The Express.
London, England, 1847-05-24 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, MAY 24, 1847.

of Centerbury. A greet deal of interest was excited upon
the 'abject la Dodoes' Commons, and among the clergy.
The result, of course, flue the presentation of the Yen.
Archdeacon Hale to the vicarege.
hrtrinta.r. ACOIDENT qY, THE RIXEL- fore
Mr. Carter, at the Swan Tavern; IBattetsia-bridge, .0
attja
body of Mr. Henry Bone, aged 31, a caul me lately
rod ding at No. 69, Pall-mall, who lost his life in the river,
near Bettersea.bridge, on the afternoon of Sunday week.— Mr.
W. Meiaon, jun., stated that he was amis..ant actuary in the
Medical Assurance Office. On Sunday lust, about hal/-
Mho:e, he started with the deceased in e wherry to row to
Immediately after passing through Battersea-
, IMAM the boat got into a currant; the wind wu blowing
Mad and meetseg the tide the bead of the beat dipped
riesiolt, and she filled immediately. They were sitting up to
theft middle in water, when the deceased, who thought that
the boat might keep afloat with only one in her until aria-
Imo tame, in the noblest manner, said to witness," You
Rake ha to the boat ; I can swim boldly." He then roee
Yi clinnAt WWI tithe boat. This action caused the boat to
upset wham wu thrown into the water, and by dint of
extraordinary perseverance, contrived to regain a hold of the
boat, which was then bottom upwards, and in that state he
wu picked up by two captains of the Citisen steam-b tats
and another waterman. It was ti,,t until then that he be-
came aware that the deceased had not preserved hie own
4(o.—James Springett, waterman, deposed that on Friday
morning, about eight o'clock, he was rowing down the river,
alongside the Surrey shore, when he perceived the body of
the deceased in the water. It was in a perpendicular posi-
tion, and the head was above the water—The jury returned
a verdict of "Accidentally drowsed."

MEMOIR OF O'CONNELL.
Daniel O'Connell was the eldest son of Morgan
O'Connell, of Carhen, Esq., and of Catherine, sister of the
O'Mullane, of Whitechurch, in the county of Cork, a most
respectable and ancient Irish family. lie was born at Car-
hen, a'eout a mile from the pr.sent post town of Cahirciveen,
in the county of Kerry. His birth occurred on the 6th of
August, 1775—a yeas rendered memorable by the commence-
ment of the contest between England and her American cola-
nine. In this place his childhood end boyhood were passed—with
the elioeption of protracted visits to Derrynane, the seat
d hie e'r's eldest brother, Maurice O'Connell, who being
abildless himself, adopted his nephews, Daniel and Maurice,
and took, in a great measure, the charge of their
education upon himself. A pose old hedge•chooloms.
ter, named David Mahoney, was the first person who taught
Daniel O'Connell his letters. Happening, upon one of his
rounds in quest of charitable assistance, to call at Carhen-
house, he took young "Dan," then four years old, upon
his lap, and was playing with him, when perceiving
that the child's hair, which was long, had got couch tangled,
he took out a box-comb, and combed it thoroughly %About
hurting him; in gratitude fee which the child readily con-
sented to learn his letters from the old man, and perfectly
and permanently mastered the whole alphabet in an hour
end a half.
At the age of thirteen he wan sent to the school of the Rev.
Mr. Reerington, the first held by a catholic priest since the
pedal laws. At the end of a year his uncle Maurice took
lin and his brother from this school, and sent them to the
senticent. lie proceeded from Dover to Ostend, and at the
farmer place Mr. O'Connell's first acquaintance with Eng-
land was marked by a ducking in the surf, the boat having
capsized through some mismanagement in beaching her.
