. Ireland in London. ing one of J. E. Carews finest is a sculptured tablet, 14 feet high and 7 feetwide, representing the Virgin surrounded bjcherubim. Behind Regent-street, on our left as we looktowards Piccadilly, lies Golden-square, notableas the place where Charles Phillips, the orator andfriend of OConnell, died on the 1st of February, As a rhetorician he dazzled his contem-poraries, but his speeches, full of fervent declama-tion and brilliautimagery as theyare, no longer at-tract readers. Atthe top of Regent-street is Langham-place, whereOConncll lived in18S8, and beyondth
. Ireland in London. ing one of J. E. Carews finest is a sculptured tablet, 14 feet high and 7 feetwide, representing the Virgin surrounded bjcherubim. Behind Regent-street, on our left as we looktowards Piccadilly, lies Golden-square, notableas the place where Charles Phillips, the orator andfriend of OConnell, died on the 1st of February, As a rhetorician he dazzled his contem-poraries, but his speeches, full of fervent declama-tion and brilliautimagery as theyare, no longer at-tract readers. Atthe top of Regent-street is Langham-place, whereOConncll lived in18S8, and beyondthis is Portland-place, which iscon-sidered a finethoroughfare, andwas partly builtby an architectnamed ONeill,father of HughONeill, the eminent draughtsman and Gahagans statue of the Duke of Kentis at the top of this street, and is one ot his bestworks. It is of bronze, and stands 7ft. Gin. inheight. The likeness is an admirable one, and inevery respect the statue ia a good specimen ofGahagans dr. dokas. In the Marylebosk-road. which crosses the topof Portland-place, is the New Church ot Maryle-bone. in the burial-ground attached to which wasburied George Canning, a clever poet and generalauthor, who died in 1771. and who is now re-membered chiefly as the father of the jrreat states-man of the same name. In the same road, andwithin sight, is the famous wax-work show (Ma-dame Tussauds), which, as it contains some in-teresting relics of Wellington, and a great manymodels of illustrious and notorious Irishmen,cannot be passed by unnoticed. In Marylebone-street, in the immediate neighbourhood,William Paulett Carey, an Irishman and a cele-brated art critic, kept an art establishment orpaint shop. Hewas one of the United Irishmen,but did not become a very prominent member ofthat body. Besides his works, some of which areexcellent, his chief title to praise and remem-brance is that he was among the first to recogniseand to encourage thegeniusof three distingui
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