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Ld QYCONNELL'S CENTENARY. The Celebration in Memory of the Liberator of Ireland, ee LORD O'HAGAN’S ADDRESS. ek ey The Lessons of O'Connell's Life from Cradle to Grave, FOR FREEDOM TO ALL. A Career of Battles for the People—His Victories. THE OBSTACLES IN HIS PATH. The Packed Jury That Shattered His Influence. A REVERSAL T HAT CAME TOO LATE. Dissatisfaction of the “Nationalists” with the Committee’s Programme, a BISHOP DUPANLOUP’S LETTER. Dunn, August 4, 1875. The O'Connell Centenary is upon us. Already one ‘ay feol the excitement of an unusual occasion in the very air of this metropolis, which, for all that is bright and humorous in its inhabitants, is a quiet, sodate city enough all the year round, though it can bestir itself wildly and fiercely at times. The coming celebration has taken on a political aspect not very promising for ‘the lovers of peace, but the little spice of antagonism only gives Dublin greater zest for the whole matter, When the presont Lord Mayor of Dublin, Right Hon- orable Peter Paul McSwiney, was elected chief magis- trate for the second time, on January 1, 1875, he an- nounced his intention of celebrating the contonary of O'Connell, Mr. McSwincy is regarded in Trish politics as a whig or ‘“Cullenite,” the terms being deemed Synonymous, The surviving political colleagues of O'Connell—several of whom hold government appoint- | ments, or are superannuated—were summoned to the Mansion House about three months ago, when it was decided to form a centenary committee to include all ‘who conceded in O'Connell’s moral force policy for Ire- land. From this committee emanated an appeal to Irishmen “wherever situated,” of all creeds, to co- operate in tho projected celebration, In this ap- Peal O'Connell was described as the champion of civil and religious liberty—no ono portion of his polit career being selected for special commemoration. ‘The Most captious critic, even of the press, was obliged to acknowledge that the platform set up by the committee ‘was sufficiently wide to admit of gencral acceptance. Orange and green seomed disposed to amalgamate, Subsequently a circular was sent round to the several | } parish priests to institute a church door collection to | defray expenses (with the permission of the bishops of each diocese), and this brought money, accompanied by ‘epistles that imparted a hue to the proceedings hitherto avoided, Gradually a sectarian character began to develop itself, and the Lord Mayor, elated at the spirited manner in which Catholic prelates were priest’s | “4o¢1s” to the movement, announced that he would give abanquet out of his own private purse to inaugurate the great festival. To this the German prelates under- going extradition, many of the prelates of the French Church and all the Irish Catholic prelates were invited, clergymen of the Protestant Church not being included. At a mecting of the O'CONNELL CENTENARY COMMITTER the Lord Mayor announced that he purposed giving Precedence to the “Health of the Pope” on the list of toasts, This evoked an immediate and severe criticism from a writer signing himself “An Irish Peer,” be- lieved to be the Earl of Desart, who generally says un- Pleasant things at awkward times, This controversy progressed, the Earl maintaining that the committee @eparted from their original programme, and that no loyal subject of Her Majesty Queen Victoria could be | present “when a premeditated shght was being offered ‘to her in thus giving precedence to the Pope within her | own dominions.”” Tho effect of this correspondence | was that very few, if any, of the civil servants of the Crown deemed themselves at liberty to accept the in- vitation to tho Lord Mayor's banquet. Therefore, Judges, heads of departments and subordinates were absent, and it must be admitted that the influential character of the banquet was cotisiderably dwarfed in gonsequence, The difficulties of the situation were increased by the ‘selection of Lord O'Hagan (ex-Lord Chancellor of Ire- land) to deliver the centenary oration. The extreme nationalists pronounced this an attempt to reintroduce whiggery into Irish politics, and, with the aid of the clergy, to extinguish the separatists or physical force party, better known. in Ireland by the genoric term “Fenian.” The word was “passed” through the dif- | forent centres in England and Scotland to muster strong | in Dublin to prevent, if possible, the delivery of the oration by Lord O'Hagan in public when the proces- sionists reached their destination, Sackville street, it ‘having been arranged to erect a platform on the site of Ahe O'Connell monument, from which Lord O'Hagan was to speak. Under the influence of the expressed | determination of the soparatists, the route originally fixed for the procession was considerably restricted, places of exciting interest in Irish political history | (connected with °98, &c,) having been struck out. As a counter movement to this action of the separa- ‘tists in the several churches of the city and rural dis- ‘tricts, a request from Cardinal Cullen was communi- cated to tho religious confraternities of men that they should assemble of Friday morning, August 6, at tho | place of rendezvous, Kildare street, Dublin, wearing. | their religious insignias, crosses and medals, So mar- shalled, with the clergymen at their head, the commit- tec judged that there would be less likelihood of their political feclings being acted upon than if they were tanked in the order of the trades, Lord O'Hagan became excited, porbaps alarmed, with regard to the consequences, He knew that he was un- popular asa placeman. He therefore declines to de- liver his oration in person, excusing himself on account of domestic trouble. LORD O'HAGAN’S ORATION, ‘Tho kind attention of Lord O'Hagan to the Heraty Tepresontative in Ireland enables me to forward in full the O'Connell Centenary address, which His Lordship ‘was to have delivered from tho platform which was raised at the site of tho O’Connel) monument in Dublin, The following is ‘THR ADDRESS. ‘Tho commemoration which we make to-day is moro than an honor toa man, — It celebrates the redemption wf a people, It is a prophecy and a.foretaste of that future of union, prosperity and in which Irish- men will yet forget the misrale and end the strife of ages, You assemble to testify your thankfulness for tho noblest service a single citizen ever rendered te a nation; your pride in the equality he conquered for you by such Titanic efforts and against such desperate ‘odds; and your unchanging devotion to that good old cause of civil and religious liberty, of which through- out his life he was the foremost champion in the world. 1 feel vary deeply ig, hy inadequacy to fulfil the task imposed upon me. But avoidance of it was impossible, In m ier years I knew O'Connell well. He was to me also as he was described by Richard Lalor Sheil, during the trial of 1! “my great political benefactor, my delivorer and my friend.” Thavemore than shared the public advantages which his marvellous career pur- chased for ais country; and, from the hour when he ‘signed my cortificate for admission to the Irish Bar, Twas personally his debtor for continual kindness, As his counsel, | acted for him in the Queon’s Bench and the House of Lords, and though on some public questions I ‘ventured to ‘ator from him in the zevith of his fhe never withdrew from me his confidence and friend. ‘ship. With such antecedents could I be silent when I was asked to spoak, even though friends whom I fwould havo had it so? Surely I could not, Lam Wo discharge, however weakly, What seoms (@ ma @ aw | and that their history furnishes, and will furnish long, | self-assertion, almost without the cou NEW YORK H#KALD, MONDAY, AUGUST 16, 1875.