JOHN MITCHEL.

THE most powerful opponent of English dominion in Ireland, during our day, has been the person whose name heads this article. O'Connell, at one period, had a wider influence, and a more popular audience; but the endeavors of the great orator were directed to a widely different purpose than were those of Mitchel. The former was a monarchist; the latter a republican. The one sought only to repeal the Legislative Union between the two countries. The other desired a distinct nationality-a separate State. O'Connell himself, at one period "an uncrowned monarch," as some termed him, was subservient to the trappings-the gold and glitter-the pageantry-the "Tribute of a kingly position," and never dreamed of a self-reliant nationhood for his native land. He even condemned the republican spirit which actuated the Tones, Emmetts and Fitzgeralds, on whose ruin, and from the suggestiveness of whose thoughts he came into power. Mitchel, in every particular, was the opposite of this. He labored with a fixed purpose; that purpose based on the doctrines of Jefferson, and the example of the American Union. He was tolerant with the intolerant, and earnestly strove to sunder those differences and enmities between the religionists of his country, which the agitation of O'Connell had too deeply sown. He believed that no especial religion