There was a conflict over them, the owners of family vaults staunchly standing out against the "levelling" tendency of a harmonious city of the dead.

But all is well that ends well, and now two handsome stone chapels, one Catholic and one Protestant, keep watch and ward over the silent sleepers, standing face to face near the grand entrance, and exactly alike in their architecture.

A very pretty drive took us to the water-works, which are extensive, well planned, and exceedingly well kept.

They are awaiting now the arrival from America of some great turbine wheels, but the engines are of English make.

In the city we visited the new Protestant cathedral of St.Finbar, a very fine church, which advantageously replaces a "spacious structure of the Doric order," built here in the reign of George II., with the proceeds of a parliamentary tax on coals.