—-TRIPLE SHEET, ered duty; and Thold it one or the nighest privileges and distinctions of my life to be, on aday which you are making forever memorable, the echo of a fame which has filled the eurth—the interpreter of the feelings of grateful enthusiasm and loving pride with which THE MEMORY OF THEIR LIBERATOR is cherished by millions of my race. And not by them only, but also by men of other tongues and nations. The Voice of foreign lands, which speaks the sense of & “contemporary posterity,” acknowledged his great- hess while he lived. ‘The spirit. of O'Counel animated the eloquence of Lacordaire, when he strove for free education and found, in the divine religion of the Cross, the sternest condemuation of intolerance and the high: est sanction for ordered liberty, Admiration of his genius and his virtue made the young Montalembert— then preparing for a troubled, but brilliant and most noble life—a pilgrim to his home in the wilds of Kerry; and hig eulogist, in pathetic and powerful words, when, long years after, he passed through France, @ bowed and broken man, 40 die in Genoa, Gustave de Beaumont, De Tocqueville's friend, described him in phrases combining fervent admiration and critical analysis, And these witnesses to a reputation which, us has lately been said with authority, continues to this hour perhaps more diffused than that of any English- | speaking public man of the present century, had their | praise widely repeated in Germany and Italy and beyond | the Atlantic. ‘There was no European stite in which | O'Connell's action was not watched with interest—the interest of apprehension in the upholders of domimant injustice, the interest of hope and joy in multitudes pin- ing to be free. His speeches were translated into all Janguages, They were read in Poland and Hungary and not unknown to the slaves of America, for whom he pleaded when they had no hope, or to those of our own colonics, for whom he toiled, until they were set free, 4s earnestly as if his own Celtic blood had bounded in their veins, THE VINDICATIONS OF TIME. So it was during his life; and now that he has rested in Glasnevin, under the shadow of the Irish Round Tower, for nine and twenty years, we have to-day do- cisive evidence that time has dealt gently with his mem- ory and accumulated honors round his tomb, The ac- cordant testimony of many distinguished men, of vari- ‘ous and distant linds—some of whom are with you after weary journeys and others have spoken from afar with no uncertain Sound—proves that the world has not for- gotten O’Connell’s triumphs for his Church and people; guidance and impulse to those who, now or hereafter, may be called to maintain the rights of conscience an strive, as he strove, at once for faith and freedom, Ku- rope has beon prompt to respond on this occasion to the call of Ireland, and we have greetings from the Ameri- can Republics’ and from the young nations which are rearing themselves on the Australasian continent—in- stinct with Trish spirit and Trish biood—demonstratin, that O'Connell is still in benediction, wherever civili: men have known The name and the fame Of the sea-divided Gael. His centenary, celebrated im such a way, will affirm his right to take his place among the rare beings whose lives are but the beginnings of their earthly im- mortality; whose work endures leek fg ages and affects the fate of untold generations, e has passed beyond the sphere of contemporary hatreds; the mists and heats of party are ceasing to envelop him; what was accidental and fleeting in lus life fades gradually away. But the great events of which he was the author, the high qualities which fitted him to achieve them, cane prominently forth, and the figure of the man looms out before us in its true proportions and its real grandeur, We are not far enough removed to miss the vision of blots upon its surface, for blots there were, as upon all things human, But time, which mel- lows tints and rounds angularities, is telling even upon these, and men are coming to honor O'Connell as the great Irish Celt, who conducted a fear- ful struggle to a happy issue with unexampled patience, skill and mastery, not escaping soil from the dust of the arena and the shock of the combat, but emerging from it to a resplendent victory, which will remain forever the glory of his nation and a lesson and example to the world, ‘ WS LIFE AND GREAT WoRKA. Of the general incidents of his life I shall not think of speaking in detail. ‘The generation which saw his ma- jestic form and heard his voice of music is fast depart- ing. Not many exist who took part in the fight for emancipation; and even the excitement of 1843 and its monster assemblies are becoming traditions of the past. But the uncrowned monarch, who then held over mill- ions a more than kingly sway, needs here no -annalist. ‘To you his life and labors are as household words, and the oveasion only requires that 1 should rapidly ‘point to some of the principles which were dear to him, some of the methods of his work, and some of the results which he attained, When Daniel O'Connell first saw the light, a hundred years ago, the race from which he sprang and the re- tigion of his forefathers seemed hopelossly sunk beneath the weight of an oppression as degrading and complete | as ever overwh “ta people, The Irish Catholic was worse than @ in his own land, In his person all human rights ‘¢ trampled down, all human feelings outraged. He was denied the common privilege of self: defence; he was incapable of holding property like other forbidden to instruct his own children, and ‘ed and immoral law temptea his brothers to de- frand him, and robbed him that it might reward the apostacy of his ungrateful son, Since time began, a ised to crush the ponscience. Well said Edmund Burke:—‘It ec of wise and claborate contrivance, and | ag well fitted for the oppression, impoverishment and degradation of a people and the debasement in them of lauman nature itself as ever proceeded from the perverted | ingenuity of man.” nd this horrible machinery of persecution was worked with fit results, It was mitigated in its action by the kindly feelings of those whose supremacy it was invented to sustain; but it brought the country’ to tho deepest depression and left it spiritless and impotent, at the mercy of its taskmasters. I look back from the | happier present to the intolerable past in no spirit of | bitterness, and with no desire to perpetuate the memory of wrong; but, if we would judge fairly of O'Connell's character and history, we must know what obstacles had to encounter, what encmies to confront, from what a depth he was called to lift his people and ‘what facul- | ties he needed to compass his achievement, IRELAND AN OUTCAST IN HER CHAINS. | Ireland lay, a3 I have described her, without hope or help—the outcast of the nations! But the hour of her deliverance came—the hour and the man created to de- liver her, O'Connell was born into a world which was soon to see convulsions, disturbing its ancient order | and shaping its destinies anew; and, in the scheme of | providence, these were to give occasion for the use of | his singulat endowments, which, but for them, might | have rusted in inactivity. The year of his birth wit- nessed the outbreak of the American war of indepen- dence; and the battle of Lexington was the herald of events, the memory of which gives our trangatiantic brethren occasion for a centenary festival as happy as ourown, The spirit of the insurgents passed across | the scas and poured new life into the outworn national- ities of Europe, Their success animated the efforts of mon struggling for freedom, and compelled attention to claims which had been flouted with contempt, Thus it came to pass that the penal laws were ik relaxed; and when the revolution of France broke fort! TO EMPHASIZE THE TEACHING OF AMERICA, the privileges of the Irish Catholics received great en- largoment; the vital right of voting was bestowed ; and in 1793, when O'Connell was just of an age to take ad- vantage of the boon, he found himself permitted to | become a barrister, The preparation was complete. If he had lived earlier he would not have had a chance of | developing his genius and marshalling his countrymen | for their political deliverance, But the concessions of the Irish Parliament gave him instruments of action. His admission to the Bar cnabled him to use them, and, after a moral struggle without precedent in history, he employed the franchise of 1793 to master the Cabinot of Peel and Wellington, and found in the freeholders of Clare the irresistible pioneers of emancipation. THE YOUTHVUL ADVOCATE OF UNIVERSAL FREEDOM. O'Connell came to the Bar in 1798, and almost from the opening of his career he devoted himsecif to the public service, He had no force to aid him inthe gi- gantic task he undertook; physical or moral help was equally denied him. He led no army. Thero was no trained and organized opinion to stimulate his efforts or reward them by applause. His lot was cast with an utterly prostrate community—wanting all strength of to