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

We congratulate the citizens of London, first that
they were not to be cowed by a Tory Lord Mayor
secondly that they were not to be intimidated by
the pro•Popery mob; and, thirdly, seeing that they
were so courageous, that they all left the London
Tavern without broken heads, and so far as we
know without the ornament of Papal mud on their
clothes. When Mayors and mobs co-operate
against GARIBALDI and Roman liberty, it is time
for Englishmen to show that they will surrender
neither to Toryism in Civic Dignitaries, nor to
fanaticism in Priest-ridden Irishmen. It is high time
as the POPE'S rioters at Birkenhead have shewn
that we should know who is master. Whether the
most illiterate, ignorant, and superstitious part of
the kingdom, cr its most enlightened portion—or
rather, whether the island which Popery has kept
in semi-barbarism, shall by pouring its emigrants
into our back-slums, silence the liberty of speech
which the working and middle-classes of England
claim as their birthright.

Events in France are showing that such meet-
ings as that held yesterday are by no means
needless ; they show also that the promoters of
the meeting were right in considering the Roman
question, as one necessarily included in a meeting
of sympathy with GARIBALDI. That noble man
would, indeed, little thank us for sympathy with
his wounds and treatment, did we not also sympa-
thise with him in the object of his movement.
The RATTAZZI Government itself, was compelled,
in the circular which it sent to the courts of
Europe, to confess the sympathy of all Italy with
the object of GARIBALDI. Now the Italians are
Catholics as well as the Irish, a little more edu-
cated, it is true, and a little better acquainted with
Popery at home. Still, the fact shows that the
GARIBALDI movement could not be one hostile to
the religion of Catholics. Italians justly distin-
guish between the Papacy and Popery. The first
they would abolish. Their's is a no-papacy move-
ment. They wish to retain the Chief Bishop, but
cannot tolerate the imposture of a Papacy as an
apology for a petty but grinding tyranny.
The second resolution at the meeting was quite
as much in point as the first. If the meeting had
agreed to wish that GARIBALDI might live to "see
the aspiration of his life realised in a free, united,
and constitutional Italy:, it naturally and neces-
sarily followed that the meeting must hold "the
conviction that the French occupation of Rome is a
violation of the rights of the Roman people, a direct
infraction of the principles of non-intervention
sanctioned by all the great Powers, and that its
continuance endangers the real interests of France
herself, and the general peace of Europe To
forward, also, such resolutions to the Foreign
Secretary was equally appropriate, fur the Foreign
Secretary has himself told us that he has expressed
similar views to the French Government. What
could the Lord Mayor find to object to in all
this ? Does he think that Englishmen do not, with
few exceptions, indeed, agree with these resolu-
tions ? Does he think that the Government of
England has changed its opinion ? We can con-
ceive of no reason for his unfair conduct, except
that the ex-Government, to whose party he be-
longs, favour the POPE, Papacy, and all. That
Lord DERBY, Mr. DISRAELI, and their precious
Foreign Secretary, Lord MALMESBURY, who can-
not even write his own language correctly, cling to
the POPE because he is one of the remaining Right
Divine Sovereigns of Europe. If this be the real
reason of our Tory Lord Mayor, if he thinks to
make up for the lost service of a Tory vote in the
House of Commons by Tory tricks in municipal ad-
ministration, he will do a great deal towards com-
pelling the citizens to regard, in future, the politics
of their candidates for the Mayoralty. We should
be sorry to see this done.
Tory Lord Mayors 1" If it ever be, the CURITT
Mayoralty will have given origin to the cry—..4.No
It is worth while however,
i
Views on this subject
, for wen so un-Eng-
lish in their
as the Lord

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
SETENTT 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 enor-
mons cost, it cannot see 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
aristocratic berths for younger sons to be fewer!
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 Tsou-
♦ENEL. He deserves to go. We hope he will go.
RICASOLI is the proper nomination to confront that
of DxoUYN 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 whale 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 this gratitude 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 contraclicento.
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'CortNELL'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 lameLted 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 oatfntatiously
desired should be engraved upon that tombstone.
" Here lies a Repealer" 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 (Mort-
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,doesit not occur
to us, one and all, that there may be other and more
effectual means ofexpressing 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
The Liberator. There is a gratitude dug for this
boon of Catholic Emancipation, not alone to the
memory of DANIEL O'CONNELL, its Arch-Champion
and eventual Victor, but also and in a very marked
degree is there a gratitude due to the liberality of
the enlightened legislature which at length (hardly
one generation since) freely and frankly granted it
—to the generous-hearted and large-minded People
who thereupon exulted so earnestly in the fact of
its ultimate concession—above all, there is a grati-
tude to Heaven for the triumph of the great 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 by the rapid
accumulation of funds for the building up in
Dublin (in his honour) of a noble memorial
monument. As for the larger and ampler, and,
in many respects, far more sacred debt of gra-
titude due elsewhere—how, we cannot but ask
these Irishmen, is it being acknowledged, how
is it being discharged P 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-
yond 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
i%zatitude to O'CONNELL—in the name of ail that
a sacred, in th ename of humanity, of Heaven itself,

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THE SUN.
LONDON, SATURDAY, OCT. 18, 1862.