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Al , goods are marked in plain figures, the lowest price, from which no abatement can be made. A New Book, with lists of prices, system of self-measurement, and other intormation, may be had on application, or post free. lei on parle Francais. i Qni si penis Italians. Hier spricht man Deutsch. • eon se habla Espagnol. RICHARD LALOR SHELL. Memoirs of the ROI Hon. Richard Lator Shell. By W. Torrens M'Cullagh. 2 vols. 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 are 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 undoabted facts and indisputable opinions the con sistency of Mr. Shell'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 do. 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 ever could have been Mrs. Thrale 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 Feve 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 grantings 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 hero 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 3t) 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 t a k e 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 himself no fleeting or unenviable reputation. Richard Shell was born on the 17th of August, 1791, at Drumdowney, a small country-house, near Waterford — the eldest sonof Edward Shell, of Bellevue, by his wife Ca therine, one of the daughters of the family of the Wear thys, of Spring - house , in the county of Tipperary. As a boy, Shell passed the most part of his time on the banks of the Suir, under the happy shade of Bellcvne. Meditat ing oven then (Lean's of p 0.127 wad heiork—an embryo Aschylus, a budding Demosthenes. Early enough in life he began to pick up, in that same beloved retreat, morsels of French and scrape of Latin, under the guidance of the 1851 ; ~~;~` 1 for i- -a 4 ' - I , ;.':.. i i' __:'/ ..........r.g.... . , • -, -- - "'"'"" , ...r -- -,-•••505...------ .........-- ' th , f ' }: 3ls,,c / " ! - - •..,...,,,,, , . f _ • 0 _ - ss ~...7:zz.,a,A__,N!,,,:-. 0:-- ...... e . , i . ).. l' i ' i r- , ..: : : • it.,, ;( .,is .! . .k., ----- it.. 1 . elm• • .44 ‘,...,' ~ %,- 1.,fi1.6.0 • , A qi — a j 1 " • 1 1 0 ,;4,- Ni e 4.- -"-•i; .. t. • - 1r 0, - • .;.,-..,, L -, . ' y~y . • ..,, \At. ,, ,;fr'''....S 4.4 r„7-4,. ~',4.,,, ''',!, ~ - !f) 4 ":` ', 1 : . '''': ''' . .f...,. , . , )... , , t . , 7 •3 ~. ~ •,,\„te,.!1,0- •- ‘.!.::,.....Li_-_._-;`,7, fAtliii42. 4 ,- ',,,, , ::ice _1 . .. • c .. . ----"l „________, 4l - . - 1'':7,..61.---:-.7i,-,) 4/...' t l ,_ , 1 4- - 1 1 'i ' . /' I/ ' \\, . 1 ' 5 t. ,, K , ,\i.--, . - yiz. 11 ' .:, •L_ :.? . . • „, , , : , I; . 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The effect produce4,upop I,he sensitive - thiti'd of Shell was poigna,nt-- 7 as poignant as it could :,lone be expected to:be to: one rernarkablb, he was, fur the truthfulness of his pure and patriotic- character. . His heart groaned uit'aTh hint co - len? - ;'as ho remained undtsr tho.stigana of, this agepisimr,; imputation. : TbetfollOwirtg incident will, of itAelf, entlidently in‘licate how bitterly his mind was affected so , long as innuendo-and Lord Althorp's consequent charge against himaolf person allfretriained nrianswered:.— . . . "Mr: FOnblanque, 'With whore he had len , been intimate, happ,mal to enter the Athcnreum Glub, and, hastily crossed the Irlll without • berccividg that Sheil was • standing • alone Lear the fire. - Hearing his name sharply, called; he turned, round, and encountered a look of minglcd,reproach and -des-• poodency too painfully explained - by the 'exclamation---' Aro you also going to cut me ?'; ',Good . God. !' replied. , his friend, how Could you suppose me capable of slighting or,negleating you?. What can have induced - you to conceive such an idea l'‘ Because I fancy, thatevery man I m i cet• is anxious to avoid me ; and I kriewtot whether you mi g ht not be disposed to go witlf the, rest.' "- ' . Mr. Fonblanque's utmost efforts to dissipate these gloomy impressions - were fort considerable; time, we are told, " wholly fruitleSs, nod he gladly' availed himself of some excuse to seek for Mr. Charles Buller, with whom he almost immediately returned to their desponding friend." They afterwards dined together—his companions accom panying Mr. _Sheil'heme—and spending the greater part of the next day with.him in the same manner. "It was only, indeed," says the biogranhor, f' by the continuous care and jtsdicions kindness of his gifted and Considerate compapionF.., 014 he at length regained somewhat of his accustomed buoyancy and self-possession." The sequel may be soon'related. A committee, having Mr. Grote as its chairman, was shortly afterwards appointed by the House of Comniens, to inquire into the entire transac• tion. • "1s the last of witnesses retired„_Sir Robert Peel 'Said, I thirili it 'Clearthittlitieng r. 6 end of case.' • Vuon this Mr.! Hill declared tthat he felt convinced that his charge against Mr. Shell,' of having directly or inflirectly communi cated 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 lod, but was in his present sincere belief totally and absolutely unfounded ; that he bad miginalrybeen induced to make Mention of it in a hasty and unpremeditated speech, under a firm persuasion that he had received it on undeniable evidence ; but that being now satisfied of the mis-, take into which ha had fallen, and convinced that the charge was wholly untrue, he 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 . me the Chance ftli•kre4i Olt reposed conei:ter;ible reelM.l, on sngar and timber-- t Russell preepountle' hiii easntl s e'" • es,, -n e e' ee eight shilling duty teleoet: • ic,' - i r e r c,,.. iu 'earnest. ~ se' ifr:tif )1 4 . ,;, e -e --r iouneement Miele b eon th e 27th of May;tterse Ortrn • -7. 1 " ~., , (and carried by ama i ' wee _ e. ' se vi e ,. t' her Majesty's Oppesi 'PO 1 -. , -. -1 'r ic r " bo ,ion then approaching we.s, as Mr. 114.