complain, Indeed, they had fallen so low as to declare, while they grovelled before the throne, that they “respected from ‘the bottom of their hearts’ the infamous laws under which they suffered. But, in himself, O'Connell had limitless resources—a buoyant nature, unsleeping vigi- Jance, untiring energy, patience inexhaustiblo, inven- tion without bounds, faith in his cause which hever faltered, and resolution which no reverse could daunt and no discouragement subdue, And, so accoutred, he prepared to play the part of the mighty Jew of old:— ‘The dread of Israel's foes, who, single combatant, Duelled their armies ranked in proud array, Himself an iy! His brain and tongue were at first his only weapons, but the brain was massive and fertile, and the tongue, in many ways, has never had an equal. His powers as an orator were all his own. He had, perhaps, greater va- riety and completeness of control over his auditory than any speaker of ancient or modern times. Others have | been pre-emiment in special gifts, but he had singular command of the widest range of persuasive eloquence, He had humor and pathos and invective and argument, and he could pass from one to the other, sweeping across the human Leong with an astonishing | facility and agure response. He was not an artist in oratory. He regarded his ftoulty of specch as an in- strument and not as an end, and had little pride in tt, save for the means it gave him of working out his pur? poses, GREAT POWER AS AN ADVOCATE AND ORATOR. He was indifferent to his reputation as a speaker, and took no pains to correct or preserve his addresses, and | ageten the only ‘one really be orto eg 2 what he was is his defence of John Magee, which—ho told me during | the state trial—he had himself written out while he waited up to start for his circuit on the morning after the delivery of it. Ho impressed himself upon his hearers, not by nice attention to the form of his sen- tences or the selection of his words, but by vigorous | repetition of the views he desired to inculcate, in such language as was most suited to those whom he ad- dressed, Thus, he dealt habitually with juries; and it | ‘was this repetition, in every variety of phrase and with every aid of illustration, which enabled him to fill the popular mind with his own conceptions and mould it according to his will. He had the rare endowments of astately presence and a voice almost unequalled in melody and compass; and th with his skill in rea- soning and affluence of wit and fancy, commended tim to all sorts of people wherever he appeared. Once ho camo down as special counsel to a northern county, and system more atrocious was neyer de human he was roj ‘aa the very incarnation of evil by jurors who had known in him only their. irroconoilable political antagonist, They looked askance at him, and ‘would scarcely hear him; but befdre he had concluded his speech ho had won their admitation and their verdict and established kindly relations with them which were long maintained, I saw him in Rdinburgh speaking to a multitudinous assembly of Scotchmen, whetan! small love for the Irish agitator, and no sym- with his religion or his rave, but when his voice | kind,” was | O'Connell, That election was a un Listen to LOKD LYTION'S DESCRIPTION OF O'CONNELL at a monster meeting:— Once to my sight the giant thus was given, Walled by wide air and rovfod by boundless heaven, Bevoath his fect the human ocean la wave ou wave flowed into space away, hought no elarion could have sent ity sound n to the centre of the ts ol, % the silvery bell, ‘Aloft and clear from airy tide tu tide Tt glided eagy, as a bird inuy glid ‘To the last verge of that vast audience sent; It played with each wild passion Now stirred the upronr—now the humor stilied, ‘And sobs or langhter answered as it willed, Then did Lknow what spells of influite choice ‘To rouse or lull has the sweet humun voice, ‘Then did learn toxend the sudden clew ‘To the grand, troublous life Under the rock: , Unstuble Athens heave her noisy seas, A QUARTER CENTURY OF IRELAND'S DARKNZ33—ALMOST TO DESPAIR. Pitt was unable to fulfill his promises to Ireland, abandoned at the King's bidding the scheme which might bave given her a h renounced all effort to remove her religious disabilities, | The period which followed was very dreary for her, It | gave no prospect of relieS But for five-and-twenty years, hoping against hope, she still pressed onward, Maintaining her booties struggle—now in associations, again in committees, often in popular assemblies, some” times in the law courts—her modes of action always varying, her objects always the same. It was not a time of progress, but of preparation. There was con- tinual movement, but little advance, Tho multi- tude were mado familiar with the their wrongs, and encouraged to geek redress by hopes which were often battled, but always. revive O'Connell had not yet attained that leadership which Was unquestioned in after days, But he was mounting toward it, Ho was building up his legal reputation, and commanding more aud more the public confidence. Wherever work was to be done, or counsel given, or opposition overborne, in assertion of the Catholic claims, there was he, ready to speak or act, eager to sustain their friends, audacious 4 la outrance, in defiance of their adversaries, Associated with able and trusted men, he was already the animating spirit of the move- ment. But for him, also, 1t was only a time of prepara- tion. He was nerving his strength and training his en- ergies for the supremo effort which was to win for him the name of ‘Liberator,’ PLUNKETT AND GRATT Time went on, but the cause of the Catholics did not prosper much, ’ It had in the Imperial Parliament the advocacy of Plunkett and Grattan—the first astonishing the House by a masculine vigor and a trenchant logic to which it had seen no-parallel, and the second displaying in his latest years the unbroken power of that electric eloquence whieh in his youth had stirred a nation’s heart to passionate enthusiasm and high endeayor, and given him a claim to Byron's eulogy :— With all that Demosthenes wanted endued, And his rival or victor in all he possessed. The advocacy of such men was a providential agen informing the mind of England and dissipating the pre udices on whi sectarian ascendency was based. And they were sustained by a great party, which I may now say without offence to any- one, that, to its immortal honor, it refused succumb to the intolerance of royalty or purchase office at the expense of principle. For many a long year the place of the friends of the Catholics was in opposition, and they held that place with a self-abnegat- ing fuithfuluess beyond all praise. In our own island THE LIBERAL PROTESTANT ‘was ostracized by the government, and systematically denied cmolument or distinction. Yet men like Robert Holmes aud Louis Perrin and Maziere Brady friends of mine, whose memory I hold in rev were always found mindful of their duty and cars themselves, They held aloft the banner of religious liberty, round which we all profess to rally now, in evil days, when to be its bearer was to defy ‘authority and court exclusion; and Catholic Ireland will be, indeed, disgraced if the time shall ever como when she shall cease to be deeply grateful for the services and sucri- fices of those. who did not share her faith or bow before her altars, but stood by her in her weakness, to their own grievous injury, because they believed in the jus- tive of her claims, THR ROYAL vistT. Much had been accomplished by speech in Parliament and writing in the press, and much by the example of steadfastness displayed by honest mon in the face of all discouragement. is opponents were led, at least, to consider the reasonableness of the Catholic demand. But its concession seemed indefinitely postponed; and the people, tantalized and disgusted by the alternation | of fair hopes and bitter ppointments, sunk into a miserable apathy. The visit of George 1V.