The Sun.
London, England, 1864-01-04 00:00:00

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descended trom the civic chair, ana tne Swordnearer
having taken from him the wand, the gold chain,
and collar of S S, invested Peter Paul M'ziwiney
with these visible signs of office, and that gentleman
then took his seat as Lord Mayor for 1864 amid
loud cheering. Ihe new Lord Mayor then ad-
dressed the Council, expressing his thanks for the
honour he had received. He seemed to have caught

something of a fiery and mertial spirit from the
national emblems which met his eye in the proses•

sion, as appears from the following passages in his
speech :—" I am proud to be called on to preside
over a city which not only rightly claims to be the
second city in the empire, but, which has many noble
and distinguished qualities which would entitle it,

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to be the first. If the absence of grievous crimes, o
those unnatural atrocities, of those dark revelations
which give an unenviable notoriety to other cities,
and which pollute the atmosphere of the people who
live in them—it the absence of all those hideous
deformities give Dublin a claim to a high place,
most certainly Dublin will not be second to any city
in the world. If that appreciation of the sanctity of
domestic life which forbids the presence of a -Divorce
Court—(cheers)— if the absence of that massacre of
the innocents which takes place elsewhere, if high
and noble qualities among our public men—and
during my short career in this city I have had rea-
son to respect and admire the public men of Dublin,
not only the members of this corporation for their
zealous devotion to the discharge of their duties, but
those gentlemen who conduct public boards, rail-
ways, ban ks,minir g, and otherimportan t institutions
of our country—if the possession of these ennobling
qualities entitles a city to a first place, surely Dublin
will not be the second. I cannot but hope that
during my year of office I will be enabled to assert
that which the ex-Lord Mayor so nobly asserted
during his year of office—the claim of Dublin to its
proper position by prescriptive right of the second
city of the empire, and that you will all sustain me
whenever the citizens and our fellow-countrymen
are attacked by an alien press—by those who can-
not put pen to paper without maligning the charac-
ter of our countrymen, and taking advantage of the
few exceptions I have alluded to to represent us to
Europe as demons, as wretches hardly removed from
the lowest state of barbarism, and fit only to be
arrayed at one side or the other of the massacres
now going on in Virginia and Tennessee."
Sir John Gray, ie a highly complimentary speech,
moved a vote of thanks to the late Lord Mayor:
which was seconded by Alderman Atkinson, and
supported by Mr. Sullivan, who spoke in a similar
strain of eulogy. The Lord Mayor, in putting the
resolution, expressed his warm concurrence, and
said " a grateful nation would retain the memory of
his good deeds engraved on its heart for ever.'
The ex-Lord Mayor responded, and referred to his
conduct during his year of office. He marred the
effect of his speech on such an occasion by referring
rather bitterly to the" malicioas and paltry attacks"
made upon bim during the year.
After the necessary formalities were gone through
the procession resumed its progress through the
city, passing down Parliament-street, over Essex-
bridge, up Capel-street, Dorset-street, and round
by S Ickville-street, over Carlisle-bridge, and back
o the Mansion-Louse.

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Macdonald, and myself went outside the : eii,izi
and Star doors and had some conversation. , ' V.51/-*
bah Brown said to me,' Can we get into the mat:k ii S
ing?' I said, 4 Yrs ; I have got a bottle of gin
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there;' and she replied, ' Then iet us so.' She asked
Macdonald to go with us, saying, 'We shall have
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plenty to drink ;' and she said,.'d\ro, one man with -,-: .
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one woman is plenty,' and we then left Maczlote:d, ,/ ,
and went round to Mr. Waddelow's, by the church
walk, through the little gate, into the George end
Star yard, which adjoins the malting premises, and
got en to the cow crib over the wan on to the til-

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Jerkins in the malting-yard, in the e.nnt:r de-
scribed at my trial and Rent into the kiln thronA
the door which Smedley and I bad left unlocked. She
(Brown) at that time was smoking a long pipe, and
.when we got into the furnace-room I drew a quart
pitcher fall of gin out of the jug, and we sit down
on the settle and drank most of it, bat not all of it,
both of, us,,smoking. We had sat do we ahoui. half
an hour when I wanted to taha `tlarrties with her,
but rt,he ,would not let wa. I pallet" her off the.
settle. Sae kiek.d.and kn at, and got hold
of try hair, and in the strugg I :it her on the body
with and fist, and she fell on the floor. I then kicked
her on the body more than once. She did not screkAn
out. I then felt so bad I did not know what to, do, as
I felt 1 had killed her. I stooped down, and got hold
of her and shook her, and found that she was really
dead. I than drank heartily of some more gin.
There were some sacks lying on the settle, which. I
took off and pulled round her, and set fire to aim
by putting a shovelfull of hot cinders on the sacks.
I sat down on a block against the , furnace, and
watched the burning. After I had watched the
burning about an hour, I drank some more giu.and
stirred up the.burning sacks. I then sat down again
and went off to sleep I expect."