The Sun.
London, England, 1847-07-22 00:00:00

JULY 22, 1847.

—the representatives of the ancient legions, and em-
phatically the military representatives of Rome. Their
officers were there. They bore torches round the bier,
and many of them evinced by bearing and by feature
that they belong to the same race as the heroes who
still seem to live in the relievi of the ancient triumphs on
arch and pillar. From the Campus Martius and the
Roman Forum—from both sides of the Tiber—and from
all the Seven Hills and their interjacent valleys, this
people, who grow up from infancy with the trophies of
thirty centuries of greatness round them on every hand,
assembled with enthusiasm to supplicate for the eternal
happiness of Ireland's Liberator, and to exult in the
wonders he had achieved, as if he had been their own.
I am bewildered, I confess, between the grandeur of my
theme, the shortness of the interval—not many minutes
more in which it will be possible for me to speak of it—
between the deep sense of my incapacity to do it any-
thing even remotely approaching justice, and my strong
solemn conviction how expedient—how indispensable—
it is that Catholic Ireland should not be unaware of,
and it will not be insensible to, the share it has in
this grand event. I should have said, since I can-
not describe -the funeral decorations of the church,
that they gave occupation to painters, sculptors, artists,
and artisans of every kind, who since early last week
pursued their work (I mean within the church itselt)
incessantly by day and night. I have just got a
copy of the inscriptions which were placed around
the mausoleum—there were tablets also with texts
upon the pilasters round about the church. Let the in-
scriptions be given literatim, and translated word for
word. I have said that the Pontiff had privileged all
the altars—the high altar was reserved from four o'clock
in the morning until the Requiemlbegan—exclusively for
priests and bishops of the Greek and other Oriental rites.
From the dawn until nine o'clock it was difficult for a
priest to get an altar, though the vast Basilica cannot
contain less , than twenty. Every mass had its emigre-
ration of devout adorers, as priest succeeded priest in
orderly succession. Around the bier was ranged the
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were represented in his obsequies--wept for his death—
supplicated for his eternal felicity, and exulted in the
great things the Providence which ever protected and
guided this great servant of the Most High, enabled him
to achieve for his country and for mankind. But I must
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interrupted by the glorious festival of Rome—that of her
Wostles, Peter and Paul—is to be renewed again on
ednesday. To-day the great Christian orator treated
ono half of his text, as he alone knows how to treat it.
Next Wednesday he treats the second part, and con-
cludes. Then you shall, with God's blessing, hear
again from your faithful friend,

J. MILEY.

The following are the other inscriptions :
INSCRIPTION—No. 11.
(Over the Inner Door, cr rather Inside over the Door.)
TO DANIEL O'CONNELL,
A man to be remembered in the praise of all ages,
And in this time of necessity ;
Who by the splendour of his genius, and wondrous fer-
tility of speech,
The lives, the religion, the rights and liberties of his
fellow-countrymen,
Preserved and battledfor.
In gravest interests engaged from earliest youth,
Nothing in the abstruse affairs of the Commonwealth
was difficult to him
That he did not conquer and unravel by the acuteness and
labours of his mind.
In highest gifts and honours,
On a like pinnacle he will ever stand ;
His door was never closed to any ;
But to the needy was open with exceeding liberality.
At length all the duties to his country being sacredly
performed,
His adversaries conquered, and factions laid asleep,
The Catholic religion, to which he wholly devoted himself,
Vindicated in its liberties,
From the storms of this world to the harbour of eternity,
He has betaken himself,
To the overwhelming grief as well of his own country-
men as strangers.
He died at Genoa, 15th May, in the year of our Redemp-
tion MDCCCXLVII.
He lived 72 years, 9 months, 6 days;
For age and deeds a long period;
For the protection and comfort of his people,
Alas, too short!

111.
(On both sides of the tomb.)
TO DANIEL O'CONNELL.
One who will outlive the memory of men.
Who, by writings and speeches fraught with wisdom,
The rights of faith and freedom,
Which before seemed to be averse from one another,
He amicably set in order,
And to other nations, that they might enter on his course,
In which to such triumphs a persistance,
To religion such an increase would redound,
As it were a beacon to be held out to all.
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laws—
A bridle thrown upon license—piety and religion amplified
by great increase:
These were the arts by which he aspired to Heaven.

