Accident to the Liberator.-
When all the preparations were made to liherate O'Contiell, it was discovered to be impossible for the martyr to quit the prison by the same door that he enteredThe truth is, he had become so enormously fat, in consequence of the culinary presents of a grateful people, that ciuoiher opening had lo be made in the walls before he could wend his way to Vlerrloti Bquare. This circumstance is not generally known ; but those who recollect—and who does not ?—our portra t of O'Conneil in his captivity, cannot for a moment d'nibt it. Pnnch Nothing so Certain—We are informed by a retuarkatdy fine officer in the V'atioual (i.tarda (the gentleman, by-the bye, is also a remarkably small dealer in coke and charcoal) -thai, iu the event of a war, it is intended lb placaid the Paris fortification* with " lists oi impositions upon English visitors," under the conviction that if they could not keep the British out of Paris, nodiing else would.— Ibid,
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Auckland Times, Volume 3, Issue 113, 11 March 1845, Page 3
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166Accident to the Liberator.- Auckland Times, Volume 3, Issue 113, 11 March 1845, Page 3
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