institutions for the deaf and dumb; two for the blind; four penitentiaries; several education boards, of which the principal are the Government Commissioners, the Church Education Society, and the Sunday School Society of Ireland; three Ragged Schools; the Hibernian Bible Society, and some others, for circulating the Scriptures, with about a dozen institutions for directing or otherwise aiding the propagation of the gospel at home or abroad; several Protestant Orphan Societies, asylums for the aged and infirm, and numerous other benevolent agencies on a more or less extensive scale.

How much the city has extended as time has rolled, may be understood of by comparing its present range with the accounts given in former sections of its population, streets, etc. Within the last two centuries there has been added to it by far the greater portion of the liberty, and nearly all the streetage, etc., lying to the west of the castle and on the north-side of the Liffey. The increase includes Mountjoy-square, Rutlandsquare, Merrion-square, Fitzwilliam-square, and Stephen's-green; the last named is not the latest formed, but we introduce it last for the sake of stating that it is the largest square in Europe, being nearly a mile in circumference.

The city of Dublin is under the jurisdiction of a lord mayor, whose official residence, the Mansion-house, is in Dawson-street. The corporation consists of the lord mayor, fifteen aldermen, and forty-five town-councillors, elected yearly in the proportion of one alderman

and three councillors from each of the fifteen municipal wards into which the city is divided. The police force of the city and suburbs is upwards of 1,000 strong, arranged under seven divisions. The military amount to about 6,000, whose principal barracks are the Portobello, Richmond, Royal, Ship-street, Mountjoy, IslandBridge, Aldborough House, Beggar's Bush, and the Pigeon-house Fort.

West of the city is the Phoenix Park, the word Phoenix being a corruption of the Irish Fionnuisge, pronounced short Finniské, and signifying fair or clear water, the name given to the ancient manor from a spring in a glen not far from the entrance to the Lodge, and long known, celebrated, and much resorted to as a chalybeate spa. The formation of the park began in 1662, by the duke of Ormond, then lord-lieutenant, through the appropriation of the above manor, (which had reverted to the crown after belonging to the Knights Templars at Kilmainham,) as a royal deer-park, and the purchase of some adjoining lands to render it of the desired size. Other additions have been made since, and its contents are now nearly two thousand acres. In the park are the Viceregal Lodge, the country-residence of the viceroy, a simple, unimposing structure, with one hundred and sixty acres in demesne and gardens; lodges for the chief and under-secretaries; the Hibernian School for Soldiers' Children; the Military Infirmary; the Constabulary Barracks; Military Magazine; the Ordnance Survey Depôt,

and some other buildings, together with the Wellington Testimonial, the Phoenix Column, and the Zoological Gardens. One thousand three hundred acres of the park are free to the public.

The suburbs on the south side of the city are extending fast. The township of Rathmines is the most frequented, and considered to be the most salubrious portion of the environs. The Dublin mountains form a fine background to it as approached from the city.

To the south-east of the city, at a distance of about seven miles, is Kingstown and its Royal Harbour, to which vessels have access at all times of the tide, and which is the port for the mail packets and government vessels. The Dublin and Kingstown Railway affords a quick transit between the two places. From the top of Killiney Hill commanding views are obtained of the range terminating with Dublin to the north, the Dublin mountains on the west, those of Wicklow and Bray Head on the south, and the English Channel on the

east.

Many paragraphs might be taken up with allusions to places and objects, interesting from their antiquity or otherwise, which stud the country around Ireland's metropolis. But we have not room to introduce them.

And now, with warm assurances of our good wishes, do we bid Dublin, for the present, adieu ! Our heart was with her ere we undertook to sketch her progress from infancy to her present

matured and established growth; and as we proceeded, the more kindly and strongly did our sympathies cluster around her. She has had her many times of distress and peril. Her times of prosperity have been hitherto few. But dawn, now brightening, promises her a glorious sun-rise. Much, as to its being morning without clouds" ushering in a day of blessing, depends on her moral and religious course. The righteousness that exalts a nation is the true elevation of a city.

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LONDON: BLACKBURN AND BURT, PRINTERS, HOLBORN HILL.