The Sun. — 1824-08-10 (London, England)

EXECUTION OF HONOR CONCANNON IN THE  COUNTY OF CLARE. From the time of her sentence being passed, until the instant she was precipitated front the fatal drop, the Rev. Dean O'Shatighnessy had been unremitting in his endeavours to, bring her mind to a state of peace ; and, a short time before she was removed from her cell, had succeeded so far as to induce her to conduct herself in somewhat of a becoming manner, and, we believe, to join him in prayer. Until then, her behaviour was outrageous in the extreme—blaspheming and screaming incessantly. The momentary calmness she assumed was, however, thrown aside, and her screams and resistance renewed with redoubled violence, when the summons arrived to conduct her to her last earthly scene. The most dreadfnl imprecations, the most heart-rending apathy, were the only responses she made to the affecting appeals of the attending Clergymen. No persuasion, no intreaues, availed to bring her to a proper sense of her situation ; and force was at length reluctantly resorted to, to fulfil the sentence she so justly merited. We are really sick at the conclusion. She was placed (after having severely bitten the executioner) with the rope round her neck, lying on the platform ; but she exerted all her strength, and rolled herself back into the door; in the struggle her cap had fallen off, and her hair hung loose and disordered. The Rev. Mr. O'Shaughnessy then addressed her, but without effect. She was again forced out, and, while sitting on the drop, was once more exhorted and implored to cue for mercy to her Saviour—but she still refused to listen. The drop.then fell—one of her legs, which was resting on the frame, remained for a few moments supporting her, until removed by the executioner ; and even in that awful suspension between time and eternity, she continued to invoke the most horrid curses on all concerned' in causing her conviction and execution. She struggled for a considerable time; anti thus died the unrepentant perpetrator of the most enormous, cruel, anti cold-blooded murder that ever disgraced this country.— Her body was subsequently conveyed to the County Infirmary, where it remained unclaimed by any friend or relative. She was a native of a remote part of the county Galway, and had been at service in many places, in this county, which she we understand, with much satisfaction to her employers, until seduced into a course of vice, which too many females have the misfortune to enter upon. She has left one child, a boy, for the hand of charity to preserve from the example of its un happy parent.  • A private letter from Frankfort states, that the Emperor of AUSTRIA had commuted the penalty of death, pronounced last year by the Supreme Tribunal of Verona against certain individuals for high-treason, to twenty years' solitary imprisonment in the fortress of Spitzberg. On Sunday. the 18th ult. their Majesties the King and Queen of DENMARK, with the Princesses, arrived safe in the capital, after a tour in the provinces of more than seven weeks. Nothing could exceed the enthusiasm with which the inhabitants of Copenhagen received the itoyal Family. They immediately repaired to the summer residence of Friedricksberg. On Sunday last died in this town, ALEXANDER DIVING/TON, a native of Haddington, in Scotland; aged 98 years. In the early part of his life he served twenty-seven years in the Scots Greys, and was with that regiment at the memorable battle of Minden, in 1739, where he had two horses shot under him, and his right and left-hand men were both killed. At the battle of Lefette, where the regiment suffered greatly, he was severely wounded, and has been for nearly 50 years a pensioner of Chelsea Hospital. He had a very retentive memory, which he retained, with his other faculties, almost unimpaired, until a very short time before his death, and used to relate with great enthusiasm, the events of his life, and the achievements of the distinguished corps to which he belonged, and of, which he m was, no doubt, the oldest membsr liv; g manner 'born in the' regiment, in which his father also Was a elder..—(.Manchester Guardian.) havin been in