The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1876-02-13

prefer chat costume to any other. But in other
cases. the requirements of art are paramount.
James Watt when devising his steam engine,
Robert Stephenson whom constructing bis
locomotive, Lord Resse when casting bis
giant sPecnlum. were probably arrayed in
garments much less graceful than con.
venient Accordingly the artists who have
handed down the figures of these famous men
to posterity have dismissed, without scruple,
the leathern jerkin and tho short pilot jacket
In favor OF the more becoming garb Of public
life or state ceremonial. The favorers of the
| cloaked O'Connell always make the mistake
OF forgetting that the statue has to be seen
error, we would suggest to them q simple ex-
pertinent in their own imagination. Let them
fancy the cloaked ststne placed with it's back
to Carlisle bridge That act of conception
! them They would feel that, Thus posted, the
| statue would be an eyesore rather than an
ornament. Other thaa an cyesore it is not in
the power OF Mr.. Foley's genius TO make it,
Let those who think otherwise point to some
cloaked statue of heroic size and mounted on
nigh pedestal which has turned out q success
Until this is done, we shall take leave to expect
that statues of this kind will always prove
merely variations of the Moore bluuder.
The way the matter stands ct present. how
ever, is that, at Mr.. Morgan O'Connelrs re-
quest, q special meeting of the OConnell
\ Monument Com mittee has been summoned for
Friday week to consider whether the last reso-
luton arrived at on the question should not be
| recousideredt and, Notwithstanding that the
Freeman is working with great vigor for its own
view, there is o chance, should say, that that
~iH be rescinded. 1t is dssgreeable to be
obliged to add that, whichever figure 10 finally
seleored, the monument itself will not be
erected in Dublin for many long day to come.
The executors of Mr.. Foley are at law in Bog
land with the artists whom he wished to com.
plete his unfinished works and until this law.
suit IL over-which may not be for long time
| NOT q enger will be laid to the statue of
| O'Connell.
Last week, for the fret time since his hard
won election in 1874, The O'Donoghue n P.
| put 10 an appearance in Tralee. The local
Tenants Defence Association. in accordance
with a suggestion thrown out by Sir Michael
| Beach in Belfast (who, of course, never thought
he would be taken at his word) invited the
| landlords of the county to meet their tenants
| in conference on the land question. The only
landlord who attended was The ODUnoRhue.
None OF the others even sent an apology. The
| tenants, on their part, mustered strongly, and
although justly reseutful of The O'Donoghue's
public conduct, gave him q courteous hearing,
as he addressed them in a long speech. What
he said on the land question was not entirely
unsatisfsc tory; and when ~e consider that he
has based his desertiOn of the Irish national
cause on the willingness of the British Parlia-
mont, as demonstrated by the passing of
the Church and Land Acts, to do justice to
Ireland, he cut the ground from under HE feet
by admitting passiH that the Land Act was an
utter failure. At the close of his address, he
was sharply cross-examined and other wise
taken to task in reference to the opposition he
had given to the attempted amendment to the
Land Act and other matters. He had no reply
to offer, and did not attempt any. He was, in
deed, ss meek as . half-drowned rat might be
expected to be after emerging from the water,
and was, on the whole, an object Of pity rather
than Of anger, cut of, rs he was, from the
national party on the one hand and contrasting,
N effect on the other, that the Imperialist had
disappointed his expectations. "Have you any
reason, Mr.. Long," asked one member Of the
Association of the editor of the Tralse CkronioIs
and the President of the Club, :" to suspect
that The ODonoghue will not break the |
promises he has given nowP al am sorry"
replied President Long, to answer, yes" "It |
has not come to my turn said Michael Power, |
Que Of the stauncheSt nationalist in the
borough, +" to sit beside political prostitute
and renegade; come away, boys" Now all the
while The ODonoghue sat silent as the grave
l would not wonder IL he turned round,
especially nO'O that he kHocS his mGJOrity has
vanished. SIS. G.