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RECOLLECTIONS 
 
 OF 
 
 THE IRISH CHURCH. 
 
EECOLLECTIONS 
 
 OF 
 
 THE IRISH OHUEOH. 
 
 BY 
 
 RICHARD SINCLAIR BROOKE, D.D., 
 
 LATE RECTOR OF WYTON, HUNTS, 
 
 Author of '^ Christ in Shadow^ being Twelve Sermons on Isaiah L. ■ Poenis • 
 
 aiul " Tlie Story of Parson Annaly." 
 
 Si RITE AUDITA RECOKDOR." 
 
 MAC MILL AN AND CO. 
 
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 ♦1. " ^^ "'?^ '" *" ""^'""^ "'' ''"^ «■■"" PO'"'" on the mass of religious 
 thought aad feeling, is that which I have made bold to tem h 
 
 Protestant Evangelical."-" It is evident that we have here th^v rv 
 
 heart of the great Christian tradition."-" It has framed large comm,mlJes^ 
 
 .t has formed Christian nations ; it has sustained an ex^en" en' 
 
 generations of men."-" It has to a great extent made good its ground i^ 
 
 the world of Christian fact."-" Open to criticism it is, butTron^ 
 
 great factor of the Christian system as it now exists ; it is emiltJv 
 
 outspoken and tells of its own weaknesses as freely as of its victories or 
 
 merits. It rallies millions and scores of mUUons to its standard, and 
 
 while It entirely harmonises with the movement of modern civiUzati^n, it 
 
 exhibitsits seal m the work of all w^ks-^umely, in unUi,tg lU huLn 
 
 Hon. W. E. Gladstone, M.P,. in the CorU^r^yorary Rc^^w for June 1876 
 
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 Page 132, line 9 from top, for "Rev. Edward Gayer," rtad "Rev. 
 
 Charles Gayer." 
 Page 135, line 15 from top, /or " Ratcliffe," read " Radcliffo." 
 
 liECOLLECTIONS 
 
 OF 
 
 THE IRISH CHURCH. 
 
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 RECOLLECTIONS 
 
 OF 
 
 THE IRISH CHURCH 
 
 CHAPTER I. 
 
 It was during the parliamentary session of 1869 
 that the Irish Church was borne like a fainting 
 woman into the House of Commons to hear British 
 legislators debate upon her destiny, and decide 
 whether her existence as a State Institution should 
 continue or terminate. 
 
 The verdict, as we all know, was adverse, and the 
 spirit with which it was delivered was peculiar, as 
 it is historical. 
 
 For hard sayings were then uttered by Honourable 
 gentlemen against this hapless institution ; she was 
 denounced as an ** upas-tree," a '' consuming fire,'* 
 a "mockery and disgrace;" each adversary, like the 
 slayers of Stephen, " ran upon her with one accord, 
 and cast her out, and stoned her/' 
 
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 To US, in this country, who have ever— God, He 
 
 knoweth— found her sweet shade not like that of 
 
 a deadly upas, but rather that of a green .^spreading 
 
 oakrtree ; to us, who have lodged in hei^^ beloved 
 
 branches from infancy to manhood, and Sat with 
 
 our children under her shadow with great delight, 
 
 the reading of all this unmanly invective from an 
 
 assembly of "men of honour and of cavaliers," 
 
 could not but fill us with a sensation as much of 
 
 astonishment as of indignation. 
 
 But let such feelings drift and go by ; what is 
 done is done, and can scarce be re-enacted. Our 
 Church has now passed away as an institution of 
 the state, she has delivered up her jewels and her 
 gold at the demand of British legislators ; she has 
 parted company with the Church of England, in 
 whose embrace she had lain for long years, and the 
 sisters at this moment occupy difierent platforms, 
 the former remaining a state dependency, the latter 
 self-governing and independent; and from many 
 signs and proofs, we may presume, likely to use 
 her lately-acquired autonomy with judgment and 
 success. She is slowly recovering from the shock 
 of her spoliation ; she has a great recuperative 
 faculty, for she has much inward strength ; she has 
 earnest and faithful men at her desks and her 
 tables, good and gifted men in her pulpits, and 
 loving and loyal children throng her aisles : she is 
 sound in her doctrinal constitution, and simple in 
 
 THE IRISH CHURCH. 
 
 her^ devotional services, and holds fast by the 
 Scriptures and the Articles in her Prayer-book. 
 She is but little infected, so far, with Eationalism^ 
 and still less with Ritualism ; and thus we trust 
 that the winter of her discontent has passed with 
 the hour of her depredation, and that a glorious 
 summer of usefulness is about to set in upon her, 
 and that as God blessed the latter end of Job 
 more than the beginning, so it may be with her. 
 
 Regarding her, as I do, with inexpressible affec- 
 tion, having spent many of the happiest hours of 
 my long life in her pleasant service, I feel anxious, 
 if possible, to rescue from oblivion some few facts 
 and features connected with my remembrances of 
 her during the la^t fifty years, arid to transfer from 
 an old man's memory, where they must soon fade 
 and die, into the fixity of print, some occurrences 
 with which I was mingled, and some pictures of 
 departed worthies of whom it may be said, with 
 truth, *'the world was not worthy." 
 
 During my boyhood I had small opportunity of 
 making observations on the Irish Church. Our 
 parish was the Land of Nod, and our ministers 
 were as inactive in the week as they were unin- 
 teresting on the Sunday. Two of them kept classical 
 schools, and therefore could .not be expected to ' 
 work ; we had a large family pew up stairs in our 
 church, which was a dark handsome structure, with 
 lofty pulpit and wide galleries, d la Christopher 
 
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 Wren, and with an atmosphere of sleepy quietude 
 brooding in it, such as twenty drops of laudanum 
 might he expected to produce, or Mr. Tennyson^s 
 ** lotus-eaters " would have enjoyed. There was the 
 very gentlemanly rector, of whose pulpit per- 
 formances we could form no judgment, as he was 
 almost inaudible from thinness of voice ; the curate 
 cold and dry, and his assistant a mass of brainless 
 affectation ; they did not visit their flock, and we 
 scarcely knew them except in the desk and the 
 pulpit. Such was our staff of parochial teachers as 
 I remember them sixty years ago ; but I can also 
 recall how my father, and my uncle, who was rector 
 of Ballyconnell in the county of Cavan, used to 
 speak of a Mr. Kirwan in their young days, and of 
 his goodness and eloquence ; how he had obtained, 
 after preaching a charity sermon, 1,500/. for the 
 Meath hospital and 1,000Z. for an orphan school; 
 how Henry Grattan, and Curran, and Bushe loved 
 to hear him as " the brightest of preachers," and 
 how the first of these three men described him in 
 the House of Commons as " one who had come to 
 disturb the repose of the pulpit, and shake one 
 world with the thunders of the other." 
 
 Kirwan was born in Gal way in 1754, of an old 
 race of gentry ; he had been a Roman Catholic, 
 but became a Protestant from conviction ; he was 
 opposed and almost persecuted by the Archbishop 
 of Dublin, Dr. Fowler, because of his gospel 
 
 sermona and extempore preaching, and was un- 
 noticed by the authorities till within five years of 
 his death, when Lord Coruwallis made him Dean of 
 Killala. 
 
 In 1800 Grattan said publicly of Kirwan, that 
 " he had the curse of Swift upon him, for he was 
 bom an Irishman and a man of genius, and he 
 presumed to use that genius for the good of his 
 country." 
 
 Another remarkable Irishman, and one who came 
 within my own time, was Charles Wolfe. I knew 
 him personally, and remember him well ; he was born 
 in 1791 and died, in his thirty-second year, a poor 
 and overworked curate ; he was a kinsman of that 
 Wolfe, Lord Kilwarden, who was murdered by a 
 Popish mob in Thomas Street, Dublin, during 
 Emmett's short rebellion in 1803;^ in 1829 his 
 Life and Remains Avere given to the world bv 
 his friend Archdeacon Eussell, a work so deservedly 
 popular, that it has passed through four editions. 
 
 He was a devoted Minister of the Church, and 
 shortened his hfe by his labours. 
 
 As a Preacher, I can offer no higher proof of the 
 
 excellency of his sermons than to record that they 
 
 were admired by Dr. Whatelv, the late Archbishop 
 of Dublin.2 
 
 As a Poet, his " Lines on the Burial of Sir John 
 
 ^ General James Wolfe, the hero of Quebec, was also of his lineage, 
 bee his Life^ by his daughter, p. 432. 
 
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 THE IRISH CHURCH. 
 
 Moore" have a sustained popularity. Shelley 
 warmly admired this poem, and Lord Byron spoke 
 of it as " little inferior to the very best production 
 of this proliHc age." He loved music passionately, 
 and on liearing a song sweetly sung would start 
 from his seat and softly pace the room, lifting his 
 clasped hands al)0ve his head in his excitement ; he 
 had a fine-strung organization. 
 
 As a vouthfid Orator, in the College Historical 
 Society, he excelled, and though his friends found 
 it hard to overcome his shyness and force him to 
 the rostrum, yet his last speech there is weighty 
 with matter, and brilliant with philosophy and 
 poetry. He was a friend of my brother's, the pre- 
 sent Eio'ht Honourable William Brooke, late Master 
 in Chancery ; thev were both Scholars in Trinity 
 College Dublin, and Wolfe, consequently, was often 
 at our house, and I well recollect his spare lithe 
 figure, his pale face, and his aquiline features, full 
 of gentle thought when in repose, but sparkling 
 with animation, humour, and mobility when in 
 conversation. 
 
 Another distinguished Irishman whom 1 met 
 during my schoolboy days was the Rev. Charles R. 
 Matunn, the author of Bertram, a tragedy which 
 has been ever popular from its own indubitable 
 genius, as well as from its chief character having 
 always been sustained by the heads of the stage — 
 John Kemble, Kean, and Macready. I remember Mr. 
 
 Maturin perfectly — a gentlemanly person, with a 
 Huguenot face, and rather accurate in his costume. 
 He was curate of St. Peter's, one of the principal 
 churches in Dublin, and there his masterly contro- 
 versial sermons brought him into deserved notoriety. 
 AVith singular eloquence, he denounced Romanism 
 in scathing yet sublime language, and his sermons 
 are described as being '•' awfully grand while they 
 were convincingly faithful," and the great church 
 of St. Peter's, where he preached, was packed from 
 chancel to doorway with an eager crowd of gratified 
 listeners on every occasion when he occupied the 
 pulpit. 
 
 In the year 1807 there appeared from the press 
 Fatal Revenge; or, The Family of Montorio, by 
 D. J. Murphy. This was universally attributed to 
 Mr. Maturin, and it is, in its way, worthy of his 
 genius, being a romance in fearfulness and awful- 
 ness far surpassing the gloomiest production of 
 Anne Radcliflfe's. After I had read it I could only 
 exclaim, like the Thane of Cawdor, " I have supped 
 full of horrors." It lay like a nightmare on my 
 mind for days and weeks. Mr. Maturin was the 
 author of other works of fiction ; he was admired by 
 Lord Byron, and loved by Walter Scott. He died 
 in Dublin in 1824, and his son, the Rev. Dr. William 
 Maturin, is now Incumbent of Grange Gorman 
 church in the diocese of Dublin. 
 
 In a notice of the elder Maturin in the Imperial 
 
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 Biographical Dictionary, we are told, that when 
 in the act of composing, he was wont to affix a red 
 wafer to his forehead, which he meant to be a mute 
 warning to his household that he was not to be dis- 
 turbed or his cogitations broken in upon while the 
 wafer remained. Now surely this was a most 
 sensible procedure, and worthy to be adopted by all 
 literary thinkers, writers, philosophers, and suflfer- 
 ing Benedicts at large, who, perhaps, on gaining 
 their study after breakfast and grasping their peti, 
 are liable to be intruded on by their wife, some 
 dear but restless Desdemona *' on household thought 
 intent," with a request for counsel or for cash, as the 
 case may be, or perhaps with that most bewildering 
 of all questions to a literary man, '' What shall we 
 have for dinner ? '* the " red wafer '' would solve all 
 difficulties, and perpetuate peace and tranquillity. 
 
 In 1822 I became a student of Trinity College 
 Dublin, as a Fellow-commoner. My tutor was Dr. 
 Joseph Henderson Singer, afterwards Bishop of 
 Meath. He had obtained his fellowship at the early 
 age of 23, and was a man of universal and accurate 
 information, possessing very polished manners and 
 a kind and winning address. He was a prodigious 
 reader, not even despising the lighter literature of 
 the day, which he swallowed, but probably did not 
 care to digest ; a steady preacher of Evangelical 
 truth and a bold upholder of Scriptural education, 
 of course he was shut out from all Government 
 
 patronage till the advent of the Conservatives to 
 power brought in a more liberal atmosphere, and 
 shortly after Dr. Singer became Bishop of Meath 
 ^^ His pet name among the college alumni was 
 
 Lantor. We liked to see him ascending the 
 chapel pulpit. His sermons were neither orimnal 
 profound, nor dogmatic, but they were gentle, sound 
 and moderate, and thoroughly fluent. He had if 
 anything, too much of the copiafandi. 
 
 We also liked to see him approach our division 
 in the hall, with his watch in his square cap, and 
 his papers in his hand, for he was a patient and 
 gentlemanly examiner, and contrasted strondy with 
 
 another "Socius," a rough creature, whom P 
 
 one of our lads, a droll fellow, always styled 
 
 Inexorabilis Dis.'' The said P generally 
 
 apostrophizing Singer, as he came lamely alon^ on 
 his poor gouty feet, with a low voice : 
 
 " Cave ne titubes, oh dulcissime Doctor." 
 
 We had the benefit on Sundays of some good 
 preaching m the College chapel. Doctor Thomas 
 Komney Eobinson, at present Eoyal Astronomer at 
 the Armagh Observatory and an incumbent in 
 Monaghan, delivered striking and original sermons. 
 JuU of power and piquancy, flinging them as it were 
 from his mind for his auditors to gather up, and 
 with a Jove-like toss of his head. 
 
 Doctor Charles Elrington was generally practical 
 
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 but at times addicted to needless railings against 
 Calvinism, which system, I verily believe, not any 
 of his hearers would have cared the least to defend. 
 Old Doctor Graves, afterwards Dean of Ardagh, 
 and the author of Discourses on the Pentateuch was 
 a learned but rather ponderous preacher. Not so 
 the late Bishop of Ossory, Dr. Thomas O'Brien ; 
 his sermons were listened to with deep attention, 
 both by the seniors and juniors of the college; and 
 many a busy pencil and notebook on the knee 
 would endeavour to preserve, and take home, the 
 Gospel expositions and lucid reasoning which fell 
 
 from his lips. 
 
 There were other useful and peculiar preachers, 
 but I cannot recall them— save one, who often 
 ascended the pulpit, but has now long since passed 
 to his rest ; a man mighty in Homeric Greek, and 
 a very able and learned publisher of works on the 
 Classicks, but too fond of using long words in his 
 pulpit orations. He himself would style them 
 *' Sesquipedalian terms." I 'once heard him in a 
 sermon speak of the six days of Creation as the 
 " Cosmogonical Hexahemeron," and designate the 
 Books of Moses by the name of the " Pentateuchical 
 Archives." Nay, some college wag affirmed that 
 he had heard him say to a ragged boy in Merrion 
 Square, when alighting from his horse, " Perambu- 
 late my quadruped, and thou shalt receive pecuniary 
 remuneration." 
 
 It was, however, long before his day that a droll 
 and really clever illustration of ready grandilo- 
 quence was given in one of the college quad- 
 rangles, in a dialogue which took place between 
 a gaping rustic seeking to discover the rooms of 
 his landlord's son, for whom he had a letter, and 
 one of the learned *'Socii," who was facetiously 
 inclined : 
 
 Rusficus : "Will your honour inform me in which 
 of these big houses Master John — Squire Kelly's son 
 — lives ; he s from the County May-o ? " 
 
 Socius: ** Certainly ! Cut the angle of the quad- 
 rangle, subite through the ostium, ascend the ligneau 
 grades, pulsate at his janua, and you will find him 
 either peripatounting in his cubiculum, or perisco- 
 pounting through his fenestra." 
 
 Rusticus—^Q.mtiihmg his head, and catching at 
 the last word— '^ Oh dear, oh dear, and what may a 
 ' fenesthra ' be, yer honour ? " 
 
 Socius : " A fenestra is an orifice in the side of 
 an edifice for the intromission of illumination." 
 
 Rustic collapses and exit. 
 
 We had a handsome and graceful chapel to 
 worship in, and our choir was of the first order 
 for sweetness and power. It was led by Messrs. 
 Spray, Jager, and Weyman. Many now alive can 
 recall the lovely tenor voice of Dr. Spray, and how 
 he would send it forth with its rich swells, and 
 every note full toned and distinct, till it seemed to 
 
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 ripple along tlie chapel walls like the summer 
 waves of a river. Who can forget his clear, clarion 
 notes in '' Comfort ye my people/' or the warble of 
 his solo in '' worship the Lord in the beauty of 
 holiness"? His voice, indeed, was a sustained 
 warble. This choir sang on the same day at 
 different services, in Christ's Church and in St. 
 
 Patrick's. 
 
 About a year before I had entered college, a 
 remarkable man, the Vice-Provost, had died : this 
 was Dr. John Barrett, the Pi'ofessor of Oriental 
 languages— a prodigy of learning, avarice, eccen- 
 tricity, orthodoxy, and absurdity ; imshaven, 
 unkempt, unadorned, he lived an hermit life in 
 his rooms, either poring over his MSS. amidst 
 Lexicons and dusty tomes, or gloating on his 
 money-bags and counting his debentures. 
 
 For forty years he liad never left the college 
 precincts, and the loneliness of his life, no dou])t, 
 generated many of his oddities. The awkwardness 
 and squalor of his dwarf-like person caused him to 
 be caricatured a hundred times as " an odd Fellow.'' 
 He had a memory like Pascal, and forgot nothing ; 
 but though he could speak and write most of the 
 dead languages accurately, and many of the livmg 
 ones, yet his conversation in his own tongue was 
 ever' a tissue of blunders and absurdity. He 
 was a zealous defender of Revealed Religion, and 
 edited the Greek text of St. Matthew's Gospel 
 
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 One story, from a hundred, may illustrate the 
 
 strange ways of this peculiar and uncouth bein. •- 
 
 He was passing through the College court early 
 
 in the mormng, when a giddy young student 
 
 standing .n a doorway, shouted,'' Sweep^ swe p r^ 
 
 he Doctornotcd him, and had him summoned 
 
 l>efore the Board. *a will cha^fwp h\r^ '' j i! 
 ,,« ^ ^^^^A cnastise him, said he, 
 
 " How can that be," said Barrett, « when there 
 was no other sweep in the court but myself « " 
 
 He eft most of his great wealth to charitable 
 
 institutions, but many of his own family being in 
 
 a state of penury, by a liberal and equitable ^on- 
 
 truction of the will they were considered by the 
 
 aw as the Attest objects, and thus became reciiJent 
 
 of a large portion of his property. 
 
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 RECOLLFXTION'S OF 
 
 CHAPTER II. 
 
 After Jolin Wesley ^s first visit to this country he 
 testified of the Irish, that they were ^' an immeasur- 
 ably loving people ;" and about one hundred and fifty 
 vears before, Doctor John Owen, the great Puritan 
 bivine, then sojourning in Trinity College Dublin, 
 records that he was in the habit of "preaching to 
 as numerous a multitude of as thirsting a people 
 after the Gospel as he had ever conversed with. 
 
 This spirit of natural devotion in religion still 
 exists even among the most ignorant of the Romish 
 peasantry ; but the Book which would gratify while 
 it regulated their feelings, is withheld from their 
 affections, and *' the Church " put in its place by 
 their clero-y, by which adroit substitution their 
 superstition is nourished, while true religion runs 
 
 to weeds. . 
 
 In the sixteenth century, at Venice, Fulgent o, 
 an enlightened monk, afterwards martyred at the 
 stake, preached from the text, "What is Truth? 
 - Here is Truth," he said, holding forth a Bible ; 
 but, added he, putting the volume into the folds of 
 his cassock, " the book is prohibited." 
 
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 And as then, so now, the Book is prohibited to 
 the Roman Catholic laity. But by God's goodness, 
 the great body of Protestants in Ireland honour 
 their Bible and the tidings it brings, and this spirit 
 of devotion is doubtless enhanced by their extreme 
 enjoyment of social religious gatherings. There- 
 fore John Wesley's itinerating preachers, riding day 
 by day among the hills, from farmhouse to farm- 
 house, breakfasting with one family, dining with a 
 second, and supping and sleeping at the house of 
 a third, and praying and preaching and singing of 
 hymns with all— among congregations which flocked 
 from each neighbourhood— was an organization as 
 wisely planned as it was successfully performed. 
 
 The people loved these gatherings, and flow^ed 
 from their homesteads in a stream to meet their 
 friends and hear the preachers, who, if not educated 
 men, were often eloquent, and always earnest. 
 
 When living in Donegal we frequently had these 
 men to breakfast, my good old rector giving them 
 sage and sweet advice in his study, while I, occupy- 
 ing a lower department, took care that the steed 
 which was to bear the preacher many a mile should 
 have a Benjamin's portion of good corn to speed 
 him on his travels. 
 
 This love of social gatherings, in the cause of 
 religion, seems to have spread among the more 
 educated classes in the beginning of this century, 
 and to have produced or accompanied the dawning 
 
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 of Evangelical life in Ireland. In Dublin, while 
 coldness, mistiness, or formality was found in 
 many of the churches, weekly meetings for prayer 
 or reading the Scriptures began to be held among 
 the laity. The La Touche family, high in position 
 and wealth, and ever foremost in good, now stood 
 out in the cause of religion. Some of the learned 
 fellows of Trinity College were pious and useful 
 men, among whom were Dr. Henry Maturin, a 
 cousin and namesake of the author's ; Doctor John 
 Ussher, afterwards Archdeacon of Raphoe ; and 
 Doctor' Joseph Stopfoid, who had the largest class 
 of pupils in college. Peter Roe, of Kilkenny, one 
 of Ireland's best clergymen, told me many years 
 aftersvards, that he first learned the Gospel in 
 Stopford's rooms, who " never lost sight of him," 
 but had him ordained afterwards by introducing 
 him to his kinsman. Dr. Thomas Stopford, Bishop 
 
 of Cork. 
 
 Alderman Hutton, a rich citizen, opened his 
 house in Leeson Street for meetings ; and Mrs. 
 Johnson, of Stephen's Green, a very accomplished 
 old lady, had frequent evening assemblies of a 
 decidedly grave character, where the Rev. James 
 Dunne, chaplain of the Magdalene Asylum, and 
 the Rev. Thomas Kelly, son of the Chief Baron 
 of that name, and the author of so many beautiful 
 hymns, presided, and led the conversation to good 
 and high things. 
 
 The cause of God at this time was strangely 
 benefited by an element of hostility. Persecution 
 arose from some of the Church rulers, and opposi- 
 tion, as it always does, but fanned the gracious 
 Hume. Mr. Mathias, who occupied Bethesda 
 Chai)el (an unlicensed place of worship), the elo- 
 •luent Chrysostom of Dublin, was inhibited by his 
 Archbishop, Dr. Fowler, from preaching in any of 
 the parish churches ; and the Rev. Thomas Kelly 
 too independent in mind and in means, to obey 
 wliere he could not respect, and too sensitive to 
 endure continued tliwartings, forsook the ministry 
 of our Church for ever. 
 
 In the midst of these clouds there was much to 
 cheer and encourage, and men began to arise who 
 afterwards shone like stars in tlie Irish Church 
 Then stood forth Robert Daly, an honest and stout 
 soMier in the defence of the Bible Society, a-aiust 
 which many of the Bishops were arrayed. Edward 
 Wmgfield was with liim, a fellow-minister, a 
 Viscount's brother in tlie peerage of earth, but a 
 Kmg s son in the nobility of heaven ; a man of a 
 heavenly spirit, who died too soon for the good he 
 wrought. Then stood up Horace Newman, Dean 
 of Cork ; and William Bushe, with the sweet voice 
 and taking eloquence of his family, was soon about 
 to draw crowds to hear the Gospel in the newly 
 erected church of St. George's. Then there were 
 active and godly laymen— Benjamin Digby, and 
 
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 Thomas Parnell, and William Brooke, and James 
 Dicrcres La Touclie, and Henry Monck Mason, and 
 Richard B. Warren, and the Scotts and the Penne- 
 fathers, and Arthur Guinness, and many others- 
 all helping forward by counsel, or by cash or by 
 co-operation, in the cause and the spread ot godly 
 
 education. 
 
 About the year 1822, Dr. William Magee ^^^s 
 translated from the Bishopric of Raphoe to the 
 Arch See of Dublin. He had been a Fellow and 
 Professor of Matlieniatics in Trinity College, and 
 was a man of a superior intellect and boundless 
 activity of mind and body. He had almost crushed 
 Socinianism in Ireland by his book on The 
 Atonement It was a powerful Nasmyth-hammer, 
 malleus malejicorum, coming down with rer.istless 
 ponderosity against this brittle heresy ; it was full 
 of learning, logic, argument, and ludicrous sarca^i. 
 Would that such a champion would arise among our 
 bishops in this our day, to combat with something 
 very like a reproduction of this old heterodoxy ! 
 
 Under Archbishop Magee's active sway the 
 diocese of Dublin, which had long been asleep, 
 arose and shook off its indolence ; good men were 
 promoted, able men encouraged, and hard-working 
 men assisted. The Archbishop at once hcensed 
 Bethesda Church,^ and a large and handsome 
 
 1 Called in Brooks's Gazetteer of the duy " The Cathedral of 
 Methodism ! " 
 
 Wesley an chapel in Great Charlies Street, Mountjoy 
 Square, was bought and brought into the Church, 
 licensed by his Grace, and fitted for Church 
 worship. With one so active and so ardent, it 
 was impossible but that offences should come. In 
 one of his first Charges he had styled the Roman 
 Catholic body as a Church without a religion, and tlie 
 Presbyterian body as a Religion without a church. 
 Whether this clever antithesis was just or the 
 reverse, it made him unpopular with the parties 
 wincing under the two-edged sarcasm. Soon he 
 improved the examination for Orders, making it 
 more stringent and extensive. Church services 
 and Church schools were watched over by this 
 true Ett/o-atottos, and the whole ecclesiastical arrange- 
 ments, both in spirit and in action, in and around 
 Dublin, exhibited health, prosperity, and vigour. 
 The beautiful county of Wicklow, abounding in 
 resident gentry, and possessing a fine body of 
 Protestant yeomanry, was studded with good 
 ministers, between whom and the wealthy laity 
 much cordiality of feeling and community of action 
 existed. The Rev. William Cleaver, a Christ Church 
 Oxonian, and the son of the late Archbishop, held 
 the parish of Delgany, a gem of rural beauty, made 
 up of landscape contributions from sea, and valley, 
 and forest, and down, and mountain. He was a 
 scholar, and a refined gentleman in mind and bear- 
 ing, and united in himself things that were " true, 
 
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 and just, and pure, and honest, and lovely," in a sin- 
 gular degree. His influence was as extensive as his 
 kindness, and through both he drew within the circle 
 of his beneficence, not only the neighbouring clergy, 
 but also the gentrv, and a number of vouno- men 
 preparing for orders, wJio gladly listened to his 
 eloquent Gospel pleading, and profited by the ex- 
 ample of his pastoral activity. Among these were 
 two eminently useful ministers in after years, viz., 
 the Rev. M. Enraght and the Rev. John W. FinLay, 
 of Corkagh House, near Dublin. The latter an 
 accurate and polished preacher, a ripe scholar, and 
 the translator of the Epistles of Horace into English 
 verse in 1871, a work of great elegance. Over his 
 parish Mr. Cleaver had spread a network of ma- 
 chinery for teaching the ignorant, assisting the poor, 
 and sustaining the afflicted, and his ample means 
 were cheerfully spent in the service of his Master. 
 
 In the next parish — beautiful and romantic 
 Powerscourt — resided Eobert Daly, the late 
 Bishop of Cashel, a man of strong sense, thorough 
 inflexibility of principle, and singular honesty of 
 purpose. He was of a noble Celtic race now 
 represented by his nephew, Lord Dunsandle and 
 Clan Conal, and was son to the Right Hon. Denis 
 Daly, who rei)resented the county of Gal way in the 
 Irish Parliament. Powerscourt under its rector 
 became a model parish, in which Dissent was 
 scarcely to be found. Mr. Daly was a busy pastor, 
 
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 a sound preacher, and an agreeable platform speaker. 
 He dealt in facts and good sense — strength was his 
 element, and wliile his friend and neighbour Mr. 
 Cleaver might be compared to the graceful Corin- 
 thian column, Mr. Daly represented the sturdy 
 Ionic — plain, yet well-proportioned. 
 
 Many of the Dublin churches re-echoed, about 
 this time and for some years afterwards, to good 
 and teaching sermons. The Irish are a church - 
 loving and church-going people — I have said this 
 more than once because of its truth — and the con- 
 gregations were large and steady. 
 
 In a chapel of ease off* St. Mary's parish, the 
 Rev. Benjamin Mathias, of whom mention has been 
 made, ministered to crowding congregations. He 
 was a good man, and beyond doubt a great orator, 
 and had the " thoughts that breathe and words 
 that burn " running like fire through many of 
 his pulpit eff'usions. Distinct from him in strength 
 and style, though not in spirit, was the Rev. Hugh 
 White, curate of St. Mary's, whose many books 
 were once well known and widely read. He had 
 not much learning or logic, but a copious and sweet 
 flow of persuasive divinity, like the ripple of a 
 river, which at times would surge and swell to a 
 pitch of eloquence which borrowed its fire from the 
 earnestness and sincerity of the speaker. This man 
 was a very faithful minister of the Church, and 
 attracted many to its worship. About this time 
 
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 Eobert J. IMeGliee, tlie groat controversialist, was 
 ministering in a district cluircli of ])ul)lin, but 
 afterwards to be transfi^rred to a large but remote 
 rectory, not far from rand)ridcre, and where I 
 had the privilege of being his neighbour for nearly 
 ten years. J low many must remember his round, 
 sweet ton 's, and his slowly delivered Imt masterlv 
 exegesis of Christiandoctrine ! On the platform 
 he was more fiery and ra])id ; there he gave fortli 
 his views of the Canon Law of Kome clashinir with 
 and trying to overcome the Civil and Constitutional 
 Law of England ; and there, like another Cassandra, 
 what he said was disbelieved, yet amply credited 
 when given to the world by Mr. Gladstone a few 
 years ago, and painfully realized by the events of 
 time since then. It would be hard to forget Robert 
 McGliee, for surely never was there a more cordial 
 friend, a more accom])lished gentleman, or a more 
 graceful orator. 
 
 Occasionally the Dublin churches had the Rev. 
 Richard Pope ofHciating within their walls ; he was 
 a striking man to look upon, as well as to listen to, 
 with his tall attenuated figure. Iiis ])laek imperial 
 head and pale brow, his monastic and mortified 
 countenance, where power and humilitv seemed to 
 strive, his manner so solemn, yet so gentle, and the 
 deep melody of his magnificent voice, which, like 
 the bass notes of an organ, seemed to issue like soft 
 thunder from the lowest recesses of the man's beino- 
 
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 A victim to over-refinement in spiritual things, and 
 to morbid sensitiveness, he deserted our Church to 
 seek one more pure, which he failed to find, and so 
 came back again — alas ! with broken, health, but 
 with a spirit, if it were possible, more subdued and 
 Christlike than ever. Finally, after a long lapse of 
 time, he preached a sermon, touching for its beauty 
 and its holiness, in my church at Kingstown, and 
 these were his last words in public, as he entered 
 into his rest a short time afterwards. 
 
 I must not omit to speak of the gentle, quiet 
 light which shone so steadily for long years around 
 the person and the pastorate of the minister of 
 Sandford Church. The Rev. Henry Irwin was no 
 common man. His sermons were carefully com- 
 posed, and delivered from a manuscript. They were 
 a photograph of his mind, which was a beautiful 
 and cultivated organ, extremely gentle but extremely 
 strong and persistent for the right (he was the 
 <'hampion of Scriptural education for years), and his 
 words fell like the large summer drops from heaven ; 
 while those of the Rev. John Gregg, now Bishop of 
 Cork, who at this period was becoming know^n, were 
 like a rushing river — " Instar Xeifiappov!' Yet his 
 speech at first was slow and measured ; logical too, 
 and not without happy antithesis ; but as he rolled 
 on with increasing speed, borne in the chariot of 
 his oratory, and bearing his hearers along with him, 
 his wheels would flash and ignite with the velocity 
 
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 of their own friction, and before he liad reached the 
 peroration of his sermon, axle, spokes and nave 
 would be all ablaze, and his discourse would die 
 out like a shower of falling stars on an autumn 
 mght. 
 
 Al)out this time tliere was a very faithful and 
 hardworking body of clerg^^men occupying the 
 churches in what are called " the Libertiel '' of 
 Dul)lin, and much supported and encouraged in 
 their parochial laliours l)v the Very Rev.'^H R 
 Dawson, Dean of St. Patrick's-an antiquarian a 
 warm lover of art, and a trulv amiable Christian 
 mmister. This locality is still the poorest and 
 most wretched in Dublin, tliough now adorned 
 by the restoration of St. Patrick^s Cathedral, at a 
 cost of 150,000/., by the generosity of one man- 
 a merchant prince— the late Mr. Benjamin Lee 
 Gumness. It was, and is still, inliabited bv the 
 poorest of journeymen mechanics and artizans, and 
 Its alleys, lanes, and courts were among the darkest 
 and the filthiest in the city. Among these, this 
 little l)and of clergy worked indefiitigably : the 
 sick were cared for, the paupers sought out, and 
 hundreds of poor Protestants were kept from slidino- 
 into Romanism~the natural consequence of neglect 
 —and were gathered into the churches on Sunckys 
 and their children brought to the parochial and 
 feabbath schools, and thus kept from the wolf 
 It would be wrong not to record the names of 
 
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 these men. They formed a knot of true brethren ; 
 and once a week they met together for counsel 
 and for prayer in the vestry-room of Swift's Alley 
 Church, a building which had been purchased from 
 the Dissenters, and afterwards episcopally licensed, 
 and was now a regular poor man's church; tlie 
 minister was the Rev. Edward Perry Brooke, A.M., 
 a zealous pastor and a popular preacher. 
 
 Hither came, and presided, Dawson, from the 
 Deanery : here came Hastings, from St. James's 
 Church, rector ; Kingston, from St. Catherine's, 
 rector ; Halahan, from St. Nicolas's, rector ; Fleury, 
 from Albert Chapel, chaplain ; Burroughs, from 
 St. Luke's, rector ; Scott, from St. Audoen's, rector ; 
 Brooke, of Swift's Alley, chaplain. 
 
 Some of these men survive, and carry on the 
 same good work ; some have been translated to a 
 different sphere. Dawson, Burroughs, Kingston, 
 and Fleury sleep in Jesus ; but all these men have 
 left their mark in the soil where they ministered, 
 and their work remaineth ; and — 
 
 " To live in hearts of human kind, 
 Is not to die." 
 
 In one of these churches I heard the Rev. 
 Nicholas Armstrong preach a controversial sermon 
 to a crowded congrega,tion, whose attention he held 
 riveted for more than two hours. This man's 
 course, like a star that rises late and quickly 
 sets, was too brief to be so brilliant. He had not 
 
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 many personal or physical advantages, save that 
 of height and frame ; his face was plain, and his 
 accent strongly Irisli ; but I cannot imagine any 
 orator, ancient or modern, to have readied and 
 trod a higher pitch and path of eloquence than his 
 sermons and his speeches exhibited. The richest 
 fimcy supplied him with pictures which his powers 
 of classification rendered perfect. As they rose, he 
 modelled them at once into shape and beauty. He 
 w^as mighty in the Scriptures, an Irish ApoUos, and 
 could educe from the commonest texts a view at 
 once original and admirable. His fluency was 
 marvellous, his English unaffected and pure, and 
 his earnestness intense ; his climaxes were grand, 
 and at times sul)lime. When describing the power 
 and wisdom of Jehovah, he would commence amon^r 
 the minims of creation, and, gradually rising and 
 swelling and surging as his sulyect ascended, he 
 would lay hold of everything visible in earth or air 
 or skies, and picturing each of them in strong and 
 graphic brevity of speech, would pass onwards and 
 upwards, till he had reached the throne of God, and 
 the very Jieart and ear of Deity. 
 
 I heard a poor man, who sat behind me one 
 evening in St. James's Church, exclaim, while 
 Armstrong was preaching, " I could listen to him 
 for two hours longer.'' And next day I met at 
 dinner a gentleman who was in my class in college, 
 and was a literary man, who said, " I went to hear 
 
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 27 
 
 Armstrong last night, henf on finding fault ; but 
 before he had spoken for ten minutes he had me on 
 his strong shoulders, and ran away with me — I know 
 not where — over hill and dale, to the end of the 
 world ! " 
 
 His voice, though strongly provincial, was emi- 
 nently sweet ; the Clare accent being lost in his soft 
 and feeling articulation. Sir Walter Scott mentions 
 the same effect in Jeanie Deans's pleading address 
 to the Queen. He had a little sigh when speaking, 
 which interested his hearers unconsciously, and his 
 mode of takins: breath reminded me of Edmund 
 Kean, whom I had often seen act in my boyhood. 
 He dined with us one day, and I recollect his 
 saying how he often had hours of sickness after 
 the exertion of preaching. Alas ! like a high-bred 
 horse, he started at straws, mistaking shadows for 
 substances, and left the Church of England, of 
 which he was so bright an ornament, and became 
 a minister, I believe, among the followers of Mr. 
 Edward Irving. 
 
 I know it may he objected to the above sketches 
 that they are partial and one-sided, and treat but of 
 a single section in the Church of Ireland. Without 
 going into names or parties, I w^ould merely add 
 that the clergymen I have mentioned, and such as 
 they, were at all events the representatives of the 
 men who lahoured in their parishes, and were thus 
 the ivorking bees in the Church hive. There may be 
 
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 an alteration now, but my business in these Recol- 
 lections is with the past, not with the present. 
 When I was young in the ministry, it certainly was 
 the Evangelical body who led the van and did the 
 work. This was near fifty years ago : the Revival 
 had not long taken place, and the Church was in 
 " the kindness of her youth, the love of lier 
 espousals.'' Has her Evangelicalism abated in its 
 ardour since that time ? has it gone down from 
 the sanctified ascendency wliich God gave it? and 
 are its ministrations — as men say they are — en- 
 feebled now, and no more like their former fibrous 
 power than the breatliing of a shepherd's pipe is to 
 the blast of a clarion horn ? Is there a want of 
 unity of love and oneness of purpose among the 
 professors of the system ? Is there a too great 
 cleaving to abstract dogmas in the pulpit, to the 
 exclusion of the large love of the great Father, and 
 the gracious emotions and heavenly virtues pro- 
 duced by the Holy Spirit ? Is there a quiet and 
 self-satisfied contempt for literature, art, and refined 
 culture — lovely things which a kind Father has 
 given to His chihlren to increase their happiness 
 here ? I do not say these things are so ; or, if 
 they are so, whether tliey tend to produce that 
 decadency of Evangelical power and life which they 
 are so often now accused of doing ; but this I know, 
 that wherever the Gospel of Christ is told forth 
 with fervour, feeling^ and simplicity, the peoj^le in 
 
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 this country, both high and low, throng to listen, 
 and are never weary in so doing. Ritualism may 
 dazzle the senses, Rationalism delight the intellect, 
 but it is only a full Christ, all-sufficient in life 
 for an holy example, all-sufficient in death for an 
 atoning sacrifice, all-sufficient in glory to sanctify 
 and help us by the impartation of His grace — 
 it is only this Christ, like a full ocean breakino- 
 upon a thousand shores of feeling, and reaching and 
 touching every realm of thought and life— it is this, 
 and this only, that can, through the Spirit, go down 
 and speak to the heart, and wake up its every pulse 
 to the reception and enjoyment of a life which, 
 begun then, will outlive death and last for ever. 
 
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 RECOLLECTIONS OF 
 
 CHAPTER IIL 
 
 In the year 1827, after graduating as A.B. in 
 Trinity College, I commeiieed to attend my Divinity 
 Lectures ; the Fellow-l^ouimoner Class furnished 
 but sixteen men, and we were extremely happy 
 tooether. Every morning during the term we met 
 ill the Library colonnade. When passing the marble 
 bust of Doctor Brinkley, Fellow, astronomer, and 
 Bishop of Cloyne, we ranged ourselves on the Law 
 School benches, and there awaited Doctor Stephen 
 Creaghe Sandes (afterwards Lord Bishop of Cashel, 
 1838), who was our very gentlemanly Lecturer, 
 and patiently led our youthful footsteps through 
 the controversial thorn-paths of Burnet on the 
 ^' XXXIX. Articles," and again amidst the well- 
 arranged dogmas of Bishop Pearson on the '' Creed," 
 or helped our flagging mindb along the arid sand- 
 tracks, weary and dreary, of Mosheini's "Eccle- 
 siastical History." The other books which made up 
 the divinity curriculum w^ere Paley's " Evidences," 
 Magee on the ''Atonement," Wheately on the 
 *' Common Prayer," Tomline on the " Articles," the 
 whole Bible and the Greek Testament, and subse- 
 
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 quently, I think, Bishop Butler's " Analogy. '' We 
 were expected also to know the exposition put 
 upon Scripture by the Commentaries of Bishops 
 Patrick, Lowth, and Whitby. 
 
 Of a few members of our class I can trace some- 
 what with certainty. One, a cousin and namesake 
 of our present Bishop of Down, and the most popular 
 man in the division from his unvarying courtesy 
 and kindness, and who had taken honours during 
 liis college course, became an English Dean in the 
 eastern counties, and is now dead. One, reserved 
 and stern, but always earnest and well made up in 
 his task, is now a hard-working Archdeacon in a 
 distant colony ; a third, the scion of a once princely 
 Celtic fcimily, with a giant frame that 
 
 " Mi<,'ht grace the part 
 Of Ferrjigus or Ascopart," 
 
 and which contrasted strongly with his suave voice 
 and polished bearing, has been for years an active 
 vicar and sound cleric in Westmeath ; a fourth, an 
 awkward and unshapely lignum sacerdotis, 'has 
 mounted to dignity on the shoulders of a political 
 apostasy; a fifth, learned far beyond his years, 
 careless of his outward man, yet always agreeable 
 and most amusing, was— why should I be slow to 
 name him ?— the Eev. Eichard Hart, Vicar of Catton, 
 near Norwich, and author of Medulla Conciliorum, 
 Materialism Refitted, and other learned works. 
 
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 Death has had his share of some, and others have 
 turned aside and entered different paths of pro- 
 fessional duty — men whom it is always pleasant to 
 meet amidst the shadows of life's evening, and talk 
 over the old bright days of college life. I would 
 not presume to speculate on the motives which 
 actuated the members of the Divinity Class to pre- 
 pare for the ministry ; sure I am, that most of 
 them were excited by feelings which their sub- 
 sequent life has justified. Young men at that time 
 had a calmer sea to sail over, and thinors wore a 
 simpler aspect. There were no breakers ahead, the 
 winds of doctrine were not bio win or all too;ether 
 as they are now, from the antagonistic points of 
 High Church, Low Church, and Broad Church. 
 Subscription had no terrors, and was unquestioned. 
 Inspiration was an orthodox article and devoutly 
 believed Reason sat at the feet of Revelation, or 
 embraced her as a loving sister. German divines 
 were little studied, and less valued ; and the whole 
 denunciatory thunders of the Church Homilies 
 against pope, papacy, and papistical creed and 
 ceremony, which are now pooh-poohed by the 
 finger of Liberalism, if not wholly condemned 
 pollice verso, were then considered but as the 
 natural and necessary afflatus of a sound Protestant 
 and clerical constitution of thought. 
 
