. Ridpath's history of the world : being an account of the principal events in the career of the human race from the beginnings of civilization to the present time, comprising the development of social instititions and the story of all nations . st OConnell and his leading and his son, John OConnell, also Sir JohnGray, and Sir Charles Duffy, with some others,were arrested and brought to trial on a charge,of stirring up disaffection among the Irishpeople, and exciting them to insurrectionagainstthe Constitution and Government ofthe United Kingdom. OCcmnell conductedhis own defense
. Ridpath's history of the world : being an account of the principal events in the career of the human race from the beginnings of civilization to the present time, comprising the development of social instititions and the story of all nations . st OConnell and his leading and his son, John OConnell, also Sir JohnGray, and Sir Charles Duffy, with some others,were arrested and brought to trial on a charge,of stirring up disaffection among the Irishpeople, and exciting them to insurrectionagainstthe Constitution and Government ofthe United Kingdom. OCcmnell conductedhis own defense, but not with the vigor whichhe had displayed in the open field. He andhis associates were convicted. OConnell him-self was sentenced to imprisonment for a year,and to pay a fine of two thousand rest were condemned to punishment less 302 UNIVERSAL HISTORY. —THE MODERN WORLD. severe. OConnell immediately appealed tothe House of Lords, and by tliat body thesentence of the court below was reversed. Theconvicted men were set at liberty, and thecrisis was at an end. It can not be doubted that the influence ofOConnell over his countrymen waned fromthe time of the Clontarf catastrophe. Hisnatural forces were expended in this final. sill ROBERT FUEL. contest in favor of Irish independence. He re-mained in the House of Commons until 1846,making his hust speech in that body on the 3dof April, in this year. It was noticed thatthe tires of his stormy oratory were alreadyquenciied. He became a subject of melan-cholia. Foreseeing the end of his life, hewithdrew from the public gaze and set out forRome, where ht; hoped to die. Just as thefirst gloom of the potato famine began to settle on his country, he departed for Italy. Arriv-ing at Genoa, he could go no further. There,on the 15th of May, 1847, the most remarkable-Irishman of the present century ended hia-tempestuous career. In the meantime, the Administration of Peelhad taken up and disposed of several impor-tant matters cl
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