Two Days Later From Europe

tíy the arrival of the packet ship Liverpool, at New York, we have tvvo days later news from England. The Irish state trials were proceeding. Mr. O'Connell bcgan his speech in defence on Monday, the 5th. He avowed himself a Repealer,denounced the Union, andalluded most skillfully, though in a veTy slight and guarded raanner, to the exclusión of Catholics from the jury, the couduct of the Attorney General, and all the othertrifling circumstances attending the trial which would bear in his favor. The New York Herald of the lOth, contains some ten columns of O'Connell's speechjWhich is altogether one of his best eflbrts; combining the ingenuity of the advocate, the adroitness of the politician, the enlarged and patriotic views of the statesman, and all set off in the graces of popular oratory for which O'Connell is distinguished. - Free Press.dCf" The late Legislature passed an act granting the bodies of crimináis executcd in any county to the medical society ofthat county, if there beone, provided that no provisions have been made by the criminal or his frlends for interment Those who die in State Prison are to be delivered to county societies in rotalion, if organized in a certain manner, provided no provisión has been made for burial by the prisoner or his friends. - When the medical departmont of the University shall be organized, it shall receive all bodies from the State Prison. This act is entitled "an Act for the study of Anatomy," &c. We approve its provisions. It afFords facilities foracquiring a species of knowledge which is indispensable, without shocking the feelings of the living. OCOur readers are already aware that the President of the United States,is about to lead to the altar, a young and accomplished lady of great personal worth. - The late melancholy catastrophe on board the Princeton, by which the young lady's father (Col. Gardiner,) lost his life, will probably cause a postponement of the happy consummation for a few months. - iV. Y. Sun. it appears that the great pun on board the Princeton, which killed Mr. (Jpt-her and others by its bursüng, was one of Captain Stockton's now invention. It weighed ten tons, was 15 feet feet long, and threw 225 potind Dalls some three miles. We havebet'ore pub lished a dcscripiion of these terrible instrumenta of destntction. The shot nre three feet in diamater. There were two guns of this kind on board the Princeton, called the "Oregon," and the "Peacemaker." The seect party on the Princeton had been invited "or the purpose of exnmming these iinprovements, and having a pleasure trip. The Emancipator says that a 6trong disposition for war was feit nt Washington in high places, ?or the purpose of testing these naval improvements.