. Ireland in London. reat poet Words-worth, and wrote a good many graceful andmelodious lyrics, besides translating Cama:nsr Lusiad, an epic poem which has attracted Ireland in London- C? several other Irish scholars and poets—especiallyLord Strangford and Sir Richard Francis the foot of the Edgware-road is Uxbridge-road, which stretches from Oxford-street to Not-ting-hill, skirting Hyde Park for a considerabledistance. Opposite Edgware-road and quite closeto the Marble Arch (as the entrance to HydePark is named from its fine gateway built ofCarrara marble) is a red stone, almost tou
. Ireland in London. reat poet Words-worth, and wrote a good many graceful andmelodious lyrics, besides translating Cama:nsr Lusiad, an epic poem which has attracted Ireland in London- C? several other Irish scholars and poets—especiallyLord Strangford and Sir Richard Francis the foot of the Edgware-road is Uxbridge-road, which stretches from Oxford-street to Not-ting-hill, skirting Hyde Park for a considerabledistance. Opposite Edgware-road and quite closeto the Marble Arch (as the entrance to HydePark is named from its fine gateway built ofCarrara marble) is a red stone, almost touchingthe railings of the park. This is the identicalTyburn Stone, bearing the inscription—HereStood Tyburn Gate, which brief and simplewords are pregnant with meaning to the studentof history. Thisspot was one ofthose whereon thegallows stood, andwhere pious andholy persons aswell as highway-men and otherdisturbers of thepeace were exe-cuted. This wasprobably the placewhere after theRestoration thebodies of Crom-. WITH W. SMITH OBRIEN.(Autogiaph.) well and other regicides were carted and sus-pended to the gallows amid the execrations of thepopulace. Uxbridge-road was once infested by highway-men, and a peculiar incident is stated to havehappened here to Mulready, the great painter, inthe early part of the present century. He hadbeen frequently warned of the dangers he incurredin walking home by night instead of returning bythe^coach, but he laughed at the fears of hisfrieids, being of powerful frame and, moreover,an expert boxer. One night he was suddenlyEtopped on this road by a man who presented apistol and uttered the stereotyped phrase of thehighwayman. Mulready, instead of tremblinglyhanding over his purse, made a determined attackon the surprised robber, and easily overpoweredhim. He bore his prisoner in triumph to hishouse in Linden-grove, which was not far dis-tant, and, having given him into the charge of hisfather, interrogated him as to the cause of hishaving tak
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