—an event of evil memory—galvanized them into feverish expec- tation for a time. But they goon learned that the King, before whem they had humbied themselves 80 slay- ishly, loved them is little as his royal father, and they fell into the abject condition described by one of the best and most accomplished of them all, Sir Thomas Wyse:—*The Catholic spirit had totally passed away. THE DEAD BODY only was left behind.” But . ‘fis always the darkest hour nearest the dawn; and 0’Conneli seized the momont of ker worst despair to recall the spirit of his country and sound the trumpet | of her resurrection, THE CATMOLIC ASSOCIATION. Whilst the moral prostration described by Sir Thomas Wyse was taost complete, he formed the Catholic Asso- ciation of 1824. You need not be told its history—how hard it was to procure the attendance of ten persons at its carly meetings, but how it grewin numbers and in power, whilst, day by day, O’Connell’s voice resounded through the land, rousing the “hereditary bondsmen”) | from their despairing inaction and teaching them reli- ance on themselves. You need not be told how Ireland rallied to the association—how the Catholic aris- tocracy came around its chief—how the Catholic clergy answered to his cail, until despondency was banished, apathy passed away and the Catholic mil- lions werg banded, as one man, to do the work of men, in the la® struggle for their freedom. The organiza- tuon was made perfect from the centre of the island to the sea, and its unbought and unforced obedience to its chief Was more absolute than was ever given by trem- bling serfs to Roman Emperor or Kastern Caliph, THE CENTRAL FIGURE OP THY ORGANIZATION, and the one essential figure in this great drama, which soon grew to absorb the wondering attention of man- the figure of Daniel O'Connell. He towered above his compeers, and ultimately led them, by the spontaneous consent of all. He acted in the open day, Within the limits of the law and by methods known to the constitution, He was in- story of | of | to | »pier future, and ultimately ] nd. somes shorn to. 0 | tensely loyal, combining the personal devotion of a cavalier to his sovereign, with devotion as earnest to | popular rights, He taught the masses to honor the Queen aud be obedient to authority, not for fear-only, | but for conscience sake, and he proclaimed that by moral force, and moral force alone, all they could legitimately wish might be accomplished, He had seen | the horrors of the French Revolution. He had mourned over the miseries of the rebellion of 1798. Ho had learned to hate anar nd and shrink from civil strife, and his perpetual teaching was that civil liberty is made worthless by the defilemont of a bloody pur- chase, It was a new gospel, preached with strong | faith and endless iteration, and in the might of it tho Catholic preople trmmphed | FIRST TRIUMPTTS, They triumphed with the weapon which the legisla. | tion of 1793 had put into their hands. They learned to use, for their religion and their country, the franchise which they had, theretofore, prostituted to their own debasement at the bidding of their masters. They re- fusod to be any longer “dumb driven cattle,” lasted to | the poll to vote as they were ordored, The serfs, as | was said by a great Minister of the time, “assumed’ the attitude of freemen ;’’ stormed, at all hazards, in Louth and Waterford, the citadels of the Ascendency, and gave the first assurance of its downfall, THE CLARE ELECTION. It tottered when tho Clare election struck the coup de | ice and the conqueror of Waterloo succumbed to jue event in the history of the world. It was a prophecy of the vener- able John Keogh that emancipation would be carried when a Catholic would be elected and sent to Parlia- ment. The chief of the Catholics attempted its fuifll- | ment. A great encounter came on between the lords of the soil and the people. The issue was found to be momentous and decisive. All possible efforts were made in order to insure a victory for the British govern- ment, But it was in vain. The prestige of the English dominion in Ireland had departed. The fetvers of interest and of custom had been wrenched away. ‘The voters of Clare listeued to the voice of their priests and defied the commands of their landlords, and, thus demonstrating their fitness for liberty by’ their ob- servance of order and temperance, they elected O'Con- nell to Parliament and won emancipation, He went to the House of Commons, the representative, not of Clare only, bat of Catholic Ireland. He repudiated, haughtily and in memorable words, the qualifying oath. Of course he was denied a place in Parliament, but tho whole world saw the fight was over. ring pride,” ellington accepted the inevitable and gave us the justice they could no more withhold, with exultation, The incense of a people's thanks- giving went up to the Throne of the Almighty Being | who had permitted them to be raised from their low estate and led to a pure and bloodless victory, Coun- tries which had strained from afar with eager eyes to watch the shifting scenes of the unequal contest, noted its result with wonder and rejoicing. The triumph was complete and the nation bowed in homage to the author of its gromt deliverance, UNIVERSAL EMANCIPATION, The triamph was not for the Catholics alone, The had especial reason to value it, ‘for it most nearly af- feoted them, and they gained it in a manly strugglo without any compromise, They had been saved by O'Connell and those who thought with him from pur- chasing it by an enslavement of their Church, which no man now deems possible, and although, to soothe thé irritation of their baffled’ adversaries, some ungenerous and unwise restrictions Were put upon them, they had really obtained—what their fathers longed for, but did not dare to hhope—unconditfonal emancipation! — But the triumph, although otierwise regarded by the Irish Protestant, if rightly understood, ought to have been considered, and will yet be considered, as his triumph also. his fellow men, It removed him from the demoral- izing influences of an unjust ascendency; it cast him free to wage honestly the battle of life on ‘equal terms with those around him, and forbado him any longer to play the part of acorrupt monopolist, debauched and emasculated by exclusive privilege. It set tho seal of condemnation on religious strife, and took away tho inducements which had encow: rulors to divide that they might govern, and misied the people ‘to late each other for the love of God.” By all—Protestants and Catholics alike—it should have been hailed as the common victory of truth and reason; and although it needed many supplements to make it fect, which have been pain- fully and slowly gained, and though evem now iis results have not reached their fuil develop- ment, it has changod the character of our social life, harmonized our relations with each other, abated the ae ee eeere oe erases ‘Boek wat har MTareiy | Violence of our hereditary fouds und aasistod Ireland to eeon i} iene | savance, in the way ‘of tiatetiah and ‘The great heart of Ireland throbbed | It relieved hitn from the reproach of foul wrong | | was his high position in the palmiest epoch | of his | hb | to be their common pride, | | lar, _ceptance of the country. He was entitled to speak on more rapidly, considering her anteged with confidence and pride, tu spite of all oar shorteom- ings—thaa any vtLer country of the Old World. HIS CALUMNLATORS, It is not ngedful here and now to justify the earcor of O'Connell or to vindicate Lim from the aspersions which pursued him to the grave, He had faults, for he was ; and, looking we live to tho tempestuous days of agitatio ly note acts and words whiel J end undone, But while, in the our consummate liberty, we use 3 sof those Who won burden and heat of the day and bor and devotion to the cause— wh inevital the privilege it for us—who bore th spent themsely we must remember TILE WORK O'CONNELL UAD TO DO and his materials for the doing of it, It was his task to lif up a people prostrate—ap- parently for ever—before an invulnerable power. The spirit of manhood had been crushed from their hearts, and it was the first need of their deliverer to Create a soul under the ribs of death pect and self-dependence, As T have said, bis brain and tongue were his only instruments, and if he sometimes spoke in harsh language, and paid back hate and scorn with interest, his violation of social amenities and fastidious tates may have some claim for pardon, if it gave courage to a trampled race and emboldened them to confront their heredita lords, Revolutions of opinion are as little wrought by abject meckness as Tevolutions of force; and when Shakespeare tolls 13:—- “If a man will mako courtesy to say nothing, he ta virtuous;”’ the great painter of human nature points to the virtue of a slave. O'Connell exacted from the Lrish Catholics submission to authority, as at