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London, England, 1864-01-04 00:00:00

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and Star doors and had some conversation. Eiiza-
beth Brown said to me, Can we get into the malt-
ing?' I said, ' Yes; I have got a bottle of giu
there ;' and she replied, 'Then let us so.' She asked
Macdonald to go with us, saying, We shall have
plenty to drink;' and she said, 'No, one man with
one woman is plenty,' and we then left Macdonald,
and went round to Mr. Waddelow's, by the church
walk, through the little gate, into the George and
Star yard, which adjoins the malting premises, and
got on to the cow crib over the wall on to the kil-
derkins in the malting-yard, in the manner ee-
scribed at my trial and vent into the kiln through
the door which Smedley and I had left unlocked. She

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descended from the civic chair, and the Sworclbearer
having taken from him the wand, the gold chain,
and collar of S S, invested Peter Paul M‘6winey
with these visible signs of office, and that gentleman
then took his seat as Lord Mayor for 1864 amid
loud cheering. The 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 martial spirit from the
national emblems which met his eye in the proces-
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
to be the first. If the absence of grievous crimes, of
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—if 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
i❑ 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, banks,mining, and other important institutions
of our country—if the possession of these ennobling
qualities entitles a city to a first place, surely Dublin

(Brown) at that time was smoking a long pipo, find
when we got into the furnace-room I drew a quart

pitcher full of gin out of the jug, and we sat down
on the settle and drank most of it, but not all of it,
both of us smoking. We had sat down about half
an hour when I wanted to take liberties with her,
but she would not let me. I pulled her off the
settle. She kicked and knocked about, and got hold
of my hair, and in the struggle I hit her on the body
with my fist, and she fell on the floor. I then kicked
her on the body more than once. She did not scream
out. I then felt so bad I did not know what to do, as
I felt I had killed her. I stooped down and got hold
of her and shook her, and found that she was really
dead. I then 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 them
by putting a shovelfull of hot cinders on the sacks.
I sat dowdon a block against the furnace, and
watched the burning. After I had watched the
burning about an hour, I drank some more gin and
stirred up the burning sacks. I then sat down again
and went off to sleep I expect."

ll 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 J ohn Gray, in 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' malicious and paltry attacks"
made upon him 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 Sackville-street, over Carlisle-bridge, and back
to the Mansion-house.