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I.l*:thil it 1 11 . 4 ed skilful manipulator with urethral instraments i Vetudvalredeatetlibered that the Lamented List . on use o tktL e r " 'tet t '''' o n of instruments through a stricture which had ,Ltie.4lile ettalPerrneable to them, was the most difficult in et ", 44 ill Cti.o4Bllrgical operations, it must be no slight source . of tt -41 ezZie I.Zr. Courtenay's part. to have achieved the reputation etZ t er er b li etti?eet ; and for our part, e rire th _ . ` n deq,"' We know of no man to whose care we would . with with the knowledge we have . entrust the treatment of a severe case of stricture ,5,1,0.,:--eledical Circular. /4, 'alen; 11. Bailliere, 219, Regent-street. ko. a.„ --..... 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Dea r g , climate, followed by practical remarks, founded ee,p4ed e..billty •r ea Perlence in the tr.satment of Impuissance. it„ . .., 0 44, ej e ,,,,_. ...,oc a l . . , Weakneso, Spermitorrhosa, &c, To which f l ,ol l ~.I.`" Net7oasartes on the Physiology of Marriage, with pre ."‘ itc'e d ee. the evils emanating from empirical prr.ctice, Pert„‘2lgeotta remedies advocated by various write. s on t, Ili -, disomers. eetcl.OAß la, Otk D p trEL LA'MEET, M.D. 'lll r/ kti oine / g• D-8 Q II A R E, LONDON. t 'ke... h.,_' 0 40 4 . .atrlculated Member of tile University of &lin 1, 41 , 10 - .. e. ....t. of ZY 111 trabar of the London Hospital Medical Society tqelle-c74ttel t 9tielea les' all, London, Sce o 2 ‘ o . t the fearful con 11,_ 4 il. resclthle,e. 01' this treatise is to point oil excesses, st",ed, and pie-,g__?lsi certain habits, irregult .ritics, and . eio'rve znore misery ill Youth, t legradation ineMan th:ielll-:-.' e t dise.. ° a tmaY at all stages of Life, than, perhaP , any is 4 6 r Dhp3' e cern 7 0 k nown to modern ps.tholoOsts. Its perusal 1 t 111 1 4,11, 4 41 c ep ., 'ended to persons entertairing secret doubts o t , , q, h ap i .., as and who are ' . ..f having hazarded tit,riot .....Derso'aoeineinsiad'iarYet It I ' "I° ". Sled privil egetitv ri vh e i l eh is e ' being is 11 % 1 a baci v•sry human 1s b 3 >i r uts that all men should know, that there are the nerd . nievo ea , ' tnenagement which cannot be violated without 4 3' 1, L "`' ea% glft-...,1ne rteast.earsdeirsv.ihnednniwisdom and regret succeed 'hat ''''', til -44 .. how th • genee, how these penalties 0,. ttl e ,, i e evil ~ e sting of their bitterness may be removed, I , t bg e ;;4fic a , ,Zi , ;:t .;_t_s Consequences may be avc ided, and above all, leerol'4iteth' e 0 , ti t t ail a g degree of physical infirmity or functional e ete it e es ti " for a s es 2rei t ialelY aid of science ca snot apply a cure. of years been engaged in an extensive e r., 1 1, ,,i ;ten% ettqebetreneatment ot these delicate conmiainis, which have "'• 1 1 1. ' ' 411 01,.. too gen rally confided to tie care of ignorant LttotilTotrern etensious li p -• th eir ..oict gr eat e • iolory on those who are induced to place 4 4 4 11, itli'd •, GI tp, rt e,1 9 , t , :0., 13 pae _ may be had, price 21,, of Messrs. Piper, lord ). 'knk etc ftter.: rrioster.row; Hannay, 63, Oxford-street ; lord 1 , 4 to _ 'glare; mm. 39, Cornhill • or free by post for k,±l.ti lo ., e. aulY add ress from the Author's residence, 37, Bed -''‘ till i le for 0 , 'Olt, 4 ' ll tatioa daily from Eeven 1111 Two and from ARGYLL ROOMS.—lmmense success of the new dance, LA VARSOVIANA : Music by H. LAURENT. —Danced every evening. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS The Proprietor has great satisfaction in announcing that he has succeeded in forming an engagement with Mons JULLIEN to give a series of SIX GRAND CONCERTS, commencing THIS DAY (Monday), Ju'y 16th, and concluding on Saturday, July 21st, in which the principal celebrites of Mons. Jullien's Orchestra will ap pear, together with several artistes of European renown, engaged by Mons. Jullien during his last visit to Germany, Italy, and France, who will have the honour of making their first appearance on this occasion. Two Military Bands of the Guards are elso engaged. f o ming, with Mons. Juilien's Orchestra, the most magnificent • En semble de Musique Militaire ever presented to the public. Princi lal instrumental performers : —Mesars. Baumann, Lavigne, Wuille, Arbon, Collinet, Frisch, Howell, Sonnenberg, Pepins, Simar, Prat ten, &c. The following artistes of continental renown will make their lint appearance:—Mons. T.eloup, cornet-A-piston (from the Guides of the King of the Belgians) ; Herr Reichert. flute (from the Conservatoire of Brussels) ; Herr Nabish, trombone (from the Royal Chapel of the King of Saxony); Signor Martini, ophicleide (from La Scala and the Conservatoire of Milan) ; Mons. Guerin, bombar done (from the Guides of the Imnerial Guards, Paris). In the Zou ayes' Pas de Course, the trumpet parts will be performed by MM. Constant, Charles, Modrut, Legrand, H. Bovin, and A. Ilovin. The Repertoire of New Music, composed by Mons. Jullien since his last Concerts at Covent-garden, will include the Zousves' Pas de Course or the A s-ault Gains ; La Rose et la Violette Valse, dedicated to their Majesties the Queen of England and the Empress of the French ; the Belle of the Village Poise, with Echos on the Lake. The Con cert will conclude with the Allied Armies Quadrille, performed at Drury-►ane and Covent-garden Theatres for seventy consecutive nights, before the most crowded audiences ever assembled in those national establishments;' arranged expressly for military music, and for introduction into the magnificent Spectacle of Sebastopol Principal Cornet, Herr Koenig. Conductor, Mons. Jullien. Admis sion, Is. • THE SEND of the VACATIONS. Parents and guardians in London and the country are re minded of the advantages derived fkom procuring Dress for Youths and Juveniles at the establishment and Branch Establishments of E. MOSES and Sox. Young Gentlemen about returning to School or College are tho roughly equipped with the most fashionable and comfortable attire. From the largest stock in the world of new materials and style the most satisfactory selection may be made. Self-measurement, sent gratis, will enable all who reside at a dis tance to procure the most artistic tit. Schools and private families in the neighbourhood of the metro polis waited upon by the most accomplished cutters, and orders attended with greater despatch, correctness, and economy than at any other house. E. MOSES and Sox have a vast assemblage of novelties in Dress for the season; they comprise every new POW!, both in Fabrics and Manufacture. Every class of purchasers will find the most pleasing provisions for all their requirements in Dress, Hato, Hosiery, Boo's and Shoes, &e. _ _ _ _ " His first appearance I recollect well: it was strikingly grotesque. His face was pale and meagre; his limbs lank • hair starting upwards from his head like 'a brush ; a sort of muscular action pervading his whole 'frame ;. his dress foreign ; his talk broken English, and his voice a squeak. .Add to this a pair of singularly bril liant eyes, lighting •up all the peculiarities of his figure, and you have before you the boy Shell. His perform ances were at first as singular as his person. His efforts to kick a football were sai generis. He never engaged in the game along with the other boys, but kept aloof, occupied in reading or walking about the playground ; but whenever the ball was thrown across his path, he used to dart at with a frantic energy, his legs and arms all pretty equally on the stretch, so that it was out of the question to determine with what limb he would assail the bail, until Al kick at it, proba bly from the left leg, solved the problem ; and then back he would go to his reading, amid the yells of the urchins, en raged at his disturbing their game." After quitting Stonyhurst in 1807, Richard Sheil (then 16) before the close of November, became a student of Trinity College, Dublin, entering it as a pupil of Doctor Wall, now Vice-Provost of the University. Not long afterwards his father was s 6 far, ruined as to be compelled to part with Bellevue for 28,0001., and after paying off very considerable liabilities, to remove with his family to the Irish capital upon a moderate and even narrow competence. Hereupon a-relative—be his name ever mentioned with honour—Dr. William Foly, an eminent physician of WaterfOrd, open?' taneously provided Richard Sheil with an allowance of 1001. per annum until such time as he could be called to the bar. In anticipation of which entrance upon his cho sen profession, the young student became a constant atten dant of the Historical Society then holding its meetings within the walls of the University. His first public dis play as a speaker appears to have been on the 9th of Feb., 1811, when he was little more than 19, but when, in spite of his shrill voice, his boyish look, and his wild unsettled air, he nevertheless contrived even then, by that maiden effort, to make an impression upon his auditors. Insomuch that at the close of his speech he received the especial compliments and congratulations of the Knight of Kerry, the late Mr. Maurice Fitzgerald. - In the- July of 1811 Shell took his degree of A. 8., and on the 13th of the following November went up to London and entered as a student of Lineoln's-inn. It was on the first day of Hilary term, 1814, that he was ad mitted a member of the Irish bar; and on the 19th of February, in the same year (Shed being then just turned twenty-three), that (with Miss O'Niel acting the character of the heroine) our young adventurer witnessed the per formance of his first dramatic effort—Adelaide; Or, The. E m i gran t s . This was at the Crow-street Theatre, Dublin. The tragedy was successful—to the mingled delight and dismay of Shell's father. Exulting though the latter did in his son's distinguished progress in classical study, in English composition,o,reaitoo rejoicing t ht a he n o d euag rhetorical hh he l t ei o cc r i i im c d a leaet meetings, ihxniegsrsci precocioussaens , d w g hraitl cele brityei fi e a d t beyond°nY as su arlit expression by the praises generally lavished upon " Adelaide—he yet dreaded lest the fascination of success at the playhouse might lure his eldest born, the hope of his house, from the prosecution of what he regarded as a more eminent and lucrative profession. Th bent of the young man's earlier ambition was, however, not to be interfered with. He possessed, so far as it went, the energy and the faculty divine, and these were not to be permanently baulked, though they might, of course, be temporarily interrupted. By the 23d of May, 1816, " Adelaide" had been promoted from the boards of Dublin to those of London. It was brought out at Covent-garden, • but owing to some contre temps " went off flatly", and was never reproduced. A year afterwards, on the 3d of May, 1817, a happier fate attended the second of Mr. Shell's tragedies, The Apostate, the success of whioh.was triumph ant. For the copyright of this he received from Mr. Murray 3001., and from the managers of the theatre 4001. 