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'METROPO.IT'AN' JUNF GOSSIP.
R. srN', surinshine,- theyprlce of'gqciiateýr'loaese an
the .spirits of provisional 'committeemen 'have beel
tumbling downwith delightful precipitancy all day
long to-day; and consols, green peas, and the tetn
per of defaulting allottees going up in a correspondil
ing ratio..
The usual electoeerring movements ,increase i.
'noise, but no great deal of interest. Mr. Whittle
Harvey. of wlum mention was made in the previous
letter, Ihas, in print; declared hi' readiness to staui
for either Lambeth or Colchester' provided he has a
reasonable assurance beforehand' of success, a
he admits, in his address; . fact, :wh;ic 'you ere
probably disposed to consider 'as banter in' last
week's "' Gossip." namely, that the pleasure of wor
rying Alderman' Teapot and the rest of the Midas
fraternity. Is a main inducement to continue COt.
missioner of Police till he can make certain of stp
ping into Parliament, where we may expect a
charming show-up of the nice goings on he has
witnessed among the turtle-eating legislators of the
City. Lord Dudley Coutts Stuart is added to the
list of liberal competitors for the vacant -seat of old
Napier, in Marylebone; and perhaps yotumay find
some small interest in his proceedings from his re.
lationship to your noble representative, Lord Sandon
who married Lord Dudley's sister, (daughter by a
second marriage, of the late Marquis of Bute) Lord
Dudley himself marrying Christina 'Alexandrine
Egypta; daughter of Lucien, and consequently niece
of Napoleon Buonaparte; and the issue of this lat
ter marriage is a son, now in the army,' rejoicing
in a name almost as out of the way as that of his
mother, namely. Paul Amadeus Coutts, who is thus
a very distant relation to Miss' Angela Burdett,
whose persecutor, Dunn is moving to-day, for an
arrest of judgment in reference to the late trial, and
if the rule he applies for be made absolute, lie will be
liberated for a while, and may commence his lover
making antics again as soon as he pleases.
It will be no news to you to learn that D'Israeli
stands for Buckinghamshire; but it may be news to
be informed that he cuts the proud Salopians, " the
oldest Tory constituency in the empire," as he ex
ultingly used to call them, with withering superci
liousness -- such as his Young Dukish or Contarini
Flemingish exquisites exhibit towards bankers and
shipowners, when they encounter these mercantile
vermin at Hanteville-hall or Grosvernor-square.
Not a valedictory syllable did he bestow upon them
never told them a word of his going, and left them
to find out all about it from his advertisement
to the Bucks freeholders, after his Shrewsbury
agents had perfected the inachinery for his re.
election, and, as they now protest, had securnd
him an indisputable majority of 300 ! This is
a Sidonian specimen of vengeance, worthy of the
apostle of the " Pure Spheradim" of the Caucasian
race. But Ben was never a pet in Shropshire. The
" territorial aristocrats," with their Welsh genealo
gies, and their Pictish pedigrees, looked upon the
Hebrew phenomenon as a parvenu ; and he des-
pised Boadicea, and Caractacus, and all the rest of
breechesless royal vagabonds of the Cymri, as the
merest upstarts, seeing that his ancestors were a
ancient noblesse of some thousands of years standing,
not only before Britain, but before Europe, had any
authentic existence at all. That he ever found his
way into such a set is said to be owing, in the first
instance, to his admiration of the primrose kids of
the Hon, Cecil Weld, Forrester (member for Wen
lock, and heir of the wealthy Lord Forrester) ; and
for Ben to admire anything but himself was as
marvellous a compliment, that immediate steps were
taken to bring the cash of the Carlton and the local
influence of his patron to bear upon the Spartan
patriots of the capital of cakes, with what success th
last general election testifies. Ben had the manliness
to despise the poor tools who returned him to order.
lie would have none of their parish trumpery, and
thought they were honored infinitely beyond their
deserts in having his own brilliant and variegated
self for a noininal representative. There is little
doubt of his return for Bucks, even if it were quite
true that one of the Cavendishes were disposed to do
battle with him ; for the houses of Stowe and Beel
voir (whose protege he is) would be far too much
for those of Devonshire and Burlington, saying
nothing of the relative individual potency of the
candidates. He will henceforth figure, not as the
nominee of the landed interest, but as one of the
body himself ; yet the probability is, that his growing
substantial honors will induce him toeschew, in s
great measure, the cultivation of those flashily dazu
zling endowments which made him at once the Idol
of the drawing-room, the admiration of the inicle'
house, and the especial terror of those prosperous
mediocrities of whom Peel was once the envial
chief.
