Meany, Denny and Joe Wynne, John Doyle, John Debeau, James 

 Monaghan, John Noble, Johnny Whelan, Larry Hyland, Dan and Jim 

 Broderick, William Cusack, Johnny Hanlon, Tom and William Ryan, 

 Tom Kelly, John Connolly, John Igoe, Stephen Kelly ; while of later 

 date came Davy and William Canavan, Paddy Gavin, and George Gray. 

 PuNCHESTOWN AND HoRSE Show.— Punchestown owes its patronage 

 to the same section of Irishmen as does the Dublin Horse Show, which 

 I describe at page 103. And in these, our two great national carnivals, 

 the world has object examples which demonstrate plainly to what 

 supreme excellence we Irish can bring great projects of our own con- 

 ception when we are left untrammelled with politics or religion, and are 

 not harassed by the interference of designing agitators. 



LOPtD DROGHEDA. 

 Chapter X. 



His Marriage and Successor.— I should add to the short memoir 

 of LordDrogheda which I give in Chapter x. that in 1847 he married Mary 

 Caroline, daughter of the second Lord Wharncliffe, but left no issue, 

 so that the marquisate became extinct, and he was succeeded by his 

 oousin, Mr. William Ponsonby, as Earl of Drogheda. 



And, reminded of the incident by the General Election which has just 

 taken place, I may also add that shortly before his death our great 

 •chief told me that at one time he thought of going in for politics, 

 to which I replied that I was glad he did not carry out his intention, 

 for he would have had to do for expediency and for " party " what he 

 ■never did, and never would do, when left to his own instincts. He 

 made no reply, but well do I remember the piercing look he gave me 

 and the significant smile which passed over those features, the expres- 

 sion of which was never indicative of anything save honesty of principle 

 with independence of purpose. 



RACING. 

 Chapter XL 



l^oTA Bene, p. 188— Appendix.— When they have read the para- 

 graph, '■ Give heed, all Radicals, to this assertion," at head of p. 188, 

 my readers are particularly requested to take up the Appendix to 

 Racing, which they will find at p. 421, for it is a continuation of what 

 I may call the homily I began at p. 187. 



FoREBODiJ^GS Fulfilled.— They will also see how strangely some of 

 my forebodings have come true. The Duchess of Montrose not alone 

 broke up her breeding establishment in July, 1894, but was on the 

 point of giving up racing altogether, a loss which the Turf was saved 