7001. in all, besides the still larger reward of a re putation. At the beginning of 1818, appeared (not quite so successfully, though still successfully) Mr. Sheil's third tragedy, entitled Bellarmira; or, The Fall of Tunis, for which the author received 3001. from the theatre, and 1001. (from Mr. Murray) for the copyright. It was during the re hearsal of this piece that the following incident inter rupted the business of the scene with an unexpected burst' of laughter at the young Irish poet's bull of explanation. " At the end of the fourth act, Montalto, when seeking to rescue his daughter from the grasp of Amurath, instinctively feels the handle of his sword, forgetting that in the previous scene he had given it to his brother. The intention of this gesture not being understood, some embarrassment arose at the rehearsal as to the tone and action with which the line— ' My scimitar, my scimitar,— my child ! ' ought to be given. The author eagerly interposed, and in his ardent method of instructing the actors, he put himself in the place of Young, to show him how he wished the conduct of the scene to be managed : Now observe,—here's Mr. Young, here's Mr. Kemble. Well, the guard comes on—Mr. Young draws his sword, and finds he has not got it."' During the first night's performance of the previous tra gedy, the one already mentioned as so eminently successful, we learn from Mr. M'Cullagh that Sheil (haunted, no doubt, by the London failure of its predecessor) scarcely concerted his secret and gnawing solicitude. " All went well, however. There was some applause, no murmurs, and at length, sick of his own misgivings, and con scious perhaps that be betrayed a certain want of dignity in the irrepressible excitement of his look and manner, he be took himself to the green-room when the third act began, re solved to remain there during the remainder of the play. Few of its usual occupants were lingering there ; and one of the attendants soon observed the restless author pacing with measured steps the estrade, or nar row platform, which was placed all round the room, on which a continuous row of seats was specially devoted to the performers. For a time he seemed wholly unconscious that any one was present; then suddenly stopped, and in a low tone exclaimed, Can you tell me, sir, about what time they generally begin to hiss tragedies at this house ? ' " The greatest dramatic triumph, however, enjoyed by Mr. Sheil had yet to come. It occurred on the 10th of February, 1819, when his exquisite trgedy of Ejadne made its first appearance—the plot of which had been taken from Shir ley's "Traitor," but the whole merit and poetry of which was Sheil's, and no others, the very fable being rendered, so to speak, his own by passing through the alembic of his refined and lofty imagination. Conspicuous though the literary merits of Eradrte were beyond all doubt, the author received from Mr. Murray no more than one hundred guineas for the copyright-100/. more, accru ing to him, however, from the theatre as the tribute of its histrionic popularity. A fifth tragedy was written by Sheil during the autumn of 1819—written like the rest of his dramatic pieces, " with great rapidity"—a tragedy called the Huguenots. And on the 3d of May, 1820, was first performed his serious play, or dramatic poem, as it is more accurately designated by his biographer, ..liontoni. The previous tragedy, that of the " Huguenots," not being produced before the footlights until long after wards, and then only to complete its ill-fate from first to last by a signal " damnation." The six productions already enumerated complete the catalogue of Mr. Sheil's contribu tions to our dramatic literature, if we except, in addition to these original performances, his subsequent adaptation, in 1824, of Massinger's Fatal Dowry—and his production, four years earlier, conjointly with Mr. Banim, of the then eminently successful play of Damon and Pythias. With these particulars we may close the record of Richard Sheil's graceful labours as a dramatist. IV hide he had been thus sedulously " courting the muses," —to the gratification of his love of the beautiful, to the filling of his pockets, and to the popular extension of his reputation—our author had been no less sedulously culti vating the friendship of several of the more illustrious among the great men still surviving from the last genera tion, as well as of many of the more conspicuously promis ing among his own immediate contemporaries. During his stay in Dublin, for example, lie was a not unfrequent guest at the Priory—the suburban residence of the then Master of the Rolls, Mr. Curran ; while occasionally, too, he enjoyed the privilege of sauntering in social converse with Grattan through the woods of Tinnehinch. Long afterwards we find him, in the September of 1819, eaten!. jug his acquaintance by a strange contrast to the foregoing among a very different class of celebrities—when on visit ing Paris ho seized the opportunity to obtain an introduction to Telma. Although Mr. M'Cullagh gives no date in connection with an event so interest ing to the generality of bio gra ph ers as that o f the marriage of the individual whose life is being celebrated in the memorial, we are Illowed t o con j ec t ure f rom the con text of the narrative that it was some time in 1815 which was the period of Mr. Sheil's union with Miss O'Halloran, a young lady of great beauty and many accomplishments, who, although her mother was s i s t er t o C o l one l Si r Wil liam M`Dlahon, the private secretary to the Prince Regent, brought to her husband none of the questionable advan tages usually supposed to be attendant upon the opportu nities of patronage. Unaided by men in power, the young Irish barrister nevertheless contrived to work his way onward and upward. His three brothers, on their part, secured to themselves a moderate share of good for tune in different parts of the world—John distinguishing himself in the Company s Service at the time of the attack upon the Pagoda of Kee Kloo—Justin being promoted from the same service to the British Legation at the Court of Persia—and Edward, who had adopted a mercan tile instead of either a military or a political career, ultimately settling in South America, where ke amassed wealth enough to compensate in some measure for his vo luntary expatriation. Richard, as all the world knows, flying at higher game, achieved somewhat loftier suc cesses, winning fame as an orator and a dramatist ; be coming for Ireland one of the chief among her patriot demagogues, and for the United Kingdom one of the most distinguished debaters in the popular branch of the Legis lature ; ultimately attaining the dignity of a Privy Coun cillor, and expiring at last iu Florence, while sojourning at the court of Tuscany as one of the representatives of his Sovereign. In recounting these incidents, which might reasona bly be regarded as the salient points in this active and useful life, Mr. M'Cullagh has penned with very admirable per spicuity the political history of these islands doling an in terval no less momentous than the first half of the present century. He has traced out anew the whole annals of the Catholic Question. Beginning in earnest with th a t first spurious attempt at the conciliation of all parties, when, towards the close of 1821, Lord Liverpool deemed it advisable to appoint Mr. Goulburn chief secretary, while entrusting Lord Wellesley with the Viceroyalty, re taining Mr. Gregory as under-secretary, and Sir George Hill as vice -treasurer, and Lord 'Matchers as Chancel lor, unpopuleaethouglethey were- as among the more viru lent partisans of .