Star.
London, England, 1824-07-06 00:00:00

MR. O'CONNELL.

The Dublin Siar announces that Mr. DANIEL O'CON.
NELL has retired from public life. This is the best
sacrifice the Learned Gentleman could make; and is an
important step towards the tranquillity of Ireland. One
paragraph in his farewell is amusing : he says he has
no time to vindicate his character; indeed, it would be
impossible to vindicate it effectually now, as his •4 kind
friends have given him an Augean stable to cleanse."
Be this as it nay, we are sure most persons will agree
with us, that nothing in his public life became him so
much as the leaving it. The following is a copy of
the letter in which Mr. O'CoNNELL announces his gra"
tifying deteimination;
Merrion-square, Tintrulay Night.
SlR—When on a recent occasion I remarked, in a spirit of injured
pride, on the conduct of the Deblin Pass, I certainly felt myself
supported by a consciousness of my personal integrity. I de.
lied the Influence of the members of that Press so long as any
'charges they might oppose to my character were bottomed in truth.
Their deviation from fact, however, alone •tarprises and oppresses
me; and I feel it hopeless to contend again t a power directed by
the fiercest spirit of hostility, and disregarding alike political connec-
tion and moral principle.
I have had a painful, indeed a convulsive struggle, with myself,
before I could come to the resolve which it is the object of this
letter to communicate, through you, to my enslaved and suffering
countrymen. I determine, sooner than continue a victim to false-
hood, and the most unprincipled desertion of me on the part of the
Press I so long patronized, to retire from public life, and to devote
the rest of my days to obtaining for my country by prayer to the
Moss Hum, those political blessings which, under more auspicious
circumstances, I should have fought, and have perished, to have se-
cured to her.
I have no time at present to &vote to the vindication of my cha-
racter; indeed, it wdeld be impossible to vindicate it effectually
mew, foe my kind friends" have given me an Augean stable to
cleanse. When the pressure of my Nisi Pries business shall have a
little subsided, and the interests of my clients shall have beets duly
secured, I mean to trespass upon your columns with a full exculpa-
tory address to my darling countrymen. In closing my political
career, I mean to throw myseifopon the liberality of the Protestant
Press, in preference to seeking kindness at any other hands • and
like Napoleon, who cast himself upon the humanity of the hands;
nation, and his brave exemplar, Themistocles, I feel that in recurring
to your Journal, I shall place my reputation in the hands of the
most powerful, the most constant, and the most generous of ail my
enemies. DANIEL O'CONNELL.
tNoti 2T vac Entros.—We now look upon Mr. O'Connell as a
dead man—and Goo forbid that we should pursue an enemy, even
an enemy like kiss, beyond the gravel

Saturday night, between ten and eleven o'cl ck, as
Mr. Fairclough, a iespectable tradesman in the Borough,
was returning to his residence, he was robbed of El t 6
in the following manner :—Two men, of genteel ap.
pearance, accosted him in Union-street. One of them
addressed him in the most familiar terms, saying—
Well, Mr. Fairclough, how do you do? I hope you
are better." Mr. Fairclough, who has been for some
time labouring under an attack of the gout, replied that
he was still very unwell, and it was with difficulty ke
could hobble along. Upon which the '• Gentlemen"
politely offered their services, and begged to be permit-
ted the pleasure of seeing him to his door. The assist-
ance was accepted, and Mr. Fairclough leaned on the
arms of the strangers until be reached the corner of
lied Lion-street. Here the two men wished him a good
night, assuring him at the same time that they were
proud in assisting a respectable min home. Soon after
their departure, he discovered that his pocket-book had
'been taken out of his inside coat-pocket, containing the
above sum. Mr. Fairclough has given information of
the robbery at Union Hall.

