. Ireland in London. SOMERSET HOUSE. Off Drury-lane, at the northern corner of Vere-street, in October, 1869, a man was thrown outof a cab and severely injured, and, on the policeasking his name, feebly replied Kelly. Thepolice, at the time eagerly on the look-out forLionel Kelly, one of the Fenians rescued fromthe prison van in Manchester, immediately con-cluded that they had effected a magnificent cap-ture, and roughly hauled off the injured man toprison, instead ot to hospital, with the result thathis death shortly ensued. Evidence was givenat the inquest on his remains that he had gone. BA
. Ireland in London. SOMERSET HOUSE. Off Drury-lane, at the northern corner of Vere-street, in October, 1869, a man was thrown outof a cab and severely injured, and, on the policeasking his name, feebly replied Kelly. Thepolice, at the time eagerly on the look-out forLionel Kelly, one of the Fenians rescued fromthe prison van in Manchester, immediately con-cluded that they had effected a magnificent cap-ture, and roughly hauled off the injured man toprison, instead ot to hospital, with the result thathis death shortly ensued. Evidence was givenat the inquest on his remains that he had gone. BARRY. by name of Edward Martin. The Irish ofLondon, however, partly to draw tho authoritiesoff the scent of the Fenian leader, and partly toshow their resentment at the conduct of thepolice, organised a monster funeral, andon the 10th October, an orderly proces-sion of some 20,000 respectably-clad Irish-men and , aug-mented bycontingents along theway, con7 veyed theremains otthe deceasedl( from Lin-colns Inn,through theprincipalstreets, toStratfordChurchyardNearly op-positp Drurylane, and just past Somerset House, is a tailorsshop with the words Formerly Holylands onthe name-board outside. This is very probablythe house where 0Conned was arrested on themorning of the 19th September, 1815, just pre-vious to starting off tor Calais in order to fight aduel with Sir Robert Peel, whom he had chal-lenged. He was taken before the magistrates andbound over in very heavy sums to keep thepeace. On the light, in Wellington-street, isthe Lyceum Theatre. For some years thistheatre was manag
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