Darrynane Abbey has been the theatre of a sale under
a sherifes authority! The furniture of that mansion in which -- the great Liberator of Ireland kept open house has gone for the benefit of the creditors who contributed to his hospitality. The fact is in itself a satire ; but the process had a more bitter moral. The whole of the household goods was sold or a few shillings over 3641. The furniture of the Liberator's own cham- ber, with its " state bed," sold for 3/. 8s. 6d. Such is the quo- tation to which the memory of the Liberator has fallen! Some question was raised lately about the delay in completing his monumental arrangements, and loud was the indignation of friends, who attempted to disprove neglect of his remains; but in this instance the figures are indisputable : the household relics of Daniel O'Connell, in his " mountain home," called forth none who prized them above a few shillings‘a piece.. Even life state bed riumpe,d in with other mementos far• the paltry figs that we have quoted. Such is popular mulahility. It may b questioned, indeed, whether any eountry besides Ireiand weak exhibit such extremes between the popular favour which O'Cen- nell enjoyed in his heyday so recently, and this beggary of his memory. It is again reserved for those who most condemned O'Connell's expedients in his lifetime, to censure the lightness of mind which can make the Irish so soon forget their "Liberator."
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