. Ireland in London. re of the potatocrop, she was obliged to pawn her jewellery and flyto the Continent, leaving debts to the amountof £100,000. To meet some of the demands ofher creditors, Gore House, with all its artistotreasures, was put up for sale, and attracted acrowd of as many as twenty thousand people. Itrealised the comparatively trifling sum of £10, little up the road, almost facing KensingtonPalace, stood Kensington House, where, at aschool once kept there by Huguenot ,.Richard Lalor Sheil was educated. Passingthrough High-street, we reach in a short time, onthe right
. Ireland in London. re of the potatocrop, she was obliged to pawn her jewellery and flyto the Continent, leaving debts to the amountof £100,000. To meet some of the demands ofher creditors, Gore House, with all its artistotreasures, was put up for sale, and attracted acrowd of as many as twenty thousand people. Itrealised the comparatively trifling sum of £10, little up the road, almost facing KensingtonPalace, stood Kensington House, where, at aschool once kept there by Huguenot ,.Richard Lalor Sheil was educated. Passingthrough High-street, we reach in a short time, onthe right, Holland House, one of the most his-toric houses in England. Those who may be in-terested in the subject cannot do better than read1 Ireland in London. 61 the splendid essay by Macaulay on this famousresidence, which has had among its most pro-minent frequenters such Irishmen as Moore,Curran, Croker, Sheridan, Lord Moira, LoidLansdowne, and the witty poet, Henry its valued art treasures is Sir M. HOUSE IX WHICH ARTHUR MURPHY DIED. Shees finest work, his portrait of Moore, who,as Byron truly said, dearly loved a lord, and ishere in congenial company. Addison-road, which commences near here, wasonce the place of residence of Annie Keary, theauthor of Castle Daly and other popularnovels. It runs to Hammersmith, where (at theTerrace, overlooking the river) lived ArthurMurphy, his burial-place being the parish churchin Queex-street, not far distant. Chiswick, one of the prettiest of Londonsuburbs, is close to Hammersmith, and as it habeen the place of residence of several celebratedIrishmen, we may briefly deal with it here. Herelived Fergus OConnor, who for a time was con-fined in a private lunatic asylum in Chiswick, keptby a Dr. Tuke; and in this village also livedOConnell (at Walpole House) in 1795, whilestudying law atone of the Inns of Court. Hither,in 1827, for change of air, came George Canning,and here he died; while another Irishman,Thomas Keightley,
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