mon M'Slime, Esq.,
Attorney-at-Law. Indeed we are bound to say, that for the last and
most exemplary portion of his life, he ought rather to have been termed
Attorney-at-Gospel. We are glad to hear, for the sake of his interesting
family, that his life was insured for the sum of two thousand pounds,
which has been paid to them."

About four months after Solomon's death, an American vessel was lying at
the Pigeon House, waiting for the tide. Several of the passengers were
assembled in Mrs. Thumbstall's tavern--previous to the departure of the
brig--where, as was then usual, they amused themselves by drinking punch
and dancing. Among them was a little thin fellow, dressed in a short
frieze coat, striped waistcoat, corduroy breeches, and stout brogues;
beside him sat a comely, youthful, but somewhat prim female, dressed
as a plain peasant girl. The moment the floor became vacant, the little
frieze-coated fellow got to his legs, accompanied by the female, and
addressed the musician as follows:

"My good friend, there is--is much cheerfulness in thy music, for
which reason this young person and I will trouble you to play us that
sustaining psalm--I mean that blessed air called the Swaggering Jig,
which is really a consoling planxtic--come, Susanna."

Good by, Solomon, thou art now gone to that land of true liberty, and
sorry are we to say, that thou has left so many who are so much worse
than thyself behind thee! One of the most virtuous acts of thy life was
the defrauding the Spiritual Railway Assurance office of two thousand
pounds upon the fiction of thy death; which, truth to say, was a very
bitter fiction to them.

Our chronicles are closed. Need we say that Richard Topertoe, on gaining
the title and estate, became a resident landlord, and is at this
day enjoying a green and happy old age upon one of the best managed
properties in Ireland, where his tenantry are grateful, prosperous, and
happy. Mary M'Loughlin, her husband, and family, lived happily, as they
deserved to live, and some, of them live yet, and will easily recognize
themselves in these pages.

Of Phil, we must say a word or two. On finding himself the uncontrolled
inheritor of his father's ill-gotten wealth, he accelerated his progress
in drunkenness and profligacy. He took to the turf, became a gambler and
spendthrift, and went backwards in squandering his fortune through as
unprincipled a course as his father pursued in making it. From step to
step