The Sun.
London, England, 1864-08-19 00:00:00

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THIS EVENING, BORN TO GOOD LUCK. Paddy
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LONDON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 19, 1864.

Out of two childish and senseless absurdities

two populous towns—see in France, the other in
Ireland—are now suffering very lamentably. A
rocket fired into the air during the imperial demon-
strations on Monday evening (the Fete NAPOLEON)
no Limoges, has resulted there in a fearfully destrue.
tire conflagration. A big doll paraded through the
• streets of Belfaetbythe local Orangemen—afterwards
bur at as a sort of GUY FAUX representative of the
Liberator—the ashes of it being eventually, with
an in, fecent mockery, no less of Reath than of the
Great ,Dead, whose memory was thus unprovokedly
held up as a mark of public abhorrence and derision
in the very land where that memory of DANIEL
O'CONNELL is, not undeservedly, revered and be-
loved ! This senseless playing with a big doll in the
etreets of Belfast, we say, has led—thanks to the
storage stupidity of the originators of that counter
demonstration to the Great O'CONNELL Demon-
stration in Da the delivering up of
the Town of Belfast, now for nearly one whole fort-
re'glaf, into the hands of lawless rioters. Viewing
Vat: latter occurrence as dispassionately as possible
front this side of St. George's Channel, it seems to
113 tt, be only a matter of simple justice that
we should recall to mind a fact already beginning
to be n a great measure lost sight of ! Namely, the
fact as to the side upon which these riotirags in Belfast
began. It requires only to le mentioned thus quite
plainly to insure its revival, upon the instant here
in Eaglet:ea, in the popular recollection. The rioting
then it is but right and fair that we should recall this
to mind—the rioting began, yonder in Belfast, dis-
tinctly, solely, and exclusively on the side of the
Orangemen. In the midst of their foolishvagarieswith
that absurd lay flvare of O'CONNELL the Belfast
disturbances commenced with the flourishing of
bludgeons, the flinging of stones and brickbats, the
smashing of windows, the attacking and the sacking
of a Nunnery. The occasion for all this, or rather,
the plea for it all, being—a counter demonstration !
A Counter Demonstration at Belfast to the gigantic
`and perfectly peaceable Demonstration known to be
then (simultaneously) taking place in Dublin—
where at the very centre of the grandest street of all
in the Irish Capital, the foundation stone of a Na-
tional Memorial to O'CONNELL was being laid,
not precipitately or irritatingly, bat calmly
and deliberately, after the great Tribune's
remains had been reposing for nearly eighteen
years in his grave at Glasneven. Eighteen years
It was time that a monument to O'CONNELL—their
Liberator—should be raised by the Irish people in
the very centre of their metropoli9, as a memorial,
not of his name, for that in its mere historical
greatness is certainly ./Ere perennius, but as a
memorial 01 their love, gratitude, and admiration.
After waiting so long, before thus obtruding their re-
gard for O'CONNELL'S memory upon the attention of
those who had no respect for it, on the contrary, the
very reverse—the Roman Catholic people of Ireland
could hardly be reprehended in this matter of
an O'CONNELL monument, and by necessity also
(in laying the foundation stone of it) an O'Coer-
NELL Demonstration—the Roman Catholic people
of Ireland, it is bat fair to say thie, could hardly
in this matter be reprehended for anything like
officiousness, or precipitation. It was but reason-
able, indeed, that the men who had been liberated
by O'CONNELL—as not only the Irish
Catholics, but all the other Roman Catholics
throughout the length and breadth of the British
Empire had been liberated by O'CONNELL—it was
but reasonable that those whom O'CONNELL had
liberated, should, at length, very tardily, after
thie precise fashion, namely, by raising a great
public Monument, a National Memorial in
11:3 hca3ll,) evil:nee their appreciation of him
as their Liberator. How their proceedings went,
in so doing—at last, after so many years had elapsed
elece the death of O'CONNELL—WO. know. The de-
monstretion which marked the laying the foundation
etone of this O'Cosertee elainoti in Dublin
was,
grand among all preced-
in two way, exceptionally
dzmorntrattena of any kind that had ever taken
place there in the Irish capital. It was thus doubly
exceptional among all the demonstrations that had
ever taken place there in Dublin, because it was
the vastest that had ever been witnessed there, and
because, while it was the vastest demonstration, it

was a demonstration unmarked from beginning to

end by one Single accident to life or limb, to person

or property, nay, b 7 any the smallest disturbance
whatsoever. it WAS while this grand, and peaceful,

and perfectly reasonable denno:istratica wth;s taking

pace in Dablin, that the ill advised Orangemen of