CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.
PAGE
Lonergan's Case—Old Prisons[1]
CHAPTER II.
Vesey and Keogh[6]
CHAPTER III.
Mary Tudor[16]
CHAPTER IV.
The Birth of a Word—A Letter of Introduction—The
Honor of Knighthood		[25]
CHAPTER V.
A Millionaire[31]
CHAPTER VI.
The Ship Street Diamond—Second-hand Plate—The Silver
Slab—Law's Window—Old Newgate		[33]
CHAPTER VII.
Gonne's Watch[42]
CHAPTER VIII.
The Major[49]
CHAPTER IX.
Committals—A Barber Wanted—Dwyer the Rebel—An Extraordinary
Inquest—Sergeant Greene's Horse—Christy
Hughes—The Police Clerks—Recorder Walker—The
Police Statutes—Preamble—A Benefit Society Case—Police
Recruits—A Born Soldier		[57]
CHAPTER X.
Mendicancy[71]
CHAPTER XI.
Carriage Court Cases—Dublin Carmen[77]
CHAPTER XII.
A Gratuitous Jaunt—The Portuguese Postillion—A Few
Hyperboles—Miscellaneous Summonses		[88]
CHAPTER XIII.
Dogs—Whipping Young Thieves—Garden Robbers—Reformatories—Apologies
for Violence—Trespassers on a Nunnery		[95]
CHAPTER XIV.
Terry Driscoll's Fiction—Bridget Laffan—Sailors—Fisher[103]
CHAPTER XV.
A Duper Duped[110]
CHAPTER XVI.
Who threw the Bottle?—Excise and Customs Cases[119]
CHAPTER XVII.
John Sergeant—The Magisterial Offices—Two Murders—One
Reprieved—Delahunt's Crimes		[127]
CHAPTER XVIII.
Murder of Mr. Little—Detective Inefficiency—Individual
Efficiency—A False Accusation Exposed—Extraordinary
Gratitude—A Salutary Reformation—A Charge of Felony—Poor
Puss, who shot her?—Baxter and Barnes		[139]
CHAPTER XIX.
A Run to Connaught—A Present—A Puzzle—Moll Raffle—A
Lucky Accusation—Crown Witnesses—Who blew up
King William?—Surgical Assistance—A Rejected Suitor—George
Robins—The Greek Count: The Rats—The
Child of the Alley—The Lucky Shot		[153]
CHAPTER XX.
O'Connell—Smith O'Brien and Meagher—John Mitchel—Informers—The
Close of 1848—The Military—A French View of Popular Commotions		[169]
CHAPTER XXI.
Cholera: An Impatient Patient; Good News! only Typhus
Fever—Royal Visits—Scotch Superiority strongly asserted—A
Police Bill stigmatised—Leave of Absence—The Rhine—The Rhineland		[186]
CHAPTER XXII.
Brussels—Royal Children—The Great Exhibition in London—Home
Again: A Preacher—Unlucky Rioters—Visit to Paris—Michel Perrin		[202]
CHAPTER XXIII.
The Count or Convict, which?—The Fawn's Escape[231]
CHAPTER XXIV.
The Count de Coucy—Dumas—A Threatened Suicide[251]
CHAPTER XXV.
Dargan's Exhibition—A Bell and Knocker—Lord Gough—Father
Pecherine's Case—Assaults and Thefts—The City
Militia—A Scald quickly cured—Sailors leaving their Ship		[262]
CHAPTER XXVI.
Effects of Enlistment—Martial Tendencies—The She Barracks—The
Dublin Garrison—An Artillery Amazon—A Colonel of
Dragoons—Donnybrook Fair—The Liquor Traffic		[277]
CHAPTER XXVII.
The College Row—The Cook Street Printer—A Question and
Answer—A Barrister—An Attorney—Gibraltar		[291]
CHAPTER XXVIII.
Gibraltar, continued[306]
CHAPTER XXIX.
Gibraltar, continued—Departure for Home—Charity, real Charity—A
Death and Funeral—The Bay of Biscay again—At Home: Leisure no
Pleasure—A Review		[320]
CHAPTER XXX.
A Dublin Dentist[332]
CHAPTER XXXI.
A Trip to the North—Metrical Attempts—Contrasts—Paris:
A Fair—A Review—Nadar's Balloon—Sport, Turf, Boxing—Liquor
Vehicles—No Hods—A Horse, a Dog, Rats		[346]
CHAPTER XXXII.
Contrasts—French Kitchens—Shops and Signs—The Seine—Trees
and Flowers—A Pretty Thief—French Wit—French
Silver—The Hotel des Invalides		[360]
CHAPTER XXXIII.
Gain preferred to Glory—Curious Inscriptions—Former
Gambling—An Assault—French Charity—A Letter to Heaven		[376]
CHAPTER XXXIV.
Father Prout[382]
CHAPTER XXXV.
A French Land Murder—Irishmen, French Ecclesiastics—Algerian
Productions—Bird Charming—Brittany—Chateaubriand		[387]
CHAPTER XXXVI.
The Arran Islands—Circuit Reminiscences—Conclusion[396]

TWENTY YEARS' RECOLLECTIONS OF AN
IRISH POLICE MAGISTRATE.