 One link which bound the clergy of the Dublin 
 diocese in a close brotherhood was the clerical 
 
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 meeting, to which I, after I had become a divinity 
 student, was generally invited. In summer-time 
 these gatherings were specially charming, being 
 generally held in the county of Wicklow, where 
 the homesteads and rectories were most picturesque, 
 and the scenery by turns, soft, wild, or sublime, — 
 
 " Rock, river, glen, and mountain all abound 
 With bluest tints to harmonise the whole." 
 
 Now we would assemble at the Rectory of Powers- 
 court, and after discussion and dinner, saunter 
 amidst the thick oaks of the Dargle Glen, along 
 whose hollow a mountain torrent thundered and 
 foamed amidst rocks and boulders. Again we 
 would gather at Mr. Synge's, an earnest and 
 religious man, and a ripe scholar, at his beautiful 
 residence, Glenmore Castle, one of the fairest gems 
 of the County Wicklow, standing on a green plat- 
 form half-way up the mountain, and hanging over 
 the " Devil's Glen," a deep, long, and rocky gorge, 
 with its precipitous sides lined with trees, between 
 which the river Vartry, rushing from its upper 
 moorlands, flings itself down through a huge cleft 
 rock into a deep, round pool, issuing from which, it 
 traverses the glen in whirl and rapid on its way to 
 the sea, a thing of beauty to the eye, and a son^ 
 of music to the ear. 
 
 Or again, we would muster at Dunganstown 
 Glebe, built loftily above the valley, with my valued 
 and most kind-hearted friend, Thomas Acton, the 
 
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 clergyman of the parish, where from the windows 
 a vast tract of country is visible — Glenealy and the 
 distant mountains which contain the wild lakes of 
 Glendalough, and the Pass of Glenmalure, while 
 about two miles off in the hollow, yet sloping to the 
 hills, lay beautiful West Aston, an old hall, the 
 seat of our host's brother. Colonel William Acton, 
 M.P. for the county, with its battalion ed limes, its 
 quaint Dutch ponds, its heronry, and great timber, 
 ancient and abounding. 
 
 The subjects discussed at these meetings were 
 strictly biblical ; generally the critical meaning of 
 the original text of the Old or New Testament, as 
 it occurred in the chapter under consideration ; also 
 the extent of the Atonement, whether limited, 
 according to the Westminster Confession, or uni- 
 versal, according to the Articles of our Church ; but 
 the future Advent of the Lord was ever a popular 
 subject, especially because of certain meetings for 
 the discussion of prophecy which were being held 
 in the parish of Powerscourt. 
 
 There was much scholarship and teaching criticism 
 at these meetings, and men were there who had 
 taken distinguished honours at their universities. I 
 have spoken of Glenmore Castle as one of the 
 houses where we met. Its master was an eminently 
 accomplished man — a traveller and an artist ; he 
 was a skilled Hebraist, and had written, for the 
 use of his sons, an excellent grammar of that 
 
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 language, which he had himself drawn up, and 
 printed in his house, possessing a press and a font 
 of Hebrew types, and working the sheets off him- 
 self. This grammar was never published. I was 
 kindly favoured with a copy, and years afterwards 
 the second son of this family, the Rev. Alexander 
 H. Synge, was my able, pious, and devoted assist- 
 ant at Kingstown, but eventually died at Ipswich, 
 some years ago. 
 
 Another bond of union with the Irish clergy was 
 the occurrence of the April meetings in the 
 Rotunda of Dublin. From five to six hundred 
 clergymen flocked from the four provinces to these 
 assemblies, which continued for four days. Occa- 
 sionally a Church dignitary took the chair, and 
 subjects previously given were well handled by 
 competent speakers. There was much good will 
 displayed ; the ofioOvixaUv of the Apostles' meeting 
 largely illustrated, and many brethren from England 
 cordially welcomed, among whom were the Revs. 
 Charles Bridges, Robert Bickersteth, Hugh Stowell, 
 Hugh JVPNeile, Dr. Nolan, Dr. Tucker, J. C. Ryle, 
 Fielding Ould, Alexander Dallas, William Dalton, 
 Edward Tottenham, &c., &c. 
 
 I was ordained on a Sunday morning, in the 
 church of Glasnevin, in the summer of 1827, by 
 the Bishop of Kildare, after an examination in the 
 preceding week, held by his Archdeacon ; my aim 
 was to become located in the Diocese of Kilmore or 
 
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 of Ardagh, where, in preceding years, five of my 
 immediate family and name had been rectors. The 
 Bishop of Kilmore was Doctor Beresford ; he was 
 known to my father, and he kindly promised me that 
 if I came into his diocese he would '* look after" me. 
 So I agreed to go down to Arvagh, in the county 
 of Cavan, and give gratuitous help to the Rev. 
 Henry Dalton, who had been my private tutor in 
 college, and was an excellent man of the Evangelical 
 school, and a fluent preacher. The whole village 
 was Wesleyan as to its religion; and inimitable 
 church-goers were these Arvaites. No storm, or 
 night, or darkness, could keep them from the 
 Sunday services, when Dalton preached unto a 
 crowding mass, eloquently and w^ell ; the place was 
 good to a young cleric for professional education ; 
 the visiting from cottage to cottage was incessant ; 
 but the accommodation of lodging w-as so wretched, 
 tliat more than once I have met the pig essaying 
 to mount the stairs to my sitting-room, and my 
 quilt each morning was gemmed with dew-drops 
 from the damp of the night. Here I met the first 
 approach to harm I had ever experienced from my 
 countrymen, on account of my religion or profession, 
 thouo-h livino: at ditlerent times in town, suburb, 
 and country. 
 
 The occasion was this. I had dined with Mr. 
 Dalton at his lodgings in a lonely farm-house on a 
 steep road, which went up to the Longford 
 
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 37 
 
 Mountains. There had been a fair that day, and a 
 fiorht between the Arvaorh men and the Longford 
 mountaineers, who were Roman Catholics, and 
 very aggressive. I heard the rattling of their sticks 
 and their wild cries as I descended the hill at 
 10 P.M. They had been beaten out of the village 
 by the Arvagh men. and were now going home in 
 straggling parties, very noisy and pugnacious. I 
 heard one man shout, ** Any money for the face of 
 a Protestant.'' The party he belonged to was 
 advancing towards me, when I slipped into a cabin 
 by the roadside, and a kind old woman hid me 
 behind a heap of turf in the kitchen ; she then 
 flung open her door, a man rushed in, a terrible 
 ruftian with a torn hat, — '* Mother, give us a coal of 
 fire to light our pipes." Three or four of them 
 followed, and when they had *' the coal '' they 
 rushed out again, hurrahing up the road. I came 
 forth and thanked her, and ofi*ered her money, 
 which she would not take. " Now," said she, " run 
 home for your life, and God bring you safe." 
 
 I needed not this friendly advice, for I certainly 
 did speed like a lapwing down the hill till I reached 
 the village, where I ran into the arms of the huge 
 police-sergeant, who escorted me to my lodgings, 
 all the way commenting on my rashness for *' being 
 abroad on such a night," and assuring me " that 
 had the Longford lads caught me in the dark on 
 the hill-side, they were that vexed and angry 
 
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 between the whisky and having been beaten, that 
 they surely ivould have made a spatch-cock of your 
 Reverence ! " 
 
 Truly *' a consummation " not " to be devoutly 
 wished." 
 
 I never could make out the etymology of the 
 word Arva or Arvagh. I should think it meant a 
 hillock. It was not an agreeable place to live in, 
 nor could we say with truth on quitting it, like 
 Meliba?us, " Nos didcia linquimus Arva.'' Its best 
 feature to us was its Methodism, and the church- 
 going habits of its poor people ; they would brave 
 the most pelting showers from the clouds, and wade 
 ankle-deep through the muddy roads — paths there 
 were none — to attend morning and evening services 
 without fail. 
 
 Arvagh was an offshoot from the college living 
 of Killeshandra, then held by the Rev. Dr. Hales. 
 This old clergyman was an ex-Fellow of Trinity 
 College, Dublin, and was the author of some very 
 learned works, of which the best known is his 
 Analysis of Chronology, in four volumes quarto. 
 
 The Doctor's estimate of his own work was 
 peculiar. He was dining at my father's, and took 
 in the lady of the house to dinner : " Pray, madam, 
 have you read my Analysis ? " 
 
 " I am afraid to confess I have not." 
 
 ** Well, madam, all in good time ; but be sure to 
 read it, you will find it as entertaining as a novel ! " 
 
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 I 
 
 Does not this remind one of Dr. Johnson's anti- 
 cipation of enjoyment in Goldsmith's forthcoming 
 Animated Nature ? " Why, sir," he said to 
 Boswell, " it will read as pleasant as a Persian 
 tale." 
 
 When at Arvagh I rode over to see Dr. Hales, 
 then a very old man. He was occupying the Rectory 
 of Killeshandra ; age had broken down his richly 
 stored mind and impaired his memory, and he now 
 '' babbled of green fields ; " yet, strange to say, his 
 son assured us, that when his intellect appeared at 
 the lowest ebb, if you were to place before him a 
 problem out of Euclid, or a knotty calculation 
 from Algebra, he would eagerly sit down and solve 
 it as clearly and as accurately as when he was a 
 hard-reading aspirant in his dear old alma mater 
 in Dublin. 
 
 The living of Killeshandra is now held by the 
 Venerable John Martin, who is Archdeacon of 
 Kilmore. 
 
 Not very far from Killeshandra, on the road to 
 Kilmore and Cavan, you come upon a network of 
 lake scenery of a most picturesque nature, lying 
 amidst low hills and wooded promontories. It is a 
 kind of archipelago of continued water, island, and 
 rock, the road winding and twisting like a grey 
 serpent around bay, and strand, and pool, — a lovely 
 labyrinth of wood, and shore, and green sod ; all 
 these small and seemingly distinct lakes are but 
 
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 the one, and that is Loughcooter. Higher up is 
 Cloughoughter Castle, where the sainted Bedell, 
 Bishop of Kilmore, was imprisoned by the Irish 
 rebels in 1641. It rises from a round island just 
 large enough to contain the castle, and a narrow 
 rim or margin of rock around it. The island 
 stands in very deep black water ; the shores are a 
 mile distant, wild, yet thickly wooded. The building 
 is not square, but round, — a beautiful ruin, massive 
 and hoary, save where mantled with rich Irish ivy ; 
 the walls are immensely thick, with embrasures and 
 coved windows. It is a Nidus, resembling one of 
 the great towers of Conway Castle, and is supposed 
 to have been built by the Sheridans, — the last chief- 
 tain of that gifted race, Donald, dying here in 1620.^ 
 I visited this spot from Arvagli on a bright 
 winter day, and was charmed alike with the wild 
 beauty of the lake, castle, and all around it, as I 
 was mentally interested in seeing the dungeon 
 from which the best of bishops, and the holiest of 
 Christians, only escaped to die ; and, remembering 
 and thinking of all he had been to the Church and 
 to the age — so good, so useful, so loving, and so 
 self-denying, I could not from my soul but 
 re-echo the prayer which the friar put forth over 
 his grave: 
 
 " sit aninia mea cum Bedello ! " 
 
 * See an article entitled "Quilca" in Dublin University Magazinef 
 for November 1852, by the writer. 
 
 
 
 THE IRISH CHURCH. 
 
 41 
 
 I left Arvagh hastily, being recalled by home 
 troubles and sickness, but very soon afterwards was 
 engaged in work, being put in temporary charge of 
 the parish of Santry, near Dublin, during the 
 absence of the rector, the Rev. Denis Browne, one 
 whom I have reason to remember well, and esteem 
 highly, in common with many others to whom 
 his teaching and ministry proved a blessing. He 
 was a man of a wonderfully sweet and engaging 
 countenance, and gentle manners, yet bold and 
 fluent in the pulpit, and untiring in his weekday 
 work ; the influence of his character, I may truly 
 assert, pervaded the whole diocese. The nephew 
 of a marquis, he was born in the purple, but 
 would have preferred to live among the poor. 
 Pride had no j)art in him ; he was eminently 
 humble, and in his bearing was a representative 
 of simple and loving earnestness. He was a 
 man who was too busy and too happy in his 
 holy work to think of, or seek for, promotion. 
 Wherever Denis Browne was, he created a little 
 parish around him, and all were happy for the 
 time to be his parishioners. His living of Santry 
 w^as of slender emolument, and his support of 
 scriptural education precluded all hopes of pro- 
 motion from the existing Government, or their 
 liberal Archbishop, — these parties doubtless gave 
 him their respect, but nothing more — for probitas 
 laudatiir et alget ; so this good man, like Thomas 
 
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 Cranmer* in Shakespeare's play, was *'kept out 
 in the cold" until the incoming of the Conser- 
 vatives in 1852, when he became Rector of Ennis- 
 corthy, and Dean of Emly ; he died in 1864, a 
 hard-working and a successful parish minister to 
 the last. 
 
 Durinjr this course of time two remarkable men 
 were preaching in the churches of Dublin, and they 
 had the peculiar feature of being esseutially un- 
 Irish. One was the Rev. John Lloyd ; he occupied 
 the pulpit of a chapel in Peter Street, which had 
 been originally a theatre or hippodrome, but now 
 was converted into a house of worship, and 
 regularly consecrated by the Archbishop. This 
 church he filled each Sunday with admiring hearers, 
 chiefly of the educated class. He had a most 
 singular gift of condensation. It was indeed 
 multum in parvo — weighty, sound scriptural 
 matter rolled into a few words. He read his 
 sermons with a swift, strong voice, and they 
 never exceeded fifteen minutes, and his hearers 
 always wished them to have been longer. Old 
 Davie Deans would have called this ** a small 
 refection of spiritual provender ; " but the brevity 
 was, on the whole, popular, even in Ireland, where 
 they are prone to expatiate, and think like Hob 
 the miller, that ** the multure from the meal sack 
 is never the worse for another bolting/' 
 
 ^ See Henry VIIL, Act v. Scene 2. 
 
 THE IRISH CHURCH. 
 
 43 
 
 The other un-Irish minister was Charles Marlay 
 Fleury, of French extraction. His great-grand- 
 father, Antoine Fleury, had fled from France at the 
 persecution of Louis XIV., 1686, and lived some 
 years in Nassau, from whence he came to Ireland 
 (1690) as chaplain to King William. With him he 
 rode along the banks of the Boyne, and his old 
 cassock, pierced with more than one bullet, and 
 preserved by his descendants, testifies to his daring 
 on that occasion. He had a good living from the 
 King — Coolbanagher, in the Queen's County, — and 
 his tomb is to be seen in the graveyard of the 
 French church in Portarlington. 
 
 These Fleurys could count nine successive links 
 in the chain of Huguenot pasteurSy commencing in 
 the reign of Francis I., and Charles Marlay was 
 the tenth. Short of stature, but extremely well- 
 looking, with fair complexion, he possessed an 
 original and cultivated mind, and was a man full of 
 character and attract ivenees ; he was also an accom- 
 plished musician. As a church minister he was 
 zealous and active ; as a preacher and platform 
 speaker, of the very first class. He was absolutely 
 a master of the English tongue. Antithesis, climax, 
 and formed sentence, rolled smoothly from his 
 eloquent lips. He was always cool, never im- 
 petuous, and held the hunting steed of his oratory 
 w^ell in hand. From his family antecedents it may 
 be supposed he was a sound, but certainly not a 
 
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 violent Protestant. He was evangelical in his views, 
 and had a power of expression in extemporary 
 prayer I never yet found equalled, much less 
 surpassed. 
 
 Yet this man of brilliant talents and most blame- 
 less walk in social and domestic life was left to pine 
 and die in comparative poverty, unnoticed by his 
 diocesan, and unrewarded by the Liberal Govern- 
 ment, because he upheld the cause of scriptural 
 education, while twenty men, twenty times his 
 inferiors in goodness and in gifts, were promoted 
 to dignities and deaneries, and even to bishoprics, 
 as a reward for the compliment they paid the 
 Government in their approval of their system of 
 education. 
 
 For in 1847 Lord Clarendon, our Viceroy, said, 
 his " intention was to confine the Church patronage 
 of the crown in Ireland to those who had given the 
 most unequivocal support to the National Board." 
 
 And this principle — naturally productive of 
 jobbing and tergiversation — was strictly carried out. 
 
 Yet shortly afterwards, Archbishop Whately, 
 once a patron and supporter of the system, but 
 always an honest and a pious man, writes : *' The 
 Jesuits in the National Board got rid bit by bit of 
 all relisjion." 
 
 THE IRISH CHURCH. 
 
 45 
 
 CHAPTER IV. 
 
 In the year 1828 I went down to the King*s 
 County, having accepted the curacy of Kinnity. My 
 rector was the Rev. John Travers, a truly religious 
 man ; he was as scholarly and as quaint as Parson 
 Adams, and as kind and as simple-hearted as the 
 Vicar of Wakefield. 
 
 On my way I spent a few bright days at Leap 
 Castle with my friend Mr. Horatio Darby, who told 
 me a ftict which I do not think our English 
 neighbours are at all cognisant of, — that a very large 
 body of respectable Protestant yeomanry, numbering 
 some hundreds, were among his brother's tenantry, 
 and this in the immediate neighbourhood of 
 Tipperary the turbulent. 
 
 I had before found the Protestants thicklv cluster- 
 ing at Arvagh, and afterwards in the small parish 
 of Abbeyleix, in the Queen's County. I had myself 
 gone round and made the census, and found my 
 own flock to consist of 1,000 souls, and all church- 
 going people. 
 
 In 1842 the Protestants of Ireland numbered two 
 millions. 
 
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 I could not but think how inaccurate the great 
 Mr. Canning was when he said, " The Protestants of 
 Ireland are a miserable minority, who never go to 
 church, and hate a Papist!" 
 
 It is impossible to express the amount of mischief 
 which a saying so ignorant and reckless as this 
 might produce, or the animus it would be likely 
 to stir up between the two countries. We are 
 unquestionably a church-going people, and no true 
 Irishman hates his Roman Catholic brethren, 
 however he may dislike the dark faith which divides 
 them from each other, and degrades by its supersti- 
 tion, and subjection to a foreign yoke, an otherwise 
 most generous and intelligent race. 
 
 It was in Kinnity that I first made the acquaint- 
 ance of the Rev. Frederick Fitz-William Trench, a 
 very remarkable man and minister, and cousin to 
 the author of Realities of Irish Life. His father 
 was a brother of the first Lord Ashtown. iMr. 
 Trench had been a gay and thoughtless man at 
 Trinity College, Cambridge, till arrested by Mr. 
 Simeon's preaching, wlien a change passed over 
 him, and, entering the ministry, he became an a1:)le 
 and devoted clergyman. His tall, attenuated form 
 seemed w^ell to represent the self-denial and holiness 
 of his life, and the eloquent, yet severe simplicity of 
 his preaching attracted, while it taught, the crowds 
 who thronged his church at Cloughgordan, in the 
 county of Tipperary. 
 
 THE IRISH CHURCH. 
 
 47 
 
 
 No doubt he had a leaning towards asceticism, 
 and strangers thought him stern, but his friends 
 knew well how genial he was in private, and how 
 kindly he participated in the happy amenities of 
 domestic life ; and also what a decided, though un- 
 developed, taste he possessed for pure literature- 
 publishing in his later life some excellent treatises 
 on Church and doctrinal matters, and also an 
 interesting volume called Illustrations of Truth, 
 He was a man of inflexible determination ; what he 
 believed he avowed openly, acted on, and never 
 swerved from ; and he generally was in the right. 
 He professed the politics of his family, and was 
 a strong Whig, which circumstance separated him 
 from many of his clerical brethren, especially on the 
 matter of scriptural education ; yet still he had the 
 love of many, and the true respect of all. I think 
 it was about the year 1840 that he got up a 
 revival in his parish of Cloughgordan. Numerous 
 clergymen, myself among the number, were his 
 guests. Three or more daily services were held in 
 the church, early prayer meetings before day-dawn in 
 the cottages, lectures in school-houses, and preach- 
 ings in the open air. Trench himself was the life 
 of the movement. The Rev. John Brandon, a good 
 man— a Boanerges— with a voice like a hunter's horn, 
 addressed a crowd from the dickey of a carriage in 
 the village street. Gentle Francis Hewson was an 
 earnest pleader for his Master and the Gospel cause. 
 
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 RECOLLECTIONS OF 
 
 Burdett came from Banagher, and Macausland from 
 Birr. I had my part to perform, but I felt the 
 excitement more productive of weariness than the 
 mere labour, and I retired after the third day utterly 
 exhausted ; others did the same. Trench, however, 
 was a man of iron, and carried the work on for 
 three days more, having obtained fresh relays of 
 clerg}^men. I do believe much good was effected 
 by this work, and in after-life at Kingstown I met 
 during my ministry there many who traced to the 
 Cloughf^ordan revival the beginning of a new and 
 
 a happier life. 
 
 Mr. Trench never attained to rank in the Church, 
 most probably because he never sought it, and 
 would have valued it only as a means of doing 
 further good. He was thoroughly independent in 
 his means, as he was in his principles and his 
 conduct. From his hale constitution his friends 
 presaged for him a very long life, but he died rather 
 suddenly in Dul)lin in the month of December, 
 1869, mourned by his family, and universally 
 esteemed and regretted by the whole Church of 
 Ireland. More than thirty years after my first 
 meeting with Trench, his son Robert, who was my 
 godson, and at that time an undergraduate of 
 Trinity College, Cambridge, used to come over to 
 my rectory, near St. Ives, in Huntingdonshire, and 
 remain with us from Saturday till Monday. He 
 was occasionally accompanied by George Ensor, of 
 
 THE IRISH CHURCH. 
 
 49 
 
 Queen's College, Cambridge. Both these lads were 
 intended to be missionaries, Trench to India, Ensor 
 for China. They were fine, bright, intelligent young 
 men, full of health, life, and promise, and unaffect- 
 edly pious. Eventually Ensor went to China, and is 
 still alive. Trench, full of zeal, overworked himself 
 in India, and died of fever, and was soon followed to 
 the grave by his beautiful young wife, the daughter 
 of an excellent Irish clergyman, Francis Hewson, 
 Rector of Dunganstown, one of our Revival men. 
 
 I have said that Mr. Trench differed from many 
 of his Church brethren on the subject of education ; 
 and on the formation of the National Board in 1832 
 he attached himself and his schools to it. Five years 
 before, the ninth report of ''The Irish Education 
 Inquiry" had stated that, ''out of 11,823 schools, 
 there were more than 8,000 in which the Holy 
 Scriptures were freely read, by choice of teachers 
 who depended for their bread upon the goodwill 
 of the scholars' parents" (for the Irish peasant 
 reveres God's Book, and would eagerly read it if 
 his clergy would permit him). 
 
 The report, on making the above announcement, 
 goes on to say, " This great amelioration in the 
 education of the Irish peasantry is still in progress, 
 and cannot be checked but by interference of the 
 State ; " and alas ! the State did interfere, and 
 did check this bright promise ; and the result was 
 mournful and disastrous. 
 
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 The rapid growth of Scripture education in the 
 schools of the Kildare Place and the London 
 Hibernian Societies was now becoming a matter of 
 notoriety. Archdeacon Martin, an ex-Fellow of 
 Trinity College, Dublin, and a strong pillar in 
 the edifice of the Irish Church, had proved that 
 " 300,000 Eoman Catholic children were volun- 
 tarily enjoying the blessing of Scriptural educa- 
 tion/' 
 
 All this roused the Romish priests, and, insti- 
 gated by them, O'Connell, Shiel, and Wyse rushed 
 to the rescue in the House of Commons, and suc- 
 ceeded ; and Mr. Stanley, the Irish Secretary, 
 acknowledging that ''the reading of the Bible in 
 the schools was a vital defect,'' conceded to the 
 Romish prelates all their demands, aud the National 
 Board was established, and endowed with an im- 
 mense sum from the purse of the nation, and the 
 former endowment of the Kildare Place Society 
 
 cancelled. 
 
 Sixteen hundred out of 2,000 of the Irish clergy 
 refused to avail themselves of the revenues of the 
 new system, or to act in connection with a Board 
 which precluded the teaching of God's Word to 
 every^ child in their schools. The late Bishops 
 O'Brien and Daly, and the present Primate espe- 
 cially, strongly and publicly opposed the system 
 which, from the largeness of its funds, threatened 
 to be popular and successful. At this crisis the 
 
 THE IKISH CHUECK. 
 
 51 
 
 Church Education Society was formed, and for long 
 years has struggled on, frowned on by Whig Govern- 
 ments and Liberal Archbishops, and receiving no 
 help from either, and its own clergy paying for 
 their own schools to the amount of 40,000?. per 
 annum. Such it was fifteen years ago, when I sat 
 on its committee with such admirable men as the 
 Bishops of Ossory, and of Cashel, and of Meath ; 
 Archdeacons Johnson, Bell, and Thacker ; Revs. 
 Charles Stanford, William Trench, William Pollock, 
 Maurice Day, John Grifiin, J. Kingston, Hamilton 
 Verschoyle, Denis Crofton, William Brooke, Espine 
 Batty, Robert AVilson, &c. 
 
 Then for nearly two score years there were 
 Bella, liorrida hella, carried on between the two 
 systems. The combat equalled in intensity, as it 
 surpassed in length of time, the Thirty Years' War 
 in the seventeenth century, only here was no city 
 sacked, or blood spilt, only abundance of ink 
 poured out, pamphlets issuing from either host 
 as thick as' shells at Sebastopol, eVea inepoevTa, 
 winged words flying from pulpit and from platform 
 like the English arrows at the battle of Crecy. 
 Surely it is pardonable to throw a little levity 
 around a subject so deadly heavy ! Never was the 
 Church and the world so tired of any controversy. 
 *' All fled the unwelcome story," yet, strange to 
 say, the animus was kept up so vigorously in the 
 public mind, and with such anxiety, that it is said 
 
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 that a certain lively Irish girl, on finding her mother 
 one evening depressed and nervous, addressed her 
 thus : *' Dear mother, what is troubling you so ? Is 
 it original sin — or maybe it's the National Board ? " 
 
 A spirit of inquiry had been awakened at this 
 time from the teaching of the Bible in those schools 
 which had preceded the establishment of the Na- 
 tional system ; our ministers had again and again 
 challenged the Romish priests to a public discus- 
 sion, encouraged by such orthodox prelates as Jebb, 
 Bishop of Limerick, in 1820, and Archbishop Magee 
 in 1823; but as the Jesuit Fitz Simons fied from 
 James Ussher, so these priests eschewed the battle 
 in almost every instance. • 
 
 Dr. Murray of Askeston, afterwards Dean of 
 Ardagh, commenced the controversial compaign in 
 1824, and in two years he had 470 converts from 
 Romanism. He was followed at different periods by 
 the Rev. Robert Daly, Arthur Preston, Edward 
 Nangie, James Cosins, Robert McGhee, Richard 
 Pope, the two O'Sullivans, Thomas Moriarty, Daniel 
 Foley, Alexander Hanlon (the last five converts 
 from Rome, and all eminently intelligent men and 
 steady Protestants). Then there was Godfrey Massy 
 of Limerick, one of the holiest and most successful 
 ministers our Church ever produced,^ and last and 
 greatest of all. Dr. Tresham Dames Gregg ; other 
 
 * See his Xt/V, by his brother, Dawson Massy,— a most interesting 
 and instructive volume. 
 
 THE IRISH CHURCH. 
 
 53 
 
 controversialists might be reckoned giants, but this 
 man was the Titan. ^ 
 
 In later times Edward A. Stopford, archdeacon 
 of Meatli, came forward as a powerful master of 
 the Roman controversy in his unanswerable articles 
 in the Catholic Layman, and in this our day 
 Dr. Charles McCarthy, rector of St. Werburgh's, 
 manages the controversial department of the Society 
 for Irish Church Missions with equal degrees of 
 learning and skill, set off by the most unruffled good 
 humour, amidst every opposition and provocation. 
 
 All these and many more have lent their aid in 
 this good work of adding to the Church those who 
 should be saved, and numberless conversions from 
 Romanism showed the efficacy of their labours, and 
 the work has been going on steadily ever since, 
 though sadly checked by the numerous perversions 
 which take place among our brethren in England. 
 So many clergymen of weight and education 
 passing over to Rome is, without doubt, a lament- 
 ably cogent argument in the mouth of an enemy, 
 airainst the truth of our Church, and one vehe- 
 mently used and asserted by the Roman Catholic 
 clergy on all and every occasion. 
 
 In this country, and in our despised yet 
 thoroughly sound and honest Church, we have had 
 few perversions. / cannot recall in long years more 
 
 * This was said by the Rev. George Croly of ^schylus, in compari- 
 son to Sophocles and Euripides. 
 
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 RECOLLECTIONS OF 
 
 than two. There may have heen more, but I never 
 heard of them. One was a Rev. ]\[r. Montgomery, 
 of whom I know nothing ;^ the other gentleman 
 was a Rev. Sir. Kirke, a great musical genius, and, 
 I am told, at present pianist to the Pope. But 
 two renegades in the Irish Church out of over two 
 thousand clergymen ! — verily a small minority when 
 compared with the Romeward exodus in England. 
 But then ive never had such a master spirit as 
 Oxford still possesses — one quietly occupied through 
 many a year in breaking down the Church princi- 
 ples of academic youth and clergy, by accustoming 
 them to Popish doctrine and rite, thus gently pushing 
 them to the very verge of the precipice, and then, 
 without even one merciful sigh of deprecation or 
 pity, launching them along the bridge which this 
 Pontifex minimus and his party have built over the 
 chasm which divides us from Rome, and alone 
 which via dolorosa hundreds have gone, and are 
 going, and none come back. 
 
 " Vestigia nulla retrorsum." 
 
 1 have said I can recall but two clergymen who 
 have left the Irish Church for the Church of Rome, 
 but I have been intimately acquainted with mamj 
 who, deserting Romanism, have become active and 
 
 ^ Since writing the above I have heard interesting details of this 
 gentleman, and am state confidently that he died in the simple faith 
 of the Gospel, and independent of all Romish rites, though I believe 
 still in the pale of that apostate Church. - ^ 
 
 . 
 
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 65 
 
 useful clergymen in our Church, and continued to 
 run a steadfast course therein. I shall name a few 
 of them : — Rev. Mortimer O'SuUivan, rector of 
 Tanderagee, diocese of Down ; Rev. Samuel O'SuUi- 
 van, chaplain to the Royal Military School, Phoenix 
 Park (both these brothers, men of high literary 
 attainments, are dead) ; Rev. Thomas A. Moriarty, 
 A.M., rector of Ballinacourty, Tralee ; Rev. Daniel 
 Foley, late Professor of the Irish Language in 
 Trinity College, Dublin ; Rev. John Lynch, A.M., 
 incumbent of St. John s, Monkstown, Dublin ; 
 Rev. Matthew Moriarty, Killaghlee, Raphoe ; Rev. 
 Roderick Ryder, incumbent of Errismore, diocese 
 of Tuam; Rev. William Burke, incumbent of 
 Tourmaqueady, diocese of Tuam ; Rev. J. Breasbie, 
 incumbent in Canada West. Then there are Rev. 
 Messrs. Fitzpatrick, Leo, Moran of Roundtown ; 
 O'Callaghan of Oughterard, county Galway, now 
 dead ; and Nolan, also dead — cum muUis aliis. 
 
 These men were almost all priests, or ligna 
 sacerdotum, " going to Maynooth ; " and they all 
 relinquished position (for the Church of Rome ever 
 promotes ability, if it be but subservient to her 
 Bway), and more or less encountered persecution for 
 conscience sake ; and their reception into our Church 
 was not distinguished by any particular warmth of 
 welcome, nor were their advantages in her com- 
 munion, from station or emolument, anything but 
 of a very ordinary nature. 
 
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 RECOLLECTIONS OF 
 
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 57 
 
 4 
 
 CHAPTER V. 
 
 In the year 1829, while a curate at Kinnity, 
 I received priest's orders in the old Cathedral of 
 St. Fiannan, at the hands of Bishop Ponsonby of 
 Killaloe. Previously to our ordination, I and my 
 reverend confreres underwent a slight examination 
 from the chaplain of the Bishop. 
 
 Immediately after this event I was obliged to 
 resign my pleasant curacy from ill-health ; but in 
 the summer of 1830 I accepted another, and went 
 up to the north, among the bracing hills of Donegal. 
 My curacy was that of Conwall, embracing "the 
 town of Letterkenny, and my rector was Joseph 
 Stopford, D.D., of whom 1 have spoken before as a 
 Fellow of Trinity College, and I may truly say that 
 a better or a more heavenly-minded man I never 
 met before or since ; he had the learning of a sao-e 
 and the simplicity of a child, and such taste and 
 refinement as to render his companionship equally 
 profitable and delightful. 
 
 These Stopfords w^ere hereditary college men ; 
 my rector's father being a Fellow of Trinity College,' 
 Dublin, in 1753, and his father also a Fellow in 1 727, 
 
 and afterwards Bishop of Cloyne, having immediately 
 succeeded the great Berkeley in that See in 1753. 
 
 This parish^ was about sixteen miles long by eight 
 deep, and contained the ruin of " Temple Douglass," 
 or the dark green church where St. Columbkille is 
 reported to have ministered. Three miles further 
 on, in the next parish, there are a few stones, 
 standing by the beautiful lake of Gartan, which are 
 said to mark the house where the saint was born — 
 a matter of little interest to those who live there, 
 the Donegal folk in general not being either poetical 
 or archoeological in their tastes. The parish is 
 bisected from east to west by the wild and pictur- 
 esque valley of Glenswilly, which abuts on Lough 
 Swilly, connecting it with the sea. On the north 
 and west are grand mountains. 
 
 Not very far from us lived John Ussher, the 
 archdeacon of the diocese, a lineal descendant of 
 the great Archbishop of that name. He was rector 
 of Rahy, which means a " fort," and his house was at 
 Sharon, a place of horrible notoriety for a murder 
 in 1797, when a body of rebels dragged Dr. AVilliam 
 Hamilton from the staircase to whose banisters he 
 clung, and piked him to death on the lawn ; he had 
 given no provocation of any kind, save that he was 
 an active magistrate. The rain and storm of eighty 
 years have washed this poor man's blood from the 
 green sod, but centuries will fail to obliterate the 
 
 ^ It contained 45,200 acres, and in 1830 had seven scriptural schools. 
 
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 RECOLLECTIONS OF 
 
 blot from the historic shield of Ireland's mistauofht 
 and erring sons. ' 
 
 Now, all was halcyon peace here and quietness. 
 The Archdeacon was an illustration of gentleness 
 in his bearing ; he had been a Fellow of Trinity 
 College, Dublin (most of the large livings in 
 Donegal were College presentations), his life was 
 most Christian, and he died suddenly in his pulpit, 
 when preaching a sermon on the love and mercy 
 of his Saviour. 
 
 His brother, Henry Ussher, also an ex-Fellow of 
 Trinity College, Dublin, held the wealthy parish of 
 Tullyaugnish, near to us ; while entombed among 
 savage rocks and cliffs and broad white strands, 
 and wild natural arches and great mountains, 
 Henry Maturin, D.D., a third ex-Fellow of Trinity 
 College, Dublin, occupied the parish of Fanet, and 
 reared a fine family on the shores of romantic 
 Mulroy, amidst the roar and the rush of the great 
 waves of the Atlantic — 
 
 " napa ffiva no\v(f)\oi(r^oio 6a.\d(r(rr]s." 
 
 Maturin was cousin to his namesake, the author. 
 He was a fluent extempore preacher, and inclining 
 to Calvinistic views ; he had words ^ softer than the 
 
 1 " Do you know Dr. Maturin, of Dublin College ? " asked an old 
 lady (a friend of ours) of the Rev. Rowland Hill — the great London 
 preacher, renowned for his oddity— at a dinner party many years ago. 
 " Yes, Madam," said the veteran, " Maturin is a charming chap— a 
 charming chap, Madam. If a storm came on, Maturin's face and voice 
 would make peace.'* 
 
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 59 
 
 droppings of oil from a cruet, and singular conver- 
 sational powers, yet could say a very smart thing, 
 as once when a lady was eulogising some semi- 
 Popish practices, " Madam," he said, *' you are quite 
 wrong." — *' Nay," she said, '' how can that be, when 
 my mind tells me I am right ? " — '' Simply," he 
 answered, " because you have so long been in the 
 habit of advocating what's wrong, that your mind 
 has become a convert to its own errors." 
 
 One other neighbour we had of whom I shall not 
 say much, as he still lives ; and anything I write of 
 him must be so eulogistic that it would be sure not 
 to please him. The Eev. Maurice George Fen wick 
 was one who combined in his person a large measure 
 of natural and acquired accomplishment ; he had a 
 striking presence, and excelled in all manly exercises. 
 In his youth he could row, ride, act, fence, paint, and 
 sing equally well — but, better than all, he was now 
 a devoted minister of the Gospel. His reading of 
 the Church Service w^as a delight to hear, and, the 
 poor people said, '' as teaching as a sermon ; " his 
 voice was deep and dramatic. I never heard finer 
 or more melodious tones — more feeling or eJBFective. 
 With such a voice, and a soul w^armed with Divine 
 life, I need not say how attractive he was as a 
 preacher. He had a parish on the sea-coast, but 
 resigned its care to his curate, he living entirely 
 with the Bishop, who was his uncle, at the castle, 
 Raphoe, where I have often seen him of an evening, 
 
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 after the business of the day, unbend and enjoy 
 himself amidst his family with almost a schoolboy 
 simplicity and glee. Much of the business of the 
 diocese, I should fancy, passed through his hands. 
 Eventually he became Archdeacon of Raphoe, and 
 on Dr. Bisset s (the Bishop s) death, he assumed his 
 name — as ancient a name as his own — on suc- 
 ceeding to his estates in Scotland. Mr. Fenwick 
 Bisset and I were at school together, and I have 
 enjoyed the privilege of his intimate friendship 
 un])rokenly for more than sixty years. 
 
 Such were a few of our clerical neighlxmrs. 
 Occasionally we had deputations from Societies, but 
 we lived much among and for the people, a race so 
 peculiar that I am tempted to diverge awhile from 
 my Church track, and give my readers some sketches 
 of these Glenswillians. 
 
 Of course, as in every community, there were bad 
 and turbulent fellows among them, as the event 
 showed ; but in general it may be said of them, that 
 a kinder or more warmhearted peasantry cannot 
 be found, nor a race of people more susceptible of 
 strong and enduring friendship. Among the men 
 was much industry, decency, honest independence 
 and shrewdness, and certainly great love of gain. 
 The w^omen were domestic and pure ; the young 
 girls skilful spinners ; and often on a wet and 
 stormy day they would gather all their wheels into 
 some large barn or kitchen in the hamlet, and sit 
 
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 and spin and chat, and sing together, oftentimes 
 hymns, or the Psalms of Sternhold and Hopkins, 
 till the going down of the sun. Now, as for the 
 glen itself, Thomas Moore has immortalized the 
 sister vales of Cachmere and Avoca in his Oriental 
 and Hibernian verses, but there are few more sweet 
 and lovely valleys "in this wide world" than 
 Glenswilly, if only seen at the right time and 
 season — which is on a soft autumnal afternoon, when 
 the sun is bright, and the corn is being cut along 
 the holms, and the swift Swilly runs clear as a 
 diamond within its green banks, and the rowan 
 berries are blushing red among the leaves of the 
 mountain ash, and the poplars are trembling by the 
 river, and the holly is glistening amidst the rocks, 
 and the golden sallows are listening to the ripple of 
 the water, and the song is sweet, and the whistle is 
 shrill, and the laughter rings clear, and the voices 
 are merry as they come up together through the 
 mellow air from those knots of harvesters who are 
 binding the stocks amidst the yellow stubble, and 
 the blue smoke curls up from the wild wood on the 
 hills, disclosing where many a tiny farmhouse lies, 
 like a bird in its nest, ensconced amidst green banks 
 and leaves, and girded by rocks and rills in its 
 mountain solitude. 
 
 Through the Glen, winding and twisting like a 
 silver serpent, runs the Swilly, pronounced with 
 Ionic softness, Suillie, poetical in sound and in 
 
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 signification — the word meaning *' eyes," expressive 
 of its stream, which dimples all over with eyes on 
 its way to the sea. 
 
 At the western head of the Glen rises the " wee 
 toun " of Letterkenny — self-important, yet flourish- 
 ine: and affectincc j^reat thinfijs — for its inn is an 
 " hotel," its shopkeepers are '' merchants," and its 
 " port " is no bigger than a horse-pond. It is 
 certainly an ambitious and an extremely litigious 
 little place, and diversified in its polemics, contain- 
 ing seven distinct places of worship, viz : — a church, 
 a meeting-house, a secession chapel. Baptist and 
 (Covenanters' churches, a Methodist chapel, and a 
 Romish cathedral — each withdrawing one from the 
 other, and agreeing to differ— widely as ever they can. 
 
 I have said that these Glen people were peculiar 
 in their habits, and I have asked permission to say 
 something of their ways and doings. In the year 
 1830, when I lived among them, a class of them were 
 notorious as being " Glenswilly Legislators," law- 
 givers according to their own wild system, though it 
 is probable they had never heard of, much less seen, 
 St. Stephen's Chapel. They met in their remote 
 homesteads, and passed a " Glenswilly Decree," 
 which, when carried out, eventuated in a night foray 
 against a neighbour's property — the abduction of a 
 horse or a cow, or, in one case to my own knowledge, 
 a beehive, with bees and honey ; in another case a 
 feather-bed and bedstead which had been promised 
 
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 as part dowry to a peasant bride, and withheld by a 
 niggardly father — thus combining in themselves the 
 legislative and executive departments. On one 
 occasion, wishing to give a young horse a run on 
 the grass for a month or two, I inquired of a Glen 
 woman, a decent farmer's wife, what her terms 
 would be for the grazing. The answer was abrupt 
 but wise : " Have you not got oats at home ? Keep 
 your horse in his owm stable, he will thrive best 
 when his master's hand is on his mane. If we had 
 him, our Glenswilly Boys might carry him off some 
 fine night ; and surely it is better to say ' here ' 
 he is, than ' there ' he was ; " and the advice was 
 followed. Yet along with this passion for lawless 
 legislation, the Glen folk are intensely fond of goincr 
 to law regularly, and look forward to the Quarter 
 Sessions with longing desires, which are felt as much 
 by the processer as by the processed party, each 
 expecting, at all events, a good tough argumentation 
 at what they call the " la " — (law). 
 
 Our gardener having lately buried his wife, was 
 now, in the idiom of the county, '' a wuddow man," 
 and having got into some paltry dispute concerning 
 the deceased's assets, he processed her brother to the 
 " la," when, after spending four times the value of 
 the disputed articles, he got soundly beaten by the 
 judgment of the court — which consummation, how- 
 ever, he communicated to us with a orin of real 
 satisfaction. 
 
