Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1847-06-30


time Catholic lrishman had only road Tor
ambition; by the Bar; and an eminent Counsellor
was looked up to, with the greatest respect. The
superiority OF his forensic powers soon became
manifest that he took up leading position III
the profession and so he acquired some le-
gal distinction, began to engage III Catholic agita'
ton.
At the death of his uncle, Maurice, aged 80, in
1925, Daniel Council became possessed of the
estates OF Kerry, and inherited the representation
OF the family. lie espoused his cousin, Mary,
daughter of Edward Connel, NJ d. Tralee, on
the Sd Of June, 1902 and their children are, Alau-
rice Morgan. and John, all members OF the British
Parliament
Mr. OConnel himself has successfully repre-
scented in the British House OF Commons, Clare
County, Waterford. Kerry County, Dublin City,
Kilkenny, and latterly believe, the great County
OF Cork No man was ever SO trusted by Ireland
as he has been.
/ Wien O'Connell took hold of the affairs of the
Catholics they were IN d very bad state. He quai-
relied with Grattan and other Wing leaders, bat
gained daily with the people HIS forensic pow
cIs in the Law Courts, and brilliant pro e>slonal
success united with the ability with " h ch he adj
vocated equal Civil and Religious Rights, and his
genuine Wit, humor, mirth, and courageous bearing
gave him by 1917 the station OF the most power
iul man in the Catholic body His powers OF cal
culatlon, his great cdulioa his deep and ready in
sight into character, and his neXhdustable supply
OF bitter, biting, caustic wit and sarcasm, when
Joined with his exhibitions of feeling and passion,
and ability at pleasure, as it seemed, to become
the very soul OF mrth and good humor, contrlbut-
ed greatly to the preservation of his power, even
when men began to doubt that his expectations, If
sincerely entertained, OF Parliament on College
Green, would not speedily be realized.
When Young Mr.. O Council was a Freemason
and the Master OF Lodge, but he Ienounced Ma
sorry when he found that his church condemned
| it. In 1889 he wrote to the Wesleyan ministers
that IN the person OF their ounder, and from his
days. they had, upon all occasions, shown them
sci, the enemies OF freedom OF conscience, and
! that Rev. john Wesley was IN 1899, one OF tie
! prime. pal founders OF the proc .tant Association
which, IN June, 1880, very nearly ache, cd the de-
stnlctIon OF London by an eac,ce.
| Mr. Connel, up to a very short time before
| his death was apparently hale hearty, vigorous
man. fond OF jose and tull OF mITth and humour.
! In private conI ersdtlon Mr. q Cornell was agTeea-
/ bic cheerful and pleasant, he was a working man
in the strictest sense OF the term-the quantity oil
business he did in day was prod gious-scarcely
exceeded even by his interchangeable and steadast
| friend Mr. Hume. His letters to his countryne l.
describing the massacres, were published through
out Europe and America aud produced powerful
impression.
GRAND OBsEoUIEs AT GExoA-The obseauies
at Genoa, on the 10th inst, were attended by mul.
titudes who seemed deeply affected. TIE cover,
nor the clergy, nobility, the foreign consus, and
and other distinguished personages were present,
and the Rev. DR.. Miley and the members for Dun
dalE were accommodated in a private tribune,
specially prepared for their reception In the
| absence OF his Eminence the Cardinal Archbishop
"a venerable octogenarian, who disabled from
attending by illness) his Vicar General, who is al
so prelate OBLIGATED. The requiem was striking
| ly grand. Nothing could be more solemn, or more
characterised by that sublimity with which Catho
/ LEFTY alone knows how TO invest their Offices
whether we regard the throngs OF every rank that
surrounded the lofty BIER ami niled all psrs OF the
stately temple-the magnlfcence OF the temple
itself olhe finest in these countries-the crowds
| OF the clergy OF every order who were naTshalled
according 10 their respective dignity in the choir,
and around the altar the divine and imposing pee
tace OF four and twenty all lifting up the host OF
Precipitation at the same me ment, and while the
Requiem eterFdm doaa CT Dcnline" Eternal rest
give to him Q Lord and upon him le thy smile or