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MR, -MASON JONES
.ON O'CONNELL

TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN TIMES.

Sir,—As an Irishifian, I am, unwilling that English-
men should believe all my countrymen in LiverpoOl
are as intemperate, in opposition, and as impatient
of Coalicting opinion M the " polite " letter-writers
who have denounced Mr. :Mason Jones in your
columns, for his recent Characterisation -of the
extinguidted O'Connell' agitation. lam even. more
unwilling that Englishmen should believe the vast
majority of liberal Irishmen have 'not long since
come to look back upon that agitatiOn, so far as the
years which followed- Catholic Emancipation are
concerned, with *ender and shame. I assume that
O'Connell was, to a great extent, a.,:self-deceived
man. "Even if the evidence of his previous career
were set wholly nSitie, no one can believe -that
intellect and talent 'such as his were ever joined to
mere imposterghip. Mr. Jones did mot, as I under-
stood, declare O'Connell an impostor. He declared
the agitation for Repeal, to ,which O'Connell gave
up so much of his "own and the nation's -best years,
an imposture. r•DteS any one now really'believe it
to have been anything else ? No admiration for the
genius of O'Connell—no grittltude 'for 'his former
services—can disguise from impartial minds the utter
worthlessness,:ind, it must be added, truthlessness
o" that 144, wasting, corrupting career of agitation.
Wnatever men may think of O'Connell's private
sincerity and,purity, no one who has.-to review the
histars oftthe times can‘well condemn too strongly
the fatal paitical scheming which engendered such
for 4 moment* the a system. :Let us suppose
possi-
bility of a parallel in this country. 'Let us suppose

Mr. John Bright to be an advocate for 41 the points
of the Chaiter, and possessed of an absolute control
Over the 'intellecti and hearts of all Englishmen
belocV thexwealthier -Suppece that he got up
a great Charter-Hall in Manchester ; held = great
meetings*Viere every 'week, divered by incessant
monster gatherings :ail over the country ; that he
kept all the. nation in a fervour of excitement,
trembling on theme verge of insurrection; that he

o wer ;' that

he ma

all the

Protbstant and Dimooriting clergy his;agents an,
weapons ; -that he prociairded adherence to his
chatter the -indispcisable test for elevation -to all
municipal offices and seats; IRO -he brought all his
strength to bear towards th6iejection of any man,
however gifted arm good, who -,sought a parliamen-
tary or uninicipatEeat upon-aily other-ground; that
the payment of five pounds towards his organisation
funds, and the swearing of allegiance to-his doctrines,
were sure and emsy passes for any adventurer into
Parliament • that he took off his hat at meetings
-and-called Heaven to witness, that before another
year, the passing of his charter was certain; :and
that he thus continued to act for years, and years,
and years, -although his chances of success, in and
but. of parliament, were at last beginning to fall as
quickly as they had risen, and re-action and disquiet
were setting in among hi s followers: suppose all
this, and a great deal more which I cannot stop to
hint at, were to go on nuclei! the reign of Mr. Bright,
in what language do you think a public lecturer
would, in after years, characterise that career ? A
system in many ways infinitely more objectionable
than that I have endeavoured to describe Mr_ lc

Jones describe's as an imposture. The present con-
dition of Ireland, contrasted with that of the,repeal
years, sufficiently shows that Irishmen in general
have long since arrived at the same conclusion

have given up agitation, and!, as a matter of cosurse,
are growing into recognised importance and pros-
perity. Even Conciliation-Hall has beGn turned
into some good account. I have not seen the building
for many years, but'l believe it is now a storehouse
for good sacks of corn.