‘ scendancy. It was shortly afterwards, on the ,7th January, 1822, that 31r. Shell seconded an ad dress which had been moved Tel - Mr. O'Connell, congratu lating Lord Wellesley upon his nomination to the Lord Lieutenantey. Two days later, on the 9th of that same January; Mr. Shell was gladdeued lie' the birth of his only child (a son who expired prematurely some years after wards in what should have been the bloom of hie early man hood), and a little while later still was sorrowfully stricken by the death of his young wife from puerperal fever— a calamity undek the influence of which the bereaved hus band long remained inconsolably despOndent. - It was about this period, during the course of 1822, that Richard - Lalor Sheil and William Henry CUrran com menced that joint series of papers entitled " Sketches of the Irish Barr which continued to be for some time con spicuous among the chief - attractions of the New Monthly Magazine. Very recently these - anonymous effusions have been collected together, and separately issued under the names of their respective authors, in:two distinct pub ricatio'ns. The "Sketches—Legal and Political," jotted down iu those wonderful- minasi-like pen-and-ink " por ' treies from the life" by Mr. Sheil, we ourselves took occa sion, not long since, to commend in these columns as ear- nestly as we believe them to have deserved, to an especial share io the popular consideration. Since which time the companion reprint, comprising the' kindred pencillings from the hand of Mr. Curran, pencillings equally masterly in their vigour and verisineilitude,-have, iu like manner, according to promise, made their appearance. So that the variOns essays constituting this ample and brilliant series may now readily enengh be traced to the. Steele and Addison of that notable departrnent of the :beau Monthly; Passing down that ample portrait gallery, we may now, therefore, recognise, on one hend; thd canvass upon which "R. L. S." has delineated the features of Bushe, and Sau rin, and Joy, and Bellew, and O'Lughlin, of Leslie Foster and Lord Norbury and, on theme other hand, the confronting -canvass upon whiCh - "*. C." has de picted, with a truthfulness as unmistakeable as that which appe.ared in every lino and tint of his brilliant con frere, or coliaborateur the lineaments of O'Connell, and North, and Wallace, and Doherty, of Sergeant Goold and Lord Plunkett. Collectively these sketches commanded for themselves a large amount of public attention, even while remaining strictly anonymous. Separately they cannot but be stored up among the more valuable contri butions towards the history of Ireland, especially now that their distinguished authorship has at length been explicitly acknowledged. The patriotic labours of Mr. Shell in his character as a tribune of the people, as one of the most gifted among Irish demagegnes, may be said to have commenced in earnest with the memorable 12th of May, 1823, when in a meeting pre sided over by Loid Killeen, the present Earl of Fingallethe celebrated Catholic. Association was formally inaugurated. The wonderful Career of Daniel O'Connell had already been, some time before then, commenced. Thatof Richard Shell, in his political capacity had, up to the date we have just given, remained unanticipated we suspect by himself even in his moments of most sanguine expectancy. It began then, however, and it must be allowed after that period t 3 have been anything but tardy or obscure in its development, It was second only in importance to that of the Liberator. -But second, of course, to hisby an enor- , mous difference—by a difference as immense asthat dividing the forimnes of Alexander from those of the chief among his chiefs—Hcephestion. It is in respect to the subor dination of this somewhat deteriorative, contrast that we conceive Mr. M'Oullagh's labours as a biographer to have been conducted with the most judicious adroitness. Throughout the entire work, he never once ventures to bring the mightier shadow upon the scene with a distinct ness that must inevitably have dwarfed all others by the superior grandeur of its proportions. O'Connell is seldom alluded to iu these volumes, save by an occasional, and then always an unavoidable, "aside." The whole at tention is concentrated throughout upon Shell, and this without any attempt whatever to exaggerate his merits, or to depreciate, even by an innuendo, those of his colossal contemporary. - - The earliest proceeding consequent upon the organising of the Catholic Association was the presentation of the Petition of its members to the Imperial Legislature—a petition laid upon the table of the Upper House by Earl Grey, end upontha.tof the Lower House by Mr. Brougham. It is interesting now te remember that the association held its first sittings in a small room in the house of Mr. Cayne, a Capel-street bookseller. Later 'on, when it had grown rather considerably in importance, it removed to a Parlia ment House of its own, famous in the fist instance as the Corn Exchange, and afterwards as the renowned Concilia- , tion was in the spring of 1825 that Mr.,Sheil, in .Company with Mr. O'Connell and several of the leading members of the associati on , p rocee d e d t o London as mem bers of a deputation. During their absence in that metro polis, namely, on the 18th of March, 1825, the association was closed—voluntarily. This, it will be remembered, was in the illusory expectation that an act so strikingly self-abnegatory would so far tend to conciliate the Legislature as to lead, sooner or later, to the con cession by it of the long-desired boon of emancipation. Hopes like these were strangely encouraged, when, on the 21st of April, the second reading of the Relief Bill was carried in the Commons by a majority of 268 to 241—but four days afterwards, on the 25th of April, no less strangely dashed to the dust, when the Duke of York (then heir presumptive to the Crown), with an indecent outburst of Oritnge fanaticism, declared in the Lords; that in, whatever situation of life he might be placeel..(alluding, of course, in thie, to his advent to the throne), he would adhere to the anti-Catholic principles he had always ex pressed—" So help him God !" The duke's speech was thereupon " printed in letters of gold, and became the Shibboleth of party and the watchword of Orangeism." Almost immediately afterwards, or at least on the 20th of August following, the Irish Catholics recovered with re newed energy from their delusive day-dreamings—the date just mentioned being that solemnly inaugurative of the New Catholic Association. It was so con structed as not in any way to contravene the prohi bitory statute, 6 Geo. IV., cap. 4, by which the existence of the previous association had been seriously threatened. From that time the exertions of the emancipationists were never relaxed until their object had been attained, until the warning pronounced by the elder Pitt as far back as 1759, that France looked to the discontent of Ireland, had found its tardy but signal fruition at last in the con ference upon the Roman Catholics of the United Kingdom of all the treasured rights of citizenship ! Until the re commendation in 1793, by Mr. Secretary Hobart, of the concession of the elective franchise had been followed up by the permission to the electors of the exercise of their franchise in favour, whenever it so pleased them, of their catholic compatriots I Until the motion of Mr. Fox in 1805, and the carrying of the Bill of Plenary Relief through the Commons twenty years afterwards, had ripened by two or three more seasons into the full and perfect measure of emancipation ! We are, however, anticipating. bef yet to be accomplished before the pear was mellow— eatM hod dropped in the rude blast of the Clare election, and under the effect of reiterated concussions by the association. Towards this end Mr. Sheil laboured courageously , man fully, and pertinaciously. He toiled in the good cause, both in speaking and writing. Nay, his oratorical labours alone appear to have been twofold in their character, for Mr. 31 4 Ctillagh tells us, in regard to the subject of his bio graphy that it "was his (Sheirs)habit to write before hand what he meant to say"—seldom trusting hi m self to the unpremeditated peril of the extemporaneous. He exerted his energies in the holy cause, moreover, at onc e at home and abroad, in France as well as in Ireland. As became sufficiently manifest on the issue of his brilliant arguments in idiomatic French, in the columns of L'.Etoile, a journal published afterwards under the title of La Gazette de France. Anonymous articles which were violently at• tacked from time to time (as they appeared) in the columns of the Courier, then flourishing as the recognised or gan of the Liverpool Administration. It was ill the midst of this stormy and anxious crisis in his public cai eer that Richard Shell was thus described to the very life by a keen French observer, M. Davergier. SHEIL THE ORATOR ! " Were I commissioned,' writes Mr. Duvergier, 'to take down the signalentent of Mr. Sheil, this would be very nearly the result : five feet four ; 'eyes quick and piercing ; com plexion pale ; c hin pointed ; hair dark ; a nd in a dding , mouth midde-sized, I flatter myself I should have given a description not to be excelled in exactness at the bureau des passeports. But this is the portrait of the gentleman ; that of the orator is widely diverse. When you behold that little Gascon figure in repose, it is impossible to suspect to what changes passion is capable of converting it, There is in Shell something of Juvenal, of Pindar, and of Mirabeau. His satire is shrewd and biting ; -his poetry dazzles ' • his enthu siasm carries you away. When he flings forth his sarcasm, a bitter smile contracts his lips ; when he threatens, his eyes dart forth lightnings ; when he is under the dominion of powerful inspiration, they take an expression altogether sub lime. His veiee is meagre, harsh, and shrill ; but a profound emotion seems to regulate its vibrations. His gesture is quick, abrupt, and rather disorderly ; but it is always in per fect accord with such sentiments as he has to express. Shell possesses in an eminent degree the surprising faculty o f ex citing himself to the very verge of delirium without once losing his complete self-possession. I was at his side whilst speaking ; and more than once I saw all his limbs tremble ; a moment after he resumed the discussion remarked, with not less composure than in g enuit y . Like the En glish , whom in other particulars he so little resembles, Shell is too fond of quotations. Certain p assa g es in bad taste, i t may also be observed, occasionally disfi g ure the bes t of his sp elo c c e i c it h i c o s n a ; theatre about him. These repr oaches have some appearance of being well-founded, as more than once indeed I imagined I a n n d d i d n ie g t e t u m e t ral it thereha t s s been som i something r too ed much of the, that in both had the figure of Kean actually before me, but then I must also add, that Kean is a very admirable actor. In a word, I was seduced, I was dazzled, and together with me, the whole assembly. During an entire hour one single soul, that of the orator, seemed to animate this living mass ; and from time to time you would have said that an