Gibraltar, _continued_ 306 CHAPTER XXIX. Gibraltar, _continued_--Departure for Home--Charity, real Charity--A Death and Funeral--The Bay of Biscay again--At Home: Leisure no Pleasure--A Review 320 CHAPTER XXX. A Dublin Dentist 332 CHAPTER XXXI. A Trip to the North--Metrical Attempts--Contrasts--Paris: A Fair--A Review--Nadar's Balloon--Sport, Turf, Boxing--Liquor Vehicles--No Hods--A Horse, a Dog, Rats 346 CHAPTER XXXII. Contrasts--French Kitchens--Shops and Signs--The Seine--Trees and Flowers--A Pretty Thief--French Wit--French Silver--The Hotel des Invalides 360 CHAPTER XXXIII. Gain preferred to Glory--Curious Inscriptions--Former Gambling--An Assault--French Charity--A Letter to Heaven 376 CHAPTER XXXIV. Father Prout 382 CHAPTER XXXV. A French Land Murder--Irishmen, French Ecclesiastics--Algerian Productions--Bird Charming--Brittany--Chateaubriand 387 CHAPTER XXXVI. The Arran Islands--Circuit Reminiscences--Conclusion 396 TWENTY YEARS' RECOLLECTIONS OF AN IRISH POLICE MAGISTRATE. CHAPTER I. LONERGAN'S CASE--OLD PRISONS. Although it is probable that I may bring before my readers an incident or two of a more remote date, I shall commence with the narrative of an alleged crime and its supposed punishment, which has been adverted to by Sir Jonah Barrington in his "Personal Recollections," Vol. I., page 52, and in the description of which he has lapsed into considerable inaccuracy. According to him, the name of the person chiefly concerned was "Lanegan;" but in that respect there is a positive error; for by examining the records of the Crown Office, (Ireland,) I find the name, as my father had frequently stated to me, to be "Lonergan." He was a young man who had been educated at the school of the Rev. Eugene M'Kenna, of Raheny, in the County of Dublin, and from that establishment entered Trinity College, Dublin, in the year 1773. During his undergraduate course, he resided with Mr. M'Kenna, and acted as an assistant in the school. In 1777, having finished his University studies, he became a tutor in the family of Mr. Thomas O'Flaherty, of Castlefield, in the County of Kilkenny. That gentleman was singularly unfortunate in having married a woman of most depraved tendencies. She engaged in an intrigue with Lonergan, and on the 28th of June, 1778, Mr. O'Flaherty died under circumstances which occasioned the arrest of Lonergan, on a charge of having poisoned him. The woman evaded arrest and escaped to a foreign country. Some time must have elapsed between the commission of the crime and the apprehension of the accused party, for it was not until the Summer Assizes of Kilkenny, in 1781, that Lonergan was arraigned for _Petit Treason_, the offence being considered