The Sun.
London, England, 1847-05-25 00:00:00

No. i 7,06 t.

MAY 25, 1847.

jah, Adelaide; Graham, Quebec; Nereid, New York.
The Premier pricked on an anchor, and has been hauled
into dock, leaky.
WATERFORD, MAY 21.—Wind N.N.W. to N.W.—
Arrd. Washi•,gton, Preble, New York; Mischief, Grant,
Sorfolk. Sld. Lawrence, Forrestal, and Juverna. Quebec.
DUBLIN, MAY 21 AND 22.—Wind W.—Arrd. Lady
Raffles, Eaton, Barbadoes. Sld. Ocean, New York.
KINGSTOWN, MAY 22.—Wind N.N.W., fresh.—Arrd.
Ella, New York ; Venus, Philadelphia.
FALMOUTH, MAY 21.—Wind variable.—Arrd. Nar-
wal, Laverty, Havre, for New York ; leaky and with
pumps choked. Off port, Weser, Laguna.
OFF FALMOUTH, MAY 21.—Le Blomer, Guadeloupe,
for Havre ; 22. Swea, Bingstrom, Bahia tor Stockholm.
The Royal Sovereign, for Trieste, has put back with
damage, been surveyed, and is discharging.
CORK, MAY 21.—Wind S.W.—Arrd. Amy, White,
Havannah ; Elizabeth Moore, Matanzas ; Albebaran,
Leech. New York ; St. Mary's, William, Norfolk ;
Josephine, Hawes, Boston.
HOLYHEAD,MAY 22.—Wind W. S.W. —Sid. Messenger,
Quebec.
CLYDE, MAY 21.—Arrd. Wm. Sorlie, Primrose, Cuba;
Liverpool, M'Lellan, New Orleans. Sld. St. Vincent,
Demerara; Halliyards, Grenada; Conway Castle, Boston;
Clydesdale, Trinidad.
LERWICK, MAY 17.—Several casks of palm oil, sup-
posed to belong to the Marwood of Liverpool, have been
picked np round the coast of Shetland.
HARWICH, MAY 23.—The Speculator, of Guernsey,
got on the Shipwash Sand on the 21st instant, but as-
sisted off and into here this morning without damage.
SLIGO, MAY 20. —Arrd. Rose Welch, New York. 21,
Sarah Browne, Welch, ditto. Sld. 20, Albers, New York.
BELFAST, MAY 22.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrd. San Ja-
cinto, Allen, Baltimore; Mary S.Bundlett, M'Neer, New
York ; Kathleen, Pettigrove, Philadelphia ; Helen,
Napier, Norfolk. Sld George Thatcher, New York;
Eliza Morrison, Quebec; Independence, ditto.
WARRENPOINT, MAY 22. Wind N.W.—Arrd.
Thactus, New York. _ _ .

GALWAY, MAY 18.—S1d. Magnus, SL John's, New
Brunswick. 20. Chieftain, ditto.
Wrarzeoar.._—Sld. Oceans, Philadelphia.
RELATING TO THE PLUNDERING OF
VESSELS ON THE IRISH COAST.
Admiralty, 22d May, 1847.
Sir,—ln return to your letter of the 21st inst , report-
ing that some vessels had been plundered off the coast
of Mayo, I am commanded by my Lords Commissioners
of the Admiralty to state for the information of the
Committee for managing the affairs of Lloyd's, that
orders have been sent to Rear-Admiral Sir Hugh Pigot,
to take every means in his power to prevent such depre-
dations.—l am, Sir, your most obedient, humble servant,
W. A. B. HAMILTON.

William Dobson, Esq., Secretary, Lloyd's.
COMMUNICATION WITH THE SHORE IN

CASES OF SHIPWRECK.
Lieutenant James T. M. Watson, R.N., of the Coast-
guard station, Somersetshire, has transmitted to Lloyd's
a min;ature model of an apparatus for effecting a com
munication with the shore from a wreck, which consists
merely of a cask, a rope, and iron ballast. It is unneces-
sary to enter into a particular description—suffice it,
that a one-inch rope long-jawed, is coiled into a water-
cask (after taking- out the head), and one end made fast
to a staple or ring let into a small iron plate, screwed on
to one stave only ; the other end is passed through the
bung hole (which is pounded off to prevent chafe) and
made fast to the vessel. The head of the cask is then
refitted, and the apparatus is then flofited into the water,
when, by the united force of the wind and sea, it will be
driven on shore. When landed, a stronger rope can be
bent on, afterwards a hawser, and hauled on board, when
a life-boat, which otherwise could not be launched, may
be hauled off to the assistance of the vessel's crew. Such
is a brief explanation of Lieut. Watson's plan, original in
detail, though not in principle.