electric shock completely convulsed them. I never before assisted at so absolute a triumph.' " It is curious to observe in o pposition to this animated sketch of Sheil by an impartial foreigner, that given not very long afterwards by ono of the orator's own country. men. We allude to a passage in " Moore's Diary," under date 14th September, 1830, where it is observed : " Sheil, one of the earliest speakers : his manner, action, &e., all made me tremble a little for his chance of success in the House of Commons, about which I had before felt very sanguine. His voice had no medium tone, and, when exerted, becoming a scream ; his action 'theatrical, and of the barn order of theatricals ; but still his oratori cal powers great, and capable of pr"oducing (in a n I r ish audience at least) great excitement. This—of one who was very soon to prove himself one of the most brilliant orators in the English Parliament ! It is amusing to find Moore describing almost immediately afterwards, in glowing terms, his own wonderful triumphs as a, rhetorician ! We have said that after the reconstruction of the Catho lic Association as above related, the members of it never once relaxed their efforts until the final triumph of the cause of emancipation. It should be observed, however, that there was, indeed, a momentary suspension of agita tion at that ono other slip;twixt the cup a nd th e lip—con sequent upon Mr. Canning s nomination to the premiership, and the tantalising reign of a hundred days which marked the limited duration of his Government. Ott the 10th of April, 1827, Mr. Canning filled up the places vacated by the Duke of Wellington, Lord Eldon, Mr. Peel, Lord „ . • • LONDON, 'THURSDAY EVENIN G, JULY ‘.19, 1855. N o . 1.9,595.] PUBLICATIONS. family tutor, the Abbe de Grimeau, a native of Langue doc, one of the priestly refugees from-the infidel revolu tion. Subsequently, this same good Abbe conducted his young scholar across the Channel to London, and left him, still a mere child (in his eleventh year), at a French academy then flourishing in Kensington House, under the care of the Peres de la Fo i—no less a personage than Mon sieur le Prince de Broglie, being there installed as head of the establishment. Here Richard Sheil took his place in the school-room, having on one side of him a lubberly brat, the son of the Count Decal., and on the other a handsome young Creole, one Devarioux ' from Martinique. The middle boy of the group, Richard Sheil himself, being at the time, according to the_account of one of his associates, "a strange wayward boy, callous, and slovenly in dress, and very imperfectly educated." His chief instructor here, according to his own acknowledgment, in an animated record of his " Scboolboy Recollections," published nearly 30 years afterwards in the New Monthly Magazine, was a Genoese, M. Molinari. From the French school at Ken sington, Shell was removed during the October of 1 804 to the Catholic College of Stonyhurst. Here he was entered as a student on the 24th of that same October, and here he remained until the sth of November, 1807. He is thus described by one of his college mates (Mr. Justice Ball), when, at the age of 13, he first entered the precincts of the Jesuit alma mater, near the town of Clitheroe, in Lanca shire : Now ready, at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., MRS. MABERLY'S NEW NOVEL, A Y. " A clever novel - a pleasant addition to the light literature cf the season." -- Examiner. " This tale is a most attractive one, with the great merit of highly finished social portraiture."—The Press. •" The vicious and criminal system, of which recent events have exhibited a flagrant instance, of keeping up appearances at the ex pense of others, with a view to mercantile and social credit, is por trayed with a masterly hand in this new production from Mrs. Maberly's powerful pen."—John Bull. Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, successors to Henry Colbarn. 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Colonial Wholesale Branch—Melbourne, Australia. The establishments ase closed from sunset on Fridays till sunset or Saturdays, when business is resumed till 12 o'clock. brisowrsyr.—Should any article not give satisfaction It will be ex• changed or, if preterred, the money returned without hesitation. Al goods are marked in plain 15gures, the lowest price, from which tit abatement can be made. A New Book, with lists of prices, system of self-measurement and other information, may be had on application, or post free. I iiut 'Si parla Italbuto. Tel on pane Fran Cats - Hier spricht man Deutsch. I A se habla Espagnol. RICHARD LALOR SHEIL. .. - Ifeinairs of the Right lion. Richard Lalor Shell. By W. Torrens M'Cullagh. 2 vole. Hurst and Blackett, for Henry Colburn. It cannot but be a matter of congratulation among the admirers of the late Right Hon. Member for Dungarvan that the office of his biographer has devolved upon his friend Mr. Torrens M'Cullagh. That gentleman has, in unaffectedly acquitting himself of his task, proffered a genial tribute to the memory of an incorruptible patriot, an illustrious orator, and an enlightened statesman ; and, while so doing, has contributed materials of no common value towards the future political history of his genera tion. We accept these two volumes precisely as they arc intended to be accepted by their author, for no more and for no less—scarcely so much as the elaborated narrative of a life, as a painstaking endeavour to illustrate by a re cord of undoubted facts and indisputable opinions the con sistency of Mr. Sheil's conduct throughout the whole of the chequered phases of his career—from 'the earlier mani festations of his youthful capacity in the ardour of the dramatist and the enthusiasm of the dema gogue, to the later evidences of his ripened powers in the practised skill of the debater and the intuitive adroit ness of the diplomatist. Mr. M'Cullagh has recounted to this end no more than was absolutely requisite for the de monstration of the moral of this consistency. We look in vain into his pages for those Boswellian particularities which constitute so much of the secret charm of the greatest biography in our own, or perhaps in any other, literature. That monopolising admiration which em braces not only the genius but the very eccentricities of the hero it undertakes to commemorate. That insatiable reverence for a departed associate which discovers food for itself not merely in his more elevated characteristics and distinguishing idiocyncrasy, but in his personal peculiari ties, in the colour of his coat, in the mobility of his fea tures, in the freaks and oddities of his deportment. A plenary homage such as this, it is, which has preserved to us not only the axiomatic wisdom and conversational apoph thegms of Doctor Johnson, but every minute detail of his habits and of his household. So that as Mr. Macaulay has reminded us in a celebrated essay, we become as much familiarised as over could have been Mrs. Thralo or Miss Fanny Burney, with the old doctor's favourite cat, Hodge, with his housekeeper, blind Mrs. Williams, with his black servant, Mr. Francis Barber, with his querulous dependant or pensioner, Mr. Levett, nay, with the minor peculiarities of the Sage of Fleet-street—his thirst for tea, his love of orange peel, his appetite for pig-and-plum-sauce, his snuff-coloured coat, his scrubby old scratch wig when in undress, his slouching walk, the twitchings and contor tions of his countenance, his sweatings and gruntings over the dinner table, his deadly hatred of prigs and bores, his profound piety, and his tender love for little children. We know all this and more—how much more !—thanks to the inimitable and laborious minuteness of the incomparable biographer. Vainly, however, we repeat, may the readers of the present lively and agreeable memoir of Shell, look to Mr. M'Cullagh for the like kind of purely anec dotal, or simply gossipping, or exclusively personal, infor mation. A biography of Dutch-like detail is not the kind of biography our author here undertakes to produce—it is not by any means the sort of narrative any one could rea sonably expect from him under the circumstances. The undertaking is altogether something more serious and sedate in its general character. It is not so much the picturesque account of the development of the fame and fortunes of a self-made man, as the phrase runs, nowadays—though it is that too—as it is (we repeat it) the vindication of his per sonal disinterestedness and political consistency. Looking down a catalogue of the memorable years which have elapsed since the first outbreak of the French Revolu tion, we may take in, according to the old scriptural phrase, at " a span," between 1791 and the life - time of the man now under our consideration. An interval of very nearly sixty years, within which he con trived to do good service to his country, while building up for himse:f no fleeting or unenviable reputation. Richard Sheil was born on the 17th of August, 1791, at Drumdowney, a small country-house, near Waterford — the eldest son of Edward Sheil, of Bellevue, by his wife Ca therine, one of the daughters of the family of the M`Car thys, of Spring-house, in the county of Tipperary. As a boy, Sheil passed the most part of his time ou the banks of the Suir, under the happy shade of Bellevue. Meditat ing even then dreams of poetry and rhetoric —an embryo .Alschylus, a budding De mosthenes. Earl y enou gh in life he began to pick up, in that sam e beloved retreat, morsels of French and acraps of Latin, under the guidance of the 1851, Bathurst, Melville and Westmoreland, by inducting into office men like the Duke of Clarence, the Duke of Port land, the Marquis of Anglesea,. and Lords Lansdowne, Goderieb, and Lyndhurst. About this time,. by the Way, Shell himself was threatened with indictment for a speech which had been regarded by the late Cabinet as seditious and inflammatory. The new Pre mier, however, setting the projected prosecution