Arriving at Liege, he was found to have passed the ago when
bop could be admitted as students; and was therefore
obliged to return to Louvain, to await instructions from
home. While thus detained, Maurice gave himself up to
boyish amusements, but Daniel, prompted by his nobler
instincts, entered as a volunteer in one of the halls at Louvain,
end ere the arrival of letters from home, had risen to • high
place in a clam et 120 boys. They were ordered to St.Omer's,
where they remained a year, when they removed to the Eng-
lish college of Douay for some months. At St. Omer'e Daniel
rose to the first place in all the classes. Dr. Stapylton, pre-
sident of the college there, writing to his uncle, made the
following almost prophetical remark : " With respect to the
elder Daniel, I have but one sentence to write about him,
and that is, that I never was so much mistaken in my life as
I shall be, unless he be destined to make a remarkable
figure in society."
On the 21st December, 1793, the day the unfortunate
Louis was beheaded at Paris, the brothers set out In s voi-
tore for Calais. As soon as they got into the English pac-
ket boat, they eagerly tore out of their raps the tricolor
cockade, which the commonest regard for personal safety had
made indispensable at that time in France. Mr. O'Connell
has often said that the horrors of the French re-
volution made him very nearly a tory in heart. In this
state of mind he became a law-student in Lincoln's inn, in
the year 1794. He attended Hardy's trial with strong pre-
judice against the accused, and sympathy with Eldon as the
vindicator of law and social order. In the progress of the
trial, however, he was fully converted, and confirmed in his
natural detestation of tyranny and in his desire to resist it.
The sports in which he moat delighted at this time were fish-
ing and hare-hunting. His eagerness in the latter amuse-
moat nearly cost him his life in 1798. He remained at a
peasant's house in wet clothes, and got cold, which ended in
a violent typhus fever. In the delirium of the crisis, which I
threatened a fatal issue, he was constantly heard repeating
She following lines from the tragedy of " D,suglas:"
Thinailien I die • no tongue shall speak or me :
Sew noble spirits, Judging by themselves,
May yet conjecture what I might hare proved ;
And think life only wanting tomy tame;
During the rebellion Mr. O'Connell served as a private la
the " Lawyers' Artillery." His worries wee signalised by
several deeds of bravery and humanity. 1
Mr. O'Connell's first publie effort as an orator was a epee*
/Ile=the Union. This was a bold step in a young men.
reigned over the land—even protestant" who me-
'situated any national feeling fell under the ban of a bloody 1
intolerance. Undeterred byat considerations of this
catholice kind, he
et
delivered his maiden speech a meeting of this
kind
Dublin, assembled in the Royal Exchange on the 13th
January, 1800, to petition against the Union. The meeting
wu interrupted by a visit from the then redoubled Major
Sire, with his red coats. The calamitous occurrences of
1803 connected with " Emmett's rebellion," found Mr.
O'Connell already in good practice as a lawyer. He was
called on to seem in the " Lawyers' Infantry,' when a deep
impression was made on his mind ey the wanton cruelty
which an exasperated citizen soldiery are often tog ready to
commit, of the tendency that a man has " when he has arms
in his hands, to be a roffisn."
In 180-1 the " Catholic Board" was dissolved by a govern-
ment proclamation ; but it wan revived again under the name
of the "Catholic Committee." The first regularly reported
debate of the Catholic body is to be found in the Dublin
newspapers of January. mos. They met in what was long
after called the " Exhibition House," in Willem-street;
sobsequeutly, and still, the corporation house of assembly.