But, suppose Mr. Jones has been wrong in his
estimate_ of_ the value of these agitation years ?
_ _

le has

mistaken in his views

mnell as a-statesman ? . Does a publia lecturer
ever,--because he is wrong in his conclusions, forfeit
all claim to 'toifrtesy on the pact of those who differ
with him.? May we not. disapprove of a lecturer's
mud yet restrain our -tongues and pens from
tearseness' 'and vulgar Jeers and stupid denuncia-
tions P -Did Mr. Redmond, during-his *lose intimacy
with O'Connell, learn nothing from him but the
trick of,abusing an oppOnent.? Such .a weapon may
have been powerful in the Mouth of O'Connell; but
we all remember tffelate of the poor little fellow in
one of Scott's novels, who put on the garments of
the brawny smith and tried to mimic
,his walk, and
his whistle, and accordingly fell in the mud and had
his absurd pate battered in for his-pains.-
" Hibernicus-" sneers at " peripatetic lecturers."
Feeble writers are fOnd of such phraSes, which they
look ,upon as easily got by heart, and enormously
effective when flung ~at an adversary. Does my
eloquent conntry-rnan, " Hibernicus," think there is
anything peculiarly disgraceful in being a "peripa-
tetic keturer -?" Mr. Thackerily gives peripatetic
lectures, and so do Mc. Dickens' and Mr. Ruskin and
Mr.. Emerson . and Mr... H.aliburton; and Daniel
O'Connell was a pripatetlc orator—and so were many
other eminent persons in modern and ancient times,
Whom " Hibernicus " may pnssibly.remember. Ido
not recollect anything in " " letter,
except some fine passages about beacons, and receding
shores, and the revival
,of the old. dying lion, who
has h9eome.a bore long ago. " Hibernicus " thinks
if a lecturer ventures upon aught but unmingled
blarneying—praises- of a great man, he is thereby
illuafating the story ,of the dying lion and of that
living animal whom " Hibernicus," and writers, of
the same stamp, are egotistically fond of introducing.

TI6WB

S. A writer, who-signs himself'' An Irishman," corn--
plahiS of Mr. Sonea for-not having walked down the
roomt and for having disappeared instead through a
trap:doOr. Mr. Jones did walk doirn the room, and
conversed in the centre, for some monielits,' with a
few gentlemen, who, like.these writers, did not agree
with him regarding O'Connell, but, unlike these
writers, werd able to discuss differing opinions like
gentlemen. There was no trap-door performance
whatsoever.

Sir; I heard several of Mr. Jones's lectures, and
admired especially their manly, out-spoken truthful-
ness and earnestness. I differed with him in many
instances, I thought him wrong in his eulogy on
Swift; and his attack on Thackeray ; wrong in' his
estimate of Wesley ; altogether wrong in his dis-
paragement of -teethe. But I saw that his views.
Were.gineere, and apparently formed- with care, and
I believed them therefore entitled to respect, if not
to sympathy:. Had I 'differed' from him as to his
views of O'Connell, I should not the lOss have' felt,
urged to defend him from such attacks as those which'
you have published. By bold utterance of opinions,
Mr. Jones mar make chance enemies.. By going
round the world, as,-some lecturers do, only. seeking
out the prejudices •of his audiences, in order to flatter
them, he must earn at once the contempt of those
whose praise is worth winning, and be found out at
last even by the dullards -whom he hoped to deceive.
—Yours, &c., A MUNSTER IRISTIMILN:

The Star reinarks that the only hope of the Queen's
present advisers lies in the disunion of the Liberal party.
• Baron Jas. Rothschild ,has, in consequence of the war,
resigned the. Austrian Consulship, which he has held for
many years.

Itie'nUMber of members _returned up to Wednesday night
was 523; the table in the Herald shows an increase of one
'nett-gain df the Conservatives as the result of 37 returns on
Wednesday. The total nett gain is set dbwn at 21;
Mr, RAREY.—After performing before the royal family at
• Berlin, Mr. Rarey has gone on to St. Petersburg, where his
hands have been kept quite full. On the 10th. he gave a
performance before the Emperor and his family and two of
his brothers, besides several princes and princesses. The
first subject was a horse who had kicked his box to pieceS
and killed his grOem, and Mr. Rarey exhibited him after a
few day's training as obedient- as a circus horse, and ready
to obey orders, which were'given him.from the other mid of
the riding school. The second was a 'wile, :finhieken, entire
horse, from the steppes of Russia ; and he too was so,com-
pletely subdued in a ihert time that the Emperor not only
publicly expreSsed his gratification but ordered 'a report to
be published in the papers. The Illustrated London News
.says that Mr. Rarev has finally concluded arrangementi with
the Horse Guards to teach the Biitiah cavalry, aad he
returns for that purpose to London on the Ist of June'.