone some
chanpps IL is IN he honed FIR tho hottar