`enllae, gveres a r . '„ / '-e" 'precipitated." * . The Parliament returned.bytbe g 1 4 election towards the end of-August, ,Gotnprising in both ' gouses immense majorities io fas our or Sir Robert's; Con servative and Protectionist Gov,ernmente- . e lt • should be remarked, that immediately prior to the diseolution in 1341, Mr. Shell lied been .remove fram the Vice-Presi dency of the Board of Trade to the 'more independent arid responsible position of Judge-Advocate, and that int rnedinteiy after the dissolution ho resolved to relinquiah the eepresentation of Tipperary, being returned instead, et the ensuing general electi o n, as me mber for the borough of Dengarvaree :Upon , the assembling of the new Parlia ment, Sir Robert found himself complete master of the eositien, Irving in the House of Commons a clear majority of errenty .lix over his antagonists. fe er e een nee fn-ins hi m only installed Prime Minister of Euglautt, at the bend of a powerful and well-organised Administration. During the three years which followed the inauguration of his ()Ai , net, numerous and remarkable relaxations of the restric- . - tire code were introduced, and ultimately, by an unexam pled act of self-sacrificing civiem, an act of matchless daring and unparalleled magnanimity, the-once Protec• tiouist Premier. by a single master stroke of patriotic statesmanship, effected the triumph of Free Trade over Monopoly in the midst of the throes rind ' 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-lawn in 18 ire 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 slid to have culminated on the 7th of October„-18:3, when by the suppression of the last of O'Connell's monster meetings, that which had been conven e d by hi s un crowne d Majesty, the Libe• rater, :to . be hell 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 days later, of O'Connell, his son and six other persons, on a charge of conspiracy, the famous we might call there, more accurately nowadays the infa tnous, Irish State Trials, commenced. They commenced on the 12th of February, 1814, before Chief Justice Penne father. Each of the defendants had his separate counsel Richard. Shell appearing on behalf of John O'Connell. Thus it was, as Mr. Shell himself observed in the House of Commonslongafterwartle, that" the wi.rld 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 Eagland,from the highest seat of judica turdin 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 hart 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. Sheil, as we have said, participated, had refe eence to the important question known up to the pre sent day through fanatical bickerings, still sanctioned 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 Mayuooth in 1795, been annually rated in the estimates for its support as the nucleus of Irish educa tion. Sir R. Peel proposed, in 1544, 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 Fund, with a special vote at the same time of ' 30001. additional to be dedicated to the repair and extension of the great national establishment. Mr. Shell warmly supported the propositions of the Prime Minister throughout • and as a kindred spirit gave a partial support likewise to etre other measure of intended conciliation intro duced during the same session, by Sir James Graham, 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, hurrying him from London, on the 10th of September, 1845, in the illusory hope that failing health of his only son might perchance be 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 dashed to the earth on the 10th of the ensuing month of November, when be stood by the death-bad 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 Shell. The distant sounds of party contention in England corning 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 John Russell, had enforced in a remarkable manner the declarations of a precis ly 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, seamed 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 advancement. Accompanied by Mrs. Shell, he sailed for Cadiz on the 22d of April, 1846, proceeding thence by ordinary`stearner 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 sidue without any recognisable champion until the time when, as was wittingly observed, Mr. Disraeli in vented Lord George Bentinck ! At length the ever-memorable Government of Sir Robert Peel came to an end, the Free Trade Premier being defeated by 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 o f J u ly, 1810, that the Mastership of the Mint (one of the offices known to rank next to the Cabinet, an office, in fact, 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 Dungy roan. The subseqent events of his history are too vividly (because so very recently) in • public recollection to require them to be bore enumerated seriatim. Enough if it is observed that on the 4th of November, 1850, the Right Honourable Richard Shell 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 Administration, to abandon altogether his eminent position as a Parliamentary orator, distinguished among the most distinguished. But Sheil was beginning at last to yearn for repose, his years were falling into the "sere and yellow leaf," he was ap proaching the sixtieth anniversary of his birth, and al though his faculties were still, if not in their first bloom, in their full and ripened perfection, he looked forward with pleasurable anticipation to enjoying their continued exercise thenceforth in a genial and honourable retire ment. 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 Sheil 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 Florence, livwdays after the date of his dissolution, were repeated nine months after wards, on the 24th of February, 1&52, i n th e par i s h c h urc h in Gardiner-street, Dublin, on the return of his remains in a Btitish 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 ambassador. The luminous pencil of Leigh Hunt has thus sketched the appearance of Sheil as it was not very long before his departure for Tuscany :—"I then saw before me one of the little great men of whom . one reads so often in history, and I thought how well in spite of time and the gout, his conversation answered to the idea given of hini by Lis speeches—l mean as to life and freshness —for he did not attempt anything rhetorical. I little thought so much vitality was about to be extinguished." Hetr, too, what has been said of his oratory by no less a h j e e l; v d a e Coen critic, and no less keen an observer than Richard watched the —" As I listened to his thrilling voice, and quivering of it s not like his whole frame, it was impossible be lieve that he was thoroughly in earnest : a speech : he not to anY other man I had ever beard making is e corroboration seemed to me like one possessed."M. Duvergier, of what was said of him years before by b f l rvid admiration when the latter commented, with all frame, and the Kean. of a Carmenin, upon the tremblvy;rating voice, and the like gesticulations, and the b ':'thing at once re mindin g h im of tho observer some uiverin lips and flashing yes, reca llin g to the startled memory g of Juvenal, and o the Orator the apparently i nce ,. of Tindal., and of Mirabeau, something that