Ltimirsitre.—Tuesday afternoon Leeds
was visited by a thunder-storm, %bids, though of short
duration, proved more fatal to human life than any
storm which has occurred for the last fifty years. The
afternoon had been very sultry, and about five o'clock
the approaching storm produced an extraordinary de-
gree of darkness, which rendered the vivid lightning
which illuminated the gloom more awfully impressive.
A boy about 13 years of age, of the name of William
Ridley, who was attending at the Waterloo Coal Staith
to load a waggon, was struck instantaneously dead by
the electric fluid. His hat was split, the hair on the
back of his head singed, and his neck and breast were
much scorched. Two boys who were standing near him
were knocked down, but did not receive any serious fn-
jury. An Inquest was held on the body the following •
day, which returned a verdict of Aceideatal Death.
Tuesday, York was visited by a Level e storm of
thunder and lightning, accompanied Kith heavy rain.
It however appears that at several other places, where
the storm was also experienced about the same time, it
was much more severe. Above twenty trees were torn
up by the roots at Sand. Hutton, and at Riccal birds, in
attempting to fiy, were blown against the walls nub
great violence and killed.
Monday sennight, six fine deer in the Marquis of
Srartostea park at Trentham, and on Tuesday a cow
belonging to a labouring man in that neighbourhoOd,
were killed by lightning.
On Sir Huattway Disvv's late visit to Portsmouth,
two boats were ordered to be coppered in the Dock-yard, for the
purpose of ascertaining the eaten' of benefit to be derived from the
new mode otsbeatking ships' bottoms. The boats were placed in
quiet water, and were suffered to remain unused the softie, dew
appointed for the eiperituent- One of them was sheathed ao the
old plan, the other m the new. On taking them out, on Fridailthe
I ltk ult. for the inspection of Sir Hustenav, the former was found
slightly covered with a muddy deposit, and to appearance muck as.
when launched; but the entire coppering of the biter was hid,let,
by small live animals which lie apparently by millions amongst a
thich
in
mad on which a sea grass, sit indict io kngth, bad
grown in abundance. This effect was utdesoktAl feria practice, as it
=sachem been impossible to calculate in theory, and excited mu&
surprhe. Whether the electrical sensation is a gratifying otte to tits
animals which it seams to have gathered, or it possesses an ussivoid-
able power of attramion on ouch small object*, it is difficult to sew,
and it will probably elate much discussion amongst those who ant
interested in the rum% If this product of the new mode be is-
evitable, the service of the copper in assisting the passage cheese!
Wasp the water must be destroyed; but it is more than rehab!
that use and motion will prevent all such aecumsdatios, and *le
the superior try of Sit Hamm use Davy" invention, or rather aware.
for at the copper-very accurately emoada
found to have diminished, and the
rtienberralbared,istbeevutiitiosephnatv;e
weighing
owlliaidgestruction by the contact of lisle
water. On Wednesday sennigist the boats were again bailed op,,
in ibe presence of Commissioner Borer, the Masks Shipertiga,g;
and several Naval and other Office's, when it appeared tien ors one
trot:niertiwtat:
side of the boat which had been sheathed with the protected metal,
t torn the gram and animaleols had bee‘ rubbed et on the
lth Wt. a freds accumulation d mahmeitilis had already taken
pipe in the short space of Sire days.

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THE ARCH OF TITTJa

A PRIZE POEM,
Spoken by Mr. Joss Teems Hors, Commoner of Chrht Merck
Oxford, at the Connoesnoeadoo en Wednesday, and whkagabssd
the Author Mr Roger Neardlsate's Prise for Ent& Poetry.

Lives there no trophy of the hero's fame,
No Frond memorial to record his name,
Whose amgeful sword o'er head's fated land
Stamp'd iron bondage with a conqueror% hand
Beneath you sacred bill's imperial mound,
With robed ibises end felon columns awned,
Whirl Home's Arend &Wm guards each maddering stone,
The cradle et bar and her throne;
Tints, thy Arch the peaceful sway
Of Taste, Triumph's proudest day t
Survives, the Farad's grandeur to recall,
And weep deserted o'er its country's fali!
Though dimm'd the outline row, not time o'crthrows
The unrivard grace which la each fragment glows;
And Geniis, beaming through each ridn'd part,
Displays the glories of immortal Art,
With mingling beauties aown'd the column's tower,
jonla's graceful curve, and Corinth's flower.
And tapering as they rise aloft in ak.
The sculptur'd Mese and vodve tablet bear.
From o'er each mimes Fame main wrings.
Seems stretch'd far Ogle, and waves her golden wings
Yet, linger not aidd• the drat, space
The storied walls ewe radiant beauties grace.
In warlike pump the triumph% riek array
Leaps from the living nsaible Imo day.
High on his car the victor bones along,
Hears with exulting heart tit' applauding throng;
With sparkling eye surveys the sealed
And feels use hour eorpey Ism years et toil.
Le l Awes swarthy elms bane the car.
The suline.4 commune et deems and war
lbeallkras pea= IVA disk bolsi clerk,
And all shillphessi pimp they dare sot gmdt, :
And shoe ewe tropitim !bet His emu* torn,
The living Gee, some Nei shrine adorn ?
Shall we, shall Aaron's sem no more rejoice.
Nor breathe yea snap with Conquests silver voice,
From Salem's hely usountain beard afar. •
In days of fatal Orions and of war?
Is then the sevelobramh hem seek in id*.
Which shed o'er Isnot% hue mysterisee WI?
'Or shall its pidee Imps midi imam Some
Gleam, as In sewn, to pia at Venal aim?
Yes. it is queieh'd I till isdab's aptitte Mid
Wake from her wore beneath the pahMtree shade,
Recall her wandering sons, abjure her pride,
And bless th' anointed Kos else cradled!
Th' nnfaded crown of David's glory claim,
Yon Arch cierthrown, and Rome itself a name!