once a moral duty and the condition of success; but whilst they were still sufferers from injustice, that submission’ could only be what Burke had described aa ‘a litigious and dissatisfied obedience; and this he could not well maintain by honeyed words or. the exchange of compli- ments With those whom it was his Jife’s business to en- counter aud overthrow. Again, he has been attacked for his autocratic temper and intolerance of rivalry, and in ordinary circumstances good feeling would con: demn these things, so far as they existed. But, again, we must consider O'Connell's position, ‘To. succeed he required concentration of authority. He had to deal with ignorant and undisciplined masses—without ro- liable leaders or intelligent opinion—and to. draw forth and utilize their latent strength a tirm hand aad a vigorous will, defying opposition, were essential, MORAL AGITATION, His scheme of peaceful agitation reqnived for its working apparent impoxsibilities, Ho aimod to keep Ireland profoundly submissive to the laws, yet morally ungovernable; to stir to its depths the passion of the people, and yet make them shrink from violence and outrage; to be hunself at once velwement and'tlerce and cool of judgment; stanch to prineipic, but pliant aud. supple in adaptation to. the expediencies of the hour; steady of purpose, but secking his end by an infinite variety of means; of means possibly not always wise or always warrantable, but always faithfully employed, and with unerring’ precision, to carry ‘forward’ the mission of his life, Considering these tliings, we shall probably conclude that, if O'Connell! had not grown to be an autocrat, tLe Irish Catholics might never have been welded together in an unbroken and -resistless phalanx—might never have been got to shape a policy capable of ng them to their difficult end—might have remained, for many a dreary year, A heap of uncemented sand— torn by gmall divisions, committed to hostile courses, and powerless to overbear the tremendous combination of royal enmity and aristocratic influence and class in- terest and popular hatred which threatened, to hold them in perpetual bondage, MIS PORTRAIT AS 1 WAS. O'Connell was very much an impersonation of his country, in its strength and its woakness, it; virtnes and its fanits, If he had been more perfect he would have been less successtul, If he had been other than he was, in his pecutiar time and sphere of action, emanci- pation mig aye been indelinitely postpo or un- worthily el, Men say it would ha had never lived; and so it might, for only justice, and there is a God in But when would it have come, or how? the Irish Catholics have still Or would the intolerable pressure of hap less wrong have had its issue in social anarchy? If | O'Connell had not been here to force them to self assertion they might have continued to submit—it ho had not been here to moderate passions infuriated by | injustice they might have burst all bounds and de lated Ireland or broken up the Empire. Who can tell | what might have boen? But we know what 1s; and we have reason for deop thankfulness to Heaven and its appointed instrument that doubt is ended and specula- tion done away, and that wo rest, through his en- deavors, in the enjoyment of the priceless blessings of afree constitution, securing to us the fair administra. tion of equal laws. HIS DEMANDS VOR JusTICE—THT There has been talk of O'Con) pretension and unreasonableness of demand. charge is not historically just, Rightly or wrongly, sometimes acted on the notion that largeness of claim ‘was needful to enforce concession. But he was practi- cally reasonable, He had strong common sense, and he always strove to obtain the best available terms for his | country, He stirred the multitude aimost beyond re- straint, but he never let them overpass the limits of legality; and whon he could secure @ measure of sub- stantial benefit, he never threw it by to clutch at an abstraction. THE POWERS WITH WHICH HE BATTLED. Thave said that here he needs no defence, but {t has | seemed to me becoming. that a little word should be said, on an occasion of such solemnity and world- wide | interest—extonuating nothing of charges really sus- heaven. Would | been quiet slaves? TALMENTS PLAN, 8 extravagance of The tato—T say it | from the calmer period in | we | we might wish to | {ts great extremity the Catholic Aasociation needed help—the help of sympathy and money—from foreiga countries; and one of the likeliest and readiest to give that help was America. But (’Conneli refused to gain it by any compromise with slavery. He denounced | that evil institution in the Southern States ux in the British colonies, He fought against it with fearleas resolution; and the contributions, which w. wise have been ample, were withheld, It | the many oveasions on which he provest himself to pos- | sess high moral courage and devotedness w duty, THE IRIS POOK LAW. Another was when he Was led—[ think, and the event has proved, mistakenly—to oppose the iutroduction of poor laws {nto Ireland, although the popular sentiment, interpreted by the fllustrious Bishop of Kidare, was very strong against him, AGAINST TRADES’ COMRINATIONS, And there was another occasion more striking stil when he resisted a pernicious combination of the trad of Dublin, andssaved them from themselves at tv of his populafy and even of his life, These things ar worthy of remembrance when we come to estimate the nature of the inan; and therefore T note them, aldough they may not be strictly in order here. +" BRERDOM OF CONSCIRNCE FOR ATL. It {3 fitting, algo, to observe that the liberator of the Trish Catholic equally desired the Itberattes of the Dis- senter and the Jow. He drafted the petition which, backed by 100,000 Catholic signatures, precipitated the repeal of the’ test and corporation acts, and he was aot deterred from advaneing that salutary mensure, because tho people he aided to enfranchise had strong sectarian antipathies and = gave no help to the Catholic claims. At that time, too, mavy of them iuhorited the spirit of their Puritan ancestors, and would have refused their own deliver. ance, if it involved the concession of liberty to their fellow Christians. O'Connell rebuked their bs ek by forcing his aid upon thera and helping to make them free, And so, when the Jews needed support in their arliamentary struggle, he gave it earnestly and freely, le had a ‘special. interest jn that ancient peo- ple; for Ireland, hke them, had “sat by the waters of Babylon, and hung her harp upon the wil- lows''—had suffered persecution and learned mercy, and WAS cager to woleome the outcasts of Jerusalem to the enjoymont of the privileges she had conquered for her-, self. In spite of obstinate resistance, they also were emancipated; and we are not without reason for believ- ing that O'Connell's efforts for them find grateful recog- hition in many Jewish hearts, THE REPEAL OF THE CORN LAWS, Tho great: battle of the Corn Laws O'Connell stood for freedom of commer he had striven for freedom of religion. fought, and as stoully ns He was not, perhaps, a profound economist; but he stincts of gonins—informed and’ stimulated by a largo humanity,” For many a year, beforé the canse popular or hopeful, he’ was its unflinching advo- cate, He anticipated the unadorned eloquence of Cobden, and consistently urged the — abso- | lute repeal of the — fo ta: while the | Legislature was playing with shifts and palliatives. And this he did, althongh his doing of it offended, to a large | extent, the local feeling, and seemed to antagonize the | local interests of Ireland and was disapproved by many | of his most important political allies, Notwithstanding, | he was strong enough and brave enough to aasert his own convictions, He believed that the demands of tho | working people were just, and might be conceded with advantage to all classes,’ He looked to the removal of trade monopolies for the creation of areciprocity of | benefit and service among the nations, making them happily dependent on each other for mutual aid, and giving the world the truest guarantees for peace and progress. If he had taken another course, and he could easily have made another far more popular in Ireland, tho issue of the struggle in which all men now? rejoice might have been far less fortunate, or, at the least, far less rapidly attained, ‘THE RECORDS OF PARLIAMENT demonatrate that his labors were uniformly and unspar- coment