The Sun. — 1864-01-04 (London, England)

FOLLET.—The costumes in this gracefully embellished serial are as fascinating as ever, and exhibit the vagaries of fashion in their most captivating form. The letterpress is of average merit.  The several useful and popular works now issuing by Messrs. Cassell are continued with unabated spirit. The Illustrated Bunyan is a really beautiful work. The Popular Educator will be a useful friend to marry a poor student, while The Illustrated History of England and The Popular Natural History afford information in the shape of animated and agreeable reading. The Soma/ Science Review contains a variety of useful papers, the most prominent of which are those on the diseases of overworked men and violent deaths and suicides in France. The Gardeners' Weekly Magazine is, as usual, overflowing with information, and the Post Magazine Almanack will be found of great service by the commercial community.  PRICE .4d. STAMPED ....51  descended trona the civic chair, and toe 6 wordbeaier having taken from him the wand, the gold chain, and collar of S S, invested Peter Paul M'Swiney with these visible signs of office, and that gentleman then took his seat as Lord Mayor for 1864 amid loud cheering. The new Lord M4yor then addressed the Council, expressing his thanks for the honour he had rec Lived. He seemed to have caught something of a fiery and martial spirit from the national emblems which met his eye in the procession, 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 en 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 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 reason 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  4aee,--e  iSEWSPAPE.I-1 room and had some beer, and alsoir'-a -1?-4..,, tion with Elizabeth 131 own and • .): t,.) ;.. :p v. vt: „:44 About one o'clock in Abu mornin ~ . 7". 4:: f ak' ...; k kti?f, Macclonald, and myself went oul i 6. .!7:54t,..n -117.- 4144 I and Star dcors and had same cnnve) a, ~.‘..‘, ; bett-p,•--- - -,-- y.,' Can we get 1 .4Ac arnl.-:got a botiftof ;.i  tag - Ves ; 1 lave there f 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 Alacdonald, 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 welt on to the clerking in the malting-yard, in the manner coscribed at Inv trial and went into the lziln throtuli the door which Smedley and I had left unionited.• She (Brown) at that time was smoking a long pipe, end when we riot into the furnace-room I drew a ouart pitcher felt of gin out of the jug, and We sat down on the settle and drank most et It, hut not all of it, both of us t;rookinga We had eat clown hut half an hour when I wanted to take libzrties with her, but the 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 shovelful' of not cinders on the sacks. I bat down. on 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."  those gentlemen who conduct public boards, railways, banks,mining, and otherimportant 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 daring-My-year of ()Tree I mitt-be etiabled-to- inert 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 cannot put pen to paper without maligning the character of our country men, 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, 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 " malicioas and paltry attacks" made upon him daring the year. After the necessary formalities were gone through the procession resumed its progress through the city, passing down Parliament-street, over Essexbridge, up Capel-street, Dorset-street, and round by Sackville-street, over Carlisle-bridge, and back to the Mansion-Louse.