PRICE SD.

DEATH OF MR. O'CONNELL.

It is with unfeigned regret we announce that the Paris
journals of Saturday bring the confirmation of the ac-
count already published of Mr. O'Connell's death.
The following letter from Dr. Duff, an English ph) si-
clan at Genoa, who attended Mr. O'Connell in his List
moments, is published in Galignani's Messenger:—
" Genoa, May 16.
Some account of the closing scenes of the lite of an
individual who has filled so remarkable a position in the
world as Daniel O'Connell, must prove interesting to the
generality of your readers, and I therefore, as an English
physician called iu to attend him, take leave to lay before
you the following statement:—
" On Monday, May 10, I saw Mr. O'Connell for the
first time, and he was then suffering from profuse and
involuntary diarrheas, with great pain of the abdomen
under pressure, strong rapid pulse, flushed face, &c. Mr.
O'Connell had also chronic bronchitis of sense year,'
standing. From the remedies employed these symptoms
were much ameliorated. and on the morrow he seemed
convalescent. But, from Mr. O'Connell's great repugnance
to swallow even the most simple medicine, this state of
improvement could not be followed up. On the evening
of Tuesday (11th), the new symptom of congestion or
the brain presented itself. Active measures were imme-
diately had recourse to, and from them there was a de.
cided improvement. Again the aid of intf rnal
was denied, Mr. O'Connell refusing to take any medi
tine. Towards the evening of Wednesday (12 II) the
symptoms increased. Mr. O'Connell was restless, and
sometimes slightly incoherent. Our former measures
were again employed, but with slight success. During
Thursday all the symptoms increased with great ten-
dency to sleep, from which, however, he could easily be
roused ; the breathing was much embarrassed ;
ciicula-
tion became difficult, and in some degree indistinct, and
the mind wavered. Thursday night was passed in a
state of profound heavy sleep, with increased difficulty
of breathing, and in addressing those about him, he
imagined himself in London, and spoke to them as if
there. On Friday he wfls much worse, the breathing
very laborious, the voice scarcely aucliule, and the.
words half formed ; all the symptoms had. in-
creased. In this state he lingered on till Satur-
day night, seemingly conscious of the presence of
those about him, but neither attempting to move
nor speak. My treatment of Mr. O'Connell was
always in conjunction with Dr. Beretta, of this
place, and a eoung French physician, who had accom-
partied him from Lyons, and, on the day preceding his
demise, we had the advantage of consulting with Dr.
Viviani, the oldest practitioner of Genoa, and of high
repute. By his advice, and as a last resource, a farther
application of leeches to the temple was advised, but all
was in vain; he expired last night at half-past nine o'clock,
P.M., apparently suffering but little pain. During the
whole period of our attendance upon Mr. O'Connell it
was with the greatest difficulty he could be induced to
take medicine or even necessary food, and he perse-
veringly abstained from drink for fully forty hours.
Had this been otherwise, the period of death might have
been procrastinated, but his tailing health and spirits,
with constant tendency to cerebral congestion, rendered
certain his death at no very distant period."
The death of Mr. O'Connell had created a greater
sensation in France than was to have been expected.
The Univers, the chief organ of the Catholic or high
church party, appears on Saturday encircled with a
black border, as a mark of rt.cpect to the memory
of the eminent liberator of Irish Catholics. We

give the following selection from the remarks of the
l'aris papers on Mr. O'Conneli's death. The Univers

says—
•` O'Connell is deal at the height of grief as at the
height of glory, harassed by the ungrateful conduct of
some of those whom he saved, but still less troubled by
their ingratitude than frightened by their folly. On
leaving Ireland he saw other adversaries of his designs,
other enemies of Ireland than those he vanquished. This
is not the moment to explain who those Irishmen are,
and what they desire, who feared not to hate and insult
O'Connell dying in the midst of the world's respect; but
no one is ignorant that, restrained by his hand to the
last moment, they made him contemplate with dread the
death which approached to deliver them, hastened by
their impious hope. That was the secret, too easy, alas!
to penetrate, of the august sadness which was imprinted
on his features, and which wrung us with grief during
the few moments that we ssw and heard him. His manly

