. Ireland in London. ted her shamefully. She was a native of Lime-rick, named Rosina Wheeler, and wa3 a gieatlyand variously-gifted woman. Once she man icdthe author of The Last Days of Pompeii herhappiness ceased. She wrote several cleverworks, and doubtless helped Lytton in some ofhis numerous productions. Another resident ofHans-place deserves mention, though not an Ireland in London. 79 Irishman, and that ia the great poet, PercyBysshe Shelley, whose sympathy with Irishgi ievances is well-known. At one end of the placeor square (for such it is) is a giaccful fountainerected to the memory o
. Ireland in London. ted her shamefully. She was a native of Lime-rick, named Rosina Wheeler, and wa3 a gieatlyand variously-gifted woman. Once she man icdthe author of The Last Days of Pompeii herhappiness ceased. She wrote several cleverworks, and doubtless helped Lytton in some ofhis numerous productions. Another resident ofHans-place deserves mention, though not an Ireland in London. 79 Irishman, and that ia the great poet, PercyBysshe Shelley, whose sympathy with Irishgi ievances is well-known. At one end of the placeor square (for such it is) is a giaccful fountainerected to the memory of a gallant Irish soldier,Sir Herbert Stewart, who once lived here, withineight of it, and who is also remembered in thename of Herbert-crescent, close by. The fountainbears in fiont a good likeness of the eminenteoldier, the whole structure being surmountedby a broken pillar or column, having referencepresumably to Scotts fine lines— Now is the stately column broke, et«.Sir Herbert Stewart, it will be remembered,. ALBERT BALL. was fatally wounded while leading his troops inone of the engagements of the Soudan expeditionfor the relief of General Gordon. At the bottom of Sloane-street, to the left, aresituated some very fashionable squares, formingpart of Belgravia. One or two of them requireslight mention. Passing Eaton-terrace, for-merly Coleshill-street, where at No. 37 FrancisDanby, the great Irish painter, lived in 1842,we reach Eaton-square, where died, in 18S6,the eminent scholar, poet, and divine, R. , Archbishop of Dublin, some of whoseworks are now ranked among the English , almost adjoining, is interest-ing as the place where, in 1869, Sii James Emer-son Tennent, the well-known author and poli-tician, died suddenly. In Ebury-street, close toEccleston-square, lived William Smith OBrienfor a time duiing the 1848 movement. Returning to the top of Sloane-street, we findthat the main road, after a few yards, branchesinto two diiections,
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