seemed to combineein . butte; the Bard,and the Satirist.. gruous attributes of th lowers, an d powers that Richard These were wonderful th an our author lay aigo our 2 ( e l oir e g t ho h i i i s t his career —and i n Ifonour to his memory. and as a and s a Christian, And Patriot a t S h h e e d causeused of well h iaen country 0 wisely le ry d s pect and yet faithf l u remembrance tribute of unfeigFe Long Orchard—as th ~crave in e wayfarer of old. upon that e . me/ee l of granite on the roadside cairn, so let us no less earnestly threw each this f the grand army still love to the soldiers o . . eve to hang at or as on the railings round the column in the Place i n tervals UP homage of Vendome, the immortelles. "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. Episeppal Establish. ment in Ireland "carried confusion among Ministers" — causing, in fact, the memorable secession from the Cabinet of Mr. Stanley, Sir James Graham, .Lord Ripon, and the Duke of Richmond. Then came the finit -, up of the vacant offices by ,Mr. Spring Rice, Lord Carlisle, Lord Auckland, and the Marquis of Conyngham. The difficitl ties arising 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 en 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. Than, it will be re membered how Sir Robert Peel—the " groat man in a great position," was sent for to Italy, " summoned from Rome to govern England." The dissolution of Parliament was the inevitable consequence—'Jr. 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 the choice of a Speaker —on the 26th on Lord Morpeth's amendment to the address—and on the resignation of the ambassadorship to the Court of tit. Petersburg by the late Marquis of Londonderry (a resignation consequent upon Mr. Shen 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 overeign. 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 tnent. 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 Governmeet--TLord John being Home Secretary, Lord.. Palmerston, Minister for Foreign Afaira, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Lord President, and Mr. Spring Rice,' Chancellor of the Exchequer. Then came what was called (by a perversion of a phrase of Mr. Shell'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 Lion 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 hie Par liamenteSey 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 ou thc 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 c,elivery 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 he himself produced, and yielding to the dramatic impulse of the moment, as he indignantly reiterated the word Aliens,' 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 without difficulty restored ; and when,. -at the termination of the splendid passage with which the orator eoncluded, ho 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 souse 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 ?" Mr. M'Cullagh 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, wo can imagine something of the ernotien 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." Upon the occasion of the dissolution of Parliament, imme diately upon the Queen's accession, Mr. Sheil 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 pro ferred post (then by good luck vacant) of the Commis siouership of Greenwich Hospital, and having thereby va cated his seat was for a fourth time returned by the elec tors of Tipperary, this time, moreover without opposition. He had now therefore the opportunity at length afforded 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,' he 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 for cheers ; the thing that is hard to catch, and when caught, to bold, is the silent attention of the house. When you have s 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 to him from that high knowledge. A signal defeat of Mi nisters on the Jamaica Government Bill led to the resig nation of Lord Melbourne's Cabinet on the 7th May, 183 9 , The Arabia steam - transpoirtleft Po r t smou th f or Liver - but " Sir Robert Peel having declined to accept the Pri miership unless all the principal appointments in the Household, including those held by ladies, were placed st JEALOUS his disposal," the reins of office were again confided to the , THE WIPE. By Miss Pardoe: 3 vole.— pont yesterday. hands of him whom Mr. Disraeli has loved to designate . The Jealous Wife is tale of great power • its deli withty Never such an inaffable sneer, the Arch Mediocri • neation of the most terrible of human passions in the exquisitely theless towards the close of the session, it was found nfectehse heart of a wife, and of its effects on the husband, are vary to modify rather considerably the constitution o truthful._ The chief interest _of such a work Melbourne Government. These changes in the organise of tiers of the newly-reinstalled Cabinet was announced on the lies, of course, in the growth and working out the main characters, and this is admirably done. 'The 29th of August, 1839, and included among. the . m e re th ce e n t l e y . Jealous Wife' is something more than a pleasant tale for moval of Lord John Russell to the very na p m os e l l t y w: n t il hat of the (Juno, 1855) once more occupied, an idle hour ; its pathetic interest may serve as a lesson Colonial Secretaryship, ition at the head of d Lord Norrnanby: to many who read it. As an authoress of fiction, Miss the Home Department being assu r. his late ni p e os Spring Rice as Chan. Pardoe has never done anything better than this work." Mr. Francis Baring succeeding M Mr..Labouchere becoming p r® _ —Globe. caller of the Exchequer ; sident of the Board of Trade m the room of Mr. Poulett . EMIGRATI N —The Limerick Reporter says :—On Thompson, elevated t o the p eerage under the title of Lor d hundred persons left Limerick by the early train on taking the place Sa- Sydenham ; Mr. Macanlay Mr• More O'F of Lord turday morning, en route to America and Australia. The llowich Secretary at War; • errall succeed- scene at parting with friends and relatives was, as usual, ime in nt due e V t i i e m e- e P h r o e w si : Ca'shaSrelcerseWood as Secretary to the Admiralty ; Mr- of the most painful description. Nearly all the emi s cu i t t Shell in his turn rec f e T i v r i a n d e e , t e p a i i ffi ) grants were young men and young women, and those dent of the Board o began to star ' t up round the Whig Ministry, they left after them appeared to be advanced in years. belt gradually 'lt*mately these were multiplied with The Clare Journal adds :—We observe with some Bur en(' u