ssings that were left her. Do we all feel
thus? Yet, at the moment that she did so, I believe there was not a
morsel of food within reach of her means, and that her last penny had
been spent to deck with flowers the death-bed of her child.

It is needless for me to describe the general miseries of "St.
Giles,"--now no more. Its wretched habitations have yielded their place
to palaces; its dreaded locality lives but in recollection; and its
inhabitants have gone forth--Whither? _Perhaps to greater wretchedness._
Aye, almost surely! The misery of St. Giles's has ceased, mayhap to make
misery double elsewhere; but, thank God! there no longer exists in
London a special spot upon which the ban is placed of _Irish residence
being tantamount to crime_.

* * * * *

Years and years have since gone by, and many a time the story of "the
_two_ dreadful Irishmen" has risen to my mind, as I have read paragraph
after paragraph in the English papers, telling of some direful thing
which had occurred and was wrapped in mystery, but concluding after the
following fashion:--

"HIGHWAY ROBBERY--(_Particulars_). There is no clue whatever to
discover the parties who committed this atrocious act--but _two
Irish labourers who live in the neighbourhood are, it is supposed,
the delinquents_!"

"BURGLARY AT ---- (_Particulars_). The parties who committed this
robbery acted in the most daring manner. _The country is now filled
with Irish harvest labourers!_"

"FOOTPAD.--A daring attempt was made by a most desperate-looking man
to rob a farmer some days since--(_further particulars_) after a
great struggle he got off. _He is supposed to be an Irishman!_"

"MARLBOROUGH-STREET.--There is a class of persons now known, called
'Mouchers,' who go about in gangs, plundering the licensed
victuallers, eating-house and coffee-shop keepers, to an extent that
would be deemed impossible, did not the records of police courts
afford sufficient evidence of the fact. _The Mouchers are mostly of
the lower order of Irish._"--_London Morning Paper, 12th April,
1847._

"HORRIBLE MURDER--(_Particulars_). Every possible search has been
made for the murderers, but unfortunately without effect. However,
_it is positively known that four Irish harvesters passed through
the village the day before, and there cannot be a doubt the dreadful
deed was co