It was they that Mr. O'Connell commenced his more active
exertions for Catholic emancipation, in which he persevered
amidst the greatest discieusgements, arising chiefly from the
divisions and servility of the Catholic' themselves. Many
of oar readers will recollect Mr. Shell's graphic description
of the everyday life of the agitator about this time—of his
early vigils and devotions, his dimly-lighted study, his beetle
among the attorneys, his hurrying to the Four Courts, his
forensic dieplays,. and kis afternoon exhibitions, when the
man of legal points, formal precedents, and abstruse ergo-
meets was transformed into a fearless rolling agitator, de-
claiming in a popular meeting, playing with a meter's hand,
now on the laughing faculties, and anon, on the deepest
sympathies and passions of hie auditory, depicting with ter-
rible vividness the wrongs of his country, and launching
startling denunciations against her oppressors. In • letter to
Lord Shrewsbury, published in 1842, Mr. O'Connell himself
gives the fallowing scarcely exaggerated account of his
labours :
For more than twenty years before emancipation the
burden of the canoe was thrown upon me. I had to arrange
the meetings—to prepare resolution—to furnish replies to
He ceneeptesdeisse—to ti•Olill• tie else ef sash preen
itirjrn of gunedeel pieveasen—de aria Its towilid—to
sra 11 .11-moo control thwykkon at the in-
fesimestary—to mil Ike sisals and lamb= of ells law—fin
via against maleglki otreochery—onli mt A Ilmm te
at every pall, the *sorrel and nushitodhunis owl-1
=ilit the cause. At a period whim my initiates wens
sewstod by the guinea—orswlslizeieumknionts were Misted.
OMIT by the extent of my add waking prime—
when my meals were eh is tin letenemese , and
my sleep restricted to, the mike ham that
yseiod and farmore than kneel, yoin4 Ihmotita
that I did set detain from one Ohms Meng Asatal
wee, to the wedded eat of air Maine Came; nal
'without Temkin-or Owing the ollbr of any roes
sem for the minal agendituro. lammed in thean=
of kw owe ~..
The gusetimaof On Veto gave rise to a great deal of angry
lIISSMIIfIi.i la the am= "
syitaties Mr. O'Connll 1
' motoniall fl mei would hear of
se "..silly' iirthoellghtent legroorKected his reli- '
51 NY wren wont solar sato write • remonstrance to the I
at SSW aellgo4 which was adopted by the catholics
bat burial not be received at Rome, lest any
• amid ho limn to lay interferess• in eccle-
-1 iisilled marina Dating the captivity ef Pius VII., his
latkftle. getinfilliineti, wee understood to consent to the
" PeduSse' sequired by the English government. The
dM of this, news in Ireland war thus described by a priest
at the time ..—" Soma cursed—others moaned—all com-
plained. July this amening my old tenant maid, without
took weerlitge ...
astfed, oZhlltinselialalcc:etelo me Isabirupdy
kis ' bm Meld Orangeman ? ' "
rs. oilho.oggesod Mr. O'Connell's policy asi to
the Vohs slid m OHO/ I Mr. Shell. In 1921 the 1
peat iseddiaddillniii his or his powerful manifestos to the I
of hOisMr. Shen applied himself with all the
=as of his t eloquencie id destroy fate impression on
lhamablie 61021SZin that his object was to " demon- I
meta the bawd his resomilej and point oat lb. penii-
..7 of Me ailkims.* libP. O'Connell quickly re-
Wad ki * almoldlls• MP be called it, and esnaplained '
ilia nom thefissferiftm bad given him, mesh as
. a flamilyd=r .isets," " a straw in amber," " a
suallight, wilk Irk" dies Thom two peat maw,
beipprer, homme cordial him* awl worked to-
gether very hmainkenly in the Catholio Ameedaden.
In > {spy St Oa most Weal amnia of Yr.
OVooollik awl with Mr. D'Emarre, I stow '
bee of lb. illivommuk whisk gr. O'Connell mad
ZFIT." This Wie- TinwAlha. OA Whitk he was ANL
100 . tis sad to sestavalro ow to mom* that
eggs, sad with whit Ilia 'lam public them
craved ohm this set of ' ill-ailment. Mr. O'Dea-
sell's Kola w Misr K'lleaksm, the prossoit mumber fir
Clare. Kr. Dibblers waimesoMpaasal Mir Edwerdeassley.
They maths landPeroesby' t 12 aillosfaimaa
city. Dikter* Ind Amt sad Mr. O'Cumaell's shot
H
in hie advastris thids_whiolt.liodgizZ
He dial • taw days ; IrW Mr =wird lknekrp
Wormed Kr. O'Connell that there irmaltlo me prossettdas.
Kr. OlCAmaill did sot them glad the Immo and horror