mushroom ra- 'n the pidity. A deficiency revenue amounting to no less prise and regret that the emigration mania has again set than 2,400,000 1 . had in 1841 t o b e supplied somehow—and in. During the past week large numbers of men, wo with that purpose in view a Free Trade Budget was at men, and children have left this Win and neighbour• l o go, revised upop, by the Ad m i u • 4. hocci principal for Amnia. lawravlon 4,44v4 k ez. _ Y) N, fillU RS AY• EVEN N G- 9 7 JULY ; 1855. family tutor, the Abbe de Grimean, a native of Langue doc, one of the priestly refugees froth the infidel revolu tion. Subsequently, this swine good Abbe conducted his young scholar across the Channel to London. and left him, still a mere child (iu his eleventh year), at_ a French academy then flourishing in Kensington House, tinder the care of the Fires de la Foi—no less a personage than Mon sieur le Prince de BroL;lie, tieing. there installed as head of the establishment. Here Richard- Shed took his place in the school-room, having on one side of him a lubberly brat,. the son of the Count Docar, and on the other a hands , une young Creole, one Davarieux, fr)in Martinique. The middle boy of the group, Richard Shell himself, being at the time, accorOing to the account of one of his associates, "a strange wayward boy, callous, and slovenly in dress, and very imperfectly educated." His • gliiet instructor here, according to his own ac'knOwledgment, in an animsted record of his "Schoolboy Recellectionn,".published'neA , rly 30 years - afterwards in the New Monthly Magazine, Genoese, M. Molinari. From the Frenoh school at Ken sington, Sbcil was removed. during the Oetober of 1804 to the Catholic College of Stonyhurst.• Here he was entered as a student on tlie 24th of that s:ime October, and here he remained until the sth of November, 1 , :07: is *thus described by one of his college mates (Mr.. Justice Ball), when, at tho'age of 13, he first entered the pt ecincts of the Jesuit alma mater, near the town of Olitheree,..in Lanca shire : , • " His first 'appearance I recollect well: it was strikingly grotesque. His face -was pale and 'meagre ; his . limbs lank ; his 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 Shen. His perform ances wero at first as singular as his pereon. His efforts to kick a football wero sai generic. He never engaged iu - 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 ball, until a kick at it, proba bly from the left leg, solved the problem; andAten 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 its a pupil of Doctor Wall, now Vice-Prorest of 'the 'University. . Not long afterwards his father was so far ruined as to be compelled to part with Bellevue for 28 000/ and after paying off very coeeidereble 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, spon taneously provided Richard Shell with an allowance of 1001. per annum until such time as he could he 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 ou 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 uasettled air, he nevertheless contrived even then, by that maiden effort, to make au impression upon his auditors. Insomuch chat at the close of his speech he receive 4 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 Lincoln's-inn. It was on the first day of HUary term, 1814, that he was ad mitted a member of the Irish bar • and on the 19th of February, in the same year (Shell being then ju..t turned twenty-three), that (with O'Niel acting the character of the heroine) our young adventurer witnessed the per formance of his first dramatic effort—Adelaide; Or, The Emigrants. This was at the Crow-street Theatre, Dublin. The tragedy was successfuls—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, and rhetorical exercises, while at Stonyliurst, rejoicing though he did at his precocious cele brity as an orator at the Catholic meetings, and gratified beyond 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. The bent of the young man's earlier ambition was, however, not to be interfered with. He possessed, so far as it wont, 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 beanie 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 4postate, the success of which was triumph ant. For the copyright of this he received from Mr. Murray 3001., and from the managers of the theatre 4001.-700/. 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. Shell's third tragedy, entitled Beli.armira; or, The Fa!lof Tunis, for which the author received 3001. from the theatre, and 101. (from Mr. Murray) for the copyright. It was during the re hearsal ef this piece that the following incident inter rupted the business of the scone with an unexpected burst of laughter at the young Irish poet's bull of explanation. At the end of the 'fourth act:Montalto, T . eviien seeking to rescue his daughter from the grasp of Aanuratia, instinctively feels the handle of his sword, forgetting that in the previous scone 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 I' 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. Youug 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 produceSsor) scarcely eenceeled his secret and gnawing solicitude. " All went' well, however. There was some applause, no murmurs, and at length, sick of his owe misgivings, and con scious perhaps that he 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 luigering 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 - contineons 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 trgady of Evadne.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 Shell'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 .evadne were beyond all doubt, the author received from Mr. Murray no more than ono hundred guineas for the copyright- 4001, 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, 1829, was first performed his serious play, or dramatic poem, as it is more accurately designated by his biographer, Montoni. 