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 ** Then man has bet me in my la shoot ; Iped ten 
 shilling to get wee Sam Sproul ^ out o' Ramelton, 
 and, eeh my oh ! but wee Sam gave it to them in 
 talk for better than three hours. Well, he bates a' 
 at the la ; and so though I lost the shoot, it's a great 
 comfort to my mind that it ivas so weel wrangled!'* 
 
 May I now present to my readers a great char- 
 acter, whom I shall designate by the title of our 
 " Glenswilly Prima Donna " ? 
 
 At our School-house Lectures in the Glen, this 
 old woman, named Hatty Gallasp, was rather a 
 diflBculty, and our litigious gardener well defined 
 her as '* a fulish auld Methody body." She was 
 daughter to a bygone parish clerk, and was born, 
 bred, and suckled amidst Psalm tunes. Her voice 
 was hopelessly cracked. She was as deaf as a post, 
 and would not give in to any of the modern tunes, 
 but persisted in rejecting all but those which '' her 
 feavther and her sunor on Sabbaths in the wee 
 gallery of Conwall Church, when Rector Span was 
 in it/' Thus any little harmony we possessed was 
 jeopardized by the eccentricity and intractable 
 voice of this intense amateur, who generally was 
 half a dozen notes before or a bar behind the other 
 
 singers. 
 
 I once had the hardihood to expostulate, but 
 gently (for singers, like poets, are an irritable race), 
 and suggested that she should not " sing quite so 
 
 * A popular local solicitor. 
 
 ji^ 
 
 loud," when she answered, '* I had a cowld, my 
 dear, I had a cowld thon time, but now Fse got 
 quet of it, and praise be to the Maker, if I do not 
 gie them a skirl on the Auld Hundredth next time, 
 I'll gie yees leave to say, what naebody ever said of 
 Hatty Gallasp, or of her feayther afore her, that she 
 could na sing oot." Accordingly, when the occasion 
 came, she dashed out, upsettiug every voice about 
 her, holding time, tune, and harmony at defiance ; 
 and after the rest had concluded, continuing the 
 strain, as she executed a prolonged solo, her poor 
 old shaking voice quivering and quavering up 
 amidst the rafters of the roof like an insane skylark 
 in bronchitis. 
 
 AVe had amongst us, too, rather an eminent 
 theologian : we will call him Alaac McCraub. He 
 was a well-to-do Presbyterian farmer, a respectably 
 conducted man, but an original in his way ; he was 
 tall, raw-boned, ferrety-eyed, high-cheeked, sandy- 
 haired, and had his hands thrust up to the wrists in 
 his waistcoat pockets, and his short upturned nose 
 snufiing the wind. He was sauntering home from 
 market as my brother and I rode up and entered 
 into conversation with him ; we chatted on the 
 ])rices of flax, butter, oats, &;c. ; then, knowing him 
 to be fierce and dogmatical on all subjects connected 
 with theology, and wishing to draw him out, I 
 said, ** But where did I see you going in the Glen 
 last Sunday, Mr. McCraub, and on horseback too ? 
 
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 I thought that you * meeting people ' were strict 
 Sabbath-keepers, and did not forget the fourth 
 commandment ? " 
 
 ** So we are, so we are, sir," said Alaac, greatly eon- 
 fused ; but quickly recovering, he drew himself up, 
 and added, ** I was just going a mile or two to the 
 lower Brae, not more than a wee bit ower a Sabbath 
 day's journey, just to visit my stock, lest there 
 should be an ass or an ox fallen into a pit ; ye ken, 
 gentlemen, the Scripthure allows us to pull it out." 
 On delivering this piece of triumphant self-justi- 
 fication, Alaac smiled grimly, and proceeded to 
 tell us of a young preacher, who had been holding 
 forth the preceding Sabbath in the Meeting-house, 
 and concerning whose being *' oorthodox and all 
 reight '* (they gutturalize the ** r " in this word 
 vigorously) Alaac had his ponderings. 
 
 ** Did you like his sermon? " I asked. 
 
 ** As aseermun I say, No ; it was but a wee bit of 
 Goospel dooctrine. Man is an inquisitive animal, 
 and I should have liked some more feeding — a, 
 
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 skemp or twa of dooctrine on the five points. No 
 seermun is a seermun at a' that has not the five 
 points in its head, tail, text, body, soul, and backbone. 
 I mislike yon preacher — a verra young man. Vm 
 dooting if he has not a touch of the harracy of the 
 Armennians in him, which is all one to my mind as 
 Papishy itself Alaac delivered this with singular 
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 '' You are a great theologian, Mr. McCraub '' I 
 said. ' 
 
 '' Just a wee, sir — not over much ; IVe read a 
 little on the subject whiles, and wrangled it over 
 with the neighbours in the long winter nights. I 
 hold the five great points all rrrheight, and will 
 always purtest as lang as I have a tongue in my 
 mouth or a tooth in my head, against Papishy, 
 Armennianism, Methodyism, and all other filthy 
 harracies and hatteradoxies to my life's end." 
 
 We parted now, wishing our polemical friend 
 " good evening," Alaac shouting after us that he 
 would call at my Parish Library " for the fourth 
 volume of Dr. Ouwen's (Owen) work on the 
 Haybrews— a grand Divine, sir, and all sound on 
 the five points.'' 
 
 But it was when statedly returning '' on Sabbaths'' 
 from the " Meeting-house," that all the divinity of 
 polemics was stirred within Alaac, and theology came 
 mended from his tongue, as he discussed the sermon 
 he had just heard. Then in a high, dry, conceited 
 tone, he would argue, and re-argue, and rebut, and 
 answer again, and prove, and reprove, and disprove, 
 and shake it up, and shake it down, and twist it this 
 way, and that way, and the other way, and '' wrangle 
 It weel," till there was not a bone or sinew in the 
 whole sermon which he had not dislocated or frac- 
 tured to the satisfaction of himself and his hearers, 
 who regarded him as ** dootless one who had the o-eft 
 
 
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 (gift) ; and my oh ! but he s powerfu' in the 
 talk ! " 
 
 I shall now beg to introduce among our Glen 
 characters a person of a totally different style and 
 character, illustrating an extreme case, and an 
 exception to the canon rule of general order and 
 propriety which existed among our church -people. 
 This man was a Protestant, a drunken mad fellow, 
 and as it fell, upon a day he came along the Glen 
 staggering and singing, to the terror of the passers- 
 by; for this C was a tall, squinting, semi- 
 
 imde, raw-boned gi^uit ; when, whom should he 
 descry, but " wee Robin '' Wilkinson, of Tullybrae, 
 "a modest' boy," coming along quietly. In either 
 hand the Bacchanalian held a large stone, probably 
 on the tight-rope principle of preserving his equi- 
 librium, and regarding Eobin manifestly as an 
 offering sent, against whom, as from a catapult, he 
 might discharge the same, he accosted the little 
 man, and told him -he was goin^ to knock him 
 down with one stone and knock him up with 
 the other ! " 
 
 But Robin was " still caulm and canny," and 
 answered: " Well, James, wait a while, my oh ! ]>ut 
 you look drouthy, man ! I wager you a glass of 
 beer that I run and reach the Miltown public- house 
 before you, and then you must pay for it aV' 
 
 The giant, with a savage whoop, dropped both 
 
 * "Modest "sicrnifies "we]l-l)ehaved." 
 
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 Stones, and shot past wee Robin, who w^as pretending 
 to run, but the moment after he vaulted over a low 
 wall on the road-side, and made up the hill to his 
 own quiet and orderly home. 
 
 One more trait of my Glenswillians and I have 
 done. They exhibit a devouring curiosity to know 
 tvko ijou are on all occasions. I shall mention a 
 rencounter I had with one of these '' curious im- 
 pertinents '* as I was riding on a lonely road near the 
 Glen ; he too w^as on horseback, and, spurring up 
 his pony alongside of me, the following dialogue 
 took place : — 
 
 Traveller : '' Thou's a braw day for the craps." 
 2Iyself: "It is." 
 
 Traveller: *' I reckon you are from Strabane 
 side ? " 
 
 Myse/f: "No." 
 
 Traveller (seductively) : " Likely you're in the 
 saft goods line in Darry ? " 
 
 Myself: " I've not that honour." 
 
 Traveller : " Well, well ; I should not Avonder 
 if you were one of Ractor Stopford's schulmeasters 
 from Latterkenny! " 
 
 Myself: " You are quite wrong." 
 
 Traveller (getting desperate): "Tm no that 
 sure that you a n't an Exciseman." 
 
 Myself: "I have not such happiness." 
 
 Traveller (excited) : " My oh ! my oh ! mon, but 
 it's steff you are, wno eare you at all ? " 
 

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 Here I spurred on, leaving him in a perfect agony 
 of inquisitiveness ; when he bellowed after me, 
 ''Ech man, what's your name, what's your 7iame?" 
 to which, turning in my saddle, I answered in a 
 sonorous voice — 
 
 " Top 5' airafxti^ofxfvos irpo€<f)Tj nodas <okvs *A;^iXXev$'," 
 
 leaving the baffled catechist in despair. 
 
 ** Sic me servavit Apollo." 
 
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 CHAPTER VI. 
 
 The Bishop of Eaphoe at this time, 1833, was, as 
 T have said. Doctor Bisset. He was an Englishman, 
 a very eminent classical scholar, and a strong 
 opposer of the sweeping measures of so-called 
 Church Reform, which had now begun to be 
 agitated in the House of Commons, and which 
 have since terminated in the spoliation of the Irish 
 Church. The Bishop was a kind and hospitable 
 man, and when the cholera came like a ravening 
 wolf amid the cabins and the cottages round about 
 Raphoe, his Lordship offered to remove his car- 
 riages and horses, and that his coach-houses and 
 stables should be fitted up as a cholera hospital for 
 the poor — a noble act, which he would have carried 
 out, only a much more convenient building was 
 
 found. 
 
 He conversed well and impressively, but was 
 inclined to be a little Johnsonian, and too anti- 
 thetical in his speech ; as when in a loud voice he 
 addressed a servant who had brought in to the 
 breakfast-table a piece of burnt toast: **Take it 
 
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 If 
 
 away, sir. As toast, 'tis bad ; as bread, 'tis 
 spoiled." Yet after all perhaps this was but ''his 
 humour." 
 
 His predecessor had been Dr. William Jlairee, 
 afterwards Archbiahop of Dublin. He had come to 
 Eaphoe in 1819, and had ruled the diocese with 
 activity and zeal. The late Dean of Ripon, Hugh 
 jVrNeile, was licensed by him as curate of 
 8tranorlar, and ofterwards became the Bishop's 
 son-in-law; he was succeeded in this curacy by 
 Kichai-d Pope, of whom 1 have already spoken. 
 John C. Lloyd, also mentioned before, filled this 
 post, and likewise j\Ir. Lovett, afterwards the well- 
 known minister of Marboeuf Chapel in Paris. The 
 Bishop certainly collected the best men about him, 
 and his own excellent son, John Magee, was labour- 
 ing at Meevagh, a wild and obscure parish lying 
 on " the North Sea's foam," high up in Donegal 
 ilr. Lovc^tt was nephew to the Kector of Stranorlar, 
 Rev. Robert Butt, "an elegant and accomplished 
 scholar," and father to ilr. Isaac Butt, the present 
 leader of the Home Rulers in the House of 
 Commons, who at this time must have been a very 
 young man, if not a mere lad. Towards ]\Ir. Butt, 
 sen., the Bishop had such kindly feelings of respect 
 and regard, that when he became ill at one time, 
 and his curate was absent, the Bishop told him to 
 keep his mind at ease, for that he would supply 
 him with a brother minister each Sunday to do his 
 
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 work ; and when such a substitute w\as not to be 
 had, then Bishop Magee rode over and took the 
 whole Sunday service and sermon himself, and this 
 more than once. 
 
 He was wonderfully mobile and active : with 
 his small, lithe, well-knit frame, mounted on a tall 
 and powerful roadster, sitting as erect as a pillar, 
 his hat on the top of his head, he traversed the 
 country in a long trot, undeterred by steep hill or 
 rough road, by heat or wind or weather, a thorough 
 overseer of his flock. My rector told me of one 
 occurrence which may illustrate this description, 
 and also prove how the Bishop could exercise dis- 
 cipline as well as exhibit kindness, when the occasion 
 called for it. 
 
 One bright Sunday morning as the Stopford 
 family sat at breakfast in Glendoen Rectory, the 
 Bishop came full trot up the avenue : he had ridden 
 from Raphoe, over the Mongorry mountain, fully 
 ten miles or more, and only stopped to have a cup 
 of tea before proceeding to a village in the next 
 parish — above eight miles further on — for " of the 
 Sunday ministrations in that place he had heard 
 rumours which demanded his personal supervision." 
 After remaining a few minutes at Glendoen, the 
 Bishop took horse again, and on arriving in the 
 village street he found the church closed, and it 
 Avas now twenty minutes past the time appointed 
 for forenoon service. His Lordship summoned the 
 
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 clerk, had the bell rung, sent his groom riding down 
 to the Rectory, and dismounting, went quickly to 
 the vestry-room, donned surplice and tippet, and 
 proceeded to read the service from the desk— the 
 people pouring in. At the second lesson the unhappy 
 Rector, who had overslept himself, came up the aisle, 
 but the Bishop, heedless of his presence, read on 
 persistently to the end of the service, when, meeting 
 
 Mr. in the vestry, he said, " I hear this has 
 
 happened often ; it inust never occur again. I must 
 have the services in my churches performed with 
 punctuality and decorum." And it never did 
 
 happen again ; and that was all Mr. H 's rebuke 
 
 from his diocesan. 
 
 Shortly after Dr. Stopford's installation in the 
 parish of Conwall, he had the great satisfaction of 
 havmg as an assistant in his work a young clero-y- 
 man who subsequently attained to eminence in the 
 Church. This was Thomas de Burgli, who had run a 
 distinguislied career in our college, and was a gold 
 medallist; he had a charming presence, w^as extremely 
 handsome, and possessed of no small measure of 
 talent ; but the best point about him was his true 
 zeal for God, as with thick-soled shoes, a rough 
 coat, and his Bible in his pocket, he would walk 
 the parish the whole day long, visiting and teaching 
 the poor among their mountains, and sitting down 
 with them in their cabins and their houses, doing 
 the work of an Evangelist. Afterwards he had 
 
 promotion in the West from a good man. Dr. Trench^ 
 Archbishop of Tuam, who was his cousin, and he 
 became an extremely popular preacher in Dublin ; 
 he was appointed Dean of Cloyne in the year 1823, 
 and died 1845. I take a great interest in men- 
 tioning him, as some of his family have been my 
 closest friends through life. 
 
 Conwall parish had its good and evil points, its 
 roses and its brambles ; our Squire, Mr. John Boyd, 
 was a kind and friendly man, and his family were all 
 we could desire, helping forward every good thing 
 actively and intelligently, both by word and by 
 work, with cheerfulness and cordiality and eminent 
 success. 
 
 We had little trouble with the Dissenters ; the 
 foremost man among them, John Elliott by name, 
 was a truly good man, though a strong Baptist, and 
 loved **the rector," whose sweet spirit drew all 
 hearts to him ; so we had great peace and quietude 
 until the clouds began to gather in the political 
 heavens, and to flash their lightnings. For the 
 Tithe troubles in 1832 did not leave us altogether 
 unscathed in Donegal ; my rector's meadows were 
 trespassed on by herds of cattle, his young ash- 
 trees cut down at night ; and drunken shoutings on 
 market days of "Hurrah for half rent and no 
 tithe ! '' resounded from the roads and reached our 
 ears in the house. At last the malcontents met, 
 and passed a Glenswilly decree that they would 
 
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 mai-ch to the Rectory in force and '* scar the Doctor."^ 
 Accordingly next morning fully three hundred 
 men came round the house,'' shouting and hilloaing, 
 and, armed with sticks, they sent up twelve delegates 
 from their body. The selected spokesman was one 
 Jack Moore, a Protestant, and renowned for his gift 
 of talk. 
 
 Doctor Stopford came forth on his lawn to meet 
 them. I was at his side ; I was at that time his 
 son-in-law ; he was a man with an aspect full of 
 sweetness and of stivngth ; his fine head, which might 
 have been sculptured for that of a sage or of a saint, 
 was uncovered, and all his doors and windows were, 
 by his directions, left wide 02)en. ''Gentlemen," 
 he said, " why is this crowd round my house ? I 
 have for many years lived in peace among you. If 
 you are bent on hostile acts, I have no means of 
 defence, no police, or fire-arms, or bolt or shutter 
 to my house ; tell me what you want, or why you 
 have come in this menacing way ? " For the men 
 outside the gates were whooping, and clattering 
 their sticks. One of the delegates, a rough fellow, 
 said that they would not touch a hair of his head, 
 or injure his property ; but they had come to say 
 how hard the times were on the poor, that the glebe 
 rents were too high, and the tithes unbearable, and 
 
 ' Sciir, that is terrify. 
 
 * A similar outrage took place at Farnliam, with Bishop Sumner, at 
 about the same time. 
 
 
 that both must be reduced to meet their wants, 
 &c. 
 
 The Eector heard him courteously and atten- 
 tively, reminding him that he had already reduced 
 the rents on his two glebes considerably : " As for 
 the tithes," he added, " I have no control over 
 them ; the parish is the property of Trinity College, 
 of which body I am but the nominee." I shall 
 never forget the answer of the peasant, apt and 
 alliterative : ** Ah, Doctor, the College is full of 
 meat and money, and thinks but little of the poor 
 man." The discussion now proceeded. Moore 
 made a short speech ; he seemed ashamed of his 
 company. Then a little bright-eyed Celt, a regular 
 " Glenswilly boy," spoke rapidly and vehemently, 
 yet good-humouredly. Finally they broke up, the 
 Doctor having conceded nothing — he was calm, 
 courteous, but firm as a rock ; and down the avenue 
 they trooped, very noisy and excited, and for the 
 rest of the day, and up to ten o'clock at night, they 
 kept up a shouting and a clatter round the place. 
 But the good man of the house, full of faith and 
 heavenly trust, sat quietly in his study, and be- 
 trayed no emotion, save when, at the hour of rest, 
 the shouts being more than usually high, he said 
 to his daucrhter, " Read me the 91st Psalm." She 
 did so. " That is my armour and defence," he said 
 with a smile, and then retired calmly to his bed. 
 The truth was, they could not " scar " him. Under 
 
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 a most gentle exterior the man concealed a singu- 
 larly intrepid heart, a natural gift, and common to 
 his family and name. I shall just cite one proof 
 from among many, to which I was witness during 
 my residence in his house. A savage bull-dog had 
 attacked one of our cows in the stable-yard. The 
 brute was tearing and lacerating the poor animal as 
 he huncr upon her udder. The Doctor came into 
 the place at the noise, and immediately caught the 
 dog by the hind legs, and beat him so stoutly with 
 a stick that the ferocious brute relaxed his grip 
 and fell on the ground, when the men ran in, 
 secured, and tied him up. 
 
 This natural insensibility to danger was of course 
 strengthened by a wondrous gift of fiuth ; yet these 
 parish troubles fretted his gentle spirit, desirous of 
 peace and concord, and I have always attributed his 
 death, which took place the following year, partly, 
 and in a measure, to the anxiety and corrosion 
 which he silently endured, and which was produced 
 by the disorder and unhinging of the times. 
 
 I am unwilling to leave so briglit an example of 
 a Christian minister as Dr. Stopford was without 
 recounting two more acts in his quiet, unobtrusive 
 life. One was that during sickness, when a malig- 
 nant fever raged amidst the people, he was fre- 
 quently known to assist the afflicted family in 
 lifting the dead into the coffin, when friends and 
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 infection. If the feeling of fear was a stranger to 
 his breast, its place was better filled by a kindly 
 love to all humankind. 
 
 The other case is of a higher type. On his first 
 
 coming to Conwall parish, Mr. H , a wealthy 
 
 and intelligent gentleman farmer, paid him a visit. 
 This person was a Presbyterian, and a Radical anti- 
 churchman of the first water. He had heard much 
 of the Doctor's great meekness and gentleness, and 
 he determined to call and " have a w^ord with him." 
 When they met, the conversation tending towards 
 
 Church matters, and Mr. H becoming rather 
 
 heated, the Doctor led him to his study, and pro- 
 posed that they should go upon their knees and pray, 
 " My constant habit," said he, " when I am so un- 
 happy as to differ from any friend w^ith whom I 
 cannot conscientiously agree." They knelt, and 
 the good man poured forth a touching] y simple and 
 spiritual petition, and full of love, for God to guide 
 them both and bless them in their separate walks. 
 Then, when he arose from his knees, he said to his 
 companion, " Now, sir, we may resume our argu- 
 ment." But the other was all bathed in tears, and 
 cried, " Oh no, no, no ! No argument with you, dear 
 sir, you have taught me much ; good evening, and 
 may God bless you, for you have done me good," 
 and straightway went his way. 
 
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 CHAPTER VII. 
 
 On the death of Dr. Stopford in March, 1833, the 
 Eev. Charles Royton, a popular Fellow of Trinity 
 College, was appointed his successor. I resigned 
 the curacy, and the excellent Rev. Thomas Nolan, 
 the present well-known incumbent of St. Peters, 
 Regent Square, London, came in my place ; we 
 flitting southward, and being veiy soon established 
 in the^'parish of Abbeyleix, in the Queen's County 
 and diocese of Ossory, where I served as curate 
 for three very happy years; the Rev. Arthur 
 Newcombe, a man of sound faith and logical mind, 
 
 being my rector. 
 
 This was a pet place and parish -a ring fence of 
 exquisite woodland— canopied with grand old oaks, 
 planted by the last of the Omores, Kings of Leix, 
 in the sixteenth century. I have before said that 
 the Protestant population was fully 1,000. There 
 were two churches in the parish, and on each 
 Sunday the larger one was crowded from the 
 chancel to the door; and every plan for the 
 domestic, social, moral, educational, and spiritual 
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 de Vesci family, who were lords of the soil, and 
 invariably resident — the Viscount himself — a per- 
 fect specimen of the simple yet stately old Irish 
 noble— teaching regularly his class of boys in the 
 Sunday school with undeviating punctuality. 
 
 These southern peasants were strikingly diverse 
 from my late friends in Donegal ; there they were 
 stiff, here they were supple ; there they were rough 
 and outspoken, here they showed a quiet reserve ; 
 there they were critics, and each man considered 
 himself as a teacher of opinion, here they were 
 willing to be taught by others. 
 
 In the north, the prevailing belief among the 
 farming class was Calvinistic ; in the south they 
 were mostly Wesleyans : the northerns acted more 
 from the head, the southerns from the heart. I liked 
 them both in their different ways, and formed 
 friendships among all ranks which have continued 
 
 through life. 
 
 The diocese of Ossory had many clergymen of 
 high character to boast of, among whom were the 
 Rev. George Hamilton of Killermo, the Rev. Hans 
 Caulfeild of Kilmanagh, and the Rev. Peter Roe of 
 Kilkenny. The first of these good men I never 
 had the privilege of meeting, though I need not 
 testify how much his was in the Church a claruir. 
 et venerabile nomen. The second I heard twice from 
 pulpit and platform, and knew slightly ; he was an 
 old man then, had a great character, and was much 
 
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 admired as a preacher. He was fresh, original, and 
 quaint to an excess almost amusing ; he was father 
 to Dr. Charles Caulfeild, bishop in one of the 
 colonies, and was of the noble house of Charlemont. 
 With Peter Roe I was long and intimately ac- 
 quainted, — a man very pleasant to look at, but 
 pleasanter still to listen to, for he was extremely 
 handsome, and he had a sweet-toned and manly 
 voice ; lie was not tall, but a strong-set, well-limbed 
 man, with a look of independence almost soldierly 
 in his bearing ; he had a ftiir, white forehead, under 
 which sparkled a pair of well-cut steel-grey eyes 
 full of light ; his mouth was pure, and resolved ; 
 he had withstood a great fight of persecution from 
 the Church authorities in Kilkenny, for he preached 
 extempore and declared the gospel ! These two 
 crimes formed " the very head and front of his 
 offence," but manfully and meekly he strove on, and 
 he succeeded. In doctrine he was a strict Evangeli- 
 cal. He held the vicarage of St. Marj^'s, Kilkenny, 
 was military chaplain to the many regiments 
 quartered in the town, with whom he was ex- 
 tremely popular, from his frank, open manliness, 
 and earnest preaching. The soldiers heard him 
 gladly, and it is on record, that, after a fight in 
 Spain, when a regiment was resting in the arms 
 of victory in a green field, a soldier cried out, 
 " Now boys, we would be quite happy if we only 
 had old Peter Pioe to preach to us ! " He died at 
 
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 Kin^^stown in 1841, after much suffering from 
 heart disease. At this time I saw him often ; his 
 family attended my church, and now, after long 
 years, my memory recalls him as he walked up our 
 large Sunday school, the keen, grey eye glancing 
 from class to class, and a half smile on the lips as 
 if in enjoyment of the scene. He was cousin to 
 Mr. Henry Roe of Dublin, the gentleman who so 
 nobly has engaged to pay for the restoration of 
 Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, a work now 
 advancing in beauty, to completion, under' a great 
 architect, Mr. George Street. 
 
 Mr. Roe was a very agreeable companion ; he 
 had seen many men in his day, had conversed with 
 the Duke of Wellington, and was well acquainted 
 with Wilberforce, and other eminent English nota- 
 bilities. I recollect his telling me the following 
 anecdote : — In 1805 he was in London, and 
 preached for the Rev. John Newton — Cowper's 
 friend, and the author of the Ccirdiplionia — in St. 
 Mary's, Woolnoth. Mr. Newton was then very old 
 and extremely deaf. Roe was a young man ; he 
 was standing in the pulpit, and giving out his 
 text, when he heard a heavy step ascending the 
 stairs, and old John Newton stood behind him, to 
 Roe's amazement and consternation : " Only me, 
 sir, only me ; only old John Newton, very deaf 
 indeed, and he wants to hear you, sir, to hear you ; " 
 and he sat down on the pulpit bench beside Roe. 
 
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 Beside pleasant conversation and anecdote, I had 
 many words of counsel and wise encouragement 
 during my intercourse with Peter Roe. I recollect 
 one in particular, which I shall here recount for the 
 benefit of young ministers. He had heard me at my 
 church at Kingstown, in the pulpit, substitute for the 
 usual Collect a short extemporary prayer before the 
 sermon. To this he objected, and showed me good 
 reason why. " Now," said he, smiling, "you must 
 promise me that you will always use the Collect.'* 
 I did promise my honoured friend, and have faith- 
 fully kept my word to him, and with great satis- 
 faction to myself, estimating each year I live more 
 and more the noble beauty and value and deep 
 spirituality of those grand old prayers, the Collects 
 
 of the Church. 
 
 In these Recollections I have endeavoured as 
 much as possible not to speak of the living, but of 
 those who have passed away; but there is an 
 exception to every rule, and as I have transgressed 
 in this respect, I shall do so again, by mentioning 
 two young brother ministers, whose acquaintance 
 I first made in this diocese. They were both godly 
 men and active clergymen. One was the present 
 Archdeacon of Ossory, Joseph Thacker, a man of 
 long-tried consistency; the other was William 
 Nassau Sherrard, at that time Curate of Offerlane, 
 now Rector of Kilcullen in Kildare. With this man, 
 most attractive from his devotednes8,his enthusiasm. 
 
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 tempered with an unaffected simplicity of character, 
 his warm affections, and his most agreeable social 
 qualities, we contracted a pleasant friendship, and 
 though we have been tossed asunder by the tides of 
 life, yet the feeling abides so strongly, that, were I 
 on my deathbed, there are few men I should love to 
 minister to me more than William Sherrard. 
 
 At Abbeyleix I first became acquainted with the 
 two leaders of the Wesleyan body, Adam Averill 
 and Gideon Ouseley. The former came to see me. 
 He was a gentle and venerable old man, small of 
 stature, but large in love and all liberal feelings. 
 He was President of the Primitive Methodist 
 Conference, had been episcopally ordained, and he 
 and his preachers went once a year in a body and 
 received the Sacrament in St. Patrick's Cathedral, 
 Dublin. Gideon Ouseley wa^ of a stronger fibre, 
 more of a soldier than Averill, and, like his Bible 
 namesake, was a " man of valour." He had an in- 
 dependent communion for himself and his people, 
 who were Separatists from the Church. He had a 
 very small following in the village of Abbeyleix, 
 whereas almost all the Wesleyans in the parish 
 belonged to the Primitive body, of which Averill 
 
 was the head. 
 
 Gideon Ouseley, early in life, had lost an eye by 
 an accident, which imparted to his aspect a grimness 
 of appearance at first seeing him, but it passed 
 away on conversing with him. Of all men it 
 
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 cannot be said of him that he sac7'0 vate carehat, 
 for his life has been written by the Rev. Mr. 
 Arthur, the Wesleyan minister, and a most interest- 
 ing and admirable biography it is, the production 
 of a mind of the very fii'st order. 
 
 Gideon was a Christian hero, that counted his 
 life as nothing so that he might preach the Gospel 
 and win bouls to Christ. So he rode from Fair to 
 Fair in all weathers, and often amidst showers of 
 stones and mud he would sit patiently and firaily 
 on his saddle, and preach to the people in their 
 own loved Irish tongue, till he had them weeping at 
 his bridle-rein, and those who would have stoned 
 him now knelt to ask his blessing, and besouijht 
 him that he would come and S2)eak to them again. 
 
 I do not think JMr. Arthur tells the following 
 story, which 1 know to be true : — 
 
 Gideon was standing on a cart in a village street 
 in the county of Kildare, preparing to preach, when 
 the people gathered stones, and his lot would 
 possibly have been that of St. Stephen, had not 
 the lord of the manor, a long resident and much 
 respected young nobleman,^ jumped up and stood 
 beside him, and addressing the crowd, who were all 
 his own tenantry, said, " Gentlemen, if you stone 
 Mr. Ouseley, you shall stone me too,'' and so nobly 
 and courageously remained by his side till the 
 sermon was safely concluded. 
 
 ^ John, fifth Viscount Harhertou. 
 
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 Gideon had a sister, a Mrs. Macklin, living in 
 the village of Abbeyleix, and here I met him more 
 than once about the year 1835-36. He was then, 
 I should say, over seventy years of age, an inter- 
 esting- and noble old warrior, somewhat weather- 
 beaten. He showed me a miniature of his brother. 
 Sir Ralph Ouseley, a knight-commander of the 
 highest military order (Avis) in Portugal, and told 
 me he was a *' complete man of the world ;" yet 
 the brothers were greatly attached. Sir Ralph 
 was the younger by ten years, and whenever he 
 went into battle he would say, "I know I shall 
 escape death, for Gideon is praying for me." The 
 brothers eventually died within three years of each 
 other. 
 
 As I have said, I was frequently among the 
 Wesleyan body, and liked them much, for I found 
 great piety, kindness, and love of prayer with them, 
 and in some cases a simplicity and originality of 
 action at once interesting and amusing. 
 
 For instance, young had died of consump- 
 tion. His ancestors had been steady Protestants. 
 He had had a good farm, had been a Wesleyan, 
 and exceedingly well-looking, amiable, and un- 
 questionably not over wise. 
 
 On his death, his family dressed his body in his 
 " Sunday clothes," his brown wig, blue cravat and 
 high shirt-collar, black satin vest, watch chain and 
 eye-glass depending, brass-buttoned blue coat, with 
 
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 tight purple web pantaloons, over which were 
 Hessian boots (the fashion of the day), half-calf, 
 high, and tasselled ; gloved hands, one resting on a 
 Bible, the other holding flowers. In this fashion 
 the poor young fellow lay on the coverlet of the 
 bed, looking handsome but ghastly, and presenting 
 a most incongruous appearance. 
 
 His sisters were weeping over him ; the room 
 was thronged with friends, who filed in and out 
 of the place just as in the case of one lying in 
 state. Cake and lemonade were handed round. 
 There was some reading, and some prayer, and 
 one or two of their preachers spoke suitably and 
 well. 
 
 At last an old man came in, an eminent class 
 leader of their l)ody, and one of sustained piety. 
 Advancing to the bed, he regarded the dead youth 
 tenderly. Then he said, '* Well, I never did see so 
 lovely a piece of clay. Ah, dear son, I bless God 
 for you. Here is your poor body, earth and ashes, 
 but your soul is happy, and with your Saviour in 
 glory." Then stooping down, he kissed the brow 
 and then the cheek, and turning, calmly left the 
 room, all making way for him. I was witness to 
 all this. An intelligent member of the body sought 
 to justify the whole procedure to me afterwards by 
 quoting from Matthew ix. 23, and Acts ix. 37 — 39, 
 and with some reason; but he could not make 
 excuse for the ludicrous features of the affair. 
 
 This took place fully forty years ago, and but 
 vesterday (October, 1875) I read in an English 
 journal a description of the lying in state of the 
 eminent Bishop of Brechin, lately deceased. Arrayed 
 io all his robes, the newspaper tells us, his rochet, 
 lawn-sleeves, mitre, and his pastoral staff m his 
 hand, his lordship's body reposed on tlie bed. 
 Thousands came to see it, kneeling, weepmg, 
 praying, and kissing his hand, &c. 
 
 Surely this was but a repeat of the scene in the 
 poor Wesleyan's chamber, only more costly and 
 elegantly got up ; and if either of these dead men 
 had waked up and spoken, I am persuaded they 
 would have been ashamed, and revolted from 
 the position their friends had put them m, for 
 " Abraham buried his dead out of his sight." 
 
 The above fact took place in one of my early 
 curacies. The Methodist body were very strong m 
 Abbeyleix also ; but, as I have said, they flocked to 
 the church, and we had no more devout recipients 
 at the Holy Communion than their ministers. 
 They had a horror of anything approaching to 
 Calvinism. There was, perhaps, too much de- 
 pendence upon emotional feelings among them, 
 but many of the better educated of the body 
 were steady, loving, and interesting people, whom 
 it was a pleasure to meet and to mingle with. 
 
 Our Bishop, Dr. Elrington, was as vehement m 
 denouncing Calvinism as any of these Dissenters. 
 
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 In a charge delivered in Carlow church, during a 
 Visitation at which I was present, he warned his 
 clergy, with great earnestness, against '* leading 
 their flocks into the wild and barren wastes of 
 Calvinistic doctrine/' 
 
 I do not think, as far as my knowledge serves 
 me, that the Irish clergy could be styled Calvin- 
 istic in any ultra degree. Dr. Jebb, the good 
 Bishop of Limerick in 1825, was an Arminian ; 
 and the Eev. James Dunne, who commenced the 
 Evangelistic work in Dublin, was also Arminian 
 in doctrine; and so was ]\lr. Alexander Knox, a 
 good authority in the religious world of that day ; 
 and Mr. Thomas Parnell, who for many years was 
 Honorary Supervisor, Genius Loci, and acknow- 
 ledged Coryphaeus of the ** Dublin Tract and 
 Book Shop,'' was an eminently practical man, and 
 abhorred anything approaching to Autinomianism. 
 
 True it was that many of our brethren loved the 
 writings of the old Puritans ; but where would one 
 find more precepts for practice than in Eichard 
 Baxter, more incentives to holiness of life than in 
 John Flavel and Matthew Henry, or more powerful 
 dissections of the heart and its affections than in 
 the treatises of Dr. John Owen ? 
 
 Some few of our young, earnest ministers took up 
 and preached the doctrine of a limited atonement, 
 or that our Lord died only for the elect. This they 
 held by at first starting, but often gave it up as they 
 
 became older and wiser. Such had been the case 
 with the great and good Archbishop Ussher. The 
 doctrine, in fact, is nowhere to be found in 
 God's Word, and the express contrary stands 
 out all through the Articles and the Liturgy of 
 the Church of England ; though, strange to say, 
 it is a prominent tenet in the Westminster Con- 
 fession. 
 
 Some fifty years back the Kev. Dr. Barker, a 
 good and simple-hearted old man, preached very 
 high Calvinism in his church in Little George's 
 Street, Dublin, and was followed by the Rev. George 
 Hare, an abler man, and a very original thinker. 
 In later times, about 1840, the Eev. Wilham 
 Krause, of Bethesda Chapel, took up his parable m 
 favour of ultra-Calvinism. He made many con- 
 verts, and preached to a large, educated, and 
 devoted auditory. Krause was an Englishman, 
 and had been in the army. His holiness, his 
 gentlemanly bearing, and great consistency of 
 walk, gave an additional impetus and weight to 
 his pulpit teachings ; but his sudden death, while 
 it deeply afflicted his followers, eff'ectually scattered 
 them ; and the doctrine he had taught, although 
 preserved and published by the Rev. Charles Stuart 
 Stanford, a finished scholar, and a first-rate divine, 
 appears to have gradually and gently passed away, 
 and — 
 
 " Tenues recessit in auras." 
 
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 I should say the mild and moderate evangeli- 
 calism of Dr. Thomas Scott's Bible Commentary— 
 a great and imperishable work — formed very much 
 the staple and the colour of the preaching, and 
 belief of the mass of the Irisli clergy. 
 
 I recollect a writer in the Christian Examiner— 
 evidently a young man, whose name did not 
 transpire — endeavoured to revive the doctrine of 
 Particular Atonement, but was ably met in the 
 pages of the same print by Bishop Daly as " Senex," 
 and silenced— the Bishop showing himself as supe- 
 rior in argument on the matter, as he certainly 
 appeared to be in Christian spirit and temper, to 
 his opponent. 
 
 Two very eminent ministers were at this time 
 before the Dublin public — one as an historian, the 
 other as a preacher : Robert King, commonly known 
 as *' Scholar King ; '' and Alexander M. Pollock, 
 chaplain of the Magdalen Asylum. Mr. King is the 
 author of A Primer of the Ilisfory of the Church 
 of Ireland — an admirable work, full of deep research 
 and interesting matter, the production of a scholar 
 and a Christian. I have heard the late Archdeacon 
 Stopford — a competent critic — say that, in the whole 
 range of Irish histories, Mr. King's exceeds in merit, 
 and is perspicuous for its accuracy of detail and the 
 thorough reliableness of its statements; yet this 
 good and gifted man — who ought to be a Senior 
 Fellow in Trinity College, dispensing knowledge as 
 
 from a full fountain — is a curate in an obscure corner 
 of the diocese of Derry. And why is this ? Mr. King 
 has high and influential friends in the Church and 
 in the nation, all anxious to draw him out of his 
 obscurity, but he seems to prefer the shade. Great 
 minds must throw great shadows, and that which 
 falls on him appears to his many admiring friends 
 to be an overwrought humility, which holds him 
 back, and denies them the benefit and the pleasure 
 of his presence. 
 
 As regards the Rev. A. M. Pollock, few who 
 have seen and heard this minister in the pulpit 
 could easily forget him. The keen intellect that 
 lighted his countenance, and the self-forgetful 
 earnestness of his manner, alike contributed to fix 
 him as an abiding memory with his hearers. So 
 widespread were his sympathies, so large his liuman 
 heart, that it would be difficult to assign him a 
 position in any special school. He was, however, 
 usually regarded as a moderate and liberal-minded 
 Evangelical. 
 
 Freedom from afi*ectation was one of his most 
 marked characteristics. It seemed abhorrent to his 
 nature to do or say anything for effect. To he, and 
 not to seem, was his desired position. Extensive 
 reading of a very varied character, a most original 
 and quaint fancy, and reasoning powers of a very 
 high order, were important auxiliaries in adding 
 to his influence. To *'go and hear Pollock" was a 
 
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 thing that in those days young men liked to do. 
 They heard something satisfying to the intellect 
 which God had given them, and which reached 
 their inner soul more surely by the unstudied 
 earnestness in which it was clothed. 
 
 CHAPTER VIII. 
 
 In compiling these Recollections, I am sincere in 
 lamenting the inevitable egotism which from time 
 to time crops up amidst my pages, but I cannot 
 refrain from saying how much we all felt at 
 leaving the curacy of Abbeyleix, which event took 
 place at the expiration of three years after first 
 (Toing there in 1833. We had been singularly 
 happy, and prospered much here ; we had a culti- 
 vated and refined society around us, brimming and 
 attentive congregations in both churches, large and 
 well-cared-for schools, the greatest support and 
 sympathy in all parochial matters from the noble 
 owner of the soil, a remarkably nice and orderly 
 peasantry, and interminable lovely walks and rides 
 amidst the long green vistas, and forest paths 
 starred with bluebells and violets, and over which 
 the great I)e Vesci oaks threw their brown shadows. 
 At this time the Hon. and Rev. William Wing- 
 field was Vicar of Abbeyleix, and is there still ; a 
 man — like his brother Edward, of whom mention has 
 been made — of a heavenly spirit, truly a meek and 
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 and efficient minister, and now a patriarch in the 
 
 diocese. 
 
 From all this bright scenery, social advantages, 
 and, I may say. successful ministry, in the spring of 
 183G, I was called by my friend, Frederick Fitz- 
 william Trench, offering me the chaplaiucy of the 
 Mariner's Church, Kingstown, near Dublin. 
 
 The church was not built yet— not a stone was 
 laid • but the site had been agreed upon, and the 
 endowment (a gift from Mrs. Trench) was forth- 
 coming. The place was famous for its bracmg 
 ail-, its'' blue deep sea water, its fair granite piers, 
 and its commodious harbour, and nothing else. 
 All the ground, now sustaining handsome terraces 
 and stre^'ets, was at that time a wild common, a 
 series of goat-parks, bounded by loose stone walls, 
 where donkeys brayed and geese cackled; cold, 
 treeless, and uninteresting, yet here all day long 
 the blue broad sea rolled freshly in, washing the 
 ebon rocks, or breaking in music on the granite 
 boulders which knit the eastern pier. Here was 
 lovely air to enrich the veins of valetudinarians 
 and animate their flagging spirits, and a promise 
 of health to the feeble, and rejuvenescence to the 
 failing, from the purity of atmosphere and the 
 iodine and oxygen which were wafted in from the 
 clear waves. And so men built on the rock, hewing 
 their materials from the ground itself; and our 
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 years, large and gaunt, and lofty and ugly — a 
 satire on taste, a libel on all ecclesiastical rule, 
 mocking at proportion and symmetry,^ but spacious 
 and airy and convenient, having accommodation for 
 1,400 souls, and abundance of seats for seamen and 
 the poor, always well filled ; and bringing round it, 
 in the course of years and increase of means, an 
 Orphanage ; a Benefit Society, numbering over 400 
 poor; a Sunday School, containing 40 free teachers 
 and 500 scholars ; besides three Day Schools, and 
 associations connected with various existing Socie- 
 ties, all supported and contributed to voluntarily 
 by a most faithful, loving, and generous con- 
 gregation. 
 
 I saw the first stone of my church laid in 1836, 
 and some years afterwards was present at its 
 consecration, on a hot summer Sunday, by Dr. 
 Richard Whately, Archbishop of Dublin. 
 
 He improved the occasion by preaching an 
 excellent sermon on 1 Peter ii. 5, "Ye also, as 
 lively stones." The special service was held that 
 day at two o'clock, and many among the hearers 
 were pleased and interested by the event and its 
 accompaniments. Among the throng was a Ger- 
 man o- American gentleman, *' a chiel amang us 
 taking notes,'"' afterwards duly "prented" and 
 
 J The Church is now — 1876 — a stately and handsome structure, 
 through the exertions and taste of my excellent successor, the Kev. 
 Alan Windle, and under happier pecuniary advantages. 
 
