O'connell's Eloquence

Among tne stereotypcd ornamenta of his'eloquence was a favorito reference to "the majostic mountains and fertüe valleys of green Ireland. " Once at Athloue, in the very center of the flattest part of Ireland, he exclaimed in the peroration of a patriotic speech, "Look around, my friends, on the majestic mountains," etc. - compliance with which request would have severely tested the opties of his audience. Another time, when boastin g at the Corn Exchange of the great attendance at a meeting he had recentJy addressed atKükenny, he outdid Falstaff 's 11 men in buckram somewhat after the following f ashion : He began by stating the oumbers present at the meeting at 50,000, "and who will deny," he continned, "that the cause must be important and the purpose strong that could assemble together these 50,000 men? Let no man say that they gathered merely from a feeling of personal regard or curiosity on my account. It would be absurd to suppose that 100,000 men would leave their homes to look at au elderly and rather corpulent gentleman. No, sir, when that peaceful army of 150,000 Irishmen congregated round me, their presence spoke, " trampet tongued, their firin resolutioa never to desist f rom the struggle until Ireland ehould havo her own parliament again. "And their rnultitudinons masses were aa orderly aud pacifio as they were resolute aud determiued. Oh, with what unspeakable delight do I i'ecognize in the conduct of those 200,000 noble fellows, " etc. And thus sailed along, upborne upon the swelling tide of his imagination, each sentence adding at least 50,000 to the previous amount until at last he arrived at, I think,