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 1821, of Massinger's Fatal Dowry—and his production, four years earlier, conjointly with Mr. Minim, of the then eminently successful play of Damon 'and Pythias. With these particulars we may close the record of Richard Shell's graceful labours as a dramatist. hile 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, he 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, extol Z ing his acquaintance by a strange , contrast to the foregoing; a mong a very different class of celebrities-e-when on visit ing Paris he seized the opportunity to obtain an introduction to Telma. Although Mr. M'Cullagh given no date in connection with an event so interest ing to the generality of biographers as that of the marriage of the individual whose life is being celebrated in the memorial, we are allowed to conjecture from the con text of the narrative that it was some tune 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 sister to Colonel Sir Wil liam M`Mahon, 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 he 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 in Florence, while sojourning at the court of Tuscany as ono of the representatives of his Sovereign. In recounting these incidents, which might reasonably 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 there islaude dosing an in terval no lees momentous than the tint half of the present century. He has traced out anew the whole annale of the Catholic Question. Beginning in earnest with that first spurious attempt at the conciliation of all parties, whop, towards the close of 1821, Ord Liver Pool deemed, it advisable to appoint Mr. Goutboru chief secretary, while entrusting Lord Wellesley with - the - Vieeroyalty, re teining Mr. Gregory as under-secretary, and Sir George Hill as vice-treasurer, and Lord Manners as Chancel- I lor a ,unpopuiar thongh - they were 'as atnrefg 'tire entire vire lentepertisens of • 'scendancy. lt was shertlyafterwards, on the 7th January, 1822, that Mr`slieil IsePplidel an 'aa dress which heel been moved by Mr. O'Connell, congratu lating Lord Wellesley upon -his nomination to the Lord Lientenantey. Two deyslater, on the_ 9);'a, of that same 3:inuety; Ttire'Sheilwas gladdened-by tea birbli of his only child (a son who expired premature ly some yeas" after s wanis id What should have been the b nen ( of - him early men ;, hotel); ,and a little while laterstill w - Barro,wfally etricken by taaradeath of his YOung Wife from - peleaperal fever— a calamity under the influence of which the bent:yed hus band long. remained inconsolably despondent. ' It Was about tills period, during the eourai Of 1522, that: Richard Lalor Shell and Willienr Henry Curran com menced that joint series of papers entitled ."- Sketches or the Irish Bar," which continued to be for some time con spicuous among the chief attractions of the New elforithig, . 211 (ta4zifg:...707, fecehtla, these are:myna:etas .effusions have been collected together, and separately issued under the names oftheiyaeepective authors, in-two distinct pub lications. The "Sketches—Legal and Political,',' jotted doWn in those wonderful mivasielike pen-and-ink "por traits from thelife".by, Mr.- Sheil, we ourselves took occa sion, not long - since; td - co - amend in these columns as ear neetlyae we bell vs) them toehaae deerved, to an spacial share in the popular Consideration. Sincewhich limo the companion t reprint, comprising the kindred aencillings' from the hand of Mr. Curran, pencilliugs equally masterly in thcirvigOunand verisimilitude, have, in like manner, according to, promise, ,made their appeaeanco. So that the various: essays constituting this ample and brilliant series may now readily enough be traced to the. Steele and Addison of that notable department of the Wen, Monthly. Passing down that ample portrait gallery, we may t now, - therefore, recognisa, on one hand, the canvass - Woe which " It. L., S." has delineated the features of Bushe e and Sau• rin, ener3ey, and 'Bellew, and O'Loghlin, of'lca lle Foster and ; Lord Narbeiry and, on - the - other : hand, the, , confronting canvass upon wbiabet"ares4,,, C,{.-has de picted; with a trnthluliress as untaisterkeeahle as that which apparrea in every line and tint of his brilliant con frere or callaborateur the lineaments of O'Connell, and ' North, and Wallace, and Doherty, of Sergeant G-oold and Lord Plunkett. Collectively these sketches commanded for themselves a large amount of public atteption, 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 demagogues, in,ea be said to have commenced in earnest with the memorable 12th of May, 1823, when in a meisting pre sided ever by Lord Killeen, the present Earl of Fingall, the celebrated C tholic Association was formally inaugurated. The Wonderful career of Daniel O'Connell had already been, sonie time before then, commenced. That of •Richard Sheil, in his political capacity had, up to the date we have just given, remained unanticipated we suspect by:himself even in. his moments of moat sanguine expectancy. It 'began' then, however, and it must be allowed 'after that period t 3 have been anything but tardy or obsdure in its development, It was second only in impedance to that of the Liberator. But second; of course, to hishy au enor mous difference-aby a difference as immense asthat dividing the fortunes 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'Cullagh'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 in these volumes, Save by an occasional, and then always .an unavoidable, " aside." The whole at tention ,is concentrated throughout upon •.Sheil, , 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 Imnerial Legislature—a petition laid upon' the table of the Upper Hous© by Earl Grey, and uponthatof the Lower House by Mr. Brougham. It is interesting now to remember that the association held its first sittings in a small room in the house of Mr. Cayne, a Cepel-street bookseller. Later on, when it heel grown rather considerably in importance, it removed to a Parlia ment House of its own, famous in the first instance as the Corn Exchange, and afterwards as the renowned Concilia tion Hall. It was in the spring.of 1825 that Mr. Shell, in company with Mr. O'Connell and several of the leading Members of the association, proceeded to London ass mem bers of a deputation. Durin g 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. Hopesliko these were strangely encouraged, when; on the 21st of Apia, the second reading of the Relief 13i11 was carried iu the Commons bye majority of 268 to 241—but four days afterwards, on the 25th of April, no less strangely dashed to the duet, when the Duke of York (then heir presumptive to the Crown), with an indecent outburSt of Orange fanaticism, declared in the Lords, that in whatever situation of life -he wig,htate„pleasl (lluding, of course, in this, to his-advent tae-the ti .reW a lle , would adhere to the anti-Catholic prinitiplekhe had. always ex pressed—" So help him God !" Tile duke's speech was thereupon " printed in letters of gold, and became the Shibboleth of party and the watchword of Ora egeism." Almost immediately afterwards; or at least on tho 20th of August following, the Irish' Catholics recovered With re rowed energy from their delusive day-dreainiags—the date just mentioned - being that solemnly inaaegurative .