heart succumbed in the agony which the future inspired.
The famine afflicted him, but Young Ireland would have
driven him to despair. To strengthen himself against
such alarms all the energy cf sentiment which with him
was the spring of his glorious life, was not too much;
he prayed, he confided himself to God, he invoked the
Holy Virgin, and demanded assistance both for his soul
and for Ireland, equally desolated. Let us hope and
pray like him, let us hope and pray for Ireland, let
us hope and pray for Daniel O'Connell, this great ser
vant of God, because he was a great servant of man,
a great and sincere apostle of liberty. Before Him who
judges the judges of this world he will, we are conti:

Clent, be found pure. Let our prayers come to his aid,
if, after his slow agony, he has still to efface some of
those stains with which human frailty marks the most
elevated souls. Let us remember that what he hai dune
for the Irish Catholics he has done for all Catholic na-

than his titles to our admiration."
We read in the Constitutionnel—

" The hopes which had been conceived of the recovery
of Mr. O'Connell have been cruelly disappointed. The
great orator had scarcely arrived at Genoa when he felt
himself mortally attacked, and was the first to declare
that he had only three days to live. His malady was
complicated with an inflammation of the intestines, and
nothing could stop the progress of the illness. The
death of such a man would have been an important event
at any period; but in the present difficult situation of
England, and with the famine which desolates Ireland,
the disappearance of the Liberator acquires extreme im-
portance. Nobody can foresee the consequences of such
an event, or the influence that it will exercise over the
fate, not merely of the English Cabinet, but also that of
the three kingdoms."
The following is from the Courrier Francais :
" Daniel O'Connell died on arriving at Genoa. Per-
haps this patriarch of the accursed tribe sought the
isolated mountain on which be could die far from his
own. If he did not despair of his :people, it is certain
that his people began to despair of him. O'Connell had
the seul of a prophet, but he had the mind of a lawyer.
It Was in the paths of legality that he desired the Irish
agitation to move; to the encroachments of England he
always opposed legality, and England often retreated
before that respected buckler. But has Ireland made a
step? Look where she now is after these thirty years
of sterile agitation! If Ireland be hound to pay a tribute
of tears and grief to him who announced himself as her
liberator, it is to that magic and inspired voice which it
will hear no more, it is to that ardent soul which in-
spired a whole people with its breathing, it is to that el..
(pence, winged like a Canticle, sad as a psalm, varied as
a drama, and in which appeared at times the disordered
inspiration of the ancient prophets—it is, in a word, to
the consoler of the afflicted that Ireland owes its re-
grets, and in no wise to the avenger of the oppressed.
Let her weep for this great soul that expire:; but it is
for England especially to regret in O'Connell the con-
ciliator who, by his oratory, -effected so long a truce be-
tween the oppressed and the oppressor. Perhaps the
voyage of O'Connell to Italy was a voluntary exile; per-
haps he felt before he died all the vanity of the task he
had undertaken. In the last years of his life he might
have seen Ireland, it not separating herself from him,
and taking from him the popularity she had given, at
least demanding a more powerful and more resolute
action, seeking in short in Young Ireland' more active
and more decided instruments of agitation. O'Connell
never employed against O'Brien and the other agitators
who lately came forward to dispute with him the direc-
tion of Ireland, those bitter sarcasms, those crushidg
bursts of wrath, with which he armed himself against his
adversaries. If the great agitator did not cont., ss that
he deceived himself in submitting the cause of Ireland
to the justice of a Saxon Parliament, his noble heart, so
loving and so devoted, did not at least desire to show
those who thought of the salvation of Ireland by more
energetic means that they were wrong. W hen he saw
O'Brien and his friends appeal resolutely from Ireland
oppressed to Ireland armed for the combat, the old
champion exclaimed, May they accomplish a work
which I have not dared to attempt and he retired from
the arena to die."
The personal history of Mr. O'Connell is identified
with the political history of Ireland fur nearly the last
half century. To publish, then, in the columns of
newspaper, a sketch of that history, would obviously be
as impossible as it might be said to la.• superfluous. The
early portion of his life is not, however, so familiar to
the public ; and hence the following details, extracted
from a wor recently published by his son, John O'Con-
nell, Esq., M.P., and thus stamped with a character of
authenticity, may be of intfrest to our readers:—
" Daniel O'Connell was born in 1774, at Carhen,
situate about a mile from the presentpost-town of C ihir-
civeen, at the head of the harbour of Valentin. His
childhood and boyhood passed at this birth-place, with
the exception of visits, sometimes of considerable length,
to Darrynane, then the seat ut his father's elder brother,
Maurice O'Connell, who, being childless, adopted his
nephews, Daniel and Maurice, and took, in a great mea
sure, the charge of their education upon himself." The
sketch proceeds to say—" A poor old hedge schoolmas-
ter, by name David Mahony, may be given to lame as
the first who taught Daniel O'Connell his letters. At
the age of 13 Mr. O'Connell and his brother Maurice, a
year younger than himself, were sent to the school of the
Rev. Mr. Harrington, a Catholic clergyman, at a Owe
called Redington,in the Long Island, two miles from Cove,
the first school publicly opened and held, bechyoonaotliCnbaeytnhttcitieorr
elrarewtoms.
priest since the penald
unclethe two
Maurice brotherso wereor
this
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pursue their studies at greater advantage;
obveeAsdetfntrthoemtoexpiration of a
bound
for this pr.
pose they were embarked in a brig to London,
the captain of which was to land them at Dover, whence
they were to tithe the packet to Ostend.The tide b •
out at Dover when the vessel
arrived, those passengers
who were in haste to land had.o do so through the
on the open beach; and M O'Connell's first acquu:nt:
Ince with England was markedr by a ducking in the surf,
the boat having capsized through
in beaching her. An opportunity somemismanagement
offering in a few days,k
the party proceeded
to Ostend, and thence by trvy •
schuyt and diligence to Liege, where, however, a disap-

