Witnesses—Who blew up King William?—Surgical Assistance—A Rejected Suitor—George Robins—The Greek Count: The Rats—The Child of the Alley—The Lucky Shot
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CHAPTER XX.
O'Connell—Smith O'Brien and Meagher—John Mitchel—Informers—The Close of 1848—The Military—A French View of Popular Commotions
Cholera: An Impatient Patient; Good News! only Typhus Fever—Royal Visits—Scotch Superiority strongly asserted—A Police Bill stigmatised—Leave of Absence—The Rhine—The Rhineland
Dargan's Exhibition—A Bell and Knocker—Lord Gough—Father Pecherine's Case—Assaults and Thefts—The City Militia—A Scald quickly cured—Sailors leaving their Ship
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CHAPTER XXVI.
Effects of Enlistment—Martial Tendencies—The She Barracks—The Dublin Garrison—An Artillery Amazon—A Colonel of Dragoons—Donnybrook Fair—The Liquor Traffic
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CHAPTER XXVII.
The College Row—The Cook Street Printer—A Question and Answer—A Barrister—An Attorney—Gibraltar
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CHAPTER XXVIII.
Gibraltar, continued
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CHAPTER XXIX.
Gibraltar, continued—Departure for Home—Charity, real Charity—A Death and Funeral—The Bay of Biscay again—At Home: Leisure no Pleasure—A Review
A Trip to the North—Metrical Attempts—Contrasts—Paris: A Fair—A Review—Nadar's Balloon—Sport, Turf, Boxing—Liquor Vehicles—No Hods—A Horse, a Dog, Rats
Although it is probable that I may bring before my readers an incident or two of a more remote date, I shall commence with the narrative of an alleged crime and its supposed punishment, which has been adverted to by Sir Jonah Barrington in his "Personal Recollections," Vol. I., page 52, and in the description of which he has lapsed into considerable inaccuracy. According to him, the name of the person chiefly concerned was "Lanegan;" but in that respect there is a positive error; for by examining the records of the Crown Office, (Ireland,) I find the name, as my father had frequently stated to me, to be "Lonergan." He was a young man who had been educated at the school of the Rev. Eugene M'Kenna, of Raheny, in the County of Dublin, and from that establishment entered Trinity College, Dublin, in the year 1773. During his undergraduate course, he resided