of every measure trnetion of monopoly and of public right, Not oue of the statutes passed during his representative career, which constitute the modern ters of British liberty, commercial, had the in- i grew | political and religious, failed to find in ‘hun a willing | Supporter; and if those great measures have laid, 23 I believe ‘they have, the broad and strong founda tions of @ prosperous commonwealth, which, but for | | thom, in a period of strange trausition, might have been | subject to perilous disturbance and ‘possible decay, I claim for him the praise of having been—in spite of Scant encouragement from those who owed hint most and largo inducements to other es—the unseliish, devoted and officient promoter at once of the real inter: ests and lasting greatness of the British Empire, aud of the advancement of sound political and economic prin- ciples throughout the globe. TH MONSTER MERTINGS FOR REPRAT.. | , Bnt I must hurry to «conclusion. Loyally observing Four engagement of neutrality on still debated ques- | tions, T cannot discuss the ol of O'Connell's latest struggle; but no one. will blame me if Tsay that ft was’ conductod with a splendid energy and an ainplitude of intellectual po} as. the aged leader had scarcely di in his eariy prime; that he roused enthusiasm to a inaryelious intensity he again restrained it from dangerous exeess, and that | his dominion over the masses was never, perhaps, so. | absolute before. Lot men think as they may of the | policy of the movement, its magnitude and grandeur | will make it conspicuous in history forever, THE MONSTER PROSECUTION, Thon came the monster trial, in which T was myself & young and humble actor. O'Connell stodd before a jary Wholly alien from him in polities and faith, empauelled | as, I rejoice to believe, no jury can hereatter be em- | panelled in this conniry, whose verdict of conviction ‘was invalidated, as you know, by the House of Lords, | THR VERDICT AND SENTENOK REVERSED, popular that at his will | tainable, but repelling some of those with which the | virulence of faction strove through all his days to Dlacken his reputation. At various times he grappled angrily with the’ press and the Parliament, Tho great interests he assanited and the keen suscepti- bilities he was obliged to wound made him hosts of ene- mies. He was not spared while he lived. Even now the trail of slander shmes his memory, and those to whom it is dear are driven to defend it. But every day is lessening the necessity, and lifting him more and | more above the loulness of partisan abuse. FAME AFTER VICTORY. After 1829 O'Connell enjoyed a reputation With which all Europe rang from side to side. His name was a familiar word in foreign lands. He had. done an act for which there was no precedent. He had uaed a method previously unknown. He was a victo- rious revolutionist who had changed a people's destin without blood or crime, leading them safely throw if the unspeakable perils of the stormiest agitation the He was tho apostle of liberty and | world has seen, the enemy of license. He reconciled order and‘ progress and identified religion with the advancement of human right. This life, Ho did other great and memorable things, but the unique achievement by which he will be for ever. dis- tinguished from other eaters of mankind, was the | ration of Catholic Ireland by purely moral means. T have lingered fondly on that achievement, because I feel | that an Trish Catliolic, speaking of O'Connell in the | metropolis of Ireland, {s bound chiefly to regard him as the author of our religious freedom. It remains that I should tell you briefly how, in a wider theatre, after he had won it, and when his influence was enlarged, he | | actod in the interest of progress and for the benefit of | the human race. | THE LATER YRARS OF HIS PURLIC LIFE, { Do not fear that I approach this latter period of | O'Connell's life with any purpose of stirring past or | present controversies, or touching on any question capable of disuniting honest Irishmen. If I were 80 | disposed I should be precluded from dealing with | such topies by the eloquent programme of your cele. | Dration, proclaiming that it repudiates all ‘exclusive. | ness, that it is meant to transcend the bounds of sect and party and that it invites all men to combine: in honoring one whose opinions bon may not all adopt, whose actions they may not all approve, but whose greatness is their common property and ought Your committee have wisely said of their organization, ‘“Sectionalism and fac- tion were exluded, but within it was reserved a place for every man of every hue and shade and party who feels a pride in being the countryman of O'Connell and wishes to honor his momory.” "That pledge is bindin and should have rigid observance throughout your festi days, and no man—conservative or liberal, Catholic or | Protestant, unionist or anti-unionist, for all these have | answered to your call—should be forced to complain that his generous confidence has been abused by word or act, compromising his opinions or offending his susceptibilities, religious or political. If there had been no pledgo at all T would have acted on that principle. Our solemmity is national and Irish, or itis worse than nothing; and if O'Connell be per- mitted to look down from that heaven in which we all humbly trust he is now enjoying his eternal rest he will recognize—as the most grateful homage of the people whom ho freed—their striking of a truce of God, in which they may celebrate his centenary ed for- getfulness of dissensions and unity of hearts, ‘Avoiding, therefore, all matters of dispute, political aud religious, and looking only to accomplished and nocapted facis, I shall advert, for a moment, to | O’Connell’s course after ho had attained the vantage ground of emancipation. — Unhappily a perverse policy and antipathies, meanly indulged by those he had over- come, made his victory too long unfruitful of results and exposed him to neglect and contumely. But this, though it pained him, did not lead him to betray his principles or negloct his duty. He set himself earnestly to do the work of Parliament, and wherever effort was possible for the promotion of public interest or the ex- pansion of public liberty he was sure to be found, ‘faith ful among the faithless and foremost of the fearless.” BRITISH REFORM. He claimed the great vermont for reform as a con- sequence of emancipation, and beyond doubt it was stimulated and shaped by the methods and the | success of the Irish struggle. Again, associations were | formed and leaguers railied tho masses, and moneys were gathered and “musterings of men in myriads,” 48 use Lord Brougham’s words, made thoir tramp hear in Parliament, sounding the’ knell of electoral abuse, The strife was bitter and ite fortunes various; but through it all O'Connell was in the van, and at a time when very ablo men were roused to the utmost exertion of their highest powers, his speeches yielded in excellence to no others, and were pronounced by many the best in the debates. ‘And when the battle ended, and England was saved from that risk of revolution which comes of the hopelessness of necessary change, and allowed to enter on the course of gradual and sate improvement which has kept her un- disturbed amid the fall of dynasties and the wreck of empires, she ought to have been grateful to the Irish leader who did not help her less because he failed to get for his own people their full measure of Parliamentary reform. ‘THE FRIRND AND ADVOCATE OF THE NEGRO IN CHAINS, And go, When the dispute was coming to a close about the abolition of slavery, and the Legislature prepared to make the enormous pecuniary sacrifice by which it was nobly purchased, O'Connell, though he resisted a compensation which he thought unrighteous, was fore- most in commending the act of liberation to the ac- the subjoot with authority, for he had always been the negro’s friend, even when to be so seemed inconsis- maral progress, | tent with the olitigal interests af Lrelaud, | be for the traversoi | ability, in which the | deliverance from prison. | happy I well romember the day ef the reversal, I wns | standing at tho bar, beside the Attorney General for Ireland, when it grow evident that the juilgmont wold , and an Irish peer rnshed down “We can’t stand this! We must voto | mischief!” But better conuscls pr and said openty, and prevent the vailed, Lord Wharucliffe reminded