ner
pointment awaited tbe try .
3 con
uth
be
wasfo
admittedund
et of
have passed the age (vhell
students, and they had to re trace el r steps as far tic
Louvain, there to await new in,structions t.. rom home. Tbr
difference of disposition betwieen the two boys was her(
4trikingly shown ; Maurice, the younger, naturall3
nough, availed himself of his six weeks unexpected boll
days (the interchange of communication between their
then abiding place and the remote shores of Keny re-
quiring that interval) to indulge in all a bey's iscatior.
amusements;' while, on the other hand, his-brother, feel.
ing no relish for idleness, attended class in one of the
halls of Louvain as a voltuiteer, and with such assiduity,
that ere the arrival of letters from home, for which they
were waiting, he bad ristet to a high place in a class of
one hundred and tweniy i;oys.. 'Their uncle's new orders
were, that they should go to Sr. C;:ner,.whitlier, accord.
ingly, they proceeded, and remaiejc; a year—viz., from •
early in the year 1791 till a similar perio,l of 1792—when
they were removed to the English college-Df 'lousy for
some months. Mr. O'Connell soon rose to the tir,st place
in all the classes at St. Omer."

The followieg is an extrslet from a letter dated 1792,
written by the Reverend Dr. Stapylton, president; of
the College of St. Omer, to Mr. Maurice O'Connell,
giving his estimate of the characters and capacity of his
two pupils respectively :
"You desire to have my candid opinion respecting
your nephews, and you very properly remark that no
habit can be worse than that of the instructors of youth
who seek to gratify the parents of these under
their care by ascribing to them talents and qualities
which they do not really possess. You add, that, being
only tide unc e a these young men, you eau
allied to hear the real truth re-petting their abilities or
deficiencies. It is not my habit to disguise the precise
,ruth in reply to such itAuitius as yours. You shall,
therefore, have my ()pinion with perfect cindvur. I bes4in
with the younger—Maurice. Ills manner and demeanor
are quite satisfactory. lie is gentl.manly in his con-
duct, •and much loved by his felieeeseelents. He is not
defic;ent in ebinties, but is idle and fond of amusement.
I do riot ttenk lie will answer for any laborious profes-
sion, but I will ans.. er for it vett he never will be guilty.
(0 anything discreditable. At least such is my firm be-
lief. With respr c, to the elder, Mei, 1, I hare 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 be
be destined to make a remarkable fiAir, in society."
The Jacobin pilitics of F,-anee had no charms for the
young men, as was evinced on their journey home,
when th. y fell in with strange company :
" At length came the order, anit the funds;. for their
journey. ' On the 21st January, I 79:?, the das'the unfor-
tunate Louis was beheaied at Paris, the brie hers set out
in a voiture fir Oataia, which they reached early on the
morning of the 231 ; net, however, without sou e
parting complitneets irom their friend,e the soldiery ;
who went tar as seseial times to strike the heed
of the vehicle with their musk. nestocks. The Eng-
lish packet-boat, aboard of which the boys pro-
ceeded with as little delay as possible, was pre-
sently under weigh, and as she passed out of the har-
bour, Mr. O'Connell and his brother eagerly tore out
of their caps the tricolour cockade, which the commonest
regard for petsetal sa‘ety rerde red indispensable to be
worn by every one in France; and after trampling them
under foot; Rung them into the sea. This boyish out-
burst of natural execration of the herrors which had
been committed limier that emblem, procured them a
few of those sonorous curses which only a Frenchman
can give, from some fishermen rowing past at the mo-
ment, by whom the cockades were rescued from the
waves and placed lie their bats with all becoming rever-