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 presented to the public, in the shape of a Rook 
 of Travels : his name was Herr Venedy. He was 
 an outspoken fellow, but a strong Radical, and 
 utterly adverse to Bishops and Establishments, and 
 his comments on the celebration of the day were 
 certainly more amusing tlian accurate. He passes 
 by the Archbishop without remark ; he could not 
 comment on the belongings or retinue of his Grace, 
 where everything was so simple, and only befitting 
 a plain English gentleman. 
 
 But the *' very fine, very proud, very haughty 
 Church," and the ''h\g house, the bloated villa, 
 the great rectorial mansion, with its appendage," of 
 "his new Reverence, the Rector of Kingstown," 
 excite his indignation, and he records his feelings 
 thereon in his book. 
 
 And these untruths, and mistakes, and gross 
 exaggerations, go forth, and are received by three- 
 fourths of the reading public as fact and verity. 
 
 This Mariners' Church was among the first of a 
 series of houses of worship erected at this time, 
 and afterwards : they were built by public subscrip- 
 tion, with the consent of the rector of the parish 
 in which they stood (mine, from some tortuosity in 
 the ground lease, was legalized by a special Act 
 of Parliament) ; they became chapels of ease, and 
 had generally a parochial district assigned to them, 
 and were subjected to the Bishop's authority and 
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 the offertory, both always very large in Ireland; 
 for example, I think my church pew-rents and 
 offertory for the year amounted to 800/. — the rights 
 of the mother or parish church, such as marriage 
 and funeral fees, were faithfully reserved. Seven or 
 twelve trustees, made up of clerics and laymen, 
 managed the receipt and expenditure of all moneys, 
 with which the clergyman did not interfere, save 
 but to receive his stipend. 
 
 Under such regulations, or laws similar to them, 
 were built, from about the year 1826 and onwards — 
 St. James's Church, Bray, incumbent Rev. John W. 
 Hacket ; Baggot Street Church, Dublin, Rev. Hamil- 
 ton Verschoyle ; Trinity Church, Dublin, Rev. John 
 Gregg ; St. Matthias' Church, Dublin, Rev. Maurice 
 F. Day; Christ Church, Leeson Park, Rev. Maurice 
 H. Neligan ; Sandford Church, near Dublin, Rev. 
 Pakenham Walsh.' These men were all eminent 
 for piety, and popular as gospel preachers. Many 
 other similar churches have since been erected in 
 Dublin diocese. 
 
 About the year 1840 a remarkable man preached 
 in my church, the Rev. Dr. Joseph Wolff, a con- 
 verted Jew, a missionary and an explorer. He had 
 just returned from a perilous journey, performed 
 on horseback, through the heart of Persia and 
 Mesopotamia to Bokhara, which place he had hoped 
 
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 to have reached in time to save the lives of the 
 two captive English officers, ConoUy and Stoddart, 
 but was unfortunately too late. He was a learned 
 Hebraist, and I once heard him read and translate 
 the 51st Psalm, throwing a new and beautiful light 
 on many of the verses. He had married Lady 
 Georgiana Walpole, a daughter of Lord Orford's, 
 and I met them, both at the table and among the 
 family of the Bishop of Dromore, in Kingstown. 
 Dr. Wolff's son, the present Sir Henry D. Wolff, 
 was there also— then a lad of ten years of age, 
 and now M.P. for Christchurch. Inured to great 
 hardships and privations in his wanderings, the 
 Doctor had acquired many eccentric habits, and 
 was singularly unconventional in some respects. 
 
 He had received his deacon's orders in Ataerica, 
 and found some difficulty in getting Priested in 
 these countries. This obstacle was, however, over- 
 come at Kingstown, through the good offices of 
 my brother, Edward Brooke, who being at that time 
 Examining Chaplain to his father-in-law, Doctor 
 Saurin, Bishop of Dromore, procured this fovour 
 for Dr. Wolff, who accordingly was ordained priest, 
 and received full orders from the hands of the 
 good old Bishop in the parish church. 
 
 Wolff had frequently mentioned his intention 
 of exploring his way with missionary designs to 
 Timbuctoo. but after this second ordination no 
 doubt weary with wandering, he quietly settles 
 
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 down in England, and became Vicar of Isle Brewers 
 in Somersetshire, where T believe he died. 
 
 About this time Kingstown received a visit from 
 tlie Eev. Dr. Pusey. I believe he came upon a 
 mission of health, as some of his young people 
 were delicate. ^ He rang at my parsonage door on 
 a Sunday morning, and on my opening it> he 
 introduced himself, and inquired if the Holy 
 Communion were to be administered at noon 
 service. He attended the church twice that day, 
 and came in to tea in the evening to meet the 
 Chief Justice and his family, whose son, Mr. 
 Anthony Lefroy, the member for our University^ 
 was acquainted with Dr. Pusey 's brother in the 
 House of Commons. In personal appearance and 
 address he differed widely from our preconceived 
 ideas of him. The high Tory newspapers criticised 
 his being seen at the Dublin Eoman Catholic 
 chapels, severely, but he was lauded by the opposite 
 party of the press for so doing. Surely he had a 
 right to attend where he pleased. I had a long 
 walk with him the day before he left Ireland, and 
 much talk on theology, on which we differed 
 ssentially. I do not think he was invited to 
 preach in any pulpit in Dublin during his sojouror 
 
 n .r f ^" ?" ^ "^^ ^^-^ been misinformed, 
 aad cannot speak with certainty. 
 
 in r ^^''''^^^ '"'"" ^"^^ ''Von Kingstown 
 111 tlie summer of i«iQ i,*i ^n , 
 
 mer ot 1849, like a wolf on the fold. 
 
RECOLLECTIONS OF 
 
 The place was full of visitors. Blue sky, bright sun ; 
 the east wind blowing over the purple sea, yet the 
 air thick and impure ; and I experienced ever a 
 slight sense of nausea during the continuance of the 
 plague. Most capricious were the movements of 
 the Fiend. Its first victim was a young girl of fif- 
 teen, healthy and handsome ; her parents wealthy 
 English folk. The very poorest and most crowded 
 and unclean spots in Kingstown it left untouched ; 
 the highest and airiest, Sally Noggin, it all but 
 decimated. The Roman Catholic clergy did their 
 part bravely : they attended the worst cases among 
 their own flocks. Many people took to their beds 
 with a disease which the doctors humorously called 
 cholera-phobia — a grim joke for a sad occasion. I 
 am sure I saw above forty cases — some most in- 
 teresting — all exciting ; the attack so sudden— the 
 disease so terrible with pain, and with almost 
 always the imminency of a quickly coming death. 
 One man recovered strangely and abnormally. I 
 suppose the doctors thought he had no right to get 
 well, for he would neither see them nor take their 
 physic. His name was Oliver, an English fisher- 
 man, tall and bony. When I saw him he was stark 
 naked, and as blue, as he afterwards said himself to 
 me, '' as a washerwoman's bag.'' A tall pitcher of 
 cold water from a famous spring near his cottage, 
 called " Jugo-y's Well," stood beside his bed, from 
 which he took copious libations. This was his 
 
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 103 
 
 medicine, and his cure is a fact for the teeto- 
 tallers. 
 
 At seven o'clock p.m. I visited a Mr. Buchanan, 
 just stricken and writhing on a sofa, his mother, a 
 long, gaunt female, attending him. At ten o'clock 
 next morning I read the burial service over both 
 mother and son in the churchyard. 
 
 I was called in to see a soldier on furlouofh at 
 eight in the morning : he had been ill all night and 
 died at three p.m. The police insisted on imme- 
 diate interment, but it was dark before the cofiin 
 could be procured. Then it was laid on an ass's 
 cart, followed by the young widow weeping, and 
 crying, '^Ah, my sweet Willy." We had a long 
 way to go, up to '' Kill of the Grange ; " and there 
 I buried him, repeating the service by rote, for it 
 was quite dark. 
 
 One terrible case I visited— (I man high in posi- 
 tion and wealth, but cruel and hardened in spirit. 
 He, in my own hearing, welcomed the coming of 
 the disease, and called it '' the Almighty's scavenger 
 to sweep away beggary and the refuse of the popula- 
 tion." I reproved him, and he was very angry ; 
 but a sterner rebuke awaited him— he took ill on 
 Saturday, and his wife sent for me, he making light 
 of the matter ; but m twenty-four hours he collapsed 
 and eventually died. Did not this look Hke retri- 
 bution ? I saw at this time more of the inside of 
 houses and families than ever I had done before. 
 
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 105 
 
 and I saw much to admire — such domestic devoted- 
 ness and peril of self for others, and such sorrow 
 so noiseless, yet so deep. I had so many calls to 
 sick-beds by day and by night, that custom became 
 sweet, and I grew, strange to say, almost to enjoy 
 my work. I know what solid comfort the blessed 
 Gospel of the Saviour wrought among these poor 
 invalids. I know what joy came down at the voice 
 of prayer, and for my own part, during the whole 
 continuance of the plague, through the goodness 
 of God, I never enjoyed greater strength of body or 
 peace of mind. 
 
 Some time after I was called to witness a scene 
 more full of deep interest than many a cholera 
 death-bed. My sextoness told me of a lady who 
 was dying of a painful illness at Glenageary, and I 
 went to her that evening ; she was lodging in one 
 of the wretched tenements called "The Seven 
 Cottages," and was in bed when I went in. She 
 had no servant, no friend, and everything about 
 her betokened utter poverty and destitution. She 
 ''was an Englishwoman," she said, "on her way 
 home ; " but she declined to give her name, or say 
 who she was, and we never knew. I forced my 
 way gently into her room, for she almost refused to 
 see me, and received me with coldness and haughti- 
 ness. I think I never saw so fine a head, or so 
 striking a set of features. They reminded me of 
 Mrs. Siddons in Macbeth's wife— or rather, indeed, 
 
 of the Medusa Mask in the museum at Cologne — 
 beautiful yet terrible ; her voice, her manner, all 
 declared the educated and high-bred gentlewoman. 
 She received my ministrations with impatience, and 
 almost contempt. She would tell me nothing of 
 her antecedents. She desired " to be left alone and 
 not interfered with;" this she said tossing her 
 superb head, with its jet-black cataract of hair falling 
 on the pillow around. 
 
 She seemed to have undergone some great wrong, 
 and during several visits that I paid— which visits 
 she barely endured— if ever she spoke of the world 
 or of mankind, it was with positive anger, fury at 
 times flashing from her great dark eyes, and indig- 
 nation convulsing her features. I should think her 
 age was about forty. I ofi-ered her the visitation of 
 gentle, pious ladies, Avho would read to her and 
 supply many of her wants. This proffer of mine 
 she scornfully refused in peremptory fashion. 
 
 And all this bitterness of spirit— the sceva indig- 
 natio of poor Swift-she kept up, while suffering 
 positive agony from the most terrible type, her 
 doctor told me, of cancer, attacking her poor body 
 both mwardly and outwardly. So cruel were her 
 sutfenngs, that they suspended ropes from her bed 
 Head, one at each side, at which she used to pull by 
 turns m the hope of alleviating her pain. 
 
 We procured her medical aid, and some few com- 
 forts ; but I never could break the ice which curdled 
 
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 round that cold, proud heart. When she could no 
 longer speak for coining death, she looked indig- 
 nation—like the wolf, " she died in silence," and 
 passed away and **gave no sign." And was this a 
 hopeless case? I would say, God forbid! The 
 Holy Spirit might at the last moment have shone 
 in upon her, and amidst all this darkness and 
 rebellion, and utter inoperativeness of human 
 aid, the blessed hand of Jesus might have touched 
 her, and His gentle voice have whispered in her 
 dyino" ear, "Daughter, thy sins are forgiven 
 
 thee." 
 
 I well recollect a long, low-ceiled room in Kings- 
 town, good air from a window at each end, yet a 
 strong odour of herrings pervading it — not the 
 '' very ancient and fishlike smell " of Trinculo, but 
 something fresher ; twenty-six sailors sitting round, 
 washed and shaven— it is Saturday night— with 
 Bibles in all their hands, a few of their wives and 
 no children. It was in the year 1837, and I was 
 there at this our weekly meeting for reading and 
 prayer. The men were all Devon lads, Torbay 
 trawlers, colonized in Kingstown for the sake of the 
 fishing, chiefly Methodists ; but some of them former 
 members of good Mr. Lyte's congregation from 
 
 Brixholm. 
 
 Our host's name was Adams ; he was a truly 
 pious man, but grave and sad in his aspect and 
 bearing. A year before this he had met with a 
 
 misfortune which had deepened him in his religious 
 feelings, and it was on this wise : — 
 
 On a Monday morning, very early, he had steered 
 his lugger out of the old harbour towards the open 
 sea. A Roman Catholic lad of fourteen -years of 
 age was his only companion ; they went slowly, for 
 there was a thick fog on the water. Adams had 
 often spoken to this lad concerning his Saviour, and 
 he now resumed the conversation, pressing the boy 
 to answer his questions with an earnestness he could 
 never afterwards account for. " Well, indeed master, 
 f do believe all you tell me, and I know I caii only 
 get to heaven when I die because God's Son, Jesus 
 Christ, died on the cross for me, and all poor 
 sinners;" this was the boy's answer. The next 
 minute they were rounding the " nose " of the 
 eastern pier, and a large steamer coming on them 
 "1 the fog struck the lugger midships, and cut her 
 m two. Adams seized on a hanging rope, and was 
 dragged on board much bruised and drenched 
 The lad swam ten or twenty yards, and then sud- 
 denly sank-crying, "Oh, my mother!" The 
 lugger and all her fishing-gear went down and 
 were utterly lost. 
 
 I saw Adams on the same day in bed ; he was 
 calm and thankful. " Yes, sir, 1 lost my boat and 
 all my nets and tackle ; but I am indeed sure, sir 
 that the soul of my poor boy is saved." 
 
 Along with the shyness and reserve which are 
 
 
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 109 
 
 elements in the seaman's character, a good sprinkling 
 of graphic humour often peeps out. 
 
 " Why, sir, we were blown out of harbour." 
 
 Suet was the answer I received from Hcnrj- James, 
 Torbay trawler, when questioning him as to the 
 cause of his absence from our Kingstown Sunday 
 
 School. ^ J. 
 
 Now this Sunday School was a great source ot 
 
 comfort to me as a minister. I had nearly 500 
 
 scholars, and upwards of forty unpaid teachers, 
 
 regular and efficient. We had large classes for 
 
 the children of the gentry ; a class of beggars ; 
 
 one of converts from Romanism ; one for servants, 
 
 men and women ; one for young men preparmg 
 
 for the ministry ; one for pauper old women ; a 
 
 great class of young ladies taught by a good and 
 
 gifted ladv now in a remote hemisphere; but 
 
 above all, tlie most prized was our adult seamen s 
 
 olass 
 
 From twenty to thirty clean, manly sailors, with 
 their nurple Jersey shirts, their white suspenders, 
 blue trousers and stockings, and brightly-polished 
 shoes, sat on a form on the raised dais, and were 
 taught by a nealous but most judicious teacher,^ to 
 
 1 This was Mr. George Connor, now for many years passed to his 
 rest ; he was father to my friend and former pupil, the R^v George 
 Hen^y Connor, M.A, Vicar of Newport, Isle of Wight, and Chaplam 
 in Ordinary to the Queen. 
 
 whom they appeared much attached, for he not 
 only taught them the saving truths of the Gospel 
 on Sunday, but with much labour and persever- 
 ance he visited them on Saturday, and constrained 
 them to bank their savings — he undertaking for 
 each man, keeping their pass-books, and receiving 
 and paying unto them at the proper time the in- 
 terest from their several deposits. Now it happened 
 that this good man was ill for two or three 
 Sundays, and I found it hard to get a substitute. 
 / was out of the question, having to regulate the 
 whole school, and my curate could not leave his 
 class ; so in my difficulty I asked a friend, on whose 
 piety I could rely, to teach the sailor class. But 
 my dear sons of Neptune were Wesleyans every 
 man of them, and their new teacher was an earnest 
 Calvinist, hot and high, and at once, in a sudden 
 plunge, he introduced them to the depths of Pre- 
 destination and Election, which, as he did not 
 understand himself, it was no wonder he could not 
 make them comprehend. 
 
 All at once a whisper passed among them, and 
 rising simultaneously from the form, each man 
 deliberately grasped and put on his hat, and down 
 the long aisle they stalked in single file and steady 
 order, and out upon the street and quay, and away 
 to their homes. And these men, as a class, never 
 reassembled in the Sunday School ; they were Eng- 
 lishmen all (Devonshire fishermen), and steadfast 
 
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 of purpose ; and so, as one of them said to me 
 next day, they were 
 
 " Blown out of the harbour ^* 
 
 by a gale of strong doctrine. 
 
 I find in my journal some years afterwards a 
 
 curious entry :—'' The Rev. preached in my 
 
 pulpit to a summer congregation, numbering over 
 1,500 people, a most extraordinary sermon. The 
 text a rigid declaration of the Gospel ; the sermon 
 thoroughly anti-Evangelical, and ultra-Arminian 
 
 in its tendencies." 
 
 I remember the fact, day, and preacher ; he was 
 one of the leaders of the Evangelical party in 
 England, was an author, and a learned man and 
 pious, and I believe a thoroughly good clergyman. 
 His text was Eph. ii. 8 : "By grace are ye saved 
 through faith," &c. ; yet, whether it was a fantasy, or 
 perverseness, or a desire to be out of the way original, 
 or, like the crafty one of whom Dryden sang, 
 
 " A daring pilot in extremity ; 
 Pleased with the danger when the waves went high, 
 He sought the storm— but, for a calm unfit, 
 Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit" 
 
 I cannot say, but certainly in a most elaborate 
 discourse, he repeatedly denied his text in seeking 
 to uphold it, putting human efficiency forward, 
 and making small mention of God's grace, or man's 
 recipiency of it through faith. He might not have 
 
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 mea7it it so ; hut so it was. In the pew next to 
 me sat Chief-Justice Lefroy, a man deeply read in 
 his Bible, and one of our greatest lawyers. His 
 cold, bright, glistening eye was fixed on the preacher 
 during the sermon, as if drinking it all in. Then 
 at the end of the service he turned to me, and 
 said, slowly and solemnly, " Brooke, the text should 
 have been ' By yourselves are ye saved through 
 works, not of faith, lest God should have the glory.' 
 I have been listening to arguments in the law 
 courts for fifty years, and I never heard special 
 pleading in any case so powerful as this has been 
 in the cause of the Devil." 
 
 My church having much to do with sea life, I 
 go back with pleasure to many acquaintances and 
 friends I made with officers of H.M. Eoyal Navy 
 who attended the services and brought their crews. 
 There was Captain Beechy, of the Firefly, the 
 Arctic navjgator, afterwards Admiral, and sailing 
 captain of the royal yacht Victoria and Albert 
 This officer would land a large portion of his crew 
 on Sunday morning, and march them in much 
 order to church, which was really a beautiful 
 sight. 
 
 The Hon. Captain Plunkett, of H.M. steamer 
 ^iromhoh, attended the church with a portion of 
 his crew My very dear friend, now Admiral 
 Woodford Williams, but then commanding H M 
 Hhip Amphion, brought his officers and crew most 
 
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 113 
 
 reo"ularly to the church. Admiral Sir William 
 Hall, at that time in command of H.M. ship 
 Dragon, followed the example of Captain Beechey, 
 and marched his men to the Sunday service. 
 Captain Frazer, of H.M. surveying steamer Lucifer, 
 was, with his men, a faithful attendant for a long 
 time at the Mariners Church. Many other officers 
 of the Royal Navy stationed in or passing through 
 Kino-stown harbour came and occupied the sailors' 
 pews in the church, the minister or his curate having 
 visited their ships on the preceding Saturday. 
 
 The present Commander William Hutchison, 
 E.N., was Harbour Master during the whole period 
 of my incumbency. This gentleman had seen ser- 
 vice, and a more gallant officer never trod a deck ; 
 but better than this, he was a religious man, and 
 the seaman's truest and steadiest friend, and helped 
 us much in encouraging, and enabling the sailors 
 to profit by the Church services. Many of the 
 yachts sent their crews to church. 
 
 I may be pardoned for repeating here an anec- 
 dote told me by Captain Beechey during the 
 Queen's visit to Ireland in 1849. At this time 
 the Mariners' Church was unfinished and rude- 
 looking, having neither tower nor spire. '' What 
 is that hideous building ? " said Prince Albert 
 to his sailing captam, as they stood together 
 on the deck of the Queen's yacht in Kingstown 
 harbour ; ** it looks like a gigantic barn." " No/' 
 
 1 
 
 answered the kind captain, " it .'is a churcli, your 
 Royal Highness, and if you would allow me the 
 honour of conducting you there, I promise that you 
 shall hear a sermon you won't forget," this mani- 
 festly being the speech of an over-partial friend. 
 
 The 9th of February, 1861, was a time to be 
 much observed in Kingstown, for on that day there 
 fell on sea and land a fearful storm, which wrou<rht 
 dire calamities, the heaviest of all which was the loss 
 of John McNiell Boyd, captain of H.M. ship Ajax 
 who perished while saving the lives of others. 
 
 The wind blew broadside in upon the eastern 
 pier, a steady hurricane, lifting huge waves which 
 lell m thunder on the granite slope, dislodging its 
 great stones, and flew in whirling spray over°the 
 very top of the lighthouse. The air was full of 
 Hecks of foam blown from the waves, and the gale 
 raging, and sounding as if a thousand voices were 
 shnekmg, wailing, and imploring from the midst 
 ot It. I could hardly keep my feet on the pier, but 
 1 saw the sea raging on my right, and two or three 
 ••olher vessels sinking and rising on the mountain 
 waves, and sweeping in on the shores to destruction 
 Opposite to them stood Boyd, on the sloping 
 K.acis. He had a rope in his hand, and was calling 
 to Jus men, when a giant sea broke over him 
 and m its recoil swept him into the waves and to 
 Ills death. 
 
 lu that death the Navy sustained an irreparable 
 
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 loss. As a man, like Marshal Ney, he was the 
 " bravest of the brave ; " as a seaman, most in- 
 telligent and full of honest zeal ; and his pubhc 
 funeml, which was grand, striking, and solemn, 
 while it evinced his popularity, gave proof of the 
 large and wide esteem he was held in by the Irish 
 
 community. \ 
 
 The Cornish fishermen visited the shores and 
 harbours of the Irish Sea every year, with their large 
 luggers, each manned by three or four men of 
 singularly striking physique, and in general of a 
 most l)lameless character. 
 
 I think it was in the summer of 1840 that I held 
 an afternoon service and preached on board their 
 boats in Kingstown harbour, on a brilliant Sabbath 
 day, and things were on this wise :— Three of the 
 largest of their luggers were lashed together. I 
 stood on the half-deck of the centre one, and a semi- 
 circle of ten sailors stood half round me. These were 
 the singers ; and splendid voices they had. Let me 
 recall and perpetuate some of their names. There 
 was John Kleynick (or Klennick), facile princeps 
 among them all, a nautical Agamemnon for height 
 and frame and broad shoulders ; a splendid man, 
 with a magnificent voice ; there was Henry Vingoe, 
 one of Nature's gentlemen — a clean, handsome, 
 well-dressed English seaman, and a man of un- 
 
 1 A handsome granite obelisk, now erected on the spot where Captain 
 Boyd perished, records his noble daring on that occasion. 
 
 doubted piety; there was Thomas James, after- 
 wards lost in a great storm off the southern coast ^ 
 in an heroic attempt to save a neio-hbour's 
 property ; there was Nicholas AVright, of powerful 
 frame ; there was Hitchins, who gave the key-note 
 on his clarionet, an instrument which he humanized 
 into a female, and always spoke of as '' she '' and 
 *'her," though there was nothing of the female 
 about it, save an occasional shrillness of tone; 
 there was Baines (or Boynes), huge-framed and 
 gentle-mannered ; and young Simmons, with a 
 voice rich and clear like a silver lute— he died of 
 consumption a year or two afterwards, a nice boy ; 
 he is singing now up in heaven. 
 
 Many others were there, and they sang the 
 psalms, and the old English hymns of Wesley, 
 Cowper, and Newton, and what they called 
 "Divine pieces," harmoniously, and with a won- 
 derful effect. The congregation increased every 
 minute; the piers were thronged with listeners. 
 Many boats were putting off full of ladies and 
 gentry, and I clearly recollect the late Lord Mayo 
 (then Lord Naas, a fine lad of eighteen years of 
 age) climbing up the lugger's side, followed by his 
 brothers, fair and handsome and noble-looking 
 boys. 
 
 The excitement was great, the sermon was 
 
 1 See note at the end of this chapter referring to the chivalrous 
 death of this man. 
 
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 RECOLLECTIONS OF 
 
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 short, and the singing most striking and interest- 
 ing, combining a vast body of sound, poured from 
 so many deep chests with great sweetness and 
 perfect tune. 
 
 " Loud they s'ang the Psalms of David ; 
 Aiid.the voice of their devotion, 
 Wildly wafted o'er the ocean, 
 Filled the soul with stranjj^e emotion, 
 For its tones by turns were <,dad, 
 Deeply solemn, sweetly sad.''— Longfellow. 
 
 They generally came in a large body to evening 
 service in the church, and on its conclusion would 
 remain, and sing for an hour or more, many hundreds 
 of the congregation standing in their pews and 
 enjoying their minstrelsy, which was often so full of 
 power and of pathos, that I remember seeing one of 
 our highest judicial personages so affected that the 
 tears ran down his face. 
 
 When they left the church we had them in to tea 
 at the Parsonage, of w^hich cheering beverage they 
 partook largely, and then w^ould sing on till near 
 midnight to a charmed auditory. 
 
 These men had a great character for honesty in 
 Kingstown, and a Roman Catholic grocer told me he 
 " would willingly give credit up to a ten-pound not<' 
 to any of the English Blue Stockings." 
 
 They are splendid seamen, steering their own 
 yawls or luggers through the roughest seas, and it is 
 said that one of their boats, manned with five men, 
 
 had essayed and succeeded in reachin^r and doublino- 
 the Cape of Good Hope ! 
 
 They are strong and intelligent Protestants, and 
 of course lovers of their Queen and country. Of 
 politics they know but little, and I should think the 
 Times paper would be as strange to them as the 
 Alcoran would be to an English farmer. 
 
 Their boats were in Kingstown at the time when 
 people feared an invasion from Napoleon, the late 
 French Emperor, and I spoke of the report to one 
 of tliem as he sat in my study arranging the hymns 
 for the next day, Sunday. He was a thoroughly 
 gentle and quiet fellow^, and always calm in his 
 speech, but my communication roused and ignited 
 him to something like fury : 
 
 "Whatr^ he said, '^England invaded! Our 
 shores invaded! and by Frenchmen! No, no, 
 we would never suffer it. What, approach our 
 Cornish shore ! and Frenchmen do it ! They 
 dare not ! Every man and boy of us w^ould go in 
 our boats and fight them ; our old men would take 
 their crutches and belabour them ; and there's not 
 an old grandmother at our cottage firesides but 
 would go off; ay, even in their wash-tubs, and with 
 their mops and their beetling sticks, to fight the 
 French and hinder their landing. And as for their 
 Emperor, if lie dare to come ashore on the Cornish 
 <oast, as God's above us, we wdll double him up and 
 put him on a shelf." 
 
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 AVhen this outburst was going on, I thought of 
 the rhyme which Corn ishmen made and san^ when 
 their good Bishop was imprisoned by James II : — 
 
 "Shall good TreIa\\Tiy die— shall good Trelawny die ! 
 Then forty thousand Cornish men inust know the reason why.'' 
 
 My excited friend also told me there were 50,000 
 men in the Cornish tin-mines, strong fellows, all 
 understanding the handling of gunpowder, " ivJw 
 vjould eat a Fremhmnn ivithoiU jsak,"—a splendid 
 and reliable contingent for the Britisli army or navy 
 should war come. 
 
 Shortly after I had had this conversation with 
 Vingoe, I dined at a friend's house, and sat next to 
 the hero of Sobraon, Lord Gough, to whom I re- 
 counted what the Cornishman had said. He seemed 
 interested by it as well as amused. 
 
 '•'Yes," he remarked, "that is the English mastiff 
 spirit, quiet till roused, but fierce in action, and 
 never giving in or yielding, even though dismem- 
 bered unto the very death ; and this unflagging 
 resoluteness is national, and pervades every class of 
 society in England, and is the cause why our shores 
 have remained inviolate since the Norman invasion 
 until now.'' 
 
 1 asked him if he thought that '* Louis Napoleon 
 ever could have managed to have thrown an army 
 into England 'i " 
 
 He answered, " Well, considering that so much 
 
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 119 
 
 of the coast is totally witliout defences, it is hard to 
 say ; but this I am certain of," said the old warrior 
 grimly, compressing his moustachioed lips, ''if he 
 did succeed in landing his soldiers on British 
 soil, not a man of them woidd ever get hack to 
 France ! " 
 
 Our church contained a fine flock, eminent among 
 other good qualities for liherality and for steadiness. 
 I shall give an illustrqition of each. First for 
 liherality : A painter, named Newton, had died, and 
 his wddow did not long survive him ; she was a 
 Koman Catholic, but passionately fond of her five 
 little children, whom, strange to say, she committed 
 to my guardianship on her death-bed, saying "she 
 could trust me." Her husband had been a member 
 of our Benefit Society, and had died a pauper. I 
 brought the case before my congregation on the 
 following Sunday, and on Monday we enrolled the 
 five little ones on the list of our Orphan Society, 
 with fifty pounds to their credit for entrance fee 
 and maintenance for a year, which I had received 
 l)efore the Sabbath sun had set. The case of steadi- 
 ness was when our Queen steamed into Kingstown 
 harbour on a Sunday evening. Bang ! bang ! went 
 the cannon, shaking walls and windows of the 
 church. Thousands outside were hurraing and 
 shouting, but the large congregation w^ithin neither 
 stirred nor moved, with the exception of one tall 
 youth, who had come into the church with a huge 
 
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 121 
 
 telescope under Lis arm, p?w/^/e7-mn^ecZ on heing 
 irregular; lie rushed out, the rest sat still, aud the 
 minister finished his sermon, and had his concludincr 
 prayer in calmness and quietude. 
 
 T have spoken of my people, let me now sav a 
 few words of my puli^it-a dead thing no doubt, but 
 ahve with associations. Cervantes addresses his 
 " grey goose quill," and so I may speak of my pulpit, 
 ft sprang from the centre of my reading-desk, and 
 both were composed of carved oak, part of which 
 was taken from the door-panels of an old Trinity 
 (^ollege quadrangle which had been recently pulled 
 down, while some came from ancient pews of a de- 
 funct Dissenting chapel in Plunkett Street, and thus 
 hod broad significations, typifying the Church in 
 her collegiate learning, as also a Catholic and liberal 
 leaning towards Dissent. On the front reposed a 
 shield of polished oak, hewn from the submerged 
 timbers of the Royal George. * 
 
 And what men and ministers had stood up in that 
 pulpit during my ministry of twenty-seven years ! 
 I may be allowed to mention a few from many 
 There had preached Archbishop Whately, of Dublin ; 
 Bishop Singer, of Meath ; Daly, of Cashel ; Vers- 
 ehoyle, of Kilmore ; Gregg, of Cork ; Alexander, 
 of Deny ; and Day, of Cashel. Then great contro- 
 versialists— such as the Eev. Eobert J. McGhee 
 Mortimer O^Sullivan, Eichard T. P. Pope, Tresham 
 D. Gregg, Alexander Dallas, Edward Nangle, Thomas 
 
 Moriarty, Dan Foley, Alexander Hanlon. '.I^hen 
 eminent clergymen — such as Frederick F. Trench, 
 Sidney Smith, John Lever, Edward A. Stopford,' 
 Doctor Drewe, Edward P. Brooke, John Whitestone' 
 William Wingfield, and Frederick Dovvlino-. 
 
 Then a number of fine young fellows at that time 
 beginning their ministry, and who have since well 
 fulfilled the Church's expectations— such as John 
 M. Massey, the present excellent and amiable Dean 
 of Kilmore ; Stopford J. Kam, a beloved cousin ; 
 Henry Percival ; Alexander H. Synge, now passed 
 from earth ; Maurice H. Neligan, one of the most 
 efficient and successful of our Dublin clergy; 
 Charles Kirton ; Charles Hort, the well-known 
 military chaplain; Gerald S. Fitz-Gerald, now 
 Rector of Wanstead, Essex ; and Thomas J. Wel- 
 land, now of Belfast, of whose worth and wisdom 
 I could not trust myself to speak. 
 
 These are all fitted to be recorded here, as being 
 among my happiest '^ Eecollections of the Irish 
 Church." 
 
 ]^OTE. 
 
 " There are other times when wilful shipwreck of life for others is 
 |;ntirely noble. I heard a story when I was a boy, from the Cornish 
 nsherinen who came to fish the sea near which I lived. A few of their 
 boats were out one stormy day, off the coast of Cornwall, some further 
 wmdward than the others. They saw the horizon darkeniiig under an 
 approaching squall, and the white lines of the advancing rain and wind 
 i"shmg towards them ; they were soon within it, and ran before it • 
 
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 but as they ran they saw that one of their comrades' boats had been 
 unable to recover its nets, and that these nets lay right in their path. 
 To cross them was to destroy them ; to destroy them was to impoverish 
 a whole family. In a moment these two brave men and a boy resolved, 
 at the desperate risk of their lives, to tack and bear away. They did 
 this generous thing. A mighty wave rose against the boat, the sail 
 premised it down, and it foundered in the gale. You may call that an 
 imprudence if you will, but I think it steps out of the range of 
 imprudence. There was a fair chance of escape ; it was not mere 
 instinct, it was but fulfilling the ordinary tenor of their life. Had 
 they not done it they would have felt ashamed. There was no moral 
 guilt connected with any part of it. It left behind a great tradition 
 of noble action which was remembered for years, and inspired every 
 man and boy and girl in the village ; and our own hearts as they barn 
 on hearing it tell us how great and true it was."— Extract from a 
 sermon on The Shipicrecks of Life, by the Rev. Stopford Brooke. 
 })reached in St. James's Chapel, London, June 1872. 
 
 CHAPTER IX. 
 
 The Home Mission for preaching the Gospel 
 through Ireland by Church of England clergymen, 
 acting gratuitously, was set on foot about the year 
 1833, and we first became acquainted with it in the 
 following way : — 
 
 We were at luncheon one day in summer at 
 Glendoen Eectory, when we saw a strange vehicle 
 rolling up tJie avenue. It was a low phaeton, with 
 immensely long shafts painted bright blue, and 
 drawn by a powerful brown horse, without bearing- 
 rein or winkers. Inside the carriage sat a tall and 
 slender man, with a face where gentleness and 
 determination strangely strove for ascendency. 
 This was the Eev. Frederick F. Trench, of whom 
 mention has been made. He was coming to in- 
 augurate the Mission in our parish, with the full 
 consent of the Eector. This permission was 
 accorded by almost every incumbent who had a 
 genuine love for their Church, but some were not 
 willmg, and a strange minister coming to pray 
 and to preach in their parish formed the casu^- 
 
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 belli against the Society, and finally produced its 
 dissolution. 
 
 The plan of the Society was to permeate every 
 diocese in Ireland, its Missionaries preaching two or 
 three times a day, in church, or school, or if such 
 advantages were withholden, in courthouse, or 
 theatre, or barn, or ballroom, or kitchen, as things 
 might be — the service consisting of prayers selected 
 from the Liturgy, hymns, extemporary prayer and 
 a sermon. 
 
 The affairs of the Society were managed by a 
 Committee, who sat in Sackville Street, Dublin, and 
 who were recipients from the clergy and public of 
 funds necessary for the work. The Missionaries were, 
 like the son of Semo, ** car-borne,'* i.e. travelling 
 through the country on hackney "jaunting cars." 
 Yet numbers of friends, offering their vehicles, 
 carriage or gig, transported them occasionally from 
 place to place. The machinery of the Mission 
 was formed on the itinerancy of the Wesleyans, 
 and succeeded admirably. The Bishops had been 
 solicited to take the leadership, but they refused, 
 and were more or less inimical to the Mission ; and 
 finally, on being threatened with an appeal to the 
 ecclesiastical tribunals, the Committee, unwilling to 
 appear to strive against their Bishops, yielded the 
 matter, and dissolved themselves and the Society. 
 
 The names of the Committee were the Rev. Robert 
 Daly, Rector of Powerscourt, afterwards Bishop of 
 
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 Cashel ; Rev. Denis Browne, afterwards Dean of 
 Emly ; Rev. F. F. Trench ; Rev. W. Maconchy, 
 rector of Coolock ; Rev. H. Halahan, rector of St. 
 Nicolas ; Rev. Francis Thomas ; Rev. Edward P. 
 Brooke, of Swift's Alley Church ; Rev. Charles M. 
 Fleury, Rev. John Hare, &c., &c. 
 
 Mr. Trench preached that night in the Sunday 
 Schoolroom of Letterkenny, solid, simple Scrip- 
 tural teaching, with a calm fluency and an excel- 
 lent articulation, most earnest and touching. The 
 large room was thronged with Dissenters, and after 
 
 the service was over, old Jack E , a strong 
 
 Baptist and the Nonconforming patriarch of the 
 town, said in my hearing — pulling down his brown 
 wig with one hand, and the next minute hitching up 
 his trousers — *' Well, if we had had such preaching 
 in my days, I never would have left the Church 
 and taken to the Baptists." 
 
 The Mission for years was manned by the best 
 men and the most eloquent preachers in the Irish 
 Church. It pervaded the four Provinces, winter and 
 summer, brought in many Dissenters to the Church, 
 awakened or strengthened sleepy or feeble clergy, 
 did unheard-of good, and was proceeding to weld 
 tl)e Christianity of Ireland into one happy Church 
 unity, when its heart was chilled by the ice- breath 
 of authority, and its functions ceased with its 
 vitality, and the Home Mission was no more. 
 
 In the years 1827 and 1838 there were two 
 
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 famous theological duels fought in Dublin, not with 
 sword and pistol, but with the tongue weapon, by 
 earnest champions, ministers of our Church, against 
 a Roman Catholic priest. 
 
 The combatants on the first occasion were the 
 Eev. Richard T. P. Pope and the Rev. Thomas 
 ]\Iaguire, parish priest of a place in the county of 
 Leitrim. Mr. Pope excelled his adversary as much 
 in learning, eloquence, and argument, as Mr. 
 JVIaguire exceeded him in physical strength, in 
 ready though coarse humour, and that audacity 
 of assumption which forms so strong a basis for 
 Roman Catholic pretensions. At the close each 
 party claimed the victory. They had gone too 
 much on the authority of the Fathers — a wide and 
 almost slioreless sea of reference for disputants to 
 sail on, when we consider that they consist of 
 thirty-five huge folios in Greek and Latin, requiring, 
 as some one says, ''the wealth of Croesus to buy, the 
 patience of Job to wade through, and the longevity 
 of Methuselah to master them completely." ^ 
 
 Mr. Pope afterwards published his volume on the 
 Misquotations of Romanism, which I believe never 
 has been answered, and wdiich seems to imply that 
 his adversary had — 
 
 " Just enough of learning to misquote." 
 
 In the next contest, eleven years afterwards. 
 
 ' Yet our great and good Archbishop Ussher read them all through 
 when a young minister, a task of some years, but duly performed. 
 
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 Father Maguire was arrayed against a Protestant 
 champion fully his equal in physical advantages, 
 and infinitely his superior in knowledge of the 
 subject as well as in powers of argument. This 
 was the Rev. Tresham Dames Grew, D.D., a 
 minister of acknowledged talent and worth. He 
 was the very man to meet the priest ; he w^as all 
 adamant, granite, 'Kvfip Terpdjcovo^, and not to be 
 shaken. When Maguire was coarse, Gregg was 
 solemn ; when abusive, Gregg responded with close 
 and hard-hitting argument. Neither bravado nor 
 cajolery could make him yield one foot of ground 
 or one iota of truth. Rejecting the fallible 
 authority of the Fathers, he pinned his adversary, 
 as a mastiff would hold a bull, to the testimony 
 of History and of Scripture, and never let him 
 go. Arrayed in full canonicals each day, he came 
 forth on the Rotunda platform, and refused to be 
 accountable for the dicta of any Protestant Church 
 but that of England. As the ninth day approached, 
 he opened up the obscene mysteries of Dens' infa- 
 mous *' Theology" (a classbook at Maynooth College 
 for young priests), to the utter confusion of his 
 worn-out adversary, who thereupon gave up, crest- 
 iiillen and dejected — Mr. Gregg coolly apostro- 
 phizing him, as he retired from the room, in words 
 similar to those in the prophecy of Micah, vi. 13 : — 
 *' I protest I have made thee sick with smiting thee." 
 I believe the Roman Catholic priests were never 
 
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 suffered by their Bishops to engage in public con- 
 troversy with our Church after the discomfiture of 
 their champion Father Maguire, who was esteemed 
 a very Goliath of Gath among them for prowess. 
 Some time after this there appeared a little work, 
 which was a perfect controversial sword in itself, 
 sharp- edged, and cutting asunder many a theo- 
 logical knot : it was called The Handbook of 
 Romanism, by the late Eev. Charles Stuart Stan- 
 ford, Rector of St. Thomas's parish, Dublin. Mr. 
 Stanford w\as an eminent classical scholar ; he had 
 published an edition of Plato, and w^as the founder 
 and original editor of the Dublin University Maga- 
 zine — his tall, slender fiorure suororestinor for him 
 the nom de jjlume of " Anthony Poplar " in th(^ 
 pages of that periodical. He coml)ined that rare 
 thing among the Evangelical body, extensive 
 literary culture with active professional piety ; he 
 was Calvin istic in his tendencies, but his sermons 
 were replete with interest and with teaching, and 
 his parish work distinguished for activity and largc- 
 handed liberality to the poor. 
 
 That controversy with the Roman Church shoukl 
 be kept up in Ireland is an inevitable consequent on 
 the defenceless position of our poor Protestants, and 
 the intense activity of the Roman Catholic clergy. 
 Of course, these crentlemen are acting accordin^: to 
 their light, and so are aggressive. We boast of a 
 
 higher, nobler light, and so are aggressive and 
 
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 defensive too. The Church of Rome in this country 
 is rich with hundreds of thousands of pounds granted 
 by a Liberal Government for collegiate and educa- 
 tional purposes; besides, she profits by enormous 
 sums bequeathed to her priests by dying people, to 
 have their souls prayed out of purgatory by masses : 
 this is a fact, and cannot be denied. The Church 
 of Ireland has not one pound paid her for prayers 
 for the dead — she rejects the doctrine — nor one 
 penny from Government, but has been robbed and 
 stripped and spoliated, to the heart's content of 
 Whigs, Infidels, Quakers, Socinians, Jews, Roman- 
 ists, and Liberals ; nay, I have been positively told 
 that among the "mixed multitude'' who voted 
 down the Irish Church in 1869 are to be found 
 gentlemen, professing to be ultra - religious men, 
 who take the chair in London at Bible Society 
 meetings! but this is almost incredible. 
 
 The position of the two Churches now, in respect 
 of endowment from the State — or with us, from our 
 former natural belongings — is just the reverse of the 
 beautiful picture which Thomas Moore drew in the 
 grandest of all his charming Melodies, "The Irish 
 Peasant to his Mistress." There he apostrophizes 
 the Roman Catholic Church as she was in his own 
 time and in his own consideration, and contrasts her 
 with the Established Church of the same era : — 
 
 " Thy rival was honoured, while thou wert wronged and scorned, 
 Thy crown was of briars, while gold her brow adorned." 
 
