f widening the approaches and crooked streets,
in every direction; in order that there might, at length, arise, under
the auspices of Queen Victoria, built a third time from the ground, an
Exchange, worthy of this great Nation and City, and suited to the
vastness of a Commerce extending to the circumference of the habitable
Globe. His Royal Highness of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Consort of Her
Sacred Majesty, laid the first stone on 17 Jan., 1842, in the Mayoralty
of the Rt. Hon. John Pirie. Architect, William Tite, F.R.S. May God,
our Preserver, ward off destruction from this building, and from the
whole City."

After the manner of the City of London, a medal was struck to commemorate
the event, having on the obverse a profile portrait of Prince Albert,
with the legend "Albertus ubique honoratus," the reverse having a view of
the western portico of the Exchange. On 13 Jan. Mr. Roach Smith
exhibited at the Society of Antiquaries a medalet, found on the site of
the Exchange, evidently struck to commemorate Queen Elizabeth's patronage
of the original building, as it bore the Tudor Arms surrounded with the
inscription "Anglioe Regina ubique honorata."

Father Mathew was still doing his grand work in Ireland, but there is a
story told about him in the _Limerick Chronicle_, copied into the _Times_
of 17 Jan., that is too good to be omitted: "The Rev. Mr. Mathew arrived
in this city, last evening, by the Cork mail, _en route_ to Loughrea, and
put up at Moore's hotel. Immediately after his arrival became known,
hundreds of persons visited him at the hotel, where he administered the
pledge. One circumstance which came within public observation, we may
mention here, as illustrative of the effects of breaking the temperance
pledge:--A man, named Moynehan, a teetotaller, who worked at the Butter
Weigh-house, got drunk on Christmas Eve, and the next day, became
paralysed, his left arm, side and thigh being perfectly inanimate. He
was removed to Barrington's Hospital, and remained there under the care
of the surgeons, without improvement, until last evening, when his
friends, having heard of Father Mathew's arrival in town, went to the
hospital, and brought him out of his bed, on a man's back, to where the
Rev. Mr. Mathew was staying; a crowd had collected round the door, when
the unhappy invalid was carried into his presence, and the reverend
gentleman administered to him the pledge again, in a kind and impressive
manner, and t