aside as preposterous, a rule of nolle prosequi wa s forthwith . entered by the Att or n e y-G en e r al. Soot; afterwards a severe fracture of his leg by a fall from his horse, on t he 28th of June, th rew M r . Shell upon that couch of suffering upon which he received, on the 10th of August, the start ling news of the sudden and calamitous death of the Prime Minister. Thereupon succeeded a number of changes hardly less remarkable than the premature event in which they had originated—political changes, the first and most notable of which was the installation of the me morable Cabinet of the Duke of Wellington. An admi nistration dating from . the 9th of January, 1828, and comprising amongst its members—of Mr. Canning's asso ciates, four no less distinguished than Lord Dudley, Mr. Grant, Mr. Huskisson, and Lord Palmerston; of other emancipationists, Lord Melville and Lord Ellenborough ; and of foes to the further removal of religious disabilities (some fast, some loose), besides the Premier himself, Peel, Herries, Goulburn, Aberdeen,. and•Lyndhurst. '• It was a coalition, in fact,- between the old ultra Tories of Lord Eldon's school, and the half liberal, half aristocratic Can ningites ; a coalition so insecure, however, that by the 20th 'of May not only Mr. Huskisson, but with him Mr. Lamb and Mr. Grant, Lord Dudley and Lord Palmerston, had all of them quitted the Adminis tration.. It can hardly yet be forgotten how and by whom they were succeeded—Mr. Huskisson, as Colonial Secre tary, by Sir George Murray ; Mr. Lamb, as Secretary for Ireland, by Lord Francis L. Gower; Lord Dudley, as Foreign Minister, by the Earl of Aberdeen ; Viscount Palmerston, as Secretary-at-War ' by Sir Henry Hardinge; and Mr. Grant, as -President of the Board of Trade, by Mr. Vesey Fitzgerald. The last-named alone is of itself sufficiently suggestive —for on the acceptauca of office by Mr. Vesey Fitzgerald hung as an inevitable toessequence the Clare election—tire famous Clare election that first sent Daniel O'Connell to the Imperial Legislature as Mem ber for All Ireland ! It appears to us rather strange that Mr. M'Cullagh, in mentioning the curious share taken by Mr. Sheil in the notorious Orange meeting upon Penenden Heath, on the 24th of, October, 1828, should give a version of •the pro ceedings so different from that given by Mr. Sheil himself in the article penned by him almost immediately after wards fur the New Monthly Magazine,. and comprised among the papers__ reprinted the - other day in the two volumes of his collected " Sketches Legal and Politi cal.' Mr. M`Cullagh, after alluding .to the storm 'of groans and hisses in which the voice of the-orator was drowned, observes (vol. ii. p. 35), " Though little accustomed to such amode of reception, he persisted in delivering, almost ver e batim, what he had prepared to say ; and an accurate copy having been furnished by him to one of the evening papers the audience whom he really desired to reach throughout . every part of the kingdom, became •in a few hours ac quainted with what the men of Kent had refused to listen to." An account rather opposed to the one humorously detailed by Mr. Sheil himself in the descriptive essay above mentioned, during the course of which he takes occasion to marvel with a comical affectation of bewilderment over' the seemingly miraculous manner in which. l'Ae Sun, the journal vaguely implied by the biographer as "one of the evening papers," had obtained so wonflerfully accurate a report of an oration which no one upon Penotiden Heath or anywhere else could possibly have heard delivered !* Nevertheless, while making this facetious aaknowledgment with a gravity the most sedately ludicrous, Mr. Shell for mally vouched, at the same time, for the veracity of the speech reported in this magical fashion in The Sun as the faithful exponent of his own ideas in his own language. Uttered or not uttered, it was a harangue eminently wor thy of preservation—an oration upon the peruPal. of which in our columns Jeremy Bentham thus expressed his un bounded admiration—" So masterly an union of logic and rhetoric as Mr. Shell's speech scarcely have I over beheld." It was at the close of its impassioned peroration that the orator was represented as speaking of the Catholiaclainss for emancipation, as claims in the justice of which—" I3nrke, the foe to revolution—Fox, the assertor of popular right-- Pitt, the prop of the prerogative, concurred." The rea sonableness and wisdom of this concurrence was at length *bout to be asserted upon the statute book by the Legisla ture and*the Government, by the King, the Lords, and the Commons—the ti ipodial altar, or basis, of the Constitution. The penumbra of the shadoW of the " coming event" first became visible on the sth of February, 18.t9, through the memorable Speech from the Throne; recommending that the laws imposing civil disabilities upon his Ma jesty's Roman Catholic subjects, should be reviewed by the assembled Parliament. The triumph of the sacred cause became from that moment universally apparent. So un mistakeably apparent that by the 12th of that same February, on the motion of Mr. Shell, the renowned Catholic Association, after an existence of nearly six years duration, was dissolved. The ,Relief Bill was, in fact, finally passed through the Commons on the'3lst of March, by a majority of 178—its second reading was carried lathe Lords, upon the 4th of April, by a majority of 104—and upon the 13th of April, 1829, it received the royal assent: the crowning victory being thereby secured to the great cause of Catholic Emancipation. There was but one reason for regret in the midst of the prevailing exul tation, namely, the summary abolition of the forty-shilling freeholders—by which act more than two-thirds of the en tire constituency of Ireland was, " at one fell swoop," dis franchised. The sister kingdom, indeed, was after all, only partially " relieved" even by the " Relief Bill," from the ancient bus-then under the weight of which she had so long groaned, the irksome and intolerable burden of so called ascendancy. O'Connell recognised the grim reality of this evil perpetuation. He was not blinded to it by the illusory influences of victory. lie determined in the very hour of triumph to endeavour by inaugurating a new epoch of agitation to win the boons still requisite for the social well-being of his follow-countrymen, for the poli tical welfare of their common fatherland. This resolve was announced by the great Tribune on the 24th of Sep tember, 1830, by his first letter on the Repeal of the Union to the people of Ireland. Then commenced that grievous delusion which was the will-o'-the-wisp of the Celtic million, she political mirage that led astray up to the very moment of death the otherwise sagacious intel lect of their mighty Leader, revered as their chosen Chief, and beloved as their Liberator. To the first fascinations of the new movement Mr. Sheil himself succumbed for a time being welcomed with extraordinary enthusiasm on the 29th of November, 1831, when he first joined the Repeal Associa tion—but, finally, withdrawing from it. (after the rejection of Mr. O'Connell's motion for Repeal on the 29th of April, 1834), when the Question was peremptorily set aside by a formal decision of 523 against merely 38 in the popular branch of the Imperial Legislature. It was some considerable time after the passing of the Relief Bill before the more eminent members of the Catho lic bar received the distinction of silk-gowns, the bestowal of which in their instance was necessarily to be the first sign of the reality of Catholic Emancipation. It was only in fact towards the close of Trinity Term, 1830, that Mr. Shell was called with some others to the inner bar—Daniel O'Connell, incomparably the most illustrious of the whole body, being denied the honour to which he had incontest ably a signal right, by a paltry and contemptible act of ex clusion. Upon the 20th of July in that same year 1830 Mr. Shell contracted his second marriage—his choice fall ing this time upon Anastasia ' the widow of Mr. Power of Garteen, in the county of Waterford, and daughter of John Lalor, Esq., of Crenagh, in the county of Tipperary. As co-heiress with her sister (the wife of Richard M. Bel lew, Esq.), Mrs. Shell inherited by the way considerable property—thereby not only giving a new name to her husband, but rendering him thenceforth in a man ner independent of his profession. Shortly after his second marriage, Richard Lalor Sheil became a candidate for the representation of Louth, but after a severe contest was defeated, together with his brother-in-law, by Messrs. Dawson and M'Clintock, their more fortunate antagonists. Subsequently, however, after the defeat of Ministers on Sir Henry Parnell's motion regarding the civil list, when the Wellington Cabinet closed its career, and Earl Grey was summoned by the King to form a new Administra tion,' Mr. Sheil, on the Bth of March, 1831, entered the House of Commons as member for Lord Anglesea's pocket borough of Milborne Port, in Dersetshire. At last the dream of his early boyhood was realised. At last be him self enjoyed the fruits of Catholic Emancipation. At last —at last he had taken his place among the number of the national representatives. The appearance of the Irish de magogue (then in the fortieth year of his age) on taking his seat in the great popular assembly at Westminster, was thus commented upon by the late Professor Wilson in Blackwood's Magazine—the satirist speaking through the mouth of Tickler in his famous Noctes Ambrosiance : " To make some amends for her carelessness to all other external affairs, nature has given hire as fine a pair of eyes as ever graced human head—large, deeply set, dark, liquid, flashing like gems, and these fix you like a basilisk, so that you forget everything else about him." The member for Milborne Port was, in the July of 1831, admitted a member of Brookes's—at that period regarded by Irish barristers as something of a