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 But now the crown has been transferred, — the 
 "gold" belongs to Rome, and the "briars" and 
 thorns are ours. 
 
 The avowed aim of the disestablishing party 
 was to destroy what they called "Protestant 
 ascendency" in this country, and to level-up the 
 Eomish Church and population to an equality with 
 us. That this should ever succeed is highly ques- 
 tionable. As long as the Eomish clergy are under 
 the absolute thrall and bondage of an Italian 
 ecclesiastic, and as long as the Romish population 
 in their turn are indebted to their priests alone 
 for their teaching in theology as well as for their 
 loyalty to England, so long they must remain low 
 down and dungeoned and oppressed by the gravi- 
 tation of their own mental slavery; while the 
 Protestantism of this country, though robbed and 
 spoiled, still rises buoyant, and rides exulting od 
 the thousand waves of its own free institutions. 
 
 The very fetter-bolts, and chains, and thumb- 
 screws in the holds of the ships of the Spanish 
 Armada were morally sufficient to sink the whole 
 fleet to the bottom of the sea. And while the 
 Irish Church is compelled to do active and personal 
 battle from time to time, to keep her own against 
 the encroaching power of an hostile institution, she 
 has for long years constructed bastions for protec- 
 tion, and towers along the deep, to shelter the 
 shipwrecked, and rescue and receive the wanderer ; 
 
 and these are represented by her great and busy 
 charitable societies, which, ignorant of Government 
 favour or bounty, are entirely supported by volun- 
 tary subscriptions from individuals. Thus in Dublin 
 there are two Protestant " Orphan Societies," which 
 since their formation have received, reared, educated 
 in Church principles, and put forth into the world 
 as apprentices or as servants, 2,975 orphans— num- 
 bers of these rescued from Popery, and all from 
 penury ; and in many, indeed almost all, the counties 
 in Ireland, are branch societies working well, and 
 liberally supported by the neighbouring clergy and 
 
 gentry. 
 
 Of the old Irish Society I saw a good deal in 
 Donegal, and afterwards during a brief visit to 
 Lord Ventry at Dingle, in the county of Kerry. 
 Here Dr. Thomas Moriarty laboured, and I preached 
 in his church to a large congregation of steady and 
 attentive converts from Romanism. The Moriartys, 
 an ancient clan in Kerry, were many of them con- 
 verts to our Church, and the Doctor was, and is, a 
 gifted and most persuasive preacher, whether he 
 addresses in English, or speaks to his Irish hearers 
 in the mellifluous accents of the native tongue, 
 which they love so well to hear, and in which he 
 is a proficient. 
 
 The Irish Bible has done all this ; the Society 
 worked simply through its power. They hired 
 Irish readers who, in cot, or cabin, or loft, or 
 
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 kitchen, or Id the brown bog, or green field, or rough 
 causeway, or in the shelter of a haystack, collected 
 the peasants, and without note, comment, or 
 preaching, read the New Testament, and taught 
 their hearers simply how to read the same. An 
 inestimable clergyman, with a long head and a 
 large and warm heart, courageous to an excess and 
 self-denying to an extreme, worked well and long 
 and successfully here ; he was the Rev. Edward 
 Gayer, now gathered to his rest, but his works do 
 follow him; and here, amidst these beautiful 
 southern wilds — the rocks, and lakes, and cliffs, and 
 lawns, and forest glens, and lofty mountains of 
 grand old Kerry— I met with hundreds who, walk- 
 ing now in the light of a pure faith, had reason to 
 bless the peace and the liberty which the reading of 
 the Irish Bible had brought to their souls. 
 
 Another genuine institution to meet the times" 
 was ''The Society for Protecting the Rights of 
 Conscience," set on foot in 1850 by and under 
 the patronage of Dr. AVhately, the Archbishop of 
 Dublin, ''for the purpose of protecting in the 
 exercise of their Christian liberty those converts 
 from Romanism who have been deprived of all 
 former means of earning a livelihood on account of 
 their change of religion. This state of things 
 extends over numerous and widely-scattered locali- 
 ties in the south and w^est of Ireland, in which 
 many converts have been brought from Romanism 
 
 to Scriptural truth, and in consequence are sufi*ering 
 bitter persecution in various ways. In addition to 
 personal violence and abusive language to them- 
 selves, their Roman Catholic friends, relatives, and 
 neighlDOurs are threatened with the most dreadful 
 curses, and with the deprivation of the rites of 
 their Church, should they speak to them, or render 
 them aid or countenance of any kind, and all are 
 prohibited from selling to them, or buying from 
 them, or giving them any employment." 
 
 " Against such a spirit of intolerance this Society 
 
 solemnly protests. 
 
 " The Society makes grants to trustworthy indi- 
 viduals in each locality to enable them to provide 
 employment, with the distinct understanding that 
 no money shall be given except as wages for work 
 
 actually done." 
 
 "The committee have had the satisfaction of 
 learning that at least in one locality the mere 
 knowledge of the existence of this Society has 
 effectually hindered persecution." 
 
 The above is copied from the seventh Report of 
 
 the Society, 1858. 
 
 Another society of a defensive character m 
 Dublin is " The Priests' Protection Society," whose 
 object is to shelter from persecution priests of good 
 character who have conscientiously abandoned the 
 Church of Rome, to support, help, and educate 
 them. Fully 100 Roman Catholic priests and 
 
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 Students have availed themselves of the benefits of 
 this Society, and have turned out well. The Eev. 
 Thomas Scott, formerly Eector of St. Audoen's, is 
 the zealous friend and motive power of this Society. 
 I am quite aware that some of our English neigh- 
 bours disapprove of our taking out converts from 
 Romanism, while others accuse us of '' making no 
 way against Catholicism.'' The latter was a frequent 
 argument against our Church in the spoliation 
 debate of 1869. But both these parties are wron^ ; 
 the first in principle, the second in fact. Perhaps 
 a happy solution of the question may be deduced 
 from the following anecdote : — 
 
 Some years ago one of our Irish deans, a shrewd 
 but worldly man, was besought, by a brother 
 minister as careless as himself, to use his influence 
 to " put a stop to these Protestant societies and 
 Church missions." "No," answered the Dean, "I 
 will not. You, my friend, do not do any duty, nor 
 do I ; therefore I won t oppose those who do." 
 
 The diocese of Dublin had much liberty under 
 the long and mild rule of Archbishop Whately. 
 His chaplain at the outset was Dr. Dickinson, 
 afterwards Bishop of Meath, a man of an extremely 
 gentle and winning aspect and address, and parti- 
 cularly accessible to the clergy on all matters of 
 counsel or business. 
 
 The Archbishop preached often, held at the 
 palace a weekly levde for the clergy, and had 
 
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 annual Confirmations aU over his large dioceses, 
 at which he delivered the same addresses precisely, 
 from year to year, to the young candidates, after- 
 wards admitting them all as communicants at the 
 Lord's table, he himself administering the sacred 
 rite. His Visitations were annual, and peculiar. 
 The clergy all met for divine service in St. 
 Patrick's Cathedral, after which his Grace delivered 
 his Charge from the throne, which address was 
 generally on the polemical or political topics of 
 the day. Then we saw him go into the chancel 
 to hold his Visitation Court. Here he sat at a 
 small table placed behind the communion rails 
 At his left was seated his Vicar-General, Joseph 
 RatcUfi'e, LL.D., a very handsome, clever, and 
 courteous person, clad in a scarlet gown and a 
 wig. On his right hand stood Mr. Samuels, his 
 registrar, in black gown and frizzled wig, an oblig- 
 ing and active officer, in his calling still intent 
 on demanding " proxies and exhibits " from the 
 clergy, the meaning of which mysterious words 
 no one could tell, not even, I do beheve, Mr. 
 Samuels himself, and which fines I never paid, 
 on the score of their incomprehensibility. Rector 
 and vicar, with their curates, were called up, 
 questioned, and advised if necessary, but always 
 kindly and gently, for there was no harshness with 
 his Grace in act or word on these occasions. This 
 Visitation lasted many hours, but the clergy were 
 
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 137 
 
 invited into the Deanery, wliieh was close by, and 
 had refreshments in the dining-room, whoso wnlLs 
 had often echoed to the wit or cynici.sni of 
 Jonatlian Swift — liis handsome face looked down 
 upon us from over the mantelpiece. The Dean who 
 so hos[)itably entertained us was the Hon. Henry 
 l*akenham, a perfect gentleman, a liberal-handed 
 clergyman, and a sound and Christian minister. 
 
 I dined more than once, before I left the diocese, 
 
 with his Grace. He was then begiiming to exhibit 
 
 symi)toms of the fatal disease^ which carried him 
 
 off. He w^as rather silent during dinner, but in 
 
 the evening, after he was seated on his sofa and 
 
 had had his tea, his spirits rose above summer heat, 
 
 and his conversation was one sustained brilliancy. 
 
 Then he would quote Greek and Latin in long 
 
 sentences, rally and chatf his elergy, propose 
 
 difficult questions from the l}il)le, or in science or 
 
 mechanics, and answer them himself; enact pun, 
 
 or conundrum, or furnish some quaint or striking 
 
 illustration, with the vivacity and simple enjoyment 
 
 of a schoolboy. I often thought that, with respect 
 
 to wit and appreciation of the humorous and the 
 
 odd, he was more an Irishman than a Saxon— 
 
 llibernior ipsis Ilibernicis. 
 
 On the Archbishop's appointment to the See of 
 Dublin, his friend, Dr. Arnold of Rugby, said, ** If 
 ever a man could be found to regenerate the Church 
 in Ireland it would be Whately.'' Such a consum- 
 
 mation would have been devoutly wished, I believe, 
 by all parties ; but Dr. Arnold^s judgment on the 
 Irish Church could not be trusted,— simply be- 
 cause, though an excellent man, a great philosopher 
 and a successful schoolmaster, he was profoundly 
 ignorant of Ireland, like many Englishmen of his 
 ctass, and he had spoken in words strongly akin to 
 contempt of " Evangelicals and Protestants," et hoc 
 genus om,ne. Now it happens that three-fourths of 
 the leading clergy of this country are Evangelical 
 and sound Protestants. The Archbishop piloted 
 the National Board for a while ; he gave the whole 
 of his masterly mind to bring good and teaching to 
 the institution. He introduced his book On the 
 Christian Emdences, which probably was never 
 read by any Romanist; he compiled Scripture 
 Extracts, in which appeared- unhappily, it must be 
 said— the Douay note to Gen. iii. 15, where the 
 Blessed Virgin has the honour of bruising the 
 serpent^s head, ipsa conteret. And in these 
 extracts also was given, in a note, the Unitarian 
 rendering of 1 Corinthians xv. 47th verse ; but all 
 would not do. The Government was feeble on this 
 one point certainly, or probably mditferent on the 
 matter; the Viceroy was very feeble, and ultra- 
 Liberal; but the Jesuit element in the Board was 
 not feeble, but strong and aggressive. There were 
 four Protestant Commissioners, all eminent for 
 intellio:ence and character, namely. His Grace, Mr. 
 
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 Blackburne (afterwards Lord Chancellor), Mr. 
 Serjeant (afterwards Baron) Greene, and the Rev. 
 W. Carlisle, an excellent minister of the Church of 
 Scotland. Gradually these men retired, they could 
 not stay; the Archbishop's books were put out; 
 then at length he himself seceded, and if at the 
 next meeting of the Commissioners it had been 
 asked, "Where is his Grace the Archbishop?" 
 a voice, like that of Lady Fairfax among the 
 regicides, might have answered, " He is too honest 
 to be here." 
 
 One hundred witticisms, and even puns, have 
 been fathered upon the Archbishop, with what 
 truth it would be hard to say ; however, that he 
 was very capable of saying extremely apt and 
 good things all must allow. The foUowing I can 
 vouch for the accuracy of :— He had been at divine 
 
 service in St. 's Church. The preacher was a 
 
 good and a clever man, but had acquired a habit 
 of using long words and reiterated sentences in 
 his sermons. " Now," said his Grace, as he left the 
 church, to a friend, "this man and I strangely 
 differ, for I have been for forty years trying to 
 say hard things in easy words, and here is a man 
 who has spent as many minutes in endeavouring 
 to say easy things in hard words." 
 
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 CHAPTER X. 
 
 In the summer of 1844 I spent my holiday in the 
 wild West, a portion of it being passed with some 
 friends residing on the sea-bank of Galway Bay. 
 They had hired the Spiddall River for the fishmg 
 season. This mountain stream, rushing from an 
 upper level, flings itself over a granite ledge, and 
 comes on to the sea flowing and curling amidst 
 huge grey boulders. It abounds with salmon, and 
 is full of deep black holes, " convaynknt for the 
 fish," as our rustic fly- tier expressed it. Here the 
 clergyman was the Rev. John Gather, who is now 
 
 Archdeacon of Tuam. 
 
 On Sunday we drove in to Galway— the ancient 
 " City of the Tribes " i— twelve miles along the 
 sea. Here, in the church of St. Nicholas, we were 
 so fortunate as to hear the Warden of Galway, 
 esteemed the best preacher in Ireland, and certainly 
 I never listened to a more effective or finished 
 
 ' The Spanish Tribes, whose descendants stUl form '^ l^g^P?*'"" "J 
 the gentry of the County Galway, are-the Athys the Bto, the 
 Bodk'inB,\e Brownes, the D'Arcys, the Deanes, the Fj^hes, th 
 F55ts, the Joyces, the Kirwans, the Lynches, the Martins, the 
 Morrises, the Skerrett's— fourteen in alL 
 
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 discourse, or looked upon a more striking orator. 
 He had neither note nor MS. before him, but, gifted 
 with a calm fluency, he delivered with an admirable 
 voice and graceful action his weighty and con- 
 vincing matter,--at times retreating a step back- 
 ward in the pulpit as if to gather his thoughts, and 
 then coming fully forward, he would pour forth, 
 with extended arms, over the heads of his auditory' 
 sentence after sentence of polished English, nerv- 
 ous, logical, and most scriptural. He was of the 
 Evangelical school. To this day, after thirty years, 
 I can remember the pointed arguments of that 
 sermon, and can also recall how every member of 
 our party, on our way home, had a word of com- 
 mendation for what they had heard. 
 
 Warden James Daly was of a very ancient and 
 noble Celtic race. He was, I think, cousin to Lord 
 Dunsandle and Clanconnell, and also to the late 
 Robert Daly, Bishop of Cashel ; he was in the 
 habit of exteriorating himself in some degree from 
 his brother clergymen, and most rarely appeared in 
 a pulpit, his sermons thus acquiring a value, super- 
 added to their own excellency, from their scarceness, 
 like the books of the Sibyl at old Eome. 
 
 This diocese for a number of years was happy 
 under the Episcopate of Power Le Poer Trench, 
 last Archbishop of Tuam, a man to be numbered 
 with the most useful, most single-minded, and most 
 holy ministers of our Church. He was brother 
 
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 to that Earl of Clancaxty who was Marquis of 
 Heusden in the Netherlands, and our ambassador 
 at Brussels in 1815, when Waterloo's battle was 
 
 fought and won. 
 
 The Archbishop was bom in Sackville Street, 
 Dublin, in 1770. In common with all his family, 
 he had rare gifts of appearance, was remarkably 
 handsome, and had hardy, manly, and self-denying 
 habits from his youth up. His servant would break 
 the ice on a winter's morning for him to plunge in 
 the water ; and he had ridden on one occasion 
 fifty miles in the day without fatigue. He was 
 unacquainted with pride, and was through life the 
 poor man's friend, adviser, and generous benefactor. 
 When Bishop of Elphin, he had, being then a young 
 man, put forth some clouded views ; but his Arch- 
 deacon, William Digby, an honest and intrepid 
 Christian gentleman, and a man of the most unques- 
 tionable character for good works and unbounded 
 charities, remonstrated with him in a long letter, 
 most respectfully, yet with such fidelity and firmness 
 of argument, that the Bishop, after many conver- 
 sations held with Digby, could not resist the truths 
 thus urged upon him, and eventually coincided in 
 his adviser's views, continuing with the good Arch- 
 deacon his strict bond of friendship all through 
 
 life. 
 
 In the autumn of 1819 the Prince of Wales 
 nominated the Bishop to the Arch See of Tuam, 
 
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 which he held till his death in 1839, for twenty- 
 years. He was sixty-nine when he died. In the 
 summer of 1837 he was at Kingstown with his 
 family, and did me the kind favour of paying me 
 a visit. The day was damp and chilly, and I 
 recollect the Archbishop sitting close to the fire, 
 putting his feet on the fender, and chatting most 
 agreeably, asking me questions and giving me 
 advice about my church, then in an unfinished 
 state. This habit of familiar visiting I have heard 
 he kept up in his diocese, calling on the youngest 
 curate, and sitting with him in his room, with a 
 word of counsel or of kindness, and nedectinf^ 
 none, how^ever obscure or distant his lodging might 
 be. One of his clergy records : *' He sat among us 
 like a father.'' He was a man too, as I have said, 
 of unbounded generosity, and his watchful con- 
 siderateness for such of his clergy as had any 
 visitation of pecuniary distress, evinced itself in 
 handsome donations of money, secretly bestowed, 
 and renewed if necessary afterwards. No doubt 
 he exercised something of military discipline in his 
 plans, and in the arrangements of his diocese, and 
 liked to choose and to appoint the curates ; but this 
 was a task which his beneficed clergy seemed very 
 glad to leave in his hands, from the high opinion 
 they entertained of his spiritual judgment and his 
 disinterested zeal for the good of their parishes. 
 He was a man of faith, of prayer, and of habitual 
 
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 self-denial — his original fine nature sanctified and 
 elevated into a Christian nobility, suitable to the 
 profession he made, and adorning the eminent posi- 
 tion in the Church which God's providence had 
 assigned him. I have often applied to him some 
 lines, ^ v/hich my memory retains I fear very im- 
 perfectly, from boyhood's days — 
 
 " A prince without pride, a man without guile, 
 To the last devoted, warm and smcere ; 
 For the good — he still had a hand and a smile, 
 For misery — ever a gift or a tear." 
 
 After the Archbishop's death, his family resided 
 for some years in Kingstown, during which time I 
 enjoyed the happy privilege of having them as 
 members of my congregation. 
 
 In such a diocese, and under such a ruler, what 
 good must have been done ! We learn this from 
 an interesting and exhaustive Life of the Archbishop 
 by the Eev. Joseph D'Arcy Sirr, D.D., rector of 
 Yoxford, Sufi'olk, and formerly rector of Kilcole- 
 man, Tuam. This biography appeared about six 
 years after his Grace's death. I knew but little of 
 the western clergy at that time ; but after some 
 years I made the acquaintance of, and highly loved 
 and esteemed, the Rev. John Le Poer Trench, the 
 Archbishop's nephew. He was rector of Longford, 
 and was a single-eyed and godly minister, much 
 
 1 Written by Thomas Moore on the Duke of York, George the 
 Third's son, in a poem called " The Slave." 
 
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 exercised by bodily suffering; a man of a sweet 
 and gentle spirit and a loving nature. He and his 
 brother William were eminently fine-looking men. 
 No statelier step trod the platform of the Rotunda 
 at our Church Education Society's annual meetings 
 than that of these two noble, handsome, and 
 thoroughly good brothers. William was secretary 
 to the above society, and rector of Moylough ; but 
 both he and his brother have passed away, and 
 have attained their rest in a better world. 
 
 I had the pleasure of preaching at Ballinasloe the 
 annual sermon for the funds of the Church Education 
 Society in the year 1850. It was during the great 
 cattle fair, when the gentry and farmers of the 
 west congregate to purchase or dispose of their 
 live stock. I was on this occasion hospitably en- 
 tertained by the Rev. John Cotton Walker at the 
 Rectory, an honest and warm-hearted Christian 
 minister, exhibiting rather a strong spirit of 
 controversy, and bent on making fiery forays 
 on Romanism, in which it is said he was very 
 successful. 
 
 Mr. Sirr does ample justice in his book to the 
 many excellent clergymen of the diocese of Tuam. 
 One of them was a person well known to literary 
 fame some forty years ago, whom the Archbishop 
 promoted, viz. the Rev. George Brittaine, who was 
 rector of Kilcommick in the diocese of Ardagh in 
 1828. He was a striking and interesting preacher, 
 
 and had a noble and intellectual countenance and 
 
 presence He belonged to the Evangelical school ; 
 
 and wrote a good d.e^\— Hyacinth OGara. Honor 
 
 Delany Irish Priests and English Landlords, and 
 
 many other works, all abounding in graphic sketches 
 
 of Irish peasant life, seasoned with great but quiet 
 
 humour and purity of thought,-these books were 
 
 connected more or less with the Romish contro- 
 
 versy, and are still popular, and much read, from 
 
 their agreeability. ^ - 
 
 Mr Brittaine died in 1847, m Dublm. But 
 though few could cope with him in graphic 
 power and genius, yet this diocese under Dr. 
 Trench^s rule could furnish a long list of clergy- 
 men eminent for parochial activity, intelligence, 
 and spirituality. Homer recounts the Grecian 
 ' ships of the invading fleet, Virgil recites the names 
 of iEneas' companions, and why may not I, magna 
 componere parvis, in a homely way, enumerate a 
 few of the ^'good soldiers and servants who 
 preached the word, and kept the truth and faith 
 of Christ, for years, through Tuam ? ^ ^. . 
 
 There were Archdeacons Trench and Digby, 
 Warden Daly, William and John Trench, Hobart 
 Seymour, Denis Browne, Joseph D. Sirr, Charles 
 Seymour, Thomas de Burgh, J. Galbraith, Robert 
 Blundell, J. Anderson, John Handcock, James 
 White, J. D. Mansfield, Edward Nangle, John 
 Gorges, Patrick Pounden, Lewis Potter, Edward 
 
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 Synge, Samuel Medlicott, Edward Hardman — a fine 
 I band of workmen for the Gospel and the Church. 
 The diocese of Ardagh was under the Archbishop's 
 surveillance. I had a natural interest in it from 
 the circumstance of my grandfather, William 
 Brooke, having been an incumbent there for fifty 
 years, holding the large union of Granard, includ- 
 ing Scrabby, Abbey lara, Columbkill, and Bally- 
 machugh, five parishes in all, from about 1754 to 
 1804. Now each is a distinct benefice, a just and 
 riorhteous dislocation of a monster abuse. I had, 
 during my Kingstown incumbency some honoured 
 friends in Ardagh, among whom were George 
 Shawe, rector of Annaduff ; the Rev. Arthur Hyde 
 of Mohill, a man w^hom my congregation delighted 
 to hear read the service, such was his sweetness of 
 intonation and judgment of expression. 
 
 George de la Poer Beresford, rector of Feenagh, 
 was another friend, whose society was always an en- 
 joyment. He was a gentle Evangelical, most attrac- 
 tive in appearance, and uniting in his character, 
 tw^o seemingly opposing elements — a bright play 
 of wit, and great simplicity of manner. 
 
 During those days I spent a week with the Dean 
 of Tuam, Robert Plunket, youngest son of the great 
 Lord Plunket. He was rector of Headford, and 
 was, in conjunction with his excellent and charm- 
 ing lady and family, a thorough hard-worker in 
 the vineyard of the Church of Ireland. In the most 
 
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 quiet and unobtrusive way he achieved a decided 
 success among his Eoman Catholic parishioners, and 
 his congregation was swelled by numerous converts 
 and his school with eager listeners and learners. 
 
 Mrs. Plunket laboured among the women, taught 
 them Scripture, taught the young girls to be skilled 
 seamstresses, and good practical cooks, and then 
 procured them situations in the country. I may 
 truly say I never was in any clergyman's house, 
 where so much useful and sensible work for soul and 
 body went on, and all with such a noiseless and 
 unpretending activity, as in the parsonage of my 
 dear and ever-lamented friend, Eobert Plunket. 
 The Dean's brother was Lord Plunket, who was 
 also Bishop of Tuam. They were both sons of the 
 great Chancellor and statesman, from whose estimate 
 of Roman Catholic clergymen, they must have 
 differed widely, if we compare his speeches, and 
 their conduct, and what they met with. They 
 both lent the weight of their rank, their worth, 
 and their great local influence to build and endow 
 churches and schools to receive and instruct the 
 many converts of the diocese, and in this good 
 work they were helped by Alexander Dallas of 
 the Irish Church Missions, as well as by their 
 nephew, the Eev. William Conyngham Plunket,^ 
 
 1 Now Bishop of Meath. I wish I could force myself to speak of 
 him as I could speak ; but I know how distasteful any eulogy would 
 be to him, though on my part warranted by an intimacy of forty years. 
 
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 the present Peer, a man who is an honour to his 
 name as well as to his nation. 
 
 Among these men ''The Connaught Church 
 Endowment Society" was formed. Large sums 
 were raised, and the work went on and prospered, 
 which may be seen by the following facts : — 
 
 In 1837, in West Connaught, there were seven 
 churches and thirteen congregations ; in 1867 there 
 were thirty churches and fifty-seven congregations. 
 Thus, in thirty years " God had made the waste to 
 sing." The present Archbishop of Canterbury 
 crave 100?. to this society, and Bishop Wilberforce 
 110/.; the late Primate of Ireland, Lord John 
 Beresford, contributed 800L, and his successor and 
 cousin, the present Primate, in an equally princely 
 fashion, gave &80Z. 
 
 In one of these churches— Sellerna, built and 
 parochialized and endowed by this society— I 
 preached on a fine Sunday to about 230 peasants, 
 all converts from Romanism, and most attentive. 
 There were three Church services that Sunday, and 
 there were four Scripture schools in the parish. 
 
 After my return from Galway, I recollect being 
 enoraged on a Home Mission, which Archbishop 
 Whately had organized in his own dioceses, after 
 the failure of our more informal endeavour. I 
 had been on this circuit two or three times, as 
 also many other members of the old society ; but 
 somehow it did not succeed so well — the enthusiasm 
 
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 was slacker, and the attendance of congregations 
 not so good ; yet we were allowed to conduct the 
 services on the same fashion, but hindered from 
 aoing into any parish where the rector was un- 
 willing to receive us, which was all right and 
 proper. We all acknowledged this, though we 
 had not practised it in the old Home Mission days. 
 Somehow this permitted Mission wanted the wild 
 and racy flavour of the former one ; yet I trust 
 much good was done in the preaching of the 
 Gospel, as well as in the meeting with and social- 
 izino- of our brethren and their flocks. On the 
 occasion referred to above, I had proceeded along 
 the edge of Kildare and Wicklow, preaching at 
 Nasa, Timolin, Dunlavin, Donard, &c., then pass- 
 ing through the Glen of I mail, I crossed by one 
 of the Wicklow mountain ''gaps," and found 
 myself on the fifth night at Glenmore Castle, with 
 my old friend Francis Synge. He was High 
 Sheriff' for the county that year. The assizes were 
 over, and the Judges gone, leaving one unfortunate 
 to be executed on conviction of a terrible murder, 
 which happened thus : he had gone at dead of 
 night to the solitary cabin of an old peasant re- 
 puted to have money ; his victim had feebly 
 resisted, but he struck him down with a spade, 
 broke his skull, and then threw the body on a 
 dunghill. As the morninoj broke, he had turned his 
 face towards Dublin, along the old Military Road ; 
 
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 but falling in with a small body of police, tliey 
 apprehended him on the testimony of his blood- 
 stained clothes, and afterwards on his own confes- 
 sion, and conveyed him to jail. " Now," said my 
 friend, " you can see this man if you wish. J can, 
 from my office, take you into his cell ; you might 
 say something to do him good ; the unhappy 
 fellow is to be hung on Monday." Accordingly, 
 next morning we drove into Wicklow, and Mr. 
 Synge consigned me to the care of the jailer, he 
 having business elsewhere, and by him I was 
 ushered into the presence of the criminal in his 
 condemned stone cell, the jailer retiring, and 
 shutting and locking the iron door after him-tlie 
 large locks falling into their mortises, I confess, 
 gave me an unpleasant sensation. I saluted my 
 companion courteously ; he was a red-haired, 
 athletic man, with a low forehead, and a hard, 
 ruffianly air, something like a prize-fighter in his 
 countenance. He was eating, T suppose, his 
 luncheon, milk and potatoes ; the latter he adroitly 
 peeled from their skin with his long and strong 
 thumbnail, an operation which I never saw in- 
 flicted on the esculent before or since. 
 
 I told him that " Mr. Synge had wished me to 
 pay him a visit." He said, " the Sherifi' was a kind 
 gentleman." Then he went on peeling his pota- 
 toes doggedly, and popping them very hot into 
 his mouth. I spoke to him very earnestly on the 
 
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 tremendous chanore before him, and how his soul 
 was to appear before God in forty-eight hours' time, 
 and was going on to ask him how he felt prepared, 
 when he interrupted me, crying out, " What's the 
 use of all this talk ? Tve had my priest, and got 
 my absolution, and there's nothing amiss with me 
 now. Don't you see them books on the bed ? " 
 There I saw the Litany of the Blessed Virgin, and 
 the Garden of the Soul — small tracts. Then I 
 said, '' May I pray for you ? " He said, " I tell you 
 all's right," and went on eating. I fell on my 
 knees — much moved, God knows — and prayed very 
 earnestly that our precious Saviour might visit and 
 teach this poor, unhappy soul; and then I raised 
 my bowed head and looked at my companion. He 
 was peeling a large potato, very busily, sitting 
 straight up on his bench, yet regarding me with 
 a stare in which astonishment, contempt, and 
 utter indifierence were curiously but unmistakably 
 blended ! 
 
 Hark ! 'tis the jailor shooting back the heavy 
 locks, to my great joy I confess, for I had never 
 felt quite at ease during the interview. So I bid 
 my poor friend good-bye — he staring and not re- 
 sponding — and I left the jail and joined Synge in 
 the street, who wrote to me next week, that this 
 man had died, as he had lived, utterly obdurate, 
 hard, and unrepenting, a terrible illustration of the 
 miserable falsity of Rome's teaching. 
 
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 CHAPTER XL 
 
 My chief aim in these reminiseences is to re- 
 animate the dead, and, if I might so prevail, to 
 bring back to notice and kindly regard a few 
 worthies whose memory is being effaced in the 
 rushing tide of modern life, and the rise and influ- 
 ence of new men and new opinions. I have been 
 with my readers in the south, and west, and north- 
 west, and I would now convey them up to the 
 north, and through some of the midland provinces 
 of Ireland. 
 
 About seven miles due north from Dublin, on 
 what was for long years the beaten track for mail 
 and stage coaches, lies the grey and antiquated 
 village of Swords — sounding of battle, but in reality 
 deriving its name from a very old hospital, now 
 long defunct, for deaf people — " les sourds." This 
 parish was held for many years by the father of 
 the present Earl of AVicklow, the Hon. Francis 
 Howard ; a kind gentleman, a steady friend, and 
 a man who spoke occasionally on the platform of 
 our religious societies sensibly and well. 
 
 About thirteen miles northward is historical 
 
 5 
 
 Drogheda, lying on the yellow Boyne, and within 
 a few miles of the Fords of Oldbridge, where a 
 kingdom w^as lost and won in 1690. The living 
 of this town was held in 1830 by the Rev. John 
 Magee, eldest son of the Archbishop of Dublin, and 
 father of the present Bishop of Peterborough. I 
 knew him well, and to know him was to love him. 
 He was a man of the warmest affections, with a 
 fiery temperament against what he conceived to be 
 wrong in Church or doctrine, yet tender, honest, 
 and generous, in confessing to his having spoken 
 hastily ; an enthusiastic friend, an ardent lover of 
 the lovable, and what Dr. Johnson calls ''a good 
 hater," had he not been restrained by religion ; he 
 was an earnest preacher, and popular in spite of 
 his strong Calvinism, and a good working minister, 
 as was his successor, the Rev. Arthur Wynne. 
 
 About twenty or thirty miles north of Drogheda, 
 in the shadow of the great Slieve Donard, 2,800 
 feet high, lies lovely Tullamore Park — a perfect 
 gem of rural beauty, with its lawns sloping to the 
 sun, and brilliant with the dyes and hues of many 
 flowers ; while beneath is its wild glen, and its 
 torrent rushing through its rocks, and brawling 
 onward to the sea. Here lived the good Earl of 
 Roden, a man whose nature was nobler even than 
 his birth, a devoted Christian, a sound Protestant, 
 and a cordial friend of the Irish Church. Between 
 Tullamore Park and the little fidgety, yet thriving, 
 
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 town of Newry, is the parish of Drumgooland. 
 This place, in conjunction with others in its neigh- 
 bourhood, had a passing notoriety for the many 
 striking conversions in it which took place during 
 the great Ulster Revivals of 1860. People may 
 discredit this movement, and no doubt there was 
 a measure of deception and some humbug in many 
 of the cases, especially those pretending to be super- 
 natural ; but indubitably a large amount of solid 
 good resulted from these Revivals — a perceptible 
 growth of sobriety, an increase of industry and 
 domestic happiness, and a visible diminution 
 of party spirit and political bitterness. I can 
 testify from having witnessed it — " Quceque ipse 
 vidiy The Rev. Edward Perry Brooke was the 
 rector of the parish ; he was formerly captain of 
 the grenadier company of Her Majesty's 62d regi- 
 ment, and now, in his new vocation ap a parson, he 
 was a hard worker, a bold rider, a frank companion, 
 a steady visitor, and a frequent and acceptable 
 preacher of his Master's gospel — "moving from 
 the casque to the cushion." He had found sixty 
 of a congregation, and now he had six hundred ; he 
 had " made the crown a pound ; " there was often 
 scarce standing-room in his church, and always a 
 number of Dissenters. Many of his people were 
 rough mountaineers, and these he drilled during 
 Divine Service to almost regimental order and 
 submissi=on. On one occasion, when the leading 
 
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 Presbyterian minister of the parish had a hasty 
 summons, and could not find a substitute ; Mr 
 Brooke volunteered to hold a mid-day service in 
 his chapel, using his own mode of worship, on 
 which occasion he introduced part of our Liturgy, 
 and preached to an overflowing congregation, the 
 people sitting outside on the window-sills, — the 
 Bishop of Dromore, who was Mr. Brooke's father- 
 in-law, condoning the eccentricity of the proceeding 
 probably because of its success. 
 
 Many of his hearers, as is the fashion in the 
 North, professed to be judges in the case of a 
 sermon, both as to the matter, and especially the 
 deleevery^ coming to church more to criticize than 
 to be instructed — 
 
 " As if religion were intended, 
 For nothing else than to be mended." 
 
 The psalmody here was of the most fearful descrip- 
 tion, loud and sonorous, and all through the nose — 
 
 " In nasal sweetness long drawn out ; " 
 
 yet each minstrel looking as if well satisfied with the 
 success of his or her own performance. Mr. Brooke 
 is now Rector of Maralin, Precentor of Dromore, 
 and Rural Dean of the diocese. 
 
 In Christchurch, Belfast, Dr. Thomas Drewe 
 ministered for many years to an immense congre- 
 gation of fully two thousand souls. The church had 
 
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 been built chiefly for operatives, and they took good 
 advantage of it. Drewe was a truly pious minister ; 
 he had a touch of the Methodist in his manner ; he 
 was a man of originality, and considerable culture, 
 and he had need of both, for his hearers were shrewd, 
 hard-headed, and intelligent. His loving eloquence, 
 his kindly manner, and his strong Protestantism 
 made him wonderfully popular ; he went among his 
 people cordially, and won all their hearts, especially 
 those of the mothers and the children : he was sreat 
 in the Sunday school, and pleasant on the plat- 
 form. I have preached in his church, and tarried 
 in his parsonage, and have seen cartloads of vege- 
 tables and other edibles — the orood man had a larore 
 young family— driven to his door, gifts from his 
 people ; for these Belfastians are grand givers, and 
 their bright and handsome town, where no man is 
 idle and no pauper demands an alms, is but the 
 reflex of that noble and industrious spirit, which 
 accompanies her sons in their walk of life and 
 labour, and crowns so many of them with wealth, 
 independence, and position. 
 
 The Rev. George Sydney Smith, Fellow of Trinity 
 College Dubliu, a Professor of Biblical Greek in 
 that University, *' went out," as the saying is, on 
 a College living in 1838. The benefice was 
 Aghalurcher, near Colebrooke, in the county of 
 Fermanagh. 
 
 Fermanagh is a splendid country, both for the 
 
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 beauty of its scenery and the prosperity of its 
 people.^ It is full of opulent gentry, always resi- 
 dent, with a yeomanry essentially Protestant, well 
 to do and peaceable, and as independent as their 
 landlords. There is no pauper peasantry in this 
 country. Here Dr. Smith laboured with singular 
 success. He was a ripe scholar, but his preaching 
 was more scriptural than scholastic, yet it had the 
 order and arrangement of accurate preparation. 
 He had a noble collection of Puritan Divines in 
 his library, and had adopted from them much of his 
 exegetical power in the handling or the illustrating 
 of a text. The last sermon I heard him preach 
 was in my Kingstown church — most admirable — 
 on the text " He saved others, himself He cannot 
 save." It has never left my memory. He died 
 in the year 1875, after having wrought much 
 good. 
 
 About 1830 the present Dean of Exeter, the Very 
 Rev. Archibald Boyd, was ministering in the city of 
 Derry, of which I believe he was a native. He was 
 a natural orator, and always a striking preacher and 
 speaker, the reasoning power combining with the 
 imaginative in his mind — two elements of intellect 
 seldom seen together, or rather, resembling the 
 figures in a Dutch toy weatherglass, resisting the 
 being housed at the same time. He was a warm 
 friend and a strong help to the Church Missionary 
 
 » See Mr. iDglis's Tour in Ireland— verily an impartial witness ! 
 
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 RECOLLECTIONS OF 
 
 Society, and had learned its statistics well and 
 accurately, and in its cause I first heard him speak 
 in Letterkenny, as I listened to him in his own 
 c-hurch in London many years afterwards. In 
 ])erry diocQse also lived and ministered the Rev. 
 George Scott — a patriarch in the Irish Church, of 
 long and eminent consistency as an active and 
 consistent Evangelical clergyman. 
 
 In my occasional visits to Fermanagh I can recall 
 a pleasant day I spent with the Dean of Clogher 
 and his charming and gifted family. He was a 
 Maude, and was uncle to those gallant younc^ men 
 who fought so gloriously during the Crimean cam- 
 paign, and earned to themselves such a reputa- 
 tion for courage and for conduct. They were the 
 sons of the Honourable Charles Maude, rector of 
 Enniskillen. With the Dean I visited the splendid 
 and stately house which was once the palace of the 
 Bishops of Clogher, but no longer tenanted by an 
 episcopal personage, but by a kind and most agree- 
 able squire, Mr. Ellison Macartney, M.P. The 
 Dean has long since passed away. A f^entler 
 spirit, or a more courteous and graceful gentleman, 
 could not be found, and a true preacher of the 
 (lospel. 
 
 In the next county, of Monaghan, a valued friend 
 of mine ministered, whose death-scene I afterwards 
 had the pain of witnessing. The Eev. William 
 Roper was son to the Dean of Clonmacnoise. He 
 
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 was a ripe and active Christian, and wore an ex- 
 ceedingly attractive appearance— a countenance 
 so winning that as his tall figure advanced up the 
 aisle of my church, half a dozen pew-doors were 
 flung open to invite him in. A very old friend of 
 his told me but yesterday how '' angelic his temper 
 was," and ^^ow he never " neglected an opportunity 
 of speaking for his Master ; " yet it pleased God to 
 take him from this world by a fearful death. He 
 was stricken with cholera at Kingstown, and I saw 
 him a few hours before he died, enduring untold-of 
 pain from spasmodic twistings of his limbs, and 
 cramps over his whole frame : thus he was cut off 
 in early manhood and in much usefulness — one of 
 the first victims to that terrible plague which 
 visited us at Kingstown in 1849. 
 
 In the same county, as curate of Castle Blayney, 
 lived John Whitestone, a minister of no ordinary 
 calibre. He had married a sister of Roper's, but he 
 had not his brother-in-law's attractive appearance ; 
 yet his death was nearly as tragical as Roper's was, 
 though unaccompanied by suffering. He had been 
 speaking on the Rotundo platform in Dublin, in 
 behalf of some of the religious societies, before a 
 crowded auditory, when suddenly his strong form 
 stooped forward and fell prone, and in a minute 
 became lifeless. He had been cast down by heart 
 disease— in many cases grim Death's most rapid and 
 ready executioner. He had been speaking excitedly, 
 
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 it was scarce in his nature to do otherwise ; his 
 heart was ever in his work, and in his speech also ; 
 it was a power with him, and he used it for 
 good. 
 
 I remember one occasion when Whitestone's 
 excitability developed itself in a very ludicrous 
 form. At one of our April meetings, when the 
 clergy were gathered in the old lecture-room of 
 the Dublin Institution, sat Frederick F. Trench, a 
 steady, grave and consistent supporter of the 
 National Education Board. Unconscious of his 
 vicinity, up rose immediately behind him on the 
 sloping benches, John Whitestone and proceeded 
 with much vehemence to declaim aorainst this verv 
 Board. As he went on he warmed with his subject, 
 and became excited, till, forgetting everything in 
 his impetuosity, he commenced using Trench's 
 shoulders as a desk, slapping them repeatedly, and 
 finally seizing and shaking them in the enforcement 
 of some strong point, to the amusement of us all, 
 and of none more than the suffering party himself, 
 who was in a fit of suppressed laughter under the 
 infliction all the time. 
 
 The county of Cavan exhibited a goodly roll of 
 working clergy for many years. The Farnham 
 family, always resident, used their high influence 
 for good, and for the increase of the Church ; and 
 numerous conversions took place from Romanism 
 during their time. The present Primate, then the 
 
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 Eev. Mark Beresford, was considered to be an able 
 preacher and sound Protestant. Frank Saunderson, 
 the county member's brother, was Eector of 
 Kildallen, a good scholar, a gentleman, and a true 
 Evangelical Christian. The Eev. G. Motfett was his 
 neighbour, and like-minded ; while Guy L'Estrange, 
 the gentle and the good, was Vicar of Drumlane, near 
 Belturbet, a man of a nature and spirit so winning 
 and so attractive, as to make him universally loved 
 by high and low, while this popularity was consoli- 
 dated by the circumstance of his being recognised 
 as a hard-working, and very successful parish 
 minister, as well as a sound and earnest preacher. 
 
 Shortly afterwards John Martin, ex-Fellow ot 
 Trinity College Dublin, a noble pillar in the Irish 
 Church for learning, for action, and for intrepidity, 
 was to assume the Archdeaconry of Kilmore, and 
 become Eector of Killeshandra. 
 
 I was led to know a good deal of the county of 
 Meath by my wife's uncle becoming Bishop of the 
 diocese. The Eev. Edward Adderley Stopford, 
 Archdeacon of Armagh, was of a noble family. 
 His father was son to the Bishop of Cloyne,^ who 
 had married his own first cousin Anne, daughter of 
 
 1 The Bishop, James Stopford, was " a modest and learned gentle- 
 man, ' and he and his wife, " sly Nancy of Courtown," are immortal- 
 ized in Dean Swift's verses more than once. The Bishop's aunt, 
 Dorothy Stopford, who was wife and widow to Edward, fourth Earl of 
 Meath, was a friend of the Dean's also, and is mentioned in his rhymes 
 as " Countess Doll " several times. 
 