ence. It was the packet-bust which brought over the
intelligence of the murder of the king. On board that
packet-boat -were the unfortunate John and Henry
Sheared, whose tragic fate, in the year 1798, is so well
known. To their heated minas the revolution of France
did not bear the same revolting aspect that it did to
others; and they were loud in praise and prediction of
its ultimate tendencies to good, in despite of the crimes
and abominations markieg its progress. The execution
of the unhappy Louis was freely canvassed between them
and an English gentleman on board, and John Sheares
boasted that he and leis brother had been present—having
paid two national guards for liberty to wear their uniform,
and do duty for them on that occasion. Good Heavens,
Sir.' said the English gentleman, t what could have in-
duced you to desire to witness so horrible a spectacle-?'
Love of the cause, Sir,' was the reply. The
excesses of the French Revolution were so re-
volting to the subject of this sketch, that it is not to be
wondered at (we give the author's words) that Mr.
O'Connell b h 0111 d, when, in 1794, he became a law
student at Lincoln's Inn, be in a state very nearly ap-
proaching, as he has often tend, to that of a Tory at
heart." This,_ however, did not last long; and his con-
version from the one extreme to the other seems to have
been as rapid as extreme cony esions generally are:—
e So strong and ardent were these feelings, that the cele-
brated trial of Hardy and others having occurred about
this time (viz., October. 1794), Mr. O'Connell attended
it daily, certainly n t more tor the mere interest of the
thing, or benefit, of the law arguments to him as a
student, than for the gratific itton of aeti-revolutionary
feeling, at seeing a suop e.ed offender in a lair way of
receiving condign punishment To Mr. O'Connell's
astonishment he found, ere the trial bad Froceeded very
tar, that his sentimenta were fait ctmeging to those of
pity towards the accused, and of something of self-re-
proach for having 'd sired his conviction and punish-
ment;:.and, 'each successive day revealing more and
more the trumped up and iniqmt us nature of the
prosecution. the erocess of change in Mr. O'ConneTs
mind ended by full 5 act d finally converting him to
popular opinions and principles, and confirming
his natural dAestation of teranny, and desire of
resistieg it." Mr. O'Connell's manner of life,
during his bar career, is thus vividly given in an
extract frem an extract : 'ln one of those entertaining
sketches of the Irish bar' which, some two and-twenty
years ago, Mr. Shell and Mr. Willerm Henry Curran
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f if* afflP/4 :61PRIMI V
~ in t e une rrei
extract, is, if we may- use the word, outlined with consi-
derable vlizotir soul effect.. The silent and absorbed vigi'.
for hours befere the dawn; the dimly-lighted study; tho
sign of our salvation hangiug pictured against the wall
the motionless form beneath it, with head bent over de'
voluminous law papers scattered in profuse disorder
around ; the same hermit-like figure, a few hours later.
transformed into the bustling barrister, keeping con•
tending attorneys at a run, to match his mountaineer
rate of going, as he hurried to the courts ; the thin
transformation, late in the afternoon, when the man e
legal points, precedents, and abstruse arguments woul
be found the merry, rollicking agitator, declaiming in
popular meeting and now playing on the laughing fa
culties, and anon on the deepest and most powerful feel
ings and passions of his auditory with 8 master hand—
as he assailed with ridicule the petty despots of the da.,
or depicted wish terrible vividness the wrongs, the raise
ries, the oppressions of Ireland and her people ; sue'
were the leading features of Mr. Sheil's sketch, and thee
were true to nature."