19 NOVEMBER 1853, Page 2

It is proposed to have "a great day for Ireland,"

shortly, we presume—the day when Mr. John O'Connell shall be returned for Clonmel. Something remarkable must have occurred to call Mr. John O'Connell from the privacy to which he had so publicly de- voted himself, and from the commerce to which he had retreated on discovering the vanity of political hopes. Ireland is regenerate, and that, we suppose, is the reason why O'Connell is regenerate too. Besides, there is at present no O'Connell in Parliament; a fact, we believe, unprecedented since 1829. The difficulty is to understand what function Mr. O'Connell could expect to fulfil. Ireland is not only regenerate, but prosperous. Her priest- rule is declining ; and the Collegiate system, as well as the Na- tional, finds a flourishing existence, priestcraft notwithstanding. She has had an Exposition of Industry ; an Encumbered Estates Act has brought more than one 0' and Mae to the hammer, and cleared the land for many a Saxon landlord, who is welcomed by "the finest pisantry in the world "; and the people of the town where the illustrious eats terminated their existence now proclaim Ireland united and industrious, in welcoming a Lord-Lieutenant. Becoming Saxon not only in her landlords, but in her self-reliance and in her hopefulness, without disaffection and without distress, what has Ireland for an O'Connell to do P