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 James Stopford, first Earl of Courtown. But 
 Edward Stopford owed his preferment to no 
 influence of position, nor to any interest whatsoever 
 exerted on his l)ehalf, hut simply to his heing 
 known as a most learned ecclesiastical lawyer, and 
 well suited to manage Church aff*airs in her 
 Majesty's Privy Council ; and this estimate of him 
 he afterwards fully justified, by his wise diligence 
 in the breaking up of many of the large parish 
 unions still remaining in the Irish Church ; to this 
 he directed much of his attention as a Privy Coun- 
 cillor. He had before this proved himself a good 
 and sound divine by his book On the Sabbath, 
 a w^ork too good to be so little known, yet valued 
 and read by not a few. He w^as a pleasant and 
 agreeable companion, fond of wit and of literature, 
 thouo-h not havins: time to cultivate the latter. At 
 his house of Ardbraccan I twice met Miss Maria 
 Edgeworth, the novelist, my father's and my grand- 
 fiither's friend, and here too I had met his clergy, 
 the most remarkable of whom was Edward A. 
 Stopford, his second son, and the Archdeacon of the 
 diocese. He indeed w\as no common man ; possess- 
 ino" an intellect keen even to subtilty, and capable 
 of meeting and solving almost any intellectual 
 difficulty, he yet exhibited in his manner and 
 address the kindness and simplicity of a Christian 
 gentleman, and was ever accessible for counsel, 
 support, or help, to every clergyman of his father's 
 
 
 4 
 
 large diocese. Like the Bishop, deeply read in 
 black-letter lore and Church law, he was on these 
 matters an oracle to the Church, only, unlike that 
 of Delphi, he never returned doubtful answers. 
 
 " Inscius-spargere voces ambiguas." 
 
 He had, above any man I ever met, the power 
 of putting much matter into small space, and that 
 clearly and intelligently ; he was singularly happy 
 in meeting and conquering infidelity in individual 
 cases. He was a gentle but most powerful con- 
 troversialist, and his papers on Eomish error in 
 TJie Catholic Layman, as I have said before, are as 
 masterly as they are incontrovertible. 
 
 Added to these qualities, he was a good mechanic, 
 he could make anything out of wood or iron ; had 
 built steam-carriages, and bound his own folios in 
 a w^orkman-like fashion, which a London bookseller 
 would not disown. 
 
 1 knew him well for forty years, and knew him 
 best and loved him most, when I was permitted to 
 minister to him as a dying man ; then it was he 
 realized the humbling convictions, yet exalting 
 comforts, of that gospel he had ever preached. He 
 said, *' The 51st Psalm is my vade mecitmj' and he 
 died with a meek faith in a loving and redeeming 
 Saviour. 
 
 In Meath there had been a body of excellent 
 clergymen, some still living, among whom is my 
 
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 valued friend and fellow-student in old Trinity, 
 Eobert Hedges Dunne, one whose long consistency, 
 in a sound Christian course, has been as steadfast as 
 his own stalwart form and stout heart. There is 
 also John F. Battersby, whose living is near 
 Mullingar, a man who often taught my people 
 from my Kingstown pulpit ; Dr. Walshe, one 
 whose physical and professional vigour seem to 
 grow with his advance of years; and others whom 
 I knew less but equally esteemed. 
 
 Among those whom we all had to grieve for, was 
 the late John Lever, Eector of Tullamore. He was 
 brother to Charles Lever — the Lorrequer of light 
 literature, and had much of the fraternal genius — 
 short in stature, and ruddy in complexion like 
 King David, he had quick sparkling eyes, and a 
 protruding forehead actually knobbed with bumps 
 of intellectuality. Like his brother, whom I also 
 knew well, he was animated in manner and 
 rapid in speech ; he was, as a preacher, thought- 
 fully Evangelical, using no manuscript or note, and 
 his discourses were solid, grave, and teaching, and 
 such as one would not expect to hear from one so 
 particularly lively in manner. Joseph Daly, Eector 
 of Ferbane, was a remarkable minister ; he has 
 been greeted at the clerical meetings, when the 
 clergy sat together over their Bibles, as the 
 ''Diocesan Concordance," — a Latin Father has said, 
 Bonus textuarius, honus theologus, and this could 
 
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 well apply to Daly, for his extemporary sermons 
 were full of Scripture, not only accurately quoted, 
 but also the chapter and verse faithfully rendered, 
 a wonderful act of a powerful abstract memory. One 
 more I must speak of— a loved friend, the Eev. 
 Charles Bayly, who died as Vicar of Trim ; he 
 was a singularly popular man with clergy as 
 well as laity, and perhaps had more culture and 
 reading than most Evangelical ministers — the weak 
 point in the body being, more or less, an inclination 
 to ignore literature and despise art, forgetting that 
 these are the good Lord's gifts to refine and adorn 
 our poor fallen nature, and, like his cominon bestow- 
 ments of music and of sunlight, to refresh and 
 cheer us in our pilgrimage along the wastes of life. 
 Nor must I forget my dear friend and kinsman, 
 the Eev. Coote Charles MuUoy, who for many 
 years ministered in Meath. Esteemed a good 
 clergyman, possessing a most accomplished mind, 
 and a spirit much like the blessed St. John's for 
 gentleness and forethought ; and yet this person, 
 perhaps the meekest man in the diocese, when 
 historically considered presents a curious anomaly. 
 For he is the representative of the O'MuUoy chief- 
 taincy, one of the oldest, if not the oldest, Milesian 
 families in Ireland. He is also '' Standard-bearer to 
 the King" in Ireland, by royal appointment of an 
 ancestor in 1690. His ancient Celtic motto (which 
 the good man has suppressed) breathes of rapine 
 
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 and slaughter, and he can look back along his 
 line of 1,200 years, to a pedigree of fighting 
 warriors. Yet this gentlest of men and of 
 ministers has been all his life preaching nothing 
 but the gospel of peace and of love, and exempli- 
 fying the same in his person, his parish, and 
 his household. Mr. Mulloy married the eldest 
 daughter of Dr. Stopford, Bishop of Meath; another 
 daughter, a most intellectual and accomplished lady, 
 is the wife of Richard Nugent,^ Esq., of London. 
 Mi-s. Nugent, when Miss Stopford, exerted herself 
 during the Irish famine in 1845, and was eulogized 
 for the same by name in an eloquent speech made 
 by Lord George Bentinck in the House of Commons. 
 These Mulloys appear to have been good Pro- 
 testants, and to have fought stoutly and loyally 
 for England in the day of her distress. Tobias 
 Mulloy was captain of horse under King William 
 at the Boyne Water in 1690 ; afterwards he was 
 four times High Sheriff of Roscommon. His son 
 Charles served in King AVilliam's wars, and was 
 wounded at the Battle of Vigo. Both these men 
 were immediate ancestors of Coote Mulloy. Here 
 is a curious example of a very ancient and high 
 Celtic house becoming and remaining strong and 
 faithful Protestants and loyalists. 
 
 * Mr. Nugent is the well-known Honorary Secretary, in London, to 
 the "Irish Church Sustentation Fund," in the cause of which his labours 
 are as indefatigable as they have proved to be valuable and efficient. 
 
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 CHAPTER Xn. 
 
 I HAD proposed, in this little work, to have spoken 
 of some leading facts which are more or less 
 interwoven in the history of our Irish Church, but 
 I fear I must omit them, save a bare mention, '' my 
 poverty (of space) and not my will consents" to do 
 so. For example, I should like to have brought to 
 the front, the formation and success of the Achill 
 Mission and Colony, and the honoured and venerable 
 servant and true soldier of Christ, the Rev. Edward 
 Nangle, who through so many dangers and 
 difficulties, planted that great Protestant tree 
 amidst the rocks and mountains of the wild West, 
 and by the grace of God sheltered it and nourished 
 it, till it brought forth fruit in consonance to his 
 prayers and his purposes, and to the good of his 
 fellow- creatures. 
 
 I wished also to speak of the setting-up of the 
 " Irish Church Missions " to the Roman Catholics 
 in the year 1846, by the Rev. Alexander Dallas, 
 Rector of Wonston, in Hampshire. Shakespeare 
 tells us of — 
 
 " Richard who robbed the lion of his heart ; " 
 
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 but this English clergyman had, as it were, also 
 taken to himself the large Irish heart, exhibited 
 in an overflow of kindliest nature, while he still 
 stood forth always as the perfect English gentleman, 
 resolute, manly, and wise ; one of wonderful faith 
 and devotion to his Master's service. He had good 
 help from the late Bishop Plunket, the Eev. 
 Hyacinth D'Arcy, and from the late Sir Christopher 
 Lighton, a man full of love, honesty, and zeal ; and 
 the work still is carried on with unflagging ardour, 
 by Charles Macarthy, D.D., in Dublin, a learned 
 man, and of laborious and infinite research, and a 
 skilled and good-tempered controversialist ; as well 
 as by numerous agents elsewhere ; the gentler sex 
 assisting in this good Mission wdth their wonted 
 fervour and activity, and the names of Mrs. Blake, 
 Mrs. D'Arcy, Mrs. Smyly, and Miss Davies, must 
 ever be mentioned with the honour of a grateful 
 enthusiasm. 
 
 I desired also to speak of the great famine in 
 1845, when the national esculent was blasted, and 
 the potato-fields reeked for hundreds of acres with 
 the foul breath of decay, and thousands of our 
 peasantry retired to their hovels and their huts — to 
 die. Not, as Mr. Henry Kingsley would make it out, 
 noisily and complainingly, but utterly the reverse ^ 
 ** like the wolf in silence ; " when all hope was gone, 
 and no food came, each husband or father drew the 
 bolt on the door which shut him out from the world, 
 
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 and lay down on the earthen floor to die amidst his 
 dying dear ones. This is a true picture, darkly sad, 
 yet with a touch of forlorn dignity about it, 
 portraying the anomalies, and yet the interest, 
 attached to the Irish character. 
 
 In Curry, the bookseller's shop in Sackville Street, 
 about the year 182 — , was forged the first link of a 
 chain of Christian Examiners, a Church of Ireland 
 magazine, which I believe is but very lately de- 
 ceased, its life having been sustained during its latter 
 years by the liberality of Bishop Daly. It contained 
 much learning, scriptural criticism, doctrinal dis- 
 cussion, ecclesiastical information, and clever articles 
 on Irish travels and nationalities. The tone of this 
 periodical was ever evangelical and conservative; 
 its papers were from the pens of the Eev. Dr. 
 Singer, Eev. Eobert Daly, Eev. Henry Woodward, 
 . Eector of Fethard, an accomplished writer ; Eev. 
 Henry Irwin, Archdeacon of Emly, and his son 
 Alexander, Eector of Armagh ; Eev. Joseph Stopford, 
 D.D., a profound Hebraist and Philo-Judsean, cum 
 multis aliis. The papers on Irish travel, &c., were 
 from the graphic and spicy pen of the Eev. Csesar 
 Otway, a man of truest genius and worth. There 
 was also a " Poet's Corner " in this periodical, in 
 which figured some very indiS'erent poetry, part of 
 it contributed to the earlier numbers by the pen 
 which writes these lines. 
 
 Of Mr. Otway I could not but say something. 
 
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 SpruDg from a race high in position in Tipperary, 
 he was a thorough Irishman, original as a preacher, 
 brilliant and witty as a writer, and with graphic 
 powers of the very first order ; he held on his modest 
 course through life valued and respected ; and 
 though Church promotion failed to knock at his 
 door, his popularity as a man and an author was un- 
 bounded. He was author of Sketches in Ireland, 
 A Tour in Con naught, and many historical papers 
 of research and interest. 
 
 In Curry's shop was also born, cradled, and 
 nursed, 'The Dublin University Magaziiie, a 
 periodical always devoted to the Church of Ireland. 
 Its first editor was Anthony Poplar, alias the Rev. 
 Charles Stuart Stanford, of whom mention has been 
 made. Some of its succeeding managers — for it 
 had many nurses — were, I am told, Isaac Butt, 
 succeeded by Charles Lever the novelist; Percy 
 Boyd ; James McGlashan, the publisher, who edited 
 it for some time with much judgment ; Cheyne 
 Brady, a nephew of Lord Chancellor Brady ; then 
 Joseph Sheridan Lefanu, the novelist ; after which, 
 on my going to live in England, I lost sight of the 
 good vessel itself, and of course of the skippers who 
 held its helm. Yet I hear on all sides it is doing 
 admirably, and selling well. Some of the original 
 contributors were as follows : — Digby Pilot Starkey, 
 who wrote under the name of " Ad vena " ; John 
 Francis Waller, facile princeps in prose or poetry ; 
 
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 t 
 
 Joseph Sheridan Lefanu, now curdling our blood 
 with the horrors of '' The Watcher," and now 
 delighting us with the fun and humour of " James 
 Sullivan in the Great Snow," the most inimit- 
 able Irish tale in the wide world. Then there 
 was Lover, songster, raconteur and humorist ; Dr. 
 Anster, the translator of Goethe's Faust ; Eev. 
 James Wills ; Professor Hamilton, the astronomer ; 
 William Carleton, author of Traits a7id Stories of 
 Irish Life; Dr. Maginn of Cork, a sparkling 
 gem of talent, some time editor of Erasers 
 Magazine; Dr. AVilliara Stokes, Dublin's great 
 physician ; Rev. William Alexander, now Bishop of 
 Derry, and his gifted lady ; Frederick Mant, R.N. ; 
 Mr. Percy Fitzgerald, Mr. Horace Townshend, Miss 
 Nina Cole, Mortimer Collins, Dr. Henry Maun- 
 sell, Miss Broughton. Mr. Stopford Brooke (my 
 eldest son), contributed reviews, essays, and a few 
 lyrics ; and Sir Emerson Tennant *' Ceylon and the 
 Cingalese ; '* the Rev. William West, late Rector of 
 Delgany, "Oriental Travels;" the Rev. George 
 Brittaine, "Tales of Irish Life;" Percy Boyd, 
 sundry papers on the " German Burschen ; " Mr. 
 G. P. James, the prolific English novelist. Tales ; 
 Clarence Mangan, poet and linguist, was the author 
 of the " AnthoWia Germanica and Hibernica," a 
 protracted chain of masterly translations. Some 
 wild, opium-eating genius, from the "Northe 
 Countrie," and Belfast, sent in papers peppered 
 
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 all through with mad eccentric talent, under the 
 name of *'Coul Goppagh"; Mr. Calcraft gave us inter- 
 estinc: and exhaustive memoirs of the " Theatre and 
 its Children ; " then Charles Lever published novel 
 after novel m extenso in the magazine ; Mr. Jukes 
 many scientific papers; the Rev. John Heard, of 
 London, contributed some admirable essays. The 
 late Sir William Wilde was a writer for The 
 University, along with tw'o great Irishmen, Dr. 
 Petrie, whose '* Round Towers" are widely known ; 
 and Dr. Samuel Ferguson, the author of " The 
 Forging of the Anchor," a rare poem for merit, 
 beauty, and powder, and likew^ise the narrator in 
 the pages of the magazine of *'The Hibernian 
 Nights' Entertainments," in which Mr. Ferguson 
 himself, an Irish scholar, exhibits all through the 
 genuine spirit and flavour of Celticism in a peculiar 
 degree. 
 
 A larcre number of the fullest and soberest 
 articles — religious and political — were written from 
 time to time for the magazine by the O'Sullivan 
 brothers, both converts from Romanism. Sam, as 
 a wTiter, was a little prosy, but accurate and em- 
 phatic. Murtagh, or Mortimer, the younger brother, 
 was a brilliant creature, and a great orator on plat- 
 form or in pulpit, besides an accomplished litterateur. 
 AVhen a young man he contributed to the magazine 
 rather a striking novel, The Nevilles of Garrets- 
 towUj in which he describes with power, how society 
 
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 in Ireland in every rank, was crippled and depressed 
 before the abolition of the infamous Penal Laws. 
 Professor Butt also is said to have been guilty of a 
 like enormity in his juvenile days, namely, writing 
 a novel !— it was entitled The Gap of Barnesmore,^ 
 but in this I may possibly be in error. At that 
 time Mr. Butt was a Conservative, and so eloquent 
 in the cause, that O'Connell, who dreaded the shock 
 of his encounter in the oratorical lists, spoke of him 
 with a coarse pun upon his name as '' that ferocious 
 Bell-wether Butt." 
 
 I think I have given an accurate list of the con- 
 tributors to the Dublin University Magazine, as 
 far as I know of them. Doubtless many eminent 
 names have been omitted, simply through ignorance, 
 and not from any want of attention or respect on 
 my part ; and one more humble name I may append 
 to the catalogue of contributors — it is that of him 
 who writes these lines. 
 
 I feel I ought not to close this book of " Recol- 
 lections" without a direct mention of the good 
 understanding w^hich I ever found to exist between 
 our brethren in England and ourselves. 
 
 For many years I w^as in the habit of going there 
 to plead the cause of some of our Societies. On 
 such occasions I had always a good colleague with 
 
 1 Barnesmore is a wild defile through the Donegal mountains, in the 
 neighbourhood of the parish held by Mr. Butt's father. In this defile 
 Ikloos. Rapin is said to have written most of his History of England, 
 
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 175 
 
 me, and often a most gifted one — witness the Rev. 
 John Nash Griffin, a powerful platform speaker ; and, 
 from his finished style, suiting an English auditory 
 well. Then again I had the Rev. John W. Hacket, a 
 fluent speaker and most pleasant companion ; and 
 the Rev. John Gregg, now Bishop of Cork, of whom 
 I need say nothing, but leave him to fame. 
 
 I visited many pulpits and parsonages, and sat at 
 many a good man's feast during this time, travers- 
 ino" Endand from Kendal down to Southampton, 
 and bisecting it from Shrewsbury to Cromer ; and in 
 the midst of these *' journeyings oft " I can truly 
 say, that I met with universal kindness, hospitality, 
 and affectionate attention from my brethren of the 
 English Church, with the exception of two cases — 
 one I shall not recount ; there had been a mistake, 
 and he who made it is now entered into his rest, and 
 was sorry for it when alive. The second w^as of a 
 ludicrous nature, and was quickly rectified. 
 
 These English parsonages present, almost without 
 exception, a picture of high domestic beauty. There 
 is the order and the preciseness, the attention to 
 hours, the bright, plain furniture, the early bed- 
 o-oino-, the primness of manner, the subdued talk of 
 the inmates on worldly matters, the frequent converse 
 on diocesan, parish, and school aflliirs ; some perhaps, 
 it may be, like Alfred Tennyson's '' Parson Holmes," 
 
 " Now harping on the Church commissioners, 
 Now hawking at geology and schism ; " 
 
 then the regular family worship — very solemn, 
 though perhaps a little formal ; the welcome of 
 the Guardian or Record papers at postal hours; 
 then the good man's Quaker-like study, peopled 
 with divinity books on modest shelves, while 
 beneath are ranged battalions of cheap Bibles and 
 Prayer-books, with probably an engraving of his 
 Bishop over the mantelpiece, and a pile of pamph- 
 lets on the table — and peace, harmony, and unity 
 of feeling pervading the household, and creating 
 and sustaining the atmosphere and spirit of the 
 dwelling. I have seen many English clergymen's 
 houses presenting features such as these, but my 
 mind fondly turns to two in particular. 
 
 One of these was in the north — the quiet home- 
 stead of a middle-aged bachelor, delicate and 
 refined in body as in mind, a scholar and a 
 gentleman, eminently holy, a passionate musician, 
 and even this taste wholly given to God and to 
 His service. I felt almost that I took with me, 
 from his house to his pulpit, a savour of spiritual 
 gentleness and peace, which was increased by the 
 lovely hynmal singing, and made my preaching — 
 to myself at least — most comforting. 
 
 The other Rectory was far south, in the diocese of 
 Salisbury. I had preached twice on the Sunday, in 
 the morning and afternoon, and arrived at this 
 place at six o'clock in the evening, and found the 
 family at tea — a charming group, full of gentleness, 
 
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 RECOLLECTIONS OF 
 
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 177 
 
 simple goodness, and love that seeketli not its own. 
 The father the thorough pastor— a gentle English- 
 man, manly, sensible, and earnest. Here, too, I 
 felt the atmosphere as if impregnated with good- 
 ness, and the presence of the Holy Spirit seemed to 
 follow and abide with us, as we passed from the 
 parsonage to the church in which I was to preach. 
 My next visit presented a contrast. It was to 
 the Vicaraore of a good man, but a Calvinist of the 
 straitest school. He had a wife— a gentle lady, who 
 sat at the feet of this stern Gamaliel, and for the 
 love she bore him endorsed all his dogmas. Here 
 were no books but God's book, and a few tracts and 
 reports; the walls showed no prints, the garden 
 few flowers ; all literature was forbidden, all music 
 restricted to what is called sacred ; conversation 
 was in abeyance. Our dear good host enacted 
 " Sir Oracle " at every meal, and the circle of per- 
 mitted subjects being so small, there was no room 
 for any discussion de omnibus rebus, I recollect 
 the first night unhappily quoting Shakespeare — 
 
 " To gild refined gold, to paint the lily," 
 &c. &c. 
 
 and being sternly called up by my friend, who 
 declaimed against the lines and their author, whom 
 he stigmatised as " a papist, a poacher, and, worst 
 of all, a play-actor." Davie Deans could not have 
 pronounced a more bitter objurgation than he did. 
 
 
 yet he was a truly pious and hard-working 
 minister, a striking preacher, and much regarded 
 
 by his flock. 
 
 On one occasion after this, in London, I dined at 
 Islington with the Vicar, preparatory to a great 
 meeting in his school-house, where, in company 
 with my old friend and countryman, the Rev. 
 John White, I was to plead the cause of the " Irish 
 Society," which did its gospel work through the 
 sole instrumentality of the Irish Bible, as I have 
 stated before. 
 
 There was a romance about this Society which 
 made its advocacy very pleasant and peculiar — 
 lifting one above mere money statements, or cold 
 statistics. It had associations with picturesque 
 people, and wild, romantic scenery — the lofty 
 mountains, the garlanded rocks and blue lakes of 
 Kerry, and the dusky highlands and wave-washed 
 sea-cliffs of grand old Donegal. In no one place 
 in England have I, and the Irish cause which made 
 me welcome, ever met with a kinder, a more cour- 
 teous, or a more generous reception than from the 
 clergy of Islington and their flocks. 
 
 Shortly after this occurrence, while pleading on 
 behalf of this same Society, I had a very different 
 welcome from a body of my own countrymen. My 
 address was given in the large school -room apper- 
 taining to Bermondsey Church, which is just under 
 London Bridge. I think the parish is St. Olave's. 
 
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 179 
 
 I was staying with a friend at a villa at Sydenham 
 before the Crystal Palace was built. It was winter ; 
 and in the evening my friend, his wife, and I, drove 
 into London in his close carriage, to which were 
 attached two large and handsome lamps, tvith bright 
 hurners. We were courteously received by the 
 Rev. Mr. Le Breton, the incumbent of the parish, 
 who introduced me to the meeting. There were 
 many in the room, and at the end of my address 
 I spoke of the great persecution the converts had 
 endured, especially from the Romish priests. I 
 may have spoken strongly, but certainly not bit- 
 terly. Some disturbance then took place at the 
 end of the long room where it was badly lighted, 
 evincing signs of disapprobation. Now this was 
 caused by a number of Irishmen — navvies from a 
 neighbouring railroad — who had seen the placards, 
 and had come, expecting to hear something about 
 Ireland. These men were much displeased with 
 my remarks, and remained in a body at the door, 
 intending " to have a word witli me," as they told 
 my friend, who went to look for his carriage ; and, 
 as usual, there was no policeman near. There was 
 now nothing for it but a conj) de main, "Take 
 your wife on your arm," I said, " and walk quietly 
 to your carriage, but leave me that long blue cloak 
 of yours with the high collar." This I quickly 
 donned, covering my face well up ; and as my 
 friends' retreating figures passed out into the street, 
 
 1 strode after them down the school-room rapidly, 
 and rolling from side to side, as if determining to 
 jostle all opposers, and thus I '' shouldered through 
 the swarm," and gained the door, and leaped into 
 the carriage. The coachman at once set off with his 
 eager horses, followed by a yell, which only made 
 him go the faster. I think a few stones were 
 thrown ; and we were all very thankful to God that 
 nothing hurtful to any one had occurred, and very 
 much amused when, on getting into the country, 
 our driver, an Englishman, stopped his horses, and 
 turned his head to the carriage-window, as if 
 anxious to speak. His master let down the glass : 
 "Well, Thomas, what's the matter?"— ''I say, 
 sir, don't you think our new lamps had a fine 
 escape ? " 
 
 The case I have alluded to above as '' ludicrous " 
 eventuated happily. It was in the east of England 
 — town large— church magnificent— rector absent. 
 The curate, a mere boy, received me at the par- 
 sonage, sitting up in the Rector's arm-chair like 
 a Roman sedile, and waved his hand that I should 
 sit down, when the following dialogue took 
 place. 
 
 Curate (condescendingly) : " Ha— you are from 
 Ireland ? " 
 
 Myself: " Yes ; I reside there." 
 Curate : " Any new murders there ? " 
 Myself: *' None in my neighbourhood." 
 
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 Curate : " I have never been there. I am told 
 it is unsafe to travel in any part of it by night." 
 
 Myself: " I have never found it so." 
 
 Curate : " I knew some Irishmen at Cambridge, 
 and they were monstrous wild fellows." 
 
 Myself: *' Probable enough. I too have met 
 wild men— countr>-men of yours." 
 
 Curate : " Oh, but we are particularly kind to 
 clergymen of your Church who come here, like you, 
 
 on deputation." 
 
 Myself: "In the name of the whole united 
 
 Irish Church I thank you ! '' 
 
 Curate : " For example ; when at Exeter Rail 
 we hear a man getting through his speech so fast 
 that we cannot follow him, vociferating at one time 
 and whispering the next minute, giving us fancy 
 and tropes for facts and statistics, we regard such 
 a speaker with pity, and say, ' Oh, he is only a poor 
 
 Irishman.' " 
 
 Myself: " Thank you for your pity. You know 
 the poet says 'it is akin to love.' We too in 
 Ireland are very kind to your countrymen on the 
 platform, and when we see an awkward person 
 trying to speak— humming and hawing, and telling 
 dull anecdotes so movingly that half the auditory 
 leave the room, and the rest go to sleep— we regard 
 the speaker with pity, and cry, ' Oh, he is only a 
 poor Englishman.' " 
 
 He could not help smiling at this, and this little 
 
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 181 
 
 skirmish having broken up the ice, we both acknow- 
 ledged to having been unwarrantably critical to 
 each other's country and its oratory ; and eventually 
 
 I found Mr. to be a pleasant companion, and 
 
 a very hearty and useful coadjutor in the good 
 work which brought me into his parish. 
 
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 RECOLLECTIONS OF 
 
 CHAPTER XIII. 
 
 On reading what I have written, it seems to me 
 that I have laid myself open to the charge of 
 assuming an unbefitting censorship over so many of 
 my departed brethren, whose characters and attain- 
 ments I have essayed to sketch in these pages ; and 
 I recollect with what feelings of dislike I have 
 always regarded the Shakespeare annotations of the 
 great Samuel Johnson, as at the end of each play, 
 he trots it out, comedy or tragedy, as it may be, 
 and aflBxes to it a brief critique, laudatory or con- 
 demnatory, and in general — to say the truth — most 
 inapt ; as if the worthy Doctor's ipse dixit was to 
 sway and regulate the wide world of all opinion ; 
 but in the present case I have spoken not only my 
 own thoughts concerning these good men, 
 
 ** For here I am to speak what I do know," 
 
 but likewise the accordant judgment of the Church 
 of Ireland, or that portion of it, which knew them 
 either personally, or from the hearsay of judicious 
 tradition. 
 
 Then again, I have used little censure — possibly 
 
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 183 
 
 too much eulogium ; for surely it is a pleasanter 
 task, and more congenial to an old man, to be 
 
 " Laudator teinporis acti," 
 
 than to endeavour to concur with Mark Antony 
 when he says — 
 
 *' The evil which men do lives after them, 
 The good is oft interred with their bones," 
 
 which is not in harmony with truth or fact, and is 
 absolutely opposed to the more heavenly statement 
 of tlie Bible — *' Blessed are the dead who die in 
 the Lord, for they rest from their labours, and 
 their works do follow them/' 
 
 In bringing these Eecollections towards a close, 
 I am free to confess that they are somewhat light 
 and sketchy ; still, I must claim for them some 
 weight, as being consolidated by truth, and an 
 honest desire to revive what was lovable and good, 
 for the comfort of survivors, and for the example 
 and benefit of all. For what says the Apostle, 
 " Whatsoever things are true, whatsover things are 
 honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever 
 things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, 
 whatsoever things are of good report ; if there be 
 any virtue, if there be any praise, think on these 
 things." 
 
 I should desire to make a few remarks to illus- 
 trate what goes before. Matters are now managed 
 in a different way from what they were at an 
 
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 earlier period. There is now no longer any outcry 
 from the Episcopal Bench against Calvinism, which 
 was the nickname for the preaching of the gospel. 
 Our Bishops are now, all, more or less, professors of 
 Evangelical truth, and some of them highly-gifted 
 orators. Amidst the rush of opinions, blowing 
 like adverse winds from every side, a more liberal 
 and tolerant atmosphere has settled down and filled 
 the aisles of our churches, and men are willing to 
 believe that good may be found among other par- 
 ties than their own, and that God may be served 
 and His cause advanced by Churchmen of every 
 name, Low, and Broad, and High, as well as by 
 Dissenters of every orthodox persuasion. 
 
 Some years ago, in the South of Ireland, a 
 learned and witty Bishop was heard to say, " I find 
 it hard to manage two parties among my clergy — 
 the one is eternally crying up salvation by good 
 works and— doing nothing ; the other is equally 
 assiduous in proclaiming salvation without works, 
 and always — doing too much." 
 
 The juste milieu is perhaps what my old 
 Donegal rector described as what he would prefer 
 to find in a curate, ** something between a practical 
 Calvinist and a spiritual Arminian." 
 
 The crusade against w^hat are wrongly called 
 extempore sermons has also passed away ; at all 
 events, such discourses are the genuine article, not 
 taken from books, or read — as in some cases — from 
 
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 purchased pamphlets. For at my quiet Rectory 
 in Huntingdonshire, during the last ten years, I 
 have received from time to time letters from 
 London, offering me lithographed sermons at 2s. 
 and Zs. each, and ''perfect secrecy observed;" and 
 though I did not take advantage of the offer, yet 
 I am told that a brisk trade is being driven in this 
 delicate matter, and no doubt many awkward- 
 nesses are the result of clergymen making use of 
 the smuggled article — or the same sermon. Hear a 
 story somewhat to the point :— " The Right Rev. 
 Dr. Doyle, Roman Catholic Bishop of Leighlin 
 and Kildare, circiter 1832, a clever and erudite 
 prelate, — once heard, in his own church at Carlow, 
 a young priest deliver, in an affected and stilted 
 manner, a sermon which the Bishop had often read 
 before and admired— in print. When the service 
 was over, and the parties met in the vestry-room, 
 the preacher said, " I humbly trust that your Lord- 
 ship approved of and liked my discourse." — " Yes," 
 answered the Bishop, '* I liked the discourse very 
 much, but I did not like you."— " Oh dear, my 
 Lord, why?" — *' Because, sir, you broke two of God's 
 commandments in that pulpit, for you stole your 
 whole sermon from Bourdaloue, and then murdered 
 it in the delivery." 
 
 I am half afraid that the high estimation in 
 which Protestantism is held in these pages may be 
 distasteful to a small party in the sister country. 
 
186 
 
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 If this be the case, I am sorry for it ; but I make 
 no apology for my just laudation of what is but 
 another word for our glorious Reformed faith. 
 
 As laoro was " nothinor if not critical," so an Irish 
 churchman is worse than nothing — whatever that 
 may be — if not a sound-at-heart Protestant. His 
 being so involves two of the gravest principles 
 which should actuate him as a Christian, and as a 
 subject. As the former, he must cleave to his Bible, 
 which the ultramontane party in this country 
 virtually ignore ; and as the latter, he must be 
 loyal to his sovereign and her government. The 
 Protestants of Ireland are indeed an essentially 
 loyal body, and patient of much obloquy and mis- 
 representation, which they receive at all times 
 from the radical press of England, which never fails, 
 in case of an unhappy row, to lay all the blame 
 upon their shoulders, while they exonerate their 
 rivals, reminding us of the line — 
 
 " Dat veniam corvis vexat censura columhas." 
 
 How different are the views of a sensible German. 
 Baron Stockmar, writing to Prince Albert, August 
 1852, says: "That the priests in the Irish elec- 
 tions have gone all lengths is a lesson your 
 Royal Highness ought never to forget. So it 
 was of old, and so it will continue to be as 
 long as there is a Pope. The worst point in the 
 attitude of Protestantism towards Romanism is, 
 
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 187 
 
 that it cannot venture to be tolerant. Romanism, 
 which denounces and excludes every other creed, 
 and never surrenders the smallest tittle of its 
 infallibility, forces Protestantism, for toleration's 
 sake, into acts which are occasionally intolerant in 
 fact, but more commonly have only the semblance 
 of being so. The very resolution of the Protestants 
 to resist, in defence of their own creed, the preten- 
 sions of Roman Catholicism, of itself places them 
 on a downward slope, on which, in carrying out 
 their practical measures, they descend rapidly into 
 intolerance. There is no help for this, and it is not 
 Pro test antismy but Catholicism which is to blame.'* 
 ^From Life of Prince Consort, by T. Martin, 
 Esq., Vol. ii., p. 455. 
 
 Lest I should seem to overstate the depreciatory 
 tone used by a few of our English friends towards 
 Protestantism, I would refer the reader to the 
 report of a sermon preached on Whitsunday 1876, 
 at St. Olave's Church, Exeter, and quoted with 
 apparent approbation in the London Church Times 
 of June 16th ultimo, in which the preacher, taking 
 for his text, " Others mocking," recounts a catalogue 
 of such Protestants as appear in the Bible, — the 
 first whereof was Satan, who was cast out of heaven 
 for asserting the right of private judgment ; Cain, 
 the fratricide, is the second Protestant ; then the 
 antediluvians who protested against Noah — and so 
 on, to the crucifiers of our Lord ! throughout equally 
 
188 
 
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 complimentary ! And all this wicked twaddle was 
 preached by an Englishman, and apparently un- 
 rebuked by his Liberal Bishop ! 
 
 Our Church in Ireland, I do think, has not any- 
 thing to fear on the score of Ritualism. That the 
 long dark wave which, setting in from Oxford, has 
 passed over England, sweeping so many into Rome — 
 that this wave should reach and shock our shores, 
 it may not be denied ; but our Church has not been 
 shaken by it, and never will. The Romish apostasy 
 stands up too much in the blaze of its own 
 exposure, and all the miseries resulting from its 
 teachings, moral, social, and domestic, are too 
 plainly to be recognised, as deteriorating and keep- 
 ing back among the nations, the most naturally 
 noble and quick-witted people on the face of the 
 whole earth. All these things being so patent and 
 familiar to our daily sight and apprehension, make 
 us recusant of this poor copy called Ritualism, and 
 distrustful of the men who would bring it among 
 us. For, as it was by a late Irish Bishop wittily 
 observed, " what need have we of the counterfeit, 
 when we have the real thing ? " 
 
 And here I may observe, that neither I nor any 
 of my immediate family are Orangemen. I pray 
 that God may give that institution His blessing, and 
 a spirit of discretion, and moderation, and of love 
 towards those who oppose it. For I value it much, 
 and some of the best, the most honest, and the 
 
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 189 
 
 noblest men I ever knew, were members of the in- 
 stitution from youth till death. 
 
 I have often heard it said, that it is utterly 
 unchristian and wrong to say a hard word of the 
 Roman Catholic system, seeing that it is held by so 
 many millions of our fellow-countrymen in the world. 
 But apply this argument to ancient heathenism 
 as it once was, or to Islamism or Buddhism as 
 they now are, and it is manifest it will not hold 
 water. Numbers may indicate physical strength, 
 but it is absurd to say that they represent either 
 moral worth or mental power. This was one of 
 the silly arguments brought against the minority 
 of the members of our Church in the Spoliation 
 debate of 1869. The Liberals have taken the Irish 
 Roman Catholic Church under their wing, partly 
 through policy, partly through an erroneous senti- 
 mentalism, and it is to be feared that the companion- 
 ship will yet work them trouble. The past generation 
 of British minds had clearer views. Let us see what 
 opinion was entertained of the system by two of 
 our greatest of Englishmen. Lord Chatham, writing 
 to Bishop Warburton, thus speaks of Romanism : — 
 
 "Rank idolatry, a subversion of all civil and 
 religious liberty, and the utter disgrace, of reason 
 and of human nature." 
 
 The Bishop in an equally characteristic manner 
 gives his opinion : — 
 
 "I have always regarded Popery rather as an 
 
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190 
 
 RECOLLECTIONS OF 
 
 impious and impudent combination against the 
 sense and rights of mankind, than a species of 
 religion." 
 
 What are commonly known as Broad Church 
 doctrines are much more likely to become popular 
 with the Church in Ireland. The sermons of 
 Frederick W. Robertson, full of originality and 
 eloquence, and lit up with devotional fire, are 
 cognate with the Irish mind ; and Dean Stanley's 
 clear mode of imparting information has the same 
 popularity here as it has everywhere ; for the 
 theological omissions and eccentricities of both 
 these accomplished writers are almost forgiven by 
 many, because of the sparkle of genius which 
 illumines their works, and shines over the waste 
 places of their lucubrations, and thus many a reader 
 may say, with the old Roman, ''Ne paucis" &c., 
 which I shall venture to render thus for the benefit 
 of the English reader — 
 
 " A few dark spots may pardon find, 
 So much that's bright is left behind." 
 
 The fact is, Intellect is the oracle and the idol of 
 the day, and ranks with many before Truth itself, 
 and like the charity of the Bible, it covers a multi- 
 tude of sins. Set a gifted man to make a speech or 
 write a book, or put a clever orator into a pulpit to 
 deliver a sermon, and each of these individuals will 
 have pardon, from a portion of his readers or his 
 hearers, for any small aberration from truth or 
 
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 191 
 
 orthodoxy, if it be but accompanied by brilliant 
 imagination or original thought. A little arsenic is 
 swallowed, if only the pill be shapely and well 
 gilded. 
 
 Thus gradually Truth is vitiated, and its gold 
 mingled with alloy ; and Error, ever aggressive, 
 wedges its way into the chambers of the mind, an 
 uninvited and dangerous guest, but tolerated in a 
 liberal spirit, because of the agreeable companions 
 it brings with it. 
 
 I do not charge any particular section of my 
 countrymen with these things, but that man must 
 be blind or deaf who does not see what stealthy but 
 sure steps Infidelity is making among the educated 
 classes, and how books antagonistic to Christianity, 
 and men who question the truth of the Bible on 
 the grounds of philosophy, are not only read and 
 tolerated, but admired and admitted to familiarity. 
 
 If an officer serving in our army or navy, with 
 that chivalry which undoubtedly belongs to either 
 service, were to sit quietly by while one openly 
 traduced the Sovereign, ignored her royal rights, 
 and questioned the truth of her edicts — what would 
 the world say of such a caitiff, but that he deserved 
 to have the epaulettes torn from his shoulders ? But 
 alas, the age of chivalry in the highest sense of the 
 expression is gone, and the life and the royalty of 
 our Heavenly King, His work on earth for sinners, 
 His Word from heaven for all mankind, are slighted 
 
192 
 
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 and ignored by hundreds, or misrepresented, with- 
 out producing more than an occasional burst of 
 indignant dissent from the millions of professing 
 and baptized " good soldiers and servants of Jesus 
 Christ ! " 
 
 The body of Dissenters who are known by the 
 name of Plymouthites have ever been a danger to 
 the Irish Church ; their great attractiveness consists 
 in their having among them many amiable and 
 sincerely devoted servants of God, and this is 
 coupled with a zeal for making proselytes almost 
 Mahometan in its intensity, or rather like them of 
 old who would compass sea and land to fulfil their 
 desire. This body of Christians put forth no creed, 
 they are without clergy, and report says they have 
 little unity of belief among themselves. In their 
 writings their theology is cloudy and confused, they 
 mystify the Scripture and strain its holy simplicity 
 to produce or support their own novelty of interpre- 
 tation. They regard our Church as the mystical 
 Babylon of the Apocalypse, and many of them will 
 not kneel down and pray with the ministers or 
 members of that Church, be they ever so good or so 
 holy, because they are not of their body, forgetting 
 that in so doing they peril their own right to be 
 recognised as followers of Jesus, since Christ has said, 
 " By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, 
 if ye have love one to another'* (St. John xiii. 35). 
 Finally their doctrine and practice of being exclusive 
 
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 193 
 
 is simply opposed to the whole spirit and precepts 
 of Christianity. 
 
 Of a very opposite character, and of a truer 
 brotherhood, was one to whom my mind goes back 
 with feelings of veneration and deep respect. 1 
 speak of the Rev. Thomas Kelly. lie was a Dis- 
 senter, rigid and consistent , hut with a Catholic 
 spirit, and a love for all good men. Sprung from 
 an ancient Celtic chieftaincy, his father, a Judge of 
 high rank, possessing an ample landed estate, a Gold- 
 medallist, and Honour-man in Trinity ; a guest and 
 friend of Edmund Burke in London when he 
 thouiiht of o^oinor to the bar : afterwards intimate 
 with Robert Hall, of Leicester ; then, an episco- 
 pally ordained clergyman, and full of talent and 
 Christian zeal, he entered life with a measure of 
 advantages rarely enjoyed by one man. But, with- 
 out any fault of his, he was compelled to leave the 
 Church by the Diocesan of the day, having been 
 inhibited to minister in any of the churches of 
 Dublin, his Gospel doctrines and extempore preach- 
 ing being considered as tantamount to Methodism 
 and Dissent. He turned his back with sorrow on 
 the Church, and created a congregation of his own, 
 building more than one chapel from his private 
 means. He was a man of a heavenly spirit, as his 
 Hymns evince. Still holding fast his friendships 
 with his brethren of the Establishment, " he rejoiced 
 in their labours, and sought to strengthen their 
 
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 194 
 
 REOOLLECTIONS OF 
 
 luiiids f but, resolved in liis separation from tlieir 
 Church, he resisted the lovinii^ arijuments of his 
 friend Peter Roe, and tlie more than once renewed 
 and cogent remonstrano(\c; of tin* ix^od and lioly Arch- 
 bishop of Tn ini, whose letters to him are extant. 
 
 I saw him at Kinjo^stown when very old ; he 
 would eome into my house from time to time, and 
 sit at the [)iaiio and sino; his own hymns. His voice 
 was almost gone, but his face and manner were ever 
 a sweet hymn to his friends. The last time I met 
 him was at a cleriejd meeting]: at his son-in-law's, 
 the Hon. and Rev. William Wingfiehl, where the 
 old man was staying. His conversation was most 
 rdifying — a descant on the wondrous love of God to 
 all mankind, and how we should copy God, and love 
 each other ; and then at the close of the meetinfj 
 he yielded to our united wish, and, kneeling down, 
 he prayed briefly, simply, and fervently, that God 
 would l>less and prosper the word and work of us 
 all, for Christ's sake. 
 
 And now, ere I finish writing these pages, let me 
 say one word more, in a large way, of the honoured 
 institution, whose ministers I have here striven to 
 reproduce to the notice of my readers. 
 
