19 AUGUST 1882, Page 3

The unveiling in Dublin, on Tuesday, of Foley's colossal statue

of O'Connell (completed after the death of the artist, by Mr. Brock), was an impressive affair. The statue is said to be a very fine one, and the procession so long, that though often rather deep, it took an hoar and forty minutes to pass any one point. The amount raised for the statue, however, had not been very large, the 218,000 requisite having been raised with some dif- ficulty, in the course of a good many years. The speech of the Lord Mayor on the occasion was the usual kind of panegyric and the -usual kind of denunciation of the Union ; neither Mr. Parnell tor Mr. Gray seemed to have anything distinctive of his own to add.