IV.
TO DANIEL O'CONNELL.
In discharge of that high reverence for the Holy See,
And for the most Holy Pontiff, the best and greatest,
Whose fame amongst All nations had already-spread
abroad,
To Rome, although in infirm health, ho took his way;
But at Genoa, the disease having meanwhile become

much aggravated,_
Embracing the cross of Christ, his Saviour, placed there
by himself,
lie breathed his last.

Another Moses, the land of the living he from afar be-
held,
Whose heart, however, in which, whilst ho lived,
Pure religion, piety. love of country, solely reigned,
Daniel his son, labouring after the father's example,
To Rome, as dying he had ordered,
Took care should be conveyed.

" His heart he devoted to watching to the Lord."
Ecol. 39.

V.
(On the obverse face of the temporary tomb.)
DANIEL O'CONNELL.
Was of surpassing piety towards God,
Towards the God-bearing Virgin,
To whose protection he had recommended himself,
With singular devotion.
But in the justice, integrity, fortitude of mind, liberality,
Diligence, and ease, with which he adapted himself to all,
He was to be compared to none.
Which virtues of his mind into his four sons
With such sedulousness he instilled.
That it would seem he had destined them not so much for
Himself as for God and his country.
May they long remain after him!
" Lot the generation of the righteous be blessed."
Peal. cxi.
A medallion representing him clasping the crucifix on
his heart, was over the door of the temple like mau-
soleum, over it the text, gg In memoria reterna erit
justus." On the other three sides of the mausoleum,
each with one of the three inscriptions under it (twenty-
four feet square), were represented in alto relievo his
first entering into Parliament, his going to return thanks
in the metropolitan church when elected Lord Mayor,
and his liberation from prison. A colossal figure of Re-
ligion surmounted the temple.

NIEORMITY Or TIME BY TELEG RAPll.—The
Electric Telegraph Company are now making such ar-
rangements as will enable them to communicate the
true time, as observed daily at the Royal Observatory
at Greenwich, to every station on the various lines of
railway where the company has a telegraph station, and
of course to all large towns throughout the kingdom. It
is now the daily practice at Greenwich, at ono o'clock,
to indicate the true time by dropping a ball from the
upper part of the Observatory, which being telegraphed
to the Admiralty, and signalled to the shipping on the
Thames, enables ship's chronometers to be adjusted.
The contrivance by which the Telegraphic Company
propose to extend the knowledge of this exact time
throughout the kingdom is exceedingly simple. It is
intended that the ball, immediately on being detached at
the top of its fall, should strike a spring, which, con-
nected with the various lines of electric wires of the com-
pany, will instantly strike a bell at every station. Thus
it is not only possible and practicable, but what in all
probability will be a matter of daily experience ere very
long—that before the ball at Greenwich Observatory
shall have reached the ground in its fall, the electric
bell at Manchester will have struck and set ringing; so
that we shall know it is one o'clock at Greenwich before
the ball announcing that fact there has finished falling
a few feet! In this way the true time at Greenwich may
be kept by every railway company and every large town
in the kingdom.—Kentish Mercury.
LICENSES TO DEAL IN GAME. Tuesday the
justices acting for the Newington division of the county
of Surrey gave notice that they would hold a special
session, at the Court-house, Newington-green, on Fri-
day, the 23d instant, to grant licenses to deal in game.
Notice of intended application must be given to the
justice's clerk this day, or the license will not be granted.
CADYERTISEMENT.)—AN IMPORTANT CURE BY THE
USE or HOLLOWAY'S PlLLs.—Extract of a letter from a gentleman
residing at St. Helier's, addressed to tha Editor of the "Minor de
Jersey," dated June 18, 1847.—S1r,—For some time I have suffered
from a very severe malady, for which I sought the advice of the most
eminent of the faculty, but to no purpose. I resolved, therefore (and
in sheer despair), to give Holloway's Pills a trial; by the use of one
box I found myself better, and by a short continuance of this inap-
preciable medicine, I was perfectly cured, to the great astonishment
of my neighbours, who supposed that I could not Possibly have re-
covered.—Sold by all Druggists, and at Professor Holloway's eSta-
, Dllllllllollt, 244, Strand, London,