The Sun.
London, England, 1847-05-31 00:00:00

A TRIBUTE

TO THE MEMORY OF DANIEL O'CONNELL,
FOIL MANY YEARS THE ELCQUENT AND ZEALOUS ADVO-

CATE OF IRISH LIBERTY AND INDEPENDENCE.

" He is not dead, but sleepeth."

Oh! why is the wild harp of Erin unstrung,
Oh! why are its melodies dying away,
Oh! why is the cypress-wreath mournfully flung,
Where late was the shamrock so green and so gay?

Oh! the heart of the harper is mute with despair.
His voice is sent forth in a desolate moan,
That in unison blends with his heart-breathing prayer,
And finds him, alas! now deserted—alone!

For though all the ties of his kindred might part,
Tho' Death had struck from him the lov'd and the dear,
There was one who had truly a free Irish heart,
And ever would shed with the joyless a tear.

And where was HE now? had that noble form perished?
Was that mighty heart stilled in the midst of its woes ?
Oh, sad 'tis to break from the thing we have cherished,
That loved us as friends and resisted our foes.

But while we lament for O'Connell with sadness,
And with the wild grief of despair over him weep,
Let us cherish a hope—a bright glitter of gladness—
We know that HE shall not for ever thus sleep!
Tho' the dark grave be closed o'er that one noble head,
And the voice of our champion be hush'd in the tomb,
Yet the angels of God shall watch o'er his bed,
And the bright stars of heav'n illumine the gloom.
And the strife of that spirit with earth shall now cease.
No longer it mourns for oppres,ion and woe;
But inhabits the halcyon regions of peace
In that "very far" land which no mortal may know.
For see! from the skies a bright chariot descending,
Conducted by angels, and borne on the wind,
It bears his freed spirit to joy never-ending,
And leaves but the casket of earth here behind!

So, minstrel, resume thy melodious numbers,
And breathe in each accent a soft lay of love,
For O'Connell, though now in his grave, only slumbers,
Till the voice of the trumpet shall call him above.
And his own lovely Erin, fair gem of the ocean,
Shall sweetly break forth from her darksomo repose,
No longer be ravaged by civic commotion,
But rising triumphant to friends, turn her foes!
May 25, 1847. LUCILLA FAGAN.

HER MAJESTY'S TIIEATRE.—There were present
on Saturday evening at her Majesty's Theatre, her Royal
Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Augusta
Bruce, Mr. and Lady Mary Christopher, Mrs. Bentinck and.
Lord J. Murray; her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cam-
bridge, attended by the Baroness Hammerstein, Lady Na-
pier, the Hon. Miss Napier, and Mr. E. St. John Mildinay.
In her Majesty the Queen Dowager's box were their Royal
Highnesses the Hereditary Grand Duke and Grand Duchess
of Saxe Weimar, attended by the Countess Assemburg, the
Baron de Buist, the Baron Zeijesar, and the Hon. Captain
Somerset. In her Majesty's box was also his Excellency the
Count Schimmelpeuninek, the Netherlands Minister. There
were likewise present, his Royal highness Prince George,
Prince Louis Napoleon, the Conde de Montemolin, attended
by General Don Juan Montenegro, and Colonel Don Fran-
cisco Merry; the Duke of Leeds, the Duke and Duchess of
Montrose, the Marquis of Clanricarde, the Marquis of
Granby, the Marquis of Donegal, the Marquis and Mar-
chioness of Ailesbury, the Earl of Lonsdale, the Earl of
Shelburne, the Earl of Belfast, the Earl of Cardigan, the
Earl of Munster, the Earl of Falmouth, Viscount Somerton,
Viscount Cantilupe, Viscount Canterbury, Lord and Lady
Ernest Bruce, Lord and Lady Fitzroy Somerset and Miss
Somerset, Count D'Orsay, Lord Frederick Fitzclarence, Lord
Southampton, Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence, Lady Palmer,
Sir Alexander, Lady, and Miss Woodford; Lord Gardner,
Sir W. M. Stanley, Sir R. Gordon, the Right Hon. the Lord
Mayor and the -Misses Carroll, Lady Foulis, Sir G. Womb-
well, Bart., Sir IL and Lady Howard, Sir T. Hare, Sir B.
and Lady Graham, Sir W. and Lady Fremantle, the Hon.
R. Curzon, the Hon. G. Byng, Mr. M. Martyn and Mrs.
Martyn, &c.
ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN.—Ilex
Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, accompanied
by the Prince of I,einingen, honoured the Royal Italian
Opera, Covent-garden, with their presence on Saturday
evening. Her Majesty was attended by the Marquis of
Ormonde, Lady Canning, Hon. Miss Dawson, lion. Colonel
Phipps, and the Hon. Captain Gordon. There were present
—His Exeellency the Turkish Ambassador and the Princess
Callimaki, his Grace the Duke of Wellington, the Marquis of
Sligo, the Marquis of Huntley, the Marquis of Douro, the
Marchioness of Hastings, Earl Bective, Earl of Cawdor, Earl
Granville, Earl of Strathmore, Countess of Roden, Countess
Dowager of Essex, Earl of Munster, Viscount Clifden,
Viscount Templetown, Lord Templemore, Lord Carington,
the Ladies Fitzwilliam, Lord George Manners, Lord W. Gra-
ham, Sir Charles and Lady Cecelia Des Vceux, the lion. Sir
Edward and Lady Butler, Hon. Colonel and Mrs. Fitzgibbon,
Hon. Sir Edward and Lady Cust, Hon. Colonel !Dawson
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Darner, Hon. John Fortescue, lion. T. E. Stonor, Hon.
Colonel Arbuthnot, Hon. Craven Berkeley, Hon. Mrs. Gore,
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Sir Henry Paulet,
I'almer, Sir Peregrine and Lady
Baron Lionel and the Baroness de Rothschild, Le Comte
d'Avigdor, General Sir Andrew Barnard,
Sir Henry Webb,i Sr J. IL
Acland, Sir George Talbot, Sir Charles Slingsby, Sir William
and Lady Molesworth, Sir Frederick Trench, Sir Bellingham
Graham. Lady Tvrwhitt, Lady Jodrell, Lady Bulkeley,
I • d- M --x, Sir Anthony Rothschild, Sir William Ahoy, Sir
Percy Shelly, Sir R. Price, Sir Charles Kent, Sir Henry Ro-
binson, General Sir A. Clifton, Mr. H. Baring, ALP., Mr.
John Dennistoun, M.P., and Mrs. Dennistoun, and Mr. Mon-
' tagu Gore, M.P., &c.