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LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 8, 1858.

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IRELAND.

DUBLIN, THURSDAY MORNING.
MR. 2ENEAS MACDONNIiLL.
The subjoined is in many respects a faithful
sketch of the character of the late Mr. iEneas
Macdonnell, whose death was announced in the
Times of Wednesday :
" Aneas Maedonnell was one of the ablest men con-
nected with the Roman Catholic party in the struggle
for emancipation, and he did more than any other man
connected with the agitation to render the cause popular
among the Protestants of England.
"He was a gentleman in the highest sense of the
word. Elegant in his address, conciliatory in manner,
with a highly accomplished mind and an amiable dis-
position, he was just the person best fitted to act in
London as the accredited agent for the cause, and to
smooth away the prejudices and difficulties that begirt
it. During his residence in London he was necessarily
brought into intimate political association with the
principal men of the Liberal party, and it is not too
much to say that no man laboured more earnestly or
more successfully in conciliating the opposition of those
who were opposed to the claims it was his duty to sus-
tain, while his sound judgment and able diplomacy were
of vast service to his own party, in restraining impetuous
counsels, and in negotiating the guarantees u,son which
Emancipation was ultimately -conceded. He was actuated
by a chivalrous sense of honour, and after the Relief
Act of 1829 had been carried he unhesitatingly opposed
himself to the ruinous policy that was almost im-
mediately initiated by Daniel O'Coinell. For acting
thus honourably and honestly he incurred the animosity
of the ' Great Liberatop' All his services were for
gotten, and there watUo latnage too foul in which to
denounce his steady adherence to the dictates of
principle and honour. lEneas Macclonnell, as a Roman
Catholic, never sought Emancipation on selfish or
sectarian grounds. He contended for it on constitu

tional grounds, in the same way that Emancipation of
the ProtestantDissentErs of England had been advocated
and carried. His desire was to unite Ireland in I'm-

perial relations with England as an integral part of one
great empire, and this he knew could never be done
while the Roman Catholics remained outside the pale of
the Constitution. When, therefore, the Relief Act
passed, he and many more Irish gentlemen, who were
actuated by similar motives, abandoned the corrupt and
unscrupulous nest of agitators that O'Connell gathered
about him to promote his Repeal delu ions, and in many
able publications at the time he fearlessly exposed the
wickedness and folly of the course upon which O'Connell
had determined to enter. But his warning voice was of
no avail—the great demagogue triumphed for the time,
but only to descend to his grave a broken-hearted, dis-
appointed man, leaving his country a prey to famine,
and on the brink of the revolution he had himself
excited, but always shrunk -from realising. In many
ways .4Eneas Macdonnell was a thorn in the side of the
agitators. He remained faithful to the guarantees
upon the strength of which the Relief Act was
passed. His nice sense of honour would hot permit
him to tamper with those guarantees—he ad-
mitted no equivocal constructions—he scorned to take
refuge in quibbling—he repudiated all sophistical dis-
tinctions about the interpretation of the Roman Catholic
oath, by which the word of promise was kept to the
ear but broken to the hope—he declared boldly that no
Roman Catholic admitted to Parliament could honoura-
bly use his privileges of membership to impair, much
less to destroy, the Established Church ; and his letters
on this subject were alike honourable to hie head and to
hie heart. It will thus be readily understood that Mr.
Macdonnell soon became a marked man among the
abusive and vulgar horde that eongregated around
O'Connell ; but he despised all the vituperation that was
poured upon him, and kept on the even tenour of his
way. He resided for many years in a cottage in the
immediate vicinity of London, and having met with some
pecuniary reverses, the late Duke of Wellington offered
him an office which involved no political obligations
whatever, and by the advice and solicitation of hisfriende
ho accepted it. A few years ago he returned t 4 Ireland,
and his last days were cheered by finding his country
beginning to realize something like the peace and pros-
perity he confidently predicted would result from the
great measure of relief he was so instrumental in
carrying."