 There exists historical, and incontrovertible proof 
 of the efficiency and influence of our Irish Church 
 during long years. Earl Russell, in his late work. 
 Recollections y has called our Church " a scarecrow," 
 and by one or two more names equally graceful and 
 
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 195 
 
 classical! I shall put the following facts in oppo- 
 sition to the Earl's fli[)pant and ignorant epithets. 
 The old C(iltic families in this country, whose an- 
 cestors were zealous servants of the Pope of Rome, 
 are at this moment, with a very few exceptions, 
 sound Church Protestants. 
 
 I shall now name a few : — The O'Neills, repre- 
 sented by Lord O'Neill, a clergyman ; the O'Briens, 
 by Lord Incliiquin ; the Quins, by the Earl of 
 Dunraven ; the Fitz Patricks, by Lord Castletown 
 of Up-Ossory ; the Fitz-Maurices, by the Marquis 
 of Lansdowne ; the O'Callaghans, by Viscount 
 Lismore ; the Dalys, by Lord Dunsandle and 
 ('lanconal; the Plunketts, by Lord Dunsany and 
 the Rev. Lord Plunket ; the O'Gradys, by Viscount 
 Guillamore ; the Byrnes, by Lord De Tabley. All 
 these nobles are of ancient and undoubted Celtic 
 
 origm. 
 
 Then as regards Commoners : these are of ancient 
 race, and thoroughly and purely Celtic in descent — 
 the Kavanaghs of Bonis ; the Molloys of Sligo ; 
 the O'Haras of Antrim ; the Dunnes of Brittas ; 
 tlie O'Gradys of Limerick; the Kellys, of Castle 
 Kelly ; the Mahons and O'Flahertys of Galway ; 
 the MacGillicuddys, Mahonys, and O'Donovans 
 of Kerry; the Gildeas, the Dunlevys, the 
 O'Donnels of the West ; the renowned Sheridans 
 and O'Reillys of Cavan ; the Maloncs of West- 
 raeath ;^ the Moores, formerly O'More ; the Nangles 
 
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196 
 
 RECOLLECTIONS OF 
 
 i 111(1 Cu sacks, cum mult is aliis. These arc all of 
 position and wealth in this country. 
 
 Then almost all the great Anglo-Norman families 
 who settled in Ireland, at or after Strongbow's 
 time, and most of them 2^(^cnliar followers of the 
 Pope, viz : — The De Burghs, represented by the 
 Marquis of Clanriearde ; the Veseys, by Viscount 
 de Vesci ; the De Courcys, by Lord Kingsale ; the 
 Fitz-Geralds, by the Duke of Leinster and the 
 Knights of Kerry and Glyn ; the St. Lawrences, 
 by the Earl of llowth ; the St. Legers, by Viscount 
 Doneraile ; the McDonnells, by the Earl of Antrim ; 
 the Fitz-AValters or Butlers, by the Marquis of 
 ( )rmonde, the Earl of Carrick, and Lord Dunboyne, 
 kr. ; the Le Poers, by the INFarquis of Waterford ; 
 the Nugents, by the Earl of Westmeath ; and the 
 Talbots, by Lord Talbot de Jlalahide. I may add, 
 as families formerly ennobled : — The Savages of 
 Portaferry ; the Graces of Courtown ; the Barrys of 
 tvork ; the de Lacys, &c. 
 
 The foregoing great families represent largely the 
 Church of Ireland, as they do the country in her 
 wealth, her soil, and her education. They are 
 strong in these advantages, though they are but few 
 in number. Is the House of Lords a '*' scarecrow " 
 because numerically weak ? 
 
 iSome of the old Spanish tribes, also, in Gal way 
 are Protestants, such as the DArcys, Brownes, 
 Blakes, Ffrenches, Kirwans, Lynches, Martins. 
 
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 197 
 
 But a Romanist might say the ancestors of these 
 men were driven by the iniquitous Penal Laws of 
 Englan<l to renounce their religion, and they 
 became Protestants to save their lives or their 
 
 estates. 
 
 Possibly in some cases this may be true, painfully, 
 
 iniquitously true ; but 7iow, since all penalties and 
 
 «'ompulsory acts are revoked for ever, lohy do not 
 
 the descendants of these men return to their '' prisca 
 
 fides,'' the old faith of the Church of Rome ? 
 
 If such an event vvcre to take place, what ;i 
 welcome would thev not receive, and what a jubi- 
 lant anthem would be joyfully sung by the united 
 voices of Monsignor Capel, Cardinal Cullen, and 
 the old man Infallible at the Vatican ! 
 
 Unquestionably it must be granted, that whatever 
 may have been the cause why so very many of the 
 noblest and most eminent families of Ireland left the 
 Church of Ptomc and became Protestant, the Irish 
 Church, into whose bosom they were received, has 
 kept them ivell, and their steadfast continuance 
 with her is an evidence of their attachment to her 
 faith, her practices, and her formularies. 
 
 ]\[y task is now done, and I fear most imperfectly, 
 my '' Recollections '' being unsystematized and in- 
 consequential, the pen of the writer resembling, 1 
 should say, the course of a wandering Bedouin, who, 
 pitching his tent here and there, gathers up, as spoil, 
 a stray memory, and then passes on elsewhere, and 
 
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 198 RECOLLECTIONS OF THE IRISH CHURCH. 
 
 is gone. Such a mood of mind I believe to be 
 iiD attribute of years. The poet Pope speaks of 
 '• narrative old ag-e," and ancient Nestor in Homer 
 exemplifies and acknowledges the fact, though he 
 couples it on his own behalf with counsel and 
 wisdom, when he says, 
 
 -TO yap yepa^ eari yepovTcov, 
 
 Iliad iv. 323. 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 APPENDIX 4. 
 Page 27. 
 
 REV. NICHOLAS ARMSTRONG. 
 
 Tn a briglit volume, published in 1875, from the pen of the 
 Venerable Archdeacon John Sinclair, we have the following 
 testimony to Mr. Armstrong's powers as an orator. 
 
 It is in a letter from a Scotch gentleman, a friend and country- 
 man of the Archdeacon s, and is as follows : — 
 
 " Armstrong now arose, the most powerful of Irish declaimers ; 
 he came to the front of the platform, and after a pause of a few 
 minutes, began as if he had been inspired, and delivered, without 
 pause or hesitation, as glorious a burst of triumph as human 
 speech is capable of uttering." 
 
 Fiom Old Times and Distant Places^ page 266 
 

 200 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 APPENDIX B. 
 
 Page 158. 
 
 I.v the wildest regions of remote Donegal, I found many of 
 the clergy interesting and cultured men, and the Church services 
 well and duly performed. In the mountainous wilderness around 
 Dunfanaghy, whose white shores and great cliffs are washed 
 ))y the waves of the Atlantic, my friend the Eev. Charles 
 Stewart had each Sunday in his church as well-dressed, as 
 orderly, and as attentive a congregation as you would see in 
 a lirst-class English village ; and here I have often preached. 
 In the little village of Kilcar, which lies hehind the stupendous 
 sea-cliff of Slieve Lia, rising 1,974 perpendicular feet from the 
 vexed Atlantic, there is a small but handsome church, where 
 the services were well sustained by the Eector, my friend the 
 liev. Edward Labatt, and the Psalmody quite beautiful under 
 his scientific guidance. But deeper in the wilderness still, 
 "remote from men," and almost "extra menia mundi," you "go 
 down "—as the country saying has it— into the parish of Glen- 
 columbkille, rude, strong, savage, yet 8ul)lime from the grandeur 
 of its long line of soaring sea-cliffs, which rampart it irom the 
 wash and the welter of the great waves which thunder against 
 these rocks day and night continually. 
 
 This parish is full of curious antiquity— cairns, cromlechs, 
 stone crosses, and Danish altars— and was beyond any doubt the 
 hiding-place at one time of Prince Charles Edward,* after his 
 
 » See a valuable MS. on this subject, compiled on the spot by the Rev. 
 Valentine Pole Griffith, the rector of the parish, and transferred to the 
 I'ages of the Dublin Ujuversity Magazine, in number for September, 1860. 
 
 lij 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 201 
 
 defeat at CuUoden. Here I preached to a congregation of nearly 
 a hundred on a week-day, but on Sundays the number was more 
 than doubled under the active ministry of Mr. Griffith, the 
 incumbent and my valued friend— a good man, and fall of 
 poetry and enthusiasm, which was nourished by the magnificence 
 and wildness of the scenery amidst which he dwelt, and truly 
 loved to dwell. 
 
 * 
 
202 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 APPENDIX C. 
 
 Page 195. 
 
 " One more unfortunate ! " another great mind strangely 
 hostile to the Irish Church. In Mr. Trevelyan's recent Life of 
 Lord Macaulaij, we find that noble author, in an address to 
 his Presbyterian constituents, declaring that '* of all the institu- 
 tions of this civilized world, the Established Church of Ireland 
 seems to me the most absurd." 
 
 This opinion, born of the blindest and most absolutely 
 ludicrous ignorance of the institution he asperses, he subse- 
 quently fused into a speech, which he made in the House, and 
 which his nephew, with amiable over-partiality, describes as 
 " glowing with life and colour," but Avhich we cannot help 
 thinking would class better with the oratory of the *' Pickwick 
 Club " than with the eloquence to which the Commons are 
 accustomed. In this speech he contrasts what Mr. Trevelyan 
 calls " the squalor " of Muynooth College, with the wealth and 
 stateliness of the English Universities. He speaks of " their 
 bowling-greens and their stabling," and then goes on, in appe- 
 tisiug strains, enough to create a soul under the ribs of starvation, 
 to describe " the refectories," and " luxury of the great feast-days 
 — the piles of plates on the dinner-table, the savoury steam from 
 the kitchen, the multitude of geese and capons which turn at once 
 {sic) on the spits, and the oceans of ale in the butteries," and sums 
 up by contrasting all these pictures with the squalor and empty 
 larders of " the miserable Dotheboys Hall " of ^laynooth ! 
 
 Now we do not care much for this College, but wo love truth, 
 and on its behalf we would protest against such a libel on May- 
 nooth. The building was of highly respectable and spacious 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 203 
 
 character, even thirty years preceding the uttering of this 
 speech ! Inglis, the Whig tourist, visited it in 1836, and testifies 
 to its being " an extensive edifice, and presenting an imposing 
 front, separated from the town by a large open area railed ofiP, 
 and ke})t in excellent order;' and goes on to descant on the good 
 living which the pupils enjoyed, and no doubt grew sleek upon, 
 viz : " Meat for dinner every day except Friday, eggs, bread, 
 hutter, pies, puddings, and cocoa, constitute the fare; their 
 table is plentifully and wholesomely supplied." ^ Not a word of 
 the *' brimstone and treacle basin," or of the Smike squad of 
 
 half- starved boys! 
 
 Then in the name of the Principal and Professors, whom we 
 have always understood to be gentlemen and scholars, we would 
 a!«k which of them was meant to impersonate Wackford Squeers, 
 in Mr. Macaulay's inapt and maladroit harangue 1 
 
 These two Englishmen, uncle and nephew, have been drawing 
 on their imagination for their facts. However, the temptation to 
 represent Maynooth as starved and squalid will no longer assail 
 any one, since Mr. Gladstone— the Parliamentary Jupiter of the 
 age— has descended in a shower of gold on the lap of this eccle- 
 srastical Danae, and Maynooth is now enriched through his Spolia- 
 tion Act with nearly half a million of pounds abstracted from the 
 ancient and legal endowments of the Irish Protestant Church, and 
 thus to reverse the proverb, '' Paul is robbed to pay Peterr 
 
 On another occasion Ireland suffers wrong from Mr. Macaulay. 
 In his preface to his own Lays, when speaking of the almost 
 universal existence of ballads and song among nations, he 
 absolutely pretermits all mention of Bardic or Lyric poetry as 
 being found in Ireland, which is proverbially called "The Land 
 of Song," and ranks high for its ancient music and ancient 
 melodies', her bards preserving an unbroken succession from the 
 earliest ages— Oisin, and GoU, the Irish Tyrtieus, who '* wreathed 
 his sword with myrtle," and Craftine and McDonel, O'Sullivan 
 and Magrath, Rahilley, Heflfernan, Carolan, and Talbot, with 
 others of less name and fame. 
 
 1 Iiiglis's Journey through Ireland in 1831, page 390. 
 
204 
 
 APPENDTX. 
 
 Again, Lord NTacaulay has a hard word for the Irish Church. 
 In his review on Mr. Gladstone's book on Church and State — 
 see Essays, page 480 — he asserts that in the time of King Alfred, 
 the Church, in this island, exhibited only ignorance, a dissolu- 
 tion of all discipline, and a cruel barbarism ; and this he states 
 on the alone authority of St. Bernard — the ** canis albns " or 
 white dog who barked for the Papacy, and vehemently resented 
 the independent attitude which the Church of Ireland had 
 assumed, and kept for centuries, with respect to Rome ; — select- 
 ing the authority of this " hot-headed and turbulent monk," and 
 slighting the graver and more solid testimony of Archbishop 
 Ussher, Veneral)le Bede, and Thomas Warton, and the entire 
 assent of Jonathan Swift to the worth and great learning of the 
 Irish Church during the dark ages, his Lordship endorses the 
 slander of an angry and ignorant partizan of the Papacy, and 
 makes it his own. 
 
 One more word concerning Lord Macaulay. In his history of 
 the siege of Derry — a matchless piece of writing, which one 
 can scarce read without tears — he invariably styles the Derry 
 men, who were all of them, and their fathers before them, 
 Irishmen born, by the name either of the *' Englishry," or 
 the *' Colonists." Xow these men were the descendants of 
 Scotch and English settlers, who had come to Ireland during 
 O'Neill's wars in Queen Elizabeth's reign, or else had im- 
 migrated to Ulster a little later under King James's " Planta- 
 tion" of IGIO. Ireland had seen three generations of these 
 men, and might well claim them as her own genuine children, 
 and sons of her soil. In a national point of view, England had 
 no more to do with them, save that they served her loyally and 
 fought her battles well. Without doubt, these Derry men 
 might have inherited some infusion of doggedness and determi- 
 nation from their Saxon forefathers, but we must ever attribute 
 their enthusiasm, endurance, and indomptable valour to their 
 chivalrous Irish nature, and to the grand sustaining spirit of 
 their noble Protestantism. 
 
 INDEX TO THE NAMES OF PERSONS. 
 
 A. 
 
 Acton, Rev. Thos., 33. 
 Acton, Col. W., 34. 
 Adams, Sailor, 106. 
 Albert, Prince, 112. 
 Alexander, Bishop, 120. 
 Alexander, Mrs., 171. 
 Anderson, Rev. J., 145. 
 Anster, Doctor, 171. 
 Antrim, Marquis, 196. 
 Armstrong, Rev. N., 25. 
 Arnold, Rev. Dr., 136. 
 Arthur, Rev. Mr., 86. 
 Ashtown, Lord, 46. 
 Averill, Rev. Adam, 85. 
 
 B. 
 
 Barker, Dr., 91. 
 I3arrett, P^v. Dr., 12. 
 Barrys, 196. 
 Battersby, Rev. J., 164. 
 Batty, Espine, 51. 
 Baxter, Richard, 90. 
 Bayly, Rev. C, 165. 
 liedeU, Bishop, 40. 
 
 Beechey, Admiral, 111. 
 Bell, Archdeacon, 51. 
 Bentinck, Lord G., 166. 
 Beresford, Bishop, 36. . 
 Beresford, G. de la Poer, 146. 
 Beresford, Rev. M., 160. 
 Berkeley, Bishop, 57. 
 Bernard, St., 204. 
 Bickersteth, Rev. E., 35. 
 
 Bissett, Bishop, 60. 
 
 Blackburn, Mr., 138. 
 
 Blake, Mrs., 168. 
 
 Blakes, 139. 
 
 Blundell, Rev. Robt., 145. 
 
 Boyd, Captain John, 113. 
 
 Boyd, Dean, 157. 
 
 Boyd, Mr. John, 75. 
 
 Boyd, Percy, 170. 
 
 Boynes, Sailor, 115. 
 
 Boyton, Rev. Chas., 80. 
 
 Brady, Cheyne, 170.^ 
 
 Brandon, Rev. J., 47. 
 
 Brasbie, Rev., 55. 
 
 Brechin, Bishop of, 89. 
 Bridges, Rev. C. 35. 
 Brinkley, Dr., 30. 
 Brittaine, Rev. Geo., 144. 
 Brooke, Rev. K P., 154. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 207 
 
 206 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Brooke, Ptftv. R, 4. 
 Brooke, Kev. Stopfor.l, 171. 
 r,rookc, Kev. W., 140 
 Brooke, lliglit Hon. W., G. 
 Broughton, Miss, 171. 
 Browne, Kev. Denis 41. 
 Brovvnes, 139. 
 Biirdett, Kev. H., 48. 
 Burke, Eduuind, 193. 
 Burke, Kev., 55. 
 Burroughs, Kev., 25. 
 Bushe, Chief Justice, 4. 
 Bushe, Kev. W., 17. 
 Butt, Isaac, 72. 
 Butt, Rev. Robt. 72. 
 Byrnes, 195. 
 
 c. 
 
 Calcraft, Mr., 172. 
 
 Canning, Kight Hon. Geo., 20. 
 
 Canterbury, Archbishop of, 
 
 148. 
 Capel, Monsignor, 197. 
 Carlisle, Rev. James, 138. 
 Carlton, William, l7l. 
 Carrick, Lord, 190. 
 Castletown, Lord, 195. 
 (Mher, Archdeacon, 139. 
 Cauifield, Rev. Hans, 81. 
 Charles Edward, Prince, 200. 
 Chatham, Lord, 189. 
 Clancarty, Earl of, 141. 
 Clanricarde, Lord, 196. 
 Cleaver, Rev. W., 19. 
 Cole, Miss Nina, 171. 
 Collins, Mortimer, 171. 
 Columbkill, Saint, 57. 
 Connor, Mr. Geo., 108. 
 Connor, Rev. G. H., 108. 
 Conolly, 100. 
 
 Cornwallis, Lord, 5. 
 Cosins, Rev. Jas., 52. 
 Courtown, Earl of, 161. 
 Cranmer, Bishop, 42. 
 Oofton, Denis, 51. 
 Croly, Rev. G., 53. 
 Cullen, Cardinal, 197. 
 Curran, 4. 
 Cusacks, 190. 
 
 D. 
 
 Dcillas, Rev. Alexander, 120. 
 Dalton, Rev. Henry, 30. 
 Dalton, Rev. William, 35. 
 Daly, Bishop, 20. 
 Daly, Rev. Joseph, 104. 
 Daly, Warden, 1 40. 
 Dalys, 195. 
 Darby, Horatio, 45. 
 D'Arcy, Mrs, 168. 
 D'Arcy, Rev. H., 108. 
 D'Arcys, 197. 
 
 Davies, Miss, 108. 
 
 Dawson, Dean, 24. 
 
 Day, Bi«*hop, 99. 
 
 Deans, 139. 
 
 Deans, David, 42. 
 
 De Burgh, Dean, 74. 
 
 De Burghs, 196. 
 
 Do Courcys, 196. 
 
 De Lacys, 190. 
 
 Derry, Men of, 204. 
 
 DeTabley, Lord, 195. 
 
 De Vesci, Lord, 81. 
 
 De Veseys, 190. 
 
 Dickinson, Rev. Doctor, 134. 
 
 Digby, Archdeacon, 141. 
 
 Digby, Benjamin, 17. 
 
 Dowling, Rev. Fred., 120. 
 
 Doyle, Bishop, 185. 
 
 Drewe, Rev. Doctor, 120. 
 Dromore, Bishop of, 100. 
 Dunlevys, 195. 
 Dunne, Rev. James, 10. 
 Dunne, Rev. Robert IL, 103. 
 Dunnes, 195. 
 Dunraven, Lord, 195. 
 Dunsandle, Lord, 20. 
 
 E. 
 
 Edgeworth, Miss, 162. 
 Elliott, John, 75. 
 Elrington, Bishop of, 89. 
 Elrington, Rev. Doctor, 9. 
 Enraght, Rev. M., 20. 
 Ensor, George, 48. 
 
 F. 
 
 Fairfax, Lady, 138. 
 Fenwick, Archdeacon, 59.^ 
 Fergusson, Dr. Samuel, 172. 
 Ffrenches, 197. 
 Finlay, Rev. J., 20. 
 Fitz- Gerald, Percy, 171. 
 Fitz-Gerald, Rev., 121. 
 Fitz-Geralds, 190. 
 Fitz-Maurices, 195. 
 
 Fitz-Patrick, Rev., 55. 
 
 Fitz-Patricks, 195. 
 
 Fitz-Simons, 52. 
 
 Fitz-Walters, 196. 
 
 Flavel, Rev. John, 90. 
 
 Fleury, Rev. Antoine, 43. 
 
 Fleury, Rev. C. M., 43. 
 
 Foley, Rev. Dan., 52. 
 
 Fowler, Archbishop, 4. 
 
 Frazer, Captain R., 112. 
 
 Fulgentio, 14. 
 
 G. 
 
 Galasp, Hetty, 64. 
 
 Galbraith, Rev. J., 145. 
 
 Galway tribes, 139. 
 
 Gayer, Rev. Edward, 132. 
 
 Gildeas, 195. 
 
 Gladstone, W. E., 22, and fly 
 
 leaf after the Title-page. 
 Glynn, Knight of, 196. 
 Gorges, Rev. J., 145. 
 Gough, Viscount, 118. 
 Graces, 196. 
 Grattan, Henry, 4. 
 Graves, Doan, 10. 
 Greene, Baron, 138. 
 Gregg, Rev. John, 23. 
 Gregg, Tresham D., 127. 
 Griffin, Rev. John, 174. 
 Griffith, Rev. Val. P., 200. 
 Guillamore, Lord, 195. 
 fJuinness, Arthur, 18. 
 Guinness, B. L., 24. 
 
 H. 
 
 Halahan, Rev. H., 25. 
 Hales, Doctor, 38. 
 Hall, Admiral Sir W., 112. 
 Hall, Rev. Robert, 193. 
 Hamilton, Dr., 57. 
 Hamilton, Professor, 171. 
 Hamilton, Rev. George, 81. 
 Handcock, Rev. J., 145. 
 Hanlon, Rev. A., 52. 
 Harberton, Viscount, 86. 
 Hardman, Rev. Edward, 146. 
 Hare, Rev. John, 125. 
 Hart, Rev. Richard, 31. 
 Hacket, Rev. J. W., 174. 
 Hastings, Rev. W., 25. 
 
 ^^i 
 
208 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 209 
 
 Heard, Rev. John, 172. 
 Henry, Matthew, 1)0. 
 Hewson, Rev. F., 47. 
 Hitchins, Sailor, 115. 
 Hort, Rev. Charles, 121. 
 Howard, Hon. Frances, 152. 
 Hutchison, Commander, 112. 
 Hutton, Alderman, 16. 
 Hyde, Rev. Arthur, 116. 
 
 I. 
 
 Inchiquin, Lord, 195. 
 Irving, Rev. Edward, 27. 
 Irwin, Archdeacon, 23. 
 Irwin, Rev. Alexander, 169. 
 
 J. 
 
 Jager, Mr., 11. 
 James, G. P., 171. 
 James, Henry, 108. 
 James, Thomas, 114. 
 Jebb, Bishop, 90. 
 Johnson, Archdeacon, 5 1 .. 
 Johnson, Mrs., 16. 
 Joyces, 139. 
 Jukes, Mr., 172. 
 
 K. 
 
 Kavanaghs, 195. 
 Kean, Charles, 6. 
 Kelly, Rev. Thomas, 193. 
 Kelly s, 195. 
 Kemble, John, 6. 
 Kerry, Knight of, 196. 
 Kildare, Archdeacon of, 35. 
 Kildare, Bishop of, 35. 
 Kilmore, Bishop of, 36. 
 
 Kilwarden, Lord, 5. 
 King, Rev. Robert, 92. 
 Kingsale, Lord, 196. 
 Kingston, Rev. J., 51. 
 Kirk, Rev. Mr., 54. 
 Kirton, Rev. Charles, 121. 
 Kirwan, Dean, 4. 
 Kir wans, 197. 
 Kleynick, John, 114. 
 Knox, Alexander, 90. 
 Krause, Rev. William, 91. 
 
 Labatt, Rev. Edward, 200. 
 Lansdowne, Lord, 195. 
 La Touche, 1 6. 
 Le Breton, Rev. Mr., 178. 
 Lefanu, Joseph S., 171. 
 Lefroy, Anthony, 101. 
 Lefroy, Chief Justice, 101. 
 Leinster, Duke of, 196. 
 Leo, Rev. Mr., 55. 
 Le Poers, 196. 
 L'Estrange, Rev. Guy, 161. 
 Lever, Charles, 164. 
 Lever, Rev. John, 164. 
 Lighton, Sir Christopher. 168. 
 Lloyd, Rev. John, 42. 
 Lover, Mr., 171. 
 Lovett, Rev. Mr., 72. 
 Louis XIV., 43. 
 Lynch, Rev. John, 55. 
 Lynches, 197. 
 Lyte, Rev. Mr., 106. 
 
 M. 
 
 Macartney, Ellison, 158. 
 Macaulay, Lord, 202. 
 
 Macdonnells, 196. 
 MackUn, Mis., 87. 
 Maconchy, Rev. AV., 125. 
 Macready, 6. 
 Magee, Archbishop, 18. 
 Magee, Bishop, 153. 
 Magee, Rev. John, 72. 
 Magin, Dr., 171. 
 Maguire, Rev. Tom, 126. 
 Mahons, 195. 
 Mahonys, 195. 
 Malones, 196. 
 Mangan, Charles, 171. 
 Mansfield, Rev. J. D., 145. 
 Mant, Frederick, R.N., 171. 
 Martin, Archdeacon, 50. 
 ^laitins, 197. 
 Mason, Monck H., 18. 
 Massy, Dean Beresford, 121. 
 Massy, Rev. Dawson, 52. 
 
 Massy, Rev. Godfrey, 52. 
 
 Mathias, Rev. B., 17. 
 
 Maturin, Rev. C, 6. 
 
 Maturin, Rev. H., 16. 
 
 Maturin, Rev. W., 7. 
 
 Maude, Hon. Charles, 158. 
 
 Maude, Hon. Dean, 158. 
 
 Maunsell, Dr., 171. 
 
 Mayo, Earl, 115. 
 
 McCarthy, Rev. Dr., 53. 
 
 McCausland, Rev. Mr., 48. 
 
 McGhee, Rev. Robert, 22. 
 
 McGiUicuddys, 195. 
 
 McGlaskin, James, 170. 
 
 McCraub, 65. 
 
 McNeile, Dean, 72. 
 
 Meath, Countess of, 161. 
 
 Medlicott, Rev. S., 146. 
 
 Moflfatt, Rev. G., 160. 
 
 Moore, Jack, 76. 
 
 Moores, 196. 
 
 Moore, Thomas, 129. 
 
 Montgomery, Rev. ^Ir., 54. 
 Moran, Rev. Mr., 55. 
 Moriarty, Rev. Matthew, 55. 
 Moriarty, Rev. -Thomas. 52. 
 MuUoy, Rev. Coote, 165. 
 Mulloys, 195. 
 ^lurray, Dean, 52. 
 
 Naas, Viscount, 115. 
 Neligan, Rev. Mr., 99. 
 JSTangle, Rev. Edward, 120. 
 Nangles, 196. 
 Napoleon, Emperor, 1 1 7. 
 Newcombe, Rev. A., 80. 
 Newman, Dean, 17. 
 Newton, 119. 
 Newton, Rev. John, 83. 
 Nolan, Priest, 55. 
 Nolan, Rev. Thomas, 80. 
 Nugent, Mrs. Richard, 166. 
 Nugents, 196. 
 
 O. 
 
 O'Brien, Bishop, 10. 
 O'Briens, 195. 
 O'Callaghan, Rev. Mr., 55. 
 O'Callaghans, 195. 
 O'Connell, 50. 
 O'Donnells, 196. 
 O'Donovans, 195. 
 O'Flahertys, 193. 
 O'Gradys, 195. 
 O'Haras, 195. 
 Oliver, 102. 
 O'Neills, 195. 
 O'Reillys, 196. 
 Orford, Earl of, 100. 
 
 I 
 
210 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Ormond, Lord, 196. 
 O'SiiUivan, Rev. Mortimer, 
 
 120. 
 O'SulUvan, Rev. Samuel, 172. 
 
 Otway, Rev. Cajsar, 169. 
 
 Ould, Fielding, 35.^ 
 
 Ouseley, Gideon, 85. 
 
 Ouseley, Sir Ralph, 87. 
 
 Owen, Rev. John, 90. 
 
 Robertson, Rev. Frederick, 
 
 190. 
 Robinson, Rev. Romney, 9. 
 Roden, Earl of, 153. 
 Roe, Henry, 83. 
 Roe, Rev. Peter, 81. 
 Roper, Rev. William, 158. 
 Russell, Earl, 195. 
 Ryder, Rev. Roderick, 55. 
 Ryle, Rev. J. C, 35. 
 
 P. 
 
 Pakenham, Hon. H., 136. 
 Parnell, Thomas, 18. 
 Pennefathftrs, 18. 
 Percival, Rev. Henry, 121. 
 Petrie, Doctor, 172. 
 Plunket, Bishop, 147. 
 Plunket, Dean, 146. 
 
 Plunket, Lord, 147. 
 
 Plunket, Rev. W. C, 147. 
 
 Plunkett, Hon. Captain, 111. 
 
 Plunketts, 195. 
 
 Pollock, Rev. Alexander, 92. 
 
 Ponsonby, Bishop, 56. 
 
 Pope, Rev. R. P., 22. 
 
 Potter, Rev. Lewis, 145. 
 
 Pounden, Rev. P., 145. 
 
 Preston, Rev. A., 52. 
 Pusey, Rev. Dr., 101. 
 
 Q. 
 
 Quins, 195. 
 
 R. 
 
 Ram, Rev. Stopford, 121. 
 Radcliffe, Dr., 135. 
 
 S. 
 
 Samuels, Mr., 135. 
 Sandes, Bishop, 30.^ 
 Saunderson, Rev. F., 160. 
 Saurin, Bishop, 100. 
 Savages, 196. 
 Scott, Rev. Thomas, 134. 
 Scott, Sir W., 7. 
 Scotts, 18. 
 
 Seymour, Rev. Charles, 145. 
 Seymour, Rev. Hobart, 145. 
 Shakespeare, 42. 
 Shawe, Rev. G., 146. 
 Shelley, P. B., 6. 
 Sheridan, Donald, 40. 
 Sheridans, 196. 
 Sherrard, Rev. W. N., 84. 
 Shiel, R. L., 50. 
 Simeon, Rev. Charles, 46. 
 Simmonds, Sailor, 115. 
 Sinclair, Archdeacon, 199. 
 Singer, Bishop, 8. 
 Sirr, Rev. Joseph, 143. 
 Skerrets, 139 
 Smith, Rev. Sidney, 120. 
 Smyly, Mrs., 168. 
 Spray, Doctor, 11. 
 Stanford, Rev. Charle?, 91. 
 Stanley, Dean, 190. 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 211 
 
 Stanley, :Mr., 50. 
 Starkey, Digby P., 170. 
 Stewart, Rev. Charles, 200. 
 St. Lawrences, 196. 
 St. Legers, 196. 
 Stockmar, Baron, 186. 
 Stoddard, 100. 
 Stokes, Doctor, 171. 
 Stopford, Archdeacon E. A. 
 
 162. 
 Stopford, Bishop of Cloyne, 
 
 161. 
 Stopford, Bishop of Meath,161. 
 Stopford, Hon. T., Bishop of 
 
 Cork, 16. 
 Stopford, Joseph, D. D., 74. 
 Stowell, Hugh, 35. 
 Street, Mr. George, 83. 
 Swift, Dean, 136, &c. 
 Synge, Francis, 149. 
 Synge, Rev. Alexander, 121. 
 Synge, Rev. Edward, 146. 
 Synge, John, 33. 
 
 T. 
 
 Talbot, Lord de M., 196. 
 Tennaut, Sir Emerson, 171. 
 Thacker, Archdeacon, 84.^ 
 Thomas, Rev. Francis, 125. 
 Tottenham, Rev. Edwajd, 35. 
 Townshend, Horace, 171. 
 Travers, Rev. John, 45. 
 Trelawney, Bishop, 117. 
 Trench, Archbishop, 141. 
 Trench, Archdeacon, 145. 
 Trench, Mrs. F. F., 96. 
 Trench, Rev. F. F., 46. 
 Trench, Rev. John le Poer, 143. 
 Trench, Rev. W. le Poer, 51. 
 Trench, Robert, 48. 
 
 U. 
 
 Ussher, Archbishop, 9 L 
 Ussher, Archdeacon, 57. 
 Ussher, Rev. H., 58. 
 
 V. 
 
 Venedy, Herr, 98. 
 Ventry, Lord, 131. 
 Verschoyle, Bishop, 51, 
 Vingo, Sailor H., 114. 
 
 W. 
 
 Walker, Rev. John C, 144. 
 Waller, J. F., 170. 
 Walpole, Lady G., 100. 
 Walshe, Dean P., 99. 
 Walshe, Rev. Doctor, 164. 
 Warburton, Bishop, 189. 
 Warren, Sergeant, 18. 
 Waterford, Lord, 196. 
 Welland, Rev. Thomas J., 
 
 121. 
 
 Wellington, Duke of, 83. 
 Wesley, John, 14. 
 Westmeath, Lord, 196. 
 We.>t, Rev. W., 171. 
 We^nian, 11. 
 Whately, Aichbishop, 5. 
 White, Rev. Hugh, 21. 
 White, Rev. James, 145. 
 White, Rev. John, 177. 
 Whitestone, Rev. John, 120. 
 
 Wilberforce, Bishop, 148. 
 
 Wilberforce, W., 83. 
 
 Wilde, Sir WiUiam, 172. 
 
 Wilkinson, Robin, 68. 
 
.>1 .> 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Williams, Admiral, RN., 111. 
 Wills, Eev. James, 171. 
 Wilson, Mr. Kobert, 51. 
 Wir.dle, Rev. A., 97. 
 Wingfield, Hon. Edward, 17. 
 Wingfield, Hon. W., 95. 
 Wolfe, General, 5. 
 
 Wolfe, Eev. Charles, 5. 
 Woltf, Dr., 99. 
 Wolff, Sir IL, 100. 
 Woodward, Rev. H., 1G9. 
 Writ-ht, N., Sailor, 115. 
 Wynne, Rev. Arthur, 153. 
 Wyse, Mr., 50. 
 
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 aspired if he had been a layman, or a priest of the Church of England." 
 — Macaulay's History of England. 
 
 Chatterton : A BIOGRAPHICAL STUDY. By Daniel 
 Wilson, LL.D., Professor of Histor>' and English Literature in 
 University College, Toronto. Crown 8vo. 6s. 6d. 
 TVi^ Examiner thinks this '' the most complete and the purest bio- 
 graphy of the poet which has yet appeared." 
 
 Chatterton : A STORY OF THE YEAR 1770. By Professor 
 Masson, LL.D. Crown 8vo. 5x. 
 
 Cooper. — ATHEN.E CANTABRIGIENSES. By Charles 
 Henry Cooper, F.S.A., and Thompson Cooper, F.S.A. 
 Vol. I. 8vo., 1500—85, i8j-. ; Vol. IL, 1586—1609, i8j. 
 
 Correggio. — ANTONIO ALLEGRI da CORREGGIO. From 
 the German of Dr. Julius Meyer, Director of the Royal Gallery, 
 Berlin. Edited, with an Introduction, by Mrs. Heaton. Con- 
 taining Twenty W^oodbury-type Illustrations. Royal 8vo. Cloth 
 elegant. 3IX. 6d. 
 ** The best and most readable biography of the master at present to be 
 
 found in the English language "—ACADEUY. "By its pictures alone 
 
 the book forms a worthy tribute to the painters genius. " — Pall Mall 
 
 Gazette. 
 
 Cox (G. v., M.A.)--RECOLLECTIONS OF OXFORD. 
 By G. V. Cox, M.A., New College, late Esquire Bedel and 
 Coroner in the University of Oxford. Cheaper Edition. Crown 8vo. 
 
 6^. 
 
 *' An amusing farrago of anecdote, and will pleasantly recall in many 
 a country parsonage the memory of youthful days." — TiMfiS. 
 
 •'Daily News."— the daily news' CORRESPOND- 
 
 ENCE of the War between Germany and France, 1870— I. Edited 
 with Notes and Comments. New Edition. Complete in One 
 Volume. With Maps and Plans. Crown 8vo. 6s. 
 
 Deas. — THE RIVER CLYDE. An Historical Description of the 
 Rise and Progress of the Harbour of Glasgow, and of the Im- 
 provement of the River from Glasgow to Port Glasgow. By J. 
 Deas, M. Inst. C.E. 8vo. lOf. 6d.] 
 
 % 
 
 
6 MACMU LAN'S CATALOGUE OF WORKS IN ' 
 
 Dilke.— GREATER BRITAIN. A Record of Travel in English- 
 
 speaking Countries during 1866-7. (America, Australia, India.) 
 
 By Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke, M.P. Sixth Edition. 
 
 Crown Svo. ds. 
 
 ** Many of the subjects discussed in these pages ^' says the Daily Ne\V5, 
 
 " ctre of the widest interest^ and such as no man who cares for the future 
 
 of his rctce and of the world can afford to treat with indifference.*' 
 
 Doyle.— HISTORY OF AMERICA. By J. A. Doyle. With 
 Maps. i8mo. 4J. 6d. 
 '■^ Mr. Doyle's style is clear and simple, his facts are accurately stated y 
 and his book is meritoriously free from prejudice on questions where 
 partisanship runs high amongst us."*' — Saturday Review. 
 
 Drummond of Hawthornden : the STORY OF HIS 
 LIFE AND WRITINGS. By Professor Masson. With Por- 
 trait and Yignette engraved by C. H. Jeens. Crown 8vo. los, 6d. 
 y J round his hero^ Professor Masson groufs national at id individual 
 episodes and sketches of character, which arc of the greatest interest, and 
 which add to the value of a Inographical work xvhich 7ve warmly recom- 
 mend to the lai>ers of thoroughly healthy books.*'' — Notes and Queries. 
 
 Duff.— NOTES OF AN INDIAN JOURNEY. By M. E. Grant- 
 Puff, M.P., late Under Secretary of State for India. With Map. 
 8vo. icts. 6d. 
 *• These notes are full of pleasant remarks and illustrations, borrowed 
 from rj.ry kind of source.'" — Saturday Review. 
 
 Elliott.— LIFE OF HENRY VENN ELLIOTT, of Brighton. 
 
 By Josiah Bateman, M.A., Author of "Life of Daniel Wilson, 
 
 Bishop of Calcutta," &c. With Portrait, engraved by Jeens. 
 
 Extra fcap. 8vo. Thiird and Cheaper Edition, with Appendix. 6j. 
 
 ««^ yery charming piece of religious biograpJiy ; no one can read it 
 
 without both pleasure and pyrofii.''* — British Quarterly Review. 
 
 Elze.— ESSAYS ON SHAKESPEARE. By Dr. Karl Elze. 
 Translated- with the Author's sanction by L. Dora Schmitz. 
 8vo. 12^. 
 *'yi more desirable contribution to enticism has not recently been made.'* 
 
 — ATHEN/F.rM. 
 
 Eton College, History of. By H. C. Maxwell Lyte, 
 
 M.A. With numerous Illustrations by Professor Delamotte, 
 
 Coloured PUtes, and a, Steel Portrait of the Founder, ei^grared 
 
 by C. H. Jeens. Medium 8vo. Cloth elegant. 31^-. 6d. 
 
 ** Hitherto tw account of the College, xoith all its associations, has 
 
 appeared which can compare either in completeness or in interest with 
 
 HISTORY, BIOGRAPHY, TRAVELS, ETC, 
 
 this. . . . It is indeed a book worthy of the ancient renown of Kifig 
 Henry s College.'" — Daily News. 
 
 European History, Narrated in a Series of Historical 
 
 Selections from the best Authorities. Edited and arranged by 
 
 E. M. Sewell and C. M. Yonge. First Series, crown 8vo. 6s. ; 
 
 Second Series, 1088-1228, crown 8vo. 6s. Third Edition. 
 
 " fVe know of scarcely anything,*' says the Guardian, of this volUhte, 
 
 "which is so likely to raise to a higher Iroel the average standard of 
 
 English education.''' 
 
 Faraday.— MICHAEL FARADAY. By J. H. Gladstone, 
 Ph.D., F. R.S. Second Edition, with Portrait engraved by Jeens 
 from a photograph by J. Watkins. Crown 8vo. 4r. 6d. 
 PORTRAIT. Artist's Proof. 5.^. 
 
 Contents :— /. The Story of his Lije. II. Study of his Character. 
 Ill Fruits of his Experience. IV. His Method of Writing. V. The 
 'Value of his Discoz<eries. —Stipplementary Portraits. Appendices : — List 
 of Honorary Fellowships, etc. 
 
 Fisher.— THE CALIFORNIANS. By Walter M. Firmer. 
 Crown 8vo. 6s. 
 
 Forbes.— LIFE -AND LETTERS OF JAMES DAVID 
 FORBES, F.R.S., late Principal of the United College in the 
 University of St. Andrews. By J. C. Shairp, LL.D., Principal 
 of the United College in the University of St. Andrews ; P. G. 
 Tait, M.A., Professor of Natural Philosophy in the University 
 of Edinburgh; and A. Adams-Reilly, F.R.G.S. 8vo. with 
 Portraits, Map, and Illustrations, i6j". 
 ^'' Not only a biography that all should read, but a scientific treatise, 
 idithout which the shelves of no physicist* s library can be deemed com- 
 plete. "—Standard. 
 
 Freeman.- — Works by Edward A. Freeman, M.A., D.C.L; : — 
 HISTORICAL ESSAYS. By Edward Freeman, M.A., Hon. 
 D.C.L.J late Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford. Third Edition. 
 8vo. \os. 6d. 
 Contents: — /. '■^The Mythical and Romantic Elements in Early 
 English History;** IL ''The Continuity of English History;** III. 
 ^'The Relations between the Crowns of ^England and Scotland ;** IV. 
 *• St. Thomas of Canterbury and his Biographers ;** V. " The Reign of 
 Edward the Third;'* VI. ''The Holy Roman Empire;'* VIL "The 
 Franks and the Gauls;** VIII. "The Early Sieges of Pans;** IX. 
 "Frederick the First, King of Italy ;** X. "The Emperor Frederick the 
 Second;** XL "Charles the Bold ;** XIL " Presidential Governmeiit:* 
 — " All of them are well worth reading, and very agreeable to read. He 
 n^er touches a question ivithout adding to our comprehension of it, with- 
 out leaving the impression of an ample knowledge, a righteous pitrpose, a 
 clear and powerfid understanding.** — Saturday Review. 
 
8 MACMILLAPPS CATALOGUE OF WORKS IN 
 
 Freeman — continued. 
 
 A SECOND SERIES OF HISTORICAL ESSAYS. 8vo. 
 lOj. dd. 
 
 The principal Essays are: — ^^ Ancient Greece and Medicrval Italy :^^ 
 ** Mr. Gladstones Horner and the Homeric Ages r' ''The Historians 
 of Athens :" " The Athenian Democracy: ' ''Alexander the Great:'' 
 ''Greece during the Macedonian Period:''' "Mommsens History of Rome :"" 
 "Lucius Cornelius Sulla ;" *' The Flazian Cccsars.'' 
 