the House of its usages, and the becomingness of abiding by | them; to their honor, the Peers, who bwed O'Connor little courteay or favor, for he had often deait with them very hardly, abstained from avenging themselves by the exercise of their undoubted priv- | flege, The judgment was revorsed and the Liberator, was free! It was a success for which he and his | friends had scarcely dared to hope, and the effect was magical. A wild delight thrilled through the island, | No triumph of old Romo could have been more impos: ‘| ing than that which presented their idol to the | myriads who thronged the metropolis on the day of his release, His incarceration had been felt by each of them as a personal wrong and suffering; it had taken from his prestige, for it impeached his legal invulner: opular beliet had been undoubi- nis appeal was more than a mere It was a restoration of credit and of power. The rejoicing was universal, and there | were glad anticipations of the coming time, DARKENING TOWARD TILs END. But they were doomed to disappointment, Disputes arose between O'Connell and some of tho most gifted of his followers, but of them also I cannot speak on an or- casion which excludes all controversy, They wero w and of i! result, and after them came the calam- ity which soon cast its deadly shadow over Ireland and | filled her homes with desolation. THY MIGHTY BRAIN ENPERBLED, O'Connell's strength gave way. I believe that fatal dis- ease was upon him during the great State trial. His brain had possibly been overwrought by the unex- ampled excitements he had undergone. When he came | to spoak on his own behalf the old fervor had departed, the old mastery was gone, and he read to the jury an argument, not void of high ability, but wholly different from the appeal with which, in other days, he would have subdued them under the spell of his matchless ad- vocacy. ing. The success of DEATH IN A FOREIGN LAND, His illness advanced to its sad end. He made, in the House of Commons, a last appeal for Ircland—then slowly perishing in’ famine and postilence—and began the pilgrimage to Rome which he was not destined to accomplish, He. died in Italy a peuitent and humble Christian; true to tl faith of his fathers, trusting in’ the mercy of | ; his God, and leaving a name which will live as long as | rass grows und waler runs in the fair land he loved. | is heart ia in the Eternal City. . His body lies among | his own in Ireland; and for hig soul's repose tho prayers of a grateful people ascend to-day to heaven. SUBSEQUENT RVENTS, Of the events which followed his removal I have no time to speak, even if it were fit to speak of them on a | day exclusively devoted to his honor, .But I may say, | at least, that they cast reflected credit on his ile. If | ‘we have seen the principle of religious equality, which | ho Preninny, proclaimed, and never compromised, carried out in full comprehensiveness and effi- ciency; if we have seen the people endowed with | an interest and a security in their homesteads for | which, in his day, he pleaded, apparently without the most shadowy Vel nl of success; we cannot fail to recoilect how O'Connell strove for them, in less happy | times, anticipating, as he did, and urging forward, the | advent of those changes, the ‘necessary conditions of all pore B progress, which, if we be true to ourselves and careful of our opportunities, will deliver us from sec tarian divisions as they have destroyed the remnant of sectarian ascendency, and plant at last on the soil of lro land a prosperous, happy and united people, THE LESSONS OF TTS LIFE. And now, beforo I conclude, let me, in a few words, present to you what I deem to be the main principles of | the teaching of O'Connell, which he enforced in his speeches and iliustrated by his life. ‘hey should be chorished by the Irish people as a precious logucy of truth and wisdom. First, and above all things, he was | the assertor—tho earnest, consistent, uncompronrising | assortor—of the right of all men to freedom—civil am religious. His doctrine was expounded by his true disciple, Count Montalombert, in words which, once before, 'I was proud to agopt as mine;—"T desire to serve the cause of liberty as distinguished from | revolution and the cause of Catholicism as distinguished | from despotism and intolerance—religious liberty, sin- | cere and equal for all, without privileges either for or against Cathohcism—political liberty, defended against | the encroachments of government, but also defended against the immoral violence and abject servility of | cofrupt democracy—liberty and authority both kept within the bounds of justice and truth—the faith which | respects honesty of belief and inviolability of con- selence,” And there are other words—of O'Connell himself, which should not pass from buman | memory ;—‘'{, as a Catholic,’ he said, “abhor and repudiate persocution. insisting on my own right, at my own awful responsibility, to my Creator and m . Lord, and to Him alone, to’ worship Him in the full sincerity of conscientious belief, 1 assert, for every Christian man, precisely the same right at the same awful responsibility.” Through good report and ill report, this was the doctrine he promulgated, This was the faith in which he lived and died. He taught his countrymen that the peg aS that liberty, “to know, to utter and to argue , According to con- scionce,"’ which is. above ‘all liberties,” and which | so long a time nnhapp j the daring apostles; the national fooling whi 1 they were forbidden to enjoy, was worth any ex; - ture of toil and sacrifice. And he taught them, also, in the gt Poa rd epi hoy dot ‘ey other as they woul @ by, they shoul a verty for all mankind, ome _ seis ‘That was the first ereat lesson of O'Connell; and ii 3 a rus Keg the second waa, that as civil fiberty does not associate itself with revolution, feligious liberty ip to be ideutided with indifference to the truth of God. He found the weapons of poiitical action more when they were wielded under the sanction of the law and in susiaimment of the order of society; and the firm- ness of his Catholic faith animated and nerved him for the battle of freedom, is a lesson worthy of aft acceptance now, Men are swinging loose from the moorings of religion, and assuil, a it was Bever as sailed before, the system of belief—which has founded 4nd built mp the institutions of the modern world—as effete, and obsolete aud endurable no _ longer, Vor us, at east, im Ireland, it rt fitting to remember that the most fearless of our 0 liberty was also the most ehild of th Chureh’ and the most resolute de- y aud independence, I pray you on also, in an age when the séou- itself too much from the spirit- } utly told that iman’s weil being ar advanced by Uke deuial aad dethronement of hig Maker, ‘Tho third great lesson was that which was taught O'Connell {in thousunds of speeches, and Yoneda angnestioning sul jon by millions of brave and stamped with authority by the results it wrot for those who learned it,” It wae, that moral force should always be preferred to physical; that peace fal agitation is adequate to the removal of @ grievance, and that the man who casts away th of jegal action and (rusts to violence, under a constitu. Uion adequate of the needs, and, if they only will 4, Proteotive to th (6 Of all, ix mad oF erimiual, ‘This was the chara tie tePhing of his life, to which he clung in the fhee of all opposition and discouragement, and which he equally maiutained in the darkest and the brightest days of his weary struggle. ‘THA UNION OF IRISHMAN THE GRANDEST LESSON OF AUK To one other lesson, and only one, shall T detain y by adverting, ‘The anion of Irishmen was always one the fondest aspirations of O'Connell. He labored to im- duce them to work together fur their common good. He ual; aud we are confi wise purpose and in ang worthy ewuse, would make their combination irresistible, For tliis he hoped and prayed; but the time for it not arrived, and he failed to join in love those whom & e had put asunder. We have fallen on bet- The motives and the means of social aniom Old lines of demarcation are Wlotied our, Oli méfnences, which held us in antago. nism, to a Jarge extent exist no longer. The law does not tolerate the semblnce of ascendancy, or place ® ter days. T are greatly’ multiplied. premium on civil strile We enjoy equality of rights, whi should involve identity of duties and of interests; and although