The cathedral is filled with relics and trophies.

In the vestibule is a huge shell, one of many hundreds of shells which were thrown into the city.

Over the altar are still seen the French flagstaves, taken by the garrison in a desperate sally.

The white ensigns of the House of Bourbon have long been dust: but their place has been supplied by new banners, the work of the fairest hands of Ulster.

The anniversary of the day on which the gates were closed, and the anniversary of the day on which the siege was raised, have been down to our own time celebrated by salutes, processions, banquets, and sermons: Lundy has been executed in effigy; and the sword, said by tradition to be that of Maumont, has, on great occasions, been carried in triumph.