privilege. Previously, that is in May, Ministers having been defeated in their first attempt to carry a Reform Bill, had induced the King to dissolve Parliament. During the general election eonse anent upon which dissolution, Mr. Sheil was returned both for Milborne Port and for the County of Louth, and, elect ing to sit for the latter, a new writ had to bo.issued for the Marquis of Anglesea's snug little constituency. At the next general election Shell threw aside the county of Louth for that of Tipperary, and it was as representative for the latter that he took his place in the first Reform Parliament opened by William IV. on the sth of February, 1833. IC was on the 15th of February, only , ten days afterwards, that Lord Grey introduced, in the Upper House, the cele brated"bill for the suppressson of disturbances in Ireland— on the 27th it was read for the first time in the Com mons, on the motion of Lord Althorp—and, after a stormy discussion, was passed on the 29th of March by a majority of 345 to 86. It was the first serious rebuff by a Coercion Act of the growing repeal agitation. Some time after this event, Mr. Shell laid aside his wig and gown, and dedicated his energies thenceforth exclu sively to the furtherance of his political ambition. That ambition,was somewhat threatened on the sth of February, 1834, with a sudden and disastrous close—when Lord Althorp, acting upon the strength of an assertion put forth on the 22d of the preceding October, in an address made to his constituents at Hull, by Mr. Mathew Devonport Hill —solemnly charged Mr. Sheil, in the presence of the assembled Parliament, with an act of almost unparalleled treachery, viz., with voting against every clause of the Coercion Bill, and speaking against it in the house with the utmost.violence, and yet going secretly to Ministers and saying "Don't bate one single atom of that bill, or it will be impossible for any man to live in Ireland." The sensation produced in the House of Commons by Lord Althorp's distinct charge against the member for the county of Tipperary, is remembered. Mr. M'Cullagh thus records its immediate result : " After a momentary pause, Mr. Shell rose, and, placing his arms across his breast, said with a low and firm voice, Having heard the statement which the noble lord has just made to the house, I beg on the other hand to declare in the face of my country, and if I may do so without i r reverence, in the presence of God, that if any individual has said t o o the noble lord or to others, that I gave any appr bation !*ll Coercion Bill iu private he has belied mo by • scandalous calumny ; but as the noble lor d has pulinccisslatc ment on his own responsibility, I shall say no more. Then followed a long and desnitory,disouosioe , ending in a ,__~-- NEWS PA PE,II. • • me of w scheme the 1040:itaiicirtitoie; the 31st April propeeed si' eribtre ona oa-tk e .• / 4 141 y o ep in on it s u u le r n an y d ropo . , her_ a tt i tl , o w lt i tth e bared project of an eight shilling dutv'egpon Oaten I t " the tug of war" came in earnest. A. seem orda effter 9 the remarkable announcement made by the Leader of the House of Commons, on the 27th of May, a voteof want of con fidence was moved (and carried by a majority of one) by Sir R. Peel as Leader of her Majesty's Opposition. The dissolu tion then approaching was, as Mr. M`Culbigh expresses it, "precipitated." The Parliament returned by the general ' election towards the end of August, comprising in both - Houses immense majorities in foe our of Sir Robert's Con servative and Protectionist Government. It should be remarked, that immediately prior to the dissolution in 1841, Mr. Sheil had been removed from the Vice-Presi dency of the Board of Trade to the more independent and responsible position of Judge-Advocate, and _that im mediately after the dissolution he resolved to relinquish the representation of Tipperary, being returned instead, at the ensuing general election, as member for the borough of Dungarvan. Upon the assembling of the new Parlia ment, Sir Robert found himself complete master of the position, having in the House of Commons a clear majority Of seventy-six over his antagonists. September found him duly installed Prime Minister of England, at the bead of a powerful and well-organised Administration. During the three years which followed the inauguration of his Cabi net, numerous and remarkable relaxations of the restric tive code were introduced, and ultimately, by an unexam pled act of self-sacrificing civism, an act of matchless daring and unparalleled magnanimity, the once Protec tioniut Premier, by a single master stroke of patriotic statesmanship, effected the triumph of Free Trade over Monopoly in the midst of the throes and contentions of his own Protectionist Parliament. Within the interval which elapsed, however, between the commencement of the systematic relaxation of the restrictive code •in 1842, and the final and comprehensive repeal. of the Corn-laws iu 1816, two memorable struggles in reference to Ireland, her agitators, and her population, attracted the attention (for the time being almost exclusively) of both the English multitude and of the English Legislature. The first of these may be said to have culminated on the 7th of October. 1813, when by the suppression of the last , of O'Connell's monster meetings, that which had been convened by his uncrowned Majesty, the Libe rator, to be. held at Clontarf, an • end was put to the system called by him, that of " moral force," or, in other words, of open intimidation—and, immediately on the arrest, some clays later, of O'Connell, his "son and s"- ether persons, on a charge of conspiracy, the famous call thew, more accurately nowadays the infa eh State Trials, commenced. They commenced on the 12th of February, 1844, before Chief Justice Penne father. Each of the defendants had his separate (*tinsel — Richard Sheil appearing on behalf of- Jobelagitiesila, • -a;+ Thus it was, as Mr. Sheil himself ob s e r ved in the use o Commonslongafterwarde, that" the world beheld the leader and liberator of a Catholic nation tried by a jury exclusively composed of Protestant tradesmen who were absurdly called his peers"—and afterwards, as the orator continued in alluding to the course taken throughout the whole of that iniquitous trial—" At last" said he, "the long series of ignominious proceedings terminated in a discomfiture of the Government, of which there was no former exam ple—terminated by a denunciation pronounced by the Chief Justice of England, from the highest seat of juclica tiara in the world, and in the conversion of the porch of a prison-house into an arch of triumph, through which the most remarkable man in Europe, whom they had the temerity to call a 'convicted conspirator,' was given back to the embraces of an enthusiastic and devoted people." The other contest in relation to Ireland in which about this time Mr. Shell, as we have said, participated, had refe rence to the important question known up to the pre sent chiy through fanatical bickerings, still sanctiondd in all their pristine bitterness, as that Of the Maynooth En dowment. A sum of 9,0001. had, from the foundation of the College of Maynooth in 1795, been annually rated in the estimates for its support as the nucleus of Irish educa tion. Sir R. Peel proposed, in 1844, that in order to pro vide more adequately for the instruction of the Catholic priesthood in the sister country, the amount should be raised to 26,3601. per annum, chargeable upon the Conso lidated Fond, with a special vote at the same time of 30,6001. additional to be dedicated to the repair and extension of the great national establishment. Mr. Sheil warmly supported the propositions of the Prime Minister throughout • and as a kindred spirit gave a partial support likewise to t he: other measure of intended conciliation intro duced: during the same session, by Sir JamesGrahatm, that having for its object the foundation and endowment of what O'Connell, on the contrary, reprobated in the strongest terms as the scheme of the three " Godless Col leges," combining in that epithet the disfavour previously pronounced upon it by Sir Robert Harry Inglis as " a gi gantic scheme of Godless education." Domestic afflictions soon afterwards compelled Mr. Shell to withdraw awhile from the arena of politics, hurryinhs him from London, on the 10th of September, 1845, in the illusory hope that the failing health of his only son might perchance he restored under the influence of a winter's residence in Madeira. Arriving in that island with his beloved invalid on the 9th October, the sorrowing father had to see all his cherished hopes clashed to the earth on the 10th of the ensuing month of. November, when he stood by the death-bed of the youthful sufferer, then in his twenty-third year, and had soon afterwards to follow his remains to their premature place of interment. This " untimely removal" of his son, we are told by the bio grapher, "cast a deep and lasting shade over the remain ing years" of Richard Shed. The distant sounds of party contention in England coming to him in the remote haunts of his bereavement, at length roused him from unavailing regrets over the young man's grave in Madeira. The cele brated letter written from Edinburgh, on the 22d of No vember, 1845, by Lord Johu Russell, had enforced in a remarkable manner the declarations of a precisely similar kind, which actually had been previously made in Council to his ministerial colleagues by Sir R. Peel. The temporary dissolution of the Conservative Government resulting from these occurrences, followed by the ineffectual efforts of the Whig leader to construct a Cabinet, in which Lord Grey, at the last moment, refused to take office by the side of Lord Palmerston, seemed to promise Sheil the chance of the speedy return of his party to power, and to open up to him in that case, if he were only present, a reasonable proba bility of advancemenk—Accompanied by Mrs. Shed, he sailed for Cadiz on the 