But of all the' elements in the interest of forth'
coming elections tile death of O'Connell is necessarily
the greatest, atnd will, ave a 'most powerful lofluence
in augmenting the strength of the Tories in the
niext Parliament. It is well understood here thu
they look for a very large-increaaeof membersotfm
the hitherto Liberai' Irish 'constituencies, owing 1o
the demise of their mighty and irresistetl
antagonist. So completely was O'Connell the heelrt
and soul of thle Reform cause in Ireland, andsi
completely has his spirit died with him,thatiths
more than doubtfil if even tihe county he repre'
sented will muster courage enough to make showetl
resistencce to tlhe Tory candidate, who, it is said, will
be Lord Bernard, tlhe piresent member for Bandon,
and son of lie' e~arl who takes his title from tht_
town. This being the case in tihe Liberator's low
county of Cork, how may we expect it will fare with
the small borough constituiencies to whose reprea"n
tatiop r.the Repeal members had no possible pre e'
tensionse,: beyond, .what. 'tlheoy derived from h's
countonancei and thle magic of his name P Thosed
the Engl lish Wlls Who think it looks dignSfied a
turn up.their nses at the nIotion of O'Cononell's i*
fluence.in English politices.may rquickly find rtas
to undeceive themselves, if only from the one cuuia
just hinted at; for it is an undoubted fact thatallh
Tapers and Tadpoles :of 'orrnption are alrealdy I
ginning to peepout of their holes, on thie stre?
of his death; and' ttere 'isn't a parsonical rantipci
who can .scrape thle money togethler that won't oe d
a new pair or shoes todance 'he bigot's polkatlitih
next howling ecchivd l ita Exeter Hall. It's all 0y
fin to talk; no opf? '?n ell having fulfilled i
mission, antI of encumbering in his old das th
btage of his early triumples.. Tihe first divisio' 5
[n the ei' Parilimbdri 'inivolving a question ot" i

tolerance and rationality, will probably sufficlently
dispose of that judgment ; and it is not-unlikely we
shall hear then, from the dilletanti Radicals on this
aide of the water, touching parallels between O'Con
nell and some of the aged heroes of antiquity,
including, of course,. that very convenient model
Belisarius, and his services to his ungrateful country,
when he was thought to be in his dotage,'and that
neglect had robbed him of his intellect as it had of
his honors. Whiggery would give a good deal this
time next year to have O'Connell back again even as
he was this day month ; and young Ireland would
probably be disposed to give twice as much; but the
chances are, that the old fanatics and firebrands,
who have been so long desiring his death, would
give much more than both put together, for they
will assuredly have most trouble in dealing with the
new order of things his departure giyes rise to, and
will least know how to set about it.
There is an extremely interesting political memoir
of the Liberator published in this evening's Tablet,
from tihe pen of Mr. W. B. M'Cabe, the learned and
ingenious author of the " Catholic History of Eng
lad":' an intimate friend of the illustrious deceased,
as also of Dr. Miley, who has discharged the last
offices to O'Connell with such devoted earnestness.
The memoir contains many curious items of intelli
gence that have either been altogether unknown to
or forgotten by, the other biographers.. One or two
may be mentioned hare, as being, probably, new to
the majority, of your readers. In the yerr 1828,
when the emancipation of the Protestant Dissenters;
for which O'Cionnell laboured most assiduously in
Ireland, was carried, it is worthy of remark, that,
at the banquet :wthich took place in celebration of
that event, the toast of "Catholic Emancipation"
should have been proposed by the illustrious indivi
dual who, twenty years subsequently, freed the Ca
tholic Emancipator himself in. the ever memorable
speech that declared him to have been the victim of
"a mockery, a delusion, and a snare. ' Denman
was but Common Sergeant of the City of London,
then, for, of course, his Attorney Generalship to the
unfortunate Queen went for nothing; aand.it is
eminently gratifying to find so exalted a personage
as the Lord. Chief Justice of England consulmma
ting the noble consistent career he had began and
aslbredl to in comparatively humble and obscure
life.
One point, however, it is here desirable to touch
upon, namely, the interment of O'Connell. It may
be safely asserted that there is no truth in the 'I'imes
statement as to Dublin being fixed npnn as Isis
burial place. In a letter to Mr. M'Cabe, under
date, Genoa. May 20, Dr. Miley, whose slightest
wish will be the voice of the Liberator himself in
such a case, says, " if my idea is to be followed out,
his grave is to be in the mountain solitude he loved,
in the primitive, the Celtic ruined Abbey of Derry
naue. There the mountain will be Ihis epitaph. and
the Atlantic waves will entoue his requiem and dirge
for ever." You will, perhaps, deem it an unpar
dolnable vanity in your correspondent's pointing to
an expression almost precisely identical in his letter
of the tat March last, in the Albion, in which, after
indicating the necessarily fatal course of O'Connell's
complicated maladies, (too accurately predicted, un
fortunately.) it was remarked, " His remains will,
of course, be conveyed to Derrynane, where they
will find a congenial resting-pla;ce within sound of
th ever-vexed Atlantic surges, whose resathssneas
is but too typical of the wayward course of him
whose dirge they will for ever peal. This was ful
luwed by the well-known, quotation fromn Shakspeare,
beginning. " Timon hath taken up his everlasting
mansion by the' breeched mnargin of the salt
flood:" &c.
The papers abound in the advertisements of
medlds, busts, paintings, engravings, and lives of
O'Connell; and your old friend Zadkiel recalls a
prophecy of his death only four years before. It
occurred in these words:-" Should lhe survive his
seventieth birthday it will only be to commence a
year of sulfering and decay !". The once celebrated
secretary to the Catholic Association, Mr. Encas
Mlacdonnell, between whom and the deceased a bitter
feud of many years' stanlding existed, while dis
claiming any intention of i.riting anything himself
in reference to the Liberator, intimates that, if
others are not very cautious how they handle the
subject, (me'aning in reference to the secretary,) he
will "come out" in a style that is likely to prove
less idifying thalh' startling to the friends of the
mighty dead.--C'orresponedeint of L verpool Albion.

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