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But unfortunately there remained valid an article in the treaty of 1814 to the effect that, in case of war between the Afghans and the Persians, the English Government should not interfere with either party unless when called on by both to mediate. In vain did Ellis and his successor M'Neill remonstrate with the Persian monarch against the Herat expedition.

There can be little doubt, that except repentance and amendment avert the stroke, this will prove England's plague, England's great plague, England's very great plague." It may be urged that the Rev. Hugh M'Neill is a man of extreme views. Be it so; but his extreme views seem rather to have advanced his interests than to have offended his superiors, for he is now Dean of Ripon.

The Rev. Hugh M'Neill preached a "Famine" sermon in St.

The next great storm in the artistic world followed in the wake of one of Manet's companions in adversity at the Salon des Refusés JAMES M'NEILL WHISTLER, who left Paris and settled with his mother in Chelsea in the late 'sixties.

Transactions of Society of Friends during the Famine in Ireland p. 49. Ibid. The connection between Famine and Pestilence, and the Great Apostacy. By Nagnatus, p. 49. P.D. Hardy, Dublin, 1847. Halliday Pamphlets, Vol. 1990. The Achill Missionary Herald for August, 1846, p. 88. The Famine, a rod. By the Rev. Hugh M'Neill, p. 23. The Famine, a rod, pp. 25, 26. The capitals and italics are Mr.

Hugh M'Neill Charles Dickens The Catholic Cantons of Switzerland Belgium France The Rhenish Provinces Proselytism Various causes for Conversions assigned The late Archbishop Whately's Opinions His Convert He rejects the idea that Converts were bought Statement of the late Archdeacon O'Sullivan Dr. Forbes on the Conversions in the West Mr.

After receiving his education at Edinburgh University, he studied engineering under his father, and afterwards under Sir John M'Neill, who subsequently became Professor of Practical Engineering in Trinity College, Dublin, and at the opening of the railway from Dublin to Drogheda, which he constructed in 1844, received the honour of knighthood from Earl de Grey, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.

The advice of Pottinger, the gallant English officer who assisted the defence, was seldom asked, and still more seldom taken; and no one spoke more plainly of the conduct of both besieged and besiegers than did Pottinger himself. M'Neill effected nothing definite during a long stay in the Persian camp before Herat, the counteracting influence of the Russian envoy being too strong with the Shah; and the British representative, weary of continual slights, at length quitted the Persian camp completely foiled.

At the time that Johnson wrote this there were serfs in Scotland. The Act was ineffectual in giving relief, and in 1779 by 39 Geo. III. c. 56 all colliers were 'declared to be free from their servitude. The last of these emancipated slaves died in the year 1844. Tranent and its Surroundings, by P. M'Neill, p. 26. See also Parl.

M'Neill, Mr., on the use of the antlers of deer; on the Scotch deerhound; on the long hairs on the throat of the stag; on the bellowing of stags. Macropus, courtship of. Macrorhinus proboscideus, structure of the nose of. Magpie, power of speech of; vocal organs of the; nuptial assemblies of; new mates found by; stealing bright objects; young of the; coloration of the.