A MONUMENT TO O'CONNELL.
IT is nothing new to hear indifferent spectators allege that a person may be a bully and yet no fighting man, but it is something new to hear a man make the assertion positively regarding himself. Mr. O'CoNNELL has declared, at a crowded meeting in the Corn Ex- change—" I am not a fighting man, and yet I have bullied England." It may be excess of candour, or it may only be a peculiar taste ; at all events it is original. The admirers of great men have been accustomed to think that the best monuments to their memory were statues, representing them in some of their most distinguished actions. An artist worthy of the subject might represent O'CoN- Neu, delivering the speech of which the above memorable declara- tion was a part. The reporter has suggested the appropriate mo- ment. "'A single shot,' continued the Liberator, fired from a hostile vessel—one ball booming over the ocean from a hostile cannon to England — then —' Here the honourable and learned gentleman placed his finger to his nose, looked most *my:candy, and immense and enthusiastic cheering burst forth from every quarter of the room." A goodly portion of this year's rent would be well bestowed to enable some Irish MICHAEL ANGELO (since Irish ma- nufactures alone are to be patronized) to eternize this Sublime O'Connellism in marble.
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