A Coincidence

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 156, 12 June 1886, Page 4

A Coincidence

Tt is remarkable that when Thackeray wrote his Inrle.-que, "History of the next French Revolution," which would happen, he declared, in or about the E resent year. he described Ireland «s ring. iu'lß^6, in pos-ession of an independendent ruler and and a separate Parliament. "As for the Princes of Vallyb>mion. Donegal, and Connemara, he says, "they wrote off despatches to 1 heir Government, saying, 'the Duke of Nemour< is beaten and a vri*oner. The Irish Bnsjade has done it all.' On which bis Majesty the King of the Irish, convoking his Parliament a« the Cork Exchange, Dublin, made a speech. . - • "*he King on this occasion knighted Sir llenry Sheehan, Sir Gavan Duffy (whose journals had published the news) and wns so delighted with the valor of his son ihat he despatched him his Order of the Pi- arid Whistle (Ist Class), and a munificent present bf £500.000— in a bill at three months," It is to be hoped, observes the discoverer of this curious coincidence, that what the satirist wrote jestingly may not, after all, have a sober and disastrous fulfilment. ■ •Husband, you'll have to go and call thai'Koy yourself. I can't make him get up. He sleeps as if he were a log. ' Oh, well Maria, the boy can't help it. It » fate. He was born to be a policeman.