o burst forth.

"Ha, Bladderchops, Bloody Jack! are you there?" shouted the savage
ringleaders, as they pressed up to the very glasses of the carriage, and
stared at the occupant.

"Who is it?" said I, again.

"John Toler, the Attorney-General."

Amid deafening cries of vengeance against him, the carriage moved
on, and then rose the wild cheers of the College men to welcome their
partisan.

A hurrah from the distant end of Dame Street now broke on the ear,
which, taken up by those bearer, swelled into a regular thunder; and at
the same moment the dragoons cried out to keep back, a lane was formed
in a second, and down it came six smoking thoroughbreds, the postilions
in white and silver, cutting and spurring with all their might. Never
did I hear such a cheer as now burst forth. A yellow chariot, its panels
covered with emblazonry, came flying past; a hand waved from the window
in return to the salutation of the crowd, and the name of Tom Conolly
of Castletown rent the very air. Two outriders in their rich liveries
followed, unable to keep their place through the thick mass that wedged
in after the retiring equipage.

Scarcely had the last echo of the voices subsided when a cheer
burst from the opposite side, and a waving of caps and handkerchiefs
proclaimed that some redoubted champion of Protestant ascendancy was
approaching. The crowd rocked to and fro as question after question
poured in.

"Who is it? who is coming?" But none could tell, for as yet the
carriage, whose horses were heard at a smart trot, had not turned the
corner of Grafton Street. In a few moments the doubt seemed resolved,
for scarcely did the horses appear in sight when a perfect yell rose
from the crowd and drowned the cheers of their opponents. I cannot
convey anything like the outbreak of vindictive passion that seemed to
convulse the mob as a splendidly appointed carriage drove rapidly past
and made towards the colonnade of the Parliament House. A rush of the
people was made at the moment, in which, as in a wave, I was borne along
in spite of me. The dragoons, with drawn sabres, pressed down upon the
crowd, and a scene of frightful confusion followed: many were sorely
wounded by the soldiers; some were trampled under foot; and one poor
wretch, in an effort to recover himself from stumbling, was supposed to
be stooping for a stone, and cut through the skull without mercy. He
lay there insensible for some time; but at last a party of the