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rily Mgn key--adinOnitlOns, accusations, oDi-
mons, all being delivered in a loud, angry tone
of voice, as if directed TO some one over the
heads of the audience. The wrange was main.
tanned long and tonghly; so long, that we be-
came uneasy as to the progress of time, and were
compelled to leave the court before the question
was settled And this was a court of justice
The whole affair more resembled a scene in
Tom and Jerry than the proceedings OF a regu-
arly-apponted tribunal
On retiring from the court house we went
back to the hotel considering it fully time to have
some little experience of Mrs. Bralagans cook
cry. How the dinner was served by waiter
about three-quartcrs drunk, who had been enga-
gcd that morning only on the distinct UNDER
standing thai he was teetotaller-how this |
waiter came into the room every FIVE minutes,
thinking in the congomeration of his ideas, that
the bell had rung, and how, on discovering his
mistake, he always went to large basket stan
ing in corner of the apartment and thereirom
distracted turf which he placed carefully on the
fire and how at last we had to insist on his dis
continuing these acts of attention, as we had no
wish TO be roasted, or to see the house on fire.
how Mr.. O'Braagan was very much scandali-
sad with the walters eccentricities. and would
have dismissed him on the spot. but for the consi-
derate interposstion of Mr.. Bralagan--how
Mr.. Hyacinth O'3ralagan, who was an obligng
the room during our meal and entertained us
with a full and particular account Of his grey
hounds-how Mr.. O'Bralagan gave it as his
well-weighed opinion, that it would be a hard
case. very hard indeed, ifa man in business like
him were not to get one day out of every four
for amusement-how Mr.. O'Bralagan was Of
belief that every gentleman should keep good
riding horse-and how it was Mr. OBralagan's
inlelibly fixed impre that the Union had
been the ruin of Irish industry-lnust all be left
to the obging imagination of the reader.
slight stretch further of this accommodating
quality will see us leaving Mr.. O'Bralagans
hospitablc mansion on our return by train to
Dubn--discomtcd no doubt, with but an un-
daunted resolution to renew on Saturday, our
Travels in Search of Lord ROSES Telescope.
Our second attempt to reach Lord Roses
telescope was more successful. and attended
with fewer adventures, than that of which
have presented an account. First by railway
to Kildare, and thence by coach, the journey
of seventy-eight miles from Dublin was salts
! factorly performed j; and early in the afternoon
of an October day we found ourselves comforta-
bly, seated in a hotel in Parsonstown.
The appearance of the town somewhat sur
prised us. In travelling towards it from Dublin,
we have occasion to cross various extensive
tracks of boz useful no doubt to the adjacent
i inhabitants. but otherwise unproductlvc and
too large and unsightly to inspire pleasing emo
tons There is also seen not little wavsde
poverty-mud novels, poor state Of husbandry
and struggling though far from dense popula'
ton. Immediately beyond one the dreary bog
regions, we come suddenly upon Parsonstown
as neat and brisk a town as can be found in Eng
. land-cnvrons consisting OF numerous villas
square of good houses, and several regular
, streets pretty nearly the whole being white
4 nl,tn ntilit IA
and comfort. To account for these agreeable
features, was informed that Parsonstown has
become n favorite resort for families seeking {
, place of genteel retirement, though the nature
of the climate is by no means favorable to those
. requiring dry and equable condition of the at
mosphcre. Perhaps not the least irresistible o
its attractions are the easy terms on which
buildng-ground is obtained from Lord Rose
, and the not less remarkable libera!ity of thai
, nobleman in opening his extensive pleasure
, grounds for several hours daily to all who
choose to visit them.
A walk along terrace of houses, forming
with the trees opposite. a species of boulevard
conducts us to the gate of his lordship's domain
{ and. uninterrupted, we soon reach the law,
, in front of the castle-a large and commodu
, building of some antiquity, which endured ;
= seige during the wars of the Revolution. 1t
: whatever manner the edifice was surrounded
|, with defences in those troublesome times, it il
d now open to the park-ne lawn that bounds it OF
: the north, and in which are situated the varou
: telescopes OF its ingenious proprietor Previous
Y to the arrival of the steward who was kindly re
puted to afford us every desirable information
= we had an opportunity of taking genera
81 ,nce at the apparatus and of looking around TIN
grounds, through which flows, in many me
f andering turn, the pretty little river Lower Bros
b ma, tributary of the Shannon.
d The telescopes on which of course our atten
= ton was mainly riveted, are three in number
: like the degrees of comparson-great, greater
e greatest and are all situated near to each 9th
err, so as to command fair view of the heaven
i over the tops OF the trees which bound the lawn
e The smallest is contained in Il dome-rooipd ed
r ifice, resembling an ordinary observatory, an
t therefore presents nothing exterorly remarkable
| The two larger are under no roof; they ar
E; open to the wea Their great black tubes dangl
e from chains like the tunnels of steamboats,. low
= cred slopn.ly from the perpendicular One c
It these is twenty-sx feet long and three feet /
= diameter, and is adjusted As to wheel rom
d to point in any required direction. The othe
5 which is appropriately called the monster telt
n scope measuring tiitv-tvc feet in length b
six feet in diameter, and is suspended bctwcc
: high and substantial walks, which permit it
command of every stripe Of the heavens iror
l. south to north-an arrangement which howeve
= imperative from the bulk of the machine, | Wa
" sorry to think must somewhat lessen its usetu
a fulness.
IS So much for first glance at these wonder
full astronomical instruments. Before we Ia
l. walked round them. the steward an integen
IS and obliging young man, placed himself at on
service and by way Of beginning at the be
,t ginning, conducted us TO the workshops wher
the whole apparatus was made. Oar road pro
t. cecded through clump of trees, and emerge
on court yard on the right OF the castle, wher
,t an entire engineering establishment disclosed It
II self. II was certainly something new to hnt
II smelling furnace in active operation, blown b
?, a steamengne, within dozen feet ot the draw
% ing-room window of nobeman's castle Th
! furnace was putting away at a great rate an
v a neat little engine was diligently occupied nc
o only in blowing the bellows, but in giving mo
IS ton to sundry shafts, belts, and puleys.
h large complex piece of machinery, designed t
l. turn and smooth the specula of the telescopes
! was at rest and about dozen men were her
?, and there occupied with sundry minor opera
Al tons. All the workmen who have from first t
g last, been engaged in preparing the telescopes
g or the apparatus connected with them, hav
been natives-a fact which will seem strange I
d those whoare unacquainted with the aptitude 70
h instruction of the Irish character 1t will proba
bly, appear not less surprising that the instructo
o and superintendent of these artisans IN thel
ID mutifarious duties has been no other than Lor
4. Rose, whose accomplishments in practical sci