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 eider Pitt as far back as 1759, that France looked to the discontent of Irsland, 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 tip by the permission to the electors of the exercise 'of their franchise in favour, whenever it so pieta:el them, of their Catholic compatriots ! Until •the motion of Mr. Fox in 1891, 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. MuCh had yet to be accomplished before the pear was mellow—before it dropped in, the rude blast of the Clare election, and under the effect of reiterated concussions by the association. goo d cause, Toward s fully, and t h p i e s r e t i n n d a c y o r u . s l S y h . e i I H . l e a b t o o u i i r e e d d i c e ou t r b a e geously, man both in speaking and writing. Nay, his oratorical laborite alone appear to have been twofold in their character, foi Mr. M'Cullagh tells us, in regard to the subject of his bio graphywbitbethmaetaintt"tweassahyiL(Ssherdiresm)htarbeietttionwgrite before hand Unpremeditated peril of the extemporaneouhs.ininselof exerted o er t t h ed e his energies in the holy cause, moreover, at ones) 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'Etorlet a journal published afterwards under the title of•La Gazette do 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 in the midst of-this stormy and anxious crisis in his public career that Richard Sheil was thus described to the very life by a keen French observer, M. - Duvergier. • SHIM THE ORATOR ! " ' Were I commissioned,' writes Mr. Dnvergier, 'to take down the eignalement of Mr. Shell, this vainid be very nearly the v re i c e s u ul p t a : le five eh f i e n et v fo e u in r t ; ed efes ba q i u r ic d k and dark; mouth middle-sized, I flatter myself I shoul d have given a and d erc i ing n : dd co ie m g: description not to be excelled in exactness at the bureau des paeseports. But this is the portrait of too 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 Juveeal,. of Pinder, and of Mirabeau. His ; hi h s is sai e •e n a t s h m, u s e i a a t e i i i i T ie i e s a s r h ri r e e e wd ye a u nd a w it i a t y ing ; W i l i sp e nb o e e t fi ry in g d s a f z e z r l e at s 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 voice is meagre, harsh, and shrill; but a profound emotion seems to regulate its vibrations. His gesture is f q e u e i t e k a e , e a e b r r ud withp t , andeu such a t s h e e n r t i d m i s e o n r t d e e r a s b ly b ; e hasut i t t 0 r s i express. alwyi n as s p h eer i i possesses in an eminent degree the surprising faculty of ex citing himself to the very verge of delirium without once losing his complete Self-possession. I was at all his limbs his side whilst speaking and more than on ce I saw tremble ; a moment after h e resumed the discussion with not less composure than i n g enuity. taste, Like the En g li s h, ; whom in other particulars he so little resembles, Sheil is too badd e bestite it of may. also of quotati observedou s,. funde s beo speeches; and in general it has b een remarked, that in both elocution and diction there is so mething too much of t he theatre about him. These repro aches lave some appearance an in of being well-founded, as more th once deed I imagined I had the figure of Kean actually before me, but then I must 0 eeas Certain ien a lly passages i disfiguren 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 s ceabsolute a triumph.' " It is curious to observe in opp osition to thi s animated sketch of Sheil by an impartial forei g ner, that given not very long afterwards by one of t he orator's ow n country men. We allude to a passage in Moore 's Dia r y," un d er date 14th September, 1830, where it it observed : " Shell, one of the earliest speakers: his manner, action, 110., 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 producing (in an I r i s h audience at least) great excitem ent. This—of one who was very scion 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 lie Association as above related, the members of it never once relaxed their efforts until the final triumph o f the cause of emancipation. It sho uld be o bserved, however, thet there was, indeed, a m omentary suspen s i on o f agita tion at that one other slip 'twixt the cup and the 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. On the 10th of April, 1827, Mr. Canning filled u 2 the place vacated by the ]?eke of WOlllOlOO2 Lora .eilacos Mr, Joel, Lord . . af.liiirst, Melville, and Westinoreland, by intluctir7 into o;Ece men M ike i the Duke ,otabirence, the Duke of °Pert 13.nd, the Marquis ,of Angles*, and Lords Lansdowne, Ocderichl- ( "Abotit this -{iine, by the wIIY, Shell himself was threatenqd • with indictMent for a speech which had been re3ardect by the rate Cabinet as f3etlititl'.3 and inflammatory. The new Pro uder, however, setting- the pro tell prostfution aside as preposterous, a; 'rule of noire prdscvii , Was forthwith entered by the Attorney-General. --sooh afterwards a severe fracture of his -leg by,a fall from his horse, on the 28th of Jtfue, threw Mr.. Slwil noon that ccucha vffering, upon which lie received; on the 10th of August, the start ling new.l of the sodden and calamitous death of the Prime- Minister. 'Thereupon succeeded a number of. changes handy less remarkable 'than the premature evenl in which they had orighiated-political changes, the first and,naost notable of which was , the installation of the me reOrs,ble Cabinet of the Duke of Wellington.„ An mind -1828, c e ll i sL a n u g . r i a i n l o ri ti o n i r!t f t7i i s s' t j 'e isi 9 i t e h d members—of a . n j M a t n r:. r v Cit i n; a 3 and Grant, ..Mr. 11ml:1as - on, • A ucl ' Lord Palmerston ; of other ethaucipationists, Lord Melville and Loril,Venborongh and of foes to the nuttier removal of religions disabilities (seine fast, some laese),'besides the'Preinier himself, Peel, fferries, Goulburn, Aberdeen, andlryndhurst. It was a coalition, in fact, between the -old ultra Tories of Lord Ehhin's school, and the half Ij.beral, half axidtoerati:".Can ningites ; a coalition so insecure, however, that by the 20th of May not Only Mr. Iluskisson, but with him Mr. 