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entomologist, whom we found upon inquiry to have been 

 some time deceased; the other, to a resident gentleman, from 

 whom we received the greatest kindness, and the most useful 

 practical information as to getting along. 



The election for Dublin city was at its highest point of 

 interest. The poll here is open for five days : this was the 

 fourth. O'Connell and Hutton, the popular candidates, in 

 spite of the whole corporate opposition brought to bear against 

 them, had headed the poll yesterday. They had increased 

 their majority to-day. To-morrow tlie poll would close. 

 Excitement and party-feeling was at its height. In the Tory 

 papers of the day, we read long accounts of the disturbed and 

 disorganized state of the populace, of the dreadful outrages 

 committed, of the bands of hired ruffians prowling about in 

 lawless array, armed with bludgeons, insulting every one having 

 the appearance of respectability, and endangering the lives of 

 the peaceable and the stranger, if in any way suspected of a 

 Protestant bias. Our friend happening to be of liberal opinions, 

 proposed going down to the Court-house, for the chance of 

 hearing O'Connell speak at the announcement of the poll. 

 I was delighted with the opportunity of making myself ac- 

 quainted with a genuine Irish mob ; and should certainly like 

 to have witnessed the learned Agitator address a native street- 

 audience in his own capital. In this we were disappointed. 

 He did not speak that evening, probably reserving himself for 

 his expected final triumph of the morrow. But we were most 

 amply repaid in hearing Henry Grattan, Counsellor O'Dwyer, 

 and Tom Reynolds, " second only to Dan." I never witnessed 

 any thing finer, either in manner or effect, than the speech of 

 the first-named gentleman. I believe he could have done any 

 thing with his audience. He seemed most thoroughly to 

 understand them. His stentorian voice is particularly well 

 adapted for out-door occasions. Its rich volume almost seemed 

 to fill the arch of heaven, and commanded attention, which the 

 measured slowness of his delivery enabled the dullest capacity 

 to keep up. His language was of the simplest order, yet full 

 of vigour and animation, with that happy mixture of half wit, 

 half eloquence, so nationally characteristic, and so truly irre- 

 sistible. When he paused, which was not unfrequent, the 

 applause was boundless and unrestrainable. His tall, graceful, 

 commanding figure, and high intellectual expression, contrasted 



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