 COMPARATIVE POLITICS.— Lectures at the Royal Institution. 
 To which is added the " Unity of History," the Rede Lecture at 
 Cambridge, 1872. 8vo. 14J. 
 
 THE HISTORY AND CONQUESTS OF THE SARACENS. 
 Six Lectures. Third Edition, with New Preface. Crown 8vo. 
 3J. 6d. 
 "Mr. Freeman opportunely reprints his erudite and valuable lec- 
 tures.'' — Daily Telegraph. 
 
 HISTORICAL AND ARCHITECTURAL SKETCHES : 
 chiefly Italian. With Illustrations by the Author. Crown 8vo. 
 10 J. 6</. 
 " Mr. Freeman ma y here fie said to give us a series of ' notes on the 
 spot * in illustration oj the intimate relations of History and Architecture^ 
 and this is done in so masterly a manner — there is so much freshness, so 
 much knoxvledge so admirably condensed, that we are almost tempted to 
 say that we prefer these sketches to his more elaborate studies.'' — Noncon- 
 formist. 
 
 HISTORY OF FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, from the Foun- 
 dation of the Achaian League to the Disruption of the United 
 States. Vol. I. General Introduction. History of the Greek 
 Federations. 8vo. 21s. 
 
 OLD ENGLISH HISTORY. V^iih Five Coloured Maps. Fourth 
 Edition. Extra fcap. 8vo., half-bound. 6s. 
 
 " The book indeed is full of instruction and interest to students of all 
 ageSy and he must be a well-informed man indeed who will not rise 
 from its perusal with clearer and more accurate ideas of a too much 
 neglected portion oJ English history." — Spectator. 
 
 HISTORY OF THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF WELLS, 
 as illustrating the History of the Cathedral Churches of the Old 
 Foundation. Crown 8vo. 3^. dd. 
 ** The history assumes in Mr. Freeman's hands a significance,' and, we 
 may add, a practical value as suggestive of what a cathedral ought to bCy 
 which make'it well worthy of mention." — SPECTATOR. 
 
 THE GROWTH OF THE ENGLISH CONSTITUTION 
 FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES. Crown 8vo. 5^. Third 
 Edition, revised. 
 
 HISTORY, BIOGRAPHY, TRAVELS, ETC. 
 
 F re e m a n — continued. 
 
 GENERAL SKETCH OF EUROPEAN HISTORY. Being 
 Vol. I. of a Historical Course for Schools edited by E. A. 
 Freeman. Fifth Edition, enlarged. With Maps, Chronological 
 Table, Index, &c. i8mo. 3^. dd. 
 ** It supplies the great want of a good foundation for historical teach- 
 ing. The scheme is an excellent one, and this instalment has been 
 excepted in a way that promises much for the volumes that are yet 
 to appear," — EDUCATIONAL Times. 
 
 Galileo.— THE PRIVATE LIFE OF GALILEO. Compiled 
 principally from his Correspondence and that of his eldest 
 daughter, Sister Maria Celeste, Nun in the Franciscan Convent of^ 
 S. Matthew in Arcetri. With Portrait. Crown 8vo. *ls. 6d. 
 
 E. Gladstone, 
 
 Gladstone— Works by the Right Hon. W. 
 M.P. :— 
 JUVENTUS MUNDI. The Gods and Men of the Heroic Age. 
 
 Crown 8vo. cloth. With Map. ioj. 6d. Second Edition. 
 " Seldom," says the ATHENiEUM, *' out op the great poems themselves, 
 have these Divinities looked so majestic and respectable. To read these 
 brilliant details is like standing on the Olympian threshold and gazing at 
 the ineffable brightness within." 
 
 HOMERIC SYNCHRONISM. An inquiry into the Time and 
 
 Place of Homer. Crown 8vo. 6j. 
 "It is impossible not to admire the immense range of thought and 
 inquiry which the author has displayed."— British Quarterly 
 Review. 
 
 Goethe and Mendelssohn (1821— 1831). Translated from the 
 
 German of Dr. Karl Mendelssohn, Son of the Composer, by 
 M. E. Von Glehn. From the Private Diaries and Homer 
 ' , Letters of Mendelssohn, with Poems and Letters of Goethe never 
 before printed. Also with two New and Original Portraits, Fac- 
 similes, and Appendix of Twenty Letters hitherto unpublished. 
 Crown 8vo. 5^. Second Edition, enlarged. 
 " The volume is most welcome, qiving us, as it does, vivid though brief 
 glimpses of the famous musician as a boy, a youth, and a man. But 
 above all, it gives us a glowing picture of the boy Mendelssohn at Wei- 
 mar vt its golden days. . . . Every page is full of interest, not 
 merely to the musician, but to the general reader. The book is a very 
 charming one, on a topic of deep and lasting interest." — STANDARD. 
 
 Goldsmid. — TELEGRAPH AND TRAVEL. A Narrative of 
 the Formation and Development of Telegraphic Communication 
 between England and India, under the orders of Her Majesty s 
 
lo MACMILLAN'S CATALOGUE OF WORKS IN 
 
 Government, with incidental Notices of the Countries traversed by 
 
 the Lines. By Colonel Sir Frederic Goldsmid, C.B. K.C.S.L, 
 
 late Director of the Government Indo-European Telegraph. With 
 
 numerous Illustrations and Maps. 8vo. 2iJ. 
 
 *' T^ie second portion of the work, less historical, bnt more likely to 
 
 attract the general reader, is composed of bright sketches from Persia^ 
 
 Russia, the Crimea, Tartary, and the Indian Peninsula ; both sketches 
 
 bdHg illuminated by a profusion of delicate woodcuts, admirably drawn, 
 
 and as admirably engraved. . . . The merit of the ivork is a total 
 
 absence of exaggeration, which does not, however, preclude a vividness and 
 
 vigour of style not always characteristic oj similar narrativesy — 
 
 Standard. 
 
 Gordon.— LAST letters from EGYPT, to which are added 
 
 Letters from the Cape. By Lady Duff Gordon. With a 
 
 jVIemoir by her Daughter, Mrs. Ross, and Portrait engraved by 
 
 Jeens. Second Edition. Crovvn 8vo. 9^. 
 
 *' TIic intending tourist who wishes to acquaint himself wilh the country 
 
 he is about to visit, stands embarrassed amidst the riches presented for his 
 
 choice, and in the end probably rests contented with the sober usefulness oJ 
 
 Murray. He will not, honvti'er, if he is well advised, grudge a place in 
 
 his port7nanteau to this book." — Times. 
 
 Green. — Works by John Richard Green:— 
 
 A SHORT HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH PEOPLE. With 
 Colouretl Maps, Genealogical Tables, and Chronolc^ical Annals. 
 Crown 8vo. Ss. tfd. Forty-third Thousand. 
 ** To say that Mr. Grten's book ts better than those ivhich have pre- 
 ceded it, would be to convey a very inadequate impression of its merits. It 
 stands alone as the one general history of the conntty, for the sake of 
 which all others, if young and old are 7vise, will be speedily and surely set 
 aside. It is perhaps the highest praise that can be given to it, that it is 
 impossible to discover whether it was intended for the young or for the old. 
 The size and general look of the book, its vividness of narration, and its 
 (woidance of abstruse argument, would place it among schoolbooks ; but 
 its fresh and original views, and its general historical poiver, are only to 
 be appreciated by those who have tried their oztfti hand at wi'iting history, 
 and -who kno'v the enormous difficulties of the task^ — Mr. Samuel R. 
 Gardiner in the Academy. 
 
 HISTORY OF THE ENCILISH PEOPLE. Vol. L Early 
 England to the Norman Conquest, 449-1071. With Maps. 
 %\o. I4.f. ; ^Shortly. 
 
 STRAY STUDIES FROM ENGLAND AND ITALY. Cro\«i 
 
 8vo. Sj. (xi. 
 ** One and all of the papers are eminently 7'eadable." — ATHENitUM. 
 
 HISTORY, BIOGRAPHY, TRAVELS, ETC. 11 
 
 Hamerton. — Works by p. G. Hamerton :— 
 
 THE INTELLECTUAL LIFE. With a Portrait of Leonardo da 
 Vinci, etched by LEOPOLD Flameng. Crown 8vo. los. 6d. 
 
 ** We have read the whole book with great pleasierv, and we can re- 
 commend it strongly to all who can appreciate grave reflections on a very 
 important subject, excellently illustrated fivm the resources of a mind 
 stored with much reading and much keen observation of real life.'*'' — 
 Saturday REVIE^v. 
 
 THOUGHTS ABOUT ART. New Edition, revised, with an 
 Introduction, Crown 8vo. 8^. 6d. 
 
 *^ A manual of sound and thorough criticism on art^ — STANDARD. 
 " TJie book is full of thought, and wortfiy of attentive consider'cUion.^'' — 
 Daily News. 
 
 Hill.— WHAT WE SAW IN AUSTRALIA. By Rosamond 
 and Florence Hill. Crown 8vo. lo^. 6d. 
 ** Afay be recommended as an interesting and truthful picture cf the 
 condition of those lands whicli are so distant and yet so much like horfie.^* 
 — Saturday Review. 
 
 Hole.— A GENEALOGICAL STEMMA OF THE KINGS 
 OF ENGLAND AND FRANCE. By the Rev. C. Hole, 
 M.A,, Trinity College, Cambridge. On Sheet, is. 
 
 Hozier (H. M.) — Works by Captain H^nry M. Hozier, 
 late Assistant Military Secretary to Lord Napier of Magdala. 
 
 THE SEVEN WEEKS' WAR ; Its Antecedents and Incidents. 
 
 New and Cheaper Edition. With New Preface, Maps, and Plans. 
 
 Crown 8vo. 6s. 
 
 ** All that Mr. Hozier saw oJ the great events of the war— and he saw 
 
 a large share of them — he describes in clear and vivid language.^* — 
 
 Saturday Review. 
 
 THE BRITISH EXPEDITION TO ABYSSINIA. Compiled 
 from Authentic Documents. 8vo. gs. 
 
 *• This,'' says tJte Spectator, *' will be the account of the Abys- 
 sinian Expedition for professional refeience, if not for professional 
 reading. Its literary mails are really very great.'' 
 
 THE INVASIONS OF ENGLAND : a History of the Past, with 
 Lessons for the Future. Two Vols. 8ro. 2%s. 
 
 Hiibner. — a RAMBLE ROUND THE WORLD IN 187T. By 
 M. Le Baron Hijbner, formerly Ambassador and Minister. 
 Translated by Lady Herbert. 2 vols. 8vo. 2p. 
 ** // is difficult to do ample justice to this pleasant narratrJt of travel 
 
 . ... it does not contain a single dull paragraph."— MOKlfliiG Post. 
 
12 
 
 MACMILLAN'S CATALOGUE OF WORKS IN 
 
 Hughes.— MEMOIR OF A BROTHER. By Thomas Hughes, 
 M.P., Author of "Tom Brown's School Days." With Portrait of 
 George Hughes, after Watts. Engraved by Jeens, Crown 
 8vo. 5^. Sixth Edition. 
 ** 77ie boy who can read this book without deriving from it some addi- 
 tional impulse towards honourable, manly, and independent conduct, has 
 no good stuff in /«>//."— Daily News. " IVeJiave read it with the 
 deepest gratification and with real admiration.^' — Standard. ^' The 
 biography throughout is replete with interest.'"— UOK^^G Post. 
 
 Hunt.— HISTORY OF ITALY. By the Rev. W. Hunt, M.A. 
 Bein<^ the Fourth Volume of the Historical Course for Schools. 
 Edited by Edward A. Freeman, D.C.L. iSmo. 3^. 
 ** Mr. Hunt gives us a most compact but very readable little book, con- 
 taining in small compass a very complete outline of a complicated and 
 perplexing subject. It is a book which may be scifely recommended to 
 others besides schoolboys.''— John Bull. 
 
 Huyshe (Captain G. L.)— THE RED RIVER EXPE- 
 DITION. By Captain G. L. Huyshe, Rifle Brigade, late on 
 the Staff of Colonel Sir Garnet Wolseley. With Maps. 
 Cheaper Edition. Crown 8vo. 6s. 
 The Athenaeum calls it '' an enduring authentic record of one of 
 
 the most creditable achievements ever accomplished by the British Army." 
 
 Irving.— THE ANNALS OF OUR TIME. A Diurnal of Events, 
 
 Social and Political, Home and Foreign, from the Accession of 
 
 Queen Victoria to the Peace of Versailles. By Joseph Irving. 
 
 Fourth Edition. 8vo. half-bound. i6j. 
 
 ANNALS OF OUR TIME. Supplement. From Feb. 28, 187 1, 
 
 to March 19, 1874. 8vo. a^. dd. 
 *' We have before us a trusty and ready guide to the events of the 
 past thirty years, available equally for the statesman, the politician, the 
 public writer, and the general reader." — Times. 
 
 Killen.— ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY OF IRELAND, from 
 the Earliest Date to the Present Time. By W. D. Killen, D.D., 
 President of Assembly's College, Belfast, and Professor of Eccle- 
 siastical History. Two Vols. 8vo. z^s. 
 ** Those who have the leisure n'ill do wdl to read these two volumes. 
 
 They are full of interest, and are the result of great research. . . . IVe 
 
 have no hesitation in recommending the ^cork to all 7vho wiih to improve 
 
 their acquaintance with Irish A/j/t?;^."— SPECTATOR. 
 
 Kingsley (Charles). — WVksby the Rev. Charles Kingsley, 
 M.A., Rector of Eversley and Canon of Westminster. (For 
 other Works by the same Author, see Theological and Belles 
 Lettres Catalogues.) 
 
 HISTORY, BIOGRAPHY, TRAVELS, ETC, 13 
 
 Kingsley (Charles) — continued. 
 ON THE ANCIEN REGIME as it existed on the Continent before 
 the French Revolution. Three Lectures delivered at the 
 Royal Institution. Crown 8vo. 6s. 
 AT LAST • A CHRISTMAS in the WEST INDIES. With nearly 
 
 Fifty Illustrations. Fourth Edition. Crown 8vo. 6j. 
 Mr Kingsley' s dream of forty years was at last fulfilled when he 
 started on aWristmas expedition to the West Indies, for' he purpose of 
 Iteming personally acquainted with the scenes which he has ^0 vividly 
 de ribed in " WesLard Ho!'' These two volumes ^^f he journal of h^ 
 vova^e Records of natural history, sketches of tropical andscape, chapters 
 oneducatZ vieis of society, all find their place ^^We can only say^ 
 tJiat Mr. Kin^sleVs account of a ' Christmas tn the West Indies uiH 
 Teryway worThy to be classed among his happiest productions. - 
 Standard. 
 
 TRF ROMAN AND THE TEUTON. A Series of Lectures 
 
 de^ivfr?d btfore the University of Cambridge. New and Cheaper 
 
 Edldon with Preface by Professor Crown 8vo. 6.. 
 
 PLAYS AND PURITANS, and other Historical Essays. With 
 
 Portrait of Sir Walter Raleigh. Second Edition. Crown 8vo. 
 
 In'addition to the Essay mentioned in the tUle, this volume contains 
 oth^ two-one on ^^ Sir Walter Raleigh and his Time," and on, on 
 Froudis '^ History of England." 
 
 Kingsley (Henry).— TALES OF OLD TRAVEL. Re- 
 narrated by Henry Kingsley, F.R.G.S. With ^.^>^/ ///«.- 
 /ra//<7«J by HUARD. Fifth Edition. Crown 8 vo. 6s 
 - Wekn^no better book for those who want knowledge or seek to 
 
 refresh U.^s for the ^ sensalnal,' most ncrvels are tame compared wUh 
 
 these narratives."— ATllEiiJEVM. 
 
 T aVinnrhere —DIARY OF THE BESIEGED RESIDENT 
 m PARIS Reprinted fVom the Z).^;. A'^., with several New 
 I^tt^tt and Preface! By Henry Labouchere. Third Edition. 
 Crown 8vo. 6s. 
 
 LaoCOOn.-Translated from the Text of Lessmg with P^^^^^^^^ 
 Notes by the Right Hon. SiR Robert J. Phillimore, D.UL. 
 With Photographs. Svo. I2s, 
 
 T o/^r.QrHn da Vinci and his Works.— Consisting of a 
 
f4 MACMILLAi^S CATA LOGUE OF WORKS IN 
 
 Scientific and Literary Works by Charles Christopher 
 Black, M.A., and an account of his more important Pamtmgs 
 and Drawings. Illustrated with Permanent Photographs. Royal 
 Svo. cloth, extra gilt. 31^.6^/. 
 " A beautiful volume, both without and unthin. Messrs. Macnullan 
 are conspicuous among publishers for the choice binding and printing of 
 their books, and this is got up in their best style. . . . No En^^ltsh 
 publication that we kncnu of has so thoroughly and attractively collected 
 together all that is known of Leonardo." — Times. 
 
 Liechtenstein,— FIOLLAND HOUSE. By Princess Marie 
 Hechtensteix. With Five Steel Engravings by C. H. Jeens, 
 after Paintings by Watts and other celebrated Artists, and 
 numerous Illustrations drawn by Professor P. H. Delamotte, and 
 engraved on Wood by J. D. Cooper, W. Palmer, andjEWiTT & 
 Co. Third and Cheaper Edition. Medium Svo. cloth elegant. 
 
 i6j-. 
 Also, an Edition containing, in addition to the above, about 40 
 Illustrations by the Woodbury-type process, and India Proofs of 
 the Steel Engravings. Two vols, medium 4to. half morocco 
 
 elegant. 4/. 4J. , 7 r a 
 
 •* When every strictly just exception shall have been taken, she may Oc 
 conscientiously congratulated by the most scrupulous critic on the produc- 
 tion of a useful, agreeable, beautifully -illHStrated, and attractive book. — 
 Times. " // rvould take up more room than wt can spare to etmmeraie 
 all the interesting suggestions and notes which are to be found tn these 
 
 volumes The woodcuts are admirable, and some of the autographs 
 
 are very interesting."— Vaj.l Mall Gazette. 
 
 Lloyd.— THE AGE OF PERICLES. A History of the Arts and 
 Politics of Greece from the Persian to the Peloponnesian War. 
 By W. Waikiss Lloyd. Two Vols. 8va 2IJ. 
 '' No such account of Greek art of the best period has yet been brought 
 
 together in an English work Mr. Lloyd has produced a book of 
 
 unusual excellence and interest." — Pall Mall Gazette. 
 
 Lyte.— A HISTORY OF ETON COLLEGE. 144^1875. By 
 
 H. Maxwell Lyte, M.A. With numerous Illustrations by P. 
 
 H. Delamotte, coloured Plates, and a Portrait of the Founder, 
 
 engraved by JEENS. Royal Svo. Ooth extra. 3IJ. (xi. 
 
 " We arc at length presented with a 7Vork on England's greatest public 
 
 school, worthy of the subject of zohich it treats. . . . A really valuable and 
 
 authentic history of Eton College."— GuxRBiAS. 
 
 Macarthur.— HLSTORY OF SCOTLAND. By Margaret 
 Macarthur. Being the Third Volume of the Historical Course 
 
 HISTORY, BIOGRAPHY, TRAVELS, ETC. 15 
 
 Second 
 
 for Schools, Edited by Edward A. Freeman, D.C.L. 
 
 Edition. iSmo. 2s. 
 
 ^^ It is an excellent summary, unimpeachable as to facts, and putting 
 
 them in the clearest and most impartial light attainable."— Gv ARTilh.'ii. 
 
 No previous History of Scotland of the same bulk is anything like so 
 
 'esei-ves to be so extensively used as a text-book." — Globe. 
 
 trustworthy, or deser 
 
 Macmillan (Rev. Hugh). — For other Works by same Author, 
 see Theological and Scientific Catalogues. 
 
 HOLIDAYS ON HIGH LANDS ; or. Rambles and Incidents in 
 search of Alpine Plants. Second Edition, revised and enlarged. 
 Globe Svo. cloth. 6j. 
 *•* Botanical knaiuledge is blended with a love of nature, a pious en-- 
 thusiasm, and a rich felicity of diction not to be met with in any works 
 of kindred character, if we except those of Hugh Miller."— Telegravh. 
 *'Mr. Macmillan s glozaing pictures of Scandinavian scenay." — 
 Saturday Review. 
 
 Macready. — macready'S reminiscences and se- 
 lections FROM HIS DIARIES AND LETTERS. Edited 
 by Sir F. Pollock, Bart., one of his Executors. With Four 
 Portraits engraved by Jeens. New and Cheaper Edition. Crown 
 Svo. ']s. 6d. 
 *< As a careful and for the most part just estimate of the stage during 
 a very brilliant period, the attraction of these volumes can scarcely be 
 surpassed. .... Readers who have no special interest in theatrical 
 matters, but enjoy miscellaneous gossip, will be allured from page to page, 
 attracted by familiar )iamcs and by observations upon popular actors and 
 authors." — Spectator, 
 
 Mahaffy. — Works by the Rev. J. P. Mahaffy, M.A., Fellow of 
 Trinity College, Dublin : — 
 SOCIAL LIFE IN GREECE FROM HOMER TO MENAN- 
 DER. Second Edition, revised and enlarged. Crown Svo. 
 
 1^- 6^« ... „ 
 
 *• A book so fresh in its tJwught and so independent in its criticism. — 
 
 AXHENi^UM. 
 
 RAMBLES AND STUDIES IN GREECE. W^ith Illustrations. 
 Crown Svo. Sj-. 6d. 
 
 Margary.— THE JOURNEY OF AUGUSTUS RAYMOND 
 MARGARY FROM SHANGHAE TO BHAMO AND BACK 
 TO MANWYNE. From his Journals and Letters, with a brief 
 Biographical Preface, a concluding chapter by Sir RUTHERFORD 
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 LIFE OF JOHN MILTON. Narrated in connection with the 
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 ** This is a very interesting addition to our knowledge of the great 
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 Merewether.— BY sea and by land. Being a Trip 
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 America — all Round the World. By Henry Alworth Mere- 
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 ^"—Glasgow Daily News. 
 
 Michael Angelo Buonarotti ; Sculptor, Painter, Architect- 
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 Illustrated by 20 Permanent Photographs. Royal 8vo. cloth- 
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 lion is «<•<•//«/."— Standard. 
 
 Mitford (A. B.)— TALES OF OLD JAPAN. By A. B. 
 
 •^h TORD Second Secretary to the British Legation -n Japan. 
 
 With upwards of 30 Illustrations, dra«m and cut on Wood by 
 
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 Mnnt^iro —ANGOLA AND THE RIVER CONGO. By 
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 MorlaOft — TITE LIFE AND TIMES OF SAINT BERNARD, 
 
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 HISTORY, BIOGRAPHY, TRAVELS, ETC. 19 
 
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 of Napoleon which has been written." 
 
 Oliphant (Mrs.).— the makers of Florence : Dante 
 
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 numerous Illustrations from drawings by Professor Delamotte, 
 and portrait of Savonarola, engraved by Jeens. Medium 8vo. 
 Cloth extra. 21s. 
 
 ** Mrs. Oliphant has fuade a beautiful addition to tJie mass of literature 
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 Oliphant.— the duke and the scholar ; and other 
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 ** This volume contaiusone of the most beautiful biographical essfiys we 
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 FESSORS AND LECTURERS OF OVVENS COLLEGE, MANCHESTER. 
 
 Published in Commemoration of the Opening of the New College 
 Buildings, October 7th, 1873. Svo. 14s. 
 This volume contains papers by the Duke of Devonshire, K. G.,F.R.S.; 
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 Balfour Stewart, F.P.S. ; Professor Core ; W. Boyd Dawkins, F.R.S. ; 
 Professor Reynolds ; Professor Williamson, F.R.S. ; Professor Gam^e ; 
 Professor WUkins ; Professor Theodores ; Hermann Breymann ; FrO' 
 fessor Bryee, J). C. L. ; Professor Jevons ; and Professor Ward. 
 
 Palgrave (Sir F.)— history of nqrmandy and 
 
 OF ENGLAND. By Sir Francis Palgrave, Deputy Keeper 
 of Her Majesty's Public Records. Completing the History to the 
 D«iath of William Rufus. Vols. II— IV. zis. e^ch. 
 
 Ptflgrave (W. G.)— a narrative of a year's 
 
 JOURNEY THROUGH CENTRAL AND EASTERN 
 ARABIA, 1862-3. By William Gifford Palgrave, late of 
 the Eighth Regiment Bombay N. I. Sixth Edition, With Maps, 
 
 6 2 
 
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 Palgrave (W. G.) — continued. 
 
 Plans, and Portrait of Author, engraved on steel by Jeens. 
 8vo. 6j. , 
 
 " He has not only wnttm one of the best hooks on the Arabs and one 
 
 ,„^."_FoRTNlGHTLy REVIEW. 
 
 ESSAYS ON EASTERN QUESTIONS. By W. G.fford 
 
 Palgrave. 8vo. ioj. 6</. 
 " These essays are full of anecdote and interest. The hook is decidedly 
 
 Ihese '^"^Y/ "'^^ J'*"' J . u of literature on ivhuh men must 
 
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 Saturday Review. 
 
 DUTCH GUIANA. With Maps and Plans. 8vo. gs. 
 
 - Must he considered a valuable addition to our knowledge of Dutch 
 Guiana.''— ATHE^VMMVyC. 
 
 I>of f i*Qon — T IFF AND I ETTERS OF JOHN COLERIDGE 
 ^^"rTTESON aD%°io^I^Bishop of ^he Mela^ 
 
 ■Rv Thartotte M Yonge, Author of The Heir ot Keaciyne. 
 w'ilh Portraulato R.chm^np and from Pho/og-P*';^"^^^*'^^'' 
 Jeens. With Map. Fifth Edition. Two Vols. Crown 8vo. I2s 
 
 " Miss yo'iet's work is in one res feci a model Hoffrafiy. ft « «^< 
 „p fZt .ZIy of Pattesons own UUers f -'/'':,' X'jt.f a^l 
 home once and for all, his '<>"«fonde»cetookthjMm f^f^^^-.^^ 
 
 such sons need r^er despair of its future.' -Satlrday Review. 
 Pauli.-PICTURES OF OLD ENGLAND By D.Reinhold 
 
 Pauli. Translated, with the approval of the Author, byh.. C. 
 
 Otte. Cheaper Edition. Crown Svo. 6j. 
 
 Payer.-NEW lands within the arctic cir^^^^^^^^ 
 
 Narrative of the Discoveries of the Austrian Ship, Yg^^^l^" ^ 
 ' .t^TT Bv lULius Payer, one of the Commanders of the 
 ? I Tit' With upwards of oo Illustrations by the Author, 
 l^^TYr^^^:r^^ Route Maps. Two Vols. Medium 
 8vo. 32J. 
 
 HISTORY, BIOGRAPHY, TRAVELS, ETC. 21 
 
 The Times says: — **// is scarcely possible^ we think, to speak too 
 Jiighly of the manner in 7uhich Lieut. Payer has set forth the results and 
 strange adventures of the little party in the * Tegetthoff.' Had the expe- 
 dition produced no other results than these tzvo attractive and instructive 
 volumes, many readers, we dare say, will be selfish enough to think that 
 the genuine pleasure they will gri>e to the many is a sufficient return for 
 the outlay incurred, and the sufferings of the feiv who formed the expedi- 
 tion, liith rare but unobtrusive art, unmistakable enthusiasm, enviable 
 power of clear and graphic description and portraiture, the whole 
 brightened by t/uiet but irrepressible humour and cheeifulntss, Payer tells 
 the story of the life of the apparently forlorn party from day to day during 
 their two years' imprisonment in the wandering ice. . . . JVe com- 
 mend the careful study of Litut. Payer's observations, and advise all who 
 desire to enjoy a genuine and unalloyed pleasure to read his book, which 
 will bear more than one perusal. We are mistaken if it does not take 
 rank with the best of our English Arctic narratives, and become a per- 
 manent favourite with old and young. The taell- executed illustrations 
 from the pencil of the author add greatly to the value and attractions of 
 the book. 
 
 Persia. — eastern Persia. An Account of the Journeys of 
 the Persian Boundary Commission, 1870-I-2. — Vol. I. The Geo- 
 graphy, with Narratives by Majors St. John, Lovett, and EUAN 
 Smith, and an Introduction by Major-General Sir Frederic 
 GOLDSMID, C.B., K. C.S.I. , British Commissioner and Arbitrator. 
 With Maps and Illustrations.— Vol. 11. The Zoology and Geology. 
 By W. T. Blanford, A.R.S.M., F.R.S. With Coloured Illus- 
 trations. Two Vols. 8vo. 42J. 
 '* The volumes largely increase our store of information about 
 
 countries with which Englishmen ought to be familiar 
 
 They throw into the shade all that hitherto has appeared in our tongue 
 respecting the local features of Persia, its scenery, its resources, even its 
 social condition. Thev contain also abundant evidence of English 
 endurance, daring, and spirit." —Times. 
 
 Prichard.— the administration of INDIA. From 
 
 1859 to 1868. The First Ten Years of Administration under the 
 
 Crown. By Iltudus Thomas Prichard, Barrister-at-Law. 
 
 Two Vols. Demy 8vo. With Map. 21s. 
 
 ** It is a work which every Englishman in India ought to add to his 
 
 library."— Star OF INDIA. 
 
 Raphael.— RAPHAEL OF URBINO AND HIS FATHER 
 GIOVANNI SANTI. By J. D. Passavant, formerly Director 
 of the Museum at Frankfort. With Twenty Permanent Photo- 
 graphs. Royal 8vo. Handsomely bound. 31^. 6d. 
 The Saturday Review says of them, ** IVe have seen not a few 
 
 elegant specimens of Mr, Woodbury's new process, but we have seen 
 
 none that equal these, " 
 
22 MACMILLAN'S CATALOGUE OF WORKS IN 
 
 Reynolds.— SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS AS A PORTRAIT 
 PAINTER. AN ESSAY. By J. Churton Collins, B.A. 
 Balliol College, Oxford. Illustrated by a Series of Portraits of 
 distinguished Beauties ot the Court of George III. ; reproduced 
 in Autotype from Proof Impressions of the celebrated Engravings, 
 by VALENtiNE Green, Thomas Watson, F. R. Smith, E. 
 Fisher, and others. Folio half-morocc<v ;^5 $s. 
 
 This -Volume contains huenty photographs y marly all of which artfM 
 length portraits. They have been carejiilly selected from a long listy and 
 tuill be found to contain some of the artist's most finished and cek' 
 irated works. Where it is possible brief memoirs have been given. The 
 tHttotypeSy ivhich have been made as perfect as possible^ wdl do something 
 to supply the ivatit created by the excessive rarity of the original engravings, 
 and enable the public to possess, at a moderate price, twettty faiihfid reprt' 
 smtations oj the choicist works of our greatest national painter, 
 
 Robinson (H. Crabb).— THE DIARY. REMINISCENCES, 
 AND CORRESPONDENCE, OF HENRY CRABB ROBIN- 
 SON, Barrister-at-Law. Selected and Edited by Thomas 
 Sadler, Ph.D. With Portrait. Third and Cheaper Edition. 
 Two Vols. Crown 8vo. \25. 
 
 The Daily News says: " T7te tzuo books which are most likely to 
 survive change of literary taste, and to charm while instructing generation 
 after generation, are the ^ Diary' oJ Pepys ^rtd Bosyjelfs Life of 
 %hnson ' The day will come when to these many wdl add the Duiry 0/ 
 Henry Crabb Robinson. ' Excellences like those which render the personal 
 r'eVelations of Pepys and the observations of Boszvell such pleasant reading 
 dbcund in this work.''' 
 
 Rogers (James E. Thorold).— historical gleaK- 
 
 INGS : A Scries of Sketches. Montague, Walpole, Adam Smith, 
 Cobbelt By Prof. Rogers. Crown 8vo. ^. bd. Second Series, 
 Wiklif, Laud, Wilkes, and Home Tooke. Crown 8vo. bs. 
 
 Routledge.— CHAPTERS IN THE HISTORY OF POPULAR 
 PROGRESS IN ENGLAND, chiefly in Relation to the.^f.e'J^o?; 
 of tlWPr^s and Trial by Jury, 1660-1820. With appUcation to 
 later years. By J. Routledge, 8vo. lbs. 
 
 Rumford.-COUNT RtJMFORD'S .^^^MPLETC WORKS 
 with Memoir, and Notices of his Daughter. By GEORGE EllIS. 
 Five Vols. 8vo. 4/. 14^. 6^/. 
 
 HISTORY, BIOGRAPHY, TRAVELS, ETC. 23 
 
 Sceley (Professor). — lectures and essays. By 
 
 J. R. Seeley, M.A. Professor of Modem History in the 
 University of Cambridge. 8vo. los. 6d. 
 Contents : — Roman Imperialism : i. The Great Roman Revolu- 
 tion ; 2. The Proximate Cause; of the Fall of the Roman Empire ; 
 The Later Empire. — Milton's Political Opiniotis — Milton's Poetry 
 — Elementary Principles in Art — Liberal Education in Universities 
 — English in Schools — The Church as a Teacher of Morality — The 
 Teaching of Politics : an Inaugural Lecture delivered at Cambridge. 
 
 Shelburne.— LIFE OF william, earl of shelburne, 
 
 afterwards FIRST MARQUIS OF LANSDOWNE. 
 With Extracts from his Papers and Correspondence. By Lord 
 Edmojsd Fitzmaurice. In Three Vols. 8vo. Vol.1. 1737. — 
 1766, I2J. ; Vol. H. 1766—1776, I2J. ; V9I, ' III. 1776—1805. 
 16^. 
 ** A volume of extraordinary interest and value." — Athenaeum. 
 
 Sime.— HISTORY of GERMANY. By James Sim£, M.A. 
 
 i8mo, 3J. Being Vol. V. of the Historical Course for Schools, 
 
 Edited by Edward A. Freeman, D.C.L. 
 ** This is a remarkably clear and impressive History of Germany. Its 
 great events are wisely kept as centred figures, and the smaller events are 
 carefully kept not only subordinate and subservient, but most skilfully 
 woven into the texture of the historical tapestry presented to the eye." — 
 Standard. 
 
 Samer^ (Robert).— the southern states since 
 
 THE WAR. By Robert Somers. With Map. 8vo. 9/. 
 
 Strangford.— EGYPTIAN shiun?:s andsyrian SEPUL- 
 
 CHRES, including a Visit to Pj^lmyra. By Ei^it^Y A. :Ei^AUjQR'i: 
 (Viscountess Strangford), Author of " The Eastern Shores of 
 the Adriatic." New Edition. Crown 8vo. 'js. 6d. 
 
 Thomas. — the life of JOHN THOMAS, Surgeon of the 
 "Earl of Oxford" East Indiaman, and First Baptist Missionary to 
 Bengal. By C. B. Lewis, Baptist Missionary. 8vo. lar. (>d. 
 
 Thompson.— HISTORY of England. By Edith Thomp- 
 son. B^ing Vol. II. of the Historical Coyrs^ for Schools, Edited 
 by Edward A. Freeman, D. C. L. Fifth Edition. i8mo. 2^. 6^?'. 
 " Freedom from pr^J^ice, simplicity of styl^, and accuracy qf state- 
 ment, are the characteristics of this volume, ft is a trustworthy text-book, 
 and likely to be generally serviceable in schools."— V ALL Mall Gazette. 
 " In its great a£curcu;y and corr^ciftess of detail it stands far ah^ad qfih^ 
 gmfirol run of school manuals. Us arrangement, too, is clear, a^fl its 
 style simple and ftraigJdjor%ttard."—^MVKD\Y R^vifiw. 
 
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 24 MACMILLANS CATALOGUE OF WORKS IN 
 
 m 
 
 Thomson.— THE "CHALLENGER" EXPEDITION.— THE 
 ATLANTIC : an Account of the General Results of the Exploring 
 Expedition of H. M.S. "Challenger." By Sir Wyville Thomson, 
 K.C.B., F.R.S. With numerous Illustrations, Coloured Maps, 
 ank Charts, and a Portrait of the Author engraved by C. H. Jeens. 
 Two Vols. Medium 8vo. \2s. {Shortly. 
 
 Todhunter.— THE conflict of studies ; AND 
 
 OTHER ESSAYS ON SUBJECTS CONNECTED WITH 
 EDUCATION. By Isaac Todhunter, M.A., F.R.S., late 
 Fellow and Principal Mathematical Lecturer of St. John's College, 
 Cambridge. 8vo. I or. (al. 
 
 Contents:—/. The Conflict of Studis. II. Competitive Exa^ 
 minations. IIL Private Study of Mathematics. IV. Academical 
 Reform. V. Elementary Geometry. VI. The Mathematical Tripos. 
 
 Trench (Archbishop). — For other Works by the same Author, 
 see Theological and Belles Lettres Catalogues, and 
 page 30 of this Catalogue. 
 
 GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS IN GERMANY, and other Lectures 
 on the Thirty Years' War. By R. Chenevix Trench, D.D., 
 Archbishop of Dublin. Second Edition, revised and enlarged. 
 Fcap. 8vo. 4J. 
 
 PLUTARCH, HIS LIFE, HIS LIVES, AND HIS MORALS. 
 Five Lectures by Richard Chenevix Trench, D.D., Arch- 
 bishop of Dublin. Second Edition, enlarged. Fcap. 8vo. 3^. dd. 
 
 The AtheN/EUM speaks of it as ''A little volume in which the 
 amusing and the instructive are Judiciously combined." 
 
 Trench (Maria).— THE LIFE OF ST. TERESA. By Maria 
 Trench. With Portrait engraved by Jeens. Crown 8vo. cloth 
 extra. 8j. (hI. 
 ''A book of rare interest.''— Jons Bull. 
 
 Trench (Mrs. R.) -remains OF THE late MRS. 
 
 RICHARD TRENCH. Being Selections from her Journals, 
 Letters, and other Papers. Edited by Archbishop Trench. 
 New and Cheaper Issue, with Portrait. 8vo. 6s. 
 
 Waddell.— OSSIAN AND the CLYDE, FINGAL IN IRE- 
 LAND, OSCAR IN IRELAND ; or, Ossian Historical and 
 Authentic. By P. H. Waddell, LL.D. 4to. 12s. 6d. 
 
 HISTORY, BIOGRAPHY, TRAVELS, ETC. 25 
 
 Wallace.— THE MALAY ARCHIPELAGO: the Land of the 
 Orang Utan and the Bird of Paradise. By Alfred Russel 
 Wallace. A Narrative of Travel with Studies of Man and 
 Nature. With Maps and Illustrations. Fifth Edition. Crown 
 8vo. 7^. 6a. 
 Dr. Hooker, in his address to the British Association, spoke thus of the 
 author: — ^^ Of Mr. Wallace and his many contributions to philosophical 
 biology it is not easy to speak without enthusiasm ; for, putting aside their 
 great merits, he, throughout his writings, with a modesty as rare as I 
 believe it to be unconscious, forgets hisoiun unquestioned claim to the honour 
 of having orig!nated, independently of Mr. Danvin, the theories which 
 he so ably defends.^' ■ 
 
 ** The result is a vivid picture of tropical life, which may be read with 
 unflagging interest, and a sufficient account of his scientific conclusions to 
 stimulate our appetite without 7vearying us by detail. In short, we may 
 safely say that we have never read a more agreeable book of its kind." — 
 Saturday Review. 
 
 Waller,— SIX weeks in the saddle : A painter's 
 
 JOURNAL IN ICELAND. By S. E. Waller. With Illus- 
 trations by the Author. Crown 8vo. 6s. 
 ^*^ An exceedingly pleasant and naturally rujitten little book. . . ,, 
 Mr. Waller has a clever pencil, and the text is well illustrated with his 
 own sketches."— T1UV.S. '' A very lively a fid readable book." — ATHE- 
 NE UM. ** A bright little book, admirably illustrated. " — SPECTATOR. 
 
 Ward. — Works by A. W. Ward, M.A., Professor of History 
 and English Literature in Owens College, Manchester. 
 
 THE HOUSE OF AUSTRIA IN THE THIRTY YEARS' 
 WAR. Two Lectures, with Notes and Illustrations. Extra fcap. 
 8vo. 2s. 6d. 
 
 A HISTORY OF ENGLISH DRAMATIC LITERATURE 
 TO THE DEATH OF QUEEN ANNE. Two Vols. 8vo. 32J. 
 
 ^* As full of interest as of information. To students of dramatic 
 literature invaluable, and miy be equally recommended to readers for 
 mere pastime."— V\\A. Mall Gazette. 
 
 Ward (J.)— EXPERIENCES OF A DIPLOMATIST. Being 
 recollections of Germany founded on Diaries kept during the years 
 1840— 1870. By John Ward, C.B., late H.M. Minister- 
 Resident to the Hanse Towns. 8vo. \os. 6d. 
 
 Warren.— AN essay ON GREEK FEDERAL COINAGE. 
 By the Hon. J. Leicester Warren, M.A. 8vo. 2j. 6d. 
 
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 Wedgwood.— JOHN WESLEY AND THE EVANGELICAL 
 REACTION of the Eighteenth Century. By Julia Wedgwood. 
 Crown 8vo. 8j. 6d. 
 **/n style and intellectual fxnver^ in breadth of vie7V and clearness of 
 
 insightf Miss PVedgwood's book far surpasses all rivals.'' — AxHENitUM. 
 
 Whewell.— WILLIAM WHEWELL, D.D., late Master of 
 Trinity College, Cambridge. An Account of his Writings, with 
 Selections from his Literary ami Scientific Conespondence. By 
 I. TODHUNTER, M.A., F.R.S. Two Vols. 8vo. 25J. 
 
 White.— THE NATURAL HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES 
 OF SELBORNE. By (Iilrert White. Edited, with Memoir 
 and Notes, by Frank Buckland, A Chapter on Antiquities by 
 Lord Selborne, Map, &c., and numerous Illustrations by 
 P. H. Delamotte. Royal 8vo. Cloth, extra gilt. ju. bd. 
 Also a Large Paper Edition, containing, in addition to the above, 
 upwards of Thirty Woodburytype Illustrations from Drawings by 
 Prof. Delamotte. Two Vols. 4to. Half morocco, elegant. 4/. 45. 
 •• Afr. Delamotte 5 charming illustrations are a worthy decoration of so 
 
 dainty a book. They bring Selborne before uSy and really help us to 
 
 understand why White's loz'e for his native place nacr grr,v cold.'' — 
 
 TuiKS. 
 
 Wilsan.—A MEMOIR OF GEORGE WILSON, M. D., 
 F.R.S.E., Regius Professor of Technology in the University of 
 Edinburgh. By his Sister. New Edition. Crown 8vo. dr. 
 " An exquisite and touching portrait of a rare and beautiful spirit.'' — 
 
 Guardian. 
 
 Wilson (Daniel, LL.D.) — Works by Daniel Wilson, 
 LL.D., Professor of History and English Literature in University 
 College, Toronto :— 
 PREHISTORIC ANNALS OF SCOTLAND. New Edition, 
 
 with numeiotts Illustrations. Two Vols, demy »vo. 36;. 
 *\One of the most interesting^ learned, and elegant works we have 
 seen for a long /m^."— Westminster Review. 
 
 PREHISTORIC MAN : Researches into the Origin of Civilisation 
 ir. the Old and New World. New Edition, revised and enlarged 
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