the divisions of can- ies ma not be ended open for their reconcilement. It has begun, celebration should specd:it onward. There is no reasom Why we should not soon look back upon our gloomy histo veking no incitements to hatred or subjects for Tecrimination, but regarding what is good in it with com- mon pride, and deriving from it common guidance for our future conduct. The recipre played b; in an hour, the sit internec Why should not North and in doing homage vo the magnanimous endurance nerick aud Derry, and ass in honor the gal- lergytman who hold the Maiden City against all and the noble exile who caught up the life blood welling from his heart, ina foreign quarrel on & ign field, and murmured, with his failing breath, “Oh! that this were for Ireland!” Trnast conclude. What T have sald, with some diff. culty and under patnful circumstunces,” may not have attained my end; hat {have striven to describe O'Com nell as he was in life, and to indicate some of his ttles to the enduring admiration of his country and maakind, fends, gone by for- oath emulate eaole THE BISHOP OF OWLBANS’ LETTER, The Henan correspondent in Dublin was favored with acopy of Mgr Du Panloup’s beautifwl lettor te the Lord Mayor. It reads as follows;— OnnEBANS, July 90, 1875, Mv Lorp—I feol at this moment a bitter disappoint. meni, which wil! leave with me eternal regrets. T shall not utiend the centennial of O'Connoll, the fostivities of Ireland, 1 shall not bring ever, by my presence, the testimony of my deep love for the nation and of my enthusiastic admiration for your g Liberator. At the very momen’ 1 was going to start my physicians forbid me the journey, instead of which they send me to the waters of Evian for a treatment they declare urgent and necessary, Allow te, at least, to unite my voieo with those which will be heard at Dublin in those memorable days, to hail O'Connell and Ireland; Ireland, the noble country, around which her patriotism, misfortunes and virtues have cast such a noble halo; ireland, 30 constant in ner faith, £0 heroic in her patience, so magnanimous in her poverty, so touching by her long hopes and the indomit- able attachment of her eliild to their beloved and for country—valiant and brave like our own, the blood of which was so often mungled will ours onthe battle fields; a country so dear to French hearts that we often call her our sister. blissful tt would have been for me to com. T shall not see e at inst with her soul, to feel myself her noble sons, to feel’ my heart beat. ing with their hearts,’ to see those _generoug populations in their lively and pure enthusiasm for him to whom Ireland, so harshly oppressed, owed at last Detter days, a too long dented justice, which, lot as lope it from great Bngiand, will grow more and more complete; which will gradually expel all vestiges of the old bondage and bring back into those Irish cottages where there has been so much suffering and weeping, well Leing and abuudance, united with liberty. It is indeed to O'Connell that the work of li tion is due, It is he, the great Christian, ' great patriot, the mighty rator, the unwellried cham. pion of emancipation, who, without revoluuon and bloody strifes, with only the weapons which the public liverti {England put into his bands, by a legal and paciic agitation, by the forco of a matchless eloquence, knew’ how to keep up a whelo nation for the vindication of her most sacrod rights; “to awaken in consciences the senso of justice; to open the better ora into which Ire- ud has entered, and which will give her, thanks to God and the healing laws which will not be refused to her, all the prosperities she deserves. Was there ever for a man any nobler task, more nobly fullided and crowned with a greater success, any higher and purer glory than that with which ireland—nay, the whele world—crowns your O'Coanell? And how just is the cnihusiasm of sucha people for such aman. How beautiful, how worthy of a Christian nation are those festivities which stir fn all souls the most noble fecliugs which coue to thriil the hearts of men: faith, patriotism, honor, courage, gratitude: whatever is ‘recalled by ‘O'Conncil’s life and work; all the noble pride of the past, vil the legitimate hopes for the future, And [ shall not see those festivities to which in so nerous a courtesy, for which I shall ever be thankful, you had invited me. 1 slali not see them, bat Tsalute them from y And all my bears is with v4a, © Irishmen! with you and with O'Connell, O’Connel whose glory I should have been so happy to exal among you; with you, my sons, to whom I owe the honor of this invitation, and who were preparing for me in Dublin, under your roof, a hospitality which £ am, alas! unable to enjoy. It is to you, my lord, that I address tho expression ani also of my gratitude, with the homage post and most ardent sympathies for Ireland and her work, and I beg you to transmit them to your people. Please to accept, my lord, my most devoted and respectful homage, 'tF ELIX, Eveque d'Orléans, & THE ADDRESS OF THE IRISH NATIONALIST Of THE O'CONNELL CENTENARY DEMONSTRAq ‘ION—THEIR ADVICE TO THE COUNTRYMEN IN ENGLAND, {From the Londén Times, August 3.] Copies of the following circular, bearing date the 28th of July, and signed, ‘“Fraternally yours, the National- alists of Dublin,” were received in Manchoster yestor- day for circulation among “Lancashire fellow country- men’’ on tho ove of setting out for Ireland to take part tn the O'Connell festival:— Feutow Covytrym ‘Knowing that many of you will be in Dublin on the occasion of the O'Connell Cen; tonary, we wish to address a few sh to you on tho part we think you should take in the demonstration, so that {t may be consistent with your principles as deter- mined Irish nationalists and the dignity of the coun- try for whose redemption you are working. We cannot conceal from you that, under the man- agement of that body known as the O'Connell Centenary Committee, the forthcoming demonstration, if allowed to go unquestioned, will be a triumph, not for nationality, but for whiggery, the pernicious principles of which would sap tho real national feeling of the country—the national feeling that has been sown in the land by Ircland's best and bravest sons; the na- tional feelmg of which Rossa, Kickham and Lal ‘ on nourished in Lancashire with the blood of Allen, Larkin and O'Brien, That national feeling is now sought to be destroyed, and will you stand calmly by while a few placemen at Mansion louse are engaged in its destruction? These nlacemen owe allegiance to what they call the iberal party, and will sacrifice the dearest interest of the country in order to resusciate that party in Ireland, You owe no allegiance to any party or to any power, saye to the Irish nation; and we confdently appeal to you by your pledges of fealty to Ireland's v every memory you hold dear, by every hoy thas you cherish for your country’s freedom, to e stops to counteract this scheme for dey n, We appeal to you by all these memories and all these hopes to lend not your aid to infuse life into the rotien carcass of liberalism, even though a liveried servant of that party—an ox-judicial perso who sent some of your brothers to penal servitude, should endeavor to address you. We would, therefore, advire you, when you cone to Dublin on the 6th of August next, to come prepared to take part im an amnesty pro- cession, and that you will follow, not a whig Lord Mayor, not a whig ex-Lord Chancellor, but that be- neath the folds of a banner on which shall be in- ribed “God save Ireland,” you will march in & manner becoming men determined to be free. We would also advise you to take counsel with us as to what means should be ustrate the audacious effrontery of a “national” oration being delivered by Gladstone's representative in Ircland—the liveri ‘nsioned = minion of land—Lord O'Hagan, rishmen! This Cont Committee dons tho name of ‘National,’ in order to hoodwink you. But you will have seen by the mn am ‘mont reports the extent of its nationality, The Cer Committeo, through its chairman, the versatile member for Westmeath, has sought for and obtained the assist ance of the polico—the same police who murdorously © people at an amnosty meeting In tho blu "8 Park—to regulate the procession of the 6th of Le 1 thi ion of ugust. Irishmen! do you ire the Foor th lice in walking thi u the poltoe tn ing through Answer this question on the 6th of Aueusl God save Troland>