The Sun.
London, England, 1862-10-18 00:00:00

THE SIIN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 18, 1862.

Mayor, and the two or three Tory leaders, to ask
themselves what good they can expect from their
policy. Will the POPE'S Irish Brigade in Parlia-
ment compensate them for the loss of the general
respect of the country ? and if they look abroad,
what do they expect will be the result of the
EMPEROR'S recent decision to adopt an anti-Ita-
lian policy, and to look to Ultramontanism for his
support ? Here, at home, it will raise the ques-
tion, to what purpose all our armaments and our
SEVENTY MILLIONS a year, if we are not able to
obtain the commonest right and justice for a
country whose liberties have become a matter to
us of such interest ? What use on earth have we
for our Mediterranean fleet, if with all its Qum..
mons cost, it cannot sea fairplay towards the Ita-
lian nation. Our navy is at least double what it

needs be for defence merely. Lord PALMERSTON
tells us that it is requisite to sustain our influence ;
well—the nation will reply, look at Rome. We
sympathise with the Italians and the Romans.
We ask that our Navy should give us the influence
requisite to obtain for them the non-intervention
of a foreign despot. If we cannot do that, then let
us at least have our money in our pockets, and not
lose money and our influence too. Thus people will
reason. Do Tories then wish expenditure in the
army and navy to be lessened ? Do they wish
aristocratie berths for younger sons to be fewer P

If we ask what will be the effects of Imperial
policy abroad, we may fairly expect some such com-
motion in Italy as GARIBALDI endeavoured to
kindle. Already the talk is of the expulsion of
RATTAZZI from office in reply to ejection of THOU-
VENEL. He deserves to go. We hope he will go.
RICASOLI is the proper nomination to confront that
of DROITYN DE L'Huys. It is early yet to pro-
phecy, but if the Italians take this last impudent
policy of the French tamely, then they are, indeed,
models of patience. Possibly they may show such
a temper under it, that even the EMPEROR may
hesitate to incur the lasting hatred of the newly-
born nation.

A magnificent memorial to,O'CONNELL is now in
preparation. It is a thing assured. Late though
the thought, it has only had to be articulated to
awaken the respondent enthusiasm of all ranks and
classes of the Liberator's countrymen. Strange it
does still seem to us, to reflect that fourteen years
should have been allowed to slip by before Dublin
has bethought herself at length of the need there
is for this visible and substantial testimony of the
National Gratitude towards that great Tribune of
the People, to whose indomitable determination,
to whose impassioned eloquence, to whose her-
culean labours, in the cause of truth and freedom,
the vast majority of Irishmen, the whole body of
the Roman Catholic population in the three king-
doms, and for that matter, throughout the entire
range of the British Empire, are indebted for the
priceless boon of their political emancipation. Four-
teen years since O'CoNNELL's death at Genoa, and
Dublin still without a statue or a memorial of any
kind in his honour ! The capital of Ireland with-
out an effigy of the Irish Liberator ! So extraordi-
nary is the omission, so unaccountable and
lengthened has been the delay in even thinking of
this memento of the gratitude of Irishmen to the
genius and the career of O'CoNNELL, that we can-
not wonder now that the suggestion has at length
been made, to the effect that there should be raised a
suitable monument expressive of thisgratitnde to the
memory of O'CoNNELL, the Liberator, that the pro-
position should be welcomed far and wide, not
simply with eagerness, but with acclamations. Sub-
scriptions are pouring in from all sides to swell the
fund for this memorial. Meetings are
being held already in many directions to forward
the progress of this tardy testimonial. Resolutions
are passed to this end—always nemine contradicente,
Young Irelandism has so utterly died out there in
the sister island that every one is now for O'CoN-
NELL. With one peculiarity about this unanimity,
however, always noticable—viz,, that Repeal has
died out as entirely and utterly as Young Irelandism.
Every one ignores those futile, and worse than fu-
tile, those most mistaken and mischievous labours,
which, during the latter years of O'CoNNELL's life,
engrossed his energies, wasted his eloquence, frittered
away his popularity, and, to a grievous extent, even
tarnished hisreputation. As a Repealer, O'CoNNELL
is only lamented over within the precincts of
the churchyard at Glassnevin. It was upon
his gravestone that he himself, with an
unconscious irony, des:red there should be in-
scribed the memento of his having been " A
REPEALER." " Here lies a Repealer," was the
epitaph he rather grandiosely and ost(ntatiously
desired should be engraved upon that tombstone.
" Here lies a Repeater" was the inevitable echo—
with a painful stress laid upon the word we have
italicised—the inevitable echo heard, repeated,
again and again, when first that rather affected wish
of his was pompously articulated. There alone,
upon his gravestone, let the record remain (if it
must remain anywhere), of the fact that O'CON-
NELL ever went by the name of a Repealer. Else-
where, we repeat, than in Glassnevin Cemetery,
DANIEL O'CONNELL is only thought of, beloved,
and remembered with lasting gratitude as " The
Liberator." Not as A Repealer—but as The Libe-
rator, as the author of Catholic:Emancipation.
The gratitude of Irishmen to O'CONNELL in that
capacity, in that historical character, is perfectly
comprehensible. The gratitude not only of Irish-
men, but of all the Roman Catholics throughout the
United Kingdom, throughout the British Empire !
Does it not occur to them,however,does it not occur
to us, one and all, that there may be other and more
effectual means of expressing gratitude to the memory
of O'CONNELL for his services in bringing about
the triumph of the cause of Catholic Emancipation,
than raising a monument (no matter how magni-
ficent a monument) in Dublin to his memory as
memory
eoLvriberator. There is a gratitude due for this
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the enlightened legislature which at length (hardly
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grantedit
who thereupon exulted so earnestly
its ultimate concession--above e abov all, there is a grati-
tude to Heaven for the triumph
of h inegreat the
prin-
ciple embodied in that:noble and imperishable Act
of Catholic Emancipation ! To the memory of
O'CONNELL—the gratitude thus due from
the
emancipated millions of his Irish fellow-country.
men is now being tardily evidenced bs the rapid
accumulation of funds for the building up in
Dublin (in his honour) of a noble memcrial
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monument. As for the larger and ampler, and,
in many respects, far more sacred debt of gra-

itude due elsewhere—how, we cannot but ask

hese Irishmen, is it being acknowledged, how

Ls it bring discharged ? The gratitude due,

as we have said, to the liberality of the Imperial

Legislature—to the large•heartedness of the English

people—but most of all, immeasurably, infinitely be-

fond all to the beneficence of Heaven ! While gold

is being collected in Ireland to purchase marble and

granite to be carved into a monument of Irish
igratitude to O'CoNNELL—in the name of all that

,8 sacred, in thename of humanity, of Heaven itself)