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proclamation, Cardigan was quite magnifi- cent. The next time Dr. Russell met lnm was
i a transport going to Varna. The third time he saw him crestfallen and wounded not quite in front after Balaclava. But O’Connell and his hecad pacificator, "Tom
Steele, wore great bunches of shamrock m their coats, and a great possc of priests
begged the people to disperse quietly. Then commenced the memorable Irish State trials.
““Both the Zimes -for descriptive portion of the trials and the Morning Herald had chartered special steamers to carry the news and the results of the Government proscceutions to [L.ondon,” said Dr. Russell. ““The great day came. The trial of O’Connell and the traversers lasted long, but at last it was over. It was very late on a Saturday night when the jury retired; the judge waited in court for some time, but went away after an hour’s expectancy, and the other newspaper correspondents left to get refreshments. 1 was sitting outside the court, wondering whether 1 should go to bed. Suddenly my boy rushed up to me.
“*TJury just coming m,’ he said.
‘““And they b]OUOhL in a verdict of guilty The moment 1 ]]Cdld it I flew from the ((nnl jumped on a car—drove to the stat.mn, where T had ordered a special train to be in readiness—got to Kingston --hatled the Zron Dike, the steamer chartered by the 77mes got up steam in hall an hour, and lcft with the consolation that the steamer of the Morning Herald was lying peacefully i harbour! Arrived at Holyhead---sped away- - special to London- -tried to sleep, couldn’t-— tight boots—took them off. Reached uston,
which I wrote the
MoAGAZINT.
S0 olad to see you sale over, sir!? he cricd. S0 they've found him guilty 2
“OVes cuilty, my friend,” Torephied. “Uhe Mornine flerald came out next day with the news of the fact the bare
et as well as the Zomes ! The gentleman in the shirt-sleeves was an cnissary from therr
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In 1840 Dr. Russell marred the daughter of Mr. Peter Burrowes, and severed for a short period his connection with the Znes,
m the same vear bhecomimg * Potato - Rot Clommissioner,” as it was termed, to the JdZorn- e Clronicle, Tor which he wrote letters from the famine-stricken districts in the West of Ireland. In 1848 he was special constable on the occasion of FFergus O’Connor’s abortive Chartist demonstration at Kennington, and in 18409 he accompanied the Queen’s flotillaon a visit to Ireland, and deseribed for the Zames the first review at Spithead by the Queen, as well as the first review of the Freneh flect at Cherbourg by Napoleon, after the cowp
il e was summoned home from Switzerland in the same year to o attend the Duke of Wellington’s funeral. AL
Russell saw the late then a cornet, riding at detachment ol the Tafe
this ceremony D Cardimal Howard, the head ol a
“ 1 owas at his funeral only @ week or bwvo dvo, at Arundel,” he sads .\ Roman Catholic bishop spoke to me at the Caste, alter the ceremony was over. Did 1 remember him? o No, T did not. He intro- duced himsell as Dr. Butt, Bishop of Southwark, who thirty-six years ago was Catholic chaplain in the Crimea, and pre- sently I met his venerable colleague, Bishop
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man waiting with cab, struggled to get on boots, only the left foot, and when
1 Icachcd the office 1t was with onc
boot under my arm.
“As I gotout of the cab in Printing House Square, a man n shirt-sleeves—whom I took to be a printer—came up to me.
Virtue, who had also been a chaplaim in the Army before Sebastopol. T had not scen cither of them since. At lunch I sat next FFather Bowden, chiel of the Brompton Oratory, who had been o the CGuards, and who was a [cllow memoer of the Garrick Club.”