'Lamb and Mr. Grant, Lord DiullyY and Lord Palmerston, had all of - them "quitted' the Adminis tration. It can hardly yet be forgotten how and by whom they Wer3 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 Eirl of Aberdeen ; Viscount Pahnerston, secretary-at-War, by Sir Henry Hardinge; and Mr. Grant, as President of the Board of Trade, by Vesey Fitzgerald. The .last=nained alone is of itself - sufficiently suggestive—for on the acceptance - of office by _Ntr. Vesey Fitzgerald hung as an inevitable consequence th.o:(2kr6 eloction—ttie famous' Clare eleotiorf that trst sea" oanill O'Connell to the Imperial Lea latiiee as Mein bar for All Ireland ! .... It-appears to tei rather strange that Mr. M'Cullegh, in mentioning the curious share taken by Mr. Shell in the notorious Orange meeting upon' Penenden Heath, on the 24th of October,. 18t8, sould give a version of the pro ceedings so different from that given by Mr. Sheil himself in the article penned by bins almost immediately after wards for 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'Cullegh, 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 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 mart-el with a comical affectation of bewilderment over the seemingly miraculous manner in which The Sun, the journal vaguely implied by thehiographei as "one of the evening papers," had obtained so wonderfully accurate a report of an oration which no one upon Penenden Heath or anywhere else could possibly have heard' delivered ! Nevertheless, while making this facetious acknowledgment with a gravity the moat sedately ludicrous, Mr. Shell for mally vouched, at the same time, for the veracity of the speechreperted in this magical fashion in The Sun as the faithfal 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 perwal 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 speeking of the Catholic claims for emancipation, as claims in the justice of which—" Burke, 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 about 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, 18e9, 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 31st 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 '..93,elief Bill." from the ancient burthen under the weight of which sho 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. He 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-beink of hie 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 Celtio million, rho- political mirage that led astray up to lt,ohoe t voefrym theirom m e i n g t o ilt y fdeath the er,revere d otherwise t g s. tb e isle. chosen ins Chief,n e and beloved as their Liberator. To the fi nit fascinations of the new movement Mr. Shell himself succumbed for a time being welcomed with extraordinary enthusiasm on the 29th of November, 18.31, whenhe first joined the Repeal Associa tion—but, finally, withdrawing from it (after the rejection of Mr. O'ConnelPs motion for 'Repeal on the 29th of April, 1834), when the Question was peremptorily get aside by a formal decision of '533 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 Cutho lie 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 wag only in fact towardg the close of Trinity Term, 1830, that Mr. Sheil was calledewith some others to the inner bar—Daniel O'Connell, inconiparahly the most illustrious of the whole Laxly, 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—Sheil , contra.cted 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. Shod 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 Later Shell 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'Clintoek,`their more fortunate antagonists. Subsequently, however, after the defeat of Ministers on Sir Henry Parpell'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 Pert, in Dorsetehire. • At last the dream of his early bcyhood was realised.' At last he bim 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 groat 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 carelesiness to all other external affairs, nature has given him 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 conse quent upon which dissolution, Mr. Sheil was returned both for Mil borne Port and for the County of Louth, and, elect ing to sit for the latter, a new writ had to be 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, audit 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. "It was on the 15th of February, only ten days afterwards, that Lord Grey introduced, iu the Upper House, the cele brated bill for the suppression of disturbances in Ireland— on the 27th it was read for the first time in the Com mons, on the motion of Lord Althorp--snd, 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 Aithorp, 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. Shell, in the presetice 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 aed 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 IhnaY do so without irreverence, in the presence of God, that if any individual has said to the noble lord or to others, that I gave any appr bation of the Coercion Bill in private he has belied me by a gross and scandalous calumny ; but as the noble lord has put the state ment on his own responsibility, I shall say no more. Then followed Alan nad deoltory dila/Woo, ending in a ihZ • :I.oi ~~ '+ m " t ~ ~~ ~+ ':,~>-< Ce p ~ . .. . EEITABLISUED 1803. , d, I le ' 4 'n -0 IT E MILLION STEELING. • ilsell .. 1 ! . r . All Paid-Up and Invested in 1806. ........... .:,, ate ...... ''' ~ - 9 12 E INSURANCE. ......... !' ...... ~" 9 1 4% Ir. rittsv ........ ~..., Pow,. M E LD .sq., M.P., F.R.S.—f'hainnan. ..... (4.... 11 ' EWSAM• Esq.—Deputy Chairman. ...... „. ,, 0 rrit —RGE cARR GLYN, Esq.. M.P.—Treasurer. ... ....... ~,' ... ' 1 1 E. LIFE : ANNUITIES: REVERSIONS. rotten ..... ~."'li ~,, Cornhill and Pall Mall, London. .......... „..."0 ,t4e ESL : nl P o wered by Special A c t s o f P ar li amen t. ..."0 et tS pgrt RAN CES granted from Fifty to Ten Thousand Pounds, -se, ,ctilarly favourable to the Younger and Middle periods 11 ...... i " .. ,,..1 No •tIOP O° „. , 'g x,,,,, Charge for Stamp Duties on Life Policies. . 4 Class 4' FIRE 'eeS ••" ... 01',1 N oel o• and LIFE Insurancetransacted. eater lciar A it ti lt ()t p e r s, Medical Fees generally paid. _. ....., , • . with' Life Tables •on various plans,—may be had tbYE doe " • + and of any of the Agents. ' , s Aber •-.. • r*,> ,, ...,___ . V2IILLIAR NEWHARCII, Secretary. a ttit 47s ........ 4,„ to 1, S . SU ITS.--The 16s. trousers reduced rl, > re, 4757•11,; trousers and waistcoat, 225.; coat. waistcoat, and ---""..- I N 41 3 , 41; a de to order from Scotch tweeds, all wool And S. t5,; e 10?8, 9 4 : 4 1 1 , 1t: the two guinea dre , s oi frock coat guinea , ~N, 1 1 , 2`4 I , i '„„""'l the half-guinea waistcoat—snade to order by B. ~,If 4,11 orkro,,::_tcrehant tailor, 74, Regent-street. For quality, style, he g e" 's , k krie'euttil.caunot be equalled by any house in the kingdom. :) at guaraneed. ---0 , 1, , , T st 04 tr,A . T -i v .,, ton port . 