22d of April, 1846, proceeding thence by ordinary steamer on his return to Southamp ton. Everybody knows the marvellous changes which had by that time been effected by these recent events in the Constitution of the Lower House of Parliament, The disruption of the great Conservative party having left (Mr. M'Cullagh here reminds his readers) its Protectionist re ,idue without any recognisable champion until the time when, as was wittingly observed, Mr. Disraeli in vented Lord George Bentiack ! At length the ever-memorable Government of Sir Robert Peel came to an end, the Free Trade Premier being defeated b a majority of 292 against 219, in the House of Commons, on the second reading of the Coercion Bill—whereupon, as a matter of course, Lord John Russell was empowered by the Queen to construct a new Administration. Mr. Sheil had the gratification of learning, on the 2d of July, 1846, that the Mastership of the Mint (one of the offices known to rank next to the Cabinet, au office, in fast, which had sometimes been held by Cabinet Ministers) had been reserved for his occupation. At the general election of 1847 he was once more selected as their representative by his old constituency of Dungarvan. The subseqent events of his history are too vividly (because so very recently) in public recollection to require them to be here enumerated seriatim. Enough if it is observed that on the 4th of November, 1850, the Right Honourable Richard Shoji was appointed to proceed to Florence as British Am bassador. In accepting that high diplomatic •position he had to resign his place in the House of Commons, to vacate his post as a member of the Administeation ' to abandon altogether his eminent position as a Parliament ary orator, distinguished among the most distinguished.. But Sheil was beginning at last to yearn for repose, hit% years were falling into the " sere and yellow leaf," he wits ap proaching the sixtieth anniversary of his birth, and al though his faculties were still, if not in their firot in their full and ripened perfection, he looked forward with pleasurable anticipation to enjoying their continu.sd exercise thenceforth in a genial - and honourable retire' meat. Before the close of the November of 1850 be paid a hurried visit to Ireland, in December he returned to Lon don, and passing through Paris On his way to Italy, ar rived in Florence about the middle of January, 1851. Here it was, on Sunday, the 25th of May, 1851, that Shell ex pired, in consequence of a sudden aggravation of the dis ease (gout) by which he had been then for some time grievously tortured. His funeral obsequies ' performed in the Church of St. Michael at Fl orence , five days after the date of his dissolution, wore repeated nine months after wards, on the 24th of February, 1852, in the parish church in Gardiner-street, Dublin, on the return of his remains in a British ship of war to Ireland—prior to their removal to their last resting-place at Long Orchard. So lived and so died Richard Sheil—poet, orator, patriot, statesman, di plomatist—beginning life as a demagogue, and ending it as an atabsssader. The luminous pencil of Leigh Hunt has thus sketched the appearance of Shell as it was not very long before his departure for Tuscany then saw before me or of the little great men of whom one reads, go e a n l i had oneandtheideagreenthoughtthancritic,earnest• theanyotherm e like quiveringgesticulations,lipscombine t i ci n t g h o e a f t E ltl o a i r r • i d c a:bean, in s d o i m n e g th • h i i n in g r t il w -; :s sir e n i h: Tribune, llni Orator gh o u t t h h e i p a r c a p n e et e eh n re t — l S y aa i nt n i dr i e g n i tn - . yevith t he• fervaied°rard°mbcirraaZila som gruous attribu tes of powers, and powers that Richard omf em ju oti en o a f b tli s o n o d hse f hi Ch r istian, and of his religion—and as a th f ristian, Honour to his memory. And Shell le se e me d uveeedreo o ibi less earnestly than our author lay also our so let us no infeigne( respect and yet faithful remembrance tribute of t t upon that gr ave in Long Orchard as the wayfarer of old each this morsel of granite threw on the roadside cairn, or as the soldiers of the grand army still love to bang at intervals upon the railings round the column, n the Place the Patriot u s e e n d of as Vendome, the homage of some poor dusty wreath of immortellat. "The committee have no hesitation in declaring their de liberate conviction that the innocence of Mr. Sheil, in respect of the whole matter of complaint referred to their investiga tion, is entire and unquestionable." Immediately upon the perusal of the report, Lord Al thorp apologised to the member for Tipperary, and Sheil himself, rising to address the house, amidst loud criesfrom all parts of it followed by profound silence, referred in befitting terms to Mr. Hill's request for his forgiveness. Subsequent events need here but a rapid and cursory 'enumeration. Mr. Ward's motion, of the 27th May, 1834, in reference to, the Protestant Episcppel Establish ment in Ireland "carried confusion among Miuisters"— ,causing, in fact, the memorable secession front the Cabinet of Mr. Stanley, Sir James Graham, Lord Ripon, and the Duke of Richmond. Then came the filling up of the vacant offices by Mr. Spring Rice, Lord Carlisle, Lord Auckland, and the Marquis of Conyngham., The difficul ties arisicg out of the necessity for the renewal of the Coercion Act, brought about, in the July following, the substitution of Lord Melbourne for Lord Grey as Prime Minister:, the obnoxious measure being virtually passed in a new form on the 29th of that month ; but the rejuvinated Cabinet surviving only until the 14th of the next No vember. The elevation of Lord Althorp to the peerage, upon the death of his father the Earl Spenser, afforded the King an opportunity for bringing about a total change in the character of •the Government. Then, it will be re membered how Sir Robert Peel—the " great span in a great position," was sent for to Italy, " summoned from i Rome to govern England." The dissolution of Parliament, was the inevitable consequence—Mr. Sheil being again re turned, in the general election which ensued, as one of the members for the county of Tipperary. Successive defeats —on the 19th February in choice of a Speaker—on the 26th on Lord Morpeth's amendment to the address—and on the resignation of the ambassa,dership to the Court of fit. Petersburg by' the late Marquis of Londonderry (a resignation consequent upon Mr. Sheila speech of the 13th of March referring to the appointment)—failed to impel Sir Robert Peel and his colleagues to resolve upon tender ing their resignation to their Sovereign. Nevertheless, to the adoption of this painful course they were ultimately driven, by the success after four nights' debate in the House of Commons of the motion introduced on the 30th of March by Lord John Russell (and ultimately carried by 322 against 289) in reference to the Irish Church Establish ment. Three several resolutions, moved upon this sub ject by the noble leader of the Opposition, completed the discomfiture of the newly-inaugurated Cabinet so effec tually that, after an interval of just six months' 'duration, Viscount Melbourne was again at the head of his Majesty's •Government—Lord John' being Home Secretary, Lord Palmerston, Minister for Foreign Affairs, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Lord President, and Mr. Spring Rise, Chancellor of the Exchequer. Then came what was called (by a perversion of a phrase of Mr. Sheil's) the celebrated " Lichfield House Compact," meaning the determination arrived at by the various sections of the Liberal party assembled at the house of Lord Lichfield, in St. James's-square, first to leave the ballot an open ques tion—and, secondly, to adopt the well-known appropria tion clause in the Irish Tithe Bill, Later on, consequently upon a motion made by Mr. Shell on the 6th of March, 1835, the notorious Orange Society was at length dis solved, much to the chagrin of the Duke of Cumberland. It is here observed of Mr. Sheil in reference to his Par liamentary struggles, that while "he seldom spoke of Sir Robert Peel and the Duke of Wellington otherwise than with marked consideration and deference; against Lords Stanley and Lyndhurst the arrows of his sarcasm were incessantly directed, and rarely without effect." In tes timony of which, particular reference is made to that speech delivered by Mr. Sheil in the House of Commons on the 23d of February, 1837, which was deemed at the time his "greatest oratorical effort in Parliament." It related to Lord Lyndhurst's insulting mention of the Irish people as Aliens. We here give the illustrative com ments pronounced upon its delivery by the biographer : " Lord Lyndhurst was present during the delivery of this speech, and upon the marked allusion to his well-known words of the preceding year, , every eye was turned upon him. Kindling with the excitement ho himself produced, and yielding to the dramatic impulse of the moment, as he indignantly reiterated the word ' Anemic' the orator waved his hands reproachfully towards the spot where Lord Lynd hurst was sitting. The effect of the tone in which the word was uttered, and of the gesture by which it was accompanied, is said to have been indescribable. The whole house gave way to conflicting emotions, and as no intelligible sound could be heard for many minutes in the storm of cheers and exclamations, many on both sides arose from their seats in their curiosity to observe the expression of the speaker's countenance, and that of the distinguished object of his re buke. Order was not withoutdifficulty restored ; and when, at the termination of the splendid passage with which the orator concluded, he sank back exhausted into his seat, the enthusiasm and applause broke forth anew, and continued without intermission for an unprecedented time." So impassioned at all times was Sheil's mode of delivery that some muttered, "It is all acting," and others asked, half in wonder