Despite his name, I imagine that admirable prelate, Dr.England, the first Catholic bishop of my native city in America, must have been a Corkonian, for he it was, I believe, who put the cathedral of Charleston under the invocation of St.Finbar, the first bishop of Cork.

The church stands charmingly amid fine trees on a southern branch of the river Lea.

We visited also two fine Catholic churches, one of St.Vincent de Paul, and the other the Church of St.
Peter and St.Paul, a grandly proportioned and imposing edifice.
It was at vespers that we entered it, and found it filled with the kneeling people.

This noble church is rather ignobly hidden away behind crowded houses and shops, and the contrast was very striking when we emerged from its dim religious space and silence into the thronged and rather noisy streets.

There is a statue here of Father Mathew; but what I have seen to-night makes me doubt whether the present generation of Corkonians would have erected it.
At dinner a gentleman gave us a most interesting account of the picturesque home which a man of taste, and a lover of natural history, has made for himself at the remote seaside village of Belmullet, in Mayo, the seat of the Mayo quarries, in which Mr.Davitt takes so much interest.