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'.IVilli-.11n1 Henry C 111'1'a11 died, at Dublin, on
the zoth of Au st. I'Ie w1s 1.11'11111'211111 known
111 the litei 'lns I11 O'ra11h1' 11L 111s
father, the 1. . , and :1 1 the ‘Sketches of
the Irish 132111' ,’111 which serie he wa' joined by

. Sheil. 1\Ir W H. Curran’s spL iality 11.1.1 as “ .1
hte .111 \Vhi I. e was a 1111.111111er of the \V his
political pa 'L1' 1111' many ;1211s, -—and he watched
the 11.111111 of polities with 1.1111111 111L111 His 1.121.111
ye ears 11 ML sul L11 to painful trials, of \1111(h 1111

eke with 1 ' 1'1 Ne. 1.11s fathers

' and it \1'11s always

.C man was L1" ted with

at lldl'sllans 1:111aeeoi1.1t11l parental 11 111111101 s
inst 111s mother C‘1har;l1 s 15‘11x,i11 one of his
letters to the bid; 'edior1 1, passed some Lc-

t1o11s 1111 the pr1vate character of C1111'111 and
even I . Vls .111 e11th11s1.1-stic .1dm r o the orator,
1121s co1n1elled to admit that, 111 the '1s11r1.1s of

the case 111 which C‘urran sought for 1.1. 111211r1'es for
the seduction of his wife, “ he (C 111'1'an) lost many
friends." From these 0111 1 1,311. \V. IL Curran
sulfL ed mo. unjustly 11111111 1's early manhood.
But he faced the trials 111' lite with spirit,—
and r ceivinr'r but little pecuniary aid h'om his
£11111 , and in s11te of 1' at delieac ' of consti-

 

tution, he won a distinguished name, and realized
an ample fortune. He had a high nervous Lem
perament; and, his stomach being deficient in
dig, 1st1ve energy, he was compelled to adopt the
habits of a 1'1. etudinarian, and to be extremely
particular i1'1 111s di‘ so that, after many years, he
had all the k111'1w1edge, theo etical and practical,
which 1.11. inguishes the yaslronomc, the gourmmzcl
and the 9011171111, and his annotations on Dr. Doran’s
‘Table’l r211ts ”nught have exceeded the text as much
as Coke’. Commentaries did the nures of Little—
ton. He was fastidious, but he had manV fine

1 1.1111111" He 1' .s a sincere friend, and he was
very hospitable; kc ping a carefully appointed

bacheloi’ establishment and gin'ng choice dinne 1s
111 the st) 6 of a mirthful 1X11icius, where eellent
things were said and offered by the hunt
host, and duly s1 111111we1l by the apprec1at1ng'
guests His eonvc 1t111n 0 reached too much
on 1111:1111111101111, but the 111tL1 st of some of his
admirable stories more than com 1e11sated for the
length of his retrospecti1 . .1111 the oppor—
tunities which hep 1, and from his own
talent for observ Lion, he had accumulated a 1ast
fund of authentic political anecdotes relating L11
c 1te1111'11'11'a1'1' history, and he always took great
pains to he ('21 eful in his statement of facts.
Lunch that the world would like to hear has nerer
been truly told about Emmett and 15.1 aCh C1'11r.11n
and in his last e11111'e1's21tion with one ofhis litL-rar1
acquaintance. , he stated that “ he had placed th . -
fact on ree1‘1rd,”and we' should not be surprised.
if e 1 po'thumo1 '11111 1' of an aut11bmgraphi
kind Were g1ven to the world from his pen. I Is
literary forte w.s as a light c.....1yist,—he could
sl .teh character with 1- eat ea wrote a Cor—
1'eL't and finished style, and had much natural.
wit, though sometimes 111s efforts to car '1' on
the firm of “Curran and Son” were too palpa-
ble. His mind, upon the whole, was more 111'
than powerful, for the ex 1' ',

LcmpL ' ' ' .

During Lord 1‘111gle 1 s second Irish Vieeroyalty
311'. \V. H C 111'1 'an vas intimately and confiden-
ti.'1111'.1s Lted 11'1th the then Viceroy' 211111 the

assailhirv the ‘1 1110s and raismr- the 1el I cry 11' .
often 111tte1'l1 omniented upon by Mr. C111".111,
who had st1'1"1n<1 party feelint . For man1' V'ears

‘ Mr. C‘urran was a member of the leflurrh

Pall Mall, but L111 111' the end of his life he with-
drew his name and ,1 med Brookes’s C‘luh. His
political feelings took a narrower range than in
early 11" , and he 1111ed to think that Protestant
L11 1 had gone quite far enough, if not too.
far, 111 Ireland.“ If such thinfr can be done with
1 1 111nit ', it will end 111 the priests choosinw One 111
I ictorias .Iudg id 110..»11111 ag: 11, 11111111 .1 1-
other oeeas11',1n Ohe said, “ I do not 1' et the fact of
Cathohc Emancipation, and I thin
advocated by Fox and Grattan, and my fathei
1:11 trht to have been carried ' but I am deepl 1 dis—
appointed with the conduct of the 10111a11 C athe—
l .’ Ho sufiercd ' rely from what b11111
Smith called the " ConnLll 1111011" ’ butno (l
gust or annoyai would have induced him to
secede from “ th' 1Vhig party,” to whose leaders he
looked with revel cc, and with 111.1111 of whom hL
was linked 111' Lies of elOSL 11L 'sonal fr1'ndshi11
His best writing; was his personal sketch of:
day of 0C111111Lll 11f 111 his ‘SketLhes of tin:
Irish Bar,’ and his humorous and 1'. per—
Lraiture of Rh. ' 'jeant C-‘roold. H11 died 111 the
' oi his a C, having bequeathed
the bulk of his p"1o11e1t' y to one of his family He
had practised at the bar 1 'th much suee ss, and he
filled 1111' 111.111 yea sthe 111111111' '.111t ofliee of Insol-
vent C‘onnni oner 111 I1L ',L111l —so that he may be
Fairly cited as one of LhL L 1 bariisters who united
lite] lary .1111d prof... onal laurels. The concourse
1'11 eminent 1111 ms who attended his funeral

‘ testified to the hitrh respect entertained for his
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