and half in incredulity, "How can so much fervour be genuine, and yet under such entire com mand 2" Mr. M'Cnllagh himself in remarking upon his friend's style of oratory, observes :-- " His loud and vehement utterances received their fitting plaudits. His looks and gestures were appreciable by all. Though we cannot recal them, we can imagine something of the emotion they produced ; but how much of the expressive by-play is lost ? Who shall whisper for us the ' asides,' sometimes artistically preconcerted—often the offspring of sudden impulse—lesser, but not less lustrous, sparkles of that light that comes not but in the irresistible concurrence of thought and passion." i - Upon the occasion of the dissolution of Parliament imme• diately upon the Queen's accession, Mr. Shell was again returned, with his colleague, Mr. Otway Cave,, by the liberal electors of Tipperary. Between the meeting of Parliament in November for the settlement of the Civil List for the youthful Sovereign, and its adjournment, after the performance of that duty, till February, 1838, the first proposition connected with office was made to Mr. Sheil. After mature consideration he accepted the pre ferred post (then by good luck vacant) of the Commie sionership of Greenwich Hospital, and having thereby va cated his seat was for a fourth time returned by the eleo tors of Tipperary, this time, moreover without opposition. He had now therefore the opportunity at length affordefl to him of enjoying together wealth and tranquillity. "In truth, however, that which he desired most, was neither wealth nor tranquillity ; his highest sense of plea sure was in the exercise of that rare faculty by which the breathless attention of the House of Commons is enchained. ' That,' ha used to say, 'that is power. Cheers are nothing; any one who is reckless enough to play for them, if he has common tact and ability, can win them. I don't care far cheers ; the thing that is hard to catch, and when caught, to bold, is the silent attention of the house. When you basi-e done that you have succeeded ; not till then.'" Well did he know how— " The applause of listening Senates to command," and long did he exercise the enviable power accruing ho him from that high knowledge. A signal defeat of Mi nisters on the Jamaica Government Bill led to the real fp nation of Lord Melbourne's Cabinet on the 7th May, 183 P, pool yesterday. The Arabia steam-transport left Portsmouth for Liver but " Sir Robert Peel having declined to accept the n Ptle miership unless all the principal appointments is ,_ t Household, including those held by ladies, we n nAr d his disposal," the reins of office were again THE JALOUS WIFE. By Miss Pardee. 3 vols.-- hands ! Nevem- " ' The Jealous Wife' "is a tale of great peer ; its deli with such an ineffable sneer, the Arch M di it e was found neces- neation of the most terrible of human passions in the of him whom Mr. Disraeli has I ..ove . d o c : r t i o4e si g nate, theless towards the close of the session,teatlL sin the , arganis . exquisitely 'chief interest of such a work a- truthful. The sary to modify rather cons iderably the constitution of the heart of a wife and of its effects on the husband, are Melbourne Government. These c hange tion of the newly-reinstalled Cabinet was announced on the lies, of course, in the growth and working out of the admirablydone. ' The main characters, and this is to the very position 1 te recentl late position at the headthe t tale for moval of Lord John Russell y Jealous Wife' is something more than a- pleasant occupied, namely, that o f 29th of August. 1839, and included among the.,n the re. (June, 1855) once moree Colonial Secretaryship, his ofauthoress of fiction, M iss to many who read it. As an ,, being assumed by Lord.lq.orre b the Home Department Mr. Spring D •-' 411 Y : an idle hour ; its pathetic interest may serve as a lesson Mr. Francis Baring succeeding asi oe as Chan- • Mr. Labouchere b . • —. —Globe. cellor ofthe Exchequer , . Mr. More et.. owing Pre- says :—On n Pardee has never done anything better than this work. EMIGRATION.—The Limerick .Reporier s Mr P Itt • ou e left Limerick by the early train on a to the peerage under sident of the Board of Trade in the room der of Thompson, elevated The taking the the title of Loyd h te u r n d c a lr y ed m p e e r r n s i o e n g s , en route to America and Australia. War;arMyaactaulay • with friends and relatives was, as usual, O'Ferrall succeed- scene at parting Nearly all the erni- S g y e d w e i n c h k a a u s i ; s e jog Mr. Charles Wood as Secretary to the Ail ' It Mr. cret m ira y ; Mr. of the most painful description. Shell in his turn receiving the appoihtment of V' . Fe-Preen-andyoung women, and those grants were young men ears. dent of the Board of Trade. Difficulties •in du a time how- they left after them appeared to be belt gradually began to start up round the with some sur- Whig Ministry, The Clare Journal adds :—We observe . , and ultimately these were multiplied with mushroom ra-has again so. •and regret that the emigration mania ~ _. pidity. A deficiency in the revenue less prise men, 11 ‘" amounting than 2,400,0001. had in 1841 to be n. During the past week large numbers of ; b eour supplied so mehow—and 1 with that purpose in view d children have left this town and ne 'g a Free Trade Budget was at • men , an length resolved, upon by the Administration. In further- hood principally for America. [ PRICE 4D• STAMPED SD• virtual challenge, in the hearing of the House and in the preience of the Speaker, between the Accused and Accuser Mr. Shell and Lord Althorp being both of them, for a time-committed in consequence to the custody of tbe-Ser geant-at-Arms. The effect produced upon the sensitive mind of Shell was poignant —as poignant as it could alone . be expected to be to one remarkable, as he was, for the truthfulness of his purb and patriotic character. His heart groaned within him so long as ho remained under the stigma of this agonising imputation. The following incident will, of itself, suffici en tly i n di ca t e h ow bitterly his mind was affected so long as Mr. Hill's innuendo and Lord Althorp's consequent charge against himself person ally remained unanswered : " Mr. Fonblanque, with'whom he had long been intimate, happened. to enter the Atbenwuni Club, and hastily crossed the hall Without perceiving that Sheil was standing alone near the fire. 'Hearing his name sharply called, he turned round, and encountered a look of mingled 'reproach and des pondendy too painfully explained by the exclamation—' Are you also going to cut me ?" Good God r.replied his friend, how could'yon suppose me capable of slighting. or neglecting you ? What can have induced you to conceive such an idea ?' Because I fancy that every man I meet is anxious to avoid me ; and I knew not whether you might not be disposed to go with the rest.' " Mr. Fonblauque's utmost efforts to dissipate these gloomy impressions' were for a considerable time, we are told, " wholly fruitless, and he gladly availed himself of some excuse to seek for Mr. Charles Buller, with whom he almdst immediately returned to their desponding friend." They afterwards dined together—his companions accom panying Mr. Sheil home—and spending the greater part of the next day with him in the same manner. "It was only, indeed," says the biographer, " by the continuous care and judicious kindness of his gifted and considerate companions, that he at length regained somewhat of his accustomed buoyancy and self-possession." - The sequ , ' may be soon related. A committee, having Mr. Grote s its chairman, was shortly afterwards appointed by the House of Commons, to inquire into the entire transac tion. "As the last of the witnesses retired, Sir Robert Peel said, I think it clear that there is an end of the case.' Upon this Mr. Hill declared that be felt convinced that his charge pgainst Mr. Sheil, orhaving directly or indirectly communi sated to the Government any private opinions in opposition to those which he expressed in the House of Commons, had no .foundation ; in fact, that such charge was not merely in capable of formal proof, but was in his present sincere belief totally and absolutely unfounded ; that he bad originallybeen induced to make mention of it in a hasty andunpremeditated speech, under a firm persuasion that he had received it on undeniable evidence ; but that being now satisfied of the mis take .into which he had fallen, and convinced that the charge w was holly untrue, be came forward to'express his deep and unfeigned sorrow for having ever contributed to give it cir- culation." The 'report of the committee subsequently laid before the House of Commons, among other things declared as follows : NOTICE OF DIVIDEND. BANK OF DEPOSIT, 3, PALL-MALL EAST. LONDON. Established A.D. 1844. The WARRANTS for the HALF-YEARLY INTEREST, at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum, to the 30th J une, are ready for delivery, and payable daily between the hours of Eleven and Three o'clock. PETER MORRISON, Managing Director. 10th July, 1855. Prospectuses and Forms for Opening Accounts sent free on appli cAtion. STATE REFORM ASSOCIATION.- A PUBLIC. MEETING will be held On WEDNESDAY NEXT, July 25, at half-past Seven o'clock, at the FREE MASONS' HALL, Great Queen-street, to take into consideration the propriety of pre senting a loyal and dutiful Address to the Queen, praying her Ma jesty to dissolve the present Parliament, as being unworthy of uublic confidence. No Tickets required. J. DUNCAN, Esq., in the Chair. • OYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION. For one night only, WEDNESDAY, the 18th instant, at Eight o'clock. A GRAND MUSICAL. ENTERTAINMENT will be given by Mr. GEORGE BUCRLAND, assisted by the following eminent Artists:—Hiss Clari Fraser, Ur. T. Young, Mr. Henry Buckland, Mr. Govelhein, and Mr M ontem Smith. The Selectior , will consist of Glees, Duets, and Songs from the most eminent coil'. pcscrs. iOS. Tri !S*u l ?J Iy o nao~