9 . 4 '4 4,, ' li:: ll oLlik,'` Acl ti r W„ CASTLE FIRE !—MILNERS' i. deb' _A i ,: e t ,lI`W rat a .,,,' ~. and FIRE-RESISTING SAFES, with MR ""' ' -' yr ssif: capo st -". sinnpoweer Proof Locks. The strongest, best, -----:, 1 ,ra . ahregllatiiS in the world against Fire, Robbery, or yerPe"" J o q: ah lgt 9 fmrf, ' t : 9 411 '0 1 44 and 4 1 explosion and wide-sprea 1 devastating Fire at verPe ° 0 1 , tv eonv ert i eweastle destroyed property of the value of one althArel)'' ' j d w k ti ,°.e ~, 'Ma, ~;I , „g 3 , large area of warehouses (filled with sulphur, Ilw '''tel ) C''lZS ,f .4 c harcoal, and other highly combustible stores), ~to'' etb.rle i r I y ratt 'l, in m u rs, houses,' &c., into a perfect volcano of fierce, ', „ i n t h t „ eeoitwt,.„ erating, and long-enduring furnace beat, in which Dye ~ 1 koo ) , 4 1 end n;sw_ohle things. hut even bricas, stenes, and iron were '' jilli 1 4 ,.Etro;, e,i ere k 7 Safes of the ordinary k'nd, Iron doored strong .., )11 0 ''' e l 't.r „, ' tint o, rne lted, torn asunder their c ritents charred and Y.- - ~, ' 1 sEatify i ilnd s on i .,'" a o y na'st the many instances ofpreservation, Thomas ova ," o g' 8 test t ,_ . e Pleasure in giving publieity to the following , a , a l ti t l: ll 74, ,,, pliff , s ttrei 7tnttal:— ~.,i . o' ..'•,;;ld, cue 1y ' ,7 E 'en,.....w. " Newcastle-np n-Tyne, Oct. 19. 1854. , D e.l ba oP , i nv k - sh,,A. oo, e ,'calpi et e have great pleasure in stating that. whilst our t tbAI O. A., Rp tt , l.l l .,,re 6% 1 , 1 0 3 , destroyed and burnt down in the . great fire it 100 P ° bill e i 7 ' In , t4 B , a ld g at : ,_, reduced a great many buildings in ...,,,ewcastie po,..iln.qc„.°ttice. l ' ) E cead to ashes, two of your large Holdfase n ithEOPton, , q, o , lfor tth ` ‘ • , 'er ,al'iltve been the means of preserving our books, I_o p o i 11, , the i t rit ac ne ;'° l e documents, although these safes were ex ila,.,_lj, a rfd, h hours to an immense heat, and dug out ot th opilw - 1 f ~. "will ~,e alli tip et state. On opening them we found our pnnci ,uilibaraP° pa 4 o/,,. 4 ,,its @l re ,whlgo r i s I n a good state of preservation. Some of the ' g at qty to 'cr:i i , a nl discoloured, but we are happy to say they " ' 1 es t° t^ t 'te chn'a'a purpose they were intended for: We feel it over nor, outhattly .., ~1. Aelticati_ese facts, and will thank you to make us new ' 4 We are, gentlemen, yours truly, ooVe i litt e , w ,irs, T, .. r ill. ' 1 4: 181 ';. 1 ':Its , Villas Milner and Son." "A. LEIDLatANN AND CO. 00Ve r . :::pt0 1 l i LON.- eJo th e %IX SAFE WORKS, LIVERPOOL. The most outiti .— 1 .0 . 0 0. i ..s • world. iJ , E pa o ufhator' '' ,l 4 . 1 q T. 47A, 11 .10ORGATE-STREET, City. - o nd ' or. ';,;5• . ,,i,E, ' ,whetter - r f '. It 4 ooYer "',O l if 1,4, K v ESEND S - T A ont hsk:l,T, , - iircerp PACK E T 8 .1pootlE.• , Elegy .. . 9 cacmik.iettlitheall at the G rey lithe and Purtleet Pte-s. lover "... ' R R. 031 ,„ e Piers as underlined (weather permitting /over' ' t. . 1 /4 " ii TERRACE PIER, GRAVESIZND. th-ha°04'110„P11 t 1).11; ' "Os. ,ou b woo t ,• ___ stremAy,. 011/..a_, , . 1.7 4 11 .' ''' •-• aVerP ° ,' . . : t 1 si t> tl 'i Ez . ~ ~,. ~. 0 8 t." ~.= Time .n gf. i. - . lover .., \l .„,. ..i. , II _ '-' ▪ • i •e,Si - k \l COURT OF CHANCERY. ~.A ll. --On the 29th of May, 1855, an a unp "a.s granted by the High Cbutt of Chancery, and 'Olowing was made perpetual against J,•seph f fem , , to restrain them, under a penalty of one thou t„..rs la ntatinz this Medicine, which is protected by " 441 44 - j e A t t oi the and secured by the seats ot the I , w , Paris, and the Imperial College of Medicine, 07), for /lei TREEsEmkg, No. 1, I tv,, th ^s Sperinatorrhosa. and Exhaustion of th• ' • 4 44„" , r5.0 n - "sing from excmes accident, or climate. • 4 Pe ais who are prevented enterinit the married state by ii rt iOal l , 01 early errors it is invaluable. ti tSNA' In it, ritrEsEmAtt No. '2, 11( ')o B "'rt space of three days, completely and li. tip --,Dowee:aeesuth of those Disorders which Capivi and Cubebs terhean antidote for, to the ruin of the healtt ' lB Population 'OSt,tiCepf.,, • TRIEREMAR No. a, • " L ?l's' Remed y for ' that class of Disorders, whict k,;klrll;i'iketo-;"gilsh physician treats With Mercury, to the in -4'44:0 the ,‘," the patient's constitution, and which all the t, 10t,a4 xerld cannot remove. tii4tlseat i :' I, 2. and 3, are alike devoid of taste or smell V;lt t 4 thi bei g i „. u allties. They may lie on the toilet is t „.4s t , rts at suspc , !ted. tr each, free by post, 2s. extra, divided ante ue h ad ",„,.`tirdnistered by Valpeau, Lallemand, Roux, k t le t 'wholesale and Retail in London ofJohniton, 68, Oxford-street: and Sanger. an, Ox • ' "ook druggist, 46, Market-street, Manchester ; bean;gate Bolton ; J. PrieAly, chemist, 52, 441 ' 11 1, C' l ; Powell, bookseller, 'l5, Westmoreland-street, lrseller High-street, Birmingham. 11 16 tV 1 1, " b , • .ttiikied, price 55., by.rost, free, ss. i 6d., of the URETHRA : its Rational tq l ; k "all g .„-a.aikent and Prompt Cure. 0 4 ,,, , 11 of th A y F. B. COURTENAY, fat "oYal College of Surgeons of England. 4, 11 " q '°,ll'tenay's experience 'lithe treatment of stric- Oat 4 ot t ,pt of w entY Years has equalled, if, indeed, it has not t t i t i ly of his contemporaries. It is, therefore, no ti t tllN it 411 d . at he should enjoy the reputation of being a . R•oir eal kilful manipulator with urethral instruments , 0 1 1 9 b M4cti ern bered that-the lamented Liston used to assert oifi r ,rko,:ei, l 7 l of instruments through a stricture which had 4 1 . 4 , 4 4 j, t , l "ti o ,? r , ',able to them, was the most difficult in the 6' n 's'ai operations, it must be no slight source . of o f `it t ,, , h.f• i eipa . et ".. u rtenay's part , to have achieved the reputation t4 411 c0,,,44, we , and for our part, with the knowledge we have race en trust the treatment of a severe case of stricture L• oa ol mciro u,ar. Bailliere, 219, Regent-street. Fiep OPAL POLYTECHNIC - INSTITUTION. , Tor one nicht only, WEDNESDAY, the 18th instant, et Eight o'clock. A ORA VI) MITSTCAI, ENTERTAINMENT will he 'Riven ty Mr. GEOR(CE BUCKLAND, assisted by the iblioaving eminent Artists :—N•siss Clari Fraser, Mr. T. Young, Mr. Henry fir.ilnel land, Gavel' ein, and Mr 't ontem Smith. The Seleetio, will consist of Glees, Duets, and Songs from the most eminent com posers. ARGYLL ROOSTS.—lmmense success of the new d once, L A VARSOVIANA : Music by 11. LAURENT. —Danced every evening.