Committals--A Barber Wanted--Dwyer the Rebel--An Extraordinary Inquest--Sergeant Greene's Horse--Christy Hughes--The Police Clerks--Recorder Walker--The Police Statutes--Preamble--A Benefit Society Case--Police Recruits--A Born Soldier 57 CHAPTER X. Mendicancy 71 CHAPTER XI. Carriage Court Cases--Dublin Carmen 77 CHAPTER XII. A Gratuitous Jaunt--The Portuguese Postillion--A Few Hyperboles--Miscellaneous Summonses 88 CHAPTER XIII. Dogs--Whipping Young Thieves--Garden Robbers--Reformatories --Apologies for Violence--Trespassers on a Nunnery 95 CHAPTER XIV. Terry Driscoll's Fiction--Bridget Laffan--Sailors--Fisher 103 CHAPTER XV. A Duper Duped 110 CHAPTER XVI. Who threw the Bottle?--Excise and Customs Cases 119 CHAPTER XVII. John Sergeant--The Magisterial Offices--Two Murders--One Reprieved--Delahunt's Crimes 127 CHAPTER XVIII. Murder of Mr. Little--Detective Inefficiency--Individual Efficiency--A False Accusation Exposed--Extraordinary Gratitude--A Salutary Reformation--A Charge of Felony--Poor Puss, who shot her?--Baxter and Barnes 139 CHAPTER XIX. A Run to Connaught--A Present--A Puzzle--Moll Raffle--A Lucky Accusation--Crown Witnesses--Who blew up King William?--Surgical Assistance--A Rejected Suitor--George Robins--The Greek Count: The Rats--The Child of the Alley--The Lucky Shot 153 CHAPTER XX. O'Connell--Smith O'Brien and Meagher--John Mitchel --Informers--The Close of 1848--The Military--A French View of Popular Commotions 169 CHAPTER XXI. Cholera: An Impatient Patient; Good News! only Typhus Fever--Royal Visits--Scotch Superiority strongly asserted--A Police Bill stigmatised--Leave of Absence--The Rhine--The Rhineland 186 CHAPTER XXII. Brussels--Royal Children--The Great Exhibition in London--Home Again: A Preacher--Unlucky Rioters--Visit to Paris--Michel Perrin 202 CHAPTER XXIII. The Count or Convict, which?--The Fawn's Escape 231 CHAPTER XXIV. The Count de Coucy--Dumas--A Threatened Suicide 251 CHAPTER XXV. Dargan's Exhibition--A Bell and Knocker--Lord Gough--Father Pecherine's Case--Assaults and Thefts--The City Militia--A Scald quickly cured--Sailors leaving their Ship 262 CHAPTER XXVI. Effects of Enlistment--Martial Tendencies--The She Barracks--The Dublin Garrison--An Artillery Amazon--A Colonel of Dragoons--Donnybrook Fair--The Liquor Traffic 277 CHAPTER XXVII. The College Row--The Cook Street Printer--A Question and Answer--A Barrister--An Attorney--Gibraltar 291 CHAPTER XXVIII.