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I'rom the drawing-room, the carpet of which wits @ wedding present from the suite of the Prince of Wales on Dr. Russell's marriage to Countess Malvezzi i 188y, we went into the study, the writing table in which was a personal present from the Prince ol Wales on the same occasion. Boxes, full to then hds with diaries and papers, are scattered about the portraits on the walls are mostly fanily though here and there hang a few outside the immediate family civele,
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Dickens and "Thackeray are not forgotten and the head of a little dog is here, under
which Landscer has written * Brutus.” It was his own dog.
“The most faithful friend T ever had, 7 the areat artist said, as he put the preture me Dr Russell’'s hands one day.
Over the mantel-board 150 a the Serapis, the vessel i which D Russcll accompanied the Prince to India, and photos of the Prince’s parties 1n India and Turkey. A huge paper-weight and an inkstand are not without a history. The inkstand is formed from a picee of ashell which is embedded i astone from the Palas de St Cloud. Tt was hred by th: Irench from Valédrien at their own palace the day it was burned, just as General, then Colonel, Iraser arrived from Versailles. The paper-weight 1s also a very formidable bit of a shell which was fired from Vanvres at the stalf of the Crown Prince
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on the 1gth Sep- tember, when they ()btamcd their first view of Paris from the heights of Chatillon after the battle of that day. A very few inches nearcer, and the probability 1s that Dr. Russell would not have been sit- ting n his chair m the cosy study at Victoria Strecet. Willlam How- ard Russell was born at lLilyvale, co. Dublin, on March 28th, 1821. e really belongs to a Lamerick family, and to this day there 1s just the faitest and happiest tinge of the dear old Lrogue on the tip of Tus tongue. He exemplhi- Hes na way the “distractions 7 of the *dis- tresshul country ” in pohities and religion, for he had a great-grand-uncle hanged on Wextord Bridge i 1598, as a rebel during the war: whilst his grandfather was eng wcd on the side of Government, and was a valiant member of @ Yeomanry Corps. He went to the Rev. D Wall's, who used to flog scverely, and to the Rev. Gicoghegan's, a dear old [llow, who was not so birchingly melined, hoth in - the same street : but whatever he knows is duc to Dr. Geoghegan's school, where he was a0 day boy 7 for six or seven
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vears. Amongst his schoolfcllows were General Waddy (Alma, Inkerman, cte.), R, V. Boyle who defended Arrah in the Mutiny - CGeneral Sir Henry de Bathe, Colonel Willans, and Dion Boucicault, who
was then called Boursiquot.
- Boucicault was a very cantankerous bov,
said D Russell, * though Un(]ULHU()lldl)]) pluckv. T remember he f ()ught a big fcllow named Barton who, by-the-bye, became
a famous advocate o India, and died not lone ago a [P Lossex——with one arm tied behind his back, and took a licking gallantly. He was alwavs considered a clover fellow :
but, oh! how he uscd to romance! St Stephen's Green was the great battle-ficld of the schools—Wall’'s; Huddart’s; GGeoghegan'’s, cte.- - those days. Black eyes were as